This Week's Acquisitions

Jonathan Barnes, The Somnambulist (Morrow, 2008). Part of the recent vogue for historical (or "historical") novels and short stories about magicians.
John Crowley, The Solitudes (Overlook, 2007). Reprint of the first volume in Crowley's Aegypt cycle.
Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist: A Novel (Grove, 2008). Pole dancer wakes up, finds herself in hot water.
Druin Burch, Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon (Vintage, 2008). Biography of surgeon Astley Cooper.
[Emily Bickersteth], England's Daybreak: Narratives of the Reformation during the Fourteenth and Following Centuries (Dodd & Mead, 1860). Reprint of the UK edition. Moralizing historical and biographical sketches. Bickersteth was the daughter of Edward Bickersteth.