Review

In John Lanchester's latest collection of stories, the ghost is always in the machine

By Colin Steele
January 30 2021 - 12:00am
There's a sting in the tail of John Lanchester's stories. Picture: Getty Images
There's a sting in the tail of John Lanchester's stories. Picture: Getty Images
  • Reality and Other Stories, by John Lanchester. Faber. $24.99.

John Lanchester, whose last novel The Wall was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019, has won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the EM Forster Award, and the Premi Libreter.

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