This Week's Acquisitions

(Hey, there are bookstores in London! Huh.)

(I do need to exert some control, because, y'know, the books have to get back home.)

• Kate Mosse, The Mistletoe Bride and other Haunting Tales (Orion, 2014).  Ghost and other horror tales, mostly set in rural/regional areas. (British Library)
• Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake (Unbound, 2015).  In the eleventh century, a man tries to deal with both Normans and Christianity.  Written in "pseudo-Old English."  (British Library)
• Henry Handel Richardson, Maurice Guest (Capuchin, 2010).  Reprint of Richardson's (pseud. Dorothy Richardson) 1908 novel about a young musician who comes to Leipzig in order to study, only to be waylaid by a love affair that goes wildly wrong.  (Skoob)
• Julian Rathbone, The Last English King (Abacus, 1998).  Another novel dealing with those aggravating Normans.  (Skoob)
• Kristina Carlson, Mr. Darwin's Gardener, trans. Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah (Peirene, 2013).  Translation of Finnish novelist Carlson's 2009 neo-Victorian novel about, as the title suggests, Charles Darwin's gardener, who has a spiritual crisis.  (Waterstone's)
• Samuel F. Pickering, Jr., Moral Instruction in Fiction for Children, 1749-1820 (Georgia, 1993).  Attempts to rehabilitate didactic literature as an imaginative enterprise.  (Skoob)