| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Aldiss, Brian W | Best fantasy stories | 10, incl 'Cousin Len's wonderful adjective cellar' | 1962 |
| Aldiss, Brian W | More Penguin SF | 12, incl 'Monkey wrench', 'Jokester', & 'Tunnel under world' | 1963 |
| Aldiss, Brian W | Penguin SF | 12, incl 'Grandpa', 'Nightfall' & 'Track 12' | 1961 |
| Aldiss, Brian W | Yet more Penguin SF | 12, incl 'Wall around world', 'Protected species', 'I made you' | 1964 |
| Amis, Kingsley | Golden Age of SF | 17, incl 'Xi effect', 'Tunnel under the world', 'Student body' | 1981 |
| Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, R | Spectrum 1 | 10, incl 'By his bootstraps', 'Midas Plague', 'Null-P' | 1961 |
| Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, R | Spectrum 2 | 8, incl 'Beyond Bedlam', 'Sense from thought divide', 'Bridge' | 1962 |
| Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, R | Spectrum 3 | 8, incl 'Killdozer!', 'Dreams are sacred', 'The Sentinel' | 1963 |
| Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, R | Spectrum 4 | 14, incl 'Marching Morons', 'Planet named Shayol', 'Large ant' | 1965 |
| Amis, Kingsley; Conquest, R | Spectrum 5 | 8, incl 'Student Body', 'Noise level', 'Mother of invention' | 1966 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Hugo winners | 9, incl 'Allamagoosa', 'The Star', 'Flowers for Algernon' | 1962 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Hugo winners 1963-1967 | 6, incl 'Neutron star' 'Soldier, ask not' | 1971 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Hugo winners 1968-1970 | 8, incl 'Weyr search', 'I have no mouth, and I must scream' | 1971 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Tomorrow's children | 18, incl 'Star bright', 'Gilead' & 'It's a good life' | 1966 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Where do we go from here? #1 | 8, incl 'Surface tension', '--and he built a crooked house--' | 1971 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Where do we go from here? #2 | 9, incl 'Omnilingual', 'Deep Range' | 1971 |
| Asimov, Isaac; Greenberg | Golden Years of SF (6th series) | 33 from 1949/50 incl 'Karres' 'Mobius' 'Hurkle' 'Cold war' | 1984 |
| Asimov, Isaac; Jeppson, J | Laughing space | 65+, incl 'Coffin Cure' 'MS fnd in a lbry' & many cartoons | 1982 |
| Asimov; Greenberg; Olander | 100 great SF short shorts | Averaging just over 2 pages each | 1978 |
| Belmont | Masters of SF | 7, incl 'Boomer Dukes', 'Early bird', 'Green thumb' | 1964 |
| Belmont | Pair from space | Still unread! | 195? |
| Benford, Gregory | New Hugo Winners, Volume IV | 9 from 1991 - 1993, incl Asimov: 'Gold' | 1997 |
| Bleiler, F; Dikty, TE | Imagination Unlimited | 6, incl 'What dead men tell', 'Old Faithful' | 1964 |
| Blish, James | Nebula 05 award stories | 6, incl 'A boy & his dog', 'Not long before the end' | 1970 |
| Boardman Jr, Tom | ABC of SF | 24, incl 'Let's be Frank', 'Family resemblance' | 1966 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril | SF reprise 3 | 23, incl 'Anita', 'Escapism', 'The charm' | 1967 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril | SF reprise 4 | 13, incl 'The Jennifer', 'War at Foxhanger' | 1967 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril | SF reprise 6 | 13, incl 'The Middle Earth', 'Xenophilia' | 1967 |
| Bova, Ben | SF hall of fame #2 | 10, incl 'Universe', 'Marching morons', 'Baby is three' | 1973 |
| Bulmer, Kenneth | NWSF #25 | 9, incl 'Black hole of Negrav' | 1975 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 1 | 8, incl 'Monument' & 'Join our gang?' | 1963 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 2 | 8, incl 'Ethical quotient' & 'Novice' | 1964 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 3 | 8, incl 'World by the tale', 'Thin edge' & 'Hilifter' | 1965 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 4 (aka Permanent Implosion) | 7, incl 'Marie Celeste move' & 'A case of identity' | 1965 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 5 (aka Countercommandment) | 9, incl 'Computers don't argue' & 'Overproof' | 1966 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 6 | 14, incl 'Light of other days' & '...not a prison make' | 1967 |
| Campbell, John W | Analog 7 | 11, incl 'Weyr search' & 'There is a crooked man' | 1968 |
| Campbell, John W | Astounding SF anthology: #1 | 11, incl. 'Meihem in ce klasrum', 'E for Effort', 'Blowups happen' | 1952 |
| Campbell, John W | Astounding SF anthology: #2 | 12, incl. 'Child's play', 'Last enemy', 'Protected species' | 1952 |
| Campbell, John W | Prologue to Analog | 10, incl 'Omnilingual' & 'Minor ingredient' | 1962 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #03 | 8, incl 'Subways of Tazoo', 'The fiend' | 1964 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #07 | 7, incl 'Invader', 'Manscarer' | 1966 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #08 | 6, incl 'The pen and the dark', 'Synth' | 1966 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #12 | 6, incl 'Cloudbuilders', 'Vertigo' | 1968 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #14 | 7, incl 'Blood brother', 'Ballad of Luna Lil' | 1969 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #16 | 6, incl 'Getaway from Getawehi', 'Meatball' | 1969 |
| Carnell, John (Ted) | NWSF #18 | 7, incl 'Major operation' | 1970 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | SF hall of fame 4 | 16 Nebula award winners from 1965 - 1969 | 1981 |
| Conklin, Groff | 13 above the night | Incl 'Idiot solvant', 'Counter security', 'Prone' | 1965 |
| Conklin, Groff | Elsewhere and elsewhen | 9, incl 'How allied', 'Trouble tide', 'Earthman's burden' | 1968 |
| Conklin, Groff | Great SF by scientists | 16, incl 'Neutrino Bomb', 'John Sze's future' | 1962 |
| Conklin, Groff | Seven come infinity | Incl 'Panic button', 'Discontinuity', 'Servant problem' | 1966 |
| Conklin, Groff | Seven trips through time and space | Incl 'Flatlander', 'Overproof', 'Ministry of Disturbance' | 1968 |
| Conklin, Groff; Fabricant, N | Great SF about doctors | 18, incl 'Emergency operation', 'Shopdropper' | 1963 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF | 14, incl 'Ruum' | 1955 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF 2 | 14, incl 'Placet is a crazy place' | 1956 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF 3 | 11, incl 'Four in one' | 1958 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF 4 | 10, incl 'Subway named Moebius' and 'Flowers for Algernon' | 1961 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF 5 | 11, incl 'Noise level', 'The prisoner' | 1956 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF 6 | 14, incl 'Waitabits' | 1966 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Best SF 7 | 12, incl 'Coffin cure' | 1970 |
| Datlow, Ellen; Winding, T | Black thorn, white rose | 18, incl 'Sawing boys', 'Ashputtle' | 1994 |
| Datlow, Ellen; Winding, T | Snow white, blood red | 21, incl 'Frog prince', 'Puss' | 1993 |
| DeGraeff, Allen | Human and other beings | 16, including 'Test piece', 'Down among the dead men' | 1963 |
| Derleth, August | Beachheads in space | 7, incl 'Metamorphosite', 'Repetition' | 1952 |
| Derleth, August | Other side of the moon | 10, incl 'Spiro', 'Memorial', 'Cure' | 1949 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Again, Dangerous visions #1 | 19, including 'The word for world is forest', 'Big space fuck' | 1972 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Again, Dangerous Visions #2 | 23, including 'Getting along', 'Milk of Paradise' | 1972 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Dangerous visions | 33, classic, but now rather 'ordinary' seeming | 1967 |
| Elwood, R; Silverberg, R | Epoch | 24, including 'ARM', 'Dogtown tourist agency', 'Durance' | 1975 |
| Elwood, Roger | Six SF plays | Includes original version of 'City on the edge of forever' | 1976 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Kramer, Ed | Sandman: book of dreams | (Text) stories based in the Sandman worlds | 1996 |
| Haining, Peter | Wizards of Odd | Comic fantasy anthology | 1997 |
| Harrison, Harry | JW Campbell memorial anthology | 13, including 'Thiotimoline to the stars', 'Brothers' | 1973 |
| Hay, George | Edward de Bono SF collection | A 2-page intro doesn't earn credit as the editor! | 1976 |
| Knight, Damon | Century of great short SF novels | 5, including 'Gulf', 'E for effort', 'Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde' | 1964 |
| Knight, Damon | Thirteen French SF stories | Including 'Devil's goddaughter', 'Vana' | 1965 |
| Malzberg; Greenberg et al | Neglected visions | Clifton, Anvil, Guin, Neville, Garrett, Phillips, Kagan, Wallace | 1979 |
| Moorcock, Michael | Best of New Worlds | 15, including 'Tableau', 'Railways up on Cannis', 'I see you' | 1965 |
| Moorcock, Michael | Traps of time | 10, including 'How to construct a time machine' | 1968 |
| Parry, Michel | Superheroes | 13, including 'Stuporman', 'Satyr-man', 'Easy way out' | 1978 |
| Parry, Michel; Subotsky, M | Sex in the 21st century | 14, including 'A trick or two', 'The Vana', 'The crooked man' | 1979 |
| Pohl, Frederik; Pohl, C | SF: the great years | 7, including 'Little black bag', 'Placet is a crazy place' | 1973 |
| Sallis, James | War book | 13, including (of course!) 'Crab apple crisis', 'The weapon' | 1969 |
| Santesson, Hans Stefan | Fantastic Universe omnibus | 19, including 'Amazing Mrs Mimms', 'Velvet glove', 'Mex' | 1960 |
| Scithers, GH; Schweitzer, D | Tales from the Spaceport Bar | 22, including 'Green marauder', 'For a foggy night' | 1987 |
| Shippey, Tom | Oxford book of science fiction stories | 30, from early Wells, to recent Brin | 1992 |
| Silverberg, Robert | SF hall of fame #1 | 26, including 'Cold equations', 'First contact', 'Arena' | 1970 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Voyagers in Time | 12, & brief notes, including 'Wrong-way Street', 'Flux' | 1967 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Worlds of wonder | 13 hand-picked stories wrapped in his essays on the craft | 1987 |
| Sloane, William | Stories for tomorrow | 22, including 'Noise level', 'First contact', 'Beep' | 1954 |
| Stewart, Alex | Arrows of Eros | 16, including 'Odd attachment', 'Mela worms' | 1989 |
| Stone, Idella Purnell | Fourteen great tales of ESP | 13, including 'What thin partitions' + item by EF Russell | 1969 |
| Warner, Marina | Wonder Tales | 6 from round the globe | 1994 |
| Wilson, Robin Scott | Those who can | An SF reader; stories & critiques by their authors | 1973 |
| Wollheim, D; Carr, T | World's best SF 1 | 16, incl Kapp, Ellison, Niven. Bought in Oxford | 1969 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Allen, J; Holden, J | Home Artist | DIY techniques | 1979 |
| Anonymous | Lover's alphabet | Nicely-illustrated little tome | 1991 |
| Arwas, Victor | Felicien Rops | Belgian erotic artist of considerable skill | 1972 |
| Baglee, C; Morley, A | Art of Street Jewellery | Morley is an artist friend of Tom Grieve | 2006 |
| Ballivet, Suzanne | EPS: Initiation amoureuse | #641: her scorching illustrations. 1994 printing | 1943 |
| Barthelmeh, Volker | Street murals | Some fine off-the-wall stuff on the walls | 1982 |
| Bayley, Stephen | Sex: the Erotic Review | Essentially an expanded EPS catalogue! | 2001 |
| Baynes, Ken | Art and society: sex | Idiosyncratic | 1972 |
| Beagle, Peter S | Garden of Earthly Delights (Bosch) | Good | 1982 |
| Benedict, Brad | Blue Book: modern erotic art | Some excellent work | 1983 |
| Benedict, Brad | Love: the art of romance | Nice art | 1981 |
| Bentley, Richard | Erotic art | Nice, albeit tame, selection | 1984 |
| Berona, David A | Eric Gill's Masterpieces of wood engraving | 250 examples in a nice Dover edition | 2013 |
| Bertrand, Raymond | Drawings of Bertrand | On cover of Oz schoolkids issue | 1971 |
| Black, Candice | Heat: erotic art, literature & photos | Bought in Compendium, Camden. Well weird | 1997 |
| Blinkhorn, Annie | EPS: Illustrated book of oral sex | Mouth-watering, of course | 2002 |
| Brett, Simon (2) | Forty nudes: wood engravings | Exquisite selection, incl. Gwen Raverat, Gill, le Campion | 1988 |
| Brophy, Brigid | Black and White: Aubrey Beardsley | 44 plates, each analysed | 1968 |
| Brower, Steven | Breathless homicidal slime mutants | The art of the (largely pulp) paperback | 2010 |
| Brown, Curtis F | Star-spangled kitsch | Just wonderful. Who said kitsch is bad? | 1975 |
| Brunn, Ludwig von | Amorous Drawings of Marquis von Bayros | Tracked down after 24+ years via Tyson's Books | 1968 |
| Buckland, Elfreda | World of Donald McGill | That man could draw English humour | 1984 |
| Buckley, Paul | Classic Penguin: cover to cover | Beautiful survey of Penguin's cover art and book design | 2016 |
| Buechner, Thomas S | Norman Rockwell: a 60 year retrospective | Soft-edged imagery of a cosy world | 1972 |
| Burton, Peter | Pillow book: art of gay love | Predictable little selection | 1995 |
| Calloway, Stephen | Aubrey Beardsley | By curator of the Centenary exhibition. Wonderful | 1998 |
| Carandente, Giovanni | Balthus: drawings and watercolours | Some gems | 1983 |
| Cawthorne, Nigel | Secrets of love: erotic arts thru the ages | Surprisingly good; tasty selection, certainly | 1997 |
| Civardi, Giovanni | Drawing the female nude | Gorgeous sketches & advice, overlaid with gentle eroticism | 1992 |
| Claridge, Elizabeth | Mel Ramos | Nice survey | 1975 |
| Claridge, Laura | Tamara de Lempicka: life of deco & .. | .. decadence. With a vengeance | 1999 |
| Cohn, Nik; Peellaert, Guy | 20th Century Dreams | Montages coupling some extremely unlikely icons | 1999 |
| Cole, B; Durack, R | Railway Posters, 1923 - 1947 | From National Railway Museum, York. Excellent range | 1992 |
| Collins, Judith | Eric Gill: sculpture | Lovely stuff | 1992 |
| Combalía, Victoria | Jardín de eros | Barcelona Exhibition catalogue of erotic art | 1999 |
| Constance, Diana | Life drawing class | 20+ lessons & some gorgeous examples | 1991 |
| Cook, Beryl | Beryl Cook's New York | Cheerful dancers, joggers, cops, culture addicts etc | 1985 |
| Cook, Beryl | Bumper Edition | Eight books' worth of her paintings | 2000 |
| Cook, Beryl | Works | Naive paintings of roly-polys | 1978 |
| Cooper, G; Sargent, D | Painting the town | Murals in the UK | 1979 |
| Cribb, Ruth and Joe | Eric Gill: lust for letter and line | From British Museum Press. Nice little overview | 2011 |
| Curtis, Annette | Erotic antiques | Lovely little items & piles of kitsch, too | 1990 |
| Curtis, Tony; Taylor, ED | 20th Century antiques | Supposedly desirable collectibles | 1989 |
| Dali | Dali by Dali | During my Dali phase | 1970 |
| de Berardinis, Olivia | Let them eat cheesecake | Wonderful erotic artist | 1993 |
| de Berardinis, Olivia | Second slice | Of cheesecake, that is | 1997 |
| de la Serna, Ramon Gomez | Dali | Good coverage | 1977 |
| de Rola, Stanislas K | Balthus | Good selection of 80 plates | 1983 |
| de Rola, Stanislas K | Balthus | Updates & enlarges on the 1983 edition (107 plates) | 1996 |
| de Sainte-Croix, Georges | EPS: Clayton's College | #100: text by Connie O'Hara - who she? | 195? |
| de Smedt, Marc | Chinese art of loving | Nice imagery | 1980 |
| de Smedt, Marc | Kama-Sutra: erotic figures in Indian art | Curiously unerotic | 1980 |
| Delaye, Laurent | EPS: Master of the College Nurse | Concocted story to accompany 1950s art | 2005 |
| Descharnes, Robert | Dali catalogue 1920-1980 | Comprehensive | 1979 |
| Descharnes, Robert | World of Salvador Dali | Good; my apprenticeship prize | 1972 |
| Descharnes, Robert; Néret, G | Dali | Taschen anniversary edition | 2006 |
| Descharnes, Robert; Néret, G | Dali: the paintings | Taschen comprehensiveness rules, OK! 2001 reprint | 1993 |
| Döpp, Hans-Jürgen | Encyclopedia of Erotica | Sumptuous, but marred by typos & translation errors | 2005 |
| Döpp, Hans-Jürgen | In praise of the backside | Proletariat of body parts, indeed | 2003 |
| Döpp, Hans-Jürgen | Objects of Desire: eroticism of touch | Sex objects and sex toys | 2001 |
| Döpp, Hans-Jürgen | Sadomasochism: ecstasies of the whip | 171,000 hits on Google, begorrah, but they miss the pun | 2003 |
| Döpp, Hans-Jürgen | Sapphic Art | Marred by some grotesque typos (Frank von Bayros?!) | 2003 |
| Döpp, Hans-Jürgen | Temple of Venus: Sex museum, Amsterdam | Includes yet another Tauzin | 2001 |
| Dorfles, Gillo | Kitsch: an anthology of bad taste | My own taste developed early, I note | 1968 |
| Doyle, Tim | UnReal Estate: iconic Pop Culture locations | Realised by a talented artist. Present for 65th | 2016 |
| Eichenberg, Fritz | Masterpieces of lithography & silkscreen | Not sure I entirely agree | 1976 |
| Ellridge, Arthur | Mucha: triumph of Art Nouveau | Sumptuously illustrated & workmanlike survey | 1992 |
| English, Michael | Anatomy of illusion | More airbrush super-realism | 1989 |
| English, Ron | Popaganda: art & subversion | Cartoon-based cultural subverting | 2001 |
| Ernst, Bruno | Magic mirror of M C Escher | Brilliant (but I'm biased) | 1976 |
| Erotic Print Society | EPS: Catalogue | 1996 set of available & proposed offerings | 1996 |
| Escher, MC | Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite | 120 pictures & Escher's own words about them | 1986 |
| Escher, MC | Graphic work of M C Escher | Great stuff | 1972 |
| Escher, MC | Pop-up book of M C Escher | Ascending/descending, Hands, puddle, reflecting sphere, Moebius | 1991 |
| Essers, Volkmar | Matisse | Taschen overview | 1989 |
| Evans, Tom & Mary Anne | Shunga: Japanese erotic art | Includes infamous Hokusai octopus; bought in WH Smith! | 1975 |
| Ferrara, Lidia Guibert | Reclining Nude | About 130 examples of this specialist genre | 2002 |
| Ferrero, Carlo Scipione | Eros: an erotic journey thru the senses | Excellent, picked up in Salisbury | 1988 |
| Fischer, Wolfgang Georg | Egon Schiele: desire and decay | Typical Taschen thoroughness in illustrated life story | 1999 |
| Ford, Emily | EPS: Emily Ford's pillow book | Their secretary comes on strong! | 2002 |
| Forrer, Matthi | Hokusai | Beautiful overview, albeit French text | 1996 |
| Fowkes, Charles | Pillow Book: Eastern erotica | Christa bought me this in Covent Garden | 1988 |
| Francis, Clive | Laugh lines: theatrical caricatures | Skilled portraits | 1989 |
| Franklin, Constance | Erotic art by living artists | Not very inspired | 1988 |
| Frazetta, Frank | Fantastic art of Frank Frazetta 1 | Not so fantastic | 1975 |
| Frazetta, Frank | Fantastic art of Frank Frazetta 2 | Muscles, dripping fangs and bosoms, basically | 1977 |
| Frazetta, Frank | Frazetta pillow book | Charming contrast | 1994 |
| Froud, Brian | Land of Froud | Elves | 1977 |
| Gablik, Suzi | Magritte | Sensible survey by knowledgeable critic | 1970 |
| Gabor, Mark | Art of the calendar | OK | 1976 |
| Gaiman, Neil; McKean, Dave | Dustcovers: Sandman covers, 1989-1997 | New story + commentary by Gaiman, & McKean's colour artwork | 1997 |
| Garner, Phillipe | Contemporary decorative arts | Good overview | 1980 |
| Gaunt, William | Surrealists | Large format. I still find Delvaux erotic! | 1972 |
| Gerard, Max | Dali...Dali...Dali... | OK...OK...OK... | 1974 |
| Gerhard, Poul | Pillow Book: history of naughty pictures | Companion piece. Some excellent Bayros, incidentally | 1971 |
| Gerhard, Poul | Pornography or Art? | Good survey during a brief freedom of expression | 1968 |
| Giger, HR | HR Giger's film design | All the usual suspects | 1996 |
| Giger, HR | Necronomicon | Alienated before 'Alien' | 1977 |
| Giger, HR | A Rh+ | Weird | 1991 |
| Giger, HR | www HR Giger com | Giger meets Taschen books, but designs his own | 1997 |
| Gill, Eric | Engravings | Wonderful & weighty retrospective | 1990 |
| Gill, Eric | Twenty five nudes | Wonderful, wonderfully simple etchings | 1938 |
| Gill, Robert W | Rendering with pen and ink | Excellent examples (revised edition, 1984) | 1973 |
| Goss, Michael R | EPS: Young lusty sluts! | Pictorial history of erotic pulp fiction & cover artwork | 2004 |
| Grafton, Carol B | 1001 spot illustrations of the lively 20s | OK | 1986 |
| Grafton, Carol B | Naughty French spot illustrations | Useful | 1989 |
| Grafton, Carol B | Optical designs in motion (Moire) | OK | 1976 |
| Grant, Michael; Mulas, A | Eros in Pompeii | Erotic art from museum of Naples | 1974 |
| Grosz, George | Ecce Homo: 100 drawings | Banned for its political criticism, not its nudes | 1976 |
| Guedras, Annie | Jean Cocteau: erotic drawings | Taschen does it again: 140 or so sketches of large lads | 1999 |
| Guégan, Stéphane | Ingres: erotic drawings | Making hay with forbidden imagery of 16th century | 2006 |
| Guerrilla Girls | Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls | Masked avengers fighting sexism & racism in the art world | 1995 |
| Guevara, Monica | EPS: Six works on paper | #276: delicately indelicate pastels | 1996 |
| Guptill, Arthur L | Norman Rockwell: illustrator | OK | 1970 |
| Hamilton, James | Arthur Rackham | Nicely produced overview | 1990 |
| Hamilton, James | William Heath Robinson | Lovely summary; lovely edition, too | 1992 |
| Harding, Mike | Little Book of Gargoyles | From Roger Figg | 1998 |
| Harper, Clifford | Country Diary drawings | 26 beautifully simple pictures, many from the Grauniad | 2003 |
| Haslam, Malcolm | Salvador Dali portfolio | OK | 1978 |
| Haught, James A | Art of love-making: illustrated tribute | Pleasant collection of monochrome pictures | 1992 |
| Heller, Steven; Oberg, Rich | Men's Adventure Magazines | Low culture from Taschen | 2008 |
| Henderson, S; Landau, R | Billboard art | OK | 1980 |
| Hendrickson, Janis | Lichtenstein | Taschen overview | 1993 |
| Hennig, Jean-Luc | Rear View | Brief & elegant history of bottoms | 1995 |
| Hersey, George L | Evolution of Allure: sexual selection... | .. from Medici Venus to Incredible Hulk | 1996 |
| Hess, TB; Nochlin, L | Woman as sex object: erotic art 1730-1970 | Worthy, dull, & unerotic | 1972 |
| Hill, C; Wallace, W | Illustrated anthology of erotica #1 | Excellent selection, initially 'anonymous' | 1992 |
| Hill, C; Wallace, W | Illustrated anthology of erotica #2 | Excellent follow-up | 1993 |
| Hill, C; Wallace, W | Illustrated anthology of erotica #3 | Excellent, & has my 13th Tauzin (bought in Danbury Mall) | 1996 |
| Hillier, Bevis | 100 years of posters | 21st birthday present from Leigh | 1972 |
| Hillier, Bevis | Austerity binge: arts of the 40s and 50s | Interesting overview | 1975 |
| Hillier, Bevis; McIntyre, K | Style of the Century (2nd ed) | Actually, new chapter is by Kate McIntyre | 1998 |
| Hofstatter, Hans H | Art Nouveau: prints, posters etc | Very nice selection | 1968 |
| Hogarth, Burne | Dynamic light and shade | Skilful examples | 1981 |
| Holdsworth, S; Crossley, J | Innocence and Experience | Images of children in British Art; 1600 to the present | 1992 |
| Hopkinson, Martin | Ex Libris: the art of bookplates | From British Museum Press. Nice little overview | 2011 |
| Hughes, Robert | Shock of the New | Australian's insightful take on European art | 1980 |
| Humphries, Barry | Treasury of Australian kitsch | Brill, possums | 1980 |
| Jackson, Lawrence | EPS: Illustrated book of breasts | Rise & fall of the bosom | 1999 |
| Jacobs, Michael | Nude painting | OKish | 1979 |
| Johns, Catherine | British Museum Little Book of Erotica | Tiny little tome | 1997 |
| Johns, Catherine | Sex or symbol? | Erotic images of Greece & Rome; bought at Fishbourne Palace! | 1982 |
| Jones, B; Ouellette, W | Erotic postcards | OK, but uninspired | 1977 |
| Jones, Jeffrey | Age of Innocence: his romantic art | Same guy who did 'Idyl' in National Lampoon | 1994 |
| Jones, Jeffrey | Idyl | As in 'National Lampoon' | 1979 |
| Jones, Jeffrey | Sketchbook | Sketches plus an extended conversation | 2000 |
| Jones, Kaluta et al | Studio | Includes some of Vaughan Bodé's Purple Pictography | 1979 |
| Jones, Nicolette | Raymond Briggs - Blooming Books | Interesting retrospective | 2003 |
| Kent, Sarah; Morreau, J | Women's images of men | Based on 1980 ICA exhibition | 1985 |
| Kent, Sarah; Morreau, J | Women's images of men (revised ed) | Adds index & contributors' notes | 1990 |
| Klanten, Robert et al | All allure: eroticism outside mainstream | Photos, collages, drawings & paintings | 2006 |
| Klimt, Gustav | Erotic drawings | Huge! Limited edition, nicely done | 1979 |
| Kobayashi, Tadashi | Utamaro: great Japanese art | Great, wonderful images | 1982 |
| Koons, Jeff | Jeff Koons | Room-sized anal sex, Ganz in Farben! | 1992 |
| Kozloff, Joyce | Patterns of desire | Clever reworkings of various famous erotic artworks | 1990 |
| Kranzfelder, Ivo | Hopper | Taschen anniversary edition | 2006 |
| Kronhausen, P & E | L'Art Erotique: 2nd international show | Catalogue; my first exposure to Mario Tauzin | 1969 |
| Kronhausen, P & E | Complete book of erotic art | Two-volume omnibus, bought in Slough. Excellent | 1978 |
| Kronhausen, P & E | International Museum of erotic art | San Francisco mini catalogue, & my second Tauzin | 1973 |
| Krystof, Doris | Modigliani | Taschen overview | 1996 |
| Lambirth, Andrew | Allen Jones (pocket library of art) | 23 miniature images & accompanying commentary | 1997 |
| Lanes, Selma G | Art of Maurice Sendak | Unique; bought in Putney on my last trip to ICL's HQ | 1980 |
| Larkin, David | Dali | Another long time favourite | 1974 |
| Larkin, David | Magritte | An early favourite; amazing images | 1972 |
| Larsson, Carl | Das Haus in Der Sonne | From Mutti | 1922 |
| Larsson, Carl | Paintings (edited, David Larkin) | Christa & Mutti share my liking for this | 1976 |
| Lattimore, Colin R | Erotic bookplates: an introduction | Great stuff; simple & often overlooked | 1990 |
| Leaning, Ray | EPS: Muse, the art of Ray Leaning | Reminiscent of Sorayama & Aslan | 2004 |
| Leeman, Fred | Hidden images: anamorphic art | Cylindrical mirror required | 1975 |
| Leman, Martin | Lovely ladies | Somewhat reminiscent of Beryl Cook | 2005 |
| Levin, Gail | Edward Hopper: art and the artist | Sometimes very bleak, but compelling | 1980 |
| Levine, Nancy Bruning | Hardcore crafts: erotic artworks | Amusing range of oddities | 1976 |
| Leydolt, Maria Gabriela | Kama sutra | From Georg! | 2001 |
| Leymarie, Jean | Balthus | Good | 1982 |
| Locher, J L | Escher: the complete graphic work | As described! | 1981 |
| Locher, JL | World of M C Escher | Good | 1971 |
| Lorenzoni, Piero | English eroticism | OK of its genre | 1984 |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward | Ars Erotica | Nicely-balanced textual & pictorial history of erotic art | 1997 |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward | Body: images of the nude | Good | 1981 |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward | Cultural calendar of the 20th century | Useful survey | 1979 |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward | Eroticism in Western Art | First edition, notable for many curious major omissions | 1972 |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward | Sexuality in Western art (2nd edition) | Revamped, but not really much! Better paper | 1991 |
| Ludwig, Coy | Maxfield Parrish | Nice to see | 1973 |
| MacCarthy, Fiona | Stanley Spencer: an English Vision | Excellent survey of his life, art, and extra-curricular energies | 1997 |
| Maclean, J; Hobart, T | Forbidden library: erotic illustration | Excellent exhibition catalogue from 'Private Case' | 1986 |
| Maillol, Aristide | Erotic woodcuts | Another from Dover | 1988 |
| Maillol, Aristide | Nudes: 35 lithographs | Nice Dover reprint | 1980 |
| Maitland, Oliver | EPS: Illustrated book of 'country matters' | A discursive ramble around the female pudenda | 2000 |
| Maitland, Oliver | EPS: Illustrated book of bottoms | Miniature cheeky gem, fundamentally | 1996 |
| Mandel, Gabriele | Poem of the pillow: Japanese methods | Nice enough | 1984 |
| Manning, Lee | EPS: Illustrated book of anal sex | Mixture has gone with jokey captions this time | 2003 |
| Marbeck, Georges | Orgies | Illustrated history -- if that's possible | 1999 |
| Marlborough Fine Art | Magritte (retrospective catalogue) | Wonderfully weird stuff from the Master | 1973 |
| Marling, Karal Ann | Rockwell | Taschen tackles our Norman | 2005 |
| Marlow, Tim | Rodin | Stone me! | 1992 |
| Martin, Gregory | Canaletto: Paintings, Drawings & Etchings | Folio Society | 1967 |
| McDonald, Dee | EPS: Purple Pillow Book | More in Emily Ford's mould | 2003 |
| Meuris, Jacques | Magritte | Typically Taschen thoroughness | 1998 |
| Misstear, C; Scott-Harman, H | Advanced airbrush book | Good | 1984 |
| Moebius (Jean Giraud) | Art of Moebius | Great stylist | 1989 |
| Mounce, DC | Art of Franz von Bayros | 48 pages for now | 1997 |
| Murphy, Julian | EPS: Singular art of Julian Murphy | Cool hi-tech graphic erotica | 1999 |
| Nagel, Patrick | Nagel: the art of Patrick Nagel | Playboy's artist; distinctive & stylish | 1989 |
| Nash, Elizabeth; Fox, R | Pleasures of Love: erotic guide to senses | Beautifully-illustrated themed tour of erotic art | 1995 |
| Néret, Gilles | Aubrey Beardsley | Well-illustrated biographical overview | 1998 |
| Néret, Gilles | Balthus | aka King of Cats, it seems | 2003 |
| Néret, Gilles | Erotic art | Oddly cold survey from Taschen | 1993 |
| Néret, Gilles | Erotica 20th Century Volume I | Mini Taschen | 2000 |
| Néret, Gilles | Erotica 20th Century Volume II | Mini Taschen | 2001 |
| Néret, Gilles | Erotica Universalis | Excellent Taschen 'brick book' (2 copies!) | 1994 |
| Néret, Gilles | Erotica Universalis, volume II | Takes more time on individual artists | 2000 |
| Néret, Gilles | Klimt | Taschen overview | 2000 |
| Néret, Gilles | Matisse | Taschen anniversary edition | 2006 |
| Néret, Gilles | Michelangelo | Taschen overview | 2000 |
| Néret, Gilles | Pussycats | Taschen having at country affairs | 2003 |
| Néret, Gilles | Tamara de Lempicka | Typical Taschen mini survey | 1991 |
| Norden, Greg | Landscapes under the luggage racks | Tears-inspiringly nostalgic views of Britain | 2001 |
| O'Connor, Patrick | Toulouse-Lautrec: nightlife of Paris | Includes my favourite image - Two Friends | 1991 |
| Oakley, Graham | Magical changes | Clever combinations of artwork laid out with split pages | 1979 |
| Oka, Isaburo | Hiroshige: great Japanese art | Beautifully coloured stylised landscapes & vistas | 1982 |
| Olley, Michelle | Ars Erotica: best modern erotic art | She has a good eye for Eros | 2005 |
| Ovenden, Graham; Davis, J | Illustrators of 'Alice in Wonderland' | Simply far too short | 1979 |
| Paquet, Marcel | Magritte | Taschen overview | 1992 |
| Payne, Laura | Essential Klimt | 250 page study, well-illustrated | 2000 |
| Pearce, Chris | 20th Century Design Classics | Photographic survey from Anglepoise to Zippo | 1991 |
| Pearsall, Ronald | Tell me, pretty maiden | Victorian & Edwardian nudes | 1981 |
| Perry, Steve A | Martin Van Maele: Illustrated Bibliographical.. | .. Checklist of a fairly obscure artist | 2014 |
| Piper, David | Great Traditions | Two-page spread approach to art. Book Club offer | 1981 |
| Piper, David | New horizons | Book Club offer | 1981 |
| Piper, David | Understanding Art | Book Club offer | 1981 |
| Postle, Martin; Vaughan, W | Artist's model: from Etty to Spencer | For York's 1999 exhibition: all the nudes fit to print :-) | 1999 |
| Potter, JK | Neurotica: images of the bizarre | Some nice, weird images & montages akin to Bellmer | 1996 |
| Poulton, Tom | EPS: An Artist's Secret Sketchbook | #201: second excellent volume, also assembled by AJ Maclean | 1999 |
| Poulton, Tom | EPS: Secret art of Tom Poulton | #367: assembled by AJ Maclean; prosecutable art of 1940s/50s | 1998 |
| Poulton, Tom | EPS: The Lost Drawings | #253: probably final collection - superb | 2000 |
| Poulton, Tom (ed D Hanson) | Tom Poulton: secret art of an English.. | ..gentleman. Nice, one-volume collection | 2006 |
| Poulton, Tom (ed D Hanson) | Tom Poulton: secret art of an English.. | ..gentleman. Sacrificial copy for scanning | 2012 |
| Prestel Verlag | Egon Schiele: erotic sketches | Somewhat tortured style | 2005 |
| Prestel Verlag | Gustav Klimt: erotic sketches | Always a favourite | 2005 |
| Puvogel, Renate | Carl Larsson: watercolours and drawings | Lovely stuff | 1994 |
| Ramos, Mel | Postcards | 30 examples | 1994 |
| Raverat, Gwen | Wood engravings | One of JL Carr's miniature masterpieces | 2003 |
| Rawson, Philip | Oriental erotic art | Nothing special | 1981 |
| Re/search | Re/search #11: pranks! | In this context, performance art would be nearer | 1987 |
| Rego, Paula | Nursery rhymes | Idiosyncratically illustrated | 1994 |
| Reichardt, Jasia | Computer in Art | Early examples from the I.C.A. | 1971 |
| Renner, Rolf G | Hopper | Taschen overview | 2000 |
| Revens, Lee | Felicien Rops: the graphic work | Belgian erotic artist | 1975 |
| Rippon, Max | Sex Design | Includes Crumb, Julian Murphy, Underhill's Bad Taste Bears etc | 2006 |
| Rodin | Aquarelles et dessins erotiques | A surprisingly delicate touch | 1996 |
| Rogoyska, Jane | Klimt | Nicely-annotated little guide & overview | 1999 |
| Rojankovski, Feodor | Spring romance | 30 'libertine drawings' dating from 1934 | 2000 |
| Rosenblum, Robert | Mel Ramos: pop art images | Ramos claims to avoid work that's 'overly erotic' | 1994 |
| Rowlands, John | Bosch's Garden of earthly delights | I bought 3 to take apart & mount. Far too weird to finish! | 1977 |
| Rowlandson, Thomas | Amorous illustrations | A Bibliophile special of pictures in HM Queen's collection | 1983 |
| Russell, James | Ravilious: full-length critical study | Coinciding with Dulwich Picture Gallery exhibition | 2015 |
| Russell, Lynn Paula | EPS: Illustrated book of corporal... | ..punishment | 2002 |
| Russell, Lynn Paula | EPS: Illustrative art of Lynn P Russell | #220: scorching pencil & crayon works | 1997 |
| Russell, Lynn Paula | EPS: painful pleasures | Whacking in the Western World | 2004 |
| Russell, Lynn Paula | EPS: Sexual Odyssey | #118: largely bandes dessinée | 2000 |
| Ryan, Paul et al | EPS: Sins of our Fathers | #307: study in Victorian pornography | 2000 |
| Salaman, Naomi | What she wants: women artists look at men | A neat reversal of erotic traditions plus good essays | 1994 |
| Saunders, Gill | Nude: a new perspective | Accompanying the 1989 V&A exhibition; nicely done | 1989 |
| Schattschneider, D et al | MC Escher kaleidocycles | Make it yourself paperwork | 1977 |
| Schjeldahl, Peter | Eric Fischl | Over-priced, I now think! | 1988 |
| Schwartz, Gary | Jheronimus Bosch: the road to Heaven and Hell | Comprehensive and sumptuous introduction to this visionary art | 2016 |
| Screech, Timon | Sex & the Floating World: erotic images... | .. in Japan, 1700 - 1820 | 1999 |
| Selsdon, Esther | Leonor Fini | Nice overview of her erotic Surrealism | 1999 |
| Sendak, Maurice | Posters | Glorious | 1986 |
| Sewell, Brian | Naked Emperors: criticisms of English.. | .. contemporary art. (He's largely agin it!) | 2012 |
| Simpson, Milton | Folk erotica: celebrating centuries of... | .. erotic Americana. Untrained artists | 1994 |
| Smith, Alison et al | Exposed: the Victorian Nude | Sumptuous accompaniment to Tate's 2001 exhibition | 2001 |
| Smith, Bradley | 20th Century masters of erotic art | Good, though not always very inspired | 1980 |
| Smith, Bradley | Erotic art of the masters: 18th - 20th C | Bought in Staines; nice range of sources | 197? |
| Smith, Henry D | Hokusai: one hundred views of Mt. Fuji | Dating from 1834 onward | 1988 |
| Smith, Lawrence | Hokusai: 12 views of Mount Fuji | Sublime | 1981 |
| Smithson, Richard | EPS: Illustrated book of situational sex | A Field Guide, if you please! | 2000 |
| Soulie, Bernard | Japanese erotism | Pretty good | 1981 |
| Speller, Lizzie | EPS: Illustrated book of orgies | Reflection on the beauty in numbers | 2000 |
| Stabenow, Cornelia | Rousseau | Taschen overview | 2001 |
| Stack, Frank | Etchings and lithographs | Talented artist (& Underground comix artist, too) | 1976 |
| Stack, Frank | Naked glory: erotic art of Frank Stack | He drips talent | 1997 |
| Stanton, Eric | Art of Eric Stanton (ed. Eric Kroll) | An awesome set of bondage/domination art | 1997 |
| Stanton, Eric | Year 2000 Taschen diary | Week by week, weak by weak? | 1999 |
| Sternberg, Jacques | Kitsch | In the best possible taste | 1971 |
| Swanson, Vern G | Alma-Tadema (Sir Lawrence) | Pinups for Victorians, basically | 1977 |
| Symons, Arthur | Collected drawings of Aubrey Beardsley | One of a kind | 1967 |
| Tamplin, Ronald | Art: history of expression in 20th Century | Unmemorable | 1991 |
| Tauzin, Mario; Breton, Henri | EPS: The Devil's Whisper | #6: At last, the 30 images of his 1930's portfolio | 2002 |
| Teraoka, Masami | Paintings | Smithsonian anthology of some beautiful recent work | 1996 |
| Teraoka, Masami | Waves and plagues | Commentary by Howard A Link on Teraoka's paintings | 1988 |
| Thurston, JB; Carraher, RG | Optical illusions and the visual arts | Good | 1966 |
| Tilly, Andrew | Erotic drawings | A nice set | 1986 |
| Touko | Tom of Finland | Ideal for Mike & Bryan | 1992 |
| Treadwell, Nicholas | Superhumanism | Some attractive art | 1980 |
| Treadwell, Nicholas | Superhumanism 2 | Ditto | 1981 |
| V & A Museum | Art Deco 1910-1939: exhibition catalogue | Sumptuous is probably the best adjective | 2003 |
| V & A Museum | Engraved work of Eric Gill | Magical | 1977 |
| Vallejo, Boris | Fantastic art of Boris Vallejo | Musclemen & gorgeous babes | 1978 |
| Vallejo, Boris | Mirage | Muscles & bosoms | 1982 |
| Van Maele, Martin | Satyrical drawings | Very rude; very good, too | 1970 |
| van Roojen, Pepin | Erotic images & alphabets | Duplicated on CDROM, too | 2003 |
| Vicky & Charlie | EPS: Illustrated book of sex gadgets | Cocktail of naughty trinketry | 2001 |
| von Bayros, F; Sacher-Masoch | EPS: True decadence | Venus in Furs & unrelated Franz von Bayros artwork | 2007 |
| Walker, Susan | Roman Art | Bought at Fishbourne Palace! | 1991 |
| Ward, Charlotte | EPS: Illustrated book of phalluses | A penetrating history of the membrum virile | 1999 |
| Webb, Peter | Erotic Arts | Authoritative & wide-ranging. Bought in Words & Music, Windsor | 1975 |
| Webb, Peter; Short, Robert | Hans Bellmer | This is one strange guy | 1985 |
| Weiermair, Peter | Erotic Art: 17th to 20th Century | Excellent survey | 1995 |
| Westheimer, Ruth | Art of arousal: erotic art | Not bad at all, Dr Ruth! | 1993 |
| Weyers, Frank | Dali: life and work | Mini volume but maxi value | 1999 |
| Wiedemann, Julius | Digital beauties: 2D & 3D CG | Pixels meet the airbrush | 2002 |
| Wilde, David | EPS: Wilde women | #83: vivid & stylish, though lacking Poulton's imagination | 2001 |
| Wilks, Mike | Annotated ultimate alphabet | Answers! | 1988 |
| Wilks, Mike | Ultimate alphabet | Intricate competition | 1986 |
| Williams, John (2) | Sex: portraits of passion | Lively & well-illustrated art'n'sex from Taschen; who else? | 1999 |
| Williams, Robert | Hysteria in remission: comix & drawings | Comix art fills in many gaps | 2002 |
| Williams, Robert | Lowbrow art of Robert Williams | Amazing and powerful | 1989 |
| Williams, Robert | Malicious resplendence | Splendiforous retrospective | 1997 |
| Williams, Robert | Views from a tortured libido | Powerful | 1993 |
| Williams, Robert | Visual addiction - art of Robert Williams | Powerful | 1989 |
| Williams, Robert | Zombie mystery paintings | Powerful | 1990 |
| Wilson, Simon | Egon Schiele | Good | 1980 |
| Windsor-Smith, Barry | Opus Volume One, 1999 | Sumptuous & just a tad pretentious | 1999 |
| Windsor-Smith, Barry | Opus Volume Two, 2000 | Just as sumptuous but the screws are looser | 2000 |
| Wood, Ghislaine | Art Nouveau and the Erotic | Accompanies V&A exhibition, April 2000 | 2000 |
| Woodroffe, Patrick | Closer look: at his art techniques | Very good | 1986 |
| Woodroffe, Patrick | Dorbott of Vacuo | OK | 1987 |
| Woodroffe, Patrick | Hallelujah anyway | He draws such beautiful breasts! | 1984 |
| Woodroffe, Patrick | Mythopoeikon | Very good | 1976 |
| Wootton, David | Illustrators: British art of illustration | 1800 to 2002 this time (Chris Beetles gallery) | 2002 |
| Wootton, David | Illustrators: British art, 1800-1997 | 280pp sumptuous catalogue of very pricey pieces | 1997 |
| Wyatt, Joan | Middle Earth album | Worthy, yet amateurish somehow | 1977 |
| Wyeth, Andrew | Helga pictures | Powerful | 1987 |
| Yokoo, Tadanori | 100 posters | Good | 1978 |
| Zaczek, Iain | Essential Art Deco | See p188 for our old bedside cabinets! | 2000 |
| Zone, Ray | Deep image: 3d in art and science | Anaglyphs | 1991 |
| Zone, Ray | Mondo 3-D | Anaglyphs | 1992 |
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| Ackerley, JR | Hindoo holiday: an Indian journal | Companion to Maharajah of Chhokrapur in 1923 for 5 months | 1932 |
| Ackerley, JR | My dog Tulip | Happiest 15 years of his life, with Alsatian bitch | 1956 |
| Ackerley, JR | My father and myself | Turns out 'Dad' had a mistress & three daughters | 1968 |
| Acton, Harold | Memoirs of an aesthete | Boyhood in pre-1914 Florence to Peking in 1939 | 1948 |
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| Asimov, Isaac | In memory yet green 1920-1954 | See other comment! Bought in Reading | 1979 |
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| Athill, Diana | Yesterday morning: very English childhood | In her case, the 1920s | 2002 |
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| Balfour, Sandy | Vulnerable in Hearts: memoir of.. | ..fathers, sons & contract bridge | 2005 |
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| Bechdel, Alison | Indelible Alison Bechdel: confessions,... | .. comix, & miscellaneous dykes to watch out for | 1998 |
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| Bentine, Michael | Reluctant jester | Decade & a half on, revisiting his life story | 1992 |
| Bentley, Toni | Surrender: an erotic memoir | Ballet dancer's odyssey of anal sex | 2004 |
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| Brown, Chester | Playboy | Squirmingly self-revelatory comix. Brave & honest | 1992 |
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| Eszterhas, Joe | Hollywood Animal | Screenwriter lets rip | 2004 |
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| Everett, Rupert | Vanished Years | Amusingly scandalous dose of further anecdotage | 2011 |
| Faithfull, M; Dalton, D | Faithfull | Not your average showbiz autobiog by a long chalk | 1994 |
| Faithfull, Marianne | Memories, dreams and reflections | Continues her story | 2007 |
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| Faulkner, Ronald "Trader" | Inside Trader | Actor's memoirs | 2012 |
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| Feig, Paul | Superstud: how I became a .. | ..24-year-old virgin | 2005 |
| Feynman, Richard P | Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman | Safe & wise-cracking, bongo playing. Nearly perfect | 1985 |
| Feynman, Richard P | What do you care what other people think? | Amazing character | 1988 |
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| Smith, Emma | Great Western Beach: memoir of a.. | ..Cornish childhood between the wars | 2008 |
| Smith, Jonathan | Learning Game: teacher's story | Quite brilliant, see page 61 (Churchill learns Latin) | 2000 |
| Smith, Liz | Our Betty: scenes from my life | With her own artwork, too! | 2006 |
| Smith, Page | Letter from my father | One long outrageous sexual boast | 1976 |
| Spain (Manuel Rodriguez) | My true story | Comix autobiography & history (literally) | 1994 |
| Sparrow, Michael | Country Doctor | UK rural GP with excellent sense of humour | 2002 |
| Sparrow, Michael | Country Doctor: tales of a rural GP | Only his name rings false | 2002 |
| Sparrow, Michael | Repeat Prescription: further tales | What is it about Devon & Cornwall? | 2004 |
| Spence, Jo | Putting myself in the picture | Her political, personal & photographic autobiography | 1986 |
| Stahl, Jerry | Permanent midnight | Why not to do drugs, from a screenwriter | 1995 |
| Stapinski, Helene | Five-finger discount | New Jersey upbringing anecdotes | 2001 |
| Stein, Ben | Hollywood days, Hollywood nights | Skimmed | 1988 |
| Stern, Howard | Private parts | Coming to the big screen; US radio shock jock | 1993 |
| Steward, Sam M | Bad boys and tough tattoos | Tattoos; sailors, punks & street gangs, 1950-1965. Great | 1990 |
| Stravinsky, Igor | Autobiography | Reprint with a 1975 intro by Eric White | 1936 |
| Sutherland, John | Boy who loved books | Grammar school, national service, redbrick uni, alcohol | 2007 |
| Swofford, Anthony | Jarhead: soldier's story of modern war | 19 year old sniper in the Gulf, 1990 | 2003 |
| Taki | Nothing to declare | Except cocaine, & this consequent Pentonville diary | 1991 |
| Tanner, Robin | Double Harness | Teacher & etcher's long (1904) life story | 1987 |
| Tarbox, Katherine | Katie.com My story | Internet mediated sexual predation | 2000 |
| Teller, Edward | Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in science | And politics. The supposed model for Dr Strangelove, in his own words | 2002 |
| Terkel, Studs | Talking to myself | Oral histories, not least of himself for a change | 1986 |
| Tesla, Nikola | My inventions, and other writings | His 1919 autobiography and three articles | 2011 |
| Thirlwell, Angela | Folio anthology of autobiography | Many good snippets; set in beautiful Bembo, too | 1994 |
| Thomas, DM | Memories & Hallucinations | Inside a writer's mind | 1988 |
| Thomas, Piri | 7 long times | Bellevue, Sing Sing & Comstock memoirs from early 1950s | 1974 |
| Thompson, Hunter S | Kingdom of Fear | Autobiographical & political ramblings | 2003 |
| Thompson, Jim | Bad Boy | Growing up in the south west in the 1920s | 1953 |
| Thompson, Jim | Roughneck | Hybrid literary memoir & tall tale | 1954 |
| Thompson, Josiah | Gumshoe | Philosophy professor to private eye | 1988 |
| Thomson, George L | My life as a scribe | Basically a calligrapher's amazing life | 1988 |
