{"title":"Mick Herron","description":"Mick Herron is a bestselling and award-winning novelist and short story writer, best known for his Slough House series of thrillers. The books have been adapted into an Apple TV series, \u003ci\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman.","products":[{"product_id":"brother-of-the-more-famous-jack","title":"Brother of the More Famous Jack","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEighteen-year-old Katherine Browne—middle-class and something of a bookworm—hardly expects to be offered a place to study philosophy at a London university. Even less does she expect to find herself embraced by the gregarious and idiosyncratic family of her academic mentor, Jacob Goldman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKatherine is enchanted by Jacob’s acerbic wife, Jane, and by the younger Goldmans, but most of all she is enchanted by the family’s eldest son, Roger. The two embark on a love affair that ends in tears, and Katherine leaves for Rome, determined to put the Goldmans behind her. But she returns, ten years later, seasoned and assured, to discover that the past isn't dead, it isn’t even past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrother of the More Famous Jack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a book about the eroticism of the intellect, about falling in love with a family, and about breaking free of youthful binds. It bears comparison with Hollinghurst’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and it is a book that brings its readers into its own capacious, wise embrace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55100524658856,"sku":"9798896230779","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/9203\/files\/trapido-1-with_intro.jpg?v=1775765632"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/mick-herron.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}