The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Nicola Griffith, Hild (Picador, 2014).  Historical novel about Saint Hilda of Whitby.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Jonathan Grimwood, The Last Banquet (Europa, 2014).  Historical novel set in eighteenth-century France, featuring a gourmand who seeks out the world's most esoteric tastes.  (Amazon)
  • Loren D. Estleman, ed., The Plated Spoon and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Tyrus, 2014).  Of the making of many Sherlock Holmes anthologies there is no end.  This one features both old and new tales, including Doyle's self-parody "How Watson Learned the Trick."  (Amazon)
  • The Churchman's Monthly Penny Magazine, vol. V (1851).  Full year of this Protestant magazine, featuring a combination of missionary sketches, short tales for children, discourses on various doctrines, and (as one would expect, given the year) angst about the "Papal aggression."   (eBay)
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