| Thorne, Tony | Brasso, Blanco & Bull | aka Army life in the 1950s during National Service | 1998 |
| Tidy, Bill | Is there any news of the iceberg? | Illustrated autobiography; excellent | 1995 |
| Tompkins, Ptolemy | Paradise Fever | Curious upbringing by New Age utopian | 1997 |
| Townsend, Sue | Public confessions of a middle-aged woman | Aged 55ish, collected columns from Sainsbury's magazine! | 2001 |
| Trevanian | Crazy ladies of Pearl Street | May be fictional but very interesting | 2005 |
| Turow, Scott | One L: Harvard Law School | Student recollections of his first year | 1977 |
| Twigger, Robert | Angry white pyjamas | Oxford poet trains with Tokyo riot police | 1997 |
| Ungerer, Tomi | Far out isn't far enough | Journal of Nova Scotia farmsteading | 1983 |
| Vance, Jack | This is me, Jack Vance | Kindle edition of his recent autobio. Highly readable | 2011 |
| Vaughan, Paul | Exciting times in the Accounts Department | BBC R4 veteran, with Oxford degree to dreary post-war London | 1995 |
| Vidal, Gore | Palimpsest: a memoir | Elegant anecdotes from his first 40 years | 1995 |
| Vigors, Tim | Life's too short to cry | Battle of Britain ace tells his story | 2006 |
| Vine, Jeremy | It's all news to me | Jokey memoir of 25 years 'locked in the BBC' | 2012 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Fates worse than death: collage of 1980s | Great variety of memories and anecdotes | 1991 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | If this isn't nice, what is? | Kindle edition. Advice for the young | 2013 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Man without a country: memoir of life.. | ..in George W Bush's America | 2005 |
| Walden, George | Lucky George: memoirs of anti-politician | Interesting yet Tory | 1999 |
| Walker, Ted | Last of England | Memoir of the loss of his wife to long illness | 1992 |
| Walsh, John | Are You Talking To Me? | Life as mirrored through movies | 2003 |
| Walsh, John | Falling angels: an Irish romance | Being Irish in England, etc. | 1999 |
| Waterhouse, Keith | City lights: a street life | Growing up, bright but poor, in Leeds in 1930s | 1994 |
| Waters, John | Role models | Very amusing essays that form a memoir | 2010 |
| Waugh, Auberon | Will this do? An autobiography | Racist, sadistic, sexist snob? Bon viveur? | 1991 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Little learning | Adolescent memoirs, incl. 'most satisfying emissions' recalled! | 1964 |
| Welch, Jack; Byrne, John A | Jack: straight from the gut | General Electric's boss of two decades | 2001 |
| Welch, Peter | And then I thought I was a fish | Kindle edition of his earlier blog of a psychotic breakdown | 2012 |
| West, Timothy | Moment towards the end of the play... | Memoirs & theatrical anecdotage | 2001 |
| Wharton, Michael | Missing will / Dubious codicil | aka Peter Simple in the 'Telegraph'; deadpan memories | 1991 |
| Wharton, William | Houseboat on the Seine | Shades of 'Racundra' in this insane memoir | 1996 |
| Wheeler, John Archibald | Geons, Black Holes and Quantum Foam: a life.. | .. in (often gravitational) science | 2000 |
| Whicker, Alan | Whicker's War | Sicily to the Alps, basically & laconically | 2005 |
| White, Edmund | My lives | Gay version of Frank Harris? | 2005 |
| White, Edmund; Sorin, H | Sketches from memory: Paris | Illustrated by Sorin in his last months of life | 1994 |
| White, TH | England have my bones | Very good | 1936 |
| Whitehorn, Katharine | Selective Memory | Long awaited | 2008 |
| Whitelaw, Billie | Billie Whitelaw... who he? | Practically the history of post-WWII UK theatre | 1995 |
| Wildeblood, Peter | Against the Law | Classic account of gay life in 1950s Britain | 1955 |
| Wilder, Gene | Kiss me like a stranger | aka my search for love and art | 2005 |
| Williamson, Jack | Wonder's Child: my life in SF | 20 years of updates to the 1984 original edition | 2005 |
| Wilson, Colin | Dreaming to some purpose | Completely fascinating recollections & anecdotes | 2004 |
| Windsor, Edward | King's Story: memoirs of Duke of Windsor | One of a kind | 1951 |
| Winger, Debra | Undiscovered | Discursive memoir of sorts | 2008 |
| Winner, Michael | Winner takes all | A life of sorts, engagingly told | 2004 |
| Wintle, Edwin John | Breakfast with Tiffany | Gay uncle takes in a problem child for his sister | 2005 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Wodehouse on Wodehouse | Bring on the girls, Performing flea, Over seventy; brilliant! | 1980 |
| Wollheim, Richard | Germs: a memoir of childhood | English suburbia in the 1920s & 30s, recollected carefully | 2004 |
| Wood, Gloria et al | Nineties: personal recollections | Of the 20th Century by people now in their 90s | 1993 |
| Woodhead, Leslie | My life as a spy | Graduate of the National Service Linguistics School | 2005 |
| Woods, Leslie C | Against the Tide: autobiography of a... | .. professional outsider. Kiwi engineer/physicist/iconoclast | 2000 |
| Woodward, Antony | Propellerhead | Second childhood as a pilot | 2001 |
| Woronov, Mary | Swimming underground: my years in the.. | .. Warhol factory | 1995 |
| Worsthorne, Peregrine | Tricks of memory | Ironical eye not just on his own life | 1993 |
| Wyndham, Joan | Anything once | Last volume of memoirs to date; damn! | 1992 |
| Wyndham, Joan | Dawn chorus | She's 84, but not much like dear Mama! | 2004 |
| Yunnie, Park | Fighting with Popski's Private Army | Updated edition | 2002 |
| Yunnie, Park | Warriors on wheels | One view of Popski's Private Army exploits. Was John's | 1959 |
| Zappa, F; Occhiogrosso, P | Real Frank Zappa book | Compelling, & brilliant view of/views on US culture | 1989 |
| Zweig, Stefan | World of Yesterday | Elegant memoir of pre-war European culture | 1942 |
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| Ahlberg, Allan | Janet's last book | Fond memento of the illustrator, 1944-1994 | 1996 |
| Albin-Dyer, Barry | Don't drop the coffin! | Funereal memoirs, as transcribed | 2002 |
| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie | Old tutor/mentor revisited as he is dying | 1997 |
| Aldersey-Williams, Hugh | Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the.. | ..21st century. Playfully erudite sort-of biography | 2015 |
| Alexander, Robert Charles | Life & Works of Alan Dower Blumlein | Inventor of stereo (& much else) finally gets bio he deserves | 1999 |
| Atkinson, Norman | Sir Joseph Whitworth: world's best... | .. mechanician & a giant of Victorian practical engineering | 1996 |
| Aubrey, John | Brief Lives | Boswell of the first coffee houses | 2000 |
| Austen-Leigh, JE | Memoir of Jane Austen, & other.. | ..family recollections. Material from 1871 & much earlier, too | 2002 |
| Barber, Michael | Captain: life & times of Simon Raven | Simply brilliant. See p190 for one of many classic quotes | 1996 |
| Barlow, Brigit | Family affair | Involvement with the Darwin clan | 1990 |
| Barnes, Julian | Levels of Life | Three essays, ending with the story of his own loss | 2013 |
| Barnett, Kristine | Spark: mother's story of nurturing genius | .. and autism | 2013 |
| Barrow, Sir John | Mutiny & piratical seizure of HMS Bounty | Barrow was senior Admiralty civil servant. Folio Society freebie | 1831 |
| Beard, Richard | Becoming Drusilla | One life, two friends, three genders | 2009 |
| Beauchamp, Monte | Life and Times of R Crumb | Comments from 40 or so contemporaries. Wonderful | 1998 |
| Bergan, Ronald | Beyond the fringe ... and beyond | Critical biography of Bennett, Cook, Miller, & Moore | 1989 |
| Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J | American Prometheus: triumph &.. | ..tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer | 2005 |
| Blacker, Terence | You cannot live as I have and not.. | .. end up like this. Willie Donaldson, RIP | 2007 |
| Blaise, Clark | Time Lord | Sir Sandford Fleming & standard time | 2000 |
| Bloch, Michael | Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British.. | .. Politicians, concentrating on non-straight ones (less boring, mainly!) | 2015 |
| Bloch, Michael | James Lees-Milne: the life | Perfect complement to the vast set of diaries | 2009 |
| Blofeld, John | City of lingering splendour | Exotic pleasures of old Peking in mid 1930s | 1961 |
| Bonfiglioli, Margaret | Mortdecai ABC | Biblio/bio of fascinating rascal | 2001 |
| Booth, James | Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love | Interesting and not uncomplicated chap | 2014 |
| Boothroyd, Basil | Philip: an informal biography | The good ol' Duke of Edinburgh. Given to dear Mama originally | 1971 |
| Bostridge, Mark (ed) | Lives for sale: biographers' tales | Includes Fiona MacCarthy's baptism by fire with Eric Gill | 2004 |
| Boswell, James | London Journal 1762-1763 | Folio Society edition, edited by Frederick Pottle | 1950 |
| Brady, Frank | Citizen Welles | Welles-sized biography | 1989 |
| Briggs, Raymond | Ethel & Ernest: a true story | His parents lives; immensely touching | 1998 |
| Brightman, Carol | Writing dangerously: Mary McCarthy | Unread, apart from sections on The Group | 1992 |
| Brogan, Hugh | Life of Arthur Ransome | How Swallows & Amazons got written is anybody's guess | 1984 |
| Brome, Vincent | Other Pepys | Nice counterweight to the Diary | 1992 |
| Brunskill, Ian (ed) | Great Lives: obituaries from The Times | Defining the 20th Century | 2005 |
| Buxton, Harry Wilmot | Memoir of the life & labours of Babbage | Written in 1872-1880 after Babbage's death, but at his request | 1988 |
| Byrne, Paula | Real Jane Austen: a life in small things | Promising new appraisal of one of my favourites | 2013 |
| Byrne, Sandie | Unbearable Saki: work of HH Munro | Long-overdue re-appraisal of this literary genius | 2007 |
| Callow, Simon | Charles Laughton: a difficult actor | Callow has too much talent | 1987 |
| Callow, Simon | Love is where it falls | Friendship with the knickerless Peggy Ramsay | 1999 |
| Canemaker, John | Winsor McCay: his life and art | Wonderful, large-format, overview; well-illustrated | 1987 |
| Cannadine, David | Aristocratic Adventurer (Churchill) | Penguin 70th mini | 1994 |
| Cannell, JC | Secrets of Houdini | Biographical overview & many detailed explanations | 1931 |
| Carpenter, Humphrey | Brideshead generation | Evelyn Waugh's generation of writers & their 'circle' | 1989 |
| Carter, Miranda | Anthony Blunt: his lives | Amazing story of Establishment & 'traitors' | 2001 |
| Chandler, Charlotte | It's only a movie: Alfred Hitchcock | The self-declared frightmare expert | 2006 |
| Chandler, Charlotte | Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder biography | Transcripts of the man & his many chums | 2002 |
| Chelsea, David | David Chelsea in love | Buttock-clenching comix self-revelations | 1993 |
| Citron, Stephen | Noël & Cole: the sophisticates | Nicely drawn parallel careers & lives | 1992 |
| Collins, Andrew | Billy Bragg: still suitable for miners | Excellent & updated musical memoir | 2007 |
| Collis, Rose | Colonel Barker's monstrous regiment | A tale, if you please, of female husbandry | 2001 |
| Collis, Rose | Trouser-wearing character | Life & times of Nancy Spain; UK's all-media action lesbian | 1997 |
| Connolly, Joseph | PG Wodehouse: illustrated biography #1 | Written by a life-long collector | 1979 |
| Connolly, Joseph | PG Wodehouse: illustrated biography #2 | Revisions hinge on inflated cost of collecting Plum | 1987 |
| Cook, Lin | Something like fire: Peter Cook remembered | Best kind of composite biography: reminiscences of friends | 1996 |
| Cooke, Alistair | Six men: portraits in essay | Chaplin, Edward VIII, Mencken, Bogart, Stevenson, Russell | 1977 |
| Coram, Robert | Boyd: the fighter pilot who changed the art.. | .. of war (Kindle) A bold claim, but justified. Fascinating insights | 2002 |
| Coveney, Michael | Ken Campbell: the great caper | As authorised by the great caperer | 2011 |
| Crompton, Alastair | Man who drew tomorrow (Frank Hampson) | Good bio of Dan Dare's creator | 1985 |
| Crosland, Susan | Tony Crosland | Three years to write; a gripping read by his widow | 1982 |
| Daniels, Simon | Wake of the Cachalots | Tales of the Southampton master mariners | 1992 |
| Dann, John C | Nagle Journal | Amazing naval diary | 1988 |
| Daugherty, Tracy | Just One Catch: the passionate life of.. | .. Joseph Heller. Coney Island kid made good, heh? | 2011 |
| Davenport-Hines, Richard | Night at the Majestic | Proust & his varied circle | 2006 |
| Davenport-Hines, Richard | Universal Man: the seven lives of John Maynard.. | .. Keynes. Altruist, boy prodigy, official, public man, all fascinating | 2015 |
| Davies, Hunter | Wainwright: the biography | Fellwalker & self-publisher's life, by a fan | 1995 |
| Davis, Nuel Pharr | Lawrence & Oppenheimer | Florid style but fascinating memoir | 1968 |
| Day, Barry; Ring, Tony | PG Wodehouse in his own words | WYSIWY affectionately G | 2001 |
| Deedes, WF | Brief Lives | 18 mini-biographies | 2004 |
| Delaforce, Patrick | 274 things you should know about Churchill | Perfectly described, though a tad arguable | 2006 |
| Denti, Alberto | Cure for serpents (Duke of Pirajno) | Italian doctor (Denti) in N Africa, 1924-42 | 1955 |
| Donaldson, Frances | PG Wodehouse: authorised biography | Thorough, & specially so on the wartime broadcasts | 1982 |
| Downing, Christopher | Burton stories | Anecdotage aplenty | 1990 |
| Dry, Sarah | Curie (Life and Times) | Radiation pioneer | 2003 |
| Eckersley, Myles | Prospero's wireless: biography of Peter.. | .. Pendleton Eckersley, UK radio broadcasting pioneer | 1999 |
| Eliot, Marc | Phil Ochs: death of a rebel | Friend of Ron Cobb, oddly | 1979 |
| Ellmann, Richard | Oscar Wilde | Truly comprehensive | 1987 |
| Farmelo, Graham | Strangest Man: hidden life of Paul Dirac.. | .."quantum genius" (as if that means anything) | 2009 |
| Farnes, Norma | Memories of Milligan | Interviews of his friends by Spike's own manager and friend | 2010 |
| Farr, Michael | Tintin: the complete companion | From Ottakars (whose MD named the store after King O's sceptre) | 2001 |
| Feynman, Michelle | Quotable Feynman | Collected and introduced by his daughter. Excellent | 2015 |
| Fiegel Eddi | John Barry: a sixties theme | Sublime, interview-based biography | 1998 |
| Fletcher, Sheila | Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's.. | ..daughters & their letters & diaries | 1997 |
| Ford, Selwyn | Casting couch: making it in Hollywood | Seamier side of the star system | 1990 |
| Fort, Adrian | PROF: life of Frederick Lindemann | Alternative take on Churchill's scientific advisor | 2003 |
| Freedland, Michael | Kenneth Williams | Freedland has had many many contributors to this biography | 1990 |
| Gale, Patrick | Armistead Maupin | Affectionate tribute cum biography | 1999 |
| Gardiner, Juliet | Oscar Wilde: a life in letters, writings.. | .. & wit. Nicely illustrated | 1995 |
| Gardner, Robert | From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde | Bio of Sir George Edwards OM (94!) given to John | 2006 |
| Garland, Patrick | Incomparable Rex (Harrison) | Theatrical memoir of early 1980s | 1998 |
| Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan | Sex: the measure of all things (Kinsey) | Alternate take on master-measurer's life | 1998 |
| Gentry, Curt | J Edgar Hoover: the man and his secrets | Dresses?! America's top policeman... | 1991 |
| Gibson, Ian | Erotomaniac: Henry Spencer Ashbee | American edition | 2001 |
| Gibson, Ian | Shameful life of Salvador Dali | Nice fat biog | 1997 |
| Gilbert, Martin | Finest Hour: Churchill 1939-41 | Excellent | 1983 |
| Gilbert, Martin | Never Despair: Churchill 1945-65 | Excellent | 1988 |
| Gilbert, Martin | Road to Victory: Churchill 1941-45 | Excellent | 1986 |
| Gilbreth, FR & E | Cheaper by the dozen | Time & motion applied domestically | 1949 |
| Glass, Rodge | Alisdair Gray: a secretary's biography | Mostly affectionate portrait | 2009 |
| Gleick, James | Genius: Richard Feynman & modern physics | From the atom bomb to the Space Shuttle's 'O' ring | 1992 |
| Glendinning, Victoria | Vita: the life of Vita Sackville-West | Story also in Souhami's 'Mrs Keppel' | 1983 |
| Goldman, William | Adventures in the screentrade | Unputdownable truth that no-one knows anything in Hollywood | 1983 |
| Goldman, William | Hype & Glory | Shamefully not read yet | 1990 |
| Goldman, William | Which lie did I tell? | Further screentrade misadventures | 2000 |
| Goodchild, Peter | J Robert Oppenheimer | Based on BBC dramatisation of Manhattan Project | 1980 |
| Gorey, Edward | Ascending Peculiarity: Gorey on Gorey | Interviews selected & edited by Karen Wilkin | 2001 |
| Grant, Thomas | Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories: from .. | .. Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks | 2015 |
| Graves, Robert | Goodbye to all that | No-one should write autobiographies so young | 1929 |
| Green, Benny | PG Wodehouse: literary biography | Fine, specially 'Novelist in a padded cell' | 1981 |
| Greig, Geordie | Breakfast with Lucian (Freud) | Portrait of an ogre, it seems | 2013 |
| Griffin, William | CS Lewis: the authentic voice | But of what? Muscular Christianity? | 1986 |
| Guinness, Louise | Vintage Book of Fathers | Anecdotage on fatherhood -- see p56! | 1996 |
| Hadfield, John | Cowardy Custard (World of Noël Coward) | Found 2nd-hand in Tony Martin's shop | 1973 |
| Hall, Ruth | Marie Stopes: a biography | Lambasted as an enemy of the Empire! | 1977 |
| Hamilton, Ian | In search of J D Salinger | Biography that Salinger wanted stopped | 1988 |
| Hardyment, Christina | Arthur Ransome & Captain Flint's trunk | Basically asking are the places & people real? | 1984 |
| Hardyment, Christina | Arthur Ransome & Captain Flint's trunk | New edition with further treasure from his trunk | 2006 |
| Hare, Steve | Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and editors | Formative Penguin years, 1935 - 70. Publishing & social history | 1995 |
| Harvey, Robert | Cochrane: life & exploits of a fighting.. | .. captain. Model for O'Brian's Jack Aubrey | 2000 |
| Heimann, Judith N | Most offending soul alive: Tom Harrisson & | .. his remarkable life. Mr Mass Observation | 1997 |
| Heppenstall, Rayner | Four absentees | Fascinating quartet: G Orwell, D Thomas, J Murry, E Gill | 1960 |
| Herrman, Dorothy | SJ Perelman: a life | Good biography | 1986 |
| Hewins, Angela | Dillen: memories of a man of Stratford | Gripping oral history | 1981 |
| Hickman, Tom | Churchill's bodyguard: based on.. | ..Walter H Thompson's complete memoirs | 1955 |
| Hill, Lee | Terry Southern: a grand guy, art & life | Interesting chap! | 2001 |
| Hoare, Philip | Noël Coward: a biography | About as good as they get | 1995 |
| Hoffman, Nicholas von | Citizen Cohn: scandalous life and times | What a slime ball. Lawyer to McCarthy; fixer; destroyer | 1988 |
| Holroyd, Michael | Bernard Shaw: definitive one-volume.. | ..edition of the magisterial biography | 1997 |
| Honan, Park | Jane Austen: her life | By a male, but very well-rated (revised 1997 edition) | 1987 |
| Houdini, Harry | Houdini on magic | In his own words, but supplemented | 1953 |
| Huth, Angela | Well-remembered friends | Eulogies on celebrated lives. Fabulous idea | 2004 |
| Hyman, Anthony | Charles Babbage: computer pioneer | Straightforward, clear account of one of my heroes | 1982 |
| Ingrams, Richard | God's apology: three friends | Hugh Kingsmill, Hesketh Pearson, & Malcolm Muggeridge | 1977 |
| Johnson, BS | All Bull: the National Servicemen | Anecdotage from Ian Carr, Mel Calman, Michael Holroyd & 21 more | 1973 |
| Jones, James H | Alfred C Kinsey: a public/private life | Massive bio shedding light into wonderfully dark corners | 1997 |
| Jones, Julia | Adventures of Margery Allingham | Bio of the crime writer, updated since 1991 | 2009 |
| Jones, Wendy; Perry, Grayson | Grayson Perry: portrait of the artist.. | ..as a young girl. Interviews turned into biographic gold | 2006 |
| Kanfer, Stefan | Groucho | Definitive biography | 2000 |
| Killick, Mark | Sultan of Sleaze: David Sullivan | The times bring forth the men; but what hypocrisy! | 1994 |
| Kindersley, David | Eric Gill: apprentice's further thoughts | Small, but beautifully-formed! 1982 Foreword | 1967 |
| King, Dean | Patrick O'Brian: a life revealed | C's birthday present to me | 2000 |
| Knowler, John | Trust an Englishman | Recognition, joy, shame | 1972 |
| Knowlson, James & Elizabeth | Beckett remembering remembering.. | ..Beckett. Uncollected interviews & memories | 2006 |
| Lachman, Gary | Beyond the Robot: the life and work of.. | .. Colin Wilson | 2016 |
| Lahr, John | Dame Edna Everage (backstage) | And the rise of Western Civilisation! | 1991 |
| Lane, Margaret | Snake man (Life with Ionides) | Skimmed | 1963 |
| Lavery, Bryony | Tallulah Bankhead | Overview of this outrageous & delightful lady | 1999 |
| Leavitt, David | Man who knew too much | Alan Turing & invention of computers | 2006 |
| Lesley, Cole | Life of Noël Coward | 'Like a holiday in a rented Rolls' (Tynan) | 1976 |
| Lewis, John | Heath Robinson: artist and comic genius | Wonderful overview of this marvellous man | 1973 |
| Lewis, Roger | Charles Hawtrey, 1914 - 1988 | Man who was Private Widdle | 2001 |
| Lichtenstein, R; Sinclair, I | Rodinsky's room | Tracing a disappearance from an East End synagogue | 1999 |
| Lindley, David | Degrees Kelvin: genius & tragedy.. | ..of William Thomson | 2004 |
| Lloyd, Christopher | Lord Cochrane: seaman, radical, liberator | By Royal Naval College historian | 1947 |
| Lord, Graham | John Mortimer: the devil's advocate | Pure as the driven Rumpole? | 2005 |
| Lowe, John | Warden: a portrait of John Sparrow | Old-fashioned biography | 1998 |
| Lycett, Andrew | Ian Fleming | Very thoroughly researched | 1995 |
| Lyden, Jacki | Daughter of the Queen of Sheba | Unflinching memoir of her insane mother | 1997 |
| MacCarthy, Fiona | Eric Gill | Include some eye-popping revelations that were long covered-up | 1989 |
| MacShane, Frank | Life of Raymond Chandler | Excellent biography | 1976 |
| Mahon, Basil | Man who changed everything | James Clerk Maxwell | 2003 |
| Main, Mary | Evita: the woman with the whip | Commissioned in 1951 or thereabouts | 1977 |
| Mairowitz, DZ; Crumb, R | Kafka for beginners | Comix approach with extra added genius behind it | 1993 |
| Mann, William J | Edge of midnight: life of John.. | ..Schlesinger | 2004 |
| Margolis, Jonathan | Cleese encounters | Unauthorised, but well-researched | 1992 |
| Marnham, Patrick | Wild Mary: a life of Mary Wesley | She of the Camomile Lawn | 2006 |
| Massingberd, Hugh | Fifth Book of Obituaries | Covering 20th Century lives | 1999 |
| Massingberd, Hugh | Second book of (Telegraph) obituaries | Heroes and adventurers | 1966 |
| Massingberd, Hugh | Very best of (Telegraph) Obituaries | Celebrations of eccentric lives | 2001 |
| Masters, Alexander | Simon: the genius in my basement | Rather off-the-wall approach to biography | 2011 |
| Masters, Alexander | Stuart: a life backwards | Depressing life of one homeless man | 2005 |
| Matson, Katinka | Short lives: assorted portraits | Painters, poets, actors, musicians, all dying young... | 1980 |
| McAleer, Neil | Odyssey: biography of Arthur C Clarke | Unusually constructed from many interview transcripts | 1992 |
| McCrum, Robert | Wodehouse: a life | Best biog so far, by all accounts | 2004 |
| McCullough, David | John Adams | Bio of 2nd US President & Founding Father, from Carol | 2001 |
| McGirk, Tim | Wicked lady: Salvador Dali's muse | Gala's biography makes a weird story | 1989 |
| Medawar, Jean | Very decided preference: life with Peter | His widow's memories of a 50-year marriage & life | 1990 |
| Michell, John | Eccentric lives and peculiar notions | Biographical essays on conspiracy theories & eccentrics | 1984 |
| Miles, Jonathan | Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin | Grand stuff, these lives | 1992 |
| Miller, John | Peter Ustinov: the gift of laughter | Constructed from recent interviews | 2002 |
| Miller, Russell | Bare-faced Messiah: L Ron Hubbard | Bet you I can make a million by inventing a religion | 1987 |
| Millidge, Gary Spencer | Alan Moore: storyteller | aka Northampton boy done good. Good overview plus CD of various stuff | 2011 |
| Mitchell, Joseph | Joe Gould's secret | Two New Yorker profiles, 22 years apart | 1997 |
| Mitchell, Tony (1) | Dario Fo - People's court jester | Updated look at this amazing talent | 1986 |
| Mitton, Simon | Fred Hoyle: a life in science | Portrait of a delightful hero of mine | 2005 |
| Mlodinow, Leonard | Some time with Feynman | A year at CalTech (1981) | 2003 |
| Monk, Ray | Inside the Centre: the life of J Robert.. | ..Oppenheimer, and the physics, too | 2012 |
| Morgan, David | Monty Python speaks | Decent set of interview transcripts | 1999 |
| Morley, Sheridan | Coward | Yet another re-examination | 2005 |
| Morris, Desmond | Book of Ages | A curious chronicle of achievers & their age when doing so | 1983 |
| Morris, Ivan | Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon | Folio Society edition | 10?? |
| Morriss, Roger | Nelson: the life & letters of a hero | Well-stocked with contemporary memorabila | 1996 |
| Motion, Andrew | Philip Larkin: a writer's life | Candid & engaging insights into a private life | 1993 |
| Murray, Andy | Into the unknown: fantastic life of.. | ..Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass (of course!) | 2006 |
| Murray, KM Elisabeth | Caught in the web of words | OED lexicographer's granddaughter | 1977 |
| Nasar, Sylvia | Beautiful Mind | Life of John Nash, once-mad Nobel Laureate games theorist | 1998 |
| Nazeer, Kamran | Send in the idiots | Textures of five autistic lives | 2006 |
| Neville, Richard | Hippie hippie shake: the 60s | Dreams, trips, trials, love-ins, screw-ups | 1995 |
| O'Brian, Patrick | Joseph Banks: a life | Bought in Guernsey, after agonising over its cost! | 1987 |
| Orgel, Joseph R | Undying passion: sex & the literary life | Lovely quotes & stories | 1985 |
| Overbye, Dennis | Einstein in love: a scientific romance | A look at his earlier life | 2000 |
| Pais, Abraham | Subtle is the Lord... (Einstein) | Nicely done | 1982 |
| Palinurus (Cyril Connolly) | Unquiet Grave | Analysis of melancholy | 1944 |
| Park, James | Icons: style makers & breakers since 1945 | I'm still not in there! | 1991 |
| Parker, Peter | Isherwood | A nice, fat, juicy biography | 2004 |
| Parker, Tony | Studs Terkel: a life in words | Parker's last book -- a fitting subject! | 1996 |
| Parrott, Cecil | Bad Bohemian (Jaroslav Hasek) | Disgraceful (according to some) life of Svejk's creator | 1978 |
| Patterson Jr, William H | Robert A Heinlein: In dialogue with his century | Second volume, covers 1948-1988 in detail | 2014 |
| Patterson Jr, William H | Robert A Heinlein: Learning Curve | Covers 1907 to 1948 | 2010 |
| Payn, Graham; Day, Barry | My life with Noël Coward | Far more insight into the man | 1994 |
| Perry, George | James Dean | From Mike, swapped for 'My Lives' | 2005 |
| Phelps, Barry | PG Wodehouse: man and myth | Stalled on p157, but an interesting effort | 1992 |
| Phillips, Bruno | Main Point: life of Bernd Töst | Life & work of a porno film-maker in 1950s/60s UK | 2006 |
| Phillips, Julie | James Tiptree, Jr. | Double life of Alice B Sheldon, engagingly told | 2006 |
| Plante, David | Difficult women: a memoir of three | Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, Germaine Greer | 1983 |
| Plimpton, George | Truman Capote | Oral biography in many voices | 1998 |
| Pocock, Tom | Horatio Nelson | Unread | 1987 |
| Polito, Robert | Savage Art: biography of Jim Thompson | This was a seriously-disturbed man, but a cool writer! | 1995 |
| Posey, Carl et al | Big Book of Weirdos | Comix approach to some strange people | 1995 |
| Powell, Georgia; Ramsay, K | Chin up, girls! Women's obituaries | From the Daily Telegraph | 2005 |
| Profumo, David | Bringing the House down | Commons, that is, & the "Profumo" affair | 2006 |
| Purcell, Henry | Very Private Celebrity: The Nine Lives of John.. | .. Freeman. One new career per decade, it seems, for Mr Face to Face | 2015 |
| Purdy, Bryn | Girls will be grils | Affecting episodes from life of a (literal) care-taker | 1989 |
| Randall, Lucian; Walsh, C | Ginger Geezer: life of Vivian Stanshall | Layers of biographical lunacy, unassisted by Valium | 2001 |
| Robins, N; Aronson, SML | Savage Grace: the Baekelands | Incest & murder in a nasty wealthy dynasty | 1985 |
| Rogers, Byron | Last Englishman: life of JL Carr | Report on Harpole Report man! | 2003 |
| Rogers, Byron | Man who went into the West | Life of Welsh poet RS Thomas | 2006 |
| Roper, William | Man of singular virtue: Thomas More | Folio Society edition | 153? |
| Rose, June | Marie Stopes and the sexual revolution | Candid & amusing | 1992 |
| Rose, Kenneth | Elusive Rothschild: life of Victor | He of the 184 IQ; see Random Variables | 2003 |
| Rosenthal, Margaret F | Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, citizen | .. & writer in 16th-century Venice | 1992 |
| Rossellini, Isabella | In the name of the Father, the daughter.. | .. and the Holy Spirits. Birthday tribute to her Dad, plus DVD | 2006 |
| Sabbag, Robert | Smoke screen (aka Loaded) | Further tales of dope fiends & friends | 2002 |
| Sabbag, Robert | Snow Blind: brief career in cocaine trade | Zachary Swan, cocaine smuggler extraordinaire. cf Detzer... | 1976 |
| Salewicz, Chris; Boot, A | Firefly: Noël Coward in Jamaica | Nicely illustrated look at his Jamaican paradise | 1999 |
| Seymour, Miranda | Chaplin's Girl: life & loves of.. | ..Virginia Cherrill. Heard author on Woman's Hour | 2009 |
| Sheff, David | Playboy interviews with Lennon & Ono | Complete transcripts | 1980 |
| Sherwin, David | Going mad in Hollywood | Life with Lindsay Anderson. Diaries from 1960 onward. Great | 1996 |
| Shields, Carol | Jane Austen | Insightful picture | 2001 |
| Sibley, Brian | Shadowlands: true story of CS Lewis and.. | ..Joy Davidman (revised from 1985) | 2009 |
| Sisman, Adam | Boswell's presumptuous task | Biography of 'the' biographer/biography | 2000 |
| Smee, Sebastian | Art of Rivalry: Four friendships, betrayals and.. | ..breakthroughs in modern art | 2016 |
| Smith, Rupert | Physique: life of John S Barrington | Eccentric bohemian pioneer of 'physique' photography | 1997 |
| Smithers, AJ (Jack) | Dornford Yates | Exemplary piece of biographical researching | 1982 |
| Souhami, Diana | Greta & Cecil | Garbo & Beaton, that is. | 1994 |
| Souhami, Diana | Mrs Keppel and her daughter | Keppel: acceptable face of adultery; Violet Trefusis: not! | 1996 |
| Spence, Jon | Becoming Jane Austen | Comprehensively researched | 2003 |
| Spence, Jonathan D | Emperor of China: K'Ang-Hsi | 1661-1722; height of Manchu dynasty | 1974 |
| Spender, Matthew | A House in St John's Wood: In Search of my.. | .. Parents (Stephen and Natasha Spender) | 2015 |
| Spoto, Donald | Dark side of genius: Hitchcock | Historic cakes in fridge, & much worse. Bought in USA | 1983 |
| Spoto, Donald | Otherwise engaged: Life of Alan Bates | Amazingly thorough | 2007 |
| Sproat, Iain | Wodehouse at war (Nazi broadcasts) | Written by a Tory MP; amazing! Shame on bureaucrats, too | 1981 |
| Spurling, Hilary | Girl from the Fiction Department | Portrait of Sonia Orwell | 2002 |
| Steadman, Ralph | I, Leonardo | Idiosyncratic | 1983 |
| Steadman, Ralph | Sigmund Freud | Masterful | 1979 |
| Sturrock, Donald | Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl | Well-reviewed new biography | 2012 |
| Summers, Anthony | Arrogance of Power: secret world of... | .. Richard (Tricky) Nixon | 2000 |
| Sutin, Lawrence | Divine invasions: life of Philip K Dick | Diaries, letters & interviews flesh him out | 1989 |
| Sylvester, Derek | Peter Sellers | Good | 1981 |
| Theroux, Alexander | Strange Case of Edward Gorey | Timely little study of the late strange artist/author | 2000 |
| Theroux, Alexander | Strange Case of Edward Gorey (hardback) | Timely little study of the late strange artist/author | 2000 |
| Thomas, Donald | Cochrane: Britannia's sea wolf | Thomas, Lord Cochrane: Jack Aubrey to the life | 1978 |
| Thompson, Harry | Richard Ingrams: Lord of the Gnomes | Nanny currently has this | 1994 |
| Thompson, Harry | Tintin: Hergé and his creation | Inside stories of the cartoon stories | 1991 |
| Thurlow, Clifford | Sex, Surrealism, Dali and Me | Memoirs of Carlos Lozano, member of the inner circle | 2000 |
| Thurman, Judith | Life of Colette: secrets of the flesh | Bisexual child bride of notorious rake | 1999 |
| Thwaite, Ann | Brilliant career of Winnie-the-Pooh | AA Milne & his writing for children. Wonderful scrapbook | 1992 |
| Times | Eminent Persons: obituaries, 1870 to 1875 | Includes Charles Babbage | 1892 |
| Tomalin, Claire | Jane Austen: a Life | Fine biography (revised in 2000) | 1997 |
| Trewin, Ion | Alan Clark: the biography | Fascinating, in the snake-charming sense | 2009 |
| True, Cynthia | American Scream: the Bill Hicks story | Comic banned by Letterman just before his death (Sigh) | 2002 |
| Tynan, Kathleen | Life of Kenneth Tynan | Social history & a fascinatingly active life | 1988 |
| Usborne, Richard | After hours with PG Wodehouse | Usborne's involvement with Plum, plus further insights | 1991 |
| Usborne, Richard | Wodehouse at work to the end | Literally just that | 1976 |
| Vickers, Hugo | Cecil Beaton | Rich & intimate portrait | 1985 |
| Vickers, Hugo | Loving Garbo | Garbo & her two main love affairs | 1994 |
| Wardale, Roger | Arthur Ransome & the world of 'Swallows.. | .. & Amazons'. Uber-geek & chair of Ransome Society | 2000 |
| Wardale, Roger | Arthur Ransome: master storyteller,.. | ..writing the 'Swallows & Amazons' books | 2010 |
| Warren, Roz | Revolutionary laughter: women comics | The world of women comics; interviews & profiles | 1995 |
| Waugh, Alexander | Fathers and Sons | Bron's son charts the family's saga | 2004 |
| Webb, Nick | Wish you were here: Douglas Adams | Well-informed coverage of his life | 2003 |
| Wheen, Francis | Karl Marx | Lapidary lightness, if you please | 1999 |
| Wheen, Francis | Tom Driberg, his life and indiscretions | Very good | 1990 |
| White, Michael | Asimov: the unauthorised life | Straightforward recapitulation | 1994 |
| White, Michael | Isaac Newton: the last sorcerer | Latest biography & the alchemy | 1997 |
| Whittaker, David | Stafford Beer: a personal memoir | Short but excellent | 2009 |
| Williamson, Rajkumari | Making of physicists | Fascinating stories | 1987 |
| Wilmot, John (Rochester) | Debt to pleasure | A composite biography, edited by John Adlard | 1974 |
| Wilson, Andrew | Beautiful shadow: a life of.. | ..Patricia Highsmith, the suspense & 'Ripley' writer | 2003 |
| Wilson, Aubrey | Search for Ernest Bramah: superbly.. | ..researched over 10 years. Brilliant job | 2007 |
| Winchester, Simon | Surgeon of Crowthorne | Unusual dictionary assistant | 1998 |
| Winter, Douglas E | Clive Barker: the authorised biography | Always interesting to get inside a(nother) writer's head | 2001 |
| Wrong, Michela | In the footsteps of Mr Kurtz | Rise & fall of Congolese dictator Mobutu | 2000 |
| Wullschläger, Jackie | Inventing Wonderland: lives & fantasies... | ..of Lewis Carroll, Lear, Barrie, Kenneth Grahame & AA Milne | 1995 |
| Yorke, Malcolm | Eric Gill: man of flesh and spirit | But a much-bowdlerised biography | 1981 |
| Young, Irene | Enigma variations: memoir of love and war | The stories that would be lost for ever | 1990 |
| Ziegler, Philip | Rupert Hart-Davis: man of letters | A thorough examination | 2004 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Addams, Charles | Addams and evil | 115 or so perfect examples of Family & friends | 1947 |
| Addams, Charles | Black Maria | 92, including 57 from New Yorker, 1954 to 1960 | 1960 |
| Addams, Charles | Creature comforts | From New Yorker, 1976 to 1981 | 1981 |
| Addams, Charles | Favourite haunts | 104, including 95 from New Yorker, 1946 to 1976 | 1976 |
| Addams, Charles | Monster rally | 91, including 85 from New Yorker, 1946 to 1950 | 1950 |
| Addams, Charles | My crowd | 192, including 188 from New Yorker, 1937 to 1970 | 1971 |
| Addams, Charles | Penguin Charles Addams | Black humour, 1935 through 1960 | 1962 |
| Addams, Charles | World of Charles Addams | Handsome retrospective celebration. 300 of his best cartoons | 1991 |
| Aragones, Sergio | Mad about MAD! | Artist from the margins of MAD. Excellent | 1970 |
| Arno, Peter | Man in the shower | Brilliant New Yorker cartoonist | 1944 |
| Arno, Peter | Peter Arno | Brilliant New Yorker cartoonist | 1979 |
| Arno, Peter | Sizzling platter | Brilliant New Yorker cartoonist | 1949 |
| Atkinson, Diane | Funny girls: cartooning for equality | Captures 130 years of cartoon campaigning | 1997 |
| Baker, D; Hernandez | Ben & Katie | Cartoon strip from Daily Star -- a latterday 'Jane' | 1989 |
| Batellier, JF | Is anybody out there? | Excellent satire & commentary | 1984 |
| Booth, George et al | Animals, animals, animals | Some great cartoons | 1979 |
| Boxer, Marc | Best of H M Bateman: Tatler 1922-26 | Just wonderful | 1987 |
| Breathed, Berke | Billy and the boingers bootleg | Wonderful | 1986 |
| Breathed, Berke | Bloom County Babylon | I love this guy's work! | 1986 |
| Breathed, Berke | Bloom County Episode XI: a new hope | Welcome return after too long away | 2016 |
| Breathed, Berke | Classics of Western literature, '86-89 | Fantastic | 1990 |
| Breathed, Berke | Goodnight Opus | Goodnight, indeed | 1993 |
| Breathed, Berke | Happy trails! | Oh dear, nearly the end! | 1990 |
| Breathed, Berke | His kisses are dreamy... (Outland) | Sigh | 1994 |
| Breathed, Berke | Last Basselope | Gorgeous | 1992 |
| Breathed, Berke | Loose Tails | More genius | 1983 |
| Breathed, Berke | Night of the Mary Kay commandos | Superb | 1989 |
| Breathed, Berke | One last little peek... | Alas... | 1995 |
| Breathed, Berke | Opus: 25 years of his Sunday best | Glorious | 2004 |
| Breathed, Berke | Opus: complete Sunday strips 2003-2008 | Completing my collection? | 2013 |
| Breathed, Berke | Outland: politically (etc.) incorrect | Not quite as inspired, but very nearly! | 1992 |
| Breathed, Berke | Penguin dreams and stranger things | Beautiful | 1985 |
| Breathed, Berke | Tales too ticklish to tell | Sublime | 1988 |
| Breathed, Berke | Toons for our times | Ineffable | 1984 |
| Breathed, Berke | Wish for wings that work | Xmas present from Gill & Chris | 1991 |
| Bretecher, Claire | Agrippina | Female teen from hell | 1988 |
| Brick | Too much pressure | Hard targets: arms race, unemployment, sexism... | 198? |
| Bryant, Mark | World War II in cartoons | From Chris and Gill | 1989 |
| Calman, Mel | Calman revisited | Re-issue of Bed-Sit, Boxes, Women, Couples, & Dr Calman... | 1983 |
| Calman, Mel | Help! and other ruminations | To the Government, for making a middle-aged masochist happy! | 1982 |
| Calman, Mel | My God | Any resemblance to any other deity... | 1970 |
| Calman, Mel | New Penguin Calman | From 1963 through 1972 | 1977 |
| Caniff, Milton | Male call (wartime strips 1942-1946) | A US equivalent of 'Jane' | 1987 |
| Cannon, Max | Red Meat Gold | Sickly delicious | 2005 |
| Chast, Roz | Four elements | Mundane routines of urban life, with top spin | 1988 |
| Cobb, Ron | Cobb again | More! More! Bought in Reading | 1976 |
| Cobb, Ron | Cobb book | Amazing & powerful stuff | 1975 |
| Cobb, Ron | Colorvision | Amazing insights into his early SF work | 1981 |
| Cobb, Ron | My fellow Americans | Patriotic cartoons; found by Kate in a junk pile | 1968 |
| Cobb, Ron | Raw sewage | Unprocessed cartoons; found by Kate in a junk pile | 1970 |
| Cobb, Ron | RCD-25 fanzine | 1st edition, inscribed by Cobb to William F Temple | 1967 |
| Conrad, Paul | Drawn and quartered: political cartoons | Good stuff | 1985 |
| Cuneo, John | nEuROTIC | Vicious cartoons | 2006 |
| Cusack, Helen | Rocking the boat | Gentle, wry, & often acute | 1989 |
| Darrow, Whitney | Give up? a new collection | From New Yorker, 1957 to 1965 | 1966 |
| Davidson, Steef | Penguin political comics | Large format collection, including just one by Ron Cobb | 1976 |
| de Bartolo, Dick | MAD look at old movies | Artists Mort Drucker & Jack Davis | 1966 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #1: Bristow! | Early, large-format collection labelled 'First series' | 1970 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #2: Bristow | 1st collection after syndication, I suspect | 1972 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #3: More Bristow | The 2nd collection after syndication | 1973 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #4: Bristow Latest! | Dilbert of two decades ago in his 4th outing | 1975 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #6: Bristow v Chester Perry | 18th in line for the job of Chief Buyer... | 1978 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #7: Penguin Bristow | Good representative selection of Chester-Perry's office clown | 1981 |
| Dickens, Frank | Bristow #8: Bristow's guide to living | Coping with office life in the 60s & 70s | 1982 |
| Dickens, Frank | Calmer Sutra: for those in the afternoon | .. of their lives | 2002 |
| Evans, Phil | Joke works | Grim in parts | 1986 |
| Feiffer, Jules | Sick sick sick | Funny & sane. His first collection after 3 years work | 1959 |
| Feigel, Marcel | Sinning in the rain, & other lyrics | Silly misheard titles & illustrations. Fun | 1986 |
| Feldstein, Al | Completely MAD Don Martin | Excellent | 1974 |
| ffolkes, Michael | ffolkes' cartoon companion to classical.. | ..mythology. 'Marvellous bed Procrustes - I seem to fit perfectly!' | 1978 |
| Fleming, Jacky | Demented | I bet she had a happy childhood too. ... Bitch | 2004 |
| Francis, S et al | Madam & Eve collection | South African apartheid & post-apartheid strip. Great | 1993 |
| Francois, Andre | Half-naked knight | Funny | 1958 |
| Francois, Andre | Penguin Andre Francois | From 1952 through 1964 | 1964 |
| Gibbard, Les | Gibbard's double decade omnibus | Modern history in political cartoons, 1969-1991 | 1991 |
| Gingrich, Arnold | Esquire 25th anniversary cartoon album | Over 550 slightly risqué examples | 1957 |
| Gingrich, Arnold | Esquire cartoon album | Another 550 from 1933 to 1956 | 1958 |
| Groening, Matt | Childhood is Hell | Who's to say? | 1988 |
| Groening, Matt | Love is Hell | Isn't it just? | 1984 |
| Groening, Matt | Work is Hell | I agree, mostly | 1985 |
| Gross, Sam | Your mother is a remarkable woman | Great: 'Oblivion. You are here' | 1992 |
| Handelsman, JB | Freaky Fables | Aesop was never like this... | 1979 |
| Heath, Michael | Automata | Weird & unsettling | 1976 |
| Heath, Michael | Spectator cartoon book 1992 | Excellent | 1992 |
| Heath, Michael | Spectator cartoon book 1994 | Some excellent specimens | 1994 |
| Heath, Michael | Spectator cartoon book 2000 | Free with Spectator | 2000 |
| Heath, Michael | Spectator cartoon book 2003 | Thongs of Praise | 2003 |
| Heath, Michael; Lawson, D | Spectator cartoon book 1991 | Good selection | 1991 |
| Heller, Steven | War heads: cartoonists against the bomb | Good | 1983 |
| Hoff, Sy | Editorial and political cartooning | Some searing stuff | 1976 |
| Hoffnung, Gerard | Hoffnung companion to music | I once had a whim & I had to obey it, to buy a French horn... | 1957 |
| Hollander, Nicole | Female problems: an unhelpful guide | Almost unsummarisable, but very funny | 1995 |
| Honeysett, Martin | Fit for nothing | How to survive the health boom | 1983 |
| Honeysett, Martin | Honeysett at home | Wickedly funny & acute | 1976 |
| Honeysett, Martin | Joy of headaches | How to survive the sexual revolution | 1984 |
| Honeysett, Martin | Micro Phobia | Surviving your computer & technological revolution in general | 1982 |
| Honeysett, Martin | Witch Doctor? | Surviving alternative medicine | 1985 |
| Humphries, B; Garland, N | Bazza pulls it off! | From Private Eye: the 2nd collection | 1971 |
| Humphries, B; Garland, N | Complete Barry McKenzie | Excellent. The complete saga | 1988 |
| Humphries, B; Garland, N | Wonderful world of Barry McKenzie | From Private Eye: the 1st collection | 1968 |
| Ingrams, Richard | Penguin Private Eye cartoons | Good, & often hard-edged selection | 1983 |
| Jensen, John | HM Bateman: the man who... | ..drew the 20th Century. Brilliant cartoonist | 1975 |
| Jones, WJP | Jon's complete two types | Wonderfully English | 1991 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Biggest tongue in Tunisia | 'Alien toaster found on moon!' | 1986 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Cat | 'If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one!' | 1975 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Catcalendar cats | Amazing | 1981 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Luminous animals | Wonderful | 1983 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Never eat anything bigger than your head | What a sense of humour! 'And bring some shit for my fly' | 1976 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Tiny footprints | Unclassifiable, but amazing | 1978 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Two guys fooling around with the moon | 'Out of the way, you swine! A cartoonist is coming!' | 1978 |
| Kliban, Bernard | Whack your porcupine | Know your bod: mammaries & daddaries | 1977 |
| Lambourne, Lionel; Doran, AJ | Art of Laughter | Cartoonists' & collectors' choice | 1992 |
| Lancaster, Osbert | Cartoon history of architecture | Exactly as described, even unto 'Coca-Colonial' | 1975 |
| Larson, Gary | Far side | From Carol | 1982 |
| Larson, Gary | Hound of the far side | From Carol | 1987 |
| Larson, Gary | In search of the far side | Quirky | 1985 |
| Larson, Gary | Night of the crash-test dummies | From Carol | 1988 |
| Lasson, Sally Ann | That old chestnut | So I looked up at God and I said 'God, give me a break'... | 1989 |
