This Week's Acquisitions
- A. D. Crake, Aemilius: A Tale of the Decian and Valerian Persecutions (Mowbray, 1902). Part of Crake's long cycle of novels devoted to the history of Christianity. This is a reprint of his first novel.
- Mike Jay, The Unfortunate Colonel Despard: Hero and Traitor in Britain's First War on Terror (Bantam, 2004). Biography of "the last man to be sentenced to public hanging, drawing and quartering for high treason" (ow).