Nominated for the 2019 Booker Prize Narrated by BAFTA-winning actor Will Poulter 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; longs to be somewhere else. He will soon find out what Defenders do and who the Others are. Along with the rest of his squad, he will endure cold and fear day after day, night after night. But somewhere, in the dark cave of his mind, he thinks: wouldn't it be interesting if something did happen, if they came, if you had to fight for your life? John Lanchester's thrilling, hypnotic new novel is about why the young are right to hate the old. It's about a broken world you will recognise as your own-and about what might be found when all is lost.

The Wall

El 1984 dels nostres dies. Kavanagh comença el seu servei al Mur. Si té sort, si res no va malament, només seran dos anys, 729 nits. El millor que pot passar és que no passi res i que sobrevisqui al Mur, deixant-lo enrere en el rècord, com si aquests dos anys de la seva vida no haguessin existit mai. Aviat sabrà qui són i què fan els Defensors, i qui són i què fan els Altres, els que habiten el territori que hi ha més enllà del Mur. Dia rere dia, nit rere nit, Kavanagh i els seus companys hauran de suportar el fred i l'expectativa mai confirmada dels Altres. Tots passen les guàrdies nocturnes anhelant que tot això acabi, ser a qualsevol altre lloc, mentre en el subconscient, neix una pregunta perversa: què passaria si arribessin els Altres i haguessin de lluitar plegats per les seves vides? LLIBRE DE L'ANY AL FINANCIAL TIMES I L'EVENING STANDARD. «Autènticament magistral.» The Guardian«Brillant, de lectura compulsiva.» Financial Times «No el podràs deixar de llegir.» The New York Times «Lanchester es revela com un autèntic mestre de l'al·legoria.» Mail on Sunday «Lanchester respon a la pregunta de què passaria si seguim habitant un món de diferències i desigualtats tan exacerbades com és el nostre.» Prospect «Meravellosament escrita i molt plausible, fins i tot massa per ser una distopia...» Booklist

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El Mur

To those who don't speak it, the language of money can seem impenetrable and its ideas too complex to grasp. How to Speak Money is acclaimed writer John Lanchester's entertaining and informative attempt to bridge the gap between the money people and the rest of us. With characteristic wit and candor ("wickedly funny" --Dwight Garner, New York Times), Lanchester shows how the world of finance and economics really works--from the terms and conditions of your personal checking account to the evasions of bankers appearing in front of Congress. How to Speak Money reveals how the language of money is often a tool to conceal and mislead; he explains hundreds of common economic terms, from GDP to the IMF, amortization and securitization to collateralized debt obligation; and he argues that we all need to speak money lest those who do write the financial rules for themselves.

How to Speak Money

Hailed by the New York Times as an ''elegant and wonderfully witty writer,'' John Lanchester received the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Betty Trask Prize for his critically acclaimed debut, The Debt to Pleasure. In Capital, it's 2008, the height of the financial crisis, and someone is sending anonymous postcards to the affluent residents of Pepys Road, London. The cards read simply, ''We want what you have,'' leaving the recipients asking, Who's behind the strange mailings, and to what lengths will they go to get what they want?

Capital

Mr Phillips wakes on the morning of July 31 in his modest, nearly mortgage-free home, in the bed he has contentedly shared with his wife of thirty years (though to be honest, at night he lies beside her and dreams of other women), ready to face another ordinary day. Except that for Mr Phillips, it is not an ordinary day, for on Friday, July 28, he was summarily sacked. Nonetheless, he rises at his usual hour and prepares himself as he has done his entire working life for the office he no longer has. This is the story of one day in the life of a decent man who only forty-eight hours before knew exactly who and what he was - husband and father, accountant, home-owner, son - and who on this day wonders who and what he can become.

Mr Phillips

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. Following the residents of Pepys Road, Capital features a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind.

In 2000, the total GDP of Earth was $36 trillion. At the start of 2007 it was $70 trillion. Today that growth has gone suddenly and sharply into decline. John Lanchester travels with a cast of characters - including reckless bankers, snoozing regulators, complacent politicians, predatory lenders, credit-drunk spendthrifts, and innocent bystanders to understand deeply and genuinely what is happening and why we feel the way we do.

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Family Romance is a beautifully written memoir in which John Lanchester joins the dots of his parents' history, their extraordinary secrets and the shape of their shared life. From his grandparents' beginnings in rural Ireland and colonial Rhodesia, Lanchester navigates through his parents' lives: his father Bill's devastating war-time separation from his parents; his mother Julia's tragic first love, her decision to become a nun and her adoption of a new identity. Lanchester illuminates their characters and Julia's motives with moving insight.

Family Romance

Performed by Richard Armitage, Anthony Boyle, Emila Fox and Hugh Quarshie HOUSEHOLD GIZMOS WITH A MIND OF THEIR OWN. THE WRONG KIND OF COLD CALLS. AND THE CREEPING SUSPICION THAT NONE OF THIS IS REAL. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments – stories to be listened to as the evenings draw in, and the days are haunted by uncanny technologies and the absurd horrors of modern life. “Masterly…remarkable.” GUARDIAN on The Wall

Reality, and other stories

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