Ebook: A history of capitalism according to the Jubilee line: a political short story
Author: John O'Farrell
- Tags: London Underground Limited, Jubilee Line, London (England), Fiction, England, London
- Series: Penguin lines
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London (England), England--London
- Language: English
- epub
John O'Farrell, author of The Man Who Forgot His Wife, An Utterly Impartial History of Britain and Things Can Only Get Better, turns his comedic genius to the problem of capitalism, encapsulated in a Tube train full of passengers stuck underground - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground, as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin
'Authors include the masterly John Lanchester, the children of Kids Company, comic John O'Farrell and social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical, the personal to the societal, they offer something for every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon and notice its nature and its people. Read individually they're delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city' Evening Standard
'Exquisitely diverse' The...