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1.		The Discovery of France from Picador Price: £5.99 Customer Review: This is one of the most enjoyable books i have read in recent years, written in a wonderful accessible style, it contains marvellous detail, and unusual facts about all aspects of France. This is really a first class book, and a great summer read.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess from Vintage Price: £6.29 Customer Review: I was disappointed. Katherine Swynford is barely a ghost in this book. On the other hand we learn an enormous amount about the cast of hundreds who knew or were related or even contemporary with her. The book jumps around a great deal as well, filling in history about people I had no interest in and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Art of War from Filiquarian Publishing Price: £2.85 Customer Review: I was expecting a huge tome full of Confuscian statements which are allegorical to warfare. What I received was a 69-page book of short instructions which are dirrectly about warfare, but in many cases allegorical to life. Possibly they're all in some way applicable to the day-to-day, the... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Audacity of Hope from Canongate Books Price: £5.27 Customer Review: I wanted to read the book published by the presidential candidate who I plan on voting for, so I figured that I would buy this book. While I admit that it reinforces my feeling that Obama will provide for the US and the world much better than McCain, I have to say that it is quite a boring... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Railway Man from Vintage Price: £5.99 Customer Review: Without doubt the finest book I've ever read. Anybody who can read this without tear staining the pages has no soul or emotions. It starts slowly showing a boy who is awkward because he doesn't share the normal interests of youth but it develops through his age experience and the horrors he... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World from Profile Books Ltd Price: £11.39 Customer Review: This book is an interesting new perspective in Vermeer studies, looking at the objects in his paintings from the point of view of the expanding trade networks of the 17th century. It is engagingly written and he wears his scholarship lightly. I was disappointed the author did not investigate... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Gaol: The Story of Newgate - London's Most Notorious Prison from John Murray Price: £15.00 Customer Review: A well researched, intelligent, thorough history of Newgate prison, beautifully presented. As someone who does not read a lot of factual books, I found this an enjoyable read. I got the book after listening to some of the "Book of the Week" episodes on BBC Radio 4. Who knew so much could go on... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War from Penguin Books Ltd Price: £4.49 Customer Review: Unlike a previous reviewer I thought there really was a representative cross section of women featured in the book, and the author came up with some quite obscure biographical details to bring the situations of women in the twenties and thirties alive. What comes across is the genuine sense of loss... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More from Fourth Estate Price: £12.95	Click here for more information

10.		Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years from Vintage Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Have you ever wondered why the world has developed the way that it has? Why some cultures and peoples seem to have prospered better than, or even at the expense of, others? If so, Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond is a book I would recommend to you. It is deeply thought provoking and well... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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