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])