This Week's Acquisitions

  • Anita Brookner, Fraud (Vintage, 1992).  A woman apparently vanishes into thin air--without anyone being conscious of her absence.  (Book Fair)
  • Susan Hill, The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story (Profile, 2007).  Another entry in the long line of tales about dangerous paintings (remember, keeping fine art in the house is dangerous!).  (Book Fair)
  • John Sitter, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Cambridge, 2001).  What the title says.  (Book Fair)