Book reviews

Art and entertainment
Biography and auto-biography
Buddhism and meditation
Computing and web related
Ecology and environmentalism
Exams and revision
Fiction - literature and thrillers
Food, cookery and nutrition
Humour, irony and satire
Mathematics and history of mathematics
Philosophy and social science
Psychology and health
Reference and how-to
Science - physical and biological
Self help and success
Travel and adventure

Art and entertainment

Carey, John - What Good Are the Arts?  

Biography and auto-biography

Gleick, James - Isaac Newton

Hancock, Sheila - The Two of Us

Mabey, Richard - Nature Cure

Buddhism and meditation

Batchelor, Stephen - Buddhism without Beliefs

Jon Kabat-Zinn - Full Catastrophe Living

John Kabat Zinn - Wherever You Go, There You Are

Computing and web related

Boyce, Jim - Microsoft Outlook 2002

Krug, Steve  - Don't Make Me Think!

Mosher, Sue - Microsoft Outlook Programming

Nielsen, Jakob - Designing Web Usability

Web Style Guide (Yale University)

Wilson, Dan - Make Money on eBay UK

Ecology and environmentalism

Diamond, Jared - Collapse

Kolbert, Elizabeth - Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Exams and revision

GCSE Revision

Fiction - literature and thrillers

Clarke, Susanna - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Hornby, Nick - A Long Way Down

McEwan, Ian - Saturday

Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet

Food, cookery and nutrition

Lawson, Nigella - Feast: Food That Celebrates Life

Oliver, Jamie - Jamie's Dinners

Willett, , Walter C. - Eat Drink and Be Healthy

Humour, irony and satire

Browning, Guy - Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade

Cooper, Robin - The Timewaster Letters

Gervais, Ricky -  Flanimals

Prebble, Stuart - Grumpy Old Men

Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Mathematics and history of mathematics

Gardner, Martin - Calculus Made Easy

Euclid - The Elements

Kaplan, Robert - The Nothing That Is

Philosophy and social science

Julian Baggini: What's It All About?

Barnes, Jonathan (Editor) - The Complete Works of Aristotle

Bentham, Jeremy - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Botton, Alain de - The Consolations of Philosophy

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

Gray, John - Straw Dogs

Honderich, Ted - ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

Schopenhauer - Works in English

Sokal, Alan - Intellectual Impostures 

Spinoza, Benedict de - Ethics

  • Wheen, Francis - How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World by 
  • Psychology and health

    Axt, Peter - The Joy of Laziness

    Baron-Cohen, Simon - The Essential Difference

    Gilbert, Daniel - Stumbling on Happiness

    Layard, Richard - Happiness: Lessons from A New Science

    Mabey, Richard - Nature Cure

    Martin, Paul - Making Happy People

    Phillips, Adam - Going Sane

    Redfield Jamison, Kay - Exuberance

    Ricard, Matthieu - Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

    Sacks, Oliver - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    Seligman, Martin - Authentic Happiness

    Weeks, David - Eccentrics

    The Mind Gym - Wake Your Mind Up  

    Reference and how-to

    Encyclopaedia Britannica

    Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Elizabeth Knowles

    The Guinness Book of World Records 2005

    The Swing Factory - Steve Gould

    Science - physical and biological

    Casti, John L. - Would-be-worlds

    Bryson, Bill - A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Dawkins, Richard - The Ancestor's Tale

    Greene, Brian - The Elegant Universe

    Greene,Brian  - The Fabric of the Cosmos

    Feynman, Richard P - The Feynman Lectures on Physics

    Gribbin, John - In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

    Haines,Tim - Space Odyssey

    Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time

    Hawking, Stephen - The Universe in a Nutshell

    Penrose, Roger - The Road to Reality

    Singh, Simon - Big Bang

    Tipler, Frank J. - The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

    Weinberg, Steven - The First Three Minutes

    Self help and success

    Baker, Dan - What Happy People Know

    Covey, Stephen R. - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Dreyer, Danny - Chi Running

    Hansen, Mark Victor - One Minute Millionaire

    Forster, Mark - Get Everything Done

    McKenna, Paul - Change Your Life in Seven Days

    Gallop, Rick - The GI Diet

    Travel and adventure

    da Mosto, Francesco - Francesco's Venice

    McGregor, by Ewan - Long Way Round

    Palin, Michael - Himalaya

    Multi-media and technology reviews

    Alera CD Duplicator Controller
    Cheap Dell Notebooks
    Groundhog Day - starring Bill Murray
    Maxtor OneTouch External Hard Drive
    Best DVD Recorder Reviews
    Philips DVDR70 Multi Region Capable DVD Recorder