Miscellaneous Reviews (early 1990s-present)

by Simon Whitechapel

...the critic has to assume the mantle of omniscience to carry out his job, though in reality he is perhaps considerably less than qualified or worthy to judge the work of others.

• New reviews (27/v/2008)

By Subject (click on buttons to expand)

• Science & Technology


• Artforms of Nature (Kunstformen der Natur), Ernst Haeckel (10/i/2005)
• Australia’s Most Dangerous spiders, snakes and marine creatures: Identification and First Aid, text by Julian White, Carl Edmonds and Paul Zborowski (10/xi/2007)
• The Biology of Flowers, Eigil Holm, illustrated by Thomas Bredsdorff and Peter Nielsen (7/iii/2007)
• Butterflies and Moths in Britain and Europe, David Carter, designed by Roger Phillips (24/vii/2007)
• The Cactus Handbook (Der Kakteen Führer), Erik Haustein, translated by Pamela Marwood (10/i/2007)
• Cats’ Paws & Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature & People, Steven Vogel
• The Cloudspotter’s Guide, Gavin Pretor-Pinney (3/iv/2008)
• Colour in Your Garden, David Squire (10/i/2007)
• Cymbalaria muralis, Ivy-leaved Toadflax (21/xii/2007)
• Dictionary of Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes (2/vi/2007)
• Enchanting Alpine Flowers, Alfred Pohler, trans. Jacqueline Schweighofer (2/vi/2007)
• Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and Flowers, Lance Hattatt (10/i/2007)
• Exotic Orchids, ed. Wilma Rittershausen (29/vi/2005)
• The Country Flowers of a Victorian Lady, Fanny Robinson; Flowers in Colour, A.C. Hellyer, watercolors by Cynthia Newsome-Taylor, woodcuts by J.D.C. Sowerby; The Pocket Encyclopedia of Indoor Plants, Age Nicolaisen, illustrated by Palle Brennhoi and Otto Frello; An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Houseplants, Jack Kramer; A Guide to Fuchsias, Leo Boullemier (14/xi/2006)
• A Field Guide in Colour to Wild Flowers, Dietmar Aichele, illustrated by Marianne Golte-Bechtle (24/vii/2007)
• Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs & Humankind, John and Mary Gribbin
• The Fresh and Salt Water Fishes of the World, Edward C. Midgalski and George S. Fichter, illustrated by Norman Weaver (30/ix/2007)
• Fuchsias, Gerda Manthey, translated by David Christie (10/i/2007)
• The Gardener’s Book of Weeds, Mea Allan, illustr. by Victoria Matthews (22/i/2008)
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley
• Germany’s Secret Weapons in World War II, Roger Ford
• Grasses, Ferns, Mosses and Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland, Roger Phillips (3/iv/2008)
• Growing Flowers for Your Garden: A Concise Guide in Colour, Jaroslav Pr&scitech.html#x16f;cha, illustrated by František Severa, translated by Olga Kuthanová (7/iii/2007)
• Illustrations of the British Flora (22/iv/2007)
• The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Marine Fish and Sea Creatures, Amy-Jane Beer and Derek Hall (13/ii/2008)
• An Illustrated Guide to Pollen Analysis, P.D. Moore and J.A. Webb (6/iii/2005)
• Impact Earth: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors: The Growing Threat, Austen Atkinson
