john lanchester

Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode t

In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers

* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FI

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall—an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Josep

We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996

In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline-the Wall. Joseph Kava

sets out to decode the world of finance for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank to the difference between

Het schrikbeeld van Engeland: het land wordt langs de kustlijn omringd door een enorme muur. Waar eens golven op stranden sloegen bevindt zich nu een

'Een intelligent en vermakelijk verslag van onze groezelige, onzekere en gefragmenteerde samenleving die bijna religie heeft vervangen door winkelen.

Selfie sticks with demonic powers. Cold calls from the dead. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories i

Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the loc

One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. So why is Mr Phillips, a cautious middle-aged accountant, not behind

'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . . A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of al

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn’t a new problem. We’re also not the first to complain about how hard it

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn

In het Dublin van de jaren vijftig wordt de jonge historicus Rosa Jacobs dood aangetroffen in haar auto in een afgesloten garage. Rechercheur Straffor

Bruce Cable, de charismatische boekverkoper van Camino Island, vertelt schrijver Mercer Mann zo’n onweerstaanbaar verhaal dat zij overweegt het te geb

A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is r