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Top Non-fiction Choices
The Armchair Naturalist: How to be Good at Nature without Really TryingThe Armchair Naturalist: How to be Good at Nature without Really Trying by Johnson P. Johnson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.99
My top tip for this year - jam packed with everything you need to know about the great outdoors and presented so that even the most housebound reader can become an expert. Great fun too.
The Nature of BritainThe Nature of Britain by Alan Titchmarsh
Buy new: £16.00 / Used from: £0.01
Titchmarsh is, as always, very readable - makes a lavish coffee table book too.
New EuropeNew Europe by Michael Palin
Buy new: £13.50 / Used from: £0.01
The ever personable Palin lifts the curtain on eastern Europe in his usual laidback but quietly witty way.
Places to Hide: In England, Scotland and WalesPlaces to Hide: In England, Scotland and Wales by Dixe Wills
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.88
The funniest, quirkiest book of 2007 - buy a copy for yourself too. Does what it says on the tin and 1000% more.
Moab is My WashpotMoab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.68
Re-issued for his 50th birthday - Fry's first 20 years. Heart-rendingly honest and blisteringly funny. I read it in one sitting.
New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted.New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. by Dixe Wills
Buy new: £6.33 / Used from: £0.01
The cleverest, wittiest, most informative book on every single country on earth in existence - a laugh and a "gosh, really?" on every page.
The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet)The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet)
Buy new: £23.50 / Used from: £19.35
A fantastic world-in-your-armchair book - the perfect accompaniment to New World Order (see above)."