Tag: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
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Jonathan Coe: ‘It’s the point in your life at which you start asking yourself, what next?’
The satirist who skewered the 1980s in What a Carve Up! is approaching elder statesman status. He talks about Brexit, prizes, cancel culture – and his Hollywood hero Billy WilderOne Sunday evening in 1975 in a leafy suburb of Birmingham, 14-year-old Jonathan Coe put off his school dread by switching on the telly. The Private…