EXPO '58

Expo 58 - Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novel. Lond on, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-mont h 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, and the first to be held since the Second World War...