John Lanchester was born in Hamburg, grew up in Hong Kong and lives in London. He has written six works of fiction and four of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E. M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into twenty-five languages. The television mini-series of his novel Capital won an Emmy Award. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

'An elegant and wonderfully witty writer.' New York Times'John Lanchester has some claim to be the Orwell of our day, our most brilliant journalist novelist.' Telegraph'A fine writer with an eye for the big picture.' Mail on Sunday'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' Observer on Capital

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg, grew up in Hong Kong and lives in London. He has written six works of fiction and four of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E. M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into twenty-five languages. The television mini-series of his novel Capital won an Emmy Award. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

'An elegant and wonderfully witty writer.' New York Times'John Lanchester has some claim to be the Orwell of our day, our most brilliant journalist novelist.' Telegraph'A fine writer with an eye for the big picture.' Mail on Sunday'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' Observer on Capital