This Week's Acquisitions
- George Waring, Children's Mission; Or, Great Works Wrought by Weak Hands (Harvey and Darton, n.d.). Collection of three novellas exemplifying youthful Christian action in progress. Part of a subgenre of religious fiction devoted to angelic children as agents of religious transformation. (eBay)
- Michael Garriga, The Book of Duels (Milkweed, 2014). Collection of historical short-shorts about--you guessed it--duels, famous and otherwise. Cf. Robert Olen Butler's Severance and Intercourse. (Lift Bridge)
- A. N. Wilson, The Potter's Hand (Atlantic, 2013). Family-saga-type historical novel about the Wedgwood family of pottery fame. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Asa Briggs, A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing (Oak Knoll, 2008). Sweeping history of the publisher as a means of talking about changing conditions in the British book trade more generally. (Amazon [secondhand])