What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up! is a satirical novel by Jonathan Coe, published in the UK by Viking Press in April It was published in the United States by Alfred A Knopf .
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A Confederacy of Dunces. A Room with a View. Goodbye to All That. Three Men in a Boat.

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The Diary of a Nobody. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Down and Out in Paris and London. The Day of the Triffids.


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A Handful of Dust. I'm the King of the Castle. The Man in the High Castle. A Month in the Country. The History of Love. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives.

Before long the guests begin to drop dead. Written by John M Doyle. Acted out at a fast pace with great enthusiasm by all. Shirley Eaton played her part well.

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Dressed in a shift over a nylon slip for much of the film, strange how, when running from room to room, she'd continually hold her shift together in an attempt to stop it falling open thus giving us a glimpse of her slip underneath. At the time Ken Connor was one of the most sought after comedy film actors. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Horror Movies By Year - Films I want to see. Comedy Movies I'v Seen.

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The Big Job Too Many Crooks Carry On Constable Carry On Cabby Carry On Sergeant Carry On Cruising Carry On Regardless Enemy from Space Carry On Up the Khyber Carry on Abroad He attends the reading of the will along with the artist Phoebe, one of Roddy's conquests and lately Mortimer's personal nurse. The family members learn that they will inherit nothing from Mortimer but his debts. As the night progresses events begin to shadow those of the film of What a Carve Up!

It is the night that allied warplanes embark on the bombing of Iraq following Saddam Hussain's invasion of Kuwait in It is revealed that Michael is the son of Godfrey's surviving co-pilot, who was also Lawrence's mystery attacker. The following morning Tabitha ensures that she is piloting Hilary Winshaw's seaplane to take Michael home, but deliberately destroys the plane, killing them both.

Lawrence Winshaw — — The eldest of the Winshaw children and original heir to Winshaw Towers, the family mansion. Never married as she spends most of her life in a mental asylum after brother Godfrey's death. Godfrey Winshaw — — Brother of Lawrence and Tabitha.

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His young wife Mildred is pregnant with their son Mark when he dies. Apart from Godfrey and Tabitha, Mortimer despises all the Winshaws. And I include my own offspring in that Statement" Father of Roddy and Hilary. Invests in the film industry and has a private fascination with cinema. Installs elaborate surveillance systems in his offices and has voyeuristic tendencies.

Attended Oxford University in the s where he was a member of the Conservative Association under the presidency of a chemistry student named Margaret Roberts - who would later become prime minister Margaret Thatcher.


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Instrumental in policies to "reform" the National Health Service. Runs an intensive farm business with her rather sentimental husband George who despairs of her disregard for even the least humane treatment of animals.

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Creates a business empire of highly processed, slogan-promoted cheap meat-based foods. He is an unscrupulous arms dealer deeply involved with arming the regime of Saddam Hussein. Roddy is an art-dealer who seduces female artists by promising to promote their work in his gallery, before dropping them immediately afterwards. Networks her way to senior positions in the media by taking advantage of others' generosity, before betraying the people who help her. Purveyor of populist, right-wing, self-contradictory, lowest common-denominator opinion pieces.