This Week's Acquisitions
- William Alexander, Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk (Tuckwell, 1995). Scholarly edition of this Victorian historical novel about the Disruption of 1843. (Amazon [secondhand])
- James Doig, ed., Australian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth, 2010). What it says on the tin: a short anthology of Australian ghost fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jessica Stilling, Betwixt and Between (Ig, 2013). Reimagining of Peter Pan in which Peter is, in effect, a psychopomp for children. (eBay)
- Michele Roberts, Delusion (Pegasus, 2008). Although a Victorian medium is the central character, the novel also extends backwards and forwards in time as it explores the ramifications of her work. (eBay)
- Peter C. Erb, ed., The Correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone: The Complete Correspondence 1833-1891, 4 vols. (Oxford, 2013). Manning and Gladstone spend several decades discussing matters theological, political, social, and literary (aside from several years in which they were not on speaking terms). I should note that I paid nowhere near full price for this. (Amazon [secondhand])