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Capital by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Capital by John Lanchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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
Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
How to Speak Money by John Lanchester
$34.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
A funny, clear and brilliantly entertaining guide to the world of finance from the bestselling author of Capital and Whoops! The biggest problem for outsiders in the world of economics is that most of the time, we don't know what the hell the insiders are talking about. To know that, you have to unders ...Show more
Mr Phillips by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
The Wall by John Lanchester
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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
The Wall by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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 ne ...Show more
Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
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? And will we learn our lesson - or just carry on as before, like celebrating surviving a heart attack with a packet of Rothmans? If you want to ...Show more
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