• Influence: Science and Practice, Robert B. Cialdini
• Jet, Helen Muller
• Ken Libbrecht’s Field Guide to Snowflakes, Kenneth Libbrecht (22/i/2008)
• The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness, Stanley Coren
• Living Jewels: The Natural Design of Beetles, Poul Beckmann (29/vi/2005)
• The Macdonald Encyclopedia of Precious Stones, Curzio Cipriani and Alessandro Borelli, trans. Valerie Palmer (2/vi/2007)
• Man, Beast and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature, Kenan Malik
• Mapping the Mind, Rita Carter
• Marjorie Blamey’s Flowers of the Countryside, Philip and Marjorie Blamey, illustrated by Marjorie Blamey (10/i/2007)
• A Mind to Crime: The Controversial Link Between the Mind and Criminal Behaviour, Ann Moir and David Jessel
• The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools, David N. Pegler (22/vii/2005)
• The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, Peter Moore, illustrations by Jac Jones (sic), Josephine Martin, Nina Roberts, Kathleen Smith, Gill Tomblin (2/v/2005)
• Mountain Flowers in Colour, Anthony Huxley, illustrated by Daphne Barry and Mary Grierson (30/ix/2007)
• Mycelis muralis, Wall-Lettuce (21/xii/2007)
• On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• Orchids: A Guide to Cultivation, Dr Phillip Cribb and Christopher Bailes (29/vi/2005)
• The Oxford Companion to the Mind, Richard L. Gregory (ed.)
• Philip’s Guide to Seashells (sic), A.P.H. Oliver, illustrated by James Nicholls (10/i/2007)
• Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, Margaret Wertheim
• Reader’s Digest Handboek Praktisch Tuinieren, Roy Hay, Kenneth A. Beckett, Jaap Hage (2/vi/2007)
• Reader’s Digest Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain, J.R. Press et al, illustrated Leonora Box et al (13/ii/2008)
• Scented Flora of the World: An Encyclopedia, Roy Genders (11/ix/2007)
• Shells, Roderick Cameron (22/iv/2007)
• The Skeptical Enquirer, Various
• Snakes of the World, John Stidworthy, illustrated by Dougal MacDougal (21/xii/2007)
• Why Men Don’t Listen And Women Can’t Read Maps: How We’re Different and What to Do About It, Allan and Barbara Pease
• Wild Flowers in Britain, Geoffrey Grigson (30/ix/2007)
• Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, W. Lippert and D. Podlech, translated and adapted by Martin Walters; A Handguide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe, illustrations by Marjorie Blamey, text by Richard Fitter; Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, Andrew Branson; The Wild Flowers Book, illustrations by Eduard Desmartini and Vera Nicova, text by Eliska Tomanová, translated by Olga Kuthanova; The Concise British Flora in Colour, W. Keble Martin (19/viii/2006)
• Wild Flowers of the World, Paintings by Barbara Everard, text by Brian D. Morley (7/iii/2007)
• The World Atlas of Birds, ed. Sir Peter Scott, C. Hilary Fry, J.J.M. Flegg et al (5/v/2008)
• The World of Minerals, Vincenzo de Michele, line drawings by Emilio Chiusa (2/vi/2007)
• Maths


