This Week's Acquisitions
- Alexander Maksik, You Deserve Nothing (Europa, 2011). Teacher at a tony private school in Paris goes astray. (Lift Bridge)
- Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Picador, 2012). During WWII, an Afro-German jazz musician disappears into the concentration camps; many years later, two fellow players at a reunion try to work out what really happened. (Amazon)
- Thomas Mallon, Watergate: A Novel (Pantheon, 2012). Historical novel about...guess what? (Lift Bridge)
- Lisa Kasmer, Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2012). Study of women's historiography in multiple genres. I'm reviewing this for the Journal of British Studies. (Review copy)
- Eamon Duffy, Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (Yale, 2009). Controversial, revisionist history of the Marian persecutions. (eBay)
- Rowan Williams, Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church (Eerdmans, 2005). Ecclesiastical history as a mode of theology, from the Archbishop of Canterbury. (eBay)
- Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens: A Life (Penguin, 2011). New biography. (BOMC)