This Week's Acquisitions

(I celebrated the semester's imminent demise by, um, exacerbating the current shelving problem.  Some of the books were free, though.)

• Florence Gregg, Bartholomew Legate: The Last Smithfield Martyr (Swan Sonnenschein, 1886).  Historical novel about a man burned at the stake in 1612 for heresy.  More background here. 
• Kathryn Davis, Hell: A Novel (Back Bay Books, 2003).  Dollhouses, 1950s houses...
• Graham Swift, Shuttlecock (Vintage, 1992).  Is the narrator insane, or is something inimical going on?
• ---, Out of this World (Vintage, 1993).  A photographer and his ravaged family.
• John Gardner, Jason and Medeia (Vintage, 1986).  The Greek myth with a twist.
• John Barth, Chimera (Mariner, 2001).  More Greek myths, served up with a side helping of Scheherezade.
• Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (Vintage, 1990).  World history, definitely askew.  (This was one of those "why don't I own this novel already, anyway?" purchases.)
• Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (Harvest, 1973).  Pre-WWI romance.
• Ian R. MacLeod, The Light Ages (Ace, 2004).  The Victorians, albeit with magic.
• ---, The House of Storms (Ace, 2005).  Sequel to the above.
• Benjamin Markovits, Imposture: A Novel (Norton, 2007).  Historical novel about John Polidori.
• Sir Walter Scott, Manners, Customs, and History of The Highlanders of Scotland (Barnes & Noble, 2004).  Originally published in 1816. 
• Donald K. McKim, ed., Historical Handbook of Major Biblical Interpreters (InterVarsity, 1998).   Encyclopedia of exegesis from the beginning to the present.