![]() | The Poems of Ossian (Collected Works of James Hogg) (Collected Works of James Hogg) by James Macpherson
Buy new: £36.10 / Used from: £24.90 Compulsory bedside reading for any ambitious civil servant. (Best edition around)
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![]() | The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Brother Yun
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 The first, last and only book to have been read to be over the phone...
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![]() | The Gladstone Diaries: Volume 11: July 1883-December 1886: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-ministerial Correspondence by W. E. Gladstone
Buy new: £121.60 Worth the slog. If your pushed for time read the 31st December entries.
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![]() | The Political Animal: An Anatomy by Jeremy Paxman
Buy used from: £0.01 Paxman lashes out with needless spite, which is a shame because a more disinterested tone, would have heightened the satire. Much better to read...
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![]() | The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten by Dennis Kavanagh
Buy used from: £1.27 ...or...
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![]() | How to be a Minister by Gerald Kaufman
Buy used from: £2.98 ...if you are lucky enough to find a copy.
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![]() | The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £9.46 First Circle has lost little of its charm, as has its neat contemporary...
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![]() | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.89 ...Our Man in Havana. No one but Greene captures the British art of muddling through.
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![]() | Bamboo Cross by Homer E. Dowdy
Buy used from: £0.01 You may struggle to find this, but its worth the effort...
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![]() | The Scots Worthies by John Howie
Buy used from: £49.92 ...as it may be for the Scots Worthies.
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![]() | Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Reconciliation v.4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation Vol 4 (Karl Barth Church Dogmatics) by Karl Barth
Buy used from: £29.50 If Systematic Theology is more your cuppa tea then, Karl Barth is compulsory reading.
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![]() | Transforming of the Kirk by A.C. Cheyne
Buy used from: £8.09 Back to church history and I would recommend this favourite!!!
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![]() | Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays by Michael Oakeshott
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £6.26 I'm grateful for the privilege to have spilt tea over this Oakeshott sbornik.
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![]() | A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Blackwell Reference Grammars) by Terence Wade
Buy new: £20.19 / Used from: £19.52 And not content with spligging tea, it was my great misfortune to set Wade's masterful Grammar on fire.
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![]() | Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
Buy used from: £1.97 Nine Suitcases is worthy of the finest Earl Grey
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![]() | Notes from Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy used from: £0.29 ...while Dostoyevsky's early masterpiece really captures the essense of the nonsense spoken when people talk of moral progress.
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![]() | Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
Buy used from: £4.03 And as a Gladstone fan, then I can think of no more blissful way to pass a sunny afternoon in a Southern France orchard with this mighty tome.
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