This Week's Acquisitions
- C. M. Home, From Dayspring to Dayset. A Tale of the Times of St. Dunstan (Washbourne, n.d.). Late-Victorian Catholic novel set in the tenth century, which concludes with several people dying very painfully. (eBay)
- Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead, 2015). Novel about the attempted assassination of Bob Marley before a concert in West Kingston in 1976, and its aftermath. (Lift Bridge)
- Peter Garside and Karen O'Brien, eds., The Oxford History of the Novel in English: English and British Fiction 1750-1820 (Oxford, 2015). What it says on the tin (genres, major authors, audiences, etc.). I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)