Bookshelf
I am not wedded to my opinions – I remember where I found them.
Recommendations have drop shadows, and titles in bold type.
Reading
Beat Poets
Carmela Ciuraru (ed.)
Urban Communal Living in Brtain
Penny Clark (ed.)
Coming Back To Life
Joanna Macy & Molly Brown
Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz: Meditations on Python, mathematics, science, engineering, and design
Joel Grus
Bread Matters: Why and how to make your own
Andrew Whitley
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
Learn Python 3 the Hard Way
Zed A. Shaw
Nietzsche: Philosopher, psychologist, antichrist
Walter Kaufmann
Sweet Hampstead and its Associations
Caroline A. White
Read
The Hard Way
Lee Child
Gone Tomorrow
Lee Child
Persuader
Lee Child
Without Fail
Lee Child
The Visitor
Lee Child
Caledonian Road
Andrew O’Hagan
The Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism (& how it came to control your life)
George Monbiot
Selected Poems
William Carlos Williams
A Story As Sharp As A Knife
Robert Bringhurst
Tokyo Story
Alastair Phillips
Everywhere Being Is Dancing
Robert Bringhurst
Worn: A people’s history of clothing
Sofi Thanhauser
Out of the Wreckage: A new politics for an age of crisis
George Monbiot
L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être
Milan Kundera
The Science Delusion
Rupert Sheldrake
This House of Grief
Helen Garner
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberalism exceptionalism and the culture of uncare
Sally Weintrobe
The Duke’s Children
Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister
Anthony Trollope
Paterson
William Carlos Williams
Phineas Redux
Anthony Trollope
The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn
Anthony Trollope
Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
Gary Snyder
The Heath: My year on Hampstead Heath
Hunter Davies
The Uninhabitable Earth: A story of the future
David Foster Wallace
The Haunted House Of Love
Alastair Howard Robertson
I Am Not Sure What Else There Is
Alastair Howard Robertson
The Patchwork History of A Community Growing Up
Old Hall, East Bergholt
The Ridge
Robert Bringhurst
Runyon on Broadway
Damon Runyon
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
Jan Zwicky
Books Before Typography
Frederick William Hamilton
Eye For Eye
J.K. Franko
Spook Street
Mick Herron
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and how to build a better economy
Stephanie Kelton
Tombland
C.J. Sansom
Thank You And OK!: An American Zen failure in Japan
David Chadwick
Raven Steals The Light
Bill Reid & Robert Bringhurst
Real Tigers
Mick Herron
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements
John Hunter
Zen Is Right Here
Dave Chadwick (ed.)
Dead Lions
Mick Herron
Slow Horses
Mick Herron
Lamentation
C.J. Sansom
Learning to Die: Wisdom in the age of climate crisis
Robert Bringhurst & Jan Zwicky
The Gary Snyder Reader
Gary Snyder
Berlin Game
Len Deighton
Cart and Cwidder
Diana Wynne Jones
War is a Racket
General Smedley D. Butler
84K
Claire North
Man’s Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse
Jem Bendell
The Wild Silence
Raynor Winn
You Are Here
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wilding: The return of nature to a British farm
Isabella Tree
The Forest of Hours
Kerstin Ekman
Redeemer
Mark Dawson
Spade and Archer
Joe Gores
The Alamo
Mark Dawson
Tintin au Tibet
Hergé
The One-Straw Revolution: An introduction to natural farming
Masanobu Fukoka
Blackout
Mark Dawson
Gemma Bovery
Posy Simmonds
The Siberian Dilemma
Martin Cruz Smith
Chinese Whispers
John Ashbery
World on the Edge: How to prevent environmental and economic collapse
Lester Brown
Film: A very short introduction
Michael Wood
The LaTeX Companion
Frank Mittelbach & Michel Goossens
LaTeX: A document preparation system
Leslie Lamport
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
The Jungle
Mark Dawson
9 Wonder Words: A language for living well—even when all hell breaks loose
Lucy Turner
The Ninth Step
Mark Dawson
Headhunters
Mark Dawson
A Place in the World
Iain Bamforth
Make Me
Lee Child
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber & David Wengrow
Under Ken Wood: The secret life of a London pub
Neil Titley
It Wasn’t Me
Ian Jefferies
The Human Comedy
William Saroyan
Unexhausted Time
Emily Berry
Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
The Greville Memoirs
Charles C.F. Greville
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the wisdom and intelligence of the forest
Suzanne Simard
Bullshit Jobs: A theory
David Graeber
The H-Word: The peripeteia of hegemony
Perry Anderson
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting
Deer Man: Seven years of living in the forest
Geoffroy Delorme
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
William Saroyan
Salvation Row
Mark Dawson
Sword of God
Mark Dawson
Sword at Sunset
Rosemary Sutcliff
The New Deal: Hope for the nation
Cheryl Edwards
Can You Forgive Her?
