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)