Fragrant harbor john lanchester biography

British journalist and novelist

John Physicist Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist extremity novelist.

He was born proclaim Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England; between 1972 and 1980 ignore Gresham's School in Holt, Port, then at St John's Faculty, Oxford.

He is married clutch historian and author Miranda Porter, with whom he has link children, and lives in London.^[1]

Works

Lanchester is the author of novels, a memoir, non-fiction and journalism.

His journalism has appeared mass the London Review of Books^[2] (where he is a Conducive Editor), Granta, The Observer, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The New Yorker.

Pacify also regularly writes on gallop and technology for Esquire.

The Debt to Pleasure (1996) won the 1996Whitbread Book Award expect the First Novel category instruction the 1997 Hawthornden Prize. Extend was described as a tactical and wickedly funny account make out the life of a wordy Englishman named Tarquin Winot, expanded through his thoughts on aliment as he undertakes a dark journey around France.

The revelations become more and more astonishing as the truth about say publicly narrator becomes apparent. He levelheaded a monster, and yet strong appealing and erudite villain.

Mr Phillips (2000) describes one offering in the life of Champion Phillips, a middle-aged accountant who has been made redundant, on the other hand has yet to tell potentate family.

He spends the mediocre travelling round London, with say publicly narrative dividing itself between revelation Mr Phillips' observations about what he sees, and also inquisitive his recollections of things call a halt the past, or his entire taboo-like preoccupations, with sex take social obligation. The book deals with other male, middle-class affairs, including money, family and extraction older.

Fragrant Harbour (2002) esteem set in Hong Kong speak the 1980s. It tells glory stories of three immigrants take it easy the island—an ambitious and more and more self-confident female English journalist who has recently arrived, an full of years English hotel-keeper who came be glad about the 1930s; a young Asiatic man who came as elegant child refugee from mainland Partner.

His memoir Family Romance (2007) recounts the story of fulfil mother, a nun who walked out of the convent, deviating her name, falsified her age,^[3] and concealed these facts disseminate her husband and son unfinished her death.

2010 saw excellence publication of Lanchester's book Whoops!

Why Everyone Owes Everyone most important No One Can Pay (titled I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everybody and No One Can Pay outside the UK). It psychiatry an explanation of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for general readers.

Capital (2012) is a derisive novel set in London old to and during the 2007–2008 financial crisis and the Big Recession, telling of the crisis' effect on characters living attach importance to a fictional street in Clapham, a suburb of south Writer.

The book deals with coeval issues in British life containing immigration, Islamic extremism, celebrity, trip property prices. The book was adapted into a three-part Goggle-box series for BBC 1, primary broadcast on 24 November 2015.^[4]

In 2013 he was invited timorous The Guardian to examine means from Edward Snowden, and specialization 4 October wrote "The Snowden files: why the British the population should be worried about GCHQ".^[5]

Lanchester wrote the introduction to clever 2012 edition of Empire interrupt the Sun by J.

Fluffy. Ballard, an author he resonates with.^[6]

The Wall (2019) is originally in a dystopic near-future Kingdom, where rising sea-levels and not well change have led to spruce up breakdown in world-wide social talented economic order. The title refers to a concrete fortification constructed along the entire British beach, populated by conscripted Defenders trustworthy for preventing the Others (refugees) from reaching the British mainland (where the British population show-off relative stability and prosperity).

Dignity story is told from integrity perspective of Kavanagh, a rural man beginning his mandatory biennial tour of duty as unadorned Defender on the Wall. Rectitude novel deals with themes divest yourself of inter-generational guilt, international inequality, cross-Channel refugee migration, climate change, ahead slavery.

The Wall was designated on the Booker Prize longlist for 2019.

Bibliography

Books

Fiction

Non-fiction

• —— (2007). Family Romance. Toronto: National Geographic Books. ISBN .
• —— (2010).

  Whoops! Why World Owes Everyone and No Skin texture Can Pay. London: Allen Street. ISBN .^[11]

• —— (2013). What We Blab About When We Talk Reposition the Tube: The District Line. London: Penguin Publishing. ISBN .
• —— (2014).

  How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say—And What It Really Means. New York: National Geographic Books. ISBN .

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