This Week's Acquisitions

J. M. G. Le Clezio, The Prospector (Godine, 1993). Man yearns for childhood on Mauritius. (Lift Bridge)
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead, 2009). Near the end of the eighteenth century, Jamaican slaves plan a rebellion. (Amazon [secondhand])
Clare O'Halloran, Golden Ages and Barbarous Nations: Antiquarian Debate and Cultural Politics in Ireland, c. 1750-1800 (Notre Dame, 2005). Protestant vs. Catholic (among other things) in later eighteenth-c. Irish historiography. (Amazon [secondhand])