The Wall
Published by: Faber & Faber
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contributing editor. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, E.M Forster Award, and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. He is married, has two children and lives in London.
It's all too easy to imagine the future set out in John Lanchester's The Wall, and that makes it a terrifying read, yet one that still comes with a hint of hope - crucial for effective political fiction."
