Kate en Jack hebben een gelukkig huwelijk; ze zijn onafscheidelijk en volledig symbiotisch. Ze hebben zelfs een eigen taal ontwikkeld, een uniek universum van grapjes en verwijzingen, afkortingen en bijnamen.  Meer

We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went wrong?  Meer

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.  Meer

Matthew Ho is a young Chinese entrepreneur whose life has been shaped by painful choices made long before his birth. The complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the post-war boom and the handover of the city to the Chinese - all these are present in Fragrant Harbour, an epic novel of one of the world's great cities.  Meer

sets out to decode the world of finance for all of us, explaining everything from high-frequency trading and the World Bank to the difference between bullshit and nonsense.  Meer

From the bestselling author of Capital comes this blackly funny page-turner - think the scripts of Jesse Armstrong meet Notes on a Scandal.  Meer

A Kirkus Reviews Best Short Fiction of 2021 Selection Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.  Meer

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have.  Meer

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 mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion.  Meer