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	The Bramble Briar by Martin Simpson Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.47 The best living folk guitarist finds the material to prove it beyond doubt.
	Amarok by Mike Oldfield Buy new: £5.18 / 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.
	Exposed by Mike Oldfield Buy used from: £14.97 Electifying live versions of Tubular Bells and Incantations that leave the studio versions standing.
	Tüür: Crystallisatio Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £9.00 Music for lying down in a dark room and being posessed by. Sublime and can be scary.
	The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales (Classics) by Gerald of Wales Giraldus Cambrensis Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £2.93 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.
	Reason, Truth and Self: The Postmodern Reconditioned by Michael Luntley Buy used from: £67.39 Argues that postmodernism makes serious and valid points which need to be seperated from unsupported claims and hype.
	The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by R.F. Foster Buy used from: £2.77 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.
	A History of Wales by John Davies Buy used from: £4.50 ... and for Welsh history, this is where you start. As a general work it's hard imagine it being bettered.
	Sibelius: Violin Concerto by Anne-Sophie Mutter Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £3.99 The talent matches the hype. Sparse but heartachingly beautiful music.
	Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily BrontÃ« 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.
	Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology by Hilary Rose Buy used from: £9.74 Essays by working scientists who see evolutionary psycology as a fad currently pushing good science to the sidelines.
	Forgotten Victory: The First World War: Myths and Realities by Gary Sheffield Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £3.44 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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (Penguin History) by Christopher Hill Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.48 Now a classic, but interesting from my own - Dutch - perspective to compare these English radical movements with our own sects.
	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.