John Lanchester Books
Mr. Phillips
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 Frid...
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Fragrant Harbor
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 shipboar...
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How To Speak Money: What The Money People Say―And What It Really Means
By John Lanchester, Lanchester, John
**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__).** To...
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Capital
By John Lanchester, JOHN LANCHESTER, John Lanchester John Lanchester
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might s...
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