“I grew up in Hong Kong, and London used to seem very gray: the sky was gray, the buildings were gray, the food was incredibly gray - the food had, like, new kinds of grayness specially invented for it.”

British journalist and novelist

John Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. His reviews appear frequently in the London Review of Books. He is known for writing journalism and fiction, with book reviews as a regular part of his work. The available facts place him chiefly as a contemporary British writer whose name is closely associated with criticism and literary journalism.