One of the most talked about books of the year, Capital is a sweeping social novel by the writer hailed on the cover of the New York Times Book Review as "a brainy, pleasure-loving polymath."Celebrated novelist John Lanchest...
An impeccable, epicurean Englishman and lifelong Francophile recounts his past pleasures in Provence, in a meditation on food, vodka, and restaurant-going that becomes a dark satire on hedonism, in a critically acclaimed novel by the...
The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents....
How to Speak Money: What the Money Pe...
John Lanchester"One of the world's great explainers of the financial crisis and its aftermath."―Michael LewisTo those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. In How to Speak Mon...
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone an...
John LanchesterJohn Lanchester's brilliant survey of the current financial crisis explains how the booming global economy collapsed seemingly overnight.
The British author of The Debt to Pleasure tells the tale of Mr. Phillips, an ordinary Londoner who sees the world with completely different eyes when his safe, routine existence is shattered after he loses his job of fifteen years. R...
In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline--the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Oth...