 | The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted by Matthew Green
Buy new: £6.16 / Used from: £2.97 Boring.
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 | Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £0.01 So, so, so busy, but he still finds time to pen this enertaining book.
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 | A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Should have been more interesting than it was.
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 | Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Buy new: £3.57 / Used from: £3.12 Thought provoking stuff for grumpy old men.
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 | E=mc2 (pb): A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.01 Surprisingly entertaining, even for thikos like me.
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 | Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £0.01 One of the few books where I can say The film was better.
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 | High Society by Ben Elton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 I couldn't help but feel I shouldn't be enjoying this as much as I did.
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 | The Hunted by Elmore Leonard
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 The man can't write a bad sentence.
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 | Hard Frost by R.D. Wingfield
Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £0.01 Sometimes Bargain Books is worth a browse.
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 | McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.37 Superb overview of organised global crime today.
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 | The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 I've read some good non-fiction this year, and here's another example.
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 | The Fire Engine That Disappeared (The Martin Beck Series) by Maj Sjowall
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.20 The Fire Engine that was uninteresting in the extreme.
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 | Ablaze: Story of Chernobyl by Piers Paul Read
Buy used from: £4.46 Blazed for the first two hundred pages, then spluttered and went out.
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 | Grumpy Old Rockstar: and Other Wondrous Stories by Rick Wakeman
Buy used from: £37.78 Really funny if somewhat lightweight.
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 | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Heavy and depressing, like living with a social worker.
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 | Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Utterly preposterous, but very readable.
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 | The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade by Piers Morgan
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 I hate to say it, but this is an outstandingly entertaining overview of the Nineties.
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 | Death by Hollywood by Steven Bochco
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 If Elmore was younger, he might write like this.
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 | The Age of the Warrior: Selected Writings by Robert Fisk
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.55 Robert, Robert, lighten up. Bush is out.
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 | Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed by Robert Sellers
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.25 Rubbish. Written by a twelve year old who thinks drinking is cool and clever.
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 | The World without Us by Alan Weisman
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £3.33 Not as preachy and green as I feared, and well interesting.
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 | Samaritan by Richard Price
Buy used from: £0.01 Disappointing.
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 | Down River by John Hart
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.01 Finally, a half decent Richard and Judy choice.
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 | Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance by Tom Reynolds
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 And, overwhelmingly, alcohol sozzled customers.
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 | Public Enemies: The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.21 I find True Crime seldom dull, but this managed to bore for America.
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