This Week's Acquisitions
- James Hogg, The Shepherd's Calendar (Edinburgh, 2002). Scholarly edition of this short story collection.
- Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories (Bloomsbury USA, 2006). Fantasy and alternative history in the Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell mode.
- Chris Hunt, The Bisley Boy (Gay Men's Press, 1995). Alternative history in which Elizabeth I turns out to be a man in disguise.
- Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark: A Novel (Vintage, 1998). A young man dealing with injustice tries to find out what happened to his long-dead uncle.
- Jennifer Egan, Emerald City: Stories (Picador, 1997). Short story collection.
- Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn: A Novel (Little, Brown & Co., 2006). Return of the detective from Case Histories.
- The Bulwark or Reformation Journal. In Defence of the True Interests of Man and of Society, Especially in Reference to the Religious, Social, and Political Bearings of Popery 1 (1851-52). The first volume of this long-running anti-Catholic journal, the house organ of the Scottish Reformation Society. Frank Wallis discusses The Bulwark, among other anti-Catholic publications, in the Journal of Religion and Society.
- Christopher Wordsworth, Letters to M. Gondon: On the Destructive Character of the Church of Rome, Both in Religion and Policy (F. & J. Rivington, 1847). High Church anti-Catholic polemic. Gondon responded, and Wordsworth responded in response...
- Andrew Steinmetz, The Novitiate: Or, The Jesuit in Training, Being a Year's Residence among the English Jesuits: A Personal Narrative, 2nd ed. (Smith, Elder, 1847). Steinmetz's primary claim to fame, such as it was; he went on to write a number of popular histories and miscellaneous books.