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Capital by John Lanchester
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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
25.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Capital by John Lanchester
23.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Family Romance: A Memoir by John Lanchester
38.00 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
How to Speak Money by John Lanchester
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
29.00 NZD
Category: Business
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
Reality and Other Stories by John Lanchester
28.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
The Wall by John Lanchester
23.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019* Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere ne ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
33.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Kavanagh begins his life patrolling the Wall. If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has two years of this, 729 more nights. The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and never has to spend another day of his life anywhere near it. He longs for this to be over; long ...Show more
Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
55.00 NZD
Category: Business
There's probably a word in German for that feeling you get when you can understand something while it's being explained to you, but lose hold of the explanation as soon as it stops. A lot of writing about the credit crunch has that effect. This title makes it possible for all of us to grasp how we found ...Show more
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