John Lanchester is the author of the novels The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbor; and a memoir, Family Romance. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Among several other prizes, including the Whitbread and Hawthornden Awards, Lanchester was awarded the 2008 E.M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.
Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, in the bed he has contentedly shared with his wife of almost...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...
...Capital author John Lanchester (Picture: supplied) Capital author John Lanchester reveals the three books he has been enjoying on his eReader and tells us why. Shot And A Ghost by James Willstrop Squash is...
...book, and not too many not to produce the book. It’s not quite a trivial point. As John Lanchester wrote in this magazine, drug writing since De Quincey is interesting precisely insofar as it’s marked by an author’s ambivalence about the depraved...
...In softcover fiction, Deborah Harkness sends a witch and a vampire back to Elizabethan England, and John Lanchester looks at London circa 2008. In nonfiction, Sally Koslow explores parenting adult children, and Andrew Blum reveals the infrastructure...
...maid — and they're all receiving odd, anonymous postcards demanding "We Want What You Have." Novelist John Lanchester takes readers back to 2008, at the peak of the housing crisis and global financial meltdown. Journalist Andrew Blum journeys inside...
...Z DALE CRAIG Napa Valley Register 17 minutes ago • DALE CRAIG “Capital,” a novel by John Lanchester, W.W. Norton, New York and London, 2012, 527 pages, hardcover. “Capital” tells the story of people living on or connected with Pepys...
...Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O’Farrell and social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something...
...Philip Hannay, CEO of Glasgow law firm Cloch Solicitors, backed up comments made by British journalist and novelist John Lanchester who suggested that that the technology – which will allow users to access the internet and record and transmit what they...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...
...John Lanchester explains to the Gurdian Review book club why he decided to set a novel about the boom and bust of the early 21st century in a single London street...