This Week's Acquisitions
- Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog (Doubleday, 2010). Most recent entry in Atkinson's series of novels featuring detective Jackson Brodie. (Amazon UK)
- Linda Gertner Zatlin, The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel (Twayne, 1981). Important survey of key figures such as Grace Aguilar, Amy Levy, and Israel Zangwill, as well as more problematic authors like Julia Frankau ("Frank Danby"). (eBay)
- Beverley Southgate, History Meets Fiction (Longman, 2009). Return to the age-old question: what's the relationship between historical writing and fiction? (Amazon [secondhand])