Darkly funny and razor-sharp, Jonathan Coe’s latest novel, The Proof of My Innocence, blends murder mystery and political critique in a blisteringly funny playing out of Britain's ever right-ward drift, culminating in our shortest serving MP ever.

Jonathan Coe is the award-winning, bestselling author of 14 novels, which include The Accidental Woman, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters’ Club, The Rain Before It Falls, Expo 58, Middle England, Mr Wilder and Me and Bournville. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work been translated into 22 languages.