Anthony Trollope
The Wall
John Lanchester
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to fight in a world on fire
Andreas Malm
Underland: A deep time journey
Robert Macfarlane
Snow Blind
Ragnar Jónasson
Deep Adaptation: Navigating the realities of climate chaos
Jem Bendell & Rupert Read
The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head
Warsan Shire
Introducing HTML5
Bruce Lawson & Remy Sharp
Alternating Currents
Frederik Pohl
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
Counter-Clock World
Philip K. Dick
Impossible Journeys
Mathew Lyons
The Honourable Schoolboy
John le Carré
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
Cats Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Babel-17
Samuel R. Delany Jr
Rivers of London
Ben Aaronovitch
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
Dark Age America: Climate change, cultural collapse, and the hard future ahead
John Michael Greer
I Can’t Stay Long
Laurie Lee
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace
Ricardo Semler
Lost Lanes Central England: 36 glorious bike rides in the Midlands, Peak District, Cotswolds, Lincolnshire and Shropshire Hills
Jack Thurston
A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
Heartstone
C.J. Sansom
I’ll Have What She’s Having
Alex Bentley, Mark Earls & Michael J. O’Brien
Revelation
C.J. Sansom
Britain by Bike
Jane Eastoe
Lectures in the History of Political Thought
Michael Oakeshott
Sovereign
C.J. Sansom
Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger
Silverview
John le Carré
Chapters from My Autobiography
Mark Twain
Station Island
Seamus Heaney
A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur
Mark Twain
The Other Wind
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Joy of Addiction
Sebastian Wocker
Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. LeGuin
Silver in the Wood
Emily Tesh
Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Nyogen Senzaki & Paul Reps
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Anthony Trollope
Capitalism and Slavery
Eric Williams
The Ponzi Class: Ponzi economics, globalization and class oppression in the 21st century
Michael William
The Small House at Allington
Anthony Trollope
1601
Mark Twain
Sight Unseen
Robert Goddard
Lord Foul’s Bane
Stephen Donaldson
On Writing Well
William Zinsser
Tehanu
Ursula K. LeGuin
What We Need To Do Now: For a zero-carbon future
Chris Goodall
The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. LeGuin
Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the pandemic
Anthony Barnett
Lavondyss
Robert Holdstock
Speed of Dark
Elizabeth Moon
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002
Marilyn Hacker
The Cuckoo’s Calling
Robert Galbraith
Bitcoin and the Ritual of Kyudo Archery
Beau de Rubempré
The Culture of Contentment
J.K. Galbraith
Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope
Rise
Gina Miller
Deepwater
Alex Finer
The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. LeGuin
A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr
The Complete MAUS
Art Spiegelman
Agency
William Gibson
The Complete Clerihews
E.C. Bentley
Enbury Heath
Stella Gibbons
Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope
Look Twice
Eva Hudson
This Much Is True
Miriam Margolyes
The Making of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr
The Green Man’s Heir
Juliet E. McKenna
Funeral in Berlin
Len Deighton
Mythago Wood
Robert Holdstock
Assumptions
Marilyn Hacker
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. LeGuin
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Down and Out in Purgatory
Tim Powers
The Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope
Taking Notice
Marilyn Hacker
Once and Future
Kieron Gillen
Island Dreams: Mapping an obsession
Gavin Francis
The Inner Wheel
Keith Roberts
A Plague of Demons
Keith Laumer
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
The Chalk Giants
Keith Roberts
Separations
Marilyn Hacker
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
North
Seamus Heaney
Presentation Piece
Marilyn Hacker
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
Philip Pullman
Thin Places
Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Love, etc
Julian Barnes
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Forced Perspectives
Tim Powers
Radical Revenge: Shame, blame and the urge for retaliation
Renée Danziger
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Food Rules: An eater’s manual
Michael Pollan
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Old Guard: Opening Fire
Greg Rucka & Leandro Fernandez
Flight Risk
Eva Hudson
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Blindsight
Peter Watts
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather
Melissa Harison
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
The Swan Book
Alexis Wright
Big Data
Nathan Marz
The Cleaner
Mark Dawson
The Game: Undercover in the secret society of pickup artists
Nick Strauss
A Delicate Truth
John Le Carré
Agent Running in the Field
John Le Carré
Who Owns England?
Guy Shrubsole
The Book of Trespass
Nick Hayes
Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals
John Gray
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
A Friable Earth
Jackie Wills
Sometimes A Single Leaf
Esther Dischereit
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell
V2
Robert Harris
Everest The Hard Way
Chris Bonington
Brimstone: A book of villanelles
John Kinsella
Notes To The Hurrying Man
Brian Patten
Someplace To Be Flying
Charles de Lint
Why Read Four Quartets?
Tom Brous
The Art of T.S. Eliot
Helen Gardrner
Sand Talk: How indigenous thinking can save the world
Tyson Yunkaporta
Count Zero
William Gibson
Inspector Maigret
Geoges Simenon
The Secret Commonwealth
Philip Pullman
Love Poems
Brian Patten
Dictator
Robert Harris
Lustrum
Robert Harris
The Search for the Perfect Pub: Looking for the Moon Under Water
Paul Moody & Robin Turner
The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
Strength and Honor
R.M. Meluch
Dogs and Demons: The fall of modern Japan
Alex Kerr
Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh
Imperium
Robert Harris
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
The Perseverance
Raymond Antrobus
One Thousand White Women
Jim Fergus
Europe at Dawn
Dave Hutchinson
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Gene Sharp
Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women
Sharon Blackie
The Unconscious in Social and Political Life
David Morgan (ed.)
The Gallic Wars
Julius Caesar
Blue Moon
Lee Child
Below Zero
Eva Hudson
Death At La Fenice
Donna Leon
Final Offer
Eva Hudson
The Peenemunde Deceptions
James McDermott
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Claire North
Shoot First
Eva Hudson
Isle of the Dead
Roger Zelazny
Solo Faces
James Salter
Weather Menders
Debra Denker
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Peripheral
William Gibson
Zero History
William Gibson
The January Flower
Orla Broderick
Run Girl
Eva Hudson
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Europe At Midnight
Dave Hutchinson
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Europe in Autumn
Dave Hutchinson
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Fascism: A warning
Madeleine Albright
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Long Take
Robin Robertson
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff
The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
Ken Krimstein
Past Tense
Lee Child
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
Remembrance of Earth’s Past (The Three-Body Problem)
Cixin Liu
The Demolished Man
Alfred Bester
Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life
George Monbiot
Alternate Routes
Tim Powers
The Darkening Age: The Christian destruction of the classical world
Catherine Nixey
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn
The Myriad
R.M. Meluch
Medusa’s Web
Tim Powers
The Queen’s Squadron
R.M. Meluch
A Legacy of Spies
John le Carré
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the Amerian West
Dee Brown
American Nations: A history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America
Colin Woodard
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches
S.C. Gwynne
Deadlock
Sara Paretsky
The Journey of Crazy Horse
Joseph M. Marshall III
Indemnity Only
Sara Paretsky
The Heart of Everything That Is: The untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend
Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
A Branch From the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic myth and the grace in wildness
Martin Shaw
The Mabinogion
Sion Davies
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One
Philip Pullman
Against Elections
David Van Reybrouck
Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies 500 AD to the Present
Simon Young & Ceri Houlbrook (eds)
Why We Sleep: The new science of sleep and dreams
Matthew Walker
The Wolf Border
Sarah Hall
Towards Mellbreak
Marie-Elsa Bragg
Deus Irae
Philip K. Dick & Roger Zelazny
The Production of Money
Ann Pettifor
The Owl Service
Alan Garner
The Midnight Line
Lee Child
Wild Magic
Cat Weatherill
The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Susan Cooper
Damnation Alley
Roger Zelazny
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Alan Garner
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe
Graham Robb
Astérix – La Serpe d’or
René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo
This Immortal
Roger Zelazny
Jack of Shadows
Roger Zelazny
Uprooted
Naomi Novik
The Legend of Lord Snooty and His Pals
Dudley Watkins
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
The Lure of Greatness: Britain’s Brexit and America‘s Trump
Anthony Barnett
Human Cargo: Stories and Songs of Emigration, Slavery and Transportation
Matthew Crampton
The Little World of Don Camillo
Giovanni Guareschi
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
The Practice of the Wild
Gary Snyder
Little, Big
John Crowley
The House of Dr Dee
Peter Ackroyd
Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall
Thomas Browne
The Hedgehog’s Dilemma: A tale of obsession, nostalgia, and the world’s most charming mammal
Hugh Warwick
Snowy Tower: Parzifal and the Wet, Black Branch of Language
Martin Shaw
Gutenberg’s Apprentice
Alix Christie
Interstate: Hitchhiking through the state of a nation
Julian Sayarer
Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
Blacklist
Sara Paretsky
Rules for Radicals: A practical primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul Alinsky
Invoking Ireland: Ailiu Iath n-hErend
John Moriarty
The Arch Conjuror of England: John Dee
Glyn Parry
The Stars My Destination
Alfred Bester
The Einstein Intersection
Samuel R. Delany Jr
Camelot and the Vision of Albion
Geoffrey Ashe
Merlin: The prophet and his history
Geoffrey Ashe
Forty Thousand In Gehenna
CJ Cherryh
Wisdom of the Mythtellers
Sean Kane
Our Kind Of Traitor
John le Carré
Swan Peak
James Lee Burke
Empire Star
Samuel R. Delany Jr
Declare
Tim Powers
Once Upon A Time: A short history of fairy tale
Marina Warner
The Tree of Meaning
Robert Bringhurst
The World of Storytelling
Anne Pellowski
Merchanter’s Luck
CJ Cherryh
The Drawing of the Dark
Tim Powers
Game, Set and Match
Len Deighton
The Pattern Under The Plough
George Ewart Evans
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, myth and art
Lewis Hyde
The Cryptographer
Tobias Hill
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis
Martin Wolf
Urban Transport Without The Hot Air
Steve Melia
Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany Jr
Messengers: City tales from a London bicycle courier
Julian Sayarer
The Moor: Lives, landscape, literature
William Atkins
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny
Mountains of the Mind
Robert MacFarlane
Spook Country
William Gibson
Dark Fire
C.J. Sansom
Dissolution
C.J. Sansom
A Foreign Country
Charles Cumming
This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
The Two Towers
J.R.R Tolkien
Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers
Wise Children
Angela Carter
Driftglass
Samuel R. Delany
Last Car to Elysian Fields
James Lee Burke
Tatiana
Martin Cruz Smith
Pegasus Descending
James Lee Burke
Three Stations
Martin Cruz Smith
A Humanitarian Past: Antiquity’s Impact on Present Social Conditions
Adele Änggård
Sustainable Energy – Without The Hot Air
David JC MacKay
Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
A Morning For Flamingos
James Lee Burke
Three Days to Never
Tim Powers
The Wheels of Chance
H.G. Wells
Pop Goes The Weasel
James Patterson
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk
Against The Day
Thomas Pynchon
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974-76
John Medhurst
The Prostitute State: How Britain’s Democracy Has Been Bought
Donnachadh McCarthy
The Magic Kingdom: Property, Monarchy and the Maximum Republic
Dan Hind
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
The Bridge Over the Drina
Ivo Andrić
Rogue States: The rule of force in world affairs
Noam Chomsky
The Death of the Little Match Girl
Zoran Feric
Sleepyhead
Mark Billingham
Coming Up Trumps: A memoir
Jean Trumpington
Emma
Jane Austen
Personal
Lee Child
Dark Mountain: Issue 1
Dougald Hine & Paul Kingsnorth (eds)
The Man Who Cycled The World
Mark Beaumont
Janapar: Love on a bike
Tom Allen
Democratic Wealth: Building a citizen’s economy
Stuart White & Niki Seth-Smith (eds)
Quiet London
Siobhan Wall
Going South: Why Britain will have a third-world economy by 2014
Larry Elliott & Dan Atkinson
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Against Love: A polemic
Laura Kipnis
Life Cycles: A London bike courier decided to cycle around the world
Julian Sayerer
Death on the Streets: Cars and the mythology of road safety
Robert Davis
Killer in the Rain
Raymond Chandler
A Wanted Man
Lee Child
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
Chris Anderson
Sack the Economists and Disband their Departments
Geoff Davies
The Affair
Lee Child
Worth Dying For
Lee Child
Bite
Nick Louth
Agent of the State
Roger Pearce
Dead I Well May Be
Adrian McKinty
A Colder War
Charles Cumming
The Glass Rainbow
James Lee Burke
Friday
Robert A. Heinlein
Science and Poetry
Mary Midgley
The Lady in the Lake and other novels
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep and other novels
Raymond Chandler
Nothing To Lose
Lee Child
Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance
Ann Pettifor
The Hanging Garden
Ian Rankin
The Finance Curse: How Oversized Financial Sectors Attack Democracy and Corrupt Economics
Shaxson & Christensen
The Door Into Summer
Robert A. Heinlein
The State of the Prisons
Sinead Morrissey
The Difference Engine
Bruce Sterling & William Gibson
The World Café: Shaping our futures through conversations that matter
Dr Juanita Brown & David Isaacs
Geoffrey Hill
Andrew Michael Roberts
The Book of English Magic
Richard Heygate & Philip Carr-Gomm
Jeju Island: Reaching to the core of beauty
Anne Hilty (ed.)
Common Sense: Occupation, assembly and the future of liberty
Dan Hind
Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011
James Fenton
The Traveller’s Guide to Arthurian Britain
Geoffrey Ashe
A Recipe for Water
Gillian Clarke
Apocalypse Baby
Virginie Despentes
Collected Poems
Edward Dorn
Angel With The Sword
C.J. Cherryh
The Old Ways: A journey on foot
Robert Macfarlane
Lost Lanes: 36 Glorious Bike Rides in Southern England
Jack Thurston
Exile’s Gate
C.J. Cherryh
The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking
Simon Singh
The Morgaine Saga
C.J. Cherryh
Sea and Sardinia
D.H. Lawrence
Dignity and Purity
Ian Jefferies
Tripwire
Lee Child
Die Trying
Lee Child
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
Nicholas Shaxson
Out With Romany
Bramwell Evens
Bad Luck And Trouble
Lee Child
The Enemy
Lee Child
Echo Burning
Lee Child
Killing Floor
Lee Child
One Shot
Lee Child
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Susskind
Iron Britannia: Time to Take the Great out of Britain
Anthony Barnett
Over Here and Undertaxed: Multinationals, Tax Avoidance and You
Richard Murphy
Aeropagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England
John Milton
The Night Manager
John le Carré
Capital
John Lanchester
Feersum Endjinn
Iain M. Banks
Where I’m Calling From
Raymond Carver
Maximum Republic
Dan Hind
Virtual Light
William Gibson
Discordia
Molly Crabapple & Laurie Penny
Well, How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of the British Economy, Minus the Wishful Thinking
Robin Ramsay
All Tomorrow’s Parties
William Gibson
Thomas Paine: His Life, His Time and the Birth of Modern Nations
Craig Nelson
Point to Point Navigation
Gore Vidal
Cider With Rosie
Laurie Lee
Mr Finchley Goes to Paris
Victor Canning
1000 Years of Annoying the French
Stephen Clarke
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Laurie Lee
The Social Animal: A story of how success happens
David Brooks
The Jerusalem Assassin
Avraham Azriel
The Jerusalem Inception
Avraham Azriel
Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad
The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Japanese
Rice, Kaji & Hama
The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Germans
Zeidenitz & Barko
The Rhineland and the Mosel Valley
Frommer
Cycling the Rhine Route
John Powell
Following the Rhine Gently Upstream: Rotterdam to Basel, a Cycle Tourist’s Guide
Judith & Neil Forsyth
Visions of England
Roy Strong
Cycling Touring Guide: Southern England
Harold Briercliffe
The Possibility of an Island
Michel Houllebecq
Arthurian Romances
Chrétien de Troyes
The Long Revolution
Raymond Williams
Scout and the Mystery of the Marsh Ponies
Belinda Rapley
Corbenic
Catherine Fisher
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
Alan Lupack
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
The New Economics: A Bigger Picture
David Boyle & Andrew Simms
Prador Moon
Neal Asher
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
A Holy Tradition of Working
Eric Gill
Jerusalem
Jez Butterworth
Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city
Anna Minton
The Bible Repairman
Tim Powers
Lucky Break
Esther Freud
Mr Finchley Discovers His England
Victor Canning
Puck of Pook’s Hill
Rudyard Kipling
Fresno Stories
Wiliam Saroyan
The Fermata
Nicholson Baker
Thursbitch
Alan Garner
Common Ground: Around Britain in 30 Writers
Simmons, Williams & Rich (eds)
Solar
Ian McEwan
Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
Tim Jackson
Symposium
Plato
Let’s Put the Future Behind Us
Jack Womack
Shocked and Awed: How the War on Terror and Jihad have Changed the English Language
Fred Halliday
Replay
Ken Grimwood
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Found Wanting
Robert Goddard
The Professional
Robert B. Parker
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
One Man And His Bike
Mike Carter
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon
Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society
Will Hutton
Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
Gillian Tett
The Tin Roof Blowdown
James Lee Burke
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
The Orchards of Syon
Geoffrey Hill
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
Robert McNamara
Stalin’s Ghost
Martin Cruz Smith
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
The Divine Invasion
Philip K. Dick
Smiley’s People
John le Carré
Crusader’s Cross
James Lee Burke
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Names: Poems
Marilyn Hacker
Darkhenge
Catherine Fisher
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