This Week's Acquisitions

(Minus what I purchased from the Strand, as those books are currently in the hands of the post office.)

Jim Crace, Harvest (Talese, 2013). Mysterious goings-on upset the members of a remote village. (Amazon)
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windlow, eds., Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (Tor, 2013). Alternate nineteenth-century England! With magic! (Amazon)
Kate Atkinson, Life after Life (Doubleday, 2013). Young woman is born, and dies. Or lives. A novel of multiple plots, in which things happen sometimes one way, sometimes another. (Amazon [UK])
Mark Dunn, Ibid.: A Life (MacAdam/Cage, 2004). A fictional biography told entirely in footnotes. (Amazon [secondhand])
Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl, trans. Joel Rotenberg (NYRB, 2008). Two frustrated souls meet in Austria between the wars. (Book Off)
A. M. Homes, The End of Alice (Granta, 1996). Correspondence between an imprisoned pedophile and a female "admirer" from outside. (Book Off)
Max Byrd, Shooting the Sun (Bantam, 2004). In the 1830s, a female scientist goes on a quest to capture a total solar eclipse. (Book Off)
J. W. Burrow, A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge, 1983). Reprint of Burrow's classic historiographical study. (Amazon)