The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve Up!
Author: Jonathan Coe
A postmodern detective story, a scathing send-up of the rapacious eighties, a macabre Gothic – all rolled up in a bravura tragicomic entertainment. The Winshaw family, as their official biographer is warned by old Mortimer Winshaw himself, is ‘the meanest, greediest, cruellest bunch of backstabbing penny-pinching bastards who ever crawled across the face of the earth.’ Ban….Read More
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