This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- J. K. Huysmans, The Oblate of St. Benedict, trans. Edward Perceval (Dedalus, 1996). Final volume of Huysmans' Durtal tetralogy, which traces the character's spiritual quest from Satanism to Catholicism. First published in 1903. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Graham Swift, Mothering Sunday: A Romance (Knopf, 2016). The repercussions of a romance between a servant and an an heir-in-waiting, from the 1920s to the near-present. (Lift Bridge)
- Lloyd Shepherd, The Detective and the Devil (Simon & Schuster, 2016). Final volume (that seems to be a theme) of the Charles Horton Gothic/detective series, in which Horton has to investigate a series of murders somehow connected with the East India Company. (Amazon [UK])