This Week's Acquisitions
- Joanna Scott, Everybody Loves Somebody (Back Bay, 2006). Short story collection.
- Adam Thorpe, Still (Secker & Warburg, 1995). One man thinks about film, family, failure...
- Keith Oatley, A Natural History: A Novel (Viking, 1998). Neo-Victorian games with Middlemarch.
- Kate Grenville, Albion's Story (Harcourt, 1994). Sequel--or prequel--to Lilian's Story, told from the father's POV.
- Protestant Penny Magazine 1.11 (May 1835). One issue of an Irish anti-Catholic journal; it only ran from 1834 to 1836.
- James Curl, The Victorian Celebration of Death (Sutton, 2005). Mourning rituals, burial customs, etc.
- Ronald Pearsall, Table-rappers: The Victorians and the Occult (Sutton, 2004). A history of spiritualism. This was the late Pearsall's last book.