This Week's Acquisitions

• Emily Sarah Holt, Margery's  Son; or, "Until He Find It."  A Fifteenth-Century Tale of the Court of Scotland (John F. Shaw, [1878]).  Sequel to one of Holt's first novels, Mistress Margery. 
• J. M. Neale, The Farm of Aptonga: A Story of the Time of S. Cyprian (Pott & Amery, 1870).  US reprint of this Early Church novel, told from a High Church perspective. Biography of Neale and various e-texts at Project Canterbury. 
  
• Tom Franklin, Smonk: A Novel (Morrow, 2006).  Apocalypto-western.
• Jane Alison, Natives and Exotics (Harcourt, 2005).  Historical short fiction about an Australian family in transit.
• Jim Crace, The Devil's Larder (FSG, 2001).  Short fiction about food and the eating thereof.
• ---, Being Dead: A Novel (Picador, 2001).  Memories of a murdered couple.
• Emily Barton, Brookland: A Novel (Picador, 2007).  Historical novel set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn.
• "Benjamin Black" [John Banville], Christine Falls: A Novel (Holt, 2007).  Contemporary thriller involving love, murder, and upper-crust Catholics.
• D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, eds., The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse (NYRB, 2003).  Reprint of this "classic" anthology, featuring disasters by poets like Wordsworth. 
• Lionello Puppi, Torment In Art (Rizzoli, 1991).  Representations of martyrdom, torture, and similarly upbeat things.
• Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin, 2007).  Acclaimed new biography. 

Comments

[Marya]

Yay for The Stuffed Owl! That's a great anthology.