Meet the Laments -- the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen’s exuberant debut novel.Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto “Laments move!” His wife Julia is a fiery ...
Born in a shabby tenement in Victorian London, young Tom Bedlam is employed stoking the furnaces in a massive porcelain factory; he is son to a father he has never met, and sibling to a baby who vanished at birth. But in spite of these disadvantages,...
What if a riddle could, save your life? A tangle of ingenious riddles, a malevolent necklace called a torc, an array of menacing birds, and a writing desk that won't reveal its contents: these are just some of the obstacles that stand between Gabr...