An elegant and wonderfully witty writer. - New York TimesIn The Wall, John Lanchester takes our current political climate to its terrible and logical extreme. A harrowing, brilliant, and troublingly plausible vision of the future. - Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station ElevenUnsettling, compulsive and brilliant. - Financial TimesA 1984 for our times. - Daily ExpressMasterly . A signal achievement .

Remarkable. - GuardianJohn Lanchester has some claim to be the Orwell of our day, our most brilliant journalist-novelist. - Sunday TelegraphWith The Wall, John Lanchester follows his mind-boggling financial essays and his great realist novel Capital with a bold science fiction fable, a vivid, swift, chilling, and ultimately beautiful human story. All his work is of a piece - he wants his readers to see our moment better, and then do something about it. - Kim Stanley RobinsonA crackling adventure and an astute political fable . Every secondary school library in the country needs to order a copy. - The TimesThe Wall is a neat, disquieting, elegant book that deserves to be read. - Daily TelegraphShort, sharp and shocking.

The Wall demands a reading in one sitting. - MetroThe book creates the fantasy of a walled-off Britain, and reveals it to be a nightmare. - Sunday Times.