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1.		The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World from Allen Lane Price: £12.49 Customer Review: The title of this book makes quite a claim. Niall Ferguson is a Harvard University professor from the UK, who produced a volume on the story of the Rothschild financial dynasty in the late 1990s, The book certainly has a number of interesting features e.g. its summary of recent events both... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		A History of Modern Britain from Pan Books Price: £3.55 Customer Review: This is an interesting and readable history of our country since the Second World War marred (pun intended) by a liberal/left-wing bias. Andrew Marr deals with a number of topics and this book is neither political nor social history but contains bits of each and more. Much of the book is a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher from Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Price: £5.99 Customer Review: I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book..... and then struggled to make myself finish it. The facts of the case of interesting but the book is massively padded out with all manner of facts on victorian life and morals which I found very boring and tedious. I thought I had bought a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Things Ain't What They Used to be from Sphere Price: £8.99 Customer Review: Very enjoyable book, easy to pick up during your lunch breaks, allowing you to look at the 70's in rose tinted glasses. As someone born in '69 I could relate to most of the things in the book, but I do wish that they included Photos. This would have made a good book, fantastic. From clothing,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Dambusters: A Landmark Oral History from Virgin Books Price: £10.27 Customer Review: There are many histories written about the Dams raid where you can glean the clinical facts - and there was the film ... but there's nothing like oral history to engage the imagination and bring you close to the people who were there. The Dambusters, far from being 'gung-ho' come over as men of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Wall and Piece from Century Price: £8.39 Customer Review: Banksy's Wall and Piece is simply an amazing collection of his graffiti art all across the UK and the world. His unique style has won him international acclaim to fame. His artwork is not just vandalism but sends out a political statement which is bold and isn't afraid to mention things we would... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		I Never Knew That About London from Ebury Press Price: £6.99 Customer Review: This is an excellent 'by the bed' book for dipping in and out of. Each section has a generous selection of interesting gems and more bizarre nuggets about the capital that will make any reader an instant London Bore or a valued member of any pub-quiz team (admittedly only for the London questions!).... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Tommy's War: A First World War Diary 1913-1918 from HarperPress Price: £9.99 Customer Review: I don't usually read diaries but this caught my eye and I decided to give it a go as I generally read war books. From page one it became a treasure trove of snippets from a bygone era. How a family strove to make ends meet through severe hardship during ww1. Thomas makes light of it all with wit,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Can We Have Our Balls Back, Please? from Allen Lane Price: £11.69 Customer Review: I bought this book for my Dad for Christmas, but have dipped into it myself a lot already. It is very readable, with lots of amusing anecdotes, while at the same time it has some genuinely interesting themes about the invention of sport and the British psyche. I'd heartily recommend it to anyone... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		I Never Knew That About England from Ebury Press Price: £6.89 Customer Review: Along with G Meehan I find the errors irritating having found two more in the first 24 pages. One is often repeated and may be considered trivial by many - the line from Gray's Elegy (page 18) The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, True, several websites print this version but... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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