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* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year * * LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 * 'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' Guardian 'A...

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'Extraordinary' Angela Carter'One of the great war novels of the 20th century' William Boyd'A remarkable journey' Sunday TimesThe heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.Like eve...

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John Lanchester's Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay is the unbelievable true story of the economic crisis. We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money an...

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''Endlessly witty, but the wit is underpinned by a tremendous, unembarrassed anger and moral lucidity. A superb guide which will turn any reader into an expert within the space of 200 pages'' Jonathan Coe There''s probably a word in German for tha...

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A "New York Times" Notable Book, "The Debt to Pleasure" is a wickedly funny ode to food as the novel's snobbish narrator instructs readers in his philosophy on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of the menu.

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To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable. Fortunately, John Lanchester-the best-selling novelist and reporter hailed by The Economist for "explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style"-is ...

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In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline-the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the despe...

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In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw," the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker . "Signal" was a sensation among readers and was featured on public rad...

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In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his ...

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** From the author of The Wall ** 'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' Observer 'A treat to read.' The Times 'The great London novel of the twenty-first century.' New Statesman 'Br...

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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-celebr...

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Fragrant Harbour is the story of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last seventy years. Tom Stewart leaves England just before it is hit by the Great Depression to seek his fortune, and finds it in running Hong Kong's best h...

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** From the author of The Wall **Adapted into an Emmy Award-winning BBC One drama'Effortlessly brilliant . . . hugely moving and outrageously funny.' ObserverThe residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elde...

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In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author ofFragrant Harbour andCapital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mo...

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'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 find...

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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-celebr...

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* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' Guardian'A 198...

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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 econo...

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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 econo...

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Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Constant cold calls from unknown numbers. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the...

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'Sharp, humorous, satirical . . . a mind-bending collection.' TLS Household gizmos with a mind of their own. Constant cold calls from unknown numbers. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a ...

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Household gizmos with a mind of their own.Constant cold calls from unknown numbers.And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real.Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments - stories to be read as the ev...

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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 coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, th...

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In 2017, inspired in part by Henry James' The Turn of the Screw , the acclaimed English novelist John Lanchester published a ghost story in The New Yorker . "Signal," an eerie story of contemporary life and the perils of technology, was ...

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With an introduction by John Banville Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death...

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With an introduction by John Banville Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death...

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Großstadtleben in Zeiten der Finanzkrise: Jedes Haus in der Südlondoner Pepys Road hat viel Glück, Liebe und Leid gesehen. Anhand der Leben der Bewohner dieser mehr oder weniger normalen Straße zeichnet John Lanchester ein hochaktuelles Panorama u...

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Nominiert für den Booker Prize Großbritannien ist von einer hohen Mauer umgeben. Joseph Kavanagh gehört zu jener Gruppe von jungen Menschen, die sie gegen Eindringlinge verteidigt. Der Preis für ein mögliches Versagen ist hoch: Schaffen es Eindrin...

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Alle Bewohner der Pepys Road suchen nach ihrem Gluck: Roger Yount ist ein erfolgreicher Banker - mit zwei Kindern und einer verwohnten Ehefrau. Dass er nicht die erwartete 1 Million Pfund Jahrespramie erhalt, sturzt die Familie in eine Krise. Nebe...

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Unterhaltsam und verstÿndlich entwirrt der Autor des Welterfolgs »Kapital« jedem Laien, warum die Finanzwelt und die globale Welt seit Jahren erschüttert werden und die Ursachen noch immer nicht behoben sind. Der Sündenfall begann, als Finanz...

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