To those who don’t speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. In How to Speak Money, John Lanchester—author of the New York Times best-selling book on th
Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is far from ordinary, for on the previous Friday,
Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food. Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of France, Tarquin W
Celebrated novelist JohnLanchester (author of The Debt to Pleasure) returns with an epic novel that captures theobsessions of our time. It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearnsand Lehman B
The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his familyA's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how litt
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard w
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
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on J. G. Ballar
For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bri
