John Lanchester

• Apr-1996
• / General Fiction

Draws the reader, through descriptions of food and cooking, into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, which unfold his autobiography.

• Apr-2000
• / General Fiction

The triumphant return of John Lanchester, whose debut novel, The Debt to Pleasure, won the hearts of booksellers, readers, and reviewers across America.

Mr Phillips wakes on the morning of July 31 in his modest, nearly mortgage-free home, in t...

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction

Mr. Phillips wakes on a summer's Monday morning in his modest, nearly mortgage-free house, ready to face another ordinary working day. Except this day is far from ordinary, for on the previous Friday, Mr. Phillips was summarily sacked. Unable to deal...

• Jul-2002
• / General Fiction

It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to the complex and corrupt world of Hong Kong. A shipboard wager leads to an unlikely friendship that spans se...

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction

In their particulars, the Lanchesters were not Every Family. The father was an international banker, the mother a former nun. Yet in the dynamic of family life, their patterns are instantly recognizable. The heart of that dynamic is a built-in tug-of...

• Jun-2012
• / Literary

Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ( an elegant and wonderfully witty writer New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going unde...

• Mar-2019
• / Literary

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 border....

• Oct-2020
• / General Fiction

• Mar-2021
• / General Fiction

A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize -- long listed author of The Wall. In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist...

• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction

A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, the acclaimed English novelist John...

• May-2026
• / General Fiction

The Booker Prize nominee???s propulsive tale of intergenerational tension and revenge with the comic zest of Maria Semple or Taffy Brodesser???Akner.???Every successful marriage has its own private language.??? So it is for baby???boomer Kate and her...