(More super-cheap secondhand books, mostly...)
- Ronald Wright, A Scientific Romance: A Novel (Picador, 1999). Hey, is that H. G. Wells' time machine I see before me? (Amazon [secondhand])
- Susan Swan, The Wives of Bath (Penguin, 1993). Adolescent angst in a Canadian boarding school for girls, c. 1963. (eBay)
- Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Pledge, trans. Joel Agee (University of Chicago, 2006). Avant-garde Swiss detective novel. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country (Modern Library, 2008). Reworked, one-volume version of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy. (Lift Bridge)
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (Penguin, 2000). A historian studies his own family. (Lift Bridge)
- Christopher Lane, Hatred and Civility (Columbia, 2004). The myriad ways in which the Victorians disliked each other. (eBay)
- David Hey, ed., Oxford Companion to Family and Local History (OUP, 2008). New edition of this reference work. (OUP [review copy])
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