| Leunig, Mary | Black and white and grey | Her 4th. Some wonderful images | 1993 |
| Leunig, Mary | Piece of cake | Quirkiness personified | 1986 |
| Leunig, Mary | There's no place like home | Brilliant & quirky | 1982 |
| Leveller magazine | Laughing matters | Hard-hitting political cartoons from 1976-1982 | 1982 |
| Low, David | Complete Colonel Blimp | What a character :-) | 1991 |
| Lowry, Ray | Ink: definitive collection of strips... | .. single frame cartoons & wordplay | 1998 |
| Lowry, Ray | Only rock'n'roll | Biting musicbiz cartoons | 1980 |
| Lowry, Ray | This space to let... | Cartoons from N.M.E. & Punch | 1986 |
| Lurie, Ranan R | Lurie's Almanack | Amazing | 1982 |
| Mankoff, Robert | Complete cartoons of the New Yorker | 68,647 on 2 CDs + 650 large pages of them! | 2004 |
| Martin, Don | MAD's Don Martin comes on strong | Unclassifiable | 1971 |
| McAllister, Bryan | More little boxes | Guardian cartoonist collection of previous Labour government | 1980 |
| McCay, Winsor | Daydreams & nightmares | Wonderful cartoons & drawings | 1988 |
| McCay, Winsor | Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend | Sublime socially satirical cartoons | 1905 |
| McLachlan, Ed | McLachlan | Wonderful 40-year retrospective | 2001 |
| National Lampoon | Truly tasteless cartoons | Entering Sodom... watch your ass! | 1992 |
| New Yorker | Album of drawings, 1925 - 1975 | 500 chosen from about 40,000! | 1975 |
| New Yorker | Cartoon album 1975 - 1985 | Another 328 from the next batch of 7,000 | 1985 |
| New Yorker | New Yorker 1950-1955 cartoon album | Steig, Darrow, Addams, Arno & many others | 1955 |
| New Yorker | New Yorker album of sports & games | From 1930 to 1958 | 1958 |
| New Yorker | New Yorker book of cat cartoons | Exactly as title suggests! | 1990 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #01: Unabashed Alex | From the Independent: Big Bang to great Crash | 1988 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #02: magnum force | Marriage, & arrest of boss for Insider Trading | 1989 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #03: son of Alex | Parenthood, + visits from Past & Future at Xmas | 1990 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #04: man with the golden handshake | Redundancy, Gulf War, ET drops in | 1991 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #05: for the love of Alex | Now in Telegraph! Affair with secretary; would-be Tory MP | 1992 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #06: Alex calls the shots | Second home in country, kidnap | 1993 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #07: Alex plays the game | Sports, record year in City | 1994 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #08: Alex knows the score | Barings, boardroom pay, sex at the Bank of England, sleaze | 1995 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #09: Alex sweeps the board | Dress down days, laptops, Eurostar | 1996 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #10: Alex feels the pinch | Alex & his new female boss, plus graduate trainees | 1997 |
| Peattie, Charles; Taylor, R | Alex #11: best of Alex 1998-2001 | Dotcom bubble, Y2K meltdown, recession... | 2001 |
| Pett, Norman | Jane at War (Daily Mirror strip) | Curiosity piece at this remove | 1976 |
| Playboy | Classic cartoons of the 50s | Exactly as described | 1959 |
| Pond, Mimi | Secrets of the powder room | A Flenniken protégé: gems like 'Is she faking it?' | 1983 |
| Pyne, Ken | Martin Minton | Diary of rise & decline of a cartoon relationship | 1982 |
| Pyne, Ken | Relationship | Cartoon novel of romance in 1980s | 1981 |
| Quillin, Viv | Opposite sex | Witty cartoons | 1987 |
| Quillin, Viv et al | Sourcream 2 | Bitter & twisted. Great stuff | 1981 |
| Regan, Colm et al | Thin black lines: political cartoons & .. | ..development education | 1988 |
| Robinson, Heath | Penguin Heath Robinson | Inimitable: the multi-movement tabby silencer | 1966 |
| Sale, Jonathan | If the caption fits... | From 'Punch' caption competition; some corkers | 1981 |
| Sample, Paul | Ogri Collection #1 | Reprints strips #1 to #193 (1992) | 1998 |
| Sample, Paul | Ogri Collection #2 | Strips up to #285 (1999) + colour material | 2000 |
| Sample, Paul | Ogri Omnibus | Motorbike cult character's first 100 strips: 1972 onward | 1981 |
| Sanders, Jan | Man with the can | A 'Giles' from Holland | 1978 |
| Sanders, Jan | Old sailors never die | More Dutch 'Giles' | 1985 |
| Searle, Ronald | Terror of St Trinian's | & other wonderful drawings | 2000 |
| Serre, Claude | ...Vice compris | Elegantly rude (65ff) | 1993 |
| Serre, Claude | D.I.Y. | Clever, vicious, nightmarish & hilarious | 1983 |
| Serre, Claude | Still life | Stylish reflections on mortality | 1981 |
| Shenton, David | Bananas are not the only fruit... | Very good satire, a witty man | 1993 |
| Siggs, Lawrence | Promise me you won't laugh | Punch cartoonist of 1950s onward | 2000 |
| Sine | Erotissiné | Wicked & cruel | 1980 |
| Spectator, The | Cartoons | Some good ones | 1987 |
| Steig, William | Strutters & Fretters | One of the doodlers from 'New Yorker' | 1992 |
| Tidy, Bill | Cloggies #01: Cloggies | Beer-swilling clog dancers & their rise to glory | 1969 |
| Tidy, Bill | Cloggies #02: Cloggies dance again | More of their triumphs | 1973 |
| Tidy, Bill | Cloggies #03: Cloggies are back | Onward, ever onward | 1977 |
| Tidy, Bill | Incredible bed | Funny | 1990 |
| Tidy, Bill | Mine's a pint - what's yours? | Drinking of traditional British beer, with 'Keg Buster' | 1981 |
| Tory, Peter | Ultimate Giles: illustrated tribute | Fond memories | 1995 |
| Tribble, Fanny | Heavy Periods | Acid stuff | 1983 |
| Trostle, JP | Attack of the Political Cartoonists | Today's editorial pages (US, at least) | 2004 |
| Tucker, Nicholas | Hundred of the best: TES cartoons | From Times Educational Supplement of a gentler era | 1968 |
| Unger, Jim | Very best of Herman | Typical selection of his work | 1993 |
| Ungerer, Tomi | Erotoscope | Major Taschen retrospective | 2001 |
| Ungerer, Tomi | Joy of frogs | Rivetting | 1985 |
| Ungerer, Tomi | Testament | Powerful | 1985 |
| Van Straaten, Peter | Have you got it on yet? | Mixture of erotic satire | 1993 |
| Van Straaten, Peter | How was it for you? | Observed & overheard intimacy | 1991 |
| Van Straaten, Peter | This literary life | 'Again? What do you DO with all your advances?' | 1990 |
| Various | British cartoonists album | Cornucopeia of early 1960s cartoonists. Was Dad's | 1962 |
| Various | Dry humour (summer '76 drought) | Wish I had Shary Flenniken's 'Drought Chic' too! | 1976 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #01: Calvin and Hobbes | Early outing | 1987 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #02: Something under bed is drooling | There's nuffin under here 'cept us monsters... | 1988 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #03: Essential Calvin and Hobbes | Quintessential, more like | 1988 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #04: Yukon Ho! | aka little treasure? | 1989 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #05: Lazy Sunday book | I always preferred Saturdays | 1989 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #06: Weirdos from another planet! | Includes the plumbing incident | 1990 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #07: Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes | A(cute) observations | 1990 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #08: Scientific progress goes 'boink' | Nice tiger! But where have I put this? | 1991 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #09: Revenge of the Baby-sat | Poor Rosalyn! | 1991 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #10: Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes | To be regularly dispensed | 1992 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #11: Attack of... monster snow goons | Better than our Goons | 1992 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #12: Days are just packed | But where do they go? | 1993 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #13: Homicidal psycho jungle cat | Very nearly sublime | 1994 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #14: 10th anniversary book | Excellent | 1995 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #15: There's treasure everywhere | Even in comic strips | 1996 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #16: It's a magical world | If you wish hard enough | 1996 |
| Watterson, Bill | C&H #17: Sunday pages, 1985-1995 | Ohio University's cartoon research library! Brilliant | 2001 |
| Williams, Kipper | No peas for the wicked | Mostly cartoon "one-liners" | 1996 |
| Williams, Mike 2 | Oh No! Not the '23! - historical cartoons | Mostly from 'Punch' | 1987 |
| Williams, Mike 2 | You can't still be hungry | brilliant | 1988 |
| Wilson, Gahan | ... and then we'll get him! | From Audobon, Esquire, F&SF, Playboy, Nat Lamp & New Yorker | 1978 |
| Wilson, Gahan | Is nothing sacred? | Malicious bonhomie in the Addams mould | 1982 |
| Wolfe, Maynard Frank | Rube Goldberg: Inventions | America's answer to Heath Robinson | 2000 |
| Wright, Patrick | 101 further uses for a John Major | From Peter, Christmas 1994 | 1994 |
| Wright, Patrick | Affairs of the heart | Sublimely silly | 1985 |
| Wright, Patrick | Health and efficiency | Sublime: 'But darling, I like huge women!' | 1984 |
| Wright, Patrick | Off the road | Ferraris & other tart carts | 1988 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Agel, Jerome | Making of Kubrick's 2001 | An early 'the making of...' book; comprehensive coverage | 1970 |
| Anderson, Lindsay | Never apologise: collected writings | Magically remaindered! | 2004 |
| Anobile, Richard J | Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) | Frame by classic frame, plus all the dialogue | 1974 |
| Anobile, Richard J | Maltese Falcon (John Huston) | Frame by frame, plus all the dialogue | 1974 |
| Atkins, Thomas R | Sexuality in the movies | Interesting but very dated | 1975 |
| Atwan, Robert | Bedside Hollywood | Excellent trivial gossip to eat time | 1985 |
| Balazs, Andre | Hollywood Handbook | Life as lived, & died, at Chateau Marmont Hotel | 1996 |
| Barker, Nicholas | Unmade beds | Photos to accompany fascinating film of same title | 1998 |
| Bart, Peter; Guber, Peter | Shoot Out: surviving fame & (mis)fortune | Hollywood insiders with acute insight | 2002 |
| Base, Ron | Starring roles | How career choices work & fail in Hollywood | 1994 |
| Base, Ron; Haslam, D | Movies of the 80s | Good overview | 1990 |
| Basinger, Jeanine | It's a wonderful life: book of the film | Simply wonderful | 1986 |
| Bennett, Alan | History Boys: the film diary | History is just one fucking thing after another | 2004 |
| Bernard, Jami | Total exposure (celebrity nude scenes) | Cf. Craig Hosoda, though this is more coy | 1995 |
| Biskind, Peter | Down & Dirty Pictures | Anecdotes, characters, fights, 1989-2002 | 2004 |
| Biskind, Peter | Easy Riders Raging Bulls | Sex'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll'n'Hollywood. Where else? | 1998 |
| Biskind, Peter | Gods and Monsters | 30 years of writing | 2004 |
| Bizony, Piers | 2001: filming the future | Kubrick is absent from acknowledgements! | 1994 |
| Bizony, Piers | Digital Domain: visual effects shop... | .. founded by James Cameron & friends | 2001 |
| Bogdanovich, Peter | Who the hell's in it: portraits &.. | ..conversations with a veritable 'galaxy of stars' | 2004 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 01: forum for film makers | Fuller, Pressburger, Demme, Van Sant, Hartley, Mann | 1992 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 02: forum for film makers | Miller, Jarman, Dafoe, Altman, Robbins, Tavernier | 1993 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 03: film makers on film making | Coppola, Pollack, Kasdan, Tolkin, Tarantino, Potter | 1994 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 04.5: centenary issue | 70 international film-makers | 1995 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 04: film makers on film making | Scorsese, Toback, Penn, Fellini, Anderson | 1995 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 05: film makers on film making | JL Curtis, Harryhausen, Nick Park, Zinnemann, James Stewart | 1996 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 06: film makers on film making | Figgis, Donen, Towne, Coen Bros, Davies, Hawks | 1996 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 07: with Cahiers du Cinema | Scorsese, McDormand, Mitchum, Cox, Capra | 1997 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 08: film makers on film making | Critics & criticism of their criticism | 1998 |
| Boorman, John | Projections 09: French film makers | Interviews from 1980s & 1990s | 1999 |
| Boorman, John et al | Projections 12: film schools | Film schools, directors, digital video etc | 2002 |
| Boorman, John et al | Projections 13: women film-makers | Includes a diary of 'Personal Velocity' | 2004 |
| Bougie, Robin | Cinema Sewer, volume #1 | Gonzo writing of reviews, opinions, illustrations and comics | 2007 |
| Bougie, Robin | Cinema Sewer, volume #2 | Gonzo writing of reviews, opinions, illustrations and comics | 2009 |
| Bougie, Robin | Cinema Sewer, volume #3 | Gonzo writing of reviews, opinions, illustrations and comics | 2011 |
| Bougie, Robin | Cinema Sewer, volume #4 | Gonzo writing of reviews, opinions, illustrations and comics | 2013 |
| Bougie, Robin | Graphic Thrills: American XXX movie.. | .. posters and interviews, potted histories etc. | 2014 |
| Breakwell, I; Hammond, P | Seeing in the dark: cinemagoing | Maddeningly un-indexed; tiny essays by 100 or so film-goers | 1990 |
| Brillstein, Bernie | Where did I go right? With David Rensin | You're no one in Hollywood unless someone wants you dead | 1999 |
| Brode, Douglas | Films of the 80s | Good overview | 1990 |
| Bukatman, Scott | Blade Runner | BFI modern classic essay | 1997 |
| Calman, Mel | Calman at the movies | Interviews, anecdotes & opinions, + Calman's cartoons | 1990 |
| Carlson, Michael | Pocket Essentials: Oliver Stone | Controversial, & debatable | 2002 |
| Charity, Tom | Right Stuff | BFI modern classic essay | 1997 |
| Cheshire, Ellen | Pocket Essentials: Audrey Hepburn | Her life, work, & times | 2004 |
| Christie, Ian | Arrows of desire (Powell & Pressburger) | Good survey of Archer films | 1985 |
| Clark, Al | Making Priscilla (Queen of the desert) | The film, that is -- diary by the producer | 1994 |
| Cohan, Steve; Hark, Ina R | Screening the male: Hollywood masculinity | Valentino to Schwarzenegger, musical to horror | 1993 |
| Corliss, Richard | Talking pictures | Screenwriters in USA cinema | 1974 |
| Corman, Roger, Jerome, Jim | How I made 100 movies in Hollywood... | .. and never lost a dime. Superb tales from a hustler par excellence | 1990 |
| Cowie, Peter | Coppola | Basically an encomium | 1989 |
| Crowe, Cameron | Conversations with Wilder | Magical transcripts, beautifully illustrated throughout | 1999 |
| Decharne, Max | Hardboiled Hollywood | Origins of 11 crime films | 2003 |
| Duncan, Paul | Alfred Hitchcock: the complete films | Taschen surveys Hitch | 2003 |
| Dunne, John Gregory | Monster: living off the big screen | Tortuous tale of filmscript of Up close & personal | 1997 |
| Dyer, Richard | Matter of images: representations | How we are seen & treated, via film studies essays | 1993 |
| Eastaugh, Kenneth | Carry-on Book | Yes, well... Some of them were excellent | 1978 |
| Ebert, Roger | Little Book of Hollywood clichés | Superb & amusing | 1994 |
| Edwards, GJ; Cross, R | Worst movie posters of all time | Exactly as described | 1984 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Harlan Ellison's Watching | Film columns | 1989 |
| Elwes, Cary; Layden, Joe | As You Wish: inconceivable tales from.. | .. the making of 'The Princess Bride' | 2014 |
| Eszterhas, Joe | Devil's Guide to Hollywood | Tons of amusing anecdotage | 2006 |
| Evans, Peter Williams | Women on verge of Nervous Breakdown | BFI modern classic essay | 1996 |
| Eyles, A et al | House of Horror (Hammer films) | Complete filmography & a cast of (surprising) thousands | 1981 |
| Fenton, Harvey (ed) | Flesh & Blood compendium | First 10 sleazy years of exploitation | 2003 |
| Fenton, Harvey (ed) | Flesh & Blood, book one | Cinema from a delightfully sleazy angle | 1998 |
| Field, Syd | Four screenplays + interviews | Thelma & Louise, Silence of Lambs, T2, Dances with wolves | 1994 |
| Figgis, Mike | Projections 10: Hollywood film makers | Interesting set of interview transcripts | 1999 |
| Finler, Joel W | Movie Directors story | Glossy but reasonable coverage | 1985 |
| Flint, David | Babylon Blue: illustrated history of... | .. adult cinema. Interesting interviews & views | 1999 |
| French, Karl | Screen violence | Some excellent essays, including one by Alexander Walker | 1996 |
| French, Philip | Malle on Malle | Poole bargain bin! | 1996 |
| French, Sean | Terminator | BFI essay about James Cameron's film | 1996 |
| Friedrich, Otto | City of nets: Hollywood in the 1940s | One to dip into | 1986 |
| Gaffin, Harris | Hollywood Blue: Tinseltown pornographers | Interviews with Bill Margold & many chums | 1997 |
| Gelmis, Joseph | Film director as Superstar | Transcripts of 16 interviews: McBride, De Palma, Anderson... | 1970 |
| Gilbey, Ryan | Groundhog Day | BFI modern classic essay | 2004 |
| Giles, Jane | Crying Game | BFI modern classic essay | 1997 |
| Gilliam, Terry | Gilliam on Gilliam | Ian Christie edits the interviews | 1999 |
| Gilmore, John | Laid bare: memoir of wrecked lives & ... | .. the Hollywood death trip. Many scurrilous anecdotes | 1997 |
| Givens, Bill | Flubs #1: Film flubs | Memorable movie mistakes; bought in Florida | 1990 |
| Givens, Bill | Flubs #2: Son of Film flubs | More memorable continuity (& other) errors | 1991 |
| Givens, Bill | Flubs #3: Film flubs: the sequel | Inexhaustible? | 1992 |
| Gordon, Bernard | Hollywood exile: or how I learned to... | .. love the blacklist. Bought in Bristol | 1999 |
| Grafe, Frieda | Ghost and Mrs Muir | BFI film classic essay, free with Sight & Sound, April 2000 | 1995 |
| Grant, Richard E | With Nails: film diaries of RE Grant | Star-studded gossip of an aberrant universe | 1996 |
| Grey, Ian | Sex stupidity and greed | Inside the American movie industry -- where else? | 1997 |
| Hardwicke, Catherine | Twilight: director's notebook | Interesting insider trivia | 2009 |
| Harmetz, Aljean | Round up the usual suspects (Casablanca) | Indispensable aid for addicts | 1992 |
| Hillier, Jim | American Independent Cinema | Essays etc from 'Sight & Sound' magazine | 2001 |
| Hillier, Jim | New Hollywood | Very good fresh look | 1992 |
| Holm, DK | Kill Bill unofficial casebook | Detailed analyses of multifarious pop-cultural references | 2004 |
| Hopp, Glenn | Billy Wilder: the complete films | Taschen with 190 pp | 2003 |
| Irving, John | My movie business: a memoir | 13 years bringing 'Cider House Rules' to the screen | 1999 |
| Irving, John H | Killjoy's book of the cinema | Continuity errors for the Schmovie goer | 1985 |
| Jackson, Pat | Retake please! Night Mail to Western.. | ..Approaches. Film-maker's memoirs | 1999 |
| Jameson, Richard T | They went 'thataway': film genres | Very good essays | 1994 |
| Jarecki, Nicholas | Breaking in | 20 film directors & how they got their start | 2001 |
| Jaworzyn, Stefan | Shock #1: Xpress | First issue of the post-magazine version | 1994 |
| Jaworzyn, Stefan | Shock #3: guide to exploitation cinema | Includes Anne Billson, David Kerekes & Traci Lords! | 1996 |
| Jones, Cleolinda | Movies in fifteen minutes | Blockbusters under a satiric scalpel | 2005 |
| Kael, P; Mankiewicz, HJ | Citizen Kane book | Script, notes, & critical essay: 'Raising Kane' | 1971 |
| Kael, Pauline | Kael #02. Kiss kiss bang bang: pre-1968 | Used on a mug for Christa. Good essay on 'The Group' | 1968 |
| Kael, Pauline | Kael #05. Reeling: 1972-1975 | Incl. 'On the future of movies' | 1976 |
| Kael, Pauline | Kael #07. Taking it all in: 1980-1983 | From Diner via Eating Raoul to Victor/Victoria & Used Cars | 1986 |
| Kael, Pauline | Kael #08. State of the art: 1983-1985 | Flashdance to Amadeus via Prizzi, Gremlins & Ladyhawke | 1987 |
| Kael, Pauline | Kael #09. Hooked: 1985-1988 | After Hours to Willow via the Big Easy. I disagree totally! | 1990 |
| Kael, Pauline | Kael #10. Movie love: 1988-1991 | Dream Team to Things Change via Miss Firecracker & Rain Man | 1992 |
| Karney, Robyn | Chronicle of Cinema | Good, fat, coverage | 1995 |
| Karney, Robyn | Who's who in Hollywood | Good potted biographies of movers & shakers | 1993 |
| Kashner, Sam; MacNair, J | Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in.. | ..the Fifties. Sleaze & gossip | 2002 |
| Keesey, Douglas; Duncan, P | Paul Verhoeven | Goodly Taschen treatment | 2005 |
| Keesy, Douglas; Duncan, Paul | Erotic cinema | Taschen's highly-illustrated skim (skin?) thru the genre | 2005 |
| Kent, Nicolas | Naked Hollywood: money, power & the movies | Good on TV | 1991 |
| Kermode, Mark | Good, the Bad, and the Multiplex | Rants against digital projection and 3D | 2011 |
| Kermode, Mark | It's only a movie | Exaggerated memoir | 2010 |
| Lane, Anthony | Nobody's Perfect: film criticism from.. | ..New Yorker magazine. Much wit, wisdom, & keen observation | 2002 |
| Leish, Kenneth W | Cinema | OK, minor-league stuff | 1974 |
| Lenne, Gerard | Sex on the screen | Dated, now | 1978 |
| Linson, Art | What just happened? Bitter Hollywood tales | from the front line of deal-making/shaking | 2002 |
| Lippy, Tod | Projections 11: New York film-makers | More excellent interview transcripts | 2000 |
| Lloyd, Ann | Movies of the 30s | OK | 1983 |
| Lloyd, Ann | Movies of the 40s | OK | 1982 |
| Lloyd, Ann | Movies of the 50s | Good | 1982 |
| Lloyd, Ann | Movies of the 60s | Good | 1983 |
| Lloyd, Ann | Movies of the 70s | Good | 1984 |
| Lumet, Sidney | Making movies | As good as Goldman, to coin a phrase! | 1995 |
| Maio, Kathi | Popcorn and sexual politics | Quirky film reviews | 1991 |
| Mamet, David | Jafsie and John Henry | Essays on Hollywood, Bad Boys, Perfect Poker... | 1999 |
| Mamet, David | Some freaks | Essays on screen-writing, directing & aspects of US life | 1989 |
| Mathews, Tom Dewe | Censored: film censorship in Britain | What they cut, & why; fascinating, insulting & ridiculous | 1994 |
| McCabe, Bob | Dark Knights & Holy Fools | Art & films of Terry Gilliam | 1999 |
| McGillivray, David | Doing rude things: British sex films... | .. 1957 - 1981, including Jonathan Demme's first film work! | 1992 |
| Medavoy, Mike | You're only as good as your next one | Next film, in Hollywood, that is | 2002 |
| Medved, Harry | Fifty worst movies of all time | There are many more than 50! | 1978 |
| Medved, Harry & Michael | Golden Turkey awards | More 'worst' movies, before Michael got morally concerned | 1980 |
| Medved, Harry & Michael | Son of Golden Turkey awards | More lousy films | 1986 |
| Mendik, Xavier; Harper, G | Unruly pleasures: cult film & its critics | Essays on cinematic excesses, of all sorts | 2000 |
| Miller, Dr Frank | Casablanca - as time goes by... | Amazing | 1992 |
| Miller, Frank (1) | Censored Hollywood | Sex, sin & violence on (or not on) our cinema screens | 1994 |
| Monaco, James | How to read a film | Art, technology, language, history & theory of film & media | 1981 |
| Muller, Eddie; Faris, Daniel | That's sexploitation!! forbidden world... | .. of adults only cinema (aka Grindhouse) | 1996 |
| Muller, Jurgen | Best movies of the 90s | Taschen; who else? | 2005 |
| Muller, Jurgen | Movies of the 90s | Taschen's turn to analyse | 2001 |
| Mulvey, Laura | Citizen Kane | BFI commissioned critical study | 1992 |
| Naha, Ed | Making of 'Dune' | Great book. Shame about the film! But now see James Van Hise... | 1984 |
| Nashawaty, Chris | Crab monsters, teenage cavemen, and candy.. | .. stripe nurses. What else but Roger Corman's films? | 2013 |
| Peary, Danny | Alternate Oscars | Brilliant idea: capture the (usually better) also-rans | 1993 |
| Peary, Danny | Closeups: profiles of movie stars | Silly but fascinating | 1978 |
| Peary, Danny | Cult movies 1 | Excellent choices, well-described | 1981 |
| Peary, Danny | Cult movies 2 | Ditto | 1983 |
| Peary, Danny | Cult movies 3 | Starting to scrape the celluloid barrel | 1988 |
| Peary, Danny | Guide for the film fanatic | I guess that's me, from time to time | 1986 |
| Petkovich, Anthony | X Factory: inside US XXX film industry | Interviews with starlets, directors, cameramen, fluffers | 1997 |
| Petrie, Duncan | Inside stories: diaries of UK film-makers | Absorbing & self-absorbed | 1996 |
| Philips, Baxter | Cut: the unseen cinema | See my early interests? Sex, politics & transgressive images | 1975 |
| Pierson, John | Spike Mike Slackers & Dykes | 10 years of independent US cinema | 1995 |
| Pym, John | TimeOut film guide | 12th edition, & much improved | 2004 |
| Queenan, Joe | Confessions of a cineplex heckler | Kael on acid with added attitude | 2000 |
| Queenan, Joe | If you're talking to me, your career... | .. must be in trouble. Excellent essays & insights | 1994 |
| Quinlan, David | Quinlan's film stars | Pricey but comprehensive | 1996 |
| Re/search | Incredibly strange films | As described! | 1986 |
| Robb, Brian J | Pocket Essentials: James Cameron | Ego-driven monomaniac? | 2002 |
| Robertson, Patrick | Guinness book of movie facts & feats | Trivia-packed & wonderful | 1993 |
| Rohdie, Sam | Rocco & his brothers (Visconti) | BFI film classic essay free with 'Sight & Sound' April 2000 | 1992 |
| Rosenblum, R; Karen, R | When the shooting stops... cutting begins | Memoirs from editor of Woody Allen, Friedkin, Brooks et al | 1979 |
| Salamon, Julie | Devil's candy | Skimmed only | 1991 |
| Salisbury, Mark | Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: an invitation.. | ..to the Wedding. Lavish tribute | 2005 |
| Sammon, Paul M | Future Noir: the making of 'Blade Runner' | Almost obsessive details of what's, after all, just a film! | 1996 |
| Sammon, Paul M | Making of Starship Troopers | Man meets (virtual) bugs | 1997 |
| Sellers, Robert | Always look on the Bright Side of Life | Inside account of Handmade Films | 2003 |
| Shay, Don; Duncan, Jody | Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Good of its kind | 1993 |
| Shindler, Colin | Hollywood goes to war: 1939-52 | Films & American society during that fraught time | 1979 |
| Shone, Tom | Blockbuster: how the Jaws & Jedi.. | ..generation turned Hollywood into a boom-town | 2004 |
| Sibley, Brian; Lord, Peter | Cracking animation: Aardman book of 3-D.. | .. animation. Claymation from Morph onwards | 1998 |
| Simpson, Paul | Rough Guide to Cult movies | Some weird categories | 2004 |
| Smoodin, Eric | Animating culture: Hollywood cartoons... | .. from the sound era | 1993 |
| Smurthwaite, Nick et al | Mel Brooks and the spoof movie | OK | 1982 |
| Solomon, Jack | Disney's Snow White | OK | 1979 |
| Sonnenfeld, Barry et al | Men in Black | Script & story behind this fun film | 1997 |
| Staggs, Sam | All about 'All about Eve' | Literally complete story of the film | 2000 |
| Stallings, Penny | Flesh and fantasy | Richly illustrated Hollywood star glam-fest | 1978 |
| Stevenson, Jack | Fleshpot: cinema's sexual myth makers &.. | ..taboo breakers. Outré realms of erotic cinema | 2000 |
| Stewart, Steve | Campy vampy trampy movie quotes | 901 bitchy barbs, wicked wisecracks & lusty lampoons | 1996 |
| Stoller, RJ; Levine, IS | Coming attractions: making X-rated videos | Interviews with performers, directors, etc. see Petkovich | 1993 |
| Strick, Philip | Science Fiction movies | Not too bad | 1976 |
| Thomas, Philip | Movie Heaven: new film writing | Free with 'Empire'; various writers & short essays | 1995 |
| Thompson, David | Last tango in Paris | BFI modern classic essay | 1998 |
| Thompson, Emma | Sense & Sensibility: screenplay &.. | .. film production diaries | 1995 |
| Thompson, P; Usukawa, S | Hard-boiled: great lines from classic... | .. noir films. 'Be smart, Charlie. Act dumb' | 1995 |
| Thomson, David | Beneath Mulholland | Thoughts (essays) on Hollywood & its ghosts | 1997 |
| Thomson, David | Big Sleep | BFI modern classic essay on film of Chandler story | 1997 |
| Thomson, David | Have you seen...? | Covers 1000 films, one per page | 2008 |
| Thomson, David | Rosebud: the story of Orson Welles | Enigma that was Welles | 1996 |
| Time-Life | Life goes to the movies | Good | 1975 |
| Travers, Peter | Rolling Stone film reader | Excellent range of interviews | 1996 |
| Truffaut, Francois | Films in my life | Essays on specific films & film-makers | 1975 |
| Vachon, Christine | Shooting to kill | Diary of independent film production. Excellent stuff | 1998 |
| Van Gelder, Peter | Offscreen onscreen: 60 inside stories | Plenty of inside info | 1990 |
| Various | How do I look? Queer film and video | 6 interesting essays | 1991 |
| Vaz, Mark Cotta | Breaking Dawn #1: movie companion | Nice overview | 2011 |
| Vaz, Mark Cotta | Eclipse: illustrated movie companion | Nice overview | 2010 |
| Vaz, Mark Cotta | New Moon: illustrated movie companion | Nice overview | 2009 |
| Vaz, Mark Cotta | Twilight: illustrated movie companion | Nice overview | 2009 |
| Verhoeven, Paul et al | Showgirls: portrait of a film | Sleazy but actually rather good | 1995 |
| Walker, Alexander | Icons in the fire | UK film industry between 1984 & 2000 | 2004 |
| Walker, Alexander | National Heroes: UK cinema in 70s & 80s | Study of the industry & its infrastructure | 1985 |
| Warshow, Robert | Immediate experience | Seminal film criticism | 1962 |
| Webb, Michael | Hollywood: legend and reality | Unremembered | 1986 |
| Weiss, Andrea | Vampires and violets (lesbians in films) | Long-standing love/hate affair. Pre-dates 'Bound', sadly | 1992 |
| Whedon, Joss | Serenity: official visual companion | Includes screenplay & loads of production shots | 2005 |
| Wiegand, Chris | Federico Fellini: complete films | Taschen overview | 2003 |
| Williams, Linda Ruth | Erotic thriller in contemporary cinema | Mrs Mark Kermode cuts loose fascinatingly & wittily | 2005 |
| Wilson, David | Sight and Sound 50th anniversary | Good stuff | 1982 |
| Wistrich, Enid | I don't mind the sex, it's the violence | Chairman of GLC film censors: a sane voice in an endless debate | 1978 |
| Wolf, William | Landmark films | OK, though arguable choices | 1979 |
| Working Title Films | Laundrettes & Lovers: 20 years.. | ..of a British film company | 2003 |
| Wortley, Richard | Erotic movies | See what I mean about Wortley's interests? | 1975 |
| Yacowar, Maurice | Loser take all | Woody Allen's comic art as far as 1979 | 1979 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Aldiss, Brian W | Supertoys last all summer long | 19, including basis of Kubrick/Spielberg's 'A.I.' | 2001 |
| Anthony, Piers | Anthonology | 21, including 'Up Schist Creek' interspersed with autobio notes | 1985 |
| Ashley, Mike | Mammoth book of seriously comic fantasy | 34, incl WS Gilbert! | 1999 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Azazel | 18 tales of a little fantasy demon | 1988 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Buy Jupiter... | 24, incl 4th 'Thiotimoline' tale | 1975 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Early Asimov #3 | 7, incl 'Thiotimoline' | 1972 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Final Gold SF collection | Last 15 stories, & final homilies from the good Doctor | 1995 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #00: Black Projects, White Knights | Rundown of the 'Company' characters in various short stories | 2001 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #08: Gods and Pawns | 8 linked tales | 2001 |
| Ballard, JG | Atrocity exhibition | 15, incl 'You & me & the continuum', 'Crash!' | 1969 |
| Ballard, JG | Atrocity exhibition (rev ed.) | Re/Search illustrated edition, with Ballard's annotations | 1990 |
| Ballard, JG | Day of forever | 10, incl 'Assassination of JFK', 'Man on the 99th floor' | 1967 |
| Ballard, JG | Disaster Area | 9, incl 'Subliminal man', 'Concentration city' | 1967 |
| Ballard, JG | Four-dimensional nightmare | 8, incl 'Prima Belladonna', 'Studio 5, the stars' | 1963 |
| Ballard, JG | Four-dimensional nightmare (revised) | 8, incl 'Sound-sweep', 'Garden of Time' | 1977 |
| Ballard, JG | Low-flying aircraft | 9, incl 'Comsat Angels' | 1976 |
| Ballard, JG | Overloaded man | 10, incl 'Venus hunters', 'Track 12' | 1967 |
| Ballard, JG | Terminal beach | 12, incl 'Billennium' | 1964 |
| Ballard, JG | Vermilion sands | 9, incl 'Singing statues', 'Cloud-sculptors of Coral D' | 1971 |
| Blish, James | Galactic cluster | 5, incl 'Beep', 'Nor iron bars', 'Common time' | 1960 |
| Brown, Fredric | Best of Fredric Brown | 29, edited by Rob Bloch, incl 'Answer', 'Letter to a Phoenix' | 1977 |
| Brown, Fredric | Daymares | 7, incl 'Honeymoon in Hell' | 1968 |
| Brown, Fredric | Nightmares and Geezenstacks | Over 45 classic, ultra-short pieces | 1961 |
| Brunner, John | Book of John Brunner | His own selection of material & stories | 1976 |
| Brunner, John | No future in it | 11, incl 'Report on the nature of the Lunar Surface' | 1962 |
| Brunner, John | Not before time | 10, incl 'Warp & the woof-woof' | 1968 |
| Brunner, John | Now then | 3: 'Some lapse of time', 'Imprint of chaos', 'Thou good & faithful' | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Out of my mind | 10, incl 'When Gabriel...', 'Last lonely man' | 1968 |
| Charnas, Suzy McKee | Vampire tapestry | Gripping & sympathetic; five linked stories | 1980 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Collected Stories | 966 pages: cor, what a set of whoppers! | 2000 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Expedition to Earth | 11, incl 'Sentinel', 'Breaking strain', 'Loophole' | 1954 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Other side of the sky | 24 ultra-shorts, written between 1947 & 1957 | 1961 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Reach for tomorrow | 12, incl 'Forgotten enemy', 'Time's arrow', 'Rescue party' | 1956 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Tales from the White Hart | 15, incl 'Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch', 'Silence please' | 1957 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Tales of ten worlds | 15, incl 'Slight case of sunstroke', 'I remember Babylon' | 1962 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Wind from the sun | 18 from the 1960s, incl 'Neutron Tide' | 1973 |
| Clement, Hal | Best of Hal Clement | 10, incl 'Technical error', 'Stuck with it' | 1979 |
| Cogswell, Theodore R | Third eye | 16, incl 'Disassembly line', 'Impact with the devil' | 1968 |
| Cogswell, Theodore R | Wall around the world | 10, incl 'Specter General', 'Wolfie', 'Thimgs' | 1962 |
| de Camp, L Sprague | Best of Lyon Sprague De Camp | 18, including 'Gnarly Man', 'Language for time travelers' | 1978 |
| Del Rey, Lester | Best of Lester del Rey | 16, including 'Helen O'Loy', 'Hereafter, Inc.', 'Instinct' | 1978 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | In the bone | 11 often-collected tales | 1987 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | Lost Dorsai | Contains 'Lost Dorsai' & 'Warrior' & a critical essay | 1980 |
| Ellison, Harlan | All the sounds of fear | 8, including 'Silver corridor', 'Discarded', 'Bright eyes' | 1971 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Angry Candy | 17 stories & a heart-felt introduction | 1989 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Approaching oblivion | 11, including 'Silent in Gehenna', 'Erotophobia', 'Catman' | 1974 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Beast that shouted love... | 15, including 'Shattered like a glass goblin', 'Phoenix' | 1969 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Deathbird stories | 19, including 'Whimper of whipped dogs', 'Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes' | 1975 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Earthman, go home! (Ellison Wonderland) | 16, including 'Do-it-yourself', 'Battlefield', 'Gnomebody' | 1962 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Ellison wonderland | 16, 'Back to the drawing boards' replacing 'Forces that crush' | 1962 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Essential Ellison | Accurate description, & some hilarious rants | 1991 |
| Ellison, Harlan | From the land of fear | 11, including 2 versions of 'Soldier' | 1967 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Illustrated Harlan Ellison | Tales with art by Steranko, Reese, the Dillons & others | 1978 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Shatterday | 16, including 'Flop sweat', 'All the lies that are my life' | 1980 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Slippage: uncollected stories etc. | Possibly his last? | 1997 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Stalking the nightmare | 16, including 'Grail'; bought in Texas | 1982 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Time of the eye | 12, including 'Are you listening?', 'Nothing for my noon meal' | 1971 |
| Ellison, Harlan et al | Partners in wonder | Ellison plus 15 other writers | 1971 |
| Garrett, Randall | Lord Darcy | 11, including 'Too many magicians' (novel length) and 10 more stories | 2014 |
| Gibson, William | Burning chrome | 10, including 'Johnny Mnemonic', 'Dogfight' | 1986 |
| Gotlieb, Phyllis | Son of the morning | 10, including 'Tauf Aleph', 'Blue apes', 'Grain of manhood' | 1983 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Dawn #0: Second chance at Eden | 7, all set in same milieu as Night's Dawn trilogy | 1998 |
| Harness, Charles L | Ornament to his Profession, An | Very large collection (Kindle edition) | 2015 |
| Harness, Charles L | Rose | Very unusual metamorphosis novella, + 2 shorts | 1968 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Assignment in Eternity | 4: Gulf; Elsewhen; Lost legacy; Jerry was a man | 1953 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Expanded Universe | Courtesy of Ken Goddard; this was limited to the US | 1980 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Green hills of Earth | 10, including 'Gentlemen, be seated', 'Ordeal in Space' | 1954 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Man who sold the moon | 6, including 'Life-line', 'Requiem', 'Blow-ups happen' | 1953 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Menace from Earth | 8, including 'Water is for washing', 'Goldfish Bowl', 'Sky lift' | 1959 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Revolt in 2100 | 3: If this goes on...; Coventry; Misfit | 1953 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Unpleasant profession of Jonathan Hoag | We are all property (Charles Fort) | 1959 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Waldo and Magic Inc. | Physically helpless genius; racketeers v witchcraft | 1951 |
| Henderson, Zenna | Anything box | 14, including 'Something bright', 'Food to all flesh' | 1965 |
| Henderson, Zenna | Holding wonder | 20, including 'Through a glassdarkly', 'Ad Astra' | 1971 |
| Henderson, Zenna | Ingathering: complete People Collection | Finally, the full set! (2nd hand, from Atlanta) | 1995 |
| Henderson, Zenna | People Collection | 16 linked stories, not including 'That Boy' (F&SF, Nov 1971) | 1991 |
| Kapp, Colin | Unorthodox Engineers | Five collected stories | 1979 |
| Kornbluth, Cyril M | Best of CM Kornbluth | Edited by Pohl; 19, including 'Little Black Bag', 'Silly Season' | 1976 |
| Kuttner, Henry | Ahead of time | 9, including 'Or else', 'Deadlock', 'Pile of trouble' | 1953 |
| Kuttner, Henry | Best of Kuttner 1 | 15, including 'Ego machine', 'Absalom', 'Housing problem' | 1965 |
| Kuttner, Henry | Best of Kuttner 2 | 14, including 'Endowment policy', 'Twonky', 'Clash by night' | 1966 |
| Kuttner, Henry | Return to otherness | 8, including 'See you later', 'Android', 'Sky is falling' | 1962 |
| Kuttner, Henry | Robots have no tails | 5 tales of post-hangover problems of inventor Gallegher | 1952 |
| Lang, Andrew | Brown fairy book | 32 examples | 1904 |
| Lang, Andrew | Crimson fairy book | 43 examples | 1903 |
| Lang, Andrew | Green fairy book | 42 examples | 1893 |
| Lang, Andrew | Grey fairy book | 35 from around the world | 1900 |
| Lang, Andrew | Lilac fairy book | 33 examples | 1910 |
| Lang, Andrew | Olive fairy book | 29 examples | 1907 |
| Lang, Andrew | Orange fairy book | 33 examples | 1906 |
| Lang, Andrew | Pink fairy book | 41 examples | 1897 |
| Lang, Andrew | Red fairy book | 27 examples from 'the second gleaning' | 1890 |
| Lang, Andrew | Violet fairy book | 35 from around the world | 1901 |
| Lang, Andrew | Yellow fairy book | 48 examples | 1894 |
| Laumer, Keith | Envoy to new worlds | 6 outings for the James Bond of the 29th Century: Jame Retief | 1963 |
| Laumer, Keith | Galactic Diplomat | 9, including 'Saline solution', 'Wicker wonderland' | 1966 |
| Laumer, Keith | Retief of the CDT | 5, including 'Pime doesn't Cray', Piecemakers' | 1971 |
| Laumer, Keith | Retief: ambassador to space | 7, including 'Grime & Punishment', 'Forest in the sky' | 1970 |
| Laumer, Keith | Retief: emissary to the stars | 5, including 'Garbage Invasion' & excerpt from 'Warlords' | 1975 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Tales from Earthsea | 5 stories excellently filling in gaps and cracks | 2001 |
| Le Guin, Ursula; Attebery, B | Norton Book of Science Fiction | Covering 1960 to 1990, & North America only | 1993 |
| Leinster, Murray | Best of Murray Leinster | 10, including 'Ethical equations', 'De Profundis', 'Scrimshaw' | 1976 |
| Leinster, Murray | Best of Murray Leinster | 13, including 'First contact', 'Sidewise in Time', 'Symbiosis' | 1978 |
| Leinster, Murray | Doctor to the stars | 'Grandfathers' war', 'Med ship man', 'Tallien three' | 1964 |
| Leinster, Murray | Logic named Joe | Kindle edition of classic tales | 2010 |
| Leinster, Murray | Med Series | 4, including 'Plague on Kryder II', 'Ribbon in the sky' | 1983 |
| Leinster, Murray | Planet explorer (aka Colonial survey) | 'Solar constant', 'Combat team', 'Swamp was upside down' | 1957 |
| Lovecraft, Howard P | Call of Cthulhu & other weird stories | Definitive texts annotated by ST Joshi | 1999 |
| Malzberg, Barry N | Best of Barry Malzberg | Boy, what an ego! 38 stories + top & tail pieces | 1976 |
| McKenna, Richard | Casey Agonistes & other SF&F stories | 5, incl 'Hunter, come home', 'Secret place', 'Fiddler's Green' | 1973 |
| Moore, CL | Best of CL Moore | 10, including 'Shambleau', 'Vintage season', 'No woman born' | 1975 |
| Niven, Larry | All the myriad ways | 14, including 'Man of Steel, woman of Kleenex', 'Passerby' | 1971 |
| Niven, Larry | Convergent Series | 21, including 'The subject is closed', 'Plaything', 'Mistake' | 1979 |
| Niven, Larry | Crashlander | One new Beowulf Shaeffer story | 1994 |
| Niven, Larry | Draco Tavern | 27, in an updated collection from that polar bar | 2006 |
| Niven, Larry | Flight of the Horse | 7 tales of Svetz, time-travelling civil servant | 1973 |
| Niven, Larry | Hole in Space | 10, including 'There is a tide', 'Rammer', 'Fourth profession' | 1974 |
| Niven, Larry | Inconstant moon | 12, in a UK-only variant. Includes 'Convergent Series', 'Passerby' | 1973 |
| Niven, Larry | Limits | 12, including 'Roentgen Standard' & 5 from Draco's Tavern | 1985 |
| Niven, Larry | Long ARM of Gil Hamilton | 3: 'Death by ecstasy', 'Defenseless Dead', 'ARM' | 1976 |
| Niven, Larry | N-Space | 30 or so retrospectively collected, including snippets & excerpts | 1990 |
| Niven, Larry | Neutron star | 8, including 'At the Core', 'Flatlander', 'Grendel' | 1968 |
| Niven, Larry | Tales of known space | 13, including 'Safe at any speed', 'Becalmed in Hell' | 1975 |
| Nourse, Alan E | Beyond infinity | 9, including 'PRoblem', 'Coffin cure', 'Family resemblance' | 1962 |
| Nourse, Alan E | Counterfeit man | 11, including 'Ounce of cure', 'Second sight' | 1964 |
| Perrault, Charles | Complete Fairy Tales (Trans. C Betts) | Illustrated by Gustave Dore | 2009 |
| Piper, H Beam | Empire | 4, including 'Edge of the knife', 'Ministry of Disturbance' | 1981 |
| Piper, H Beam | Federation | 5, including 'Omnilingual' | 1981 |
| Piper, H Beam | Paratime | 5, including 'Last enemy', 'Time crime', 'Temple trouble' | 1981 |
| Pohl, Frederik | Frederik Pohl Omnibus | 13, including 'Day of the Boomer Dukes', 'I Plinglot, who you?' | 1966 |
| Porges, Arthur | Rescuer, and other SF stories | 18, including 'A Specimen for the Queen' | 2014 |
| Porges, Arthur | Ruum, and other SF stories | 14, including 'The Ruum' (obviously!) | 2013 |
| Reynolds, Mack | Best of Mack Reynolds | 22, including 'Pacifist', 'Earthlings, go home!' | 1976 |
| Robinson, Spider | Callahan's Crosstime Saloon | 9, including 'Guy with the eyes', 'Time-traveler' | 1977 |
| Robinson, Spider | Callahan's Secret | 4, including 'Involuntary man's laughter', 'Mick of Time' | 1986 |
| Robinson, Spider | Lady slings the booze | 17 good-natured tales that are 'writing of prostitutes' | 1992 |
| Robinson, Spider | Time travellers strictly cash | 11, including 'Rah Rah R.A.H.' (Heinlein tribute) | 1981 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Best of Eric Frank Russell | 13, including 'Homo Saps', 'Late night final', 'Dear Devil' | 1978 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Deep space | 9, including 'First person singular', 'Second genesis' | 1954 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Like nothing on Earth | 7, including 'Allamagoosa', 'Hobbyist', 'Ultima Thule' | 1975 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Major Ingredients | 30 excellent examples, edited by Rick Katze | 1998 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Men, Martians and machines | 'Jay Score', 'Mechanistria', 'Symbiotica', 'Mesmerica' | 1955 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Six worlds yonder | 6, including 'Waitabits', 'Diabologic', 'Nothing new' | 1958 |
