This Week's Acquisitions

James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack (Viking, 2007). Presbyterian atheist topples down ravine, claims to have encountered the Devil.
Peter Haining, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories (Carroll & Graf, 2007). Anthology of late twentieth and twenty-first century ghost stories, courtesy of the indefatigable (unstoppable?) Mr. Haining.
Julian Barnes, England, England (Vintage, 2000). England as amusement park (a.k.a. tourist trap).
Elizabeth Taylor, Angel (Virago, 2006). Reprint of Taylor's 1957 wry tale of bestellerdom's pitfalls.
Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle 1 n.s. (1823). One volume of this longlived (1813-1904) Protestant journal.
The Churchman's Companion I and III (1867-68). Two volumes (both Jan.-June) of an Anglican periodical; includes some serial fiction. You can see Vol. III here.
The Weekly Orthodox Journal of Entertaining Christian Knowledge III (July-December 1834). Early Victorian Catholic weekly, published by William Eusebius Andrews.
Roland Hill, Lord Acton (Yale, 2000). New(er) biography of the late-Victorian Catholic intellectual.
J. M. Klaver, The Apostle of the Flesh: A Critical Life of Charles Kingsley (Brill, 2006). New biography of the quintessential Broad Churchman (and "muscular Christian"). (Thank goodness for the seller who clearly wanted to unload his/her copy quickly.)