Selfie-sticks with demonic powers.
Cold calls from the dead.
And that creeping suspicion, as you sit there with your flat white, that none of this is real.
John Lanchester's first book of shorter fictions, Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments, to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the ghastly schlock, uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.
Author Biography
John Lanchester is the author of The Wall, longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019, as well as four other novels and three works of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Premi Libreter. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a regular contributor to the New Yorker.
