 | Before You Go: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Gap Year (Before You Go) by Tom Griffiths
Buy used from: £1.67 An absolutely excellent book on planning and taking a Gap Year. It's full of helpful advice from a man whos actually done it!
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 | Taking a Gap Year by Susan Griffith
Buy used from: £0.01 This book has a good list of addresses and people to approach when organising your Gap but the lack of anything other than pages of text makes it boring to read.
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 | Live and Work Abroad: A Guide for Modern Nomads by Huw Francis
Buy used from: £19.35 Once again, all the information's there and it's all very interesting but the layout is incredibly dull. Do cartoons, humour or pictures really take that much?
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 | Work Around Australia by David Sheehan
Buy used from: £3.40 Now this is better. It has loads of information as well as invaluable information on working in Australia.
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 | Living and Working in Australia: All You Need to Know for Starting a New Life (How to books) by Laura Veltman
Buy new: £3.90 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic! From visas to studying to housing, it prints it all clearly! "No Bull" as the Aussies would say!
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 | Getting into America: The Immigration Guide to Finding a New Life in the USA (How to) by Henry G. Liebman
Buy used from: £1.54 Another good book on emigration. This time to the States.
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 | Getting a Job in Australia: Working in Australia - a Step-by-step Guide (How to) by Nick Vandome
Buy used from: £0.01 Entry requirements, tax forms, finance and CARTOONS! This has all the information and even throws in some funny pictures too! Brilliant!
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 | The Virgin Travellers' Handbook: The Definitive Guide for Students and Career Gap Travellers Planning a Gap Year by Tom Griffiths
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £2.89 Another one from Tom Griffiths and he manages it again! All the stuff you need to know without taking away the excitement! Well done, Tom!
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 | Living and Working in America (Living & Working in America) by David Hampshire
Buy used from: £0.27 This tells it like it is. It's also up to date and includes information on things you didn't even think of!
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 | Buying a Home in Florida (Survival Handbooks) by David Hampshire
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.96 Outlining the dream of most old age pensioners in the UK! Retiring to Florida! It sounds exciting but David Hampshire makes it sound like having teeth pulled!
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 | Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide by Jane Walmsley
Buy used from: £0.01 Absolutely hysterical! It makes you realise that America and England are actually foreign countries, despite our similarities! I saw so much Britishness in myself! It was really funny!
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 | Down Under by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic! This Bill Bryson is great. This book had me laughing out load on the train (I got some looks, I can tell ya!) I espcially liked his new motto for Canberra: Why wait to die? Excellent!
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 | Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Bill Bryson does it again! This is a series of humourous articles that he wrote for a newspaper. Even better than Downunder!
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 | How to Become an Au Pair: Your Guide to Employment Opportunities Worldwide by M. Hempshell
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 This gives excellent advice on how to become an au-pair and get work, both in England and abroad.
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 | The Gap Year Book (Lonely Planet Gap Year Guide) by Joseph Bindloss
Buy used from: £1.08 This is the same standard as Tom Griffiths' books. It gives the same kind of information. It also has a section on the individual countries. Great addresses!
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