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Capital by John Lanchester
19.99 AUD
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
29.99 AUD
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
27.99 AUD
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
22.99 AUD
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
19.99 AUD
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
Mr Phillips by John Lanchester
19.99 AUD
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
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Reality, and Other Stories by John Lanchester
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Very modern ghost stories from the Booker-nominated author of The Wall.
The Debt To Pleasure by John Lanchester
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic | Reading Level: near fine
Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. Tarquin Winot, voluptuary and supercivilized ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide, Portsmouth, to his cottage in Provence, his spiritual home. With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of the Mossad Ma ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
19.99 AUD
Category: 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 near ...Show more
The Wall by John Lanchester
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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
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