This Week's Acquisitions
- Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks (Europa, 2010). Reprint of Gardam's 1978 novel about a young Englishwoman between the wars who discovers that her parents are not everything that she's thought them. (Autumn Leaves Books)
- Nahguib Mahfouz, Respected Sir/Wedding Song/The Search (Anchor, 2001). Three short novels by Mahfouz, featuring a man in search of a better government position, experiences in show business, and a murderer looking for his dad. (Autumn Leaves Books)
- Derek Roper, Reviewing before the Edinburgh, 1788-1802 (Methuen, 1978). How and where British reviewers plyed their trade prior to the Edinburgh Review. (Phoenix Books)
- Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790-1914 (Dover, 1976). Important study of nineteenth-century illustrators, their methods, the market, etc. (Autumn Leaves Books)
- Ian Fleming-Williams and Leslie Parris, The Discovery of Constable (Hamish Hamilton, 1984). Development of Constable's reputation as a major artist. (Phoenix Books)