A life in writing: Jonathan Coe - World News

“If you look hard enough you can find romance and mystery and dark undercurrents everywhere in life â€" even in the most unprepossessing places, the Park Inn Hotel, Watford, or the cafe at Knutsford services, and I suppose doing that has â€" to ... At the age of eight he wrote The Castle of Mystery, episodes from the casebook of a Victorian detective (the first few pages of which appear in What a Carve Up!), and by the age of 15 he had sent off a full-length comic novel to a ...