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])