This Week's Acquisitions

  • James Kelman, The Good Times (Anchor, 1999).  Collection of first-person short stories.  (a freebie)
  • James Wood, How Fiction Works (FSG, 2008).  Wood argues How To Do It.  (QPB)
  • Paul Landis, ed., Letters of the Brownings to George Barrett (University of Illinois, 1958).  Over eighty letters to EBB's brother.  (eBay)
  • Betty Miller, ed., The Unpublished Letters of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford (John Murray, 1954).  EBB's correspondence with author Mary Russell Mitford, best known for Our Village.  (eBay)
  • Andrew C. Ross, David Livingstone: Mission and Empire (Hambledon, 2003).  Teases out the religious and political implications of Livingstone's evangelical work in Africa.  (eBay)