Capital - John Lanchester in interview with Will Gompertz

John Lanchester is among the UK’s most exciting financial and social commentators. His sensational new novel Capital, published in March 2012, is expected to become one of the most sought-after books of the year. Capital is a post-crash state-of-the-nation novel that will appeal to the widest audience and is regarded by his publisher Faber & Faber as ‘the major book’ of 2012. John comes to the York Festival of Ideas fresh from a US book tour.

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. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker.

Will Gompertz, the first and current BBC’s arts editor was previously director of Tate Media, and appeared in a show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2009 called Double Art History.Gompertz also writes extensively for The Guardian and The Times newspapers.

Admission: by free ticket only, available from yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets