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Irish Times, May 18, 2012
...novels, among them Justin Cartwright's Other People's Money, Sebastian Faulks's A Week in December and John Lanchester's Capital. Marina Lewycka, author of the bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, is getting in on the act too, with her...
Guardian.co.uk, May 17, 2012
...Or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?" • John Lanchester's Capital is published by Faber. Politics Society Economic policy Economics John Lanchester guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media...
Connaught Tribune, May 17, 2012
...to Bed For a Year; John O'Farrell is nominated for The Man Who Forgot His Wife; and John Lanchester is up for Capital. “It’s great to be up with people who I would have grown up reading,” said Julian who found out he had been shortlisted for...
Guardian.co.uk, May 15, 2012
...Holiday Monday and felt thoroughly satisfied - it was everything I hoped it would be! Currently gliding through John Lanchester's Capital and enjoying it hugely, such great characters. DanHolloway also used the thread to review Kate Tempest's book...
The Independent, May 12, 2012
...In A Week In December, Sebastian Faulks had his Polish striker turn a quizzical eye on London. For John Lanchester in Capital, a Senegalese teen prodigy and his father did the job. Over in Madrid, Learning To Lose by the Spanish novelist David Trueba...
Canberra Times, May 11, 2012
...In Capital, John Lanchester sketches the isolation that characterises life in a big city such as London. Photo: Bloomberg CAPITAL Faber & Faber, $29.99 IT'S the better part of two decades...
Telegraph, May 10, 2012
...list for a second time, while Sue Townsend (The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year) and John Lanchester (Capital) are newcomers to the prize, which is given to the book which best captures the "comic spirit" of PG Wodehouse. The judges of the prize are:...
Daily Express, March 2, 2012
...Despite its titular debt to Marx, Capital is not another financial tract. Although more than a few of its 107 chapters take us inside the City of London this is really a novel about a single street. Pepys road sits proudly in a green and leafy enclave...
Scottish Daily Express, March 2, 2012
...ANYONE who got up to speed on the global economic crisis with the aid of Whoops!, John Lanchesters jokey introduction to the world of swaps, puts, futures and frauds, will have high hopes of his new novel. Despite its titular debt to Marx, Capital is not...
The Independent, March 2, 2012
...them, is respect. Too honest for his own good "The government, the council and the agency," says John Lanchester in his new novel, Capital, "regularly denied that there was a quota for issuing parking tickets." But that, he says, "as everybody knows",...
Dealbreaker, March 2, 2012
...[Globe and Mail] $$$ U.S. seeks dismissal of Hank Greenberg’s lawsuit on AIG takeover [Reuters] $$$ John Lanchester talks about why there’s so little fiction about money [FT] $$$ And when making such comparisons between economics and...
Varsity, March 2, 2012
...The ‘state-of-the-nation’ has always been a popular topic for novels – Middlemarch, Little Dorrit, Midnight’s Children – and it was about time someone had a crack at one again. Lanchester, novelist and economic journalist, has taken on the...
Mail & Guardian Online, March 2, 2012
...do not have to pay any attention to what things cost. -- © Guardian News & Media 2012 John Lanchester's new novel, Capital, is published by Faber & Faber...
The Verge, March 2, 2012
...Book trailers like the one for John Lanchester's Capital have grown increasingly sophisticated, moving from simple author interviews to clever multimedia productions. But besides raising awareness about the book in question, what purpose do they serve?...
