 | The Bramble Briar by Martin Simpson
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.99 The best living folk guitarist finds the material to prove it beyond doubt.
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 | Amarok by Mike Oldfield
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.34 Not one of Mike's more accessible offerings, but it is his best. Just go with the flow and it'll soon click.
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 | Exposed by Mike Oldfield
Buy used from: £14.97 Electifying live versions of Tubular Bells and Incantations that leave the studio versions standing.
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 | Tüür: Crystallisatio
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £7.98 Music for lying down in a dark room and being posessed by. Sublime and can be scary.
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 | The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (Classics) by Gerald of Wales Giraldus Cambrensis
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £3.23 This 12th century archdeacon and polymath with his omnivorous and insatiable intellect tells you more about the times he lived in than any history book possibly could.
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 | Reason, Truth and Self: The Postmodern Reconditioned by Michael Luntley
Buy used from: £68.53 Argues that postmodernism makes serious and valid points which need to be seperated from unsupported claims and hype.
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 | The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by R.F. Foster
Buy used from: £1.94 Witty and intelligent essays on how (Irish) history came to be written. Almost in passing, Foster shows how post-modernist ideas are misused in order to shy away from other peoples' truths.
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 | A History of Wales by John Davies
Buy used from: £3.99 ... and for Welsh history, this is where you start. As a general work it's hard imagine it being bettered.
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 | Sibelius: Violin Concerto by Anne-Sophie Mutter
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £4.89 The talent matches the hype. Sparse but heartachingly beautiful music.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Should be taken off school reading lists for a generation so people can discover it without preconceptions.
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 | Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary Rose
Buy used from: £9.75 Essays by working scientists who see evolutionary psycology as a fad currently pushing good science to the sidelines.
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 | Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £4.00 Argues there was no alternative to confronting the Imperial German Army head-on in 1914, a fact suppressed by revulsion at the resulting mass casualites.
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 | In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
Buy used from: £0.01 Did the Black Death give birth to the modern world? A multi-threaded argument which, despite a few minor gaffes, is hard to dismiss as simplistic.
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 | The Rose by Mediaeval Baebes
Buy used from: £6.95 Their best so far. If nothing else, the sheer variety of mediaeval texts they set to music is likely to interest anyone with an interest in the period.
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 | Anthology by Pentangle
Buy used from: £6.00 Two CDs of unbelievable value for money if you like folk-rock. Not a dud track on it and impossible to pick a favourite.
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 | The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History) by Christopher Hill
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £4.38 Now a classic, but interesting from my own - Dutch - perspective to compare these English radical movements with our own sects.
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 | The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich by George L. Moose
Buy used from: £22.50 Where the Nazis got their ideas from - some flaky 19th century ideas that turned out to be not so harmless.
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