This Week's Acquisitions

(Back on usual form this week [oops?].  Blame some coupons.)

• Richard Marsh, Between the Dark and the Daylight (Valancourt, 2011).  Reprint of a collection of Marsh's short fiction in various genres, first published in 1902.  (Amazon)
• Francine Du Plessix Gray, The Queen's Lover (Penguin, 2012).  Historical novel about Marie Antoinette and her (maybe) affair with Count Axel von Fersen, standing in for the cultural and political upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  (Lift Bridge)
• Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table (Vintage, 2012).  A coming-of-age tale set on an ocean liner.  (Lift Bridge)
• Peter Carey, The Chemistry of Tears (Knopf, 2012).  A museum worker becomes fascinated with the history of an automaton.  (Amazon)
• Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, eds., Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (Candlewick, 2011).  What the title says.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age (Chicago, 2009).  Study of how books came to be used and conceptualized in Romantic-era Europe.  (Amazon [secondhand])