 | The Armchair Naturalist: How to Be Good at Nature Without Really Trying by Johnson P. Johnson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.73 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.
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 | The Nature of Britain by Alan Titchmarsh
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £2.26 Titchmarsh is, as always, very readable - makes a lavish coffee table book too.
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 | New Europe by Michael Palin
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £1.75 The ever personable Palin lifts the curtain on eastern Europe in his usual laidback but quietly witty way.
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 | Places to Hide: In England, Scotland and Wales by Dixe Wills
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.90 The funniest, quirkiest book of 2007 - buy a copy for yourself too. Does what it says on the tin and 1000% more.
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 | Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £4.14 / Used from: £4.13 Re-issued for his 50th birthday - Fry's first 20 years. Heart-rendingly honest and blisteringly funny. I read it in one sitting.
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 | New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. by Dixe Wills
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.00 The cleverest, wittiest, most informative book on every single country on earth in existence - a laugh and a "gosh, really?" on every page.
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 | The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet)
Buy new: £25.44 / Used from: £13.21 A fantastic world-in-your-armchair book - the perfect accompaniment to New World Order (see above)."
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