Jonathan Coe appears for an interview on the minute on time, he doesn’t look really happy. Is it just in a difficult work phase? The author speaks about this of bestsellers like First rites (2001) or Middle England (2018) then with as great serious as about his future prospects and about Great Britain. But Coe would not be the master of the strange novel if there wasn’t much to laugh about. It is his latest book The proof of my innocence published in German.