• An Adventure in Multidimensional Space: The Art and Geometry of Polygons, Polyhedra, and Polytopes, Koji Miyazaki (22/vii/2005)
• Dr. Riemann’s Zeros, Karl Sabbagh (6/viii/2007)
• e: The Story of a Number, Eli Maor (18/v/2005)
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty, Mario Livio (10/i/ 2005)
• The Joy of π, David Blatner (18/v/2005)
• Knots: An Illustrated Practical Guide to the Essential Knot Types and their Uses, Andrew Adamides (11/ix/2007)
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, John Allen Paulos
• The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, Robert Kanigel
• Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Gábor J. Székely (23/xi/2005)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry, David Wells
• The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Mathematics, David Wells
• Platonic and Archimedean Solids: The Geometry of Space, Daud Sutton (10/iii/2006)
• What Shape Is A Snowflake? Magical Numbers in Nature, Ian Stewart (6/iii/2005)
• Literature


• Awaydays, Kevin Sampson (23/iii/2008)
• Boule de Suif, Guy de Maupassant (10/xi/2007)
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• Collected Poems and Selected Prose, A.E. Housman, ed. Christopher Ricks (22/i/2008)
• Collected Short Stories, W. Somerset Maugham
• The Conan Doyle Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle (17/i/2007)
• The Dead Zone, Stephen King
• Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to His Father, E. Bishop-Potter (23/iii/2008)
• Dirty Weekend, Helen Zahavi
• Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey (24/vii/2007)
• Enemies of Promise, Cyril Connolly
• Flower Fairies of the Summer, Cicely Mary Baker (3/ii/2008)
• The Football Factory Trilogy, John King
• The Hammer of God, Arthur C. Clarke
• Hannibal, Thomas Harris
• Haunter of the Dark, John Coulthart
• Headlong Hall / Nightmare Abbey
• I Was Dora Suarez, Derek Raymond
• In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu (27/v/2008)
• King of the Thrill: Alistair MacLean
• Literary Theory: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton (22/vii/2005)
• The Lost World and Other Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (3/iv/2008)
• Lytton Strachey: A Biography, Michael Holroyd (11/ix/2007)
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid, trans. by Mary Innes (2/v/2007)
• The Missing Will / A Dubious Codicil, Michael Wharton (Peter Simple) (23/ii/2005)
• The Monk, Matthew Lewis (3/ii/2008)
• Neuclid on the Block: Transdimensionality as Modernistic Metaphor in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft, Nigel M. Goldbaum (23/ii/2008)
• Pearls & Pyramids / Temples & Torments, Simon Whitechapel (23/v/2007)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• Selected Poems, A.C. Swinburne
• A Serious Life, D.M. Mitchell
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to be Read with the Lights On, ed. Harold Q. Masur (23/ii/2008)
• The Amazon Online Bookstore (UK only) (26/iii/2005)
• The Three Hostages, John Buchan (30/ix/2007)
• Trowbridge Public Library (26/iii/2005)
• Ukridge, P.G. Wodehouse (23/ii/2008)
• The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
• The Way to Dusty Death, Alistair MacLean (27/v/2008)
• William in Trouble, Richmal Crompton (5/v/2008)
• Will This Do? The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh (21/i/2006)
• Politics


• Index on Censorship, Various
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler (27/v/2008)
• Mo Mowlam: The Biography, Julia Langdon (1/xii/2005)
• Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America, Edward Behr
• Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour, Andrew Rawnsley
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid
• Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
• White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18, Nick Lowles
• Culture & History


• Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinoüs, Royston Lambert
• The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, David E. Kaplan (26/vi/2005)
• Crash: The Limits of Car Safety, Nicholas Faith
• The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL, Tim Green
• Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk, Jeff Connors (27/ii/2006)
• Etruscan: Reading the Past, Larissa Bonfante
• The Film Studies Reader, Joanne Hollows (ed.) et al.
• Football Against the Enemy, Simon Kuper
• Futurism, Richard Humphreys
• A History of the Breast, Marilyn Yalom
• History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
• Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction, Andy Medhurst and Sally R. Munt
• Lone Wolf: True Stories of Spree Killers, Pan Pantziarka
• Lord Gnome of the Rings: The Best of Private Eye 1976, Various (6/iii/2005)
• The Magic of Uri Geller, as revealed by the Amazing Randi (12/ii/2005)
• Ruthless: The Global Rise of the Yardies, Geoff Small
• The Surfrider, compiled by Jack Pollard (10/xi/2007)
• When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder, Patricia Pearson
• Religion


• The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong
• Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, by Simon Whitechapel
• The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God?, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
• Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr, Evelyn Waugh
• The Tablet, Various
• Music


