This Week's Acquisitions
- Pat Barker, The Man Who Wasn't There (Ballantine, 1988). Young boy in miserable circumstances fantasizes about an alternate life. (Houghton Books)
- Charles Elton, Mr. Toppit (Other, 2010). The posthumous success of a children's book series causes increasing stress for all concerned. (Lift Bridge)
- Barry Unsworth, After Hannibal (Norton, 1998). Expats in Italy soon encounter various forms of skulduggery. (Greenwood Books)
- Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy, ed. Richard H. Taylor (Columbia, 1979). Autobiographical sketches, working notes, etc. (Greenwood Books)