 | On Basilisk Station (Honorverse) by David Weber
Buy used from: £1.73 Introductory book in the Honor Harrington military sci-fi series - charting the career of a Hornblower type officer in future space
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 | Fermat's Last Theorem: The story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years by Simon Singh
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £1.34 Fermat's Last Theorem is an exciting non fiction account of the competion to prove a centuries old theorem and along the way giving a brief and very interesting potted history of mathematics
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 | Shogun (Hodder Great Reads) by James Clavell
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.12 Shogun - don't be put off by the great number of pages - Clavell keeps the action coming and maintains interest in the story set in Imperial Japan with Samurai civil war looming
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £0.01 Bill Bryson uses his wit and intellect to recount what is now known about the origins of the universe, the earth and other important matters in science and nature
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 | Hannah's Gift by Thomas Eidson
Buy used from: £0.01 Thomas Eidson has the knack of combining westerns with an element of mysticism to create unique stories that grab and keep the readers attention
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 | Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by Deborah Lipstadt
Buy used from: £1.20 A rivetting rebuttal of the tactics and lies used by holocaust deniers
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 | The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Although written for children this is the first book in a trilogy that any adult can also enjoy - introducing the devilishly funny djinni Bartimaeus in a modern Britain ruled by Magicians
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 | Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
Buy new: £5.58 / Used from: £0.29 Taylor's first rate account of the firebombing of Dresden and the dismantling of some of the myths that have arisen about it
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Frank Herbert's masterpiece - the first in the sci-fi series about the desert world Arrakis and the legendary and gigantic sand worms
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 | Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £5.00 Diamond's persuasive account of the geographical, agricultural and technological reasons that led to the dominance of western nations - simultaneously discounting any notion of racial superiority
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