This Week's Acquisitions
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (William Morrow, 2003). First volume of the Baroque Cycle. (Yes, I decided to take the plunge...)
- Patrick McGrath, The Grotesque (Vintage, 1989). Did the butler do it?
- A. S. Byatt, Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (Vintage, 1998). Collection of Byatt's short fiction.
- Miles Franklin, All That Swagger (Sirius, 1986). Award-winning historical novel about New South Wales, first published in 1936. There's a brief overview of Franklin's career here.
- Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession (Picador, 1986). Historical novel about the English in Hong Kong.
- Gertrude Reese Hudson, ed., Browning to his American Friends (Bowes and Bowes, 1965). Correspondence between the Brownings, James Russell Lowell, and William Wetmore Story.
- Stanley Weintraub, Beardsley (Braziller, 1967). Life of the famed 1890s illustrator.
- Harry Potter, Hanging in Judgment: Religion and the Death Penalty in England (Continuum, 1993). Religious arguments, pro and contra, up to 1969.