“Gripping. . . . Few readers will stop until they reach its final page.”— Alec Nevala- Lee, New York Times Book ReviewIn this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an
To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. How to Speak Money is acclaimed writer John Lanchester's entertaining and informative attem
Takes us on a whirlwind tour of the Tube to show its secrets, just how much we take for granted about it, and what we're really talking about, since we so often do talk about it.
With an introduction by John Banville Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to s
Both are central to the multicultural micro-society living and working on Pepys Road-an ordinary street in the Capital. Their stories intertwine with the immigrant workers who service the wealthy resi
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 local shop, the young football star from Senegal and
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 his desk calculating the financial consequences o
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fiction
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 bullshit and nonsense. As funny as it is devasta
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the
Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elites can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling. And we need to understand it because if we can't
