This Week's Acquisitions
- Emily Sarah Holt, Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses (Robert Carter & Brothers, n.d.). Members of the Houses of Lancaster and York behave unpleasantly. One of Holt's rarest novels.
- Douglas A. Martin, Branwell: A Novel of the Bronte Brother (Soft Skull Press, 2006). Slightly fantastic take on Branwell's short life.
- Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams: A Novel (Steerforth, 2006). Picaresque historical novel about a young Irishman's experiences in the wake of the Famine.
- Penelope Lively, Pack of Cards and Other Stories (Perennial, 1990). Short story collection.
- Robert Edric, The Broken Lands: A Novel of Arctic Disaster (St. Martin's Griffin, 2003). Historical novel about Sir John Franklin.
- John Stoughton, Footprints of Italian Reformers (RTS, [1881]). Sketches of the lives and associated locales of Italian Protestants.
- Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone, Thomas Gainsborough (Abrams, 2003). Exhibition catalogue.