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It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year. Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car-parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators. But when their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family's trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time is ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance. Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. Among his novels, What a Carve Up! won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The House of Sleep won the Prix Médicis Étranger and The Rotters' Club won the Everyman Wodehouse Prize. He also published a biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, which won the Orwell prize. Colin Buchanan starred as Peter Pascoe in Dalziel and Pascoe, as well as in the award-winning The Preston Front and the follow-up, All Quiet on the Preston Front. He has also been seen in A Touch of Frost, Between the Lines and Moll Flanders, while on stage he has toured in La Ronde and appeared as Marc in Art at the Wyndhams Theatre.