Everyone is welcome at our Contemporary Fiction book club, where on the first Wednesday of every month we discuss a recently-published paperback novel. In December we'll be delving into The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe.

Date:
Wednesday 3rd of December

Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU

Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 18:45. Finish at 19:45.

Tickets:
Attendance for the book club is free, but if you could register your place through the website, it helps us to gauge numbers. 

If you would like to buy a copy of the book, you can order it through us and show up on the night. 

ABOUT The Proof of my Innocence

Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of
becoming a writer are going nowhere.

That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been investigating a radical think tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in an ever more extreme direction. When he follows this story to a conference in a rambling old hotel deep in the Cotswolds, events take a bizarre and sinister turn. Soon he is caught up in a world of cryptic clues, secret passages and, eventually, murder.

In the end, despite the efforts of a suitably eccentric detective, it falls to Phyl herself– ably assisted by Chris’s outspoken adopted daughter Rashida - to look for answers to the fatal mystery. But will they lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?

Set during the strange days of autumn 2022 when we lost Queen Elizabeth II and Liz Truss was briefly in charge, The Proof of My Innocence is a darkly funny, genre-bending novel by ‘the laureate of Britishness’, Jonathan Coe.