This Week's Acquisitions

  • [Lizzie Bates], Drierstock: A Tale of Mission Work on the American Frontier (RTS, ca. 1883).  A reprint of a novel from the US about a clergyman's work in a newly-built town.  (eBay)
  • Austin Clare, The Royal Banner.  A Tale of Life Before and After Confirmation (SPCK, n.d.).  A boy's experiences in a fishing village.  (eBay)
  • Andrea Barrett, Archangel (Norton, 2013).  New collection of five short stories about transformative encounters with scientific discovery.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Essie Fox, The Goddess and the Thief (Orion, 2013).  Plots to get hold of the Koh-I-Noor diamond; sounds rather The Moonstone-ish.    (Amazon [secondhand])
  • L. Silliman Ives, The Trials of a Mind in Its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends (D. & J. Sadlier, 1854).  Conversion narrative by a clergyman who moved from Anglo- to Roman Catholicism.  (eBay)