This Week's Acquisitions

• Graham Swift, Ever After (Picador, 1992).  Man reminisces about his own life while reading through the journals of a nineteenth-century ancestor.
• Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo (Faber & Faber, 2004).  An Englishman emigrates to early twentieth-century America and becomes a tattoo artist on Coney Island.  Shortlisted for the 2004 Booker Prize.
• Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Little, Brown, 2004).  Experimental riff on the detective novel. 
• Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London (Norton, 2005).   Biography of Mary Lamb, co-author (with her brother) of Tales From Shakespeare.
• Candy Gunther Brown, Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Reading, and Publishing in America, 1789-1880 (North Carolina, 2004). Study of "evangelical print culture."

• The Rev. M. Vicary, Notes of a Residence in Rome in 1846 (Richard Bentley, 1847).  Anti-Catholic travel narrative.
• Andrew E. P. Gray, Sermons (Griffith & Son, 1896).  Posthumous collection of an Anglican clergyman's sermons.