 | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £1.80 Thrilling glimpse into the Bolshevik inner circle. The magnates and commisars leap off the page.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £0.01 Bryson is the best science teacher you never had. Worth it just to have learned about Thomas Midgley.
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 | Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? by Martin Rees
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.12 Gloomy? I should say so. But the astronomer royal is a man to be listened to.
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 | Shopped: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets by Joanna Blythman
Buy used from: £0.01 You will never darken the doors of a supermarket ever again. Or at least not without thinking.
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 | Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £2.44 Proves that you can love a history book written by a Tory.
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 | The Second World War by John Keegan
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £2.70 Proves that you can love a war book written by a Tory.
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 | The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.50 Harris knows how to tell a story and to set it in context.
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 | Killing for Company: Case of Dennis Nilsen by Brian Masters
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 You have to understand evil, in my opinion.
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 | What the Label Doesn't Tell You by Sue Dibb
Buy used from: £0.01 This book actually changed my life.
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 | The Battle for the Falklands (Pan Grand Strategy) by Sir Max Hastings
Buy used from: £0.01 I was a teenager at the time. I wish I'd understood it as I do now.
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 | The Selling of the President by Joe McGinniss
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.78 Thanks to Tom Wolfe's New Journalism anthology for the tip-off.
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 | Nothing by Paul Morley
Buy used from: £3.50 Now that's what I call a memoir,
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 | Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £4.82 I actually read this on holiday.
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 | The World We're in by Will Hutton
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £0.01 Read this on holiday too. Then a Jackie Collins. (True.)
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 | Hawks on Hawks (Directors on Directors) by Howard Hawks
Buy used from: £20.00 Love Hawks. Love McBride. Love this freewheeling book.
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