Simon Baker

The loneliness of the long distance salesman

If only E. M. Forster hadn’t beaten him to it by exactly a century, Jonathan Coe could have coined the enigmatic phrase ‘only connect’ in this novel.

  • The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

    Jonathan Coe

    Viking, pp. 352

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