| Schmitz, James H | Telzey toy | 'Telzey Toy', 'Resident witch', 'Compulsion', 'Company planet' | 1973 |
| Sheckley, Robert | Robert Sheckley omnibus | 12, excluding 'Immortality, Inc.' | 1973 |
| Simak, Clifford D | Best of Clifford D Simak | 10, including 'Final Gentleman' + intro & bibliography | 1975 |
| Sladek, John T | Steam-driven boy | 13, plus 10 parodies (not sure Sladek is that good) | 1973 |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Best of Cordwainer Smith | 12, incl. 'Scanners live in vain' & good intro by JJ Pierce | 1975 |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Instrumentality of mankind | 14, including 'No, no, not Rogov!', 'Think blue, count two' | 1979 |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Quest of the three worlds | 4, including 'On the gem planet', 'On the storm planet' | 1966 |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Space lords | 5, including 'Drunkboat', 'Planet named Shayol' | 1965 |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Under old Earth | 7, including 'Crime & glory of Commander Suzdal' | 1966 |
| Sturgeon, Theodore | Caviar | 8, including 'Microcosmic God', 'Twink', 'Medusa' | 1955 |
| Sturgeon, Theodore | Way Home | 9, including 'Hurkle is a happy beast', 'Special aptitude' | 1955 |
| Sturgeon, Theodore | Worlds of Theodore Sturgeon | 9, including 'Skills of Xanadu', 'There is no defense' | 1972 |
| Tenn, William | Time in advance | 4, including 'Winthrop was stubborn', 'Firewater', 'Sickness' | 1958 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Crown of Stars | Last 10, including 'In midst of life' | 1988 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Star songs of an old primate | 7, including 'Your haploid heart' + Le Guin intro | 1978 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Ten thousand light years from home | 15, including 'Faithful to thee, Terra, in our fashion' | 1973 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Warm worlds and otherwise | 12, including 'Through a lass darkly' + Silverberg intro | 1975 |
| Vinge, Vernor | Collected stories of Vernor Vinge | 17, incl mid-60s Analog material | 2001 |
| Wells, HG | Selected short stories | 21, including Pyecraft. 'Dickens meets Poe' according to HE Bates | 1927 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Tomorrow's crimes | Includes 'Anarchaos' (novel) & 9 stories | 1989 |
| White, James | Aliens among us | Good | 1969 |
| Wyndham, John | Consider her ways and Others | Title novella plus 5 shorts | 1961 |
| Wyndham, John | Gooseflesh and laughter | 11 stories | 1956 |
| Wyndham, John | Jizzle | 15, a superset of 'Gooseflesh & laughter' | 1954 |
| Wyndham, John | Seeds of time | 10, including 'Pawley's peepholes' | 1956 |
| Wyndham, John | Wanderers of time | 5 from the 1930s | 1939 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Doors of his face, lamps of his mouth | 15, including 'Great slow kings', 'Rose for Ecclesiastes' | 1971 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Four for tomorrow | Includes 'A Rose for Ecclesiastes', 'Doors of his face...' | 1967 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Unicorn variations | 21 stories with 'wrappers' round them | 1983 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
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| Aragones, Sergio | Buzz and Bell: space cadets | Wonderful comix | 1990 |
| Aragones, Sergio | Death of Groo | Very funny comix | 1987 |
| Badajos, Ed | Filipino Food | Completely brilliantly-drawn acid trip. Bought in Hatfield | 1972 |
| Bagge, Peter | Adventures of Junior and other losers | Excellent, insightful comix | 1990 |
| Bagge, Peter | Bradleys | Dysfunctional family rules OK comix | 1989 |
| Barela, Tim | L&L #1: Domesticity isn't pretty | Life with gay comix partners Leonard & Larry | 1993 |
| Barela, Tim | L&L #2: Kurt Cobain and Mozart are.. | ..both dead. More angst with Leonard & Larry | 1996 |
| Barela, Tim | L&L #3: Excerpts from the Ring Cycle in.. | ..Royal Albert Hall. | 2000 |
| Barela, Tim | L&L #4: How real men do it | Leonard & Larry, of course! | 2003 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #01: Dykes to watch out for (twof) | Great romances that never were. Excellent stuff | 1986 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #02: More dykes (twof) | Includes Mo & Harriet's first night together! Wonderful | 1988 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #03: New, Improved! Dykes (twof) | Soap opera was never like this | 1990 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #04: Dykes (twof): the sequel | Includes 'Serial Monogamy' - a documentary | 1992 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #05: Spawn of dykes (twof) | Includes 'Flesh & Blood' - birth of Toni & Clarice's baby boy | 1993 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #06: Unnatural dykes (twof) | Includes 'Sentimental Education' - the group 15 years ago | 1995 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #07: Hot, throbbing dykes (twof) | Tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through dykedom | 1997 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #08: Split Level dykes (twof) | Perils of house-buying split the 'community' | 1998 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #09: Post-Dykes (twof) | Put the Mo back in PoMo! | 2000 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #10: & sundry other carbon-based | lifeforms (twof). 20 years on! | 2003 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Dykes #11: Invasion of the dykes (twof) | In the rainbow land of (home)land security | 2005 |
| Bechdel, Alison | Essential dykes to watch out for | Useful catch-up compendium | 2008 |
| Boatner, C; Parkhouse, S | Hiding Place | Last members of each species go here | 1990 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Cheech wizard #01 | From National Lampoon & earlier. 1956 - 1974 | 1990 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Cheech wizard #02 | From National Lampoon & earlier. mid 60s - 1975 | 1990 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Deadbone (b&w from 1968) | Early pencil material & character sketches. 1969 - 1970 | 1989 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Deadbone erotica #02 | Colour material (Cavalier & Swank) from 1971 - 1974 | 1988 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Deadbone erotica #03 | Colour material from Cavalier. 1972 - 73 | 1997 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Diary sketchbook for 1965 | Good stuff | 1990 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Junkwaffel, #01 | Material from 1968 - 1975. Nearly all b&w | 1993 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Poem Toons | He got a 1969 Hugo for best fan artist! Slim but pretty | 1989 |
| Bodé, Vaughan | Schizophrenia | Scraping up loose jottings & manifestos | 2001 |
| Bodé, Vaughan; Wrightson, B | Collected purple pictography | Fun, but surely not complete! I want more | 1991 |
| Bolland, Brian | Bolland strips! | Actress & the Bishop, et al | 2005 |
| Boys, P; Pearlman, C | Comic book of first love | Good selection | 1988 |
| Boys, P; Pearlman, C | Comic book of the facts of life | Excellent selection | 1991 |
| Burns, Charles | Black Hole | Fat monochrome saga of high school alienation | 2005 |
| Campbell, Eddie | Complete Eric | Weird but engaging | 1990 |
| Cannon, Max | More red meat | Just as zany | 1998 |
| Cannon, Max | Red Meat | Deceptively simple 3-frame format hard-hitters | 1996 |
| Chapman, Robyn; Nelson, K | True Porn 2 | Autobiographical sex stories in comix form | 2005 |
| Charlesworth, Kate | Seven ages of woman | Wonderful stuff | 1990 |
| Christina, Greta | Best erotic comics 2008 | Clowes, Gloeckner, Hernandez et al | 2007 |
| Christina, Greta | Best erotic comics 2009 | Bechdel, Kuper, Coover et al | 2009 |
| Christina, Greta | Best erotic comics #3 | Not yet released | 2009 |
| Collier, David | Just the facts: a decade of comics essays | Collection of comix sideways views. Quirky | 1998 |
| Colwell, Guy | Doll | Manara territory but worthier; collects 3x 'Doll' comix | 1989 |
| Colwell, Guy | Inner City Romance | Some hard-hitting commentary | 2014 |
| Coover, Colleen; Tobin, Paul | Small Favors, book one | Girly porno comix collection | 2002 |
| Crane, Tristan; Naifeh, Ted | How loathsome | Subjective nature of gender, huh? | 2004 |
| CreativeForce Designs | CFD book of lingerie | Summer 1994 edition, bought in Forbidden Planet | 1994 |
| Crumb, Maxon; Zwigoff, Terry | Crumb family comics | Crazy? Perhaps, but amazing talents all round, too | 1998 |
| Crumb, Robert | Art & Beauty magazine | The copyright says 'beaty' not beauty! To uplift & enlighten... | 1996 |
| Crumb, Robert | Art & Beauty magazine #2 | Marvellous work | 2003 |
| Crumb, Robert | Best Buy comics | Wunnerful | 1979 |
| Crumb, Robert | Big Yum Yum book | Sweet! (And wasted on its recipient) | 1975 |
| Crumb, Robert | Book of Genesis | Five years of work | 2009 |
| Crumb, Robert | Book of Mr Natural | Outrageous | 1995 |
| Crumb, Robert | Book of Postcardsl | Unearthed in Portswood | 2006 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 01 | Words fail me: the early years of bitter struggle | 1987 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 02 | Some more early years of bitter struggle | 1988 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 03 | Starring Fritz the Cat | 1988 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 04 | Mr Sixties | 1989 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 05 | Happy Hippy Comix | 1990 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 06 | On the crest of a wave | 1991 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 07 | Hot 'n' Heavy | 1991 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 08 | Carol bought this for me in NY - death of Fritz the Cat | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 09 | R Crumb versus the Sisterhood | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 10 | Crumb advocates violent overthrow | 1994 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 11 | Mr Natural committed to a mental institution | 1995 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 12 | We're livin' in the "Lap o' luxury" | 1997 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 13 | Season of the Snoid, intro by Maxon | 1998 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 14 | Early '80s & Weirdo magazine, bought in Bluewater | 2000 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 15 | Covers 1983 to 85 and early Weirdos, Mode O'Day etc. | 2000 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 16 | Mid 1980s & severe depressions sweep the Crumb | 2002 |
| Crumb, Robert | Complete Crumb comics: 17 | Cave Wimp, Mode O'Day, Academy Awards, France, late 80s | 2005 |
| Crumb, Robert | Endzeit comics (in German) | For Christa as a taster | 1986 |
| Crumb, Robert | Head comix (with 1987 introduction) | Excellent | 1968 |
| Crumb, Robert | Home Grown Funnies #1 | 16th printing (Dec 1997) & going strong! | 1971 |
| Crumb, Robert | Hup #1 - #4 | Incredible | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | Life and death of Fritz the Cat | Excellent | 1993 |
| Crumb, Robert | Love to ten: Crumb in Zap comix | Wonderful stuff | 198? |
| Crumb, Robert | Miettes (Crumbs) aka 'Odds & Ends' | Beautifully produced (French) retrospective of small-scale Crumb | 2000 |
| Crumb, Robert | Motor City comics #1/#2 | Kicking butt with Leonore Goldberg | 1991 |
| Crumb, Robert | My troubles with women | Banned, unbelievably | 1990 |
| Crumb, Robert | Mystic Funnies #1 | In colour, yet! Mr Natural & the gang | 1997 |
| Crumb, Robert | Odds & Ends | English version for completeness | 2001 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb Coffee Table Art Book | Crumb's whole career from Shack to Chateau! Now in colour!! | 1997 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb draws the Blues | And how! | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb postcard book | Now mounted in my study | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #1 | 1964 to mid-1965 | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #2 | mid-1965 to early 1966 | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #3 | 1966 material | 1993 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #4 | late 1966 to mid-1967 | 1994 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #5 | late 1967 to early 1968 | 1995 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #6 | mid-1968 to mid-1969 | 1997 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #7 | mid-1969 to end 1970 | 1999 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #8 | Fall 1970 to Fall 1972 | 2000 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #9 | In the mid 1970s | 2002 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb sketchbooks #10 | 1975 to 1977 | 2004 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb's America | Biting | 1994 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb's Carload o'comics | Excellent; surprised to find this in London | 1996 |
| Crumb, Robert | R Crumb's heroes of blues, country & jazz | Guess what the subject is? | 2010 |
| Crumb, Robert | Rip the lid off the ID #1 | From sketchbooks circa May 1990 | 1990 |
| Crumb, Robert | Robert Crumb's sex obsessions | Guess what the subject is? Finally, an affordable edition! (after six years) | 2015 |
| Crumb, Robert | Sketch book 1966 to 1967 | Zweitausendeins edition; 360 glorious pages, some colour | 1981 |
| Crumb, Robert | Sketch book 1967 to 1974 | Wunnerful. Another 380+ pages, some colour | 1986 |
| Crumb, Robert | Sketch book 1974 to 1978 | Further 310 pages with zany Uncle Bob | 1978 |
| Crumb, Robert | Sketch book 1978 to 1983 | 370 pages of (among others) pregnant bliss | 1984 |
| Crumb, Robert | Sketch book 1983 to 1987 | Final 370+ pages so far, including Sophie | 1989 |
| Crumb, Robert | Sweeter side of R Crumb | No, really! Recent work, mostly | 2006 |
| Crumb, Robert | World according to Crumb (interviews) | A strange hero, perhaps | 1992 |
| Crumb, Robert | Zap #00 | Amazing solo debut | 1967 |
| Crumb, Robert | Zap #01 | Still self-penned & astounding | 1967 |
| Crumb, Robert and Aline | Drawn together: the complete works | World's only cartooning couple? | 2012 |
| Crumb, Robert and family | Complete dirty laundry comics | Wow | 1993 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Knockabout comics 'obscene' issue | Some good stuff | 1982 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #03 | Includes Boswell's London Journal & some Max Crumb | 1981 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #04 | Includes I remember the 60s, Seda's Nude photography class | 1982 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #05 | Includes Peter the pet penis, The old songs are the best songs | 1982 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #06 | Includes Fried nuts, Trash, Woman's plight | 1982 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #07 | Seda's Life cycle of an artist, Uncle Bob's mid-life crisis | 1983 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #08 | George 'Murky' Murkoid, Seda's Older women & younger men | 1983 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #09 | Seda's Crabs eating Raoul, Max Crumb, Elf Squelch, Mode O'Day | 1984 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #10 | Mode O'Day, The Reject, Delirious, MidWestern wedding | 1984 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #11 | Crumb's Goldilocks, Deitch's Jews from Yonkers | 1984 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #12 | Mode O'Day, Sour Grapes, Popoff Hayes (drug fiend) | 1985 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #13 | Psychopathia Sexualis (which Crumb evidently got off on!) | 1985 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #14 | Clay Wilson's Checkered Demon, Crumb's old music | 1985 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #15 | Deitch's Murder on the Midway, Seda's people in hell | 1986 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #16 | Deitch's Mystic Shrine, Collier's Jeff, Jeff & Mike | 1986 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #17 | Didi (finally) has an orgasm! | 1986 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #18 | Seda's Cleanliness is next to Dogliness, Mode O'Day, Glitz to go | 1986 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #19 | Crumb's Mother Hulda, Deitch's Young Ledicker | 1987 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #20 | TV evangelist, Tyler's Uncovered property, Footsy, Seda's Family | 1987 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #21 | Spain's Big Bitch, Crumb's Calvacade, Mickey Rat | 1987 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #22 | Seda's Let's eat brains, plus memorial Bimbos from Hell | 1988 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #23 | Deitch's Pong Wook-ee, Big Bitch, + letters of UK seizures | 1988 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #24 | Parody of Omaha cat dancer, La Bunch hits 40, etc. | 1988 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #26 | Heavy Flow, Quaker School Q-ties, Big Bitch | 1989 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #27 | Nuts to a plank, Carol Lay's Prince & the art girl, Mode O'Day | 1990 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo #28 aka 'Verre d'eau' | The last one ever?! Martini Baton, Armstrong's sketchbooks | 1993 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Weirdo Years 1982-1993 | Gift from Peter | 2013 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #02 | Kozmic trooths | 1968 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #03 | Issue that 69s in the middle, courtesy of Moscoso | 1968 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #04 | Wonder Wart-Hog & Muthalode smut ring! Joe Blow, too. | 1969 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #05 | The comic that frenches your mind... | 1970 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #06 | Griffin, Moscosco, Shelton, Spain, Williams, Wilson! | 1978 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #07 | The mentor in the Mason jar | 1974 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #08 | Spain's Field Meet | 1975 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #09 | 10th anniversary issue | 1978 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #10 | Still amazing | 1982 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #11 | Dare to moon the devil | 1985 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #12 | Cave wimp | 1989 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #13 | Includes the Shaggy Fish Story jam | 1994 |
| Crumb, Robert et al | Zap #14 | I've had it (in the wake of Zwigoff's 'Crumb' film)! | 1998 |
| Crumb, Robert; Pekar, Harvey | Bob and Harv's comics (American Splendor) | Miracles of the mundane | 1996 |
| Crumb, Robert; Poplaski, P | R Crumb handbook | I'm not here to be polite! | 2005 |
| Cruse, Howard | Dancin' nekkid with the angels | Wonderful | 1987 |
| Cruse, Howard | Early Barefootz (1970-73) | Good | 1990 |
| Cruse, Howard | Wendel All Together: complete edition | Includes cameos from other appearances, too | 2001 |
| Cruse, Howard | Wendel comix #1 | Brilliant | 1989 |
| Cruse, Howard | Wendel on the rebound | Brilliant | 1989 |
| Cunningham, Scott | World War 3: confrontational comics | Some great stuff buried in here | 1995 |
| Daniels, Jack | Breaking free: revolutionary Tintin | Dedicated to all those fighting against capitalism | 1989 |
| Deitch, Kim | Eating Raoul | Comix of sublime Paul Bartel film | 1982 |
| Ditko, Steve | Ditko collection '66-'73 | Excellent artwork | 1985 |
| Donahue, Don; Goodrick, Sue | Apex Treasury of Underground Comix | Magical compendium of amazing talents (reprint) | 1974 |
| Donahue, Don; Kane, Kate | Dori Stories: the complete Dori Seda | Ineffable mix of artwork & biographical data | 1999 |
| Doucet, Julie | Long time relationship | Essentially a sketch book - excellent | 2001 |
| Doucet, Julie | My most secret desire | Dreams from 'Dirty Plotte', apparently | 1995 |
| Drechsler, Debbie | Daddy's girl | Heartrending look at American female adolescence | 1995 |
| Emerson, Hunt | Aliens ate my trousers! | From 'Fortean Times' | 1998 |
| Emerson, Hunt; Manley, Tym | Firkin (7 parts) | Riotous details observed by the randy cat | 1993 |
| Evans, Bridget | XXX(Strip)burger | From Slovenia, but powerfully universal sexuality | 1999 |
| Farmer, Joyce et al | Tits and clits #2, #3, #5 | Simply sublime; not to say seminal! | 1979 |
| Fisher, Robin | What Right? Graphic interpretations vs. | censorship. In aid of Little Sister's defense fund, Canada | 2002 |
| Flenniken, Shary et al | Seattle Laughs | I was amazed to succeed in getting this from Tatelman's press | 1994 |
| Foglio, Phil | Psmith (Buck Godot) | Peter & I both want more! | 1987 |
| Foglio, Phil | What's new? | Phil & Dixie from 'Dragon' magazine | 1991 |
| Foglio, Phil | What's new? #3 | Magic years from 'Duellist" #01-#40, 1992 onward | 2000 |
| Foglio, Phil | XXXenophile big book o'fun | Wonderfully light erotica | 1994 |
| Foglio, Phil | Zap gun for hire (Buck Godot) | Wonderful stuff | 1986 |
| Foglio, Phil et al | XXXenophile #01 | From the 1989 comix | 1989 |
| Foglio, Phil et al | XXXenophile #02 | Ineffable | 1990 |
| Foglio, Phil et al | XXXenophile #03 | Non-stop | 1991 |
| Foglio, Phil et al | XXXenophile #04 | More joyful inking | 1992 |
| Foglio, Phil et al | XXXenophile #05 | Last of Palliard Press reprints | 1998 |
| Foglio, Phil et al | XXXenophile #06 | Moving onto newer multi-author ground | 2000 |
| Franson, Leanne | Assume nothing: evolution of a bi-dyke | Comix: Her semi-autobiographical character Liliane | 1997 |
| Gifford, Denis | Best of 'Eagle Annual' 1951-1959 | Very good | 1989 |
| Green, Justin | Binky Brown sampler | Superb: out-Crumbs Crumb with ex-Catholic guilt | 1995 |
| Greenerger, David | No more shaves | Voices from elderly nursing homes | 2003 |
| Griffith, Bill | From A to Zippy | Wonderful ironic satire | 1991 |
| Gurewitch, Nicholas | Trial of Colonel Sweeto | Perry Bible Fellowship comic strips | 2007 |
| Harrison, Hank | Art of Jack Davis | Great way of outlining artist's work | 1987 |
| Hergé | Complete Tintin collection | Superb, & witty in both senses | 1980 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1918 | Limbo of useless unconsciousness | 1989 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1922 | Katnip Kantata in the key of K + a 'Little Nemo' parody (Major Ozone) | 1991 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1923 | Inna Yott on the muddy Geranium | 1991 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1925 - 1926 | There is a heppy land-fur, fur awa-a-ay | 2002 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1927 - 1928 | Love letters in ancient brick | 2002 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1929 - 1930 | A Mice, a Brick, a Lovely Night | 2003 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1931 - 1932 | A Kat a'Lilt with Song | 2004 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1933 - 1934 | Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush | 2004 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1935 - 1936 | A wild warmth of chromatic gravy (ie colour!) | 2005 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1937 - 1938 | Shifting sands dusts its cheeks in powdered beauty | 2006 |
| Herriman, George | Krazy & Ignatz, 1939 - 1940 | A Brick stuffed with Moom-Bims | 2007 |
| Jansson, Tove | Moomin: complete comic strip, book 1 | Utterly charming, reminiscent of 'Trog' | 2006 |
| Kinney, Jay et al | Young lust 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 | Incredible & seminal & all rather rude. Lovely! | 1993 |
| Knockabout comics | Dyke's delight! #1 | Kate Charlesworth, Roberta Gregory & others | 1993 |
| Knockabout comics | Fanny #1 - Ceasefire | OK | 1991 |
| Knockabout comics | Fanny #2 - Voyeuse | OK | 1991 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #08 - hell on Earth | Includes Hunt Emerson, Steve Gibson, Pokketz | 1984 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #09 - (no title) | Includes Emerson, Pokketz, Harper, Campbell | 1985 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #10 - moral tales | Includes Hunt Emerson, Max, Kim Deitch | 1985 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #11 - cold store | Includes Emerson, Shelton, Mavrides, Pokketz, Sheridan | 1985 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #12 - daydreams and night fears | Includes Shelton, Max, Emerson, Irons | 1986 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #13 - there's a funny spell in here | Includes Justin Green, Emerson, Max, Matthews, Shelton | 1987 |
| Knockabout comics | Knock #14 - sons and mothers | Includes Edika, Emerson, Max, Ted Richards | 1988 |
| Knockabout comics | Outrageous tales from the Old Testament | 13 wonderfully zany sets of illustrations | 1987 |
| Knockabout comics | Seven deadly sins | Excellent collaborations | 1989 |
| Knockabout comics | Trombone #1 | Skimmed | 1990 |
| Knockabout comics | Women: out of line | From 'Fanny' offshoot; 15 contributors | 1997 |
| Koenig, Ralf | Maybe... maybe not | Bisexual comix, translated by Jeff Krell | 1987 |
| Koenig, Ralf | Maybe... maybe not again! | Sequel (natch), Jeff Krell again too | 1988 |
| Kominsky-Crumb, Aline | Love that bunch | More amazingly self-revelatory family stuff; distaff side | 1990 |
| Kominsky-Crumb, Aline | Need more love | More amazingly self-revelatory family stuff; distaff side | 2007 |
| Krell, Jeff | Jayson: a new collection | Ostensibly retrograde humour! Howard Cruse, watch out | 1997 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey | Harvey Kurtzman's strange adventures | Parody style collaborations: Crumb, Geary, Aragones, Downs | 1990 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey | MAD: complete first six issues | Plus interviews with the guiltiest parties 30 years on | 1952 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey; Downs, S | Betsy's buddies | Sarah Downs was Kurtzman's assistant, colourist etc. Betsy's a hoot | 1988 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey; Elder, W | Goodman Beaver | 4 wacky & wonderful episodes, plus excellent notes | 1962 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey; Elder, W | Playboy's Little Annie Fanny, 1962-1970 | Replete with annotations | 2000 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey; Elder, W | Playboy's Little Annie Fanny, 1970-1988 | Sumptuously produced | 2001 |
| LaBan, Terry | Eno and Plum | Sex, death, greed, envy & alienated whimsy! | 1997 |
| LaBan, Terry | International Bob | Amazing stuff | 1993 |
| LaBan, Terry | Love's not a three dollar fare | Incredible | 1995 |
| Loveday, Pete | Big Trip travel agency #1 - #4 | Russell regresses in bite-sized chunks! | 1997 |
| Loveday, Pete | Russell's big strip stupormarket | Very good | 1995 |
| Loveday, Pete | Russell: saga of a peaceful man 1 | An English Crumb? Not quite, but pretty good | 1991 |
| Loveday, Pete | Russell: saga of a peaceful man 2 | Very good | 1993 |
| Lynch, Jay | Best of Bijou Funnies | Magical compendium of classic Underground work (reprint) | 1975 |
| Mercier, Jean-Pierre | Who's afraid of Robert Crumb? | From Jan 2000 exhibition; excellent retrospective | 2000 |
| Millionaire, Tony | Adventures of Sock Monkey | Happy endings & random destruction | 2000 |
| Millionaire, Tony | Maakies | Strangely nostalgic strips | 2000 |
| Moore, Alan et al | Worm: longest comic strip in the world | 75 metres portraying rise of the cartoonist | 1999 |
| Motter, Dean | Mister X | Collection from Peter | 2008 |
| Mounce, DC | Ron Cobb: the collected cartoons | One day! | 1995 |
| Mounce, DC | Shary Flenniken: a personal selection | Maybe soon! | 1995 |
| National Lampoon | French comics: the kind men like | And me! Superb '47th way of viewing Mt. Fuji' (F'Murr) | 1977 |
| Noomin, Diane | Twisted sisters #1: bad girl art | 14 artists, including Dori Seda, & good wicked stuff | 1991 |
| Noomin, Diane | Twisted sisters #2: drawing the line | 16 artists: magic -- mostly banned in UK | 1995 |
| Oliveros, Chris et al | Drawn and Quarterly: 25 years of cartooning.. | .. comics, and graphic novels (770 pages) WYSIWYG | 2015 |
| Pekar, Harvey | American Splendor: our movie year | Inevitable self-documentation | 2004 |
| Pekar, Harvey; Various | New American Splendor anthology | Wonderful underdog territory | 1991 |
| Robbins, Trina | Best of Wimmen's Comix | Includes Flenniken's delicious 'Hot breakfast' | 1979 |
| Robbins, Trina et al | Strip AIDS USA | Heart-breakingly good benefit book | 1988 |
| Sacco, Joe | Notes from a defeatist | Youth indiscretions & mature masterworks! | 2003 |
| Schreiner, Dave | All-American hippie comix (Dope Comix) | Bought in Danbury Mall. Wonderful reprint | 1994 |
| Serpieri, Paolo | Sketchbook | French artist of considerable sexual talent from Heavy Metal | 1995 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Adventures of Fat Freddy's cat | Zen yoga lessons & further fabulous stuff | 1977 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Best of Fat Freddy's Cat | Wide range of excellent strips | 1983 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Bros. #1 | Joint Knockabout/Rip Off Press venture | 2001 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Complete Fabulous Furry Freak Bros. #2 | Ganz in farben! | 2003 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Fabulous furry freak brothers 1, 3, 5, 7 | 1970 (Shelton solo) to 1982 (with Sheridan & Mavrides) | 1976 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus | From Peter and signed #184/200 | 2008 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Famous tales of Fat Freddy's Cat | Wait till he puts on the stereo headphones! & many more | 1994 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Fat Freddy's cat Omnibus | From Peter and signed | 2009 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Freak brothers collection #1 | Tales from very early 1970s | 1986 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Freak brothers collection #2 | Early to mid-70s work & Sheridan as co-author | 1988 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Freak brothers collection #3 | Further drug-hazed mayhem | 1989 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Freak brothers collection #4 | Also has Paul Mavrides | 1989 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Idiots abroad | Total hoot as freak brothers wreak global havoc | 1987 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | More fabulous furry freak brothers | aka Rip Off Press, Volume #4 | 1980 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Thoroughly ripped | Revised colour Furry Freak Brothers reprints from 1976-78 | 1981 |
| Shelton, Gilbert | Wonder Wart-hog Book one | 'Hog of Steel' predates all his other characters | 1985 |
| Sickman-Garner, Pete | Hey, Mister: the Fall collection | Four issues + outtakes and commentary | 2001 |
| Silke, Jim | Bettie Page: Queen of the Nile | Dark Horse from 1997 onward | 2000 |
| Smith, Kevin | Bluntman and Chronic | Shameless tie-in | 2001 |
| Smith, Kevin | Clerks (the comic books) | Dante, Randal, Jay & Silent Bob | 2000 |
| Smith, Kevin | Jay & Silent Bob: Chasing Dogma | Comix prequel to film | 1999 |
| Spain (Manuel Rodriguez) | SHE comics: anthology of Big Bitch | With intro by Susie Bright! | 1993 |
| Spiegelman, Art; Mouly, F | Little Lit: strange stories for strange.. | .. kids. Includes Posy Simmonds & Maurice Sendak! (RAW Junior) | 2001 |
| Spiegelman, Art; Mouly, F | RAW Volume 2 (#1 to #3) | Burns, Deitch, Barry + a full Krazy Kat adventure | 1991 |
| Spiegelman, Art; Mouly, F | Read yourself RAW (anthology) | Some fine work here | 1987 |
| Stack, Frank | Dorman's doggie | Neurotic but accurate portraits | 1990 |
| Tolputt, Sherry | Cartoon Kama Sutra | Suitably, if not subtly, reinterpreted | 1998 |
| Triptow, Robert | Gay comics | He has a Web site, too! | 1989 |
| Vachss, Andrew et al | Another chance to get it right | Unusual approach | 1993 |
| Various | Amazing Heroes' swimsuit special 1990 | Cute, I think! | 1990 |
| Various | Best of Dark Horse, vol. 2 | Good | 1991 |
| Various | Dark Horse 5th anniversary special | Some very good pieces here | 1991 |
| Various | Girl frenzy #2 | OK | 1992 |
| Various | McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13 | Beautiful compilation of many fine comics/comix artists | 2004 |
| Various | Real girl #1 | Weird | 1990 |
| Various | Witzend #3 good girls | Good | 1990 |
| Various artists | Bizarro World | Reconstructed comic super heros | 2005 |
| Veitch, Rick | Pocket Universe: more rarebit fiends | Direct lines to the unconscious | 1996 |
| Veitch, Rick | Rabid Eye: the collected rarebit fiends | Dream art from an amazing imagination | 1995 |
| von Götha, Erich | Very Special Prison | Via EPS, a Last Gasp product | 2000 |
| Waller, Reed | Erotic art of Reed Waller | Great stuff | 1996 |
| Waller, Reed; Worley, Kate | Omaha - cat dancer #01 | Wonderful | 1987 |
| Waller, Reed; Worley, Kate | Omaha - cat dancer #02 | Wonderful | 1988 |
| Waller, Reed; Worley, Kate | Omaha - cat dancer #03 | Wonderful | 1989 |
| Waller, Reed; Worley, Kate | Omaha - cat dancer #04 | Wonderful | 1990 |
| Waller, Reed; Worley, Kate | Omaha - cat dancer #05 | Wonderful | 1993 |
| Waller, Reed; Worley, Kate | Omaha - cat dancer #06 | Sadly likely to be final collection | 1998 |
| Warren, Roz | Dyke strippers: lesbian cartoonists A - Z | Wonderful | 1995 |
| Warren, Roz | Weenie-toons! | Mocked cocks. Direct from Roz herself; includes Flenniken | 1992 |
| Warren, Roz | What is this thing called sex? | Essential | 1993 |
| Welz, Larry | Cherry Deluxe #1 | Nice collaboration with Neil Gaiman | 1998 |
| Whiteland, David | Book of Pages | Young monk's journey to modern world Metropolis | 2000 |
| Wilber, Ron | Domino Lady + Jungle adventure | Bound to succeed! | 1995 |
| Williamson, Al | Art of Al Williamson | Great stuff | 1983 |
| Williamson, Skip | Halsted Street | Tales of the (Chicago) hog butcher | 1990 |
| Williamson, Skip | Scum also rises | Powerful | 1988 |
| Wilson, Gahan | Classics Illustrated Devil's Dictionary | Plus Boarded Window, Dead, & Imperfect Conflagration | 1991 |
| Wilson, S Clay | Collected Checkered Demon #1 | Long overdue; scabrous & intelligent | 1998 |
| Wilson, S Clay | Demons and Angels | The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 2 | 2014 |
| Wilson, S Clay | Pirates in the Heartland | The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson Vol. 1 | 2014 |
| Wilson, S Clay | Spots | Small artworks, largely from 'Screw' magazine | 1989 |
| Wolverton, Basil | Wolvertoons: the art of Basil Wolverton | Zany and ugly | 1989 |
| Woodring, Jim | Book of Jim | Strange indeed | 1993 |
| Woodring, Jim | Frank | Weird | 1996 |
| Wright, Nicky | Classic Era of American Comics | 1930s to 1950s but, of course, not a Crumb insight! | 2000 |
| Yoe, Craig | Clean cartoonists' dirty drawings | Schulz, Kirby, Shuster, Caniff, Dr Seuss etc | 2007 |
| Yoe, Craig | Secret identity: fetish art of Joe.. | ..Shuster (co-creator of Superman) | 2009 |
| Yronwode, Catherine | Art of Will Eisner | Excellent | 1989 |
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| Adelman, Bob | Tijuana Bibles | Art & Wit in forbidden funnies, 1930s onward | 1997 |
| Barker, Martin | Comics: ideology, power & the critics | Deconstructing Donald (Duck), among many others | 1989 |
| Barker, Martin | Haunt of fears: horror comix campaign | Some things never change in this benighted isle | 1984 |
| Bender, Hy | Sandman Companion | Interviews with Gaiman & many of his artists | 1999 |
| Brownstein, Charles | Eisner (Will)/Miller (Frank) interview | Conducted in May 2002 | 2005 |
| Brunetti, Ivan (ed) | Anthology of Graphic Fiction, cartoons.. | .. & true stories | 2006 |
| Brunetti, Ivan (ed) | Anthology of Graphic Fiction, vol. 2 | Mixture as before | 2008 |
| Callahan, Bob | New Comics anthology | Comprehensive coverage of many talents | 1991 |
| Callahan, Bob | New Smithsonian book of comic-book.. | ..stories. From Crumb to Clowes | 2004 |
| Choquette, Michel | Someday Funnies | 39 years later; a look at the 1960s in the early 1970s | 2013 |
| Crumb, Robert | Comics Journal Library, #3 | Fabulous encapsulations via interviews | 2004 |
| Daniels, Les | DC Comics: 60 years of comic book heroes | Just call me an anorak | 1995 |
| Daniels, Les | Wonder Woman: the complete history | WYSIWYG, majoring on aspects of bondage, curiously | 2000 |
| Danky, James P; Kitchen, D | Underground classics: transformation.. | ..of comics into comix. Beautifully illustrated | 2009 |
| Diehl, Digby | Tales from the Crypt: official archives | Some might say grotesquely well-illustrated | 1996 |
| Duin, Steve; Richardson, M | Comics: between the panels | Lavish tome from founder of Dark Horse. Wonderful | 1998 |
| Eisner, Will | Comics and sequential art | Classic examination | 1985 |
| Estren, Mark James | History of Underground Comix (2nd ed) | Brilliant & awesome in its range | 1986 |
| Estren, Mark James | History of Underground Comix (3rd ed) | Just as amazing | 1993 |
| Estren, Mark James | History of Underground Comix (4th ed) | For the 20th anniversary (of the 3rd edition!) | 2012 |
| Evanier, Mark | Comic Books & other necessities of life | Collected POV columns | 2002 |
| Fingeroth, Danny | Rough Guide to Graphic Novels | Nicely illustrated little overview | 2008 |
| Garriock, PR | Masters of comic book art | Good biographical & work details of some major artists | 1978 |
| Geissman, Grant | Foul play! Art & artists of notorious.. | ..1950s E.C. comics. Lavishly done, too | 2005 |
| Geissman, Grant et al | Tales of Terror! | Compendium of old EC Comics etc. Many interviews | 2000 |
| Gifford, Denis | International book of comics | Good overview | 1984 |
| Gravett, Paul | Comics Art | Well-illustrated international overview | 2013 |
| Gravett, Paul | Graphic novels: stories to change.. | ..your life. Includes Posy, Crumb, Miller. Beautifully researched | 2005 |
| Gravett, Paul, Dunning, JH | Comics unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK | Accompanying a British Library exhibition in 2014 | 2014 |
| Gravett, Paul; Stanbury, P | Great British Comics | That's Korky the Cat, Desperate Dan, Lord Snooty et al | 2006 |
| Gravett, Paul; Stanbury, P | Leather Nun & other incredibly.. | .. strange comics | 2008 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #115 Apr 1987 | Coverage of libel trial provoked by Harlan Ellison's interview | 1987 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #130 Jul 1989 | Dave Sim | 1989 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #132 Nov 1989 | Lynda Barry, Paul Chadwick | 1989 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #145 Oct 1991 | Eddie Campbell, Art Speigelman | 1991 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #146 Nov 1991 | Shary Flenniken | 1991 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #155 Jan 1993 | Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman | 1993 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #156 Feb 1993 | Gahan Wilson, Doug Allen | 1993 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #157 Mar 1993 | Bill Griffith | 1993 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #168 May 1994 | Roberta Gregory, Wendy & Richard Pini | 1994 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #170 Aug 1994 | Joe Coleman, Mark Martin | 1994 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #173 Dec 1994 | Jeff Smith, Martin Wagner, Mike Diana | 1994 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #175 Mar 1995 | Rick Veitch, S Clay Wilson | 1995 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #178 Jul 1995 | Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, David Levine | 1995 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #184 Feb 1996 | Dave Sim (again!), Don Rosa | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #185 Mar 1996 | Steve Bissette | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #187 May 1996 | Gilbert Shelton, Gil Kane | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #188 Jul 1996 | Roundtable with various artists | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #189 Aug 1996 | Mike Mignola, Frank Stack | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #190 Sep 1996 | Barry Windsor-Smith, Donna Barr | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #191 Nov 1996 | Paul Pope, Carmine Infantino | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #192 Dec 1996 | Stan Sakai, Dave Sim, Paul Pope | 1996 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #198 Aug 1997 | Milo Manara, Hunt Emerson | 1997 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #200 Dec 1997 | Two copies, one from Marty Moore | 1997 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #201 Jan 1998 | Al Hirschfeld, Larry Marder | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #202 Mar 1998 | Kevin Eastman | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #203 Apr 1998 | Roy Crane, Russ Manning, Mack White/Roy Tompkins | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #204 May 1998 | Spain, Shannon Wheeler | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #206 Aug 1998 | Peter Bagge, Spain | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #207 Sep 1998 | Bob Fingerman, Garth Ennis | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #209 Dec 1998 | Frank Miller, Sam Henderson | 1998 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #210 Feb 1999 | Kenneth Smith, Top 100 comics of century | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #212 May 1999 | VT Hamlin, Jay Stephens | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #213 Jun 1999 | Carol Lay & demise of Kitchen Sink | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #214 Jul 1999 | Evan Dorkin, Sheldon Moldoff | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #215 Aug 1999 | John Severin #1, Tony Millionaire | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #216 Oct 1999 | Kurt Busiek, Megan Kelso, John Severin #2 | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #217 Nov 1999 | Lynn Johnston, Maxon Crumb | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #218 Dec 1999 | Charles Voss, Jeff Smith, Linda Medley | 1999 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #219 Jan 2000 | Kyle Baker, Pierce Rice | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #220 Feb 2000 | Eddie Campbell, look at last 20 years | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #221 Mar 2000 | Paul Chadwick (again!) | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #222 Apr 2000 | Gil Kane tributes | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #223 May 2000 | Alex Ross, Trina Robbins | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #224 Jun 2000 | Larry Gonick, Alex Ross | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #225 Jul 2000 | Various 'Mad' magazine alumni | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #226 Aug 2000 | Gil Kane, CC Beck | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #227 Sep 2000 | Carl Barks (Disney) | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #228 Nov 2000 | Jason Lutes, Eurocomics | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #229 Dec 2000 | History of comics fandom | 2000 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #230 Feb 2001 | Tom Sutton, Mike Allred | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #231 Mar 2001 | Gene Colan, fan Michael Chabon | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #232 Apr 2001 | Internet issue - Scott McCloud, inevitably | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #233 May 2001 | Daniel Clowes, Seth Tobocman | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #234 Jun 2001 | Charles Burns, Joe Sacco, Bill Griffith, Kim Deitch, Seth | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #235 Jul 2001 | 25th anniversary issue with timelines & tributes | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #236 Aug 2001 | Marv Wolfman | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #237 Sep 2001 | Women's issue, edited by Mary Fleener, with Lay, Bechdel, Forney | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #238 Oct 2001 | Fabio, EC comics, Tove Jansson | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #239 Nov 2001 | Air Pirates (& a Flenniken panel!) | 2001 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #241 Feb 2002 | John Ney Rieber, John Buscema, UK comics | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #242 Apr 2002 | Noel Sickles, Daniel Clowes | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #243 May 2002 | Dylan Horrocks (Hicksville) | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #244 Jun 2002 | Jill Thompson, Michael Kupperman | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #245 Aug 2002 | Dave Cooper, Creig Flessel | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #246 Sep 2002 | Victor Moscoso | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #247 Oct 2002 | Ruben Bolling, Ted Rall, Donald Rooum | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #248 Nov 2002 | Steve Rude, Andi Watson | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #249 Dec 2002 | Will Eisner, Ron Goulart, Debbie Drechsler | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #250 Feb 2003 | Barks, Stanley, Clowes, Hergé, Panter, Briggs 270pp | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #251 Mar 2003 | James Sturm, pioneers of Underground panel | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #252 Mar 2003 | Ron Rege Jr, John Romita Sr | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #253 Jun 2003 | Eric Drooker, John Cullen Murphy | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #254 Jul 2003 | Will Elder | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #255 Sep 2003 | Robert Sikoryak, Aaron McGruder | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #256 Oct 2003 | Mat Brinkman, Brian Chippendale, Brian Ralph | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #257 Dec 2003 | Rick Griffin, Joe Casey | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #258 Feb 2004 | Steve Ditko, Gilbert Hernandez, Craig Thompson | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #260 May 2004 | Dupuy & Berberian, Jean-Claude Mezieres | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #261 Jun/Jul 2004 | Phoebe Gloeckner, Chester Brown | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #262 Aug/Sep 2004 | Alex Toth (not an interview, though), Steve Brodner | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #263 Oct/Nov 2004 | Ed Brubaker, Dave Sim (Cerebus) | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #264 Nov/Dec 2004 | Ivan Brunetti & some history | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #265 Jan/Feb 2005 | William Steig, Eric Shanower | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #266 Feb/Mar 2005 | Brian Michael Bendis | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #267 Apr/May 2005 | Will Eisner, Frank Miller | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #268 Jun/Jul 2005 | Craig Thompson, Bob Burden | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #269 July 2005 | Various manga artists | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #270 Aug 2005 | Jessica Abel, Mark Bode | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #271 Oct 2005 | Jerry Robinson, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #272 Nov 2005 | Steve Bell (at last!), Jeff Danziger | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #273 Jan 2006 | Eddie Campbell, Junko Mizuno | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #274 Feb 2006 | Sophie Crumb - now I know I'm getting old! | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #275 Apr 2006 | David B, Boody Rogers | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #276 Jun 2006 | Terry Moore, Bob Haney | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #277 July 2006 | 30th anniversary issue | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #278 Oct 2006 | Bill Willingham, Bob Haney (part 2) | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #279 Nov 2006 | Joost Swarte | 2006 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #280 Jan 2007 | Frank Thorne | 2007 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #281 Feb 2007 | Excellent review of best of 2006 | 2007 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #282 Apr 2007 | Alison Bechdel cover & interview, Fred Guardineer | 2007 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #283 May 2007 | Lewis Trondheim, David Sandlin | 2007 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #300 Nov 2009 | Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, Howard Chaykin | 2009 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #301 | R Crumb, Joe Sacco, Al Jaffee | 2011 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal #302 | Maurice Sendak | 2012 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal Library, #4 | aka Drawing the line; Jules Feiffer, Ed Sorel, Steadman | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal Library, #5 | Russ Heath, Burne Hogarth, Frank Frazetta etc | 2005 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal Library, #8 | EC artists examined | 2013 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal: SE01 (was #240) | Cartoonists in superb coffee-table variant | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal: SE02: music | Flenniken, Crumb, Kliban | 2002 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal: SE03: patriotism | William Stout, Tom Hart, James Thurber | 2003 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal: SE04, conversations | Al Hirschfield, Feiffer, Speigelman, Ware | 2004 |
