This Week's Acquisitions

  • Jim Crace, Genesis: A Novel (FSG, 2003).  Popular actor proves over-fertile.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn (Penguin, 1987).    A hired "companion" tries to unravel the mystery of her employer.  (eBay)
  • ---, Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin, 2002).  Two women face emotional and spiritual crises.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Rosalind Belben, Our Horses in Egypt (Chatto & Windus, 2007).  Woman tries to discover the fate of her horse, shipped to Egypt as part of the WWI effort.  Sequel of sorts to Hound Music.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Banner of Faith (1897).  One volume of a periodical published by the Church Extension Association, now the Community of the Sisters of the Church.  (eBay)