This Week's Acquisitions
- Stephen Jarvis, Death and Mr. Pickwick (Jonathan Cape, 2015). A novel about the writing of--what else?--The Pickwick Papers. For once, the adjective "Dickensian" is not altogether objectionable. (Foyle's)
- E. O. Higgins, Conversations with Spirits (Unbound, 2013). In 1917, a certain Arthur Conan Doyle comes to our hero with a request to investigate a possible medium. (Foyle's)
- Adam Thorpe, Hodd (Vintage, 2010). In the middle ages, the man responsible for turning Robert Hodd (not a nice man) into Robin Hood (folkloric hero extraordinaire) reflects on the significance of his work. (Foyle's)
- Rupert Thomson, Secrecy (Granta, 2013). A seventeenth-century sculptor finds himself in over his head when he undertakes a commission in Florence. (Foyle's)