• Aavaante Gaarde, The Next Best of Post-Elektronika Vol 23 (1/v/2004)
• AC/DC, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
• Tomaso Albinoni, 12 Concerti a cinque, Opus 5 (3/ii/2008)
• Noël Coward, The Golden Age of Noël Coward (6/viii/2007)
• The Darling Buds, Pop Said (12/vi/2006)
• Depeche Mode, Playing the Angel (11/ix/2006)
• Diamond Head, Death and Progress (22/iv/2007)
• Electric Wizard, Dopethrone (23/xi/2005)
• The Faders, “No Sleep Tonight” (22/iv/2007)
• Feline, Feline (1/vii/2006)
• Funeral, Tristesse demo (16/x/2005)
• Grand Magus, Monument (11/ix/2006)
• The Al Jolson Collection: 20 Golden Greats (2/v/2007)
• Julian and Sandy: Fab Sketches from Round the Horne / The Bona World of Julian and Sandy: More Sketches from Round the Horne (22/iii/2005)
• L7, Hungry for Stink (8/vii/2006)
• Led Zeppelin: Plumbing the Zeps
• Louis Jordan, How ’Bout That (6/viii/2005)
• Avril Lavigne, Let Go (11/ix/2006)
• Manic Street Preachers, The Holy Bible
• Steven Patrick Morrissey (16/x/2005)
• Mötley Crüe, Decade of Decadence (24/ii/2007)
• Obiat, Accidentally Making Enemies / Emotionally Driven Disturbulence
• Pentagram, “All Your Sins” (6/viii/2007)
• Pitchshifter, Industrial
• The Primitives, Bombshell: The Hits and More (10/xii/2005)
• Cliff Richard, 40 Golden Greats Vol 1 and 2 (24/ii/2007)
• Rose of Avalanche, Never Another Sunset (25/x/2005)
• Runemagick, Envenom (15/ii/2006)
• Skink, Deaf to Suggestion (20/xii/2005)
• Slayer: Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot
• Stormcrow, Enslaved in Darkness (3/ii/2008)
• The Sundays, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (16/x/2005)
• The Sundays, Static and Silence (16/iii/2006)
• Trapped by the Dick, Deaf Certificate (23/v/2007)
• The Troggs, Wild Thing (6/viii/2007)
• Various, Music from the Crusades (6/viii/2005)
• Vivaldi, Nisi Dominus, sung by James Bowman (5/v/2008)
• Winter, Into Darkness / Eternal Frost
• Murder & Mayhem


• Blood Circus: True Tales of Men and Women Who Killed for Kicks, Margaret L. Woodham
• Evading the Blade: French Killers Who Cheated the Guillotine, William Fry
• Food for the Worm: The True Story of Latin America’s Serial-Killing Frenzy, Barry M. Lister
• Red Moon Risin’: The True Story of Appalachia’s Cannibal Killer, Larry H. Gernsberg
• Slaughter of the Innocent: An Odyssey to the Russian Heart of Darkness, Kenneth Charles
• Sex’n’Sleaze


• After the Wall Went Down: Prostitution and Pornography in Post-Soviet Europe, Patricia C. Baumgarten
• Arrows of Artemis: A Lesbian Guide to S&M Sex, Anthea Royale and Jennifer Young
• California Sunshine, Minnesota Rain: True Tales from the American Sleaze Trade, Katherine G. Fraser
• Open All Hours: The Life of a ’Seventies Eastend Stripper, Jayne Greenwood (with Hilary Tamworth)
• Perfect Tens: An Illustrated History of FootFet, Tony MacArthur
• Phantasmagoric Film


• Nihai je Hakkin (Brothers of Sand), Joseph Sikoha
• Diàvolo H5828 (Devil H5828), Katana Mesura
• White/Black, Jez Clancy
• Dazany’ Drezugem (The Tongue behind the Veil), Thomas Rigas
• Ansak (Underbelly), Joseph Sikoha

