This Week's Acquisitions

• Katie Roiphe, Still She Haunts Me (Dial, 2001).  Historical novel about Lewis Carroll's relationship with Alice Liddell, especially as funneled through the photography sessions.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Carsten Jensen, We the Drowned, trans. Charlotte Barslund and Emma Ryder (Houghton Mifflin, 2011).  A family saga covering approximately a century's worth of the history of Danish maritime island Marstal.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Connie Willis, All Clear (Ballantine, 2011).  Second half of Willis' duology about time-traveling historians researching the London Blitz.  (Barnes & Noble)
• China Mieville, Railsea (Ballantine, 2012).  It's Moby-Dick! But with trains.  And, um, gargantuan moles.  (Amazon)
• William M'Gavin, The Protestant, 2 vols. (Edwin Hunt, 1833).  1500+ pages (in small print!) of M'Gavin's anti-Catholic journalism & other writings.  Electric Scotland has an overview of M'Gavin's career.  (eBay)
• Ciaran O'Carroll, Paul Cardinal Cullen: Portrait of a Practical Nationalist (Veritas, 2009).  Biographical study of the most influential figure in nineteenth-century Irish Catholicism.  (Amazon)