Books written by John Lanchester

De muur

De muur beschrijft een wereld die onmiskenbaar de onze is, zij het onherstelbaar beschadigd. John Lanchester (1962) is een Britse journalist en romanschrijver. Met zijn debuut The Debt to Pleasure, won hij de Whitbread Book Award.
Kapitaal

Kapitaal kent een verbluffende cast, met stoere Poolse klusjesmannen, onweerstaanbare Hongaarse kindermeisjes en illegale Afrikaanse parkeerwachten. John Lanchester schreef met Kapitaal zijn meest ambitieuze roman tot dusver.
Chers voisins

"Nous voulons ce que vous avez." C'est l'énigmatique message que trouvent un matin dans leur boîte aux lettres les habitants de Pepys Road. Dans ce quartier ordinaire et plutôt chic...
Chers voisins

Construction chorale, tirant ses influences réalistes du roman russe à Balzac, et jusqu'à Franzen, Chers voisins met en scène une comédie humaine avec une maîtrise parfaite du rythme, de l'intrigue et du style."
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Tube: The District Line

Even without beingjolted along in thedark tunnel – evenwithout coming to ahalt ina dark tunnel, foran unspecifiedreason, foran unspecifiedlength oftime, astheheat mounts – this is a profoundly unnatural condition for human beings.
Die Lust und ihr Preis: Aufzeichnungen eines reisenden Gentleman

Die Lust und ihr Preis: Aufzeichnungen eines reisenden Gentleman
Die Lust und ihr Preis: Aufzeichnungen eines reisenden Gentleman

Die Lust und ihr Preis: Aufzeichnungen eines reisenden Gentleman
Family Romance: A Memoir

As a study of silence and its ripples through a family, it is utterly fascinating._ Christina Patterson, IndependentIn this acclaimed memoir, award-winning novelist John Lanchester pieces together his parents_ past and uncovers their ...
Capital: A Novel

Roger's discomfort with Mark was based on the fact that he, Roger, had come to work at Pinker Lloyd in the time when the City was more about relationships and less about maths. He had prospered, thrived, in the intervening decades but ...
Mr. Phillips

You would need someone to cook , like Mrs Mitchinson , whom Mr Phillips had worked with at Grimshaw's and who was forever talking about , thinking about , shopping for , and cooking food . Her husband was a small round very silent man ...
Reality and Other Stories

Mysterious cell-phone calls from unknown numbers. Reality TV shows and the creeping suspicion that none of this is real… Reality and Other Stories is a book of disquiet that captures the severe disconnection and distraction of our time.
What We Talk about When We Talk about the Tube: The District Line

As John Lanchester fulfils a long-held ambition to take a trip with a District Line train driver, he considers the secret life of the city, its changing patterns, how we behave when we commute and how the Underground shapes our lives.
Fragrant Harbor

It is 1935 and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with an almost visceral longing for adventure, has bought himself a cheap ticket to the complex, corrupt, and corrupting world of...
The Wall

Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize Thrilling...A topical and deftly satirical novel. --Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel

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 former ...
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say-And What It Really Means

to people about economics, I've noticed that the most common shared political feeling is a sense of bafflement, alienation, impotence, and passivity. People feel as if there's nothing they can do. The weight of money is a weight ...
I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay

I.O.U. is the story of how we came to experience such a complete financial disaster, starting with the magical proliferation of credit that led to an explosion of lending on the global and local landscapes of banking and finance.
The Wall: A Novel

Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize "Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." —Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around ...
Family Romance: A Love Story

Part detective work, part evocation of character, this is, above all, compelling storytelling.
The Debt To Pleasure

With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of the Mossad Manual of Surveillance Techniques safely stowed, Tarquin elegantly introduces his life, itself a work of art, through the medium of seasonal menus.