By Title

• Accidentally Making Enemies / Emotionally Driven Disturbulence, Obiat (23/ii/2005)
• An Adventure in Multidimensional Space: The Art and Geometry of Polygons, Polyhedra, and Polytopes, Koji Miyazaki (22/vii/2005)
• Artforms of Nature (Kunstformen der Natur), Ernst Haeckel (10/i/2005)
• Australia’s Most Dangerous spiders, snakes and marine creatures: Identification and First Aid, text by Julian White, Carl Edmonds and Paul Zborowski (10/xi/2007)
• Awaydays, Kevin Sampson (23/iii/2008)
• The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong
• Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinoüs, Royston Lambert
• The Biology of Flowers, Eigil Holm, illustrated by Thomas Bredsdorff and Peter Nielsen (7/iii/2007)
• Bombshell: The Hits and More, The Primitives (10/xii/2005)
• Boule de Suif, Guy de Maupassant (10/xi/2007)
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• Butterflies and Moths in Britain and Europe, David Carter, designed by Roger Phillips
• The Cactus Handbook (Der Kakteen Führer), Erik Haustein, translated by Pamela Marwood (10/ii/2007)
• Cats’ Paws & Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature & People, Steven Vogel
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• The Cloudspotter’s Guide, Gavin Pretor-Pinney (3/iii/2008)
• Collected Poems and Selected Prose, A.E. Housman, ed. Christopher Ricks (22/i/2008)
• Collected Short Stories, W. Somerset Maugham
• Colour in Your Garden, David Squire (10/ii/2007)
• The Conan Doyle Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle (17/i/2007)
• The Country Flowers of a Victorian Lady, Fanny Robinson; Flowers in Colour, A.C. Hellyer, watercolors by Cynthia Newsome-Taylor, woodcuts by J.D.C. Sowerby; The Pocket Encyclopedia of Indoor Plants, Age Nicolaisen, illustrated by Palle Brennhoi and Otto Frello; An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Houseplants, Jack Kramer; A Guide to Fuchsias, Leo Boullemier (14/xi/2006)
• Noël Coward, The Golden Age of Noël Coward (6/viii/2007)
• Crash: The Limits of Car Safety, Nicholas Faith
• The Cult at the End of the World: The Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, David E. Kaplan (26/vi/2005)
• The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL, Tim Green
• The Dead Zone, Stephen King
• Deaf to Suggestion, Skink (20/xii/2005)
• Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to His Father, E. Bishop-Potter (23/iii/2008)
• Death and Progress, Diamond Head (22/iv/2007)
• Decline & Fall, Evelyn Waugh
• Dictionary of Plant Names, Allen J. Coombes
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, AC/DC
• Dirty Weekend, Helen Zahavi
• Dr. Riemann’s Zeros, Karl Sabbagh (6/viii/2007)
• Dopethrone, Electric Wizard (23/xi/2005)
• Dougal Haston: The Philosophy of Risk, Jeff Connors (27/ii/2006)
• Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey (24/vii/2007)
• Enchanting Alpine Flowers, Alfred Pohler, trans. Jacqueline Schweighofer
• Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and Flowers, Lance Hattatt (10/ii/2007)
• Enemies of Promise, Cyril Connolly
• e: The Story of a Number, Eli Maor (18/v/2005)
• Etruscan: Reading the Past, Larissa Bonfante
• Envenom, Runemagick (15/ii/2006)
• Exotic Orchids, ed. Wilma Rittershausen (10/iii/2006)
• Feline, Feline (1/vii/2006)
• A Field Guide in Colour to Wild Flowers, Dietmar Aichele, illustrated by Marianne Golte-Bechtle
• The Film Studies Reader, Joanne Hollows (ed.) et al.
• Fire on Earth: Doomsday, Dinosaurs & Humankind, John and Mary Gribbin
• Flesh Inferno: Atrocities of Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition, by Simon Whitechapel
• Football Against the Enemy, Simon Kuper
• The Football Factory Trilogy, John King
• The Fresh and Salt Water Fishes of the World, Edward C. Midgalski and George S. Fichter, illustrated by Norman Weaver (30/ix/2007)
• Fuchsias, Gerda Manthey, translated by David Christie (10/ii/2007)
• Futurism, Richard Humphreys
• The Gardener’s Book of Weeds, Mea Allan, illustr. by Victoria Matthews (22/i/2008)
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley
• Germany’s Secret Weapons in World War II, Roger Ford
