This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Andrew McConnell Stout, Summer in the Shadow of Byron (Canongate, 2015). Originally titled The Vampyre Family. Historical novel about that famous summer during which, among other things, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; however, the principal characters are John Polidori and Claire Clairmont. (Foyle's)
- Ed Hillyer, The Clay Dreaming (Myriad, 2010). Neo-Victorian novel involving the relationship between Brippoki, an aboriginal Australian cricket player, and Sarah Larkin, a researcher at the British Library, as they research the life of a man transported to Australia in the eighteenth century. (Henry Pordes)
- George MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine (Kegan Paul, Trubner, Trench & Co., n.d.). Novel about the fate of a now-impoverished Highland clan and their relationship with the Englishman who has bought most of their leader's property. (Any Amount of Books)