The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Let's hear it for coupons and charity bookshops.)

  • Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected, trans. Seymour Simckes (Grove, 2000).  Reprint of Kaniuk's 1971 novel about a Holocaust survivor in an insane asylum.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Nancy Huston, Fault Lines (Grove, 2008).  Novel moves backwards in time to reveal a festering secret.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Hilary Mantel, Every Day is Mother's Day (Owl, 2000).  Dark comedy involving mediums, mothers, daughters, and social workers.  (Houghton Book Shop)
  • ---, Vacant Possession (Owl, 2000).  Sequel to the above, in which the daughter returns to wreak vengeance on her persecutors... (Houghton Book Shop)
  • John Bowen, Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (Oxford, 2003).  Critical study emphasizing Dickens' first forays into fiction.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • The Christian World Magazine and Family Visitor (1883).  Congregationalist periodical edited by the novelist Emma Jane Worboise; I also own an earlier volume.  (eBay)