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Capital is the outstanding new novel by Whitbread award-winning writer John Lanchester.  It takes place on Pepys Road, an ordinary street in the capital that has seen a hundred years of fortunes won and lost. One day in December 2007, a card drops through each letterbox, bearing the message: We Want What You Have.  Capital is a post-economic-crash, state-of-the-nation novel that tells the stories of the residents of Pepys Road.  It is the story of one street, but also the story of a global crisis and how it has affected us all. Lanchester, author of The Debt to Pleasure, Mr Phillips and Fragrant Harbour, talks to The Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate.