Book of the Week. Mirage and subterfuge, reality and counterlives, transformation and invention are the players in Emily St.John Mandel’s latest novel, The Glass Hotel. Set in a hotel on Vancouver Island and in New York, the book explores the fragility of both capital and esteem when crises both financial and personal are triggered by the collapse of a ponzi scheme. A devastating look at emotional turbulence in the age of late capitalism.

>>Read Stella's review. 

>>"A profound study of responsibility in times of crisis."

>>Knowing and not knowing. 

>>"I admire novelists who are pushing the form forward."

>>The art of second chances. 

>>Read an extract. 
>>Auckland, 2015. 
>>Fact, fiction and the familiar. 
>>EStJM in conversation. 
>>Unbridled.  
>>Read the book!
>>Her previous novel, Station Eleven, sets Shakespeare after an apocalypse.