• The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty, Mario Livio (10/i/2005)
• Grasses, Ferns, Mosses and Lichens of Great Britain and Ireland, Roger Phillips (3/iv/2008)
• Growing Flowers for Your Garden: A Concise Guide in Colour, Jaroslav Průcha, illustrated by František Severa, translated by Olga Kuthanová (7/iii/2007)
• The Hammer of God, Arthur C. Clarke
• Hannibal, Thomas Harris
• Haunter of the Dark, John Coulthart
• Headlong Hall / Nightmare Abbey
• A History of the Breast, Marilyn Yalom
• History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
• The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers
• How ’Bout That, Louis Jordan (6/viii/2005)
• Hungry for Stink, L7 (8/vii/2006)
• The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Marine Fish and Sea Creatures, Amy-Jane Beer and Derek Hall (13/ii/2008)
• An Illustrated Guide to Pollen Analysis, P.D. Moore and J.A. Webb (6/iii/2005)
• Illustrations of the British Flora (22/iv/2007)
• Impact Earth: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors: The Growing Threat, Austen Atkinson
• In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu (27/v/2008)
• Index on Censorship, Various
• Industrial, Pitchshifter
• Influence: Science and Practice, Robert B. Cialdini
• Into Darkness / Eternal Frost, Winter
• I Was Dora Suarez, Derek Raymond
• The Jesus Mysteries: Was the “Original Jesus” a Pagan God?, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
• Jet, Helen Muller
• The Al Jolson Collection: 20 Golden Greats (2/v/2007)
• The Joy of π, David Blatner (18/v/2005)
• Julian and Sandy: Fab Sketches from Round the Horne / The Bona World of Julian and Sandy: More Sketches from Round the Horne (22/iii/2005)
• Ken Libbrecht’s Field Guide to Snowflakes, Kenneth Libbrecht (22/i/2008)
• King of the Thrill: Alistair MacLean
• Knots: An Illustrated Practical Guide to the Essential Knot Types and their Uses, Andrew Adamides (11/ix/2007)
• The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness, Stanley Coren
• Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction, Andy Medhurst and Sally R. Munt
• Let Go, Avril Lavigne (11/ix/2006)
• Literary Theory: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton (22/vii/2005)
• Living Jewels: The Natural Design of Beetles, Poul Beckmann (29/vi/2005)
• The Lost World and Other Stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (3/iv/2008)
• Lytton Strachey: A Biography, Michael Holroyd (11/ix/2007)
• Lone Wolf: True Stories of Spree Killers, Pan Pantziarka
• Lord Gnome of the Rings: The Best of Private Eye 1976, Various (6/iii/2005)
• The Macdonald Encyclopedia of Precious Stones, Curzio Cipriani and Alessandro Borelli, trans. Valerie Palmer
• The Magic of Uri Geller, as revealed by the Amazing Randi (12/ii/2005)
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
• The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, Robert Kanigel
• Mapping the Mind, Rita Carter
• Marjorie Blamey’s Flowers of the Countryside, Philip and Marjorie Blamey, illustrated by Marjorie Blamey (10/ii/2007)
• A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, John Allen Paulos
• Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler (27/v/2008)
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid, trans. by Mary Innes (2/v/2007)
• A Mind to Crime: The Controversial Link Between the Mind and Criminal Behaviour, Ann Moir and David Jessel
• The Missing Will / A Dubious Codicil, Michael Wharton (Peter Simple) (23/ii/2005)
• The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools, David N. Pegler (22/vii/2005)
• The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, Peter Moore, illustrations by Jac Jones (sic), Josephine Martin, Nina Roberts, Kathleen Smith, Gill Tomblin (22/iii/2005)
• Monument, Grand Magus (11/ix/2006)
• Mo Mowlam: The Biography, Julia Langdon (1/xii/2005)
• Steven Patrick Morrissey (16/x/2005)
• Mötley Crüe, Decade of Decadence (24/ii/2007)
• Mountain Flowers in Colour, Anthony Huxley, illustrated by Daphne Barry and Mary Grierson (30/ix/2007)
• Music from the Crusades, Various (6/viii/2005)
• Neuclid on the Block: Transdimensionality as Modernistic Metaphor in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft, Nigel M. Goldbaum (23/ii/2008)
• Never Another Sunset, Rose of Avalanche (25/x/2005)
• The Next Best of Post-Elektronika Vol 23, Aavaante Gaarde (1/v/2004)
• On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• Orchids: A Guide to Cultivation, Dr Phillip Cribb and Christopher Bailes (10/iii/2006)
• The Oxford Companion to the Mind, Richard L. Gregory (ed.)
• Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, Gábor J. Székely (23/xi/2005)
• Pearls & Pyramids / Temples & Torments, Simon Whitechapel (23/v/2007)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Mathematics, David Wells
• Pentagram, “All Your Sins” (6/viii/2007)
• Philip’s Guide to Seashells (sic), A.P.H. Oliver, illustrated by James Nicholls (10/ii/2007)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• Platonic and Archimedean Solids: The Geometry of Space, Daud Sutton (10/iii/2006)
• Playing the Angel, Depeche Mode (11/ix/2006)
• Plumbing the Zeps: Led Zeppelin
• Pop Said, The Darling Buds (12/vi/2006)
• Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America, Edward Behr
• Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars, Margaret Wertheim
• Reader’s Digest Handboek Praktisch Tuinieren, Roy Hay, Kenneth A. Beckett, Jaap Hage
• Reader’s Digest Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain, J.R. Press et al, illustrated Leonora Box et al (13/ii/2008)
• Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, The Sundays (16/x/2005)
• Cliff Richard, 40 Golden Greats Vol 1 and 2 (24/ii/2007)
• Ruthless: The Global Rise of the Yardies, Geoff Small
• Saint Edmund Campion: Priest and Martyr, Evelyn Waugh
• Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot: Slayer
• Scented Flora of the World: An Encyclopedia, Roy Genders (11/ix/2007)
• Selected Poems, A.C. Swinburne
• A Serious Life, D.M. Mitchell
• Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour, Andrew Rawnsley
• Shells, Roderick Cameron (22/iv/2007)
• The Skeptical Enquirer, Various
• Static and Silence, The Sundays (16/iii/2006)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories to be Read with the Lights On, ed. Harold Q. Masur (23/ii/2008)
• The Surfrider, compiled by Jack Pollard (10/xi/2007)
• The Amazon Online Bookstore (UK only) (26/iii/2005)
• The Tablet, Various
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid
• The Three Hostages, John Buchan (30/ix/2007)
• Deaf Certificate, Trapped by the Dick (23/v/2007)
• Tristesse demo, Funeral (16/x/2005)
• The Troggs, Wild Thing (6/viii/2007)
• Trowbridge Public Library (26/iii/2005)
• Ukridge, P.G. Wodehouse (23/ii/2008)
• Vivaldi, Nisi Dominus, sung by James Bowman (5/v/2008)
• The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
• The Way to Dusty Death, Alistair MacLean (27/v/2008)
• What Shape Is A Snowflake? Magical Numbers in Nature, Ian Stewart (6/iii/2005)
• When She Was Bad: How and Why Women Get Away with Murder, Patricia Pearson
• Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
• White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18, Nick Lowles
• Why Men Don’t Listen And Women Can’t Read Maps: How We’re Different and What to Do About It, Allan and Barbara Pease
• Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, W. Lippert and D. Podlech, translated and adapted by Martin Walters; A Handguide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe, illustrations by Marjorie Blamey, text by Richard Fitter; Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe, Andrew Branson; The Wild Flowers Book, illustrations by Eduard Desmartini and Vera Nicova, text by Eliska Tomanová, translated by Olga Kuthanova; The Concise British Flora in Colour, W. Keble Martin (19/viii/2006)
• Wild Flowers in Britain, Geoffrey Grigson (30/ix/2007)
• Wild Flowers of the World, Paintings by Barbara Everard, text by Brian D. Morley (7/iii/2007)
• William in Trouble, Richmal Crompton (5/v/2008)
• Will This Do? The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh (21/i/2006)
• The World Atlas of Birds, ed. Sir Peter Scott, C. Hilary Fry, J.J.M. Flegg et al (5/v/2008)
• The World of Minerals, Vincenzo de Michele, line drawings by Emilio Chiusa