The Glass Hotel

Yes, I know that Station Eleven is one of the most brilliant and entertaining books about a pandemic ever written, but I swear, it's a coincidence that I'm recommending another book by Emily St. John Mandel this week. Her latest novel has at last been published, and it's one that I've been waiting a while to be able to tell you about. It has the sort of plot that's the right amount of tricky, not overly complicated but with enough surprises that I don't want to spoil any. Suffice to say that the author has said that her working title for the book was Ghosts and Money, and that the characters within it are haunted by both, metaphorically and just possibly literally. —James (from the Madison Books newsletter)