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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
John Lanchester
From the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure, a sweeping social novel set at the height of the financial crisis.
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A vibrant piece of fiction, pulsating with events and emotions…Seems destined to be read a hundred years from now. –Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times
John Lanchester’s Booker-longlisted new novel - a work of fiction that establishes itself as an instant modern classic.
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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 wrong? And will…
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel. -Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
Muriel Spark
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants’ office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and…
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J. G. Ballard
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.
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Wall.
Now in paperback from the author of The Debt to Pleasure comes the story of Mr. Phillips, an Everyman for our times, who loses his job and wonders who and…
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 the Wall…
The critically acclaimed saga of love, danger, and deception in Hong Kong is from the award-winning author of The Debt to Pleasure.
A New York Times Notable Book, The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food as the novel’s snobbish narrator instructs readers in his philosophy on everything from…
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Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.
Although his family may have been atypical, the dynamics of family life and their patterns are instantly recognizable in this memoir by acclaimed novelist Lanchester. Part detective work, part remarkable…
A book about Economics for those who do not understand it; even those well-versed in the language of money will equally enjoy it; Lanchester is a masterful writer with a…
Lanchester’s brilliant survey of the current financial crisis explains how the booming global economy collapsed seemingly overnight.
Explains everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank. This book includes everything you need to demystify the world of high finance. It’s a reference book you’ll find yourself reading…
An astonishing true story of family secrets stretching around the world and through three generations.
An entertaining and indispensable guide to the language of finance and economics by the writer hailed for explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style (The Economist).
Refreshingly clear, sharp, and funny, How to Speak Money will help you understand not only what the language of finance means but also why it matters. -James Surowiecki, author of…
An NPR Favorite Books of the Year and Financial Times Best Fiction of the Year selection. The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling…
The bestselling, moving and hugely topical story of one street caught on the brink of the crash.
Tells the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia’s last seventy years. This novel covers the complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese…
The perfect companion to Capital, this is John Lanchester’s tale of a businessman’s life unraveling in a day.
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
David Kidd
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…
Vladimir Nabokov
Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman (‘his slapdash and very misleading book’), the narrator, V, sets out…
