This Week's Acquisitions
- Jesse Bullington, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart (Orbit, 2009). It's fourteenth-century Europe, and the brothers Grossbart are just making a living...by robbing the dead. (Lift Bridge)
- Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat, trans. Michiel Heyns (Tin House, 2010). Translation of a novel first published in Afrikaans in 2004. In the 1990s, an aging white woman farmer from South Africa needs the help of her longtime servant, Agaat, to survive. (Lift Bridge)
- Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (Anchor, 2000). Anglo-Irish families try to ignore the Troubles on their front doorstep. (eBay)
- Annabel Davis-Goff, The Fox's Walk (Harvest, 2004). Set in Ireland right before the Easter Rising. (eBay)
- Molly Keane, Queen Lear (Penguin, 1990). King Lear in mid-twentieth century Ireland. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John Barth, Letters: A Novel (Dalkey Archive, 1994). Epistolary novel, first published in 1979, in which "Barth" corresponds with his own characters. (Lift Bridge)
- Churchman's Magazine 48-49 (1891-92). Anti-Catholic and anti-Ritualist periodical, published by the propagandist John Kensit. (eBay)
- The Church Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading 12 (1899-1900). An Anglican periodical. (eBay)