Expo 58
by:
Jonathan Coe (author)
Expo 58 London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest...
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Expo 58 London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. Full description
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ISBN:
9780670923717 (0670923710)
Publish date: September 5th 2013
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
This novel was a real stroke of luck, as I bought it just because I liked the cover, and Brussels, and wanted to read a bit about Expo 58 ;) And it has been standing about in my bookshelf for a considerable amount of time since I bought it...The story was fun, exciting and really well-written. The h...
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, thank you! Having a Belgian mother and a father who used to own a pub, Tom Foley is selected to leave his boring desk job at the Central Office of Information to keep an eye on Th...
All the world is coming to Brussels for the World's Fair, beginning in the spring of 1958. Thomas Foley is coming because his bosses at the Central Office of Information think he'll be a natural at overseeing the replica British pub in the British Pavilion, because his mother is Belgian and his fath...
bookshelves: radio-4, published-2013, autumn-2013, belgium, period-piece, spies Read from September 07 to 21, 2013 BABTBBC BLURB: London 1958: Unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task - to...
BABTBBC BLURB: London 1958: Unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task - to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58, the bigg...
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