This Week's Acquisitions
- Emily Sarah Holt, Margery's Son; or, "Until He Find It." A Fifteenth-Century Tale of the Court of Scotland (John F. Shaw, [1878]). Sequel to one of Holt's first novels, Mistress Margery.
- J. M. Neale, The Farm of Aptonga: A Story of the Time of S. Cyprian (Pott & Amery, 1870). US reprint of this Early Church novel, told from a High Church perspective. Biography of Neale and various e-texts at Project Canterbury.
- Tom Franklin, Smonk: A Novel (Morrow, 2006). Apocalypto-western.
- Jane Alison, Natives and Exotics (Harcourt, 2005). Historical short fiction about an Australian family in transit.
- Jim Crace, The Devil's Larder (FSG, 2001). Short fiction about food and the eating thereof.
- ---, Being Dead: A Novel (Picador, 2001). Memories of a murdered couple.
- Emily Barton, Brookland: A Novel (Picador, 2007). Historical novel set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn.
- "Benjamin Black" [John Banville], Christine Falls: A Novel (Holt, 2007). Contemporary thriller involving love, murder, and upper-crust Catholics.
- D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, eds., The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (NYRB, 2003). Reprint of this "classic" anthology, featuring disasters by poets like Wordsworth.
- Lionello Puppi, Torment In Art (Rizzoli, 1991). Representations of martyrdom, torture, and similarly upbeat things.
- Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 2007). Acclaimed new biography.