This Week's Acquisitions
- The Jewess, A Tale of Our Own Time (O'Shea, 1867). Jewish conversion novel. Somewhat unusually for this genre, the characters are converting to Catholicism instead of Protestantism. (eBay)
- Iain Pears, Stone's Fall (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). A journalist seeks to unravel the mysteries surrounding a dead financier. (Lift Bridge)