This Week's Acquisitions
- Emma Donoghue, Astray (Little, Brown, 2012). Collection of short stories--some historical, some not--about people wandering in various ways. (BOMC)
- Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River (Bloomsbury, 1993). Historical novel imagining the fates of a group of formerly-enslaved children. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Andre Brink, Philida (Harvill Secker, 2012). A South African slave seeks the liberty originally offered her by her master. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Adam Roberts, I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas (Gollancz, 2012). It's A Christmas Carol, only with more zombies than usual. (Barnes & Noble)
- Giacinto Achilli, Dealings with the Inquisition; Or, Papal Rome, Her Priests, and Her Jesuits (Harper & Brothers, 1851). Anti-Catholic narrative by a professional apostate, now best known for his successful libel suit against John Henry Newman. (eBay)