This Week's Acquisitions
- William Boyd, Restless: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA, 2007). Part of the recent crop of UK literary thrillers.
- Anne Enright, The Gathering (Grove, 2007). Woman tries to come to grips with the aftermath of her brother's suicide; this year's Man Booker Prize winner.
- Richard Aldous, The Lion and the Unicorn: Gladstone vs Disraeli (Pimlico, 2007). Biographical study of their political rivalry.
- David Park Curry, James McNeill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces (University of Virginia, 2006). Critical study of the late-Victorian painter, no doubt best-remembered for this.