a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
if you need to actually hold a conversation while on a trip to the Holy Land
John Lanchester--the best-selling novelist and reporter hailed by The Economist for explain[ing] complex stuff in a down-to-earth and witty style--is here to bridge the gap between the money people and the rest of us
Brooklyn couldn't seem to escape her ex
Will he be labeled the town idiot before he's even introduced as the new doctor
The Visions of Ransom Lake Fiction4all a New York Times NotableYouthful beauty, naive innocence, a romantic imagination thirsting for adventure an apt description of Vaden Valmont, who would soon find the adventure and mystery she had always longed to experience in the form of a man. A somber recluse, Ransom Lake descended from his solitary concealment in the mountains, wholly uninterested in people and their trivial affairs. And somehow, young Vaden managed to be ever in his way, either by accident or because of