This Week's Acquisitions
- Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins (Little, Brown and Company, 2015). Sequel to Life after Life, featuring Ursula's brother Teddy and his experiences during WWII. (Amazon)
- Simon Leys, The Death of Napoleon, trans. Patricia Clancy (NYRB, 2015). Napoleon absconds from St. Helena and, taking a new identity, winds up aboard a ship--where he is promptly nicknamed "Napoleon." First published in 1986. (Amazon)
- Lisbet Kickham, Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1879-1922 (Lund, 2004). Examines topics such as religious conflict, nationalism, landlord-tenant relations, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])