This Week's Acquisitions
- Mark Evans, Bleak Expectations: A Novel (Constable & Robinson, 2013). As the title suggests, a Charles Dickens parody, featuring the adventures of Mr. Pip Bin (our narrator) as he deals with a hyper-Dickensian Cruel World. (Daunt Books)
- Julian Rathbone, Kings of Albion (Abacus, 2000). Some gentlemen from very far afield--as in Egypt, China, etc.--wind up in England during the War of the Roses; puzzlement ensues, amongst other things. (open-air booksellers)
- Lindsay Clarke, The Return from Troy (HarperCollins, 2005). Hey, it's the Odyssey! (Plus some Greek tragedies.) Sequel to The War at Troy, which is about... (open-air booksellers)