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Capital by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with ...Show more
Capital by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
Tie-in edition of the bestselling novel from John Lanchester which is coming to BBC1 starring Toby Jones, Lesley Sharp and Gemma Jones From the bestselling author of Whoops! and The Debt to Pleasure comes a post-financial crisis, state-of-the-nation novel told with compassion, humour and unflinching tr ...Show more
Capital by John Lanchester
Category: Non-Fiction
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with ...Show more
Capital by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
The internationally celebrated author of The Debt to Pleasurereturns with this major, breakout novel -- scathing and subversive, sharply witty and brilliantly observed as it follows the lives and fortunes of a group of people in London that becomes connected in unforeseen ways. Pepys Road: an ordina ...Show more
Family Romance : A Memoir by John Lanchester
Category: Biography
In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of "Fragrant Harbour", John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion. First published 2007. ...Show more
Family Romance: A Memoir by John Lanchester
Category: Biography Memoir
Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents lives: his ...Show more
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromising Chinese nun wh ...Show more
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
This is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span 70 years in Asia. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during World War II; and the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong all surface in this epic novel. Paperback
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
'It's Hong Kong,' she said. 'Heung gong. Fragrant harbour.' "Fragrant Harbour" is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best hotel. Sister Maria is a beautiful and uncompromisin ...Show more
How to Speak Money by John Lanchester
Category: Business, Economics and Law
A funny, clear and brilliantly entertaining guide to the world of finance from the bestselling author of Capital and Whoops! The biggest problem for outsiders in the world of economics is that most of the time, we don't know what the hell the insiders are talking about. To know that, you have to unders ...Show more
How to Speak Money by John Lanchester
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling. Above all, the language of money is the language of power - power in the hands of the same economic elite. Now John Lanchester, bestselling author of Cap ...Show more
Mr. Phillips by John Lanchester
Category: Fiction
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 what he can become. "Near-perfect".--"The Washington Post Book World".