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Capital by John Lanchester
$36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
$33.00 NZD
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 by John Lanchester
$59.99 NZD
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
Family Romance: A Memoir by John Lanchester
$37.99 NZD
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
Family Romance : A Memoir by John Lanchester
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
$24.99 NZD
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
$20.00 NZD
Category: Business & Investing
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
$28.99 NZD
Category: Business & Investing | Reading Level: very good
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
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary Wednesday. It is a day on which Mr Phillips will chat with a pornographer, stalk a tv mini-celebrity, have lunch with an aspiring record mogul, and get ca ...Show more
Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$22.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
$27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: near fine
Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.Cold calls from the dead.And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the ev ...Show more