This Week's Acquisitions

(More super-cheap secondhand books, mostly...)

• Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance: A Novel (Picador, 1999).   Hey, is that H. G. Wells' time machine I see before me? (Amazon [secondhand])
• Susan Swan, The Wives of Bath (Penguin, 1993).  Adolescent angst in a Canadian boarding school for girls, c. 1963.  (eBay)
• Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Pledge, trans. Joel Agee (University of Chicago, 2006).  Avant-garde Swiss detective novel.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library, 2008).  Reworked, one-volume version of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy.  (Lift Bridge)
• Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (Penguin, 2000). A historian studies his own family.  (Lift Bridge)
• Christopher Lane, Hatred and Civility (Columbia, 2004).  The myriad ways in which the Victorians disliked each other.  (eBay)
• David Hey, ed., Oxford Companion to Family and Local History (OUP, 2008).  New edition of this reference work.  (OUP [review copy])