Penguin presents the audiobook release of Just what a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, browse by Richard Goulding.

It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the entire year:

Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for sharing with it enjoy it isn’t; Henry’s turning private hospitals into car parks; Roddy’s offering art in return for sex; down on the plantation Dorothy’s squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is definitely making a eliminating on the stock exchange; and Mark is normally selling arms to in what a Carve Up! dictators.

But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts looking into the family’s trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to get their comeuppance .

This wickedly funny take on life beneath the Thatcher government was the winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize

‘A suffered feat of humour, suspense and polemic, filled with twists and ironies’ Hilary Mantel, Weekend Times

‘A riveting cultural satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes’ Time Out

‘Big, hilarious, complex, furious, moving’ Guardian

Jonathan Coe’s novels are filled with biting social commentary, moving and astute observations of life and hilarious set pieces which have made him perhaps one of the most popular writers of his era. His other titles, The Accidental Girl, A Touch of Appreciate, The Rotters’ Club (winner from the Everyman Wodehouse award), The Closed Group, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the1998 Prix Médicis Étranger), and The Rain Before it Falls, are obtainable in Penguin paperback.