John Lanchester: 13 books

Het schrikbeeld van Engeland: het land wordt langs de kustlijn omringd door een enorme muur. Waar eens golven op stranden sloegen bevindt zich nu een massieve, duizenden kilometers lange betonnen grens. Dag en nacht patrouilleren er mensen op de muur, jonge mannen en vrouwen met geweren en het bevel...

In Großbritannien gilt das Gesetz des Stärkeren. Das Land ist von einer hohen Mauer umgeben, die von den Bewohnern um jeden Preis gegen Eindringlinge verteidigt wird. Während in England der Brexit vorbereitet wird, legt Bestsellerautor John Lanchester einen brisanten neuen Roman vor. Joseph Kavanagh...

"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 The Wisdom of Crowds To those who don’t speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable....

For most people, the reasons for the sudden collapse of our economy still remain obscure. 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...

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. With the cache of letters and papers she left behind, he...

"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 Each house on Pepys Road, an ordinary street in London, has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of...

The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall—an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one...

Todos viven o trabajan en una calle de Londres; algunos se conocen, otros no, pero casi todos acabarán cruzándose. Roger Yount es un banquero de la City que espera una prima anual suficiente para pagar su segunda vivienda; ya tiene dos coches y también quisiera tener dos mujeres. Y que la segunda...

"Une évocation ambitieuse et captivante de la vie londonienne, un portrait "pré-crash" de l'avidité, la peur et l'argent. John Lanchester manie les multiples ficelles narratives de son roman avec une immense habileté, et beaucoup d'esprit. Un pur plaisir de lecture." The Times Chaque...

**Faites-vous plaisir... À la fois livre de gastronomie, polar et traité d'esthétique jubilatoire ! Un roman comme on en rêve !** Erudit excentrique, Tarquin Willot a entrepris, depuis Portsmouth, de traverser la France pour aller dans sa maison de Provence. Ce périple est l'occasion...

Desde hace ya unos cuantos años es imposible ver un telediario o abrir un periódico sin toparse con un alud de información económica –mayormente inquietante– relacionada con la crisis, los mercados, la inflación, el FMI, la deuda, los bonos basura, el producto interior bruto, la especulación...

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 bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before...

Alle Bewohner der Pepys Road suchen nach ihrem Glück: Roger Yount ist ein erfolgreicher Banker - mit zwei Kindern und einer verwöhnten Ehefrau. Dass er nicht die erwartete 1 Million Pfund Jahresprämie erhält, stürzt die Familie in eine Krise. Nebenan zieht die senegalesische Fußballhoffnung...