| Groth, Gary | Comics Journal: SE05, seduction | Seduction, manga, Vaughan Bode | 2005 |
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| Juno Books | Dangerous drawings | Excellent interviews with comix & graphics artists | 1997 |
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| McCabe, Joseph | Hanging out with the Dream King | Conversations with, & about, Neil Gaiman | 2004 |
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| Reynolds, Richard | Super Heroes: a modern mythology | The usual suspects, + X-men, Dark Knight, & Watchmen | 1992 |
| Robbins, Trina | Century of women cartoonists | Excellent history of comic strip artistes | 1993 |
| Robbins, Trina | From Girls to Grrrlz: history of female... | ..comics from teens to zines | 1999 |
| Robbins, Trina | Great women cartoonists | Completely wonderful, & has a 1986 Flenniken too! | 2001 |
| Rosenkranz, Patrick | Rebel visions: underground comix 1963-75 | Lavish, well-focused examination of the heyday | 2002 |
| Sabin, Roger | Adult comics: an introduction | Broad sweep, dismayingly brief on, for example, Flenniken! | 1993 |
| Sabin, Roger | Comics, comix & graphic novels | A splendid (coffee table) history of comic art | 1996 |
| Sabin, Roger; Triggs, Teal | Below critical radar | Fanzines & alternative comics from 1976 to now | 2000 |
| Salisbury, Mark | Artists on comic art | Major talents of graphic story-telling tell all | 2000 |
| Salisbury, Mark | Writers on comics scriptwriting | Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Todd McFarlane & 11 more | 1999 |
| Sanders, Joe (ed) | Sandman Papers | Diving into the mythology | 2006 |
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| Skinn, Dez | Comix: the underground revolution | Very competent overview of my favourites | 2004 |
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| Budd, Andy | CSS Mastery | Latest tips & techniques | 2006 |
| Caminer, David et al | LEO: world's first business computer | Even has John Smythson (p69); lots of lovely insider stories | 1998 |
| Campbell-Kelly, Martin | From airline reservations to Sonic.. | ..the hedgehog. History of software industry & CICS, thanks to me! | 2003 |
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| Cederholm, Dan | Web Standards Solutions: markup &.. | ..style handbook | 2006 |
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| Denning, PJ | Talking back to the machine | Computers & human aspiration; ACM97 conference speeches | 1999 |
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| Mounce, DC | CACI: System Factory | Amazing £95+ per hour editing this doomed rubbish! | 1983 |
| Mounce, DC | IBM AConnS: Administrator's Guide | Sat on a shelf for 18 months after I'd written it | 1990 |
| Mounce, DC | IBM AConnS: User Guide | Hah! What user? | 1990 |
| Mounce, DC | IBM CICS: General Information (various) | My first IBM task - rewrite the 'Birmingham GIM' | 1982 |
| Mounce, DC | IBM CICS: light hearted chronicle (1st ed) | Bought first Acorn RISC PC with proceeds (£3800 or so) | 1989 |
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| Mounce, DC | ICL 1500: CDE programming | My favourite machine, & most lucrative language to date! | 1977 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 1500: COBOL programming | Brought in £2k for 37 hours in one (busy) weekend | 1979 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 1500: Introduction (2nd ed) | Brought in £750 for rewriting P Bloxsom's 1st edition | 1979 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 1900 PLAN: Accessing data in store | Typical module of my 'Advanced PLAN facilities' series | 1975 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 1900 PLAN: basic programming course | Longer than Lord of the Rings! (& more expensive!) | 1975 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 1900 PLAN: Random files | Finished in 6 Follet Close just before tonsils operation | 1976 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 2904: Message Router | Written on assignment in Bracknell over six weeks | 1976 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 7502: PSTS manual | Brought in £750 for about two weeks work | 1981 |
| Mounce, DC | ICL 7502: standalone & batch utilities | Written in one week in Germany, listening to AFN | 1977 |
| Mounce, DC | Programming and Operations course (LSA) | £5/page, to make IBM ends meet, & help out John Smythson | 1983 |
| Mounce, DC et al | ICL Glossary of basic computer terms | I edited this, & put in 'funnies' | 1978 |
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| Fuller, J; Blackley, S | Restricted entry: censorship on trial | Canadian Customs guards. Incredible & completely outrageous | 1995 |
| Gleick, James | Faster: acceleration of just about... | .. everything | 1999 |
| Glennon, Lorraine et al | 20th Century | Heavyweight, US-oriented, variant of 'Chronicle' genre | 1999 |
| Goldsmith, E; Hildyard, N | Earth report: monitoring the environment | 400 topics: additives to zero population growth + essays | 1988 |
| Goldsmith, Edward | Great U-turn: de-industrialising society | Good | 1988 |
| Golzen, G; Garner, A | Smart moves: career strategies | So that's where I've been going wrong all these years | 1990 |
| Gowing, Margaret | Britain and atomic energy 1939-1945 | Anorakish but very interesting story | 1964 |
| Green, Jonathon | All dressed up: 60s & counterculture | Revisiting 'Days in the Life' territory (mine is uncensored copy) | 1998 |
| Green, Jonathon | Days in the life: English underground | Interesting era | 1988 |
| Greenfeld, Karl Taro | China syndrome | What happened during the SARS epidemic | 2006 |
| Greer, Germaine | Madwoman's underclothes | Essays & occasional writings, 1968-85 | 1986 |
| Guinness | World data: facts, figures, issues | Bought for my 'CICS Chronicle' research | 1993 |
| Hall, Phillip | Royal fortune: tax, money & the monarchy | Bleeding parasites; raises blood pressure | 1992 |
| Hancock, Graham | Lords of Poverty | Lifestyles & corruption within the Aid business | 1989 |
| Hare, David | Asking around | Research interviews for a trilogy of plays | 1993 |
| Harford, Tim | Adapt: why success always starts with.. | .. failure. Not totally gripping | 2011 |
| Harford, Tim | Undercov£r Economist | Do you care if you get ripped off? | 2006 |
| Hartogs, R; Artzt, E | Violence: causes and solutions | Wide-ranging anthology of papers & essays | 1970 |
| Heller, Robert | Common millionaire | Shareholder-robbing tactics of TJ Watson Jr - see p181 | 1974 |
| Hertz, Noreena | Silent Takeover: global capitalism &... | .. death of democracy. (What's that?) | 2001 |
| Hitchens, Christopher | Prepared for the worst: essays | Clever & quotable | 1988 |
| Hitchens, Christopher | Quotable Hitchens | Ed by Windsor Mann | 2011 |
| Hitchens, Christopher | Trial of Henry Kissinger | Long overdue 'coals' overhauling of a nasty Western 'statesman' | 2001 |
| Hobbs, Dick | Doing the business | East End cops & robbers | 1988 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #01: free expression | Worthy and occasionally amazing / annoying | 1990 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #02: Stephen King special | Good | 1991 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #03: politically (in)correct | Good | 1992 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #04: media manipulation | Good | 1992 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #05: porn in the USA | Good | 1993 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #06: black racism | Good | 1993 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #07: in defense of prostitution | Good | 1994 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #08: Cults; playing God | Good | 1994 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #09: breast cancer etc | Good | 1995 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #10: sexual harassment | Good | 1995 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #11: kiddie porn, etc. | Bought in NY | 1996 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #13: murder by the book | Good | 1997 |
| Hoffman, Barry | Gauntlet #22: independent films | Long time no see | 2001 |
| Hoggart, Richard | Way we live now | Taking cultural & social temperature of UK | 1995 |
| Hollingsworth, M et al | Blacklist: political vetting | Economic League raises its (surprisingly) ugly head | 1988 |
| Hollingsworth, M et al | Economic League: silent McCarthyism | IBM UK was until 1987 a user of League's nasty 'information' | 1989 |
| Jack, Ian | Before the oil ran out: Britain 1977-87 | 'The making of Meccano Man' & other pieces | 1987 |
| Jackson, Devon | Conspiranoia! Mother of all conspiracy... | .. theories. Even has IBM (p132 & others) | 1999 |
| Jay, Antony | How to beat Sir Humphrey | Every citizen's guide to fighting officialdom | 1997 |
| Jenkins, S; Sloman, A | With respect, Ambassador | Excellent; built from BBC radio series | 1985 |
| Jensen, Carl et al | 20 years of censored news | Covering (uncovering!) 1976 to 1995 & 200 veiled stories | 1997 |
| Jones, Terry (1) | Attacks of opinion | Sideways looks for the younger set | 1988 |
| Joseph, Michael | Conveyancing fraud | Dispensing with solicitors; Pete Seaman sold me this | 1976 |
| Kidron, M; Segal, R | Book of business money and power | Fascinating; figures may be dated, but ethos still rules! | 1987 |
| Kidron, M; Segal, R | New state of the world atlas | Updated 4th edition on political & economic changes | 1991 |
| Kidron, M; Segal, R | State of the world atlas | Good idea at the time - Cold War at full tilt | 1981 |
| Kidron, M; Smith, D | War atlas | Horrific armed conflict & armed 'peace' | 1983 |
| Kleveman, Lutz | New Great Game: blood & oil in.. | ..central Asia. Fossil fuels in unfriendly places | 2003 |
| Kopkind, Andrew | Thirty years' war: radical journalist | The Democratic vista from 1965 to 1994 | 1995 |
| Krassner, Paul | Impolite Interviews | Social & political commentary | 1999 |
| Krassner, Paul | Winner of the slow bicycle race | Collection of satirical columns | 1996 |
| Krugman, Paul | Accidental theorist & other dispatches... | .. from the dismal science (economics) | 1998 |
| Krugman, Paul | Great Unravelling: from boom to bust.. | ..in 3 scandalous years. Bush, Cheney, Enron, oil, etc. | 2003 |
| Lapham, Lewis H | Hotel America: scenes .. of fin-de-siecle | Post-Cold-War essays & criticism on the civil religion | 1995 |
| Lapham, Lewis H | Waiting for the Barbarians | 26 recent (1995 to 1997) essays | 1998 |
| Lee, Martin A; Solomon, N | Unreliable sources: a guide to... | ..detecting bias in news media. Dirty secrets & double standards | 1990 |
| Leigh, David | High time: life & times of Howard Marks | UK drugs & IRA, 1960s, MI6, smuggling. Stalled on p59 | 1984 |
| Lekachman, Robert et al | Capitalism for beginners | Comix approach | 1981 |
| Levin, Bernard | Pendulum years: Britain & the 60s | A corrosive pen from a man who hates spiders. Stalled on p102 | 1970 |
| Lindqvist, Sven | History of bombing | Labyrinthine arrangement doesn't mute the angry analysis | 1999 |
| Litchfield, Michael | It's a conspiracy! | America's favourite conspiracy theories, & a few facts | 1992 |
| Louvre, A; Walsh, J | Tell me lies about Vietnam | Angry stuff | 1988 |
| Madsen, Axel | Private power: multinational corporations | & their role in our survival... or destruction? | 1980 |
| Mairs, Nancy | Plaintext: essays | Wide-ranging topics: MS, sex, locked wards, daughters | 1986 |
| Mamet, David | Make-believe town | Essays & remembrances on a variety of topics | 1996 |
| May, John | Nuclear Age - Greenpeace book | Hidden history & costs of horrible blunders & accidents | 1989 |
| Moore, Alan et al | Brought to light (the CIA) | Comix tales of Machiavellian real-world politics | 1989 |
| Moore, Michael | Dude, where's my country? | Regime change via satire, perhaps? | 2003 |
| Norton-Taylor, Richard | In defence of the realm? | Should we have accountable security services? Yes! | 1990 |
| O'Connell, Robert L | Of arms and men: history of war, weapons | Skimmed | 1989 |
| O'Rourke, PJ | Eat the Rich: treatise on economics | Anecdotes & one-liners on wealth | 1998 |
| O'Shea, James; Madigan, C | Dangerous Company: consulting powerhouses | .. & the businesses they save & ruin (1998 update) | 1997 |
| Osman, Tony | Facts of everyday life | Maps of UK poverty, jobs, crime, wealth etc | 1985 |
| Owen, Ursula | Index on censorship V24 #6 | Concentrates on global film censorship | 1995 |
| Owen, Ursula | Index on censorship V25 #1 | Chernobyl & similar accidents waiting to happen elsewhere | 1996 |
| Page, Lewis | Lions, donkeys & dinosaurs | Waste & blundering in the Armed Forces | 2006 |
| Page, Tim | Nam | Almost like a coffee-table colour photo book! | 1983 |
| Palast, Greg | Best democracy money can buy | Globalization, Corporate cons, high-placed sleazeballs | 2002 |
| Pollard, Sidney | Wealth & poverty: economic history 20th C | One of those populist approach tomes | 1990 |
| Ponting, Clive | Right to know (Belgrano affair) | Tory cover-up & Ponting's disgraceful Old Bailey trial | 1985 |
| Raban, Jonathan | God, man & Mrs Thatcher | Still can't face this | 1989 |
| Ranelagh, John | Agency: rise and decline of the CIA | Nixon: 'The clowns out there at Langley' | 1986 |
| Rentoul, John | Rich get richer | Grim growth of inequality in UK in 1980s. Stalled on p57 | 1987 |
| Reynolds, Bob | 100 best companies to work for in the UK | Includes IBM. My, how quickly things can & do change! | 1989 |
| Rhys-Thomas, Deirdre | Letters for my children | If this doesn't put you off nuclear energy... | 1987 |
| Richer, Julian | Richer Way | He of the hi-fi chain with insights etc. | 1995 |
| Robinson, Jeffrey | Laundrymen | Global business of money laundering | 1994 |
| Rolph, CH | Trial of Lady Chatterley | Regina v. Penguin Books in October 1960 - bizarre times! | 1961 |
| Rushkoff, Douglas | Media virus | Hidden agendas in popular culture; bought in NY. Lost? | 1996 |
| Sampson, Anthony | Company Man: rise & fall of Corporate... | ..Life. An obituary of the species | 1996 |
| Sampson, Anthony | Essential anatomy of Britain | Democracy in crisis (when was it ever not?) | 1992 |
| Sampson, Anthony | Who runs this place? | UK in the 21st century | 2004 |
| Seager, J; Olson, A | Women in the world | International atlas along Kidron's lines | 1986 |
| Shapiro, Eileen C | Fad Surfing in the boardroom | Readable & not-so-gentle debunking of 'instant answers' | 1996 |
| Shawcross, William | Deliver us from evil: warlords and.. | ..peacekeepers in a world of endless conflict | 2000 |
| Smith, Adam | Money Game | Stalled on p63 (IBM anecdote) but I can see I should resume! | 1969 |
| Smith, Adam | Paper money | Stalled on p150 | 1982 |
| Smith, Dan | State of the world atlas | 6th edition | 1999 |
| Smith, Joan | Moralities: how to end the abuse of... | ..money & power in 21st C. | 2001 |
| Snow, Nancy | Propaganda, Inc. Selling America's... | .. culture to the world. Tiny, but powerful, tome | 1998 |
| Sprouse, Martin | Sabotage in the American workplace | Amazing anecdotage of dissatisfaction, mischief & revenge | 1992 |
| Stationery Office | Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 | Selected Kennedy foreign policy documents | 2001 |
| Stationery Office | St Valentine's Day massacre, 1929 | FBI files of Chicago Police Department investigation | 2001 |
| Stationery Office | Trials of Oscar Wilde, 1895 | Old Bailey transcript excerpts | 2001 |
| Stationery Office | UFOs in America, 1947 | FBI files of correspondence | 2001 |
| Stationery Office | UFOs in the House of Lords: 1979 | Hansard transcript of 18 January 1979 Lords debate | 1979 |
| Stiglitz, Joseph | Roaring Nineties | Searing critique of Dubyanomics & CEO greed | 2003 |
| Stone, IF | Best of IF Stone's Weekly | Worthy radical journalism | 1973 |
| Strahan, David | Last Oil shock | Extinction of Petroleum Man | 2007 |
| Theiner, George | They shoot writers, don't they? | Essays on role of writers in repressive societies | 1984 |
| Thompson, Hunter S | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | A chemical trip through the American Dream | 1971 |
| Tickell, Tom | Quiz of the 80s: the 'Guardian' | What a distant decade! | 1989 |
| Time-Life | Best of 'Life' | Good | 1973 |
| Timmins, Nicholas | Five giants: biography of Welfare State | Want, disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness | 1995 |
| Tintner, Michael | State imperfect: UK social problems | Grim survey of statistics of Thatcher's 'miracle Britain' | 1989 |
| Townsend, Sue | Mr Bevan's dream: welfare state | Unread | 1989 |
| Trapp, Roger | My biggest mistake | Various people, including ex-chairman of IBM (UK) | 1993 |
| Various | Printer's Devil, issue F (legal) | Good | 1995 |
| Vidal, Gore | Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 | Ronald Reagan's 'Freedom from facts' | 1987 |
| Vidal, Gore | Perpetual war for perpetual peace | How & why the US got so hated | 2002 |
| Vidal, Gore | View from the Diners Club | Elegant | 1991 |
| Vidal, Gore | Virgin Islands | Essays 1992 - 1997 | 1997 |
| Walker, Gloria; Daly, Lynn | Sexplicitly yours: trial of Cynthia Payne | Sleazy cash-in | 1987 |
| Warner, Marina | Into the dangerous world: childhood costs | Skimmed | 1989 |
| Waugh, Auberon | Another voice: alternative anatomy of UK | Ten years of his 'Spectator' column | 1986 |
| Waugh, Auberon | Way of the World | Telegraph columns from May '90 to May '95 | 1995 |
| Waugh, Auberon | Way of the World: closing the circle | Best selections from May 1990 through December 2000 | 2001 |
| Waugh, Auberon | Way of the World: forgotten years | 1995-96, & Willie Rushton's death | 1998 |
| Weldon, Fay | Sacred cows | Unmemorable | 1989 |
| Wheen, Francis | Idiot Proof (retitled Mumbo Jumbo) | USA edition. Short history of modern delusions | 2004 |
| Whittow, John | Disasters: environmental hazards | Predicting & alleviating their effects | 1980 |
| Williams, S; Willman, J | Tax Guide 2000/2001 (Lloyds TSB) | Useful | 2000 |
| Winchester, Simon | Outposts: journeys to surviving relics... | of Empire in our far-flung island colonies | 1985 |
| Witts, Richard | Artist Unknown: alternative history of... | .. the Arts Council | 1998 |
| Young, Hugo; Sloman, A | But, Chancellor: the treasury | Good | 1984 |
| Young, Hugo; Sloman, A | No, Minister: the civil service | Good and provocative | 1982 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Adams, Douglas; Lloyd, J | Deeper meaning of Liff | More spoof definitions based on place names | 1990 |
| Adams, Douglas; Lloyd, J | Meaning of Liff | Spoof definitions based on place names, Xmas 83 from Gill Peek | 1983 |
| Anonymous | Bunbury book of limericks | A goodly assortment; some rather rude | 1988 |
| Appleby, Steven | Encyclopedia of personal problems | Worry no longer! Guardian's cartoonist | 2000 |
| Ashford, Daisy | Young Visiters (sic) | Written at age nine. Now illustrated by Posy Simmonds | 1919 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Asimov laughs again | Second & last set of his jokes, sadly; bought in NY | 1992 |
| Asimov, Isaac | Asimov's Treasury of Humor | First wonderfully-annotated set of his jokes | 1971 |
| Barras, Leonard | Bluebottles on my marmalade | Whimsical pieces of Northern humour | 1982 |
| Barsley, Michael | Book of wit and humour | Deliciously dated; Waugh, Herbert, Milne, Linklater, Potter | 1949 |
| Barsley, Michael | Life and laughter | Amis, Betjeman, Frayn, Campbell, Jennings, Nash, Wodehouse | 1962 |
| Bashford, Sir Henry H | Augustus Carp Esq. by himself | Excellent, but a slow, rewarding read | 1924 |
| Batchelor, Kay | Laughing matter I: British humour | Funny in parts | 1976 |
| Batchelor, Kay | Laughing matter II: British humour | Also funny, in fewer parts | 1977 |
| Bateman, Michael | This England | Delicious whimsical selection from New Statesman, 1934-1968 | 1969 |
| Beard, Henry et al | Book of sequels | Not as funny as I'd hoped | 1990 |
| Belloc, Hilaire | Library of Humour | Excerpts from Moral Alphabet, Cautionary Tales, & others | 1935 |
| Bennett, Alan | Uncommon Reader | Tale of a literate monarch | 2008 |
| Bennett, Joe | Bedside Lovers (& other goats) | Further pieces - same vein | 2002 |
| Bennett, Joe | Fun Run & other oxymorons | NZ's answer to Alan Coren? | 2000 |
| Berkeley, Humphrey | Life and Death of Rochester Sneath | The original for Henry Root, perhaps? | 1948 |
| Bethell, Brian | Defence diaries of W Morgan Petty | Proto-Henry Root in parts | 1984 |
| Bierce, Ambrose | Sardonic humor of Ambrose Bierce | Nice stuff | 1912 |
| Bishop-Potter, E | Dear Popsy | Collected postcards of a private schoolboy to his father | 1984 |
| Bowman, WE | Ascent of Rum Doodle | Pooter goes mountain climbing | 1956 |
| Boynton, Sandra | Grunt: pigorian chant | Cod (pig) Latin verses & responses, + CD! | 1996 |
| Brahms, C; Simon, SJ | No bed for Bacon | Shakespeare & Lady Viola in love | 1941 |
| Brett, Simon (1) | After Henry | Good novel of the TV show of the BBC R4 series | 1987 |
| Briggs, Stephen | Wit and Wisdom of Discworld | Pithy quotes, basically | 2007 |
| Brooke-Taylor, Tim | Goodies File | Bring 'em back | 1975 |
| Brooks, Mel | History of the world Part 1 | Not bad, but not too funny either | 1981 |
| Bywater, Michael | Chronicles of Bargepole | Bargepole: the man who hates everything | 1992 |
| Campbell, Patrick | Campbell companion | Best of Paddy C, edited by Ulick O'Connor | 1987 |
| Campbell, Patrick | Feast of true fandangles | Funny essays & articles | 1979 |
| Campbell, Patrick | P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell | 24 carat hoot; includes 'Noulded into a shake' | 1965 |
| Campbell, Patrick | Thirty five years on the job | F-f-f-funny articles & essays | 1973 |
| Candappa, Rohan | Curious Incident of the WMD in Iraq | Blair, as it were, from super to nuts | 2004 |
| Carr, JL | Harpole report | Sublime teaching diary; this copy to Carol (Mine, 40p, 1973) | 1972 |
| Cassell & Co | e-tales two: more Internet humour | More of what the Net is apparently for | 2001 |
| Cassell & Co | e-tales: Internet humour | Some real corkers | 2000 |
| Cleese, John | Golden skits of Muriel Volestrangler | Classic Python & other material | 1984 |
| Cleese, John | Strange case of end of civilisation... | Lightweight | 1977 |
| Coren, Alan | Cricklewood Tapestry | Slanted observations from his loft | 2001 |
| Coren, Alan | Penguin modern humour | 470pp including Allen, Wodehouse, Perelman, Jennings, Herbert | 1982 |
| Coren, Alan | Seems like old times | A year of columns from The Times | 1989 |
| Coren, Alan | Something for the weekend? | Columns from Punch | 1986 |
| Coren, Alan | Year in Cricklewood | Funny man | 1991 |
| Coren, Victoria | Love 16: love, parents & other problems | Alan's daughter. Another Adrian Mole | 1989 |
| Cowley, Stewart | DIY brain surgery | Funnyish | 1981 |
| Craig, Patricia | Modern British comic writing | Wide range, with some unconventional delights | 1992 |
| Cray, Ed | Bawdy ballads | Incl. 'Sexual Life of the Camel' & 80 more | 1970 |
| Cuppy, Will | Decline and fall of practically everybody | Like Sellar & Yeatman's stylish take on history | 1950 |
| Cutler, I; Honeysett, M | Fly sandwich | Cutler's whimsical 'take' on nature | 1991 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Fremsley | Great | 1987 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Glasgow dreamer | Typical | 1990 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Gruts | Typical Cutler | 1962 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Life in a Scotch sitting room Vol 2 | Wonderful & weird | 1984 |
| Davies, John | Everyman's book of nonsense | McGough, Marquis, Python, Nash: 150 or so items | 1981 |
| de Crescenzo, Luciano | Dialogues | 9 anecdotes of Naples & Neapolitan life | 1985 |
| de Crescenzo, Luciano | History of Greek philosophy: Vol 1 | Ex-IBM engineer's take on philosophers | 1989 |
| de Crescenzo, Luciano | Thus spake Bellavista | Naples isn't fully attuned to the modern spirit :-) | 1977 |
| de la Pasture, Elizabeth | Unlucky family | Folio Society edition | 1907 |
| Deayton, Angus | Have I got news for you? | Better on the screen | 1994 |
| Dillon-Malone, Aubrey | Cynic's Dictionary | Misbehaving words | 1998 |
| Donaldson, William | Balloons in the black bag | Emma Jane's further adventures | 1978 |
| Donaldson, William | Letters to Emma Jane | Stylish (fictional?) tarty correspondence / satire | 1977 |
| Doran, Amanda-Jane | Punch Book of utterly British humour | Soon be autumn - the rain's getting colder! | 1989 |
| Doran, Amanda-Jane | Punch lines: 150 years of Punch humour | Lovely selection, including AA Milne of all people! | 1991 |
| Douglas, Colin | Bleeders come first | Medical mayhem as Dr Campbell hits Casualty ward | 1979 |
| Douglas, Colin | Cure for living | Downbeat mayhem at the Life Ending centre in the USA | 1983 |
| Douglas, Colin | Ethics made easy | Mayhem & murky medical ethics | 1985 |
| Douglas, Colin | Greatest breakthrough since lunchtime | Richard Gordonesque; sex'n'status in a teaching hospital | 1977 |
| Douglas, Colin | Hazards of the profession | At least he's no longer just a Houseman! | 1987 |
| Douglas, Colin | Houseman's Tale | Emasculated for TV; graduate medical student progress | 1975 |
| Douglas, Colin | Sickness and health | Lives & careers of two generations of doctors, paralleling NHS | 1991 |
| Douglas, Colin | Wellies from the Queen | Dr Campbell afloat in the navy | 1981 |
| Durrell, Lawrence | Antrobus Complete | Replacement copy of the trilogy of stories | 1989 |
| Edwards, G; Flenniken, Shary | When a man loves a walnut | Unlikely misheard lyrics, enlivened by Shary's artwork | 1997 |
| Eggers, Dave | Created in Darkness by troubled.. | ..Americans. Best of McSweeney's | 2005 |
| Ellis, HF | Bee in the kitchen & other distractions | Essays, articles, parodies & 'episodes' | 1983 |
| Ellis, HF | Swan song of A J Wentworth | Final term includes a trip to New York | 1982 |
| Ellis, HF | World of A J Wentworth, B.A. | Sideways sideswipes at a bemused life in teaching | 1964 |
| Ellis, Ron | Journal of a coffin dodger | Adventures of an 84 year old bachelor playboy | 1989 |
| Emerson, Hunt; Dowie, John | Hard to swallow | Abandoned comedy routines, well-caught by Emerson | 1988 |
| Fantoni, Barry | Colemanballs (12 vols) | Private Eye's collections of verbal gaffes, 1982 on... | 2004 |
| Feldman, Sally | Woman's Hour book of (female) humour | Can't possibly comment | 1993 |
| Flanders & Swann | Songs of Flanders & Swann | Unique | 1977 |
| Fougasse & McCullough | You have been warned | Complete guide to the (pre-war) road | 1935 |
| Frayn, Michael | Now you know | Desk top shags & police brutality | 1992 |
| Frayn, Michael | Sweet dreams | Stalled on p12 (pathetic, isn't it?) | 1973 |
| Galton, R; Simpson, A | Best of Hancock | Ten classics, incl. Blood Donor, Missing Page, Radio Ham | 1986 |
| Galton, R; Simpson, A | Hancock's half hour | Inimitable scripts for comic genius | 1974 |
| Garner, James Finn | Once upon a more enlightened time | Politically correct bedtime stories | 1995 |
| Geisel, Theodor Seuss | Dr Seuss's The Seven Lady Godivas | Amazing | 1939 |
| Gibbs, Bob | Getting old is when... | .. you don't remember being absent-minded | 2005 |
| Gordon, Richard | Captain's Table | Hilarious saga of William Ebbs, Master of 'Martin Luther' | 1954 |
| Gordon, Richard | Doctor at sea | Serving under Captain Hogg of the Lotus | 1953 |
| Grenfell, Joyce | George, don't do that... | Sketches, songs & good-humoured talent | 2005 |
| Grossmith, George & Weedon | Diary of a nobody | Journal of hapless 1890s City clerk, Charles Pooter | 1892 |
| Guareschi, Giovanni | Comrade Don Camillo | Linked tales of trip to enemy's heartland: Russia | 1963 |
| Guareschi, Giovanni | Don Camillo and the Devil | 21 more misadventures | 1957 |
| Guareschi, Giovanni | Don Camillo and the Prodigal Son | Another 32 timeless tales | 1952 |
| Guareschi, Giovanni | Don Camillo meets Hell's Angels | 19 final tales as the 1960s invade Valley of the Po | 1969 |
| Guareschi, Giovanni | Don Camillo's dilemma | 25 gentle tales | 1954 |
| Guareschi, Giovanni | Little world of Don Camillo | 22 stories, set somewhere in valley of River Po | 1951 |
| Guinness | Ultimate joke encyclopedia | Curiously unfunny | 1986 |
| Hargrave, John | ZUG book of pranks | What it says on the tin | 2007 |
| Hayman, Carole; Wakefield, L | Ladies of letters | Behind net curtains via suburban spoof correspondence | 1991 |
| Hayman, Carole; Wakefield, L | Ladies of letters.com | Out onto the Internet | 2001 |
| Hayman, Carole; Wakefield, L | More ladies of letters | Further taradiddles | 2000 |
| Hendra, Tony et al | 80s - a look back at the decade | Somehow heavy-handed satire | 1979 |
| Herbert, Alan P | Look back and laugh | Collection of columns from Punch over 50-year period | 1960 |
| Hilton, Audrey | This England | More selections from 'New Statesman', 1974-1978 | 1978 |
| Hogg, Gary | Fairly truthful tales: comedy monologues.. | ..from the North of England. Alec has ham! | 2003 |
| Hollowood, Bernard | Scowle and other papers | One-time editor of 'Punch' with tales from the staffroom | 1948 |
| Holy Moly | Holy Moly rules of modern life | Not as amusing as I'd hoped | 2005 |
| Idle, Eric | Wonderful world of Prince Charles | Funny after a fashion | 1976 |
| Iggers, Jeremy | Off the office wall | Usual suspects for office humour | 1991 |
| Ingrams, Richard | Beachcomber: works of J B Morton | Good, in small doses. Nanny has this | 1974 |
| James, Clive | Brilliant creatures | Stalled on p222 of a novel with an index! | 1983 |
| James, Clive | Brrm! Brrm! | His 3rd novel, aka 'the man from Japan' | 1991 |
| Jennings, Paul | Book of Nonsense | The 'I said Oddley Diddley' man with 75 contributors | 1977 |
| Jennings, Paul | Model Oddlies | Nostalgic | 1956 |
| Jerome, Jerome K | Idle thoughts of an idle fellow | 'Home Chimes' magazine essays like 'On being Hard-up' | 1889 |
| Jerome, Jerome K | Three men in a boat | Absolutely classic; let's not forget Montmorency | 1889 |
| Jerome, Jerome K | Three men in a boat (annotated) | Benny Green & Christopher Matthew add a social history | 1982 |
| Jerome, Jerome K | Three men on the Bummel | Much under-rated sequel | 1900 |
| Jones, Terry (1) | Fairy tales | For Peter, at the time | 1981 |
| Katz, Eliakim | Old age comes at a bad time | At age 50 every man has the face he deserves (Orwell) | 1997 |
| Kaufman, Gloria | In stitches: patchwork of feminist fun | Very funny in parts. Includes some Flenniken | 1991 |
| Kilroy, Roger | Graffiti: the scrawl of the wild | Trivial, literally | 1979 |
| Kington, Miles | Best by Miles: posthumous collection.. | ..of his humorous oeuvre | 2009 |
| Klane, Robert | Horse is dead | Sick & funny | 1968 |
| Klane, Robert | Where's Poppa? | Equally sick; even funnier | 1970 |
| Landale, James | Landale's cautionary tales | Updates Belloc, basically | 2006 |
| Lee, Ian | Third word war: apostrophe theory | Visual puns | 1978 |
| Legman, Gershon | Rationale of the dirty joke (2 vols) | Just wonderfully obsessive | 1968 |
| Leigh, Mark; Lepine, Mike | How to be a superhero | Spoof, quite funny | 1990 |
| Lewis, Roy | Extraordinary reign of King Ludd | Another 'what would have happened if?' capitalism never reigned | 1990 |
| Lumley, Joanna | Peacocks and commas | 'Spectator' competition entries over 10 years | 1984 |
| Macaulay, Rose | Towers of Trebizond | 'Take my camel, dear' said my aunt Dot | 1956 |
| Marshall, Arthur | Never rub bottoms with a porcupine! | 'New Statesman' competition entries, 1968-1978 | 1979 |
| Marshall, Arthur | Salome Dear, not in the fridge! | 'New Statesman' competitions, 1955 - 1967 | 1968 |
| Marshall, Arthur | Selections from Follow the Sun | Free with 'New Statesman' | 1990 |
| Marshall, Michael | Stanley Holloway monologues | Our Albert, Sam Small, Ann Boleyn & others | 1979 |
| Martin, Steve | Pure drivel | Occasionally frothy pieces | 1998 |
| Mather, V; Macartney-Snape | Embarrassing Parents | Telegraph magazine social stereotypes | 2002 |
| Mather, Victoria | Mid-Life crisis | Further social sterotyping | 2005 |
| Mather, Victoria et al | Absolutely Typical | Foreword by Bron Waugh | 1996 |
| Mather, Victoria et al | Absolutely typical too | Snide word/picture portraits of stereotypes | 1997 |
| Matthew, Christopher | Knocking on | Diary of a Somebody returns | 2001 |
| McGough, Roger | Helen Highwater | Great | 1989 |
| McGough, Roger | Stowaways | Good | 1986 |
| McGough, Roger et al | Grimms: clowns on the road | Interesting days | 1974 |
| Metcalf, Fred | Penguin dictionary of jokes | Not terrifically funny, strangely | 1993 |
| Monty Python | Meaning of Life | Great | 198? |
| Muir, Frank | Oxford book of humorous prose | 5 centuries, 1150 pages | 1990 |
| Muir, Frank; Norden, Denis | Complete and utter 'My Word' collection | You can't have your kayak & heat it, etc. | 1983 |
| Munro, Neil | Para Handy | 100 stories of life aboard an Edwardian Clyde 'puffer' | 1992 |
| Nash, Ogden | Ave Ogden! Nash in Latin | Sublimely silly idea, well-executed | 1975 |
| National Lampoon | Foto funnies | Good | 1980 |
| New Statesman | Blairway to Heaven | Competition entries, This England, etc., from 1990-1995 | 1995 |
| New Statesman | Owl in a sack troubles no man | Competition entries | 1988 |
| Noble, Alexander | Little Book of sayings of Oscar Wilde | What it says on the tin! | 1998 |
| Norwich, John Julius | Twelve Days of Christmas (correspondence) | Plus Quentin Blake drawings | 1998 |
| Novak, William; Waldoks, M | Big Book of Jewish Humor | Even has some Shary Flenniken artwork (see p43) | 1981 |
| Octopus Books | Laughter on Parade | Quite good in parts | 1984 |
| Octopus Books | More humorous stories | OK | 1989 |
| Osgood, Charles | Kilroy was here: US humour from WWII | Heard this CBS man on NPR | 2001 |
| Pain, Barry | Eliza Stories | Seem to be funny, but yet unread | 1913 |
| Parkinson, C Northcote | Life and times of Horatio Hornblower | Spoof biography, but very nicely done. Given to Dad, originally | 1970 |
| Parrott, EO | Dogsbody Papers - 1066 and all this | Think of it as annotated '1066' by lots of funny people | 1988 |
| Parrott, EO | How to become absurdly well-informed... | .. about the famous & infamous. Brief biogs by all sorts | 1987 |
| Pascall, Jeremy | God: the ultimate autobiography... | .. back to back with Satan: Hiss & Tell memoirs | 1988 |
| Pascall, Jeremy et al | Uncyclopedia of Rock | Includes one Angus Deayton | 1987 |
| Perelman, SJ | Crazy like a fox | Bloxsom's recommendation, bought in Reading | 1947 |
| Perelman, SJ | Eastward Ha! | Eastwards round a zany-seeming world | 1977 |
| Perelman, SJ | Last laugh | Final collection of items | 1981 |
| Perelman, SJ | Most of SJ Perelman | Supposedly a 'definitive' collection | 1959 |
| Perelman, SJ | Swiss family Perelman | Travels in Far East | 1949 |
| Perelman, SJ | That old gang o' mine (1925-1931) | Very early work | 1984 |
| Perelman, SJ | Vinegar Puss | Pieces from New Yorker | 1976 |
| Playboy | Complete book of party jokes | Thick, but not always funny | 1972 |
| Pocock, Guy; Bozman, MM | Modern humour | Includes Wodehouse, Sellar, Herbert, Gibbons, & even Fowler! | 1940 |
| Potter, Stephen | Sense of Humour | Well-stuffed with many many excerpts from literature | 1954 |
| Powell, Michael | 100 pretentious nursery rhymes | Mary had a callow sheep, etc. | 2002 |
| Prager, Emily | In the missionary position | 25 years of magazine (& other) humorous pieces | 1999 |
| Punch | Punch cartoon album: 150 years | Excellent pieces | 1990 |
| Punch | Punch for June 1860: Vol 38 | Gift from Aunty Peg Henson | 1860 |
| Rawle, Graham | Lost consonants: 31 postcards | Visual puns all hanging on one omitted letter | 1991 |
| Riddell, Chris | Buddhism for bears | Charming illustrations | 1998 |
| Riddell, Chris | Buddhism for sheep | More animal nonsense | 1996 |
| Rosten, Leo | Book of laughter | Jokes, one-liners, gaffes | 1985 |
| Rosten, Leo | O Kaplan! My Kaplan! | More fractured English | 1979 |
| Rosten, Leo | Return of Hyman Kaplan | Collection of New York language night-school tales | 1959 |
| Rubi, Sion | Intelligent Jokes | Often with a Jewish slant | 2005 |
| Seinfeld, Jerry | SeinLanguage | Witty snippets in his distinctive 'nothing' mould | 1993 |
| Sellar, WC; Yeatman, RJ | 1066 and all that | Folio Society; nice intro by Ned Sherrin | 1930 |
| Sellar, WC; Yeatman, RJ | And now all this | After demolishing history... Golliwology, myth-information... | 1932 |
| Sellar, WC; Yeatman, RJ | Garden rubbish, & other country bumps | Plus affrontispiece & numerous insulting illustrations! | 1936 |
| Sellar, WC; Yeatman, RJ | Horse nonsense | Includes the "Good news from Aix to Ghent" parody | 1933 |
| Shandling, Garry; Rensin, D | Autobiography of Larry Sanders | Late night fictional talk show host | 1998 |
| Sharpe, Johnny | Adult joke book | Adult clearly means 'dirty' -- strangely! | 1999 |
| Sharpe, Tom | Indecent exposure | Funny & vicious sequel | 1973 |
| Sharpe, Tom | Riotous assembly | Extracting piss from South African police | 1971 |
| Shepherd, Jean | In God we trust: all others pay cash | Parts came from mid-60s 'Playboy' | 1966 |
| Sherrin, Ned; Shand, Neil | 1956 and all that | Excellent update on Sellar & Yeatman + Willy Rushton! | 1984 |
| Smith, Phil | Phil Smith collection | Lancashire wit & wisdom, as on BBC Radio 4 | 1989 |
| Squire, JC | Tricks of the trade | Fan of Kai Lung; poems & parodies | 1917 |
| Stanshall, Vivian | Sir Henry at Rawlinson End | Idiosyncratic & funny | 1980 |
| Stekelman, Greg | Year in the life of TheMan.. | ..WhoFellAsleep. From his amusing website | 2006 |
| Stillman, D; Beatts, A | Titters: collection of humour by women | Parson's nose | 1976 |
| Thomas, Jane | This England | Further 'New Statesman' cuttings, 1979-1988 | 1988 |
| Thompson, Eric | Adventures of Brian | Small mollusc, step forward | 1998 |
| Thompson, Eric | Adventures of Dougal | Magic Roundabout (Serge Danot) tales from 1971/2 | 1998 |
| Thompson, Eric | Adventures of Dylan | Delightful transcripts | 1998 |
| Thompson, Eric | Adventures of Ermintrude | Pink-spotted flower-eating monster (cow) speaks! | 1998 |
| Thurber, J; White, E B | Is sex necessary? | Six-day bicycle racing as a substitute? | 1929 |
| Thurber, James | Beast in me and other animals | Hippoterranovamus, timid stork-eater | 1949 |
| Thurber, James | My life and hard times... | Folio Society anthology | 1980 |
| Thurber, James | Thurber carnival | Mainly funny but with a few kind-of-sad ones mixed in | 1945 |
| Thurber, James | Thurber country | Miss Menta, disturbingly nude Chilean transcendentalist | 1953 |
| Times | Fourth Leaders, 1949 | Editorials | 1949 |
| Times | Fourth Leaders, 1952 | Editorials | 1952 |
| Times | Fourth Leaders, 1954 | Editorials | 1954 |
| Times | Fourth Leaders, 1956 | Editorials | 1956 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Call it a canary | Pat leaves Carter Brandon! | 1985 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Except you're a bird | More from Northern zanies | 1974 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Home front | Short-lived ITV comedy | 1982 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | I didn't know you cared | Uncle Mort again | 1973 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Mog | From Jayne: follow-up to Touch of Daniel | 1970 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Stirk of Stirk | Reminiscent of 'Astra & Flondrix' | 1974 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Touch of Daniel | Introducing Uncle Mort & the Brandon household | 1968 |
| Tinniswood, Peter | Uncle Mort's South Country | North meets hapless South | 1990 |
| Took, Barry | Max Miller blue book | Rude re-creation of his music hall acts | 1975 |
| Townsend, Sue | Secret diary of Adrian Mole | Unique | 1982 |
| Truss, Lynne | Certain Age: 12 radio monologues | Alan Bennett's turf | 2010 |
| Tunstall-Pedoe, William | Anagram Genius | Anagrams generated by his program; bought at Acorn Show | 1995 |
| Twain, Mark | Mysterious stranger and other stories | Includes '£1,000,000 bank note' | 1916 |
| Unwin, Stanley | Miscillian Manuscript | Mangled language by its master | 1961 |
| VanderMeer, J; Roberts, M | Thackery T Lambshead guide to.. | ..eccentric & discredited diseases. Some wonderful spoofs here | 2003 |
| Various | Comic Relief Christmas book | OK | 1986 |
| Vickers, VC | Google Book | Funny | 1913 |
| Wechsler, Robert | In a fog: humorist's guide to England | Good | 1989 |
| Weiner, Ellis | Northern Exposure - letters from Cicely | If only... | 1992 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Brothers keepers | Crooked monks in New York | 1975 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Cops and robbers | Bent coppers rip off the System for their pensions | 1972 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #01: Hot Rock | Or how to steal a diamond in 4 uneasy lessons (film) | 1970 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #02: Bank shot | Dortmunder steals an entire bank (on wheels) | 1972 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #03: Jimmy the kid | Dortmunder and Parker crossover | 1974 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #04: Nobody's perfect | Dortmunder and a priceless oil painting | 1977 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #05: Why me | Dortmunder and a Turkish ruby | 1983 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #06: Good behavior | Dortmunder and New York nuns | 1985 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #07: Drowned hopes | Dortmunder, and a stash now under a dam | 1990 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #08: Don't ask | Dortmunder and stolen European saintly relics | 1993 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #09: What's worst that could happen? | Stealing from Dortmunder is ill-advised, whoever you are! | 1996 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #11: Road to Ruin | Dortmunder, the butler, did it! | 2004 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #12: Watch your back! | Up against a would-be Tony Soprano at the OJ Bar & Grill | 2005 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #13: Thieves' dozen | Dortmunder in 11 short stories format | 2004 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Dort #14: What's so funny? | Czar's gold chess set needs liberating | 2007 |
