This Week's Acquisitions
- David Dabydeen, The Counting House (Peepal Tree, 2005). Historical novel about an Indian couple who go to British Guiana as indentured servants, with horrific results. (Amazon [secondhand])
- James Buxton, Pity (Orion, 1997). Neo-Victorian novel set in the mid-Victorian art world, featuring increasingly-dangerous goings-on involving a painter, his patron, and a model. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Steven S. Maughan, Mighty England Do Good: Culture, Faith, Empire, and World in the Foreign Missions of the Church of England, 1850-1915 (Eerdmans, 2014). History of Anglicans at all levels of churchmanship involved in overseas mission work. (Amazon [secondhand])