This Week's Acquisitions

Liz Lochhead, Blood and Ice (Nick Hern, 2009). Revisionist dramatic adaptation of Frankenstein. (Amazon)
Charles Palliser, Betrayals (Ballantine, 1995). A mystery novel of sorts that spills across multiple narratives in every genre under the sun. (Amazon [secondhand])
Mary Sharratt, Illuminations (Mariner, 2013). Biofiction about the medieval mystic and composer Hildegard von Bingen.