 | This England by Pete Davies
Buy used from: £0.06 Warm,humane, and perceptive account of the 97 election in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire.
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 | Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming
Buy new: £7.47 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining and erudite of account of exploration in the 19th century. Conclusion;They were all mad.
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 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic by Alfred Lansing
Buy used from: £6.86 The staggering story of Shackleton,s ill fated Trans-Antartic expedition. A testament to human endurance indeed.
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 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Rivetting and scurillous trawl through seventies cinema
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 | The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North East Football by Harry Pearson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny book about North East football.
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 | Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation by Michael Moore
Buy used from: £0.01 A litany of liars,cheats and prevaricators riddle this book. Informative if a little loose in areas.
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 | The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize by David Cavanagh
Buy used from: £4.72 Brilliantly tells the story of Creation records, the label that gave us Oasis and My Bloody Valentine. 1-1 there then.
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 | Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 The inside story of New Labour. More liars, cheats and opportunistic charlatans then.
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 | A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole by Diana Preston
Buy used from: £0.41 Fair and balanced first rate telling of this most enduring of tragedies.
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 | A Lot of Hard Yakka: Triumph and Torment - A County Cricketer's Life by Simon Hughes
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Candid,illuminating account of a County cricketers lot complete with fantastic anecdotes.
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 | Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.05 Searing indicment of Blair,s Government and corporate stealth. Journalism as sharp as a falcons eyesight.
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 | Killer Instinct: How Two Young Producers Took on Hollywood by Jane Hamsher
Buy new: £11.60 / Used from: £5.15 The inside story of the making of Natural Born Killers. Nearly as wild a ride as the movie with caustic character assesments
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 | The Dirty War by Martin Dillon
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £1.46 I learnt a hell of a lot about the troubles in Northern Ireland from reading this.
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 | Lost in Music by Giles Smith
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 One mans love and obsession with music. A warm and pithy read that struck a chord with me anyway....Sorry about the pun!
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 | The Nation's Favourite: True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Riotously engrossing account of the fall of Radio One,s old guard....Good riddance said i.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.45 The total madness of war encapsulated by the battle for Stalingrad, but also a testimony to a peoples will to survive.
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 | The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.48 Wonderfull atubiographical telling of the foolhardy venture to study penguins in the Antartic winter.
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 | 500-1 - The Miracle of Headingley '81 by Robert Steen
Buy used from: £0.01 A personal indulgence. I was there....and i,m on the cover.
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