| Westlake, Donald E | God save the mark | Fred Fitch, hapless inheritor | 1967 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Help - I am being held prisoner | With a name like Künt, too! | 1974 |
| Westlake, Donald E | New York dance | Aztec statue caper | 1976 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Sacred monster | Jack Pine, Hollywood star | 1989 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Smoke | Freddie Noon, the (now) invisible thief | 1995 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Somebody owes me money | Cabbie gets, and bets, a tip, then troubles start | 1969 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Spy in the ointment | FBI typo causes trouble, bought in Murder One | 1966 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Trust me on this | Tabloid sleaze and mayhem | 1988 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Two much! | Trouble with twins | 1975 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Up your banners | Protests in a high school and race relations | 1969 |
| Willans, Geoffrey; Searle, R | Molesworth: Down with Skool! How to be... | .. Topp, Whizz for Atoms, Back in the Jug Agane (1953 onward!) | 1999 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Adventures of Sally | Set in world of 1920s New York theatre | 1922 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Aunts aren't gentlemen | The country cure for Bertie's pink spots | 1974 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Blandings Castle | 6 of Blandings, 5 of Mulliner, and a Bobbie Wickham | 1935 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Carry on, Jeeves | 10, incl the hiring of Jeeves in the first place | 1925 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Cocktail time | Part of the 'Uncle Fred' omnibus | 1958 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Code of the Woosters | He returned with the tissue-restorer. I loosed it down the hatch | 1938 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Girl in blue | Recent non-Jeeves example | 1970 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Heavy weather | Part of 'Life at Blandings' - Threepwood's memoirs | 1933 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Inimitable Jeeves | Loosely-coupled stories incl 'The great sermon handicap' | 1924 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Jeeves and the feudal spirit | Bertie's moustache ruffles Jeeves' feathers | 1954 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Jeeves in the offing | Cow creamers and other problems | 1960 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Jeeves omnibus | 31, in Wodehouse's 1st omnibus. Bought on Isle of Wight | 193? |
| Wodehouse, PG | Joy in the morning | Bertie trapped in Steeple Bumpleigh | 1947 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Leave it to Psmith | Original book version | 1923 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Little Nugget | Bought in Guernsey, I deduce | 1913 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Louder and Funnier | Articles from 'Vanity Fair'; bought in Guernsey | 1932 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Love among the Chickens | Ukridge goes to Dorset to raise chickens | 1906 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Mating Season | Aunt Agatha's son Thomas is in trouble | 1949 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Most of PG Wodehouse | Good | 1960 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Much obliged, Jeeves | Politics at Market Snodbury, plus the dreaded Spode | 1971 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Pigs have wings | Sir G Parsloe's evil designs on that pre-eminent pig | 1952 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Right Ho, Jeeves | Mr Fink-Nottle has a strong newt complex | 1934 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Ring for Jeeves | Big game hunter chasing a spoof bookmaker | 1953 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Sam the Sudden | One of Wodehouse's favourites | 1925 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Something Fresh | Part of 'Life at Blandings' omnibus | 1915 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Stiff upper lip, Jeeves | Aunt Agatha, the one who eats broken bottles... | 1963 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Summer lightning | Part of 'Life at Blandings' omnibus | 1929 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Sunset at Blandings | Unfinished, but with detailed plot notes | 1977 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Thank you, Jeeves | 1st full-length novel: Jeeves hands in his notice | 1934 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Uncle Dynamite | Part of the 'Uncle Fred' omnibus | 1948 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Uncle Fred in the Springtime | Part of the 'Uncle Fred' omnibus | 1939 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Very good, Jeeves! | 11, incl 'Jeeves & the impending doom' (Aunt Agatha) | 1930 |
| Wodehouse, PG | World of Mr Mulliner (42 stories) | Tall tales from the Angler's Rest | 1972 |
| Wood, Victoria | Lucky bag: the Victoria Wood songbook | Good | 1984 |
| Wright, Brian | Penge Papers | Literate confessions of an unwaged metropolitan house-husband | 1985 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Abrahams, Marc | Best of Annals of Improbable Research | aka Journal of Inflated Research & Personalities! | 1998 |
| Abrahams, Marc | Ig Nobel Prizes | Frankly incredible tales of ignoble research spending | 2002 |
| Abrahams, Marc | Sex as a heap of malfunctioning rubble... | Spoof science articles à la Daedalus | 1993 |
| Abrahams, Marc | This is improbable. .. | Plentiful fresh examples of scientific, erm, idiocy | 2012 |
| Adams, Scott | Stick to drawing comics, monkey brain! | Good stuff from his blog | 2007 |
| Adler, Bill | Churchill Wit | Present to Christa from Karl (I suspect) | 1965 |
| Ash, Russell | Top 10 of everything | Lists of trivia. Compelling time-waster | 1989 |
| Ash, Russell; Lake, Brian | Bizarre books | Bizarre titles of real books. Amazing | 1985 |
| Atkins, H; Newman, A | Beecham stories | Anecdotage, sayings & impressions. Marvellous stuff! | 1978 |
| Baker, Robert | Stress Analysis of Strapless Evening Gown | Humorous essays of non-science non-sense | 1963 |
| Banks, M; Swift, A | Jokes on us: women in comedy | From Music Hall to the present | 1987 |
| Bastone, William et al | Smoking Gun: dossier of amazing documents | Freedom of Information reductio ad absurdum | 2001 |
| Baum, Harold | Biochemist's songbook (1st ed) | A hoot. 13 gems incl 'We're here because Urea' | 1982 |
| Baum, Harold | Biochemist's songbook (2nd ed) | Six extra songs incl 'A Cautionary Carol' | 1995 |
| Beard, Henry | Latin for all occasions | From Carol | 1990 |
| Beard, Henry | Latin for even more occasions | Bonus! | 1991 |
| Bell, Michael | Scouts in Bondage, & other curious.. | ..works from bygone times (with strange titles!) | 2006 |
| Bell, Simon et al | Who's had who: 'lay' lines | Journey through the stained sheets of time. Wonderful | 1987 |
| Benson, Ophelia; Stangroom | Dictionary of fashionable nonsense | Slim volume of cod pedantry from 'Butterflies' website | 2004 |
| Bermant, Chaim | What's the joke? (Jewish humour) | Surveyed through ages up to (reluctantly) Joan Rivers | 1986 |
| Berry, Adrian | Harrap's book of scientific anecdotes | 60+ well-chosen examples, including Phonus Interruptus | 1989 |
| Binnie, GAC et al | In England now: humour in The Lancet | 50 years of Lancet's humour column | 1989 |
| Blundell, Nigel | World's greatest scandals of 20th century | Round up twice the usual number of suspects - they're all here | 1986 |
| Boffa, Alessandro | You're an animal, Viskovitz! | Fables of life as various animals | 1998 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Unsent letters | Tongue-in-cheek set of 18 unsent replies; almost an autobio | 1988 |
| Brandreth, Gyles | Brief Encounters: meetings with.. | ..remarkable folk, often very funnily recalled | 2001 |
| Briers, Richard | Coward (Noël) and company | Uproarious anecdotage | 1987 |
| Brooks, Roy | Brothel in Pimlico | Estate agent's uniquely truthful small ads from 1950s/60s | 1985 |
| Buckman, Rob | Medicine balls II | Funny | 1988 |
| Bywater, Michael | Lost worlds: what have we lost?.. | ..& where did it go? Brilliant! | 2004 |
| Carolino, Pedro | Fractured English as she is spoke | For Christa | 1883 |
| Carr, Jimmy; Greeves, Lucy | Naked Jape: hidden world of jokes | Good excuse for a collection of gags & commentaries | 2006 |
| Carr, Simon | Gripes of Wrath | Everyday absurdities of UK life for grumpies like me | 2005 |
| Caufield, Catherine | Man who ate bluebottles, & other.. | ..great British eccentrics. Considerable change of style since! | 1981 |
| Chapman, Graham | Calcium made interesting | Sketches, essays, & bits and pieces | 2005 |
| Cohen, John | Essential Lenny Bruce | Equalled finally after 30 years by Bill Hicks | 1967 |
| Coldbacon | /index.html | Genuinely weird, funny in parts | 2006 |
| Coleman, Alistair | Tales of Mirth and Woe | Scaryduck blog creator lets rip | 2006 |
| Colgan, Stevyn | Joined-up thinking | Circular chains of connection | 2008 |
| Cook, William | Ha Bloody Ha: comedians talking | Interviews with 30 or so of UK's new wave | 1994 |
| Cook, William | Tragically I was an Only Twin: complete | Peter Cook, comic genius | 2002 |
| Crossley, Jack | You couldn't make it up | Current amusing clippings | 2003 |
| Cryer, Barry | Pigs can fly | 50 years of true apocryphal stories | 2003 |
| Daisey, Mike | 21 Dog Years: doing time at Amazon.com | Insider tales (tails?) from a dot-comedian | 2002 |
| De Guillaume, Andre | How to rule the world | Tips for aspirant dictators | 2002 |
| Deayton, Angus | In search of happiness | Silly, like the TV 'documentary' | 1995 |
| Diagram group | How to hold a crocodile | Inspired | 1981 |
| Dickinson, D; Hooper, B | Clangers in uniform | Collection of blunders & anecdotage | 197? |
| Dixon, Dougal | After man: a zoology of the future | Interesting reverse look at evolution | 1981 |
| Dixon, Dougal | New dinosaurs: alternative evolution | Quirky but plausible | 1988 |
| Donaldson, William | Both the ladies and the gentlemen | Running a brothel, prior to 'Henry Root' & his letters | 1975 |
| Donaldson, William | Brewer's Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics | An A-Z of UK rogues; 670+ pages of them | 2002 |
| Donaldson, William | Henry Root's world of knowledge | Self-styled dictionary of common sense. Hmmm. | 1982 |
| Donaldson, William | I'm leaving you Simon, you disgust me... | Dictionary of received ideas | 2003 |
| Ebdon, John | Ebdon's England | English, & very proud of it | 1985 |
| Freud, Clement | Feast of Freud: Clement's wittiest pieces | Selected by his journalist daughter, Emma | 2009 |
| Garbage, Greta | Greta Garbage's outrageous bathroom book | You couldn't, as they say, make this stuff up | 2001 |
| Geist, Bill | Way off the road | Heard about on NPR. offbeat small-town America | 2007 |
| Haining, Peter | Slip of the Pen | Collected blunders of writers | 2004 |
| Hall, Rich | Things snowball | Comicly meandering essays | 2002 |
| Halpern, Justin | Sh*t My Dad Says | He's like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair | 2011 |
| Hammond, P; Hughes, P | Upon the pun | A great many of our troubles are man-maid | 1978 |
| Hansard, P; Silver, B | What bird did that? (Bird droppings) | Bizarre (on a par with 'How to shit in the woods') | 1991 |
| Harrison, Ian | Book of Duos | Lacks Mutt & Jeff, but not much else | 2005 |
| Hart-Davis, Adam | Taking the Piss: a potted history of pee | Amusingly erudite | 2006 |
| Hay, Peter | Theatrical anecdotes | Nearly 400 pages, some rather bizarre behaviour! | 1987 |
| Heimel, Cynthia | Sex tips for girls | A hoot, specially on vibrators. Witty send-up | 1983 |
| Henderson, Bobby | Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster | Every religion has to start somewhere! | 2006 |
| Hewson, Robert | Monty Python: the case against | Curious mixture | 1981 |
| Hicks, Bill | Love all the people: letters, lyrics.. | ..routines. Intro by John Lahr | 2004 |
| Holt, Nick (ed) | Art of the Put-Down | Some absolute gems | 2006 |
| Holt, Nick (ed) | Wit & Wisdom of great writers | Great value | 2006 |
| Holt, Nick (ed) | Wit & Wisdom of movies | 1,300 more quotes; some are funny! | 2005 |
| Holt, Nick (ed) | Wit & Wisdom of music | Slightly more misses than hits | 2006 |
| Howell, Georgina | Penguin book of naughty postcards | Not much good | 1977 |
| Ibrahim, Mecca | One stop short of Barking | Extracting humour from the London Tube | 2004 |
| Ironside, Virginia | Virginia Monologues | Why growing old is great?! | 2009 |
| Jacobs, AJ | Know-it-all | Sucking up Britannica | 2004 |
| Jaggard, Geoffrey | Wooster's World | Roll-call of all his amazing characters & their foibles | 1967 |
| Jarski, Rosemarie | Great British Wit | Fat assembly of quotations | 2005 |
| Jarski, Rosemarie | Hollywood Wit | Has a new Billy Wilder story on p76 | 2000 |
| Johnson, Kim Howard | Life before and after Monty Python | Interesting | 1993 |
| Jones, Annie; Mitchell, A | Backstabber's guide | MP Austin Mitchell's guide to getting ahead in various fields | 1991 |
| Jones, Richard Glyn | This fish is loaded! Surreal humour | Alphabetical array of pieces | 1991 |
| Karp, Josh | Futile and stupid gesture: Doug Kenney.. | ..& National Lampoon's effect on American comedy | 2006 |
| Kerr, Philip | Penguin book of fights, feuds & hatreds | Anthology of serendipitous antipathy | 1992 |
| Kilgarriff, Michael | Make 'em roar: comedian's handbook | Detailed advice & performance suggestions | 1979 |
| Lakin, Warren | Very best of Linda Smith | I think the nurses are stealing my clothes... | 2006 |
| Lansky, Doug | There's no toilet paper on the road less.. | .. travelled. Compendium of horrible misadventures | 1998 |
| Larson, Gary | There's a hair in my dirt! | Far Side goes scientific with a worm's story | 1998 |
| Leyser, Crispin | Filth! Book of the comedy event | Includes many wonderfully funny, not to say filthy, comedians | 1994 |
| Lipman, Maureen | Past-it notes | Glorious ragbag of reminiscences | 2008 |
| Lipman, Maureen; Phillips, R | You got an Ology? | BT TV commercial scripts | 1989 |
| Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, J | QI book of general ignorance | Now 26% more ignorant | 2009 |
| Lloyd, John; Mitchinson, J | QI: advanced banter | Gem-filled | 2008 |
| Long, Rob | Set up, joke, set up, joke | Another take on the Hollywood life | 2005 |
| Losada, Isabel | Battersea Park Road to enlightenment | Self-discoveries of a Starbucks addict | 2001 |
| Lowe, Steve; McArthur, Alan | Is it just me or is everything shit? | Encyclopedia of modern life; Z-list celebs as fuckwit pundits | 2005 |
| MacHale, Des | Lovers' Wit | Is the barrel bottomless? | 2005 |
| Mancroft, Lord | Booking the cooks | Unread accounts of corporate fraud | 1969 |
| Marshall, Arthur | Wish you were here (Donald McGill) | Postcards selected & appraised | 1966 |
| Marston, Wendy | Hypochondriac's handbook | All the latest microbial mutations! | 1998 |
| Martin, Andrew | Funny you should say that | Jokes, quips, quotes; Cicero to Simpsons, but no Bramah | 2005 |
| Mayle, Peter | Expensive habits | Things to make your accountant pale | 1991 |
| McNally, J; Wallis, J | Fortean Times weird year 1996 | Given to Peter | 1996 |
| Naismith, Jon | New Uxbridge English dictionary | More from ISIHAC radio comedy | 2008 |
| Naismith, Jon | Uxbridge English dictionary | From ISIHAC radio comedy | 2006 |
| Newell, Peter | Rocket book | Moving pictures, if I remember | 1912 |
| Norden, Denis | Clips from a Life | Very polished anecdotage | 2008 |
| Nye, Christopher | Maximum Diner | Setting up a diner in Uckfield | 2004 |
| O'Farrell, John | Utterly impartial history of Britain | or 2000 years of upper class idiots in charge | 2007 |
| Page, Nick | In search of the world's worst writers | Some priceless stuff | 2000 |
| Parsons, Nicholas | Dipped in Vitriol: hatchet reviews | Cruel but funny | 1981 |
| Pattinson, Iain | Lyttelton's Britain | Mock gazeteer of the UK | 2008 |
| Perry, John; Roberts, Neil | Hold ye front page II | Extending back some 21 billion years | 2000 |
| Perry, John; Roberts, Neil | Hold ye front page! | 2000 years as told by the 'Sun' news?paper | 1999 |
| Poundstone, William | Big secrets | Trivia, more like | 1983 |
| Poundstone, William | Bigger secrets | If this is 'highly classified' we have very little to fear | 1986 |
| Quantick, David | Grumpy old men | British malcontents | 2004 |
| Raven, Simon | English Gentleman | Penetrating analysis of vulgarity | 1961 |
| Re/search | Pranks 2 | Another 1,421 ideas. Ron English & others | 2006 |
| Rees, Nigel | Cassell dictionary of anecdotes | 1,000 choice examples | 1999 |
| Rees, Nigel | Guinness book of humorous anecdotes | Many old favourites trotted out for re-inspection | 1994 |
| Rees, Nigel | Nudge nudge wink wink | Quotes relating to love & sex | 1986 |
| Rees, Nigel | Quote... unquote | Aphorisms, apothegms, bons mots, bromides... | 1978 |
| Ring, Tony | Wit and Wisdom of PG Wodehouse | Good set of snippets | 2007 |
| Roberts, Jem | I'm sorry I haven't a clue! | Fully authorised history of the radio comedy | 2009 |
| Rolph, CH | Mr Prone: week in life of an ignorant man | Legal pitfalls; ignorance is no excuse, it seems | 1977 |
| Rosenthal, Amy Krouse | Encyclopedia of an ordinary life | Exactly that | 2004 |
| Scapa, Kim | Sex tips for boys | Basically a send-up (or a cock up?) | 1986 |
| Sedaris, David | When you are engulfed in flames | Apparently, this is post-Seinfeldian | 2008 |
| Selsdon, Esther | Little Book of Rules of Thumb | Look up 'Working on a submarine' (p198) | 1999 |
| Sherrin, Ned | Cutting Edge | Wicked anthology of wit | 1984 |
| Sherrin, Ned | In his anecdotage | Follow-up to 'Theatrical Anecdotes' & best Coral Browne story | 1993 |
| Sherrin, Ned | Theatrical anecdotes | Scandalous titbits, & marvellous Coral Browne stories | 1991 |
| Shields, Tom | More Tom Shields' diary | Mixture as before | 1993 |
| Shields, Tom | Tom Shields' diary | Glasgow Herald jottings | 1991 |
| Simanek, Donald E; Holden, J | Science Askew | Retired physics teacher treads in Weber territory | 2002 |
| Slee, Christopher | Chameleon book of LASTs | Curious selection of final acts & deeds | 1990 |
| Speck | coldbacon | Oddly named, but successful, transfer of a web site | 2006 |
| Sustainer | Friend & Foe | Stories for the Army Benevolent Fund | 2001 |
| Thompson, Harry | Penguins stopped play | Peripatetic cricketers | 2006 |
| Times Books | Not dead yet | Quotes celebrating 'the senior moment' | 2003 |
| Truss, Lynne | Eats, Shoots & Leaves | Zero tolerance approach to punctuation | 2003 |
| Truss, Lynne | Talk to the Hand | Utter bloody rudeness of everyday life. Write on, sister! | 2005 |
| Tyas, Shaun | Bookworm droppings | Unique 'eaves-droppings' | 1988 |
| Usborne, Richard | Vintage Wodehouse | Man is a fan | 1977 |
| Usborne, Richard | Wodehouse nuggets | 2,000 one-liners: 'Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes' | 1983 |
| Wakeman, Rick, Roach, M | Grumpy old rock star, & other.. | ..wondrous stories. Anecdotes aplenty | 2008 |
| Warren, Roz | Best contemporary women's humor | Such good taste! | 1994 |
| Warren, Roz | Glibquips | Lovely quotes | 1994 |
| Warren, Roz | Women's glibber | Some Flenniken in it | 1992 |
| Weber, Robert L | Droll science | Great | 1987 |
| Weber, Robert L | More random walks in science | Excellent | 1982 |
| Weber, Robert L | Random walk in science | Excellent | 1973 |
| Weber, Robert L | Science with a smile | Last one to date | 1992 |
| Welsch, Roger | Everything I know about women I learned.. | ..from my tractor. Skewering males, I think! | 2002 |
| Wilmut, Roger | From Fringe to Flying Circus | Satire and UK comedy from 1960 to 1980 | 1980 |
| Wilmut, Roger; Rosengard, P | Didn't you kill my mother-in-law? | Alternative comedy in the UK: Comedy Store to Saturday Live | 1989 |
| Wragg, Ted | Pearls from Swineshire | Educational wrangles in essay format | 1984 |
| Wragg, Ted | Riches from Wragg | More pungent educational polemics | 1990 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Baciliero, Paolo | Talking head | Vocalising penis with attitude. Wry & entertaining | 1989 |
| Baikle, Jim | Skizz: alien cultures | 9 years on, & Skizz saves Earth, source of lofatyogurt plague | 1993 |
| Baker, Kyle | Why I hate Saturn | Written when he was 25, dammit! | 1990 |
| Barr, MW; Bolland, B | Camelot 3000 | Excellent comix retelling of Arthurian legend | 1988 |
| Baxendale, Leo | THRPP! | From creator of Bash Street Kids and Baby Basil | 1987 |
| Bendis, Brian Michael | Fortune and Glory: a true Hollywood comic | .. book story. Creative people & Hollywood, heh? | 2000 |
| Bilal, Enki | Gods in chaos | Weird comix style | 1980 |
| Bilal, Enki | Outer states | Good stuff | 1990 |
| Bilal, Enki | Woman trap | Also good | 1988 |
| Bilal, Enki; Christin, P | Hunting Party | Weird but good | 1990 |
| Bilal, Enki; Christin, P | Town that didn't exist | Good | 1989 |
| Brick | Depresso: How I learned to stop worrying.. | .. and embrace being bonkers! Or "Coming off meds" Excellent stuff | 2010 |
| Brunvand, Jan H | Big Book of Urban Legends | Comix approach to his own special niche | 1994 |
| Burns, Charles | Hard-boiled Defective stories | Look twice at that title! | 1988 |
| Burns, Charles | Skin deep: tales of doomed romance | Stylish | 1992 |
| Busiek, Kurt | Astro City: Confession | Darker side of Astro City - after dark... | 1997 |
| Busiek, Kurt | Astro City: life in the big city | New take on superhero genre; comix format | 1995 |
| Carey, Mike | Lucifer #01: Devil in the Gateway | Offshoot from Gaiman's Sandman series | 1999 |
| Carey, Mike | Lucifer #02: Children & Monsters | Gateway to an uncharted void | 2001 |
| Carey, Mike | Lucifer #03: Dalliance with the Damned | Shenanigans in new Garden of Eden | 2002 |
| Carey, Mike | Lucifer #04: the Divine Comedy | Death's job: shut down Morningstar | 2003 |
| Carnell, J; Lanning, A | Sleeze brothers file | Looked good | 1990 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete #6: Strange Armor et al | Some unpublished snippets | 2006 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete #7: the human dilemma | Madness, politics, pizza, & a virgin birth | 2006 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete Color Special #1 | 3: 'Damp descent', 'Lifestyles of rich & famous', 'Desert stars' | 1989 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Complete (initial series) | 9, incl 'A stone among stones', 'Always Fences', 'Everest: solo' | 1986 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Complete short stories 1986-89 | 17, + foreword & intro; July 86 - August 89. Quite superb | 1990 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Fragile creature | On the film set of 'Rulers of the Omniverse' | 1991 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Killer smile (4 parts) | Larry taken hostage | 1994 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Odd jobs / no sweat | 2: Bodyguard to a rock star / Down on the farm | 1987 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Short stories 1990-1995 | 12, incl 'Like Disneyland, only toxic', 'American Christmas' | 1996 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Strange Armor | Re-worked 'origin of Concrete' story | 1998 |
| Chadwick, Paul | Concrete: Think like a mountain | Concrete as eco-terrorist & Earth First!ers saving a forest | 1997 |
| Chadwick, Paul; Perry, S | Salimba #1 (3D) | Predates any 'Concrete' stories | 1986 |
| Charyn, Jerome; Boucq, F | Magician's Wife | Unusual comix | 1987 |
| Chaykin, Howard | Twilight | Unread comix | 1991 |
| Chaykin, Howard; Brereton, D | Batman: thrillkiller | Elseworlds variant with 'Batgirl' in 1961 | 1998 |
| Cho, Frank | Frank Cho: illustrator | Amazing talent | 2001 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Caricature: 9 stories | Dating from 1994 to 1998, including 'Gynecology' | 2001 |
| Clowes, Daniel | David Boring | More urban angst | 2000 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Ghost World | Teenage pair in 'Strangers in Paradise' style prequel | 1998 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Ice Haven | Miniature slices of weird | 2005 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Like a velvet glove cast in iron | From 'Eightball' between 1989 and 1993 | 2000 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Lout rampage! | From his 'Eightball' comix | 1996 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Orgy bound | More material from his 'Eightball' magazine | 1996 |
| Clowes, Daniel | Patience | Weirdly fascinating Time-travel loopiness | 2012 |
| Cohen, M; Sherman, M | Strange Attractors: Chaos jitterbug | Space Rangerettes, of a sort | 1996 |
| Coleman, Joe | Cosmic retribution | Great stuff, very angsty comix | 1992 |
| Cramer, Dennis | Mara of the Celts | Svelte Celtic sex-pot | 1995 |
| Crepax, Guido | Count Dracula (in Italian) | Skimmed | 1983 |
| Crepax, Guido | Emmanuelle | Comix approach; bought in Slough | 1978 |
| Crepax, Guido | Emmanuelle 3 | Reworked version | 1990 |
| Crepax, Guido | Emmanuelle, Bianca, Venus in Furs | Deluxe & delicious Taschen edition | 2000 |
| Crepax, Guido | James' Turn of the Screw | Creepily evil & erotic comix treatment | 1995 |
| Crepax, Guido | Justine, The Story of O | Taschen does him more than proud | 2000 |
| Crepax, Guido | Man from Harlem | Skimmed | 1978 |
| Crepax, Guido | Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Good comix version | 1989 |
| Crepax, Guido | Story of O | As comix - amazing. Initial Grove Press edition bought in Slough | 1975 |
| Crepax, Guido | Story of O Volume #1 | Variant text & art from 1975 edition | 1990 |
| Crepax, Guido | Story of O Volume #2 | Painfully pure Réage | 1991 |
| Crepax, Guido | Story of O Volume #3 | New material more purely Crepax than Réage | 1991 |
| Crepax, Guido | Valentina rediscovered (HM Fall '88) | Weird | 1988 |
| Crepax, Guido | Venus in Furs | Masochistic comix variations | 1996 |
| Cruse, Howard | Stuck rubber baby | Comix coming of (gay) age amidst Civil Rights 60s movement | 1995 |
| Darnall, Steve; Ross, Alex | Uncle Sam | American political history massively reinterpreted | 1997 |
| Delano, Jamie; Ridgway, John | Hellblazer Vol. 1 | Horrific comix | 1989 |
| Doran, Colleen | Distant soil #01: the gathering | Slambang psi powers comix epic begun in 1987 | 1997 |
| Doran, Colleen | Distant soil #02: the ascendant | Heir to alien religious dynasty faces psionic challenges | 1998 |
| Drek, Anton | Collected Drek: Wendy Whitebread, aka... | .. undercover slut & other graphic outings | 1990 |
| Dunlop, Rob; Lumby, Peter | Tozzer & the invisible lap dancers | Wide-ranging Hollywood satire of excess | 2002 |
| Eaton, Jeremy | Island of Dr. Moral | Quirky | 1994 |
| Edgar, Jim; Bellamy, Frank | Garth: the cloud of Balthus | Nostalgic | 1985 |
| Edgar, Jim; Bellamy, Frank | Garth: the women of Galba | More nostalgia | 1985 |
| Edney, Ralph | Lazarus Lamb: riddle of the sphincter | A twist on myth of Oedipus | 1983 |
| Eisner, Will | 3-D classics | Excellent | 1985 |
| Eisner, Will | Contract with God | Four 'tenement' stories | 1978 |
| Eisner, Will | New York: the big city | Great stuff | 1986 |
| Eisner, Will | Signal from space | New venture for him | 1978 |
| Eisner, Will | Spirit: six stories | Knuckling thugs, charming women & oozing style (1947-49) | 1988 |
| Eisner, Will & 50 others! | Spirit Jam: a conspiracy to produce a... | .. new Spirit story. | 1981 |
| Eisner, Will; Wood, Wally | Outer space Spirit | Wow | 1952 |
| Elliott, D; Leach, G | A1 true life Bikini confidential | Good grief! | 1990 |
| Ellis, Warren et al | Trans #01: back on the street | Spider Jerusalem (aka Hunter S Thompson!) Issues 01-03 | 1997 |
| Ellis, Warren et al | Trans #02: lust for life | Issues 04-12 | 1997 |
| Ellis, Warren et al | Trans #03: year of the bastard | Issues 13-18 | 1998 |
| Ellis, Warren et al | Trans #04: new scum | Issues 19-24 | 1999 |
| Ellis, Warren et al | Trans #05: lonely city | Issues 25-30 | 2000 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Dream Corridor Vol #1 | 14 stories, with inspired comix re-interpretations + new text | 1996 |
| Ellison, Harlan | Dream Corridor Vol #2 | Apparently his final collection of graphic re-tellings | 2007 |
| Emerson, Hunt | Big Book of Everything | Claimed to be almost an English Crumb | 1983 |
| Emerson, Hunt | Casanova's last stand | English Crumb? Not wholly convinced | 1993 |
| Emerson, Hunt | Coleridge's Rime of the ancient mariner | Good stuff | 1989 |
| Emerson, Hunt | Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover | Comix approach | 1986 |
| Emerson, Hunt | Rapid reflexes! | Good stuff | 1990 |
| Emerson, Hunt | You are Maggie Thatcher | Oh no I'm not! | 1987 |
| Ennis, Garth et al | Preacher #1: Ancient history | Characters' back plots from three 'special' issues | 1997 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #2: gone to Texas | Part Western, part crime, part horror. Issues 1-7 | 1995 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #3: until the end of the world | Exorcising demons from small town past, etc. Issues 8-17 | 1996 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #4: proud Americans | To Paris & Manhattan against the Grail. Issues 18-26 | 1997 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #5: Dixie Fried | To New Orleans for voodoo help. 'Cassidy' special + Issues 27-33 | 1997 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #6: War in the sun | Showdown in Monument Valley, Arizona. Issues 34-40 | 1998 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #7: Salvation | A small town in Texas... Issues 41-50 | 1998 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #8: all Hell's a coming | Peter bought this in York. Issues 51-58 | 1999 |
| Ennis, Garth; Dillon, Steve | Preacher #9: Alamo | Issues 59-66 | 2000 |
| Fleener, Mary | Life of the party | Complete autobiographical collection: 'autobiographix' | 1996 |
| Forest, Jean-Claude | Barbarella | Incredible for its time | 1966 |
| Friedman, Drew & Josh Alan | Warts and all | Nurtured by the 'RAW' stable | 1990 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Death: the high cost of living | Marvellous | 1994 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Death: the time of your life | Expanded from original 1996 four-part series | 1997 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Magic #0: Books of Magic | Timothy Hunter's initiation begins | 1990 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days | 5 short & rather horrid tales | 1999 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #00: Overture | Long-planned (and very welcome) prequel to the whole saga | 2015 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #01: preludes and nocturnes | Capture, release, regaining control, repairing damage | 1988 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #02: the doll's house | Ancient tales, Rose Walker, 'Cereal' convention | 1989 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #03: Dream country | Bezoar, feline dreams, faerie theatre, dead façades | 1990 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #04: season of mists | Destiny's garden, empty Hell, dead return, negotiation | 1990 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #05: a game of you | The Cuckoo, take our goodbyes whenever we can | 1991 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #06: fables and reflections | Emperor of the US, Orpheus, Ramadan | 1991 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #07: brief lives | Delirium seeks brother, Dream and Orpheus (his son) | 1992 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #08: World's End | Tales at the Inn of the World's End | 1993 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #09: the kindly ones | A child has been stolen; someone will pay, and die | 1994 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #10: the wake | No more loose ends, but no more Sandman! | 1996 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #11: The Dream Hunters | Fox, monk, & Mikado of all night's dreaming | 1999 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman #12: Endless Nights | Unlinked stories; fabulous artists. Exquisite work | 2003 |
| Gaiman, Neil et al | Sandman: Midnight theatre | Not part of new mainstream sequence, but 'original' character | 1995 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Buckingham, M | Miracleman: the golden age | An all-British comix super-hero? | 1992 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Riddell, Chris | Sleeper and the Spindle | Variant of Sleeping Beauty, lovely illustrations | 2014 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Vess, Charles | Stardust: being a romance within the... | .. realms of Faerie | 1999 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Zulli, M | Last Temptation | Based on Alice Cooper's concept album | 1995 |
| Galiano, Marta, Pons | Dorm girls | Nicely-explicit, but a bit weird | 1991 |
| Giardino, Vittorio | Little Ego | Wickedly affectionate parody of Winsor McCay's 'Little Nemo' | 1989 |
| Gibrat & Leroi | Pinocchia | Comix take on a trans-gender variant | 1996 |
| Gloeckner, Phoebe | Child's Life & other stories | Totally amazing Seda-like, Crumb-like... | 1998 |
| Gloeckner, Phoebe | Child's Life & other stories (revised ed.) | Still totally amazing Seda-like, Crumb-like... | 2000 |
| Gloeckner, Phoebe | Diary of a Teenage Girl (revised ed.) | Depressing, repellent, and yet amazing | 2015 |
| Gorey, E; Neumeyer, Peter | Floating Worlds: the letters of Edward.. | ..Gorey and Peter F Neumeyer. Memoir of their friendship | 2011 |
| Gorey, Edward | Amphigorey | Unique & deeply strange; 15 little books from 1953 to 1965 | 1972 |
| Gorey, Edward | Amphigorey Also | 17 more, including 'Glorious nosebleed' | 1983 |
| Gorey, Edward | Amphigorey Too | 20, from 1953 to 1965, incl. 'Beastly Baby' | 1975 |
| Gorey, Edward | Curious sofa: a pornographic work.. | ..by Ogdred Weary. Delicious! | 1961 |
| Gorey, Edward | Unstrung Harp, or Mr Earbrass writes.. | ..a novel. Miniature gem, as ever | 1953 |
| Graham, Alastair | Full moon afloat | Strong followup. Copy to Leigh | 1994 |
| Graham, Alastair | Full moon soup | Wonderful tale told in large, detailed, paintings. Copy to Leigh | 1991 |
| Gregory, Roberta | Bitch is born | Good angry stuff | 1994 |
| Gross, Allan | Art of Insight Studios | Frank Cho, Marc Hempel, Mark Wheatley | 2001 |
| Hampson, Frank | Dan Dare: pilot of the future | Brilliant | 1981 |
| Hampson, Frank | Man from nowhere | Dan Dare's creator, before Bellamy | 1979 |
| Hampson, Frank | Reign of the robots | Dan Dare | 1981 |
| Hampson, Frank | Rogue planet | Dan Dare | 1980 |
| Harper, Clifford | Education of Desire | Weird & dark | 1984 |
| Hermann | Towers of Bois-Maury: Babette | Beautifully-drawn (comix) medieval wanderings | 1984 |
| Hermann | Towers of Bois-Maury: Eloise de Montgri | Bloodthirsty pillaging of landowners' estates | 1989 |
| Hernandez, Gilbert | Birdland | Expansion of 1st edition | 1990 |
| Hernandez, Gilbert | Girl crazy | Strange stuff | 1997 |
| Hernandez, Gilbert | L&R #12: Poison River | Luba's life until mistress of fetishistic gangster-musician | 1994 |
| Hernandez, Gilbert et al | Return of Mister X | Idiosyncratic | 1986 |
| Hernandez, Jaime | L&R #01: Love and rockets | Perils of post-punk romance in a funky barrio setting | 1987 |
| Hernandez, Jaime | L&R #05: House of raging women | Angst of life in L.A. | 1992 |
| Hernandez, Jaime | L&R #11: Wigwam Bam | Archie comics meets Laurie Anderson? | 1994 |
| Hernandez, Jaime | L&R #13: Chester Square | Punk rock, pro wrestling, love & morality | 1996 |
| Hogarth, Burne | Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes | I remember Penny Guthrie finding this erotic! | 1972 |
| Horrocks, Dylan | Hicksville | Life in a NZ backwater | 1998 |
| Horrocks, Dylan et al | Magic #8: Names of Magic | Five-issue miniseries | 2001 |
| Jordan, Sydney | Jeff Hawke (2 vols) | Memories of early 60s 'Daily Express' comic strip | 1987 |
| Kelly, Selby | Best of Pogo: from the Okefenokee Star | Replaces a long-lost copy from Carol! | 1987 |
| Kirchner, Paul | Bus | Weird but funny & clever perspective shifts | 1987 |
| Koike, K; Ikegami, R | Crying Freeman #1. Portrait of a killer | Vicious manga; the tearful assassin | 1990 |
| Koike, K; Ikegami, R | Crying Freeman #2. Portrait of a killer | Initiation into cult of assassins | 1990 |
| Kurtzman, Harvey | Grasshopper and the Ant, The | From 'Esquire' back in 1960; now properly reissued | 2001 |
| LaBan, Terry et al | Dreaming: Beyond the shores of night | 3 comix stories set in Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' realm | 1998 |
| Lawrence, Don | Cathy #1 | Primitively graphic stuff | 1991 |
| Lay, Carol | Joy Ride | Amazing & well-sustained surreal comix fantasy | 1996 |
| Lay, Carol | Now, Endsville | Longer early work that led to 'Story Minutes' | 1993 |
| Lay, Carol | Strip Joint | 100+ examples of her weekly 'Story Minute' | 1998 |
| Linsner, Joseph Michael | Dawn: Lucifer's halo | New York, with added goddess | 1997 |
| Lob & Druillet | Lone Sloane / Delirius | Wonderful comix artwork | 1972 |
| Lob & Pichard | Candice at Sea | Rude comix foreshadow of 'Marie-Gabrielle' | 1977 |
| Lomax, Don | Vietnam journal: Indian Country | Graphic in every sense | 1990 |
| Lopez, Solano; Barreiro | Young Witches | Degradation before graduation | 1992 |
| Louys, Pierre | Aphrodite #1 | Illustrated by Milo Manara | 1999 |
| Louys, Pierre | Aphrodite #2 | Illustrated by Georges Bess | 1999 |
| Macedo | Psychorock | OK | 1977 |
| Mack, David | Kabuki: circle of blood | I'll categorise this comix manga modern fiction later! | 1997 |
| Manara, Milo | Author in search of six characters | Bergman returns with co-star Lulu | 1989 |
| Manara, Milo | Butterscotch | Ballerina Beatrice & her invisible admirer | 1987 |
| Manara, Milo | Butterscotch 2 | Terrorists & bank-robbery | 1996 |
| Manara, Milo | Click #1 (A woman under the influence) | Technology with which to inflame passion by remote control | 1987 |
| Manara, Milo | Click #2 | Saga of sexual remote control continues | 1992 |
| Manara, Milo | Click #3 | Insanely obscene Amazonian odyssey | 1994 |
| Manara, Milo | Dies Irae | Bergman in Africa with a prepubescent Tinker Bell | 1990 |
| Manara, Milo | Great adventure | Well-drawn continuous dreamlike adventures of Bergman | 1988 |
| Manara, Milo | Gullivera | Sex-changed version of Gulliver, à la Manara | 1996 |
| Manara, Milo | Hidden camera | Freelance TV crew on a voyeuristic mission | 1990 |
| Manara, Milo | Manara's Kama Sutra | Nice endpaper sequence, too | 1997 |
| Manara, Milo | Memory | Basically a colour sketchbook | 2002 |
| Manara, Milo | Miel, toute seule, la nuit | Unusual | 1990 |
| Manara, Milo | Paper Man | Simple, heart-breaking Western tale | 1982 |
| Manara, Milo | Perchance to dream | Bergman in India trailing a missing film crew | 1990 |
| Manara, Milo | Le Piège (the trap) | Irresistible, even in French (79ff) | 1998 |
| Manara, Milo | Shorts | 8 short weirdly-sexual fantasies | 1989 |
| Manara, Milo | Women of Manara | Self-explanatory sketchbook | 1995 |
| Manara, Milo | www. | Manara hits the Net | 1999 |
| Manara, Milo; Enard, J-P | Art of Spanking | As described, every bit as politically incorrect as you'd think | 1991 |
| Manara, Milo; Pratt, Hugo | Indian Summer | Colonists & Indians in 17th C New England | 1986 |
| Manning, Michael | Spider Garden | Crepax meets fetishistic Hokusai! | 1996 |
| Martinet, Jeanne | Truer than True Romance | Original artwork, but updated texts. Brilliant idea | 2001 |
| Mason, Tom | Best of Spicy Tales | OK | 1990 |
| Max | Peter Pank | A novel comix angle, Pan as a punk. Whimsical & sexy | 1990 |
| McCay, Winsor | Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland | Covers 1905 - 1927, edited by Richard Marschall, + Sendak et al | 1997 |
| McCay, Winsor | Complete Little Nemo 1: 1905-1907 | Large-format colour reprints | 1989 |
| McCay, Winsor | Complete Little Nemo 2: 1907-1908 | Reprints series continues | 1989 |
| McCay, Winsor | Complete Little Nemo 3: 1908-1910 | More reprints | 1990 |
| McCay, Winsor | Complete Little Nemo 4: 1910-1911 | More reprints | 1990 |
| McCay, Winsor | Complete Little Nemo 5: 1911-1912 | Quite sublime, as usual | 1991 |
| McCay, Winsor | Complete Little Nemo 6: 1913-1914 | Final set of reprints | 1993 |
| McCay, Winsor | Little Nemo (in German) | For Christa | 1982 |
| McCay, Winsor | Little Nemo: 1905 - 1914 | Taschen does him proud, 419 full colour strips | 2000 |
| McCloud, Scott | Zot! Book 1 | 1st ten issues | 1984 |
| McGuire, Richard | Here | Invariant space, massively variant times | 2014 |
| Mezieres, JC; Christin, P | Ambassador of the shadows | Good, comix | 1969 |
| Mezieres, JC; Christin, P | Heroes of the Equinox | Good, comix | 1978 |
| Mezieres, JC; Christin, P | Welcome to Alflolol | Good, comix | 1972 |
| Mezieres, JC; Christin, P | World without stars | Good, comix | 1972 |
| Miller, Frank (2) | Batman: the dark knight returns | Stylish comix & highly influential, it now turns out | 1986 |
| Miller, Frank (2) | Batman: year 1 | Good | 1988 |
| Miller, Frank (2) | Give me Liberty | Dark stuff | 1990 |
| Miller, Frank (2) | Ronin | Great comix style | 1987 |
| Moebius (Jean Giraud) | Arzach | Unique comix style | 1977 |
| Moebius (Jean Giraud) | Man from the Ciguri | Continues 'Airtight garage' in inimitable comix form | 1996 |
| Moncuse, Steve | Fish police: hairballs | Weird but interesting comix | 1987 |
| Moore, Alan | Shocking futures | 15 comix tales, punny & violent & often twisted | 1986 |
| Moore, Alan | Twisted times | 12 comix tales, with 4-eyed Abelard Snazz & time twisters | 1987 |
| Moore, Alan et al | Superman: the man of tomorrow | 3 comix tales updating, faithfully, the Man of Steel | 1988 |
| Moore, Alan et al | Top 10: book 1 | City entirely for super-heroes | 1999 |
| Moore, Alan; Baikle, Jim | Skizz | Comix tale of interpreter from Tau-Ceti, lost in Birmingham | 1989 |
| Moore, Alan; Burrows, Jacen | Neonomicon | Variant of HP Lovecraft's Innsmouth tale | 2011 |
| Moore, Alan; Davis, Alan | DR & Quinch's ... awesome guide to life | Alien college students & their havoc-wreaking tendencies | 1987 |
| Moore, Alan; Gebbie, Melinda | Lost Girls boxed set | Dorothy, Alice and Wendy | 2006 |
| Moore, Alan; Gibbons, Dave | Watchmen | Awesome comix anti-super-hero tale | 1987 |
| Moore, Alan; Gibson, Ian | Ballad of Halo Jones (3 parts) | Comix tales of a 'simple' heroine. (Hah!) | 1986 |
| Moore, Alan; Lloyd, David | V for Vendetta | Bleak comix look at totalitarian England | 1990 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #01: Strangers in Paradise | Comix tale of tangled lives & a sinister past. Just wonderful | 1995 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #02: I dream of you | Dealing with Mrs Parker & the Mob's $850,000. Superb | 1996 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #03: It's a good life | Getting shot of Freddie; accepting David. Excellent | 1996 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #04: Love me tender | Gym workout, new job in ad agency, Katchoo & David on/off | 1997 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #05: Immortal enemies | End of Darcy Parker's assassination plot | 1997 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #06: High School! | Includes Princess Warrior satire | 1998 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #07: Sanctuary | Recollections from a middle-aged viewpoint | 1999 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #08: My other life | Fateful plane crash | 2000 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #09: Child of Rage | Katina turns the tables | 2001 |
| Moore, Terry | SIP #10: Tropic of desire | Francine to marry? | 2001 |
| Morrison, Grant et al | Filth, The | To be classified! | 2004 |
| Morrison, Grant et al | Invisibles #1: say you want a revolution | Strange days, indeed. Vol 1, issues 1-8 | 1995 |
| Morrison, Grant et al | Invisibles #2: Apocalipstick | Tendrils of global conspiracy. From Vol 1, issues 9-16 | 1995 |
| Morrison, Grant et al | Invisibles #3: bloody hell in America | Freedom versus control. From Vol 2, issues 1-4 | 1997 |
| Morrison, Grant et al | Invisibles #4: counting to none | Peter bought duplicate in York. Vol 2, issues 5-13 | 1997 |
| Morrison, Grant et al | Invisibles #5: Kissing Mister Quimper | From Vol 2, issues 14-22 | 1998 |
| Morrison, Grant; Hughes, R | Dare | Comix update of a legend (Dan Dare) | 1991 |
| Nicholson, Jeff et al | Dreaming: thru the gates of horn & ivory | More from Morpheus' strange realm | 1999 |
| Oliveros, Chris et al | Best of 'Drawn and Quarterly' | Beautiful, hard-hitting comix art | 1993 |
| Oliveros, Chris et al | Drawn and Quarterly, Vol #4 | Includes Tintin biography/homage | 2001 |
| Ottaviani, Jim | Imitation Game | Story of Alan Turing | 2016 |
| Ottaviani, Jim | Suspended in Language | Story of Niels Bohr | 2009 |
| Padua, Sydney | Thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage | The "not quite true" story | 2015 |
| Pichard, Georges | Carmen | Comix retelling of Opera's sensuous lady | 1981 |
| Pichard, Georges | Marie-Gabrielle | Totally off the wall sado-masochistic comix extravaganza | 1977 |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Graphic Classics | Maxon Crumb inter alia | 2001 |
| Pratt, Hugo | Ballad of the salt sea (Corto Maltese) | Off to the Pacific | 1975 |
| Pratt, Hugo | Celts (Corto Maltese) | Journey in Europe during 1917-1918 | 1975 |
| Quinn, Parris | Shadow and Light #1 | 3 short erotic tales rendered as monochrome cartoons | 1998 |
| Quinn, Parris | Shadow and Light #2 | 2 tales; one a sequel | 1999 |
| Quinn, Parris | Shadow and Light #3 | Another triple XXX dose | 2000 |
| Rakezic, Sasa; Kathman, Bob | Flock of dreamers: dream-inspired comix.. | ..from Crumb, Veitch, Woodring, not all very convincing | 1997 |
| Rieber, John et al | Books of Faerie | Precursors to Books of Magic | 1993 |
| Rieber, John et al | Books of Faerie: Auberon's Tale | Early life of various of the characters | 1999 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #1: Bindings | Manticore, unicorn, Timothy's real father... | 1994 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #2: Summonings | Tea in Hell, Victorian cyborg, teen succubus in a box... | 1994 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #3: Reckonings | Timothy is lead comprehensively astray by Barbatos | 1995 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #4: Transformations | Death drops by to say 'hi'; Timothy is now 14 | 1996 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #5: Girl in the box | A lost mermaid to contend with, with 'tits' | 1996 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #6: Burning Girl | Bought in Bluewater | 1997 |
| Rieber, John et al | Magic #7: Death after Death | Issues 42 to 50 | 2001 |
| Robinson, Alex | Box Office poison | 600pp saga of dreary jobs, messy apartments, girlfriends etc. | 2001 |
| Rodriguez, Gabriel | Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland | Won the 2015 Eisner award (for a one-off) | 2015 |
| Ross, Steven et al | Terry Pratchett's 'Colour of magic' | Where gods are more blamed than worshipped. Comix approach | 1991 |
| Rotundo, Massimo | Ex libris eroticis (2 vols) | Italian saga | 1989 |
| Rowson, Martin | F*CK: a history of the world in 65.. | .. unfortunate incidents. Bit of a one-note joke | 2008 |
| Rowson, Martin | Gulliver's Travels adapted and updated | Ridiculously talented man | 2012 |
| Rowson, Martin | Tristram Shandy | Stalled about 1/3 thru, but enjoying the ride! | 1996 |
| Rowson, Martin | Waste Land | Film noir who-dunnit version of TS Eliot | 1990 |
| Sarson, Jade | For the love of God, Marie! | Engaging take on life, living and loving | 2016 |
| Saudelli, Franco | Blonde #1: double cross | Bondage cartoon tale of food-based espionage | 1991 |
| Saudelli, Franco | Blonde #2: Bondage Palace | Where's that secret of eternal youth? | 1993 |
| Saudelli, Franco | Blonde #3: Phoebus III | Carnal catfights on all-woman prisoner world | 1996 |
| Seagle, ST; Kristiansen, T | It's a bird | Different take on Superman | 2004 |
| Simmonds, Posy | Gemma Bovery | As serialised, & signed! | 1999 |
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| Simmonds, Posy | Mrs Weber's Diary | Sublime | 1979 |
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| Simmonds, Posy | True Love | Wonderful | 1981 |
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| Sokal | Canardo: a shabby dog story | Rather good | 1981 |
| Sokal | Canardo: blue angel | More please! | 1981 |
| Spiegelman, Art | Maus I: a survivor's tale | Grim | 1986 |
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| Stack, Frank | New adventures of Jesus | Sandals define him as a hippy | 1979 |
| Stanton, Eric | Dominant wives & other stories | Amazing dominatrix-dominated comic art | 1998 |
| Starlin, Jim; Oliff, Steve | Gilgamesh II | 4-part comix story | 1989 |
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| Talbot, Bryan | Tale of one bad rat | Peter Rabbit lost in Cardboard City | 1996 |
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| Thompson, Jill | Death: at Death's door | Excursions with Gaiman's Sandman Goth sister | 2003 |
| Thorne, Frank | Ghita of Alizarr | Sex, sorcery & swordplay with a blonde warrior woman | 1985 |
| Thorne, Frank | Ghita: the thousand wizards of Urd | More misadventures with Ghita | 1985 |
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| Thorne, Frank | Lann | Sultry, rejuvenated space adventuress | 1984 |
| Twain, Mark | Graphic Classics | Includes a Shary Flenniken piece | 2004 |
| Unknown | Tandra Chronicles #3 | Has its confused moments | 1992 |
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| Varenne, Alex | Erma Jaguar | Weird | 1990 |
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| Aikman, Lonnelle | We, the people: story of US Capitol | National Geographic Society book (Christa) | 1964 |
| Allen, Charles | Plain tales from the Raj | Oral histories from 1900 to 1947 | 1975 |
| Allen, Charles | Tales from the Dark Continent | British colonial Africa anecdotage | 1979 |
| Allen, Charles | Tales from the South China Seas | Anecdotage from Far East fringes of 20th C. British Empire | 1983 |
| Arthur, Max | Forgotten voices of the Great War | Veterans' own words: history of WWI | 2002 |
| Arthur, Max | Forgotten voices of the second world war | More transcripted history | 2004 |
| Atterbury, Paul | Discovering Britain's lost railways | Some 14,500 miles of track lost & memories fade | 1995 |
| Bach, John | Bligh (Lt. William) Notebook | Facsimile & annotated transcription, 28 April to 14 June 1789 | 1986 |
| Barber, S; Reed, J | Caligula: divine carnage | Atrocities of Roman emperors; deeply weird | 2000 |
| Barker, Theo (ed) | Long march of Everyman | 1750 - 1960 from BBC Radio 4 series | 1974 |
| Barnett, Correlli | Audit of War: decline since WW II | Illusion & reality of UK as a great nation | 1986 |
| Barraclough, Geoffrey | Times atlas of world history | Bought in Slough | 1978 |
| Beard, Mary | Confronting the Classics | The state of modern 'scholarship' in the field | 2013 |
| Beard, Mary | SPQR: a history of ancient Rome | Saturated with minute details | 2015 |
| Beckett, Andy | When the lights went out; Britain.. | ..in the Seventies | 2009 |
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| Black, Edwin | IBM and the Holocaust | Nazis counting & much worse on their Hollerith machines | 2001 |
| Bourdain, Anthony | Typhoid Mary | The New York carrier of the early 1900s | 2001 |
| Braudel, Fernand | Perspective of the world | Heavy | 1979 |
| Braudel, Fernand | Structures of everyday life | Heavy | 1979 |
| Braudel, Fernand | Wheels of commerce | Heavy | 1979 |
| Briggs, Robert | Funny kind of war: a wartime log | Cartoonist's journal written up in Stalag V11A after capture | 1985 |
| Brooks, Clive | Life on the Liners | Fascinating anecdotage | 1990 |
| Brown, Jim | Bridging the Itchen | Local history; fascinating | 2001 |
| Burford, EJ; Shulman, S | Of bridles and burnings | Female punishments in this supposedly civilised country | 1992 |
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| Burnett, John | Useful toil: workers' autobiographies | From 1820s to 1920s; 27 extracts | 1974 |
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| Campbell, John (1) | Experience of World War II | Grim but gripping | 1989 |
| Cannadine, David | Ornamentalism: how the British saw their.. | .. Empire | 2001 |
| Cannadine, David | Pleasures of the Past | Essays & reviews on modern history/books | 1989 |
| Cantor, Norman F | In the wake of the Plague | Reinterpretations of life in post-Plague Europe | 2001 |
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| Carey, John | Faber book of reportage | Loose title for items as far back as 430 BC. Splendid selection | 1987 |
| Carter, George | Outlines of English history | Useful potted histories | 1974 |
| Charlesworth, K; Cameron, M | All that... the other half of history | English history with an all-female cast for a change | 1986 |
| Chesney, Kellow | Victorian underworld | Fascinating; wouldn't want to have been there | 198? |
| Chin, Oliver | 9 of 1: a window to the world | Comix examination of WTC September 11 2001 attacks | 2003 |
| Churchill, Winston S | WWII: 1. the gathering storm | Events after 1918 | 1948 |
| Churchill, Winston S | WWII: 2. their finest hour | Fall of France, Battle of Britain | 1949 |
| Churchill, Winston S | WWII: 3. the grand alliance | Russia and America | 1950 |
| Churchill, Winston S | WWII: 4. the hinge of fate | Desert war, Russian front, Tripoli | 1951 |
| Churchill, Winston S | WWII: 5. closing the ring | Italy and preparations for D-Day | 1952 |
| Churchill, Winston S | WWII: 6. triumph and tragedy | Effectively disguised blessing | 1954 |
| Cobbett, William | Cobbett's America | Skimmed | 1815 |
| Collins, Paul | Banvard's folly: 13 tales of rotten luck | History's brilliant losers | 2001 |
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| Corrigan, Gordon | Mud, blood and poppycock | Rethinking World War I | 2003 |
| Costello, John | Love, sex and war: 1939-1945 | Scarcely a myth (or Miss) left standing! | 1985 |
| Courtney, Nicholas | Gale Force 10: life & legacy of.. | ..Admiral Beaufort. He of the windy scale, of course | 2002 |
| Crane, Nicholas | Mercator: the man who mapped the planet | Overdue English biography of he who set our world view | 2002 |
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| Croutier, Alev Lytle | Harem: the world behind the veil | Illustrated first-hand accounts | 1989 |
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| Davenport-Hines, Richard | English Affair: sex, class and power.. | .. in the age of Profumo | 2013 |
| Davenport-Hines, Richard | Sex, death and punishment | Fascinating & grim reading | 1990 |
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| de Vries, Leonard | History as hot news: 1865-1897 | Slow motion news coverage | 1973 |
| Dening, Sarah | Mythology of sex | Beautifully illustrated historical survey | 1996 |
| Dodd, George | Days at the factories | Grim tales of former days | 1843 |
| Douglas, Roy | World War 1939-45: cartoonists' vision | Excellent, even if nobody ever learns | 1990 |
| Dowswell, Paul | Egyptian Echo - tabloid history | King Tut in god swap shock | 1996 |
| Dowswell, Paul | Roman record - tabloid history | Volcano "safe" claims Senator | 1997 |
| Dowswell, Paul; Fleming, F | Stone Age Sentinel - tabloid history | Man burns finger in fire. Expert warns of new cave danger | 1998 |
| Drummond, JC | Englishman's food: 5 centuries of diet | He (& family) were brutally murdered in 1952. Was he a spy? | 1957 |
| Dry, Sarah | Newton Papers: Strange and True Odyssey.. | .. of Isaac Newton's manuscripts | 2014 |
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| Everett, Peter | You'll never be 16 again | BBC-related nostalgia for the 1950s/60s | 1986 |
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| Ferguson, Niall | Cash Nexus: money & power 1700 to 2000 | National cash flow & its effects on success | 2001 |
| Ferguson, Niall | Colossus: rise & fall of American empire | Paradoxical realities of US power & influence | 2004 |
| Ferguson, Niall | Empire: how Britain made.. | ..the modern world. | 2003 |
| Ferguson, Niall | War of the World | Carnage that is the 20th century round the globe | 2006 |
| Fleming, Fergus | Greek Gazette - tabloid history | Nude scientist in bathtub sensation. Archimedes splash smash | 1997 |
| Fleming, Fergus | Medieval Messenger - tabloid history | Mystery plague rocks Europe - you've been bad, says bishop | 1996 |
| Foyster, Elizabeth | Trials of the King of Hampshire: madness.. | ..secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England | 2016 |
| Frazer, James G | Golden bough (abridged) | From magic, via religion, to science. 750 pp of irrationality | 1922 |
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| Fussell, Paul | Wartime: understanding & behaviour WW II | Impact of the war on soldiers and civilians | 1989 |
| Gardiner, Juliet | Wartime Britain 1939 - 1945 | Impressively researched | 2004 |
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| George, M Dorothy | London life in the 18th Century | Pre-Industrial Revolution London. Amazing | 1925 |
| Gerhardie, William | God's fifth column: biogr. of 1890-1940 | A riposte to pompous official histories | 1981 |
| Gibbon, Edward | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Abridged & well-illustrated version | 1979 |
| Gillies, Midge | Waiting for Hitler | UK voices from September 1940 | 2006 |
| Gillman, Peter & Leni | Collar the lot! (British WWII internment) | Amazing what comes out years later | 1980 |
| Gilmour, Ian | Riots, risings and revolution | Governance & violence in 18th Century England | 1992 |
| Girouard, Mark | Life in the English country house | One for the older generation | 1978 |
| Girouard, Mark | Life in the French country house | Why change a winning formula? | 2000 |
| Gleeson, Janet | Arcanum: porcelain's European re-invention | Meissen & its background stories | 1998 |
| Gonick, Larry | Cartoon history of the Universe | Great | 1982 |
| Gonick, Larry | Cartoon history of the Universe II | Springtime of China to Fall of Rome | 1994 |
| Guy, John | Kings & Queens (1000 to present day) | 4 well-illustrated youngish guides | 1997 |
| Hastings, Max | Oxford book of military anecdotes | From Jericho to Port Stanley | 1985 |
| Hawkins, Desmond | War report: D-day to VE-day | BBC war correspondents' reports in a coherent framework | 1946 |
| Haynes, Natalie | Ancient Guide to Modern Life | Parallels from the past | 2010 |
| Heartfield, James | Unpatriotic History of the 2nd World War | Minus the patriotic whitewash, it was mostly about saving capitalism | 2012 |
| Herrin, Judith | Medieval Miscellany | Sumptuous selection of texts & illustrations | 1999 |
| Hibbert, Christopher | English: a social history 1066-1945 | Thorough, comprehensive, & very long (900 pp) | 1987 |
| Hickman, Katie | Daughters of Britannia: lives & times... | .. of diplomatic wives. | 1999 |
| Hinde, Thomas | Courtiers: 900 years of English court life | Plus ça change, it seems | 1986 |
| Hoare, Philip | Spike Island: memory of military hospital | Netley, in fact | 2001 |
| Hobsbawm, Eric | Interesting Times: a 20th C life | Fascinating observer | 2002 |
| Holmes, T Rice | Architect of the Roman Empire (27 BC - 14 AD) | Wrapping up the loose ends! | 1931 |
| Holmes, T Rice | Architect of the Roman Empire (44 BC - 27 BC) | The Age of Augustus, in forensic detail | 1928 |
| Holmes, T Rice | Caesar's conquest of Gaul | Marred by very poor quality OCR (Kindle) | 1903 |
| Howe, Ellic | Black Game: British subversion in WWII | Fakes, forgeries & clandestine radio stations | 1982 |
| Howson, Gerald | It takes a thief (Thief-taker General) | Life & times of Jonathan Wild (1720s) | 1970 |
| Huang, Ray | 1587: a year of no significance | The Ming Dynasty in decline. Amazing detail | 1981 |
| Hyam, Ronald | Empire and sexuality: British experience | Copious examples of imperial sexual misdemeanours | 1990 |
| Infante, G Cabrera | Holy smoke (history of cigars) | Different & eclectic | 1985 |
| Irving, David | Churchill's war: the struggle for power | A different view of 1939-41 | 1987 |
| Isaacs, Jeremy; Downing, T | Cold War: book of TV series | Madness of 'Mutual Assured Destruction' in last 50 years | 1998 |
| James, Louis | Print and the people: 1819-1851 | Ephemera, but none the worse for that | 1976 |
| Jamet, Fabienne | Palace of sweet sin | Number 122 rue de Provence: a bordello from 1930 to 1946 | 1975 |
| Jennings, Humphrey | Pandaemonium: coming of the machine age | ... as seen by contemporary observers | 1985 |
| Judt, Tony | Reappraisals: forgotten 20th Century | 24 essays on aspects of recent European episodes | 2008 |
| Juin, Herbert | Le Lit | Damned if I can find this now | 1986 |
| Justinian | Digest of Roman Law | Trans. CF Kolbert | 1979 |
| Kaplan, Philip; Currie, Jack | Convoy: merchant sailors at war 1939-45 | Unpublished memoirs of forgotten heroes | 1998 |
| Keay, John | Great Arc: how India was mapped & Everest | .. was named, starting in 1800 | 2000 |
| Kerr, Philip | Penguin book of lies | Some of the world's greatest deceits: Rousseau, Cicero, Shaw | 1990 |
| Kiernan, VG | Lords of Human Kind | European imperialist attitudes towards 'inferior races' | 1969 |
| Kirsch, Jonathan | Harlot by the side of the road | Forbidden tales & versions of Bible writings | 1997 |
| Kitman, Marvin | Making of the President, 1789 | Unauthorised campaign biography of George Washington | 1989 |
| Kolchin, Peter | American slavery | History of the 'peculiar institution' | 1993 |
| Lamb, Richard | Churchill as war leader, right or wrong? | 'History would judge, and I shall write the history' | 1991 |
| Lavery, Brian | Jack Aubrey commands | Historical companion to Aubrey's naval world | 2003 |
| Lavery, Brian | Nelson's navy: ships, men & organisation | Encyclopaedic, according to Patrick O'Brian | 1989 |
| Leslie, Edward | Desperate journeys, abandoned souls | Castaways & survivors from 15th century onward | 1988 |
| Lewin, Ronald | Ultra goes to war: the secret story | Enigmatic decodings | 1978 |
| Lewis, Peter | Fifties, The | From Festival of Britain to 'You've never had it so good' | 1978 |
| Linebaugh, Peter | London hanged: 18th century crime | Crime & civil society: nasty, brutish, & short for underdogs | 1991 |
| Longmate, Norman | G.I.s: Americans in Britain 1942-1945 | So that's what they did over here, heh? | 1975 |
| Luecke, Richard | Scuttle your ships before advancing | Interesting lessons from history on leadership & change | 1994 |
| MacArthur, Brian | Penguin book of 20th Century speeches | Havel, Hitler, Patton, Mandela, Churchill, Pankhurst | 1992 |
| MacDonald, Gus | Camera: Victorian eyewitness | Largely from 1860s to 1890s; echoes of Empire, too | 1979 |
| Mackay, David | In the wake of Cook, exploration 1780-1801 | Skimmed | 1985 |
| MacQuitty, William | World in focus | Skimmed | 1974 |
| Marr, Andrew | History of modern Britain | What it says on the tin | 2008 |
| Matyszak, Philip | Ancient Rome on five denarii a day | What to see and do in the Imperial City of the Caesars | 2007 |
| McNamara, Robert S | In Retrospect: tragedy & lessons.. | ..of Vietnam. He should certainly know | 1996 |
| McNeill, John | Something new under the sun | Environmental history of 20th century | 2000 |
| Menzies, Gavin | 1421: the year China discovered.. | ..the world. Even touches on Maori DNA! | 2003 |
| Merriman, John M | For want of a horse | 22 'what if?' speculations by various historians | 1985 |
| Miller, Russell | Nothing less than victory | Oral history of D-Day | 1993 |
| Milton, Giles | Nathaniel's nutmeg | East India Company adventurers | 1999 |
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| Miyazaki, Ichisada | China's examination hell | Civil Service Exams of Imperial China; bought in Egham | 1963 |
| Muir, Richard | History from the air | Good aerial photos | 1983 |
| Murphy, Emmett | Great Bordellos of the world | Interesting | 1983 |
| Murray, Venetia | High Society in the Regency Period | Contemporaneous with Aubrey & Maturin, that is | 1998 |
| Naphy, William | Sex crimes: Renaissance to.. | ..Enlightenment. Now there's an ironic term! | 2002 |
| National Maritime Museum | Nelson: an illustrated history | First real book from that museum! | 1995 |
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| Nelson, Scott Reynolds | Nation of Deadbeats: an uncommon history.. | ..of America's financial disasters | 2012 |
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| Norwich, John J; Miles, C | Love in the Ancient World | Nice survey | 1997 |
| O'Brian, Patrick | Men-of-war: Life in Nelson's navy | Copy to Carol, bought in upstate New York | 1974 |
| O'Faolain, Julia et al | Not in God's image | Women in European society thru history - not pretty! | 1973 |
| Oppenheimer, Stephen | Eden in the East: drowned continent of... | .. Southeast Asia. Inverts usual post-Ice-Age history | 1998 |
| Orwell, George | Homage to Catalonia | Unread, I'm ashamed to say | 1938 |
| Petronius | Satyricon and fragments of verse | Trans. William Arrowsmith | 1965 |
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| Ponting, Clive | Green history of the world | Environmental effects on civilisations | 1991 |
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| Porter, Roy | Mind-forg'd Manacles | Madness, in a word, & our treatment of it | 1987 |
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| King, Florence | WASP, where is thy sting? | Her publisher is Sol Stein, oddly | 1977 |
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| London Review of Books | Meeting the Devil: a book of memoir | Rich set of pieces from that fine magazine | 2014 |
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| Schlosser, Eric | Fast food nation | Let's hope we are NOT what we eat; expanded from Rolling Stone | 2001 |
| Selbourne, David | Not an Englishman: conversations with... | .. Lord Goodman. Transcribed in late 1992 | 1993 |
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| Self, Will | Sore Sites | 60 or so tiny essays from 'Building design' magazine | 2000 |
| Sherrin, Ned | Final Curtains: top-drawer.. | ..memorial services reviewed for The Oldie magazine | 2008 |
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| Silverstein, Ken | Radioactive Boy Scout | Very nearly a blast in two senses | 2004 |
| Silvester, Christopher | Penguin book of columnists | Barrie, Bierce, Mencken, Marquis, Driberg, Runyon, Cameron, etc. | 1997 |
| Silvester, Christopher | Penguin book of interviews | Private Eye's gossip columnist picks well from 1859 to 1992 | 1993 |
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| Simpson, John | Strange places, questionable people | BBC World Affairs editor | 1999 |
| Sinclair, Iain | London Orbital | Within the acoustic footprint of the M25 | 2002 |
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| Stourton, Edward | It's a PC world: a land gone.. | ..politically correct | 2008 |
| Street-Porter, Janet | Scandal! | Pretty trivial stuff | 1981 |
| Sutherland, John | Reading the decades: 50 years of UK's... | best-selling books; BBC series | 2002 |
| Terkel, Studs | American dreams: lost and found | Oral history; even includes 'Arnie'! | 1980 |
| Terkel, Studs | Good War: oral history of W W II | Incredible | 1984 |
| Terkel, Studs | Great Divide: oral history | Second thoughts on American Dream. Amazing & depressing stuff | 1988 |
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| Terkel, Studs | Race | Oral histories | 1992 |
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| Thompson, Hunter S | Generation of swine | Gonzo Papers, #2 'shame & degradation in the 80s' | 1988 |
| Thompson, Hunter S | Hell's Angels | Life on two wheels: nasty, brutish & short | 1966 |
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| Times | Fourth Leaders, 1955 | Editorials | 1955 |
| Truss, Lynne | Get her off the pitch! | How sports reporting bizarrely took over her life for a while | 2010 |
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| Webb, WL | Bedside Guardian 24 | Classic James Cameron, & many others | 1975 |
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| Amis, Kingsley | Amis collection: non-fiction 1954-1990 | Splenetic; an often prophetic debunker | 1990 |
| Ashe, Geoffrey | Art of writing made simple | Who said it was difficult?! Bought in Hatfield Woolco | 1972 |
| Ashworth, Clive V | Notes: Catch-22 | 'It is in some ways a difficult book'! | 1978 |
| Bailey, Mike | Teach yourself: writing erotic fiction | By founder of Nexus imprint, among others | 1997 |
| Baker, Nicholson | U and I: a true story (Updike) | Glorious new depths of shallowness! | 1991 |
| Beattie, Geoffrey | All Talk (language in everyday life) | Why it's important to watch your words | 1988 |
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| Bettelheim, Bruno | Uses of Enchantment: fairy tales | Their meaning & importance | 1976 |
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| Bloomsbury | Thematic dictionary of quotations | Good | 1988 |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | This craft of verse | Transcripts of 1967-68 Harvard lectures feared lost | 2000 |
| Botts, Linda | Loose talk: Rolling Stone 1970s quotes | Having no talent is no longer enough (Gore Vidal) | 1980 |
| Bowen Phil | Gallery to play to: story of the Mersey.. | .. poets. Adrian Henri, Roger McGough & Brian Patten | 1999 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | No, not Bloomsbury: UK fiction since 1945 | Bradbury's first collection of his critical writings | 1987 |
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| Buford, Bill | Body (Granta) | Eclectic mix including Dibdin on a post-mortem | 1992 |
| Buford, Bill | Krauts! (Granta) | Bought for Christa | 1993 |
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| Buford, Bill | We're so happy! (Granta) | GM's USA in 1954, anatomy of a cheeseburger, etc. | 1991 |
| Burchfield, Robert | Unlocking the English language | Chief Editor of OED speaks out: essays + TS Eliot lectures | 1989 |
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| Charney, Maurice | Sexual fiction | Sade, Réage, Miller, Cleland, Roth, de Berg, etc. | 1981 |
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| Cousins-Mills, Jane | Sexwords | Usefully alternative dictionary | 1993 |
| Crawley, Tony | Dictionary of film quotations | 2000 quotes, thematically arranged | 1991 |
| Crystal, David | Cambridge encyclopedia of language | Comprehensive | 1987 |
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| Crystal, David & Hilary | Words on words | Language-oriented quotations | 2000 |
| Davies, Christie | Ethnic humor around the world | Vast sourcebook of mixed prejudice & insight | 1990 |
| de St Jorre, John | Good Ship Venus | Girodias & Olympia Press saga, includes revelations of Story of 'O' | 1994 |
| Diack, Hunter | Test your own wordpower | Replacement copy from Dublin. Missing its frontispiece | 1975 |
| Dillard, Annie | Writing Life | Skimmed | 1989 |
| Donaldson, Gerald | Books: their history, art, power, etc | Very nice eclectic selection | 1981 |
| Duffy, Maureen | Erotic world of faery | 1500 years of British culture | 1972 |
| Eco, Umberto | Mouse or rat? Translation as negotiation | Travelling between languages | 2003 |
| Eco, Umberto | Reflections on 'The name of the rose' | Interesting | 1983 |
| Enright, DJ | Faber book of fevers and frets | Poetry & prose; essays & letters; ancient toothaches, ye gods! | 1989 |
| Enright, DJ | Fair of speech: uses of euphemism | 17 contributors on sex, religion, politics, law et al | 1985 |
| Enright, DJ; Rawlinson, D | Oxford book of friendship | Anecdotes from letters, poems, essays, etc. | 1991 |
| Esar, Evan | Dictionary of humorous quotations | Exactly as described, & well-indexed though only by author | 1949 |
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| Espy, Willard R | Children's almanac of words at play | Peter was left cold | 1982 |
| Espy, Willard R | Game of Words | First of many, and a joyous discovery | 1971 |
| Espy, Willard R | Garden of Eloquence: rhetorical bestiary | Very nice | 1983 |
| Espy, Willard R | Say it my way | Pitfalls, their avoidance. Not, I note, error-free! | 1980 |
| Espy, Willard R | Words to rhyme with | Good idea, & fat dictionary | 1986 |
| Farb, Peter | Word play: what happens when people talk | Fascinating & long overdue a re-read | 1973 |
| Ferrell, WA; Salerno, NA | Strategies in Prose | Eminently skimmable | 1973 |
| Fo, Dario; Rame, Franca | Red notes: theatre workshops 1983 | Amazing couple | 1983 |
| Forsyth, Mark | Etymologicon: circular stroll through.. | .. hidden connections of the English language | 2012 |
| Fraser, Antonia | Pleasure of reading | 40 authors incl McGough, Ballard, Stoppard, Greer, Cope | 1992 |
| Freedman, Bernard J | Just a word, Doctor | From the series in 'British Medical Journal' | 1987 |
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| Gardner, Martin | Annotated 'Snark' (Lewis Carroll) | Even better! | 1962 |
| Garland, Henry & Mary | Oxford companion to German literature | Bought for Christa | 1976 |
| Gilbert, Michael | Oxford book of legal anecdotes | Skimmed | 1987 |
| Gold, RS; Sanford, SR | Controversy: prose for analysis | Good selection | 1969 |
| Gowers, Sir Ernest | Complete Plain Words | If the baby does not thrive on raw milk, boil it :-) | 1954 |
| Grafton, Anthony | Footnote: a curious history | Amusing & erudite study of a neglected species | 1997 |
| Gray, Nigel | Writers talking | Interesting insights & revelations | 1989 |
| Green, Jonathon | Book of political quotes | Useful source material | 1982 |
| Gross, John | Oxford book of aphorisms | Horribly wise | 1983 |
| Gross, John | Oxford book of essays | Some good stuff: 680 pp, Bacon to Clive James | 1991 |
| Gross, John | Rise and fall of the man of letters | Supposed to be good | 1969 |
| Guinness, Alec | Commonplace Book | See, for example, Hans Küng on page 5! | 2001 |
| Haffenden, John | Novelists in interview | Includes M Amis, M Bradbury, Golding, Lodge, McEwan | 1985 |
| Hamilton, Ian | Penguin book of 20th Century essays | Promising Contents list! | 1999 |
| Hamilton, Ian | Trouble with money, & other essays | Writers' lives & travails | 1998 |
| Hamilton, Ian | Writers in Hollywood 1915 - 1951 | Comedy of high seriousness; art versus money, basically! | 1990 |
| Handley, G; King, S | Notes: One flew over the cuckoo's nest | What a change from the 'set books' of my time! | 1977 |
| Handley, Graham | Notes: Catch-22 | Just imagine if this had been my set text!!! | 1977 |
| Hare, David | Writing left-handed | A concealed professional autobiography | 1991 |
| Hayman, Ronald | Tom Stoppard | Two interviews plus works up to 1977 | 1977 |
| Hellweg, Paul | Intriguing words | Also known as insomniac's dictionary -- stalled on page 37 | 1986 |
| Hendrickson, Robert | Literary Life & other curiosities | Fascinating stuff | 1981 |
| Herman, Gary | Book of Hollywood quotes | Useful but trivial | 1979 |
| Holder, RW | Faber dictionary of euphemisms | Useful to skim | 1989 |
| Holland, Steve | Mushroom Jungle (postwar paperbacks) | Anorakish, but so what? Excellent overview | 1993 |
| Howard, Philip | State of the language: English observed | How the Revolution is progressing: euphemistic reversibles! | 1984 |
| Howard, Philip | Word in time, A | Unread, but remember skimming it | 1990 |
| Hudson, Kenneth | Jargon of the professions | Useful examples & counter-examples | 1978 |
| Hughes, Geoffrey | Swearing: a social history of profanity | Totally amazing & tireless exploration | 1991 |
| Hunt, Peter | Approaching Arthur Ransome | More oriented to a study of his literature than his life | 1992 |
| Hunter, Jim | Tom Stoppard's plays | Takes the work as far as 1981 | 1982 |
| Ingrams, Richard | Quips and Quotes | His commonplace book | 2012 |
| Isaacs, Alan | Sex and sexuality (quotations) | Nice source stuff | 1993 |
| Jack, Ian | Granta 67: women & children first | Nice piece by Ed White | 1999 |
| Jack, Ian | Granta 68: Love stories | Keith Fleming on his uncle (Edmund White) | 1999 |
| Jack, Ian | Granta 84: Over There (America) | Excellent Martin Rowson 'cartograpy' | 2003 |
| Jack, Ian | Granta 86: Film | Egoyan, Greenaway, Fowles, Scorsese | 2004 |
| Jackson, Kevin | Invisible Forms: a guide to literary... | .. curiosities. Marginalia, prefaces, footnotes, etc. Wonderful | 1999 |
| Jarman, Colin | Guinness dict. of more poisonous quotes | Poets are born, not paid | 1992 |
| Jarman, Colin | Guinness dict. of poisonous quotes | Madonna is so hairy... I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit | 1991 |
| Jarman, Colin | Guinness dict. of yet more poison. quotes | A jumped-up book-drunk ponce | 1993 |
| Johnson, Sterling | English as a second f*cking language | Light-hearted piss-take, not for any maiden aunts | 1995 |
| Jolly, Rick | Jackspeak: Royal Navy Slanguage | Worth it for 'brown trout' alone! | 1989 |
| Jones, Graham & Lynne | I love sex / I hate sex | Hundreds of quotations, pro & con | 1989 |
| Kachuba, John B | How to write funny | Interviews & advice | 2001 |
| Kearney, Patrick J | History of erotic literature | Well-illustrated & well-written survey | 1982 |
| Kearney, Patrick J | Private Case (of the British Museum) | Catalogue of their porn; brilliant; limited edition #104 | 1981 |
| Kelly, Valerie | How to write erotica | Cracking the market in various media | 1986 |
| Kelly-Bootle, Stan | Computer Contradictionary | Satirical misdefinitions (revised version of Devil's DP dict.) | 1995 |
| Landow, George P | Hypertext | Pre-dating HTML & the Web by just two years or so | 1992 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Dancing at the edge of the world | Articles, reviews, papers & speeches | 1989 |
| Lederer, Richard | Anguished English | Funny examples | 1987 |
| Lepore, Jill | A is for American | Letters, national language, & seven lives, from Carol | 2002 |
| Lewis, Nigel | Book of Babel | Words & how we see things. Look up manzuri! | 1994 |
| Lewis, Roy Harley | Browser's guide to erotica | OK, I guess | 1981 |
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| Lodge, David | Art of fiction | 50 weekly articles from a Sunday paper | 1992 |
| Lodge, David | Practice of writing | Essays, lectures, reviews & a diary | 1996 |
| Lodge, David | Write on: occasional essays 1965-1985 | Including insights into his own attitudes to writing | 1986 |
| Longmate, Norman | Writing for the BBC | Possible markets & advice on entering them | 1978 |
| Lopez, Antonio | Antonio's 1001 nights | Fashion designer turns his attention to myths | 1985 |
| Lurie, Alison | Not in front of the grown-ups | Subversiveness of children's literature | 1990 |
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| MacHale, Des | More Wit | Why change a winning formula? | 1997 |
| MacHale, Des | Ready Wit | Still more sublime stuff | 2004 |
| MacHale, Des | Ultimate Wit | Still more of a high standard | 2002 |
| MacHale, Des | Wit | Some absolute gems: many one & two-line quotations | 1996 |
| MacHale, Des | Wit rides again | Still a good standard | 2000 |
| MacHale, Des | Wit, the last laugh | And still they come | 1999 |
| MacHale, Des | Yet more Wit | Here we go again | 1998 |
| Mamet, David | Writing in restaurants | 'We want to see movie stars' genitals on-screen'. Stalled on p83 | 1986 |
| Manguel, Alberto | History of reading | A judicious magpie of a 'literatus' (ie he likes porn, too!) | 1996 |
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| McArthur, Tom | Oxford companion to the English language | All major aspects of English, except how to make it sing! | 1992 |
| McClelland, Doug | StarSpeak: Hollywood on everything | Funny, outrageous, sad, bitchy, camp, daft | 1987 |
| McConville, B; Shearlaw, J | Slanguage of Sex | Somewhat contrived dictionary of euphemism & sexual slang | 1985 |
| McCrum, Robert et al | Story of English | Very good | 1986 |
| McKean, Erin | Verbatim: from bawdy to sublime.. | ..writing on language for armchair linguists | 2001 |
| McKernan, Maggie | Sayings of Jane Austen | Our ancestors... always built in a hole | 1993 |
| McLeish, Kenneth | Bloomsbury good reading guide | Some interesting cross-links | 1990 |
| McPhee, Nancy | Book of insults: ancient and modern | Amiable history of invective | 1978 |
| Metcalf, Fred | Penguin dictionary of modern humorous.. | ..quotations. Not bad | 1986 |
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| Miller, Casey; Swift, Kate | Words and women | A minefield of linguistic discrimination | 1976 |
| Moorcock, Michael | Wizardry and wild romance: epic fantasy | Is Lord of the Rings just Winnie-the-Pooh for grown-ups? | 1987 |
| Morrish, John | Frantic semantics: snapshots of our... | .. changing language, from Daily Telegraph columns | 1999 |
| Morrish, John | More frantic semantics | aka further adventures in Modern English | 2001 |
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| Murray, John G | Gentleman publisher's commonplace book | Copy to Carol; nice collection | 1996 |
| Narayan, RK | Writer's nightmare: selected essays | I sympathise | 1988 |
| Nash, Walter | Language in popular fiction | Stalled on p43, but was enjoying it | 1990 |
| Neaman, JS; Silver, CG | In other words (euphemisms) | 4,000 pieces of linguistic dishonesty/hypocrisy | 1990 |
| Nelson, TGA | Comedy: in literature, drama & cinema | Significant recurring patterns, it seems, in comedy everywhere | 1990 |
| New Republic | Bushisms (President George Bush) | Standing tall in deep doo-doo, in his own words | 1992 |
| Newman, Jenny | Faber book of seductions | Some good stuff | 1988 |
| Norwich, John Julius | Christmas crackers | Lucky dip, started as a glorified Christmas card | 1980 |
| Norwich, John Julius | More Christmas crackers | His second decade of commonplace entries | 1990 |
| Norwich, John Julius | Still more Christmas crackers | Covering 1990-1999 | 2000 |
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| Opie, Iona & Peter | I saw Esau: schoolchild's pocket book | Traditional rhymes, illustrated by Maurice Sendak | 1947 |
| Oxford University Press | Oxford English dictionary | Loss leader for some forgotten book club | 1991 |
| Parker, Derek | Writing erotic fiction | Straight-faced unlaced advice. Cf. Elizabeth Benedict | 1995 |
| Paros, Lawrence | Erotic tongue | A specifically sexual lexicon | 1984 |
| Partington, Angela | Oxford dictionary of quotations | I got fed up of reading Roger Figg's copy | 1996 |
| Partridge, Eric | Dictionary of Forces' slang 1939-1945 | 2nd hand (1st ed). New, war-produced slang. See 'dreadnought' | 1948 |
| Partridge, Eric; Beale, Paul | Dictionary of catch phrases | Revised 2nd edition, but often long in the tooth | 1985 |
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| Peterkin, AD | Bald-headed hermit & the artichoke | Erotic thesaurus of over 15,000 terms | 1999 |
| Phillips, Robert | Aspects of Alice: essays on Carroll | Simply wonderful | 1971 |
| Pool, John | Lid off a daffodil | Palindromes. Consider the title! | 1983 |
| Poole, Steven | Who touched base in my thought shower? | Kindle edition. A 'treasury' of unbearable office jargon | 2014 |
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| Rosten, Leo | Hooray for Yiddish! | How did English ever cope before Yiddish arrived? | 1982 |
| Rosten, Leo | Joys of Yiddish | Vunderfulll mordant syntax | 1968 |
| Rosten, Leo | Joys of Yinglish | Alphabetic list of pleasure building on earlier work | 1989 |
| Rosten, Leo | Treasury of Jewish quotations | Marvellous; Bartlett with a Yiddish accent | 1972 |
| Ruderman, Judith | Joseph Heller | Worthy & occasionally provocative | 1991 |
| Sammons, Martha C | Guide through Narnia: CS Lewis | With index of names & places + map & chronology | 1979 |
| Scrivenor, Patrick | Egg on your interface | Dictionary of modern nonsense, eg value added tax | 1989 |
| Selkirk, Errol | Erotica for beginners | Comix approach | 1991 |
| Sharpe, Gareth | Guinness dictionary of quotations... | .. for all occasions | 1994 |
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| Smith, William George | Oxford dictionary of English proverbs | When book is thick, it makes me sick... | 1970 |
| Spiegl, Fritz | Mediaspeak / mediawrite | Does bear thinking about, but few will | 1989 |
| Spiegl, Fritz | Sick Notes | Medical anecdotage & language abuse | 1996 |
| Stewart, Roy L | Quotations with an attitude | Many fine examples | 1995 |
| Strickland, Bill | On being a writer: interviews | Hemingway, Mailer, Heller, Auel, Wambaugh, Capote & 25 more | 1989 |
| Stryker, Susan | Queer Pulp: perverted passions from the.. | ..golden age of the paperback. Marvellously evocative covers | 2001 |
| Styles, Morag et al | After Alice: children's literature | 15 varied essays | 1992 |
| Tenner, Edward | TechSpeak: how to talk high tech | Consider an 'avian embryo nutrient cartridge' (egg) | 1986 |
| Townsend, John Rowe | Written for children | Beautiful survey, updated from 1965 edition | 1974 |
| Usborne, Richard | Clubland heroes | Sapper, Dornford Yates, & John Buchan | 1974 |
| Usborne, Richard | Penguin Wodehouse companion | Synopses of 92 books, plus their varied characters' foibles | 1988 |
| Wajnryb, Ruth | CU Next Tuesday: a good look at bad.. | ..language | 2005 |
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| Waterhouse, Keith | Waterhouse on newspaper style | Revised version of the 'Daily Mirror' style book | 1989 |
| Watson, Colin | Snobbery with violence | English crime stories and their audience | 1971 |
| Wheen, Francis | Lord Gnome's literary companion | Excellent | 1994 |
| Williams, WE | Book of English essays | Good stuff (Christa's) | 1942 |
| Winston, Dennis | French widow in every room | Christa likes this mangled language | 1987 |
| Wolfe, Ronald | Writing comedy | Guide to scriptwriting by an established sitcom author | 1992 |
| Wood, James | How fiction works | Machinery of story-telling dissected | 2008 |
| Zinsser, William | On writing well (4th ed) | Pretty damn good, blast him! | 1990 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Ackerman, Diane | Moon by whale light & other adventures | Bats, penguins, crocodiles, & whales. Beautiful prose style | 1991 |
| Ackerman, Diane | Natural history of love | Many-faceted little essays; bought in NY | 1994 |
| Ackerman, Diane | Natural history of the senses | Essays & lovely insights | 1990 |
| Ackerman, Diane | One hundred names for love: her memoir of her.. | .. husband's stroke, their marriage, and his temporary loss of language | 2011 |
| Adams, Douglas; Carwardine | Last chance to see | Disappearing wildlife, but not a Vogon in sight | 1990 |
| Audubon, John James | Birds of America | 431 "boids" for Christa from Bibliophile. Massive | 1966 |
| Bagemihl, Bruce | Biological exuberance: animal homosex &.. | .. natural diversity. In-fucking-credible 700 pp! | 1999 |
| Bakker, Robert | Dinosaur Heresies | Romping, stomping, warm-blooded? Go see Jurassic Park! | 1986 |
| Barash, David | Myth of Monogamy | Pair-bond cheats across animal world (including human) | 2001 |
| Betts, Christopher | Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault | New translation; old engravings (by Dore) | ???? |
| Betts, Muff | Human Body | Plus amazing woodcuts | 2004 |
| Bishop, JE; Waldholz, M | Genome | Early report on human gene mapping project | 1990 |
| Blue, Adrienne | On kissing: metaphorical to erotic | Interesting in parts; bit lippy! | 1996 |
| Bodanis, David | Being Human: day in the life of the body | Even itchier! | 1984 |
| Bodanis, David | Secret family: 24 hours inside our... | ..minds & bodies | 1997 |
| Bodanis, David | Secret house: hidden world of your home | Fascinating & itchy | 1986 |
| Cairns-Smith, AG | Genetic takeover: mineral origins of life | Stone me! A plausible explanation | 1982 |
| Cairns-Smith, AG | Seven clues to the origin of life | We came from rocks, huh? | 1985 |
| Caras, Roger | Dangerous to man | Basically, how not to get eaten/mauled/poisoned | 1964 |
| Caufield, Catherine | Multiple exposures: the radiation age | Horrifying, unhysterical but deeply chilling | 1989 |
| Coen, Clive | Functions of the brain | Food for heavy thought | 1985 |
| Colinvaux, Paul | Fates of Nations: biological history | Dynamics of their breeding patterns | 1980 |
| Colinvaux, Paul | Why big fierce animals are rare | Classic, & very entertaining | 1980 |
| Conley, Kevin | $tud: adventures in (horse) breeding | As reviewed on NPR, oddly | 2002 |
| Crawford, Mike; Marsh, David | Driving force: food in evolution | Evolution provoked by nutrition & obtaining it | 1989 |
| Dalton, Stephen | At the water's edge | Beautiful nature photos | 1989 |
| Dalton, Stephen | Borne on the wind: insects in flight | Wonderful photos | 1975 |
| Dalton, Stephen | Caught in Motion: hi-speed nature photos | Superb camera trickery | 1982 |
| Dalton, Stephen | Miracle of flight | Photos of birds and insects | 1977 |
| Dalton, Stephen | Secret lives: 25 years of nature photos | Great photos | 1988 |
| Dalton, Stephen | Split second | More of the same style of high-speed photos | 1983 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Ancestor's Tale | Lavish wade back thru the gene pools | 2004 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Blind watchmaker | Interesting thesis | 1986 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Climbing Mount Improbable | Darwin's metaphor for natural selection, from Xmas RI lectures | 1996 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Extended Phenotype | Heavier followup to Selfish Gene | 1982 |
| Dawkins, Richard | River out of Eden | Digital river that is DNA | 1995 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Selfish gene | Sacrifice yourself for two sibs or eight cousins... plus memes | 1976 |
| de Waal, Frans | Ape & the Sushi Master | Culture among our non-human friends | 2001 |
| de Waal, Frans | Bonobo and the Atheist | Browsed in Bournemouth | 2013 |
| de Waal, Frans | Good natured: origins of right & wrong... | .. in humans & other animals. | 1996 |
| de Waal, Frans | Our inner ape | Best & worst of human nature | 2005 |
| de Waal, Frans | Peacemaking among primates | Check out the Bonobos | 1989 |
| Dekkers, Midas | Dearest Pet: on bestiality | Our ambivalence toward cross-species sexuality; unique survey | 1994 |
| Dekkers, Midas | Way of all Flesh: celebration of decay | Marvellously wry sideways look at mortality | 1997 |
| Desowitz, Robert S | New Guinea tapeworms/Jewish grandmothers | 14 tales of parasites & people; health in Third World, & here | 1981 |
| Devonshire, Deborah | Garden at Chatsworth | Sumptuous Derbyshire property | 1999 |
| Diagram group | Book of comparisons | Magical ideas & images | 1980 |
| Dion, Mark; Rockman, Alexis | Concrete Jungle: urban ecosystems | Death & survival therein; fascinating & gruesome | 1996 |
| Dixon, T; Lucas, M | Human Race | Unremembered | 1982 |
| Dwyer, John | Body at war: the immune system | Grim but always interesting accounts of various infections | 1988 |
| Eysenck, H & M | Mindwatching (2nd edition) | Not certain why I bothered | 1989 |
| Eysenck, HJ | Psychology is about people | Don't shoot the behaviourist. Good chapter on pornography | 1972 |
| Eysenck, HJ; Wilson, G | Know your own personality | I do, now! | 1975 |
| Farb, Peter | Humankind | Vastly different from his book on language | 1977 |
| Fisher, Helen | Anatomy of Love: natural history of... | ..monogamy, adultery & divorce. Fascinating stuff, too | 1992 |
| Fisher, R; Ury, W | Getting to 'yes' - negotiating skills | Useful, if too late for me! | 1981 |
| Foy, Sally | Grand Design: form and colour in animals | Visually compelling | 1982 |
| Frazier, Kendrick | Hundredth Monkey, & other paradigms | Scepticism rules OK | 1991 |
| Gifford, Don | Farther Shore | A natural history (well, last 200 years or so) of perception | 1990 |
| Goldberg, Gerry | Strange glory: man's latent powers | Interesting; weird in parts | 1977 |
| Gould, SJ et al | Book of Life | 600 million years in 250 well-illustrated pages; many authors | 1993 |
| Gould, SJ; Purcell, RW | Finders, keepers | Collectors, obsessive & otherwise | 1992 |
| Gould, SJ; Purcell, RW | Illuminations: a bestiary | Pictorial essays | 1986 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Bully for Brontosaurus | Male nipples & clitoral ripples (aka Tits & Clits, qv) | 1991 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Dinosaur in a haystack | Does the stoneless plum instruct the thinking reed? | 1996 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Eight little piggies | On rereading Edmund Halley... | 1993 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Ever since Darwin | Is the Cambrian explosion a Sigmoid Fraud? | 1977 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Flamingo's smile | Adam's navel | 1985 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Hen's teeth and horse's toes | Phyletic size decrease in Hershey Bars | 1983 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | I have landed: splashes & reflections | Tenth & final essay collection | 2002 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Individual in Darwin's world | Transcript of 2nd Edinburgh Medal lecture | 1990 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Leonardo's Mountain of Clams & the Diet... | .. of Worms. Latest essays from 'Natural History' magazine | 1998 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Life's grandeur (aka Full House) | Multifariousness of the modal bacter | 1996 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Lying stones of Marrakech | His penultimate collection | 1999 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Mismeasure of Man: intelligence testing | History of the early study (now updated, I believe) | 1981 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Panda's thumb | Might we fit inside a sponge's cell? | 1980 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Time's arrow, time's cycle | Myth & metaphor in the discovery of geological time | 1987 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Urchin in the storm | Essays about books & ideas | 1987 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | Wonderful life: the Burgess shale | Insights from Paleozoic British Columbian fossils | 1989 |
| Grandin, Temple | Animals in translation: decoding.. | ..behaviour via autism | 2005 |
| Graves, George | Selected British garden birds | WYSIWYG; see p25! Originals dated to 1813ish | 2000 |
| Greenaway, Theresa | 3-D Insect | Excellent colour shots with mirrored pairs & viewer | 1998 |
| Gregory, Richard L | Odd Perceptions | Essays based on editorials in 'Perception' | 1986 |
| Hale, Nathan Cabot | Abstraction in art and nature | Essays & pix | 1980 |
| Hamilton-Paterson, James | Seven-tenths: the sea and its thresholds | Part travel, part history, part oceanography | 1992 |
| Heim, Alice | Intelligence and personality | She of the 'AH5' test for high-IQ discrimination | 1970 |
| Hendrickson, Robert | More cunning than man (rats) | Quirky | 1983 |
| Hobhouse, Henry | Seeds of change: five plants | Cotton, potatoes, quinine, sugar, tea | 1985 |
| Hochheiser, Robert | How to work for a jerk | Bought in Guernsey when I reported to Page! Sound advice, too | 1987 |
| Holub, Miroslav | Dimension of the present moment & essays | Miniature scientific essays that veer to the poetic | 1990 |
| Holub, Miroslav | Jingle Bell Principle | Notes & objections, max length 43 lines | 1987 |
| Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer | Woman that never evolved | Fascinating on evolution & nature of female sexuality | 1981 |
| Ironside, Virginia | You'll get over it: rage of.. | ..bereavement. Amazingly insightful & helpful | 1996 |
| Jaynes, Julian | Origin of consciousness: bicameral mind | Heavy, yet possibly massively mistaken | 1976 |
| Johanson, D; Shreeve, J | Lucy's child: discovery of human ancestor | Science & politics of human origins research by finder of 'Lucy' | 1989 |
| Johnson, George | In the palaces of memory | How we build the worlds inside our heads | 1991 |
| Jordan, William | Divorce among the gulls | Parallels of human & animal behaviour | 1991 |
| Keizer, Bert | Dancing with Mr D (death) | Literally, wise & eye-opening notes on life & death | 1994 |
| Kevles, Daniel J | In the name of eugenics | Aspects & implications of genetic engineering | 1985 |
| Kingdon, Jonathan | Self-made man and his undoing | Proliferating technology allied to innate human aggression | 1993 |
| Knutson, Roger M | Furtive fauna | Itchy field guide to parasites that live on us | 1992 |
| Krause, Bernie | Great animal orchestra | Half of Beaver and Krause has a whole separate career | 2012 |
| Kunzig, Robert | Mapping the Deep: ocean science | aka The Restless Sea | 1999 |
| Lanners, Edi | Illusions: optical, paradoxical etc | Fascinating entertainment | 1973 |
| Lenihan, John | Crumbs of Creation: trace elements in... | .. history, medicine, industry, crime & folklore | 1988 |
| Leroi, Armand Marie | Mutants | Form, variety & errors of the human body; fascinating | 2003 |
| Lewin, Ralph A | Merde: excursions into scientific, ... | .. cultural & socio-historical coprology. No shit! | 1999 |
| Lewontin, Richard | Human diversity | Complexity of human genetic variation | 1982 |
| Lovelock, James E | Ages of Gaia | Elaborating his theory of a living planet | 1988 |
| Lovelock, James E | Gaia | Life on Earth as a single organism | 1979 |
| Lovelock, James E | Revenge of Gaia | If he's right we are (nearly) all DOOMED! | 2006 |
| Mallet, Gina | Last chance to eat | Fate of taste in a fast-food world | 2004 |
| Mayr, Ernst | One long argument (Darwin) | Good | 1991 |
| McCarry, Charles | From the Field: (from) National Geographic | Wide selection of fine prose | 1997 |
| Meinesz, Alexandre | Killer algae | Caulerpa taxifolia loose in the Med | 1997 |
| Miller, Jonathan et al | Darwin for beginners | Comix approach | 1982 |
| Morgan, Elaine | Aquatic ape | Did we return to the land after aquatic adaptation? | 1982 |
| Morgan, Elaine | Descent of Woman | Alister Hardy's theories afloat in a sea of speculation! | 1972 |
| Morgan, Elaine | Scars of evolution | Bipedal locomotion et al, & their possible causes | 1990 |
| Morowitz, Harold J | Entropy and the magic flute | 40+ slender essays; well-reviewed | 1993 |
| Morowitz, Harold J | Wine of life | Essays on societies, energy & living things. Stalled on p81 | 1979 |
| Morris, Desmond | Bodywatching | Excuses for body displays | 1985 |
| Morris, Desmond | Human Animal: a personal view | Nancy Banks-Smith took parts of this (TV series) apart! | 1994 |
| Morris, Desmond | Human Sexes: natural history of.. | ..man & woman. | 1997 |
| Morris, Desmond | Manwatching: field guide to humans | Nancy Banks-Smith thinks Morris is amusingly disturbed | 1977 |
| Morris, Desmond | Naked woman | Female bodies - my favorite kind | 2004 |
| Myers, Norman | Gaia atlas of future worlds | Insights into pressing issues for next 100 years | 1990 |
| Myers, Norman | Gaia atlas of planet management | Worthy & well-intentioned | 1985 |
| Nesse, RN; Williams, GC | Evolution and healing | Darwinian medicine: disease as a side effect of evolution | 1994 |
| Nilsson, Lennart | Close to Nature | Amazing macro photos | 1984 |
| North, Richard | Real Cost: environmental costs globally | Provocative insights into true cost of Western staples | 1986 |
| Pakenham, Thomas | Meetings with remarkable trees | Sixty amazing specimens, grouped by personality! Lovely | 1996 |
| Paturi, Felix R | Nature, mother of invention | Plants are better engineers than we are... | 1974 |
| Pellant, Chris | Earthscope | Pix from orbit, various wavelengths | 1985 |
| Perry, Donald | Life above the jungle floor | In canopy of Costa Rican rain forest (p53!) | 1986 |
| Phelps, Barry | You don't say! Dictionary of misquotations | By a self-described polymath | 1995 |
| Pollan, Michael | Botany of Desire | Plant's eye view of the world | 2001 |
| Pollan, Michael | Omnivore's dilemma | Where's a perfect meal to be found in our fast-food world? | 2006 |
| Porter, Roy | Faber book of madness | The wonders of Largactil, indeed! | 1991 |
| Postgate, John | Microbes and Man | Engagingly written | 1975 |
| Postgate, John | Microbes and Man | Fact-packed & very readable (updated) survey | 1986 |
| Raup, David M | Extinction: bad genes or bad luck? | Asteroids or hemorrhoids: 'How to become extinct'! | 1991 |
| Raup, David M | Nemesis affair | Death by asteroid collision | 1986 |
| Ridley, Matt | Red Queen: sex and human evolution | Sociobiology: the easy option to argue with | 1993 |
| Roach, Mary | Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal | Quite gross on numerous different levels | 2013 |
| Roach, Mary | Packing for Mars | Anecdotes around life in space | 2010 |
| Roach, Mary | Six feet over | Post-death and near-death experiences | 2005 |
| Rose, Kenneth Jon | Body in time | My time ran out on p93 | 1988 |
| Rosebury, Theodor | Life on Man | Sane, elegant, informative & amazing. Itchy, too | 1969 |
| Sagan, Carl; Druyan, Ann | Shadows of forgotten ancestors | A 'Roots' for humans on Earth, with fanciful inner dialogues | 1992 |
| Sagan, Carl; Shklovskii, IS | Intelligent life in the Universe | Surprisingly early survey of the field | 1966 |
| Sapolsky, Robert M | Monkey Luv | Anecdote-based analysis of we humans | 2005 |
| Singer, Peter | Writings on an ethical life | Animal & other rights, more or less on the button | 2000 |
| Smit, Tim | Eden: biodiversity project in Cornwall | Worth any ten Millennium Domes, I fancy | 2001 |
| Smit, Tim | Lost gardens of Heligan | Christa's birthday present | 1997 |
| Smith, Anthony | Body, The | Made a great film, too | 1968 |
| Smith, Anthony | Mind, The | Fact-packed grand tour | 1984 |
| Smith, John Maynard | Did Darwin get it right? | Essays on games, sex & evolution | 1988 |
| Soper, Tony | Bird Table book (6th edition) | So that's what they all are! | 1965 |
| Sparks, John | Battle of the sexes in the animal world | Natural history of sex, or call of the wild? | 1999 |
| Spufford, Francis | Child that books built | Memoir of childhood & reading | 2002 |
| Stoddart, D Michael | Scented ape: bio & culture of human odour | Our olfactory enigmas, including necessary desensitisation | 1990 |
| Taylor, Gordon Rattray | Great evolution mystery | Neo-Darwinism in his final book | 1982 |
| Taylor, Timothy | Prehistory of sex | Four million years of human sexual culture | 1996 |
| Thomas, Lewis | Fragile species | Essays, talks & lectures | 1992 |
| Thomas, Lewis | Late night thoughts | ... on listening to Mahler's 9th - essays | 1983 |
| Thomas, Lewis | Lives of a cell: notes of biology watcher | 29 brilliant essays from New England Journal of Medicine | 1974 |
| Thomas, Lewis | Medusa and the Snail | 29 essays, sequel to 'Lives of a Cell'. Brilliant stuff | 1979 |
| Treffert, Darrold A | Extraordinary people: idiot savants | Spectacular islands of mental ability | 1989 |
| Tudge, Colin | Secret life of trees | One might think he was barking; one would be wrong | 2005 |
| Visser, Margaret | Much depends on dinner | Intriguing secrets behind an ordinary meal | 1986 |
| Visser, Margaret | Rituals of dinner | Origins, evolution, eccentricities & meaning of table manners | 1991 |
| Visser, Margaret | Way we are (essays) | Interesting, but hard to read | 1994 |
| Watson, Lyall | Dreams of dragons (Earthworks) | 12 ideas on the edge of natural history | 1986 |
| Watson, Lyall | Neophilia: tradition of the new | Another batch of fringe topic essays | 1989 |
| Watson, Lyall | Supernature | First of the 'explain that' series. From Dad | 1973 |
| Watson, Lyall | Whole Hog: potential of pigs | Porcine esoterica | 2004 |
| Weisman, Alan | World without us | Earth, in the absence of humans | 2007 |
| Williams, Heathcote | Autogeddon | Polemical | 1991 |
| Williams, Heathcote | Whale nation | Powerful and angry | 1988 |
| Williams, Wendy | Kraken: the science of squid | Cephalopods in detail | 2010 |
| Wills, Christopher | Runaway brain | Human uniqueness residing in its runaway evolution | 1995 |
| Wilson, Edward O | Diversity of Life | Excellent | 1992 |
| Yalom, Irvin D | Love's executioner | and other tales of psychotherapy | 1989 |
| Young, JZ | Introduction to the study of man | Biology as a framework for a full understanding | 1971 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Aesop | Complete Fables | All 358, this time unsanitised: see #144 | 1998 |
| Austen, Jane | Emma | How does Miss Woodhouse stack up against Gwyneth Paltrow? | 1815 |
| Austen, Jane | Lady Susan; Watsons; Sanditon | All that's left, apart from her letters | 1974 |
| Austen, Jane | Love and Friendship | Short, epistolary pieces | 2003 |
| Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park | Fanny Price & cousins. Nice Patricia Rozema film, 1999 | 1814 |
| Austen, Jane | Northanger Abbey | Catherine Moreland's season at Bath | 1818 |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | Anne Elliot's youthful excess of prudence | 1818 |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice | Includes letters, interviews & essays | 1813 |
| Austen, Jane | Sense and sensibility | Marianne & Elinor Dashwood. Nice Ang Lee film, 1995 | 1811 |
| Austen, Jane; Deas, Robert | Pride and Prejudice (graphic novel) | Works quite well | 1813 |
| Aylmer, Janet | Darcy's story | Pride & Prejudice re-told, rather prettily | 1996 |
| Baring-Gould, WS | Annotated Mother Goose | Copious & erudite notes | 1962 |
| Bayard, Pierre | How to talk about books you haven't read | Magnificent and amusing | 2007 |
| Bell, Millicent | Cambridge companion to Edith Wharton | Bought for insights into Beatrice Palmato fragment | 1995 |
| Booker, Christopher | Seven basic plots: why we tell stories | I ought not to denigrate this until I've read it! | 2004 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Celestial Omnibus | 11 stories of Kai Lung; obtained (!) in Slough | 1963 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung beneath the Mulberry-tree | 6 gravity-removing, high-minded tales, bought in Ealing | 1940 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung raises his voice | Stories from 1924 to 1941, and four unpublished from 1901 to 1905 | 2010 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung unrolls his mat | Ballantine 1974, from Dark They Were & Golden-Eyed | 1928 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung unrolls his mat | Penguin #108, 1939 reprint (1937 edition) bought in Ealing | 1928 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung unrolls his mat | Jonathan Cape Travellers' Library, 1935 | 1928 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung's golden hours | Penguin #174, 1940 reprint (1938 edition) bought in Ealing | 1922 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung's golden hours | Jonathan Cape Travellers' Library, 1926 | 1922 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung's golden hours | Oxford paperbacks, 1985 | 1922 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Kai Lung's golden hours | Grant Richards January 1924 reset reprint | 1922 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Mirror of Kong Ho: he "writes home" to.. | .. Ernest Bramah, describing Western life through Oriental eyes | 1905 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Moon of Much Gladness | Kai Lung's account of a month of excitement in Kochow | 1932 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Wallet of Kai Lung | Jonathan Cape Travellers' Library, 1926 | 1900 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Wallet of Kai Lung | Oxford paperbacks, 1986 | 1900 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Wallet of Kai Lung | Grant Richards 1946 reprint | 1900 |
| Bramah, Ernest | Wallet of Kai Lung | Penguin #39, Oct. 1936 reprint of March edition | 1900 |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Villette | Lucy Snowe's relationship with her professor in Brussels | 1853 |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights | I finally feel ready for this | 1847 |
| Brown, Leonard | Quarto of modern literature | Excellent range of novels, plays, poems & short stories | 1964 |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's adventures in Wonderland & ... | .. through the Looking-Glass. Classic, obviously | 1865 |
| Carson, Susannah (ed) | Truth universally acknowledged: 33 reasons | .. why we can't stop reading Jane Austen | 2009 |
| Cecil, David | Portrait of Jane Austen | By President of the Society! | 1978 |
| Charles, Gerda | Great short stories of the world | From Christa | 1925 |
| Copeland, E; McMaster, J | Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen | Could there be a bicentenary? :-) | 2011 |
| Cunningham, AE | Patrick O'Brian: critical appreciations... | .. & a bibliography. OK, I'm an O'Brian anorak - official! | 1995 |
| de la Fontaine, Jean | Fables (illus. Doré) | Marvellous | 1975 |
| de Laclos, Choderlos | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Epistolary decadence | 1782 |
| de Maupassant, Guy | Bel Ami | Sleazy provincial social climber | 1885 |
| Dickens, Charles | Bleak House | Yet to read; fantastic TV adaptation in 2006 | 1853 |
| Dickens, Charles | David Copperfield | Easily my favourite | 1850 |
| Dickens, Charles | Great expectations | Richly enjoyable | 1861 |
| Dickens, Charles | Great expectations | Richly enjoyable (well-annotated Norton replacement of 1972 copy) | 1861 |
| Dickens, Charles | Hard times | Christa's copy - unread | 1854 |
| Dickens, Charles | Little Dorrit | Mandarins in the Circumlocution Office! | 1857 |
| Dickens, Charles | Martin Chuzzlewit | Great stuff, done well with Scofield on TV; bought in Guernsey | 1843 |
| Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist | The 'item of mortality' & his story | 1838 |
| Dickens, Charles | Pickwick Papers | Stalled, repeatedly (on p68) | 1836 |
| Dickens, Charles | Tale of two cities | Unread, so far | 1859 |
| Duncan, Paul | Pocket Essentials: Noir Fiction | Little handbook efficiently exemplifying this genre | 2000 |
| Fadiman, Anne | At Large and At Small | New set of delicious essays | 2007 |
| Fadiman, Anne | Ex Libris: confessions of a common... | .. reader. Fellow bibliophiliac essays. Super | 1998 |
| Fadiman, Anne (ed) | Rereadings: 17 writers revisit books.. | ..they love | 2005 |
| Fullerton, Susannah | Happily ever after: celebrating Jane.. | .. Austen's Pride and Prejudice (200 years!) | 2013 |
| Gekoski, Rick | Tolkien's Gown | Anecdotes from a rare book dealer, based on 1996 BBC show | 2004 |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Spontaneous Mind: interviews 1958-1996 | Eclectic springs to mind | 2001 |
| Gray, Alasdair | Book of Prefaces | Beautifully rendered | 2000 |
| Gray, Martin & Laura | Pride & Prejudice: York notes | How to study a novel, if you please! | 2001 |
| Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm | Big Book of Grimm | Comix approach with 50+ comics artists | 1999 |
| Grimm, Jacob & Wilhelm | Grimm's fairy tales | Why oh why did Peter never take to these??? | 1823 |
| Harman, Claire | Jane's Fame: how Jane Austen.. | ..conquered the world | 2009 |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Wonder Book & Tanglewood Tales | From 1851 and 1853 respectively. Long-sought | 1906 |
| Hodgkinson, Tom; de Abautura | Idler's Companion: lazy literature | Russell, Wilde, Jerome, Self, Johnson & co | 1998 |
| Hoffmann, ETA | Nutcracker (illus. Sendak) | Bought for Christa | 1984 |
| Holroyd, Michael | Genius of Shaw aka A Symposium | Pleasingly comprehensive bargain | 1988 |
| Hornby, Nick | Complete Polysyllabic Spree | Like most theories (in this column) it turned out to be utter rubbish! | 2006 |
| Hornby, Nick | Polysyllabic Spree | Columns on reading from Believer magazine | 2004 |
| Hutchinson, Robert J | Book of Vices | Classic immoral tales, ranging over about 2,000 years | 1995 |
| James, Henry | What Maisie knew | Kindle edition; Amazon freebie | 2003 |
| Jenkyns, Richard | Fine brush on Ivory: appreciation of.. | ..Jane Austen. Basically nicely-written essay from OUP | 2004 |
| Kelly, Stuart | Book of Lost Books: incomplete.. | ..history of all the great books you'll never read | 2005 |
| Kingsley, Charles | Heroes + Water Babies | For Nanny | 1856 |
| Kleist, Heinrich von | Marquise of O, and other stories | Looked interesting | 1978 |
| Le Faye, Deirdre | Jane Austen's letters (4th edition) | Increasingly authoritative, I trust! | 2011 |
| Le Faye, Deirdre | Jane Austen: the world of her novels | Placed in their social & historical context | 2002 |
| Mardrus, JC; Mathers, P | Book of 1001 nights (4 vols) | Folio Society edition | 1958 |
| Maugham, W Somerset | World's 10 greatest novels | Christa's copy from Gothenburg | 1948 |
| Miller, Laura | Magician's Book: skeptic's.. | ..adventures in Narnia | 2008 |
| Moretti, Franco | Distant reading | Radical approach to literary criticism | 2013 |
| Moretti, Franco | Graphs Maps Trees | Abstract models for literary history | 2005 |
| Mullan, John | What matters in Jane Austen? | 20 'crucial puzzles' solved. Highly entertaining | 2012 |
| Munro, HH (Saki) | Complete short stories | Includes biography by his sister, & 'The East Wing' | 1930 |
| Munro, HH (Saki) | Complete works of Saki | FanTAStic: 3 novels, 3 plays, & all 134 short stories | 1980 |
| Munro, HH (Saki) | When William came | 2nd hand; nearly 70 years old | 1913 |
| Munroe, Randall | XKCD: volume 0 | Technically-oriented web comics | 2012 |
| Norris, Leslie | Mabinogion | Folio Society edition | 1849 |
| Ondaatje, Michael et al | Lost Classics: essays | Writers on their lost favourites | 2000 |
| Opie, Iona & Peter | Oxford dictionary of Nursery Rhymes | All the usual suspects are here | 1977 |
| Peake, Mervyn | Gormenghast trilogy | This replaces a copy Gill Peek walked off with | 1983 |
| Pocock, Guy | Modern Prose | Gems on most pages | 1922 |
| Potocki, Jan | Tales from the Saragossa manuscript | Bought from Simon Hakiel. Yet to read | 1814 |
| Powell, Anthony & Violet | Album of 'Dance to the music of Time' | Fleshing out the myriad characters/places | 1987 |
| Pugh, Sheenagh | Democratic genre: fan fiction in a.. | ..literary context, kicked off by Jane Austen (arguably?) | 2005 |
| Ransome, Arthur | Coots in the North & other stories | 13th, & unfinished, 'Swallows & Amazons' tale + odds & ends | 1988 |
| Ross, Josephine | Jane Austen: a companion | Kindle edition | 2013 |
| Rugg, Julie; Murphy, Lynda | Book addict's treasury | Beautifully organised extracts & quotes | 2006 |
| Shah, Idries | World tales | Not just Sufi for a change | 1979 |
| Shapard, David M | Annotated Pride and Prejudice | One page of notes per page of text, and very enjoyably done | 2012 |
| Sibley, Brian | Land of Narnia: world of CS Lewis | With Pauline Baynes' wonderfully evocative illustrations | 1989 |
| Simpson, Paul et al | Rough Guide to Cult Fiction | Useful miniature roadmap | 2005 |
| Sterne, Laurence | Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy | I keep picking this up... | 1767 |
| Sutherland, John | Where was Rebecca shot? | Modern fiction's conundrums | 1998 |
| Sutherland, John; Le Faye, D | So you think you know Jane Austen? | Amusing folly | 2005 |
| Tatar, Maria | Classic fairy tales | Six different types picked apart + 12 essays | 1999 |
| Tennant, Emma | Pemberley revisited | Double sequel to Pride and Prejudice (1993/1994) | 2005 |
| Thackeray, William | Vanity Fair | Christa's favourite | 1848 |
| Thomas, Dylan | Under Milk Wood | Folio Society edition | 1954 |
| Thomson, Hugh | Illustrated Pride & Prejudice companion | From the 1894 edition, but with added colour! | 2005 |
| Tobias, Ronald B | Twenty master plots... & how to build them | Mainstream fiction, genre novels, film plots etc | 1993 |
| Tolkien, JRR | Fellowship of the Ring, The | Folio Society edition | 1954 |
| Tolkien, JRR | Hobbit, The | Folio Society edition | 1937 |
| Tolkien, JRR | Return of the King, The | Folio Society edition | 1955 |
| Tolkien, JRR | Two Towers, The | Folio Society edition | 1954 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Barchester Towers | More church going | 1857 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Can you forgive her? | First of the Palliser six | 1865 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Duke's children | Palliser #6 | 1880 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Eustace Diamonds | Palliser #3, but not mainstream | 1873 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Last chronicle of Barset | Unread | 1867 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Phineas Finn | Palliser #2 | 1869 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Phineas Redux | Palliser #4 | 1874 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Prime Minister | Palliser #5 | 1876 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Warden | Religious politics | 1855 |
| Trollope, Anthony | Way we live now | Melmotte (or is it Maxwell) rising and falling greedily | 1875 |
| Various | Song of Songs | Folio Society edition | 1885 |
| Vidal, Gore | Essential Gore Vidal (ed Fred Kaplan) | Includes Myra B, Best Man, & 25+ other selections | 1999 |
| Ward, Michael | Planet Narnia | Imagination of CS Lewis | 2008 |
| White, TH | Once and Future King | Merlin in great detail | 1958 |
| Wintle, Justin | Dragon's Almanac: Far Eastern proverbs | OK | 1983 |
| Wood, Ramsay | Kalila & Dimna: fables of Bidpai | Sanskrit precursor of all our fables | 1980 |
| Yaffe, Deborah | Among the Janeites: a journey through the | ..world of Jane Austen fandom | 2013 |
| Zaid, Gabriel | So many books | And its corollary: so little time. Engagingly witty & erudite | 2003 |
| Zipes, Jack | Spells of enchantment | 800pp & 60+ tales by Voltaire, Goethe, Hawthorne, Wilde... | 1991 |
| Zipes, Jack | Trials... of Little Red Riding Hood | 35 versions, used to explore culture, sexism, politics... | 1993 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Adams, Cecil | More of the Straight dope | Another dose of detailed arcane knowledge | 1988 |
| Adams, Cecil | Return of the Straight dope | Merkin via Vnet (see p 234!) Bought in New York | 1994 |
| Adams, Cecil | Straight dope - esoteric trivia | 400 answers to some very unlikely questions | 1984 |
| Barham, Andrea | Pedant's revolt: why most things you.. | ..think are right are wrong. Oh dear! | 2005 |
| Barkworth, Peter | About acting | 1st edition, too! | 1980 |
| Barkworth, Peter | For all occasions: prose to read aloud | Excellent selection | 1997 |
| Barnes, Julian | Pedant in the kitchen | Sea urchin: it tastes of warm snot! | 2003 |
| Barrow, Andrew | Gossip 1920-1970 | A few good snippets - hard to classify | 1978 |
| Barrow, Andrew | Great book of small talk | Gossip, basically | 1987 |
| Barrow, Andrew | International gossip 1970-1980 | Some weird people on this planet! | 1983 |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Total Library: non-fiction, 1922-1986 | Edited by Eliot Weinberger | 1999 |
| Boyd-Smith, Jan & Peter | Southampton: gateway to England | Photographic archive of recent history | 2002 |
| Brown, Craig | One on One: 101 true encounters | Or, maybe, a Karmic dance to the music of chaos? | 2011 |
| Bruges, James | Little Earth book | Bite-sized essays with bite aplenty | 2002 |
| Burton, Robert | Anatomy of Melancholy | Extravagantly praised | 1750 |
| Carlton, Bronwyn | Big Book of Death | Comix approach, includes a Flenniken piece | 1995 |
| Cerf, Chris; Navasky, Victor | I wish I hadn't said that | Out of the mouths of... (aka 'The Experts Speak') | 1984 |
| Clifford, Sue; King, Angela | England in particular | Sumptuous celebration of all sorts | 2006 |
| Cook, Christopher | Pear's cyclopaedia 109th edition | Mixture as usual | 2000 |
| Davenport-Hines, Richard | Vice: an anthology | Adultery to voyeurism via all the best practices & people | 1993 |
| Derbyshire, Jonathan | 1000 books to change your life | Possibly... from TimeOut team | 2007 |
| Dorling Kindersley | Visual encyclopedia | 640 pp of colourful pocket visuals & terminology for Christa | 1998 |
| DSA | Official DSA theory test for car drivers | Gotta learn this lot first | 2006 |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica CD 98 multimedia edition | Awesome 44,000,000 words etc on CDROM | 1997 |
| Eyre, Richard; Wright, N | Changing stages: British theatre in 20th C | WYSIWYG with copious exposition | 2000 |
| Farmer, Penelope | Virago book of twins and doubles | Curious autobiographical anthology/collection of pieces | 1996 |
| Friedman, AJ; Donley, CC | Einstein as myth and muse | Science meets literary criticism! | 1985 |
| Garrard, Garry | Book of Verse: biography of.. | .. the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Very detailed | 2007 |
| Gingrich, Arnold | Esquire Treasury | A 20-year compilation of jewellery | 1954 |
| Gooden, Philip | Mammoth book of literary anecdotes | 500 years' worth, no less | 2002 |
| Grasse, Stephen A | Evil Empire | Britain, seen through an ad-man's US eyes | 2007 |
| Guinness | Book of Superlatives (1st US ed) | Complete with dust jacket. May even be worth some money! | 1956 |
| Hadfield, John | Saturday Book #14 | Compelling & completely wonderful. Found in Poole | 1954 |
| Hadfield, John | Saturday Book #19 | Complete with battered dust jacket. Wonderful | 1959 |
| Harmon, Katharine | You are here: personal geographies | Maps of many imaginations. Great graphics | 2004 |
| Hartston, William; Dawson, J | Ultimate irrelevant encyclopedia | Words basically fail me! | 1984 |
| Healey, Deryck | Living with colour | OK | 1982 |
| Howard, Margaret | Pick of the Week | To mark 25th year of BBC radio programme | 1984 |
| Hoy, Michael | Loompanic's greatest hits | Catalogue of wondrous stuff; not always available in UK! | 1990 |
| Hughes, Charles C | Custom-Made: anthropology readings | Good selection of college pieces | 1976 |
| Jackson, A; Day, D | Complete DIY book | Useful if I ever do any | 1977 |
| Javna, John; Mingo, Jack | Whole Pop Catalog | Abbott & Costello to yo-yos via comics, hula-hoops & Sea Monkeys | 1992 |
| Jay, Ricky | Jay's Journal of Anomalies | Collected edition, beautifully weird | 2001 |
| Jay, Ricky | Learned pigs and fireproof women | Chap who's lethal with playing cards -- amazing | 1986 |
| Jay, Ricky; Purcell, RW | Dice: deception, fate & rotten luck | Photos of his crumbling collection + anecdotage aplenty | 2003 |
| Jones, Judy; Wilson, William | Incomplete education | Good idea; a simplified overview of modern knowledge | 1987 |
| Keiller, Patrick | Robinson in Space | Based on the film. Satirical/architectural journey thru Britain | 1999 |
| Kick, Russ | 50 (more) things you're not supposed.. | ..to know. Vol 2, in other words | 2004 |
| Kick, Russ | 50 things you're not supposed to know | Bite-sized chunks of rank hypocrisy | 2003 |
| Kick, Russ | Disinformation book of lists | Supposedly subversive facts | 2004 |
| Kick, Russ | Outposts: catalog of alternative info | Weird & captivating | 1995 |
| Lavery, Angus | Rubik's clock: a quick solution | Don't even know where this toy now is | 1988 |
| Lewis, Jeremy | Vintage Book of Office Life | Reg Mounce is on p165 of an interesting collection of extracts | 1992 |
| Llewellyn, Robert | Sold out! How I survived a year.. | .. of not shopping | 2008 |
| Marigny, Jean | Vampires: the world of the undead | Interesting of its kind | 1994 |
| McWhirter, N & R | Guinness book of records (11th ed) | Just in time for the Tokyo Olympics results | 1964 |
| Mensa Publications | Mensa Yearbook 1990/1991 | Several local IBMers feature in this! | 1990 |
| Meyer, Kathleen | How to shit in the woods | Had to buy on strength of its title alone! | 1989 |
| Milsted, David | Guinness dict. of regrettable quotes | I tried it but I didn't inhale | 1995 |
| Mitchell, James | Joy of Knowledge encyclopedia | Inspired idea -- the '2-page spreads' paradigm | 1976 |
| Moench, Doug | Big Book of Conspiracies | Comix approach | 1995 |
| Moench, Doug | Big Book of the Unexplained | Paranormal via comix | 1997 |
| Morris, Desmond | Naked Eye: travels in search of human... | ..species. Malta, Lanzarote, Brando, Kubrick... | 2000 |
| Morris, Desmond | Watching: encounters with humans &.. | ..other animals | 2006 |
| Mustienes, Carlos | 1000 extra/ordinary objects | Project from 'Colors' magazine turned into a Taschen brick | 2000 |
| National Maritime Museum | Adventures of Tintin at sea | No kidding! All things Hergé & nautical | 2004 |
| Nekuda, Stefan (Niki) | ... well, I never! (Cuttings) | Oddities galore | 1990 |
| Northcutt, Wendy | Darwin Awards: dumb humans | Removals from the gene pool: not all urban legends! | 2000 |
| O'Brien, Donough | Banana Skins: slips & screw-ups | Foreword by Jonathan Aitken :-) | 2006 |
| Pelling, Rowan (ed) | Decadent Handbook | Frankly rather silly on closer examination | 2006 |
| Pepperell, Don | Who says so? | Exercises in communications skills | 1988 |
| Peters, Tom | Tom Peters seminar: crazy times call... | .. for crazy organisations. Stuck on p182; don't tell anyone! | 1994 |
| Pierre, Jose | Investigating sex: surrealist discussions | Transcripts of 12 roundtable sessions from 1928 | 1990 |
| Pierson, Melissa Holbrook | Perfect vehicle | Zen & the art of motorcycling from the distaff side | 1997 |
| Pilkington, Mark | Strange Attractor: Journal Two | Odd all-sorts | 2005 |
| Polhemus, Ted | Body styles | Cousin Jayne knows this weird chap | 1988 |
| Polhemus, Ted | Social aspects of the human body | Scarification, dress, hair, make-up, gesture | 1978 |
| Portola Institute | Last Whole Earth Catalog | Wonderful grab bag of ideas & themes | 1971 |
| Portola Institute | Whole Earth Epilog | Almost the last word | 1974 |
| Prose, Francine | Lives of the Muses | Nine women & 'their' artists | 2002 |
| Radl, SL; Chetkovich, CA | ... and the pursuit of happiness | Turned out to have a great chapter on sex, oddly | 1978 |
| Raven, Simon | World of Simon Raven | Selected by Howard Watson from the Captain's non-fiction oeuvre | 2002 |
| Re/search | Re/search #08/#09: J G Ballard | Interviews, bibliography, excerpts... | 1984 |
| Re/search | Re/search #12: tattoos, piercing etc | Contemporary adornment & ritual; amazing photos | 1989 |
| Re/search | Re/search #16: bodily fluids | Excreta taboos & other bodily functions | 1994 |
| Rheingold, Howard | Millennium Whole Earth catalog | Overdue update, or cynical cash-in? | 1994 |
| Robbins, Trina | Eternally BAD | Goddesses with attitude | 2001 |
| Rosen, M; Widgery, D | Vintage Book of Dissent | Voices of resistance through the ages | 1991 |
| Russell, Leonard | Saturday Book #11 | From Tony Martin | 1951 |
| Russell, Leonard (ed) | Saturday Book #04 | Dates from October 1944 & post-war hopes | 1944 |
| Safont, Paul | Wide World: true adventures for men | Aah, memories! A favourite read of the early 1960s | 2004 |
| Schott, Ben | 2006 Schott's Almanac | pages 228/9 are exquisitely depressing | 2005 |
| Schott, Ben | Schott's original miscellany | Shoelace lengths & shipping forecast areas | 2002 |
| Schroder, Piffa | Cocks only | Columns from 'Shooting Gazette'; not my habitual reading | 2003 |
| Shapiro, Fred R | Stumpers! Answers to 100s of questions | from the Internet group. Where else? | 1998 |
| Sisman, Adam | Best of 'Fortean Times' | One year's weirdo output (for Peter) | 1991 |
| Sloane, Paul | Lateral thinking puzzles | Skimmed; useful | 1991 |
| Smith, VL; Sparks, Paul | Buygones | Things we could buy in the past, like Meccano | 1988 |
| Swezey, Stuart | Amok #5: fifth dispatch | Updated (fatter) sourcebook of extremes of information | 1999 |
| Swezey, Stuart; King, Brian | Amok #4: print lists | Incredible stuff | 1990 |
| Sykes, Simon & Tom | No such thing as a free ride? | Many hitch-hikers' many tales | 2005 |
| Turin, Luca; Sanchez, Tania | Perfumes: the guide | Extraordinarily fascinating | 2008 |
| Turla, P; Hawkins, KL | Time management made easy | Very nearly finished this now! | 1983 |
| Turner, Harry | Triad optical illusions | Good | 1978 |
| van Boxsel, Matthijs | Encyclopedia of Stupidity | Essentially unclassifiable | 1999 |
| Vankin, Jonathan et al | Big Book of Bad | Comix take on human inanity & insanity | 1998 |
| Various | Beggar's Benison of Anstruther | Can't believe I bought this in a WH Smith! | 1892 |
| Various | British greats | Remaindered omnibus of small essays | 2000 |
| Which? | Book of DIY | OK | 1981 |
| Whittaker, Nicholas | Blue Period | A life (7 years) in the titillation trade | 1997 |
| Winkworth, Stephen | Amazing Times! | Amusing articles, with dates, useful for CICS Chronicle | 1982 |
| Zacks, Richard | Underground Education | Addenda to what you thought you knew | 1998 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Acito, Marc | How I paid for college | Sex, theft, friendship & musicals | 2004 |
| Adair, Gilbert | Dreamers (was Holy Innocents) | Rewritten & filmed by Bertolucci | 2004 |
| Adams, Douglas | Salmon of Doubt | Unfinished 3rd Dirk Gently & fascinating musings | 2002 |
| Aldiss, Brian W | Brightfount Diaries | From his Oxford bookselling days | 1955 |
| Aldiss, Brian W | Hand-reared Boy | Portnoy for the UK, & none the worse for that | 1970 |
| Amis, Kingsley | Collected short stories | 16, incl 'Hemingway in space' | 1980 |
| Amis, Kingsley | Jake's thing | Unread bargain, but still on my list | 1978 |
| Andahazi, Federico | Anatomist | Supposed discoverer of the clitoris | 1998 |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | Fairy Tales | Bought for Christa | 2004 |
| Anonymous | Madge Buford | Unread, included in Roman Orgy | 1987 |
| Anonymous | Pearl (one volume) | 18 issues of voluptuous reading: Victorian erotica | 1879 |
| Anonymous | Yellow Room | Elaborate seduction, birch-assisted. Weird | 1891 |
| Anthony, Piers | Pornucopia | Rude in the extreme! And all extremities | 1989 |
| Apollinaire, Guillaume | Amorous exploits of a young rakehell | Precocious young Frenchman's summer | 1907 |
| Armitage, Dave | Born to be mild | Teenage angst to a 1970s soundtrack by a Daily Star writer | 2006 |
| Armitage, Simon | Little green man | Priceless childhood possession resurfaces | 2001 |
| Babbit, Natalie | Tuck Everlasting | - | 20?? |
| Baker, Nicholson | Box of matches, A | All human life is striving to be there | 2003 |
| Baker, Nicholson | Everlasting story of Nory | Inside a nine-year-old's head, it seems | 1998 |
| Baker, Nicholson | Fermata | Stopping time for sexual experiments | 1994 |
| Baker, Nicholson | Mezzanine | If genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains... | 1988 |
| Baker, Nicholson | Room temperature | The chap is, in some ways, far too much like me! | 1990 |
| Baker, Nicholson | Vox - telephone sex | Hard to sustain, but he does so brilliantly | 1992 |
| Baker, Tom | Boy who kicked pigs | Odd, very odd | 1999 |
| Ballard, JG | Kindness of women | Autobiography as fiction. Passing strange | 1991 |
| Barker, Clive | Essential Clive Barker | Self-selected fictions | 1999 |
| Barrowcliffe, Mark | Girlfriend 44 | Looked worth trying | 2000 |
| Bates, HE | Perfick, perfick! (Larkin omnibus) | Perfick... after distributing the eight ice-creams... | 1985 |
| Beck, M; Hafferkamp, J | Ecstatic moment: best of 'Libido' | Uncensored stories & poems. Bought from Private Case | 1997 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Comedy hotel | Impending fatherhood to a man with a vasectomy... | 1992 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Holiday | Posh hotel in Cannes; media tycoon, disparate couples | 1995 |
| Bellamy, Guy | I have a complaint to make | Fred Carton, surviving non-worker | 1979 |
| Bellamy, Guy | In the midday sun | Three fugitive brothers on the Costa del Crime | 1988 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Mystery of Men | Four-way insurance breaks several marriages & lives | 1996 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Nudists | Superbly-tangled Mediterranean plot | 1986 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Power of Women | Francis Wheen says Bellamy can't make a living with these novels! | 1997 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Secret lemonade drinker | Nothing like marriage for removing a man's carnal desires... | 1977 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Sinner's Congregation | Bank Holiday weekend & an ogre from the past | 1982 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Tax exile | Return of professional pauper Fred Carton | 1989 |
| Bellamy, Guy | Village called Sin | Lust, greed & secret vice in Compton Sinbury | 1991 |
| Bennett, Alan | Clothes they stood up in | The original was a Bennett audiotape | 1996 |
| Bennett, Alan | Father! Father! Burning bright | From London Review of Books | 1999 |
| Bennett, Alan | Laying on of hands | Congregation & revelations at a memorial service | 2001 |
| Bennett, Alan | Smut: two unseemly stories | His latest pair of stories | 2010 |
| Bennett, Alan | Talking Heads 2 | Six monologues | 1998 |
| Benson, Edward F | Freaks of Mayfair | Dry fictional sketches | 1916 |
| Benson, Edward F | Lucia Rising | Queen Lucia 1920; Miss Mapp 1922; Lucia in London 1927 | 1991 |
| Benson, Edward F | Lucia Victrix | Mapp & Lucia 1935; Lucia's progress 1935; Trouble for Lucia 1939 | 1991 |
| Berdoll, Linda | Mr Darcy takes a wife | Pride & Prejudice continued (again) | 2004 |
| Birkett, Jennifer | Body and the dream | French erotica, 1464-1900; including Pepys' favourite | 1983 |
| Blackman, Malorie | Checkmate | Unto the next generation | 2005 |
| Blackman, Malorie | Knife edge | Race & prejudice continues | 2004 |
| Blackman, Malorie | Noughts & Crosses | Life in a divided society | 2001 |
| Blakemore, Michael | Next season | Life in the theatre | 1969 |
| Blishen, Edward | Uncommon Entrance | Prep school teaching memories fictionalised | 1974 |
| Bold, Alan | Mounts of Venus: erotic prose | Plato to Erica Jong & various points in between. Good stuff | 1980 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril; Brown, C | Great Mortdecai moustache mystery | Completed by Brown after Bonfiglioli's death | 1999 |
| Borges, Jorge Luis | Collected Fictions | New translations by Andrew Hurley | 1998 |
| Boyce, John; Nin, Anais | Aphrodisiac: his art, her texts | Nice collaboration | 1976 |
| Boyd, William | Armadillo | Apparently a convoluted comedy thriller | 1998 |
| Boyd, William | Brazzaville Beach | Post-colonial African memories of female narrator | 1990 |
| Boyd, William | Ice-cream war | World War I in East Africa; excellent tale | 1982 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | All dressed up and nowhere to go | Revised from 1960 & 1962: class in a classless society | 1982 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Cuts | Life in mid-80s Tory Britain (shudder). Stalled on p49 | 1987 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Doctor Criminale | Archetypal man of early 1990s | 1992 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Eating people is wrong | English department head & new student fall for same post-grad | 1959 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | History Man | Trendy radical tutor Howard Kirk; made a great TV series | 1975 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Rates of exchange | Flavours & tensions of contemporary (1982) Eastern Europe | 1983 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Stepping Westward | Fellow of Creative Writing in USA. Cf. Changing Places | 1965 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | To the Hermitage | Novelist narrator & Diderot's journey to Russia 200 years ago | 2000 |
| Bradbury, Malcolm | Who do you think you are? | 7, plus 9 parodies | 1976 |
| Breslin, Susannah | You're a bad man, aren't you? | Tiny short stories; micro-published | 2003 |
| Bright, Susie (ed) | Three kinds of asking for it | Erotic novellas | 2005 |
| Bukowski, Charles; Crumb, R | Bring me your love | Interesting | 1983 |
| Bukowski, Charles; Crumb, R | There's no business | Interesting | 1984 |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | Master and Margarita | Surreal masterpiece, bought in Royston, Michael Glenny translated | 1938 |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | Master and Margarita | New translation (Richard Pevear) & fuller text | 1997 |
| Bulgakov, Mikhail | Master and Margarita | Trans by Burgin & O'Connor (1995) | 1966 |
| Bullivant, Alison | Little Book of Erