This Week's Acquisitions

David Lodge, Nice Work (Penguin, 1989). Victorianist meets businessman; satirical hijinks ensue.
Rick Moody, Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas (Little, Brown, 2007). Includes a post-apocalyptic tale.
Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora (Harvest, 2001). Expeditions to the South Pole, dangers of.
Ann Harries, Manly Pursuits (Bloomsbury, 2000). Cecil Rhodes + ornithologist + South Africa + impending Boer War.
Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters (Dalkey Archive, 2000). Romance and the condition of Europe (intellectual and otherwise) post-WWI.
Marjorie Reeves, The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in Joachimism (Notre Dame, 1993). 2nd ed. of this important study of Joachim of Fiore, who strongly influenced later Christian theories of history.
J. C. S. Mason, The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800 (Royal Historical Society, 2001). Role of the Moravians in overseas missionary work and the influence of their example in England.