This Week's Acquisitions
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child: A Novel (Knopf, 2011). Hidden secrets come to light involving an wealthy and youthful aspiring poet (inspired by Rupert Brooke) and his relationship with a middle-class family in pre-WWI England. (Amazon)
- Maggie Power, Lily (Simon & Schuster, 1994). Neo-Victorian Gothic about a man revolted by one woman--alas, his wife--and dreaming of another, with unfortunate results. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Chris Wilson, Blueglass (Carlton, 1990). Rather sardonic neo-Victorian novel narrated by a music hall performer. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Benjamin Markovits, Childish Loves: A Novel (Norton, 2011). Final novel in Markovits' Lord Byron trilogy. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England, from Cromwell to Churchill (Encounter, 2011). A popular biographical history of positive English responses to Jews. (Amazon)