 | The Chambers Dictionary
Buy used from: £11.08 The best one-volume dictionary there is - the standard for Crosswords and Scrabble. Indispensable.
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 | Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006
Buy used from: £1.50 Once this filled a bookshelf and cost two months' wages, now it fits in your pocket and costs two hours' pay. The sum of human knowledge.
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 | The "Times" Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition (Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World) by Collins Bartholomew
Buy used from: £85.92 You can buy cheaper atlases, but not better ones.
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 | Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Buy used from: £4.59 The ultimate Who's Who - and Who Was.
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 | The Chambers Thesaurus by Martin Manser
Buy used from: £27.37 The finest example of just how much Thesauruses have improved since the days of Roget.
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 | Whitaker's Almanack 2006 by ed. Inna Ward
Buy new: £34.00 / Used from: £0.01 Still quicker, better, more accurate and accessible than Google. A superb compendium of knowledge.
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 | Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase And Fable 17th Edition by John Ayto - Ed
Buy used from: £20.00 Delightfully eclectic, occasionally useless, often uniquely informative.
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 | Chambers Dictionary of Quotations by Chambers (ed.)
Buy new: £23.75 / Used from: £11.65 For the purist, the Oxford dictionary is a better (and more expensive) bet, but Chambers is much more fun!
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 | The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky
Buy used from: £0.01 Although never perhaps intended as a serious reference work, I never ceased to be amazed by how often I hoik this down from the shelf.
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 | Guinness World Records 2006 by World Records Guinness
Buy used from: £1.83 Annoyingly useful
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