This Week's Acquisitions

(Ah, the dreaded discount coupon.)

• Bernardine Evaristo, Blonde Roots (Riverhead, 2009).  A very different fictional history of slavery... (Lift Bridge)
• William Trevor, Fools of Fortune (Penguin, 2006).  The Black and Tans retaliate against a family after a murder, leading to years of devastation.  (Lift Bridge)
• Joseph Ellis Baker, The Novel and the Oxford Movement (Russell & Russell, 1965).  Reprints an earlier monograph about the effects of Tractarianism on nineteenth-century fiction.  (eBay)
• Josef L. Altholz, Anatomy of a Controversy: The Debate over "Essays and Reviews" 1860-1864 (Scolar, 1994).  Intellectual history of the Essays and Reviews controversy.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Viking, 2010).  As it says.  (BOMC)
• Marianne Elliott, When God Took Sides: Religion and Identity in Irish History: Unfinished History (Oxford, 2009).  Relatively brief history of sectarian conflict.  (Oxford UP)