John Lanchester is the author of several novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, Capital, and The Wall. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

The chilling, deluded Tarquin is the best character to come out of an English novel since Charles Dickens put pen to paper

John Lanchester is the author of several novels, The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips, Fragrant Harbour, Capital, and The Wall. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

The chilling, deluded Tarquin is the best character to come out of an English novel since Charles Dickens put pen to paper