This is an auction for CAPITAL by John Lanchester.

“Full of spectacular comedy - and menace... The effect is like one of those cut-away illustrations that show the interior of every room in an apartment complex.”

• Washington Post

“Precise, humane and often hilarious, John Lanchester’s Capital teems with life. Its Dickensian sweep and its clear-eyed portrayal of the end of a strange era make this novel not only immensely enjoyable, but important, too.”

• Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children

“Like getting a crash course in the transformation of British mores and class distinctions. A nuanced portrait of a country in flux.”

• New York Times Book Review

“Brilliant.”

• NPR Books

Amazon.com review:

“Novelist John Lanchester (The Debt to Pleasure) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It’s 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London—a banker and his shopaholic wife, an old woman dying of a brain tumour and her graffiti-artist grandson, Pakistani shop owners and a shadowy refugee who works as the meter maid, the young soccer star from Senegal and his minder—are receiving anonymous postcards reading “We Want What You Have.” Who is behind it? What do they want? Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment of extraordinary tension."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Large format (trade) paperback 2012.

577 pages.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95 (ordinary post) or $6.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $9.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.