The Wall

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' Guardian
'A 1984 for our times.' Daily Express
Kavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall.
If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he only has to do two years of this. 729 more nights.
The best thing that can happen is that he survives and gets off the Wall and will never have to spend another day of his life anywhere near it.
But what if something did happen - if the Others came, if he had to fight for his life?
Thrilling and heartbreaking, The Wall is about a troubled world you will recognise as your own - and about what might be found when all is lost.

John Lanchester is a contributing editor to the
London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the
New Yorker. He has written four novels,
The Debt to Pleasure,
Mr Phillips and
Fragrant Harbour, and
Capital, and three works of non-fiction:
Family Romance, a memoir; and
Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, about the global financial crisis and
How to Speak Money, a primer in popular economics. 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.