This Week's Acquisitions

  • R. S., The New Monk (Valancourt, 2007).  Savage riposte to M. G. Lewis' The Monk, first published in 1798.
  • Margo Collins, Before the Count: British Vampire Tales, 1732-1897 (Zittaw, 2007).  Anthology of short stories, plays, and novellas.
  • Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers (Random House, 2000).  Family crises set against the background of Partition.
  • Jessica Hagedorn, Dream Jungle (Penguin, 2004).  Filming in the Philippines goes slightly awry.
  • John Nicholas Murphy, Terra Incognita; Or the Convents of the United Kingdom (St. Athanasius, n.d.).  Facsimile reprint of this famed response to Protestant anti-convent agitations.  There's a copy archived at GoogleBooks.