 | Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? by Martin Rees
Buy used from: £1.63 Upbeat look on mankind's contribution to the end of the world
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 | The Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Francis Spufford
Buy new: £2.13 / Used from: £0.01 British ingenuity at it's best and a sad reminder of underinvestment
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 | Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer
Buy new: £10.62 / Used from: £1.69 Fascinating insight into the desire to measure and define information and it's changing format
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 | A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer by Georgina Ferry
Buy used from: £6.00 The worlds first practical business computer taken up by Lyons catering
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 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £0.01 Quirky and challenging insight into the ways of the world's largest 'democracy'
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 | The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £2.39 An 'adult' re-rendering of a tortuous awakening of a sleeping princess
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 | Germany Calling: A Personal Biography of William Joyce, Lord Haw Haw by Mary Kenny
Buy used from: £7.48 An insight into the complicated life of William Joyce - the man behind WWII Germany's propagandist 'Lord Haw Haw'
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 | Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape The Universe: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Science Masters) by Martin Rees
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.25 An overview of the complexities of six mathematical numbers that may hold the universe together
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 | Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.75 Alan Turing: The Enigma - The best book I've ever read, flows like a novel, full of insight into the life of the father of computer science before and after the 20th century's busiest hours...
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 | Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture by Paul Hodkinson
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £9.99 An insider's view from an academic framework
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 | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Far fetched, fast paced but fun
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 | Nuclear Paranoia (Pocket Essentials) by Chas Newkey-Burden
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 A well written pocket book
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 | The Great Philosophers:Wittgenstein (Great Philosophers) by Peter Hacker
Buy used from: £0.01 A bit heavy at times, but an insightful pocket book
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 | Disasters Underground by N.J. McCamley
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £7.49 About as up-beat as a subject like this can be. Includes Fauld Mine blast
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 | Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb by William Poundstone
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £8.61 Who says mathematicians can't have fun
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 | The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
Buy used from: £2.20 Probably asks more questions than it answers, worth reading through to the end...
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 | Pavane (S.F. Masterworks) by Keith Roberts
Buy new: £2.57 / Used from: £1.95 Intriguing history shifting tale...
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 | The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War by Peter Hennessy
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £2.44 Upbeat account from behind Whitehall's closed doors and how Britain would face the Bomb.
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 | The missiles of October: The story of the Cuban missile crisis, 1962 by Elie Abel
Buy used from: £4.50 Contemporary account of the White House's main players in the Cuban missile crisis
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 | Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Buy used from: £0.24 More far fetched intervention from Dan Brown's historian
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 | Terror Tracker: An Odyssey into Pure Fear by Neil Doyle
Buy new: £10.06 / Used from: £3.11 Thought provoking issues with author's supporting website
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 Very well written novel about gender identity anchored from the middle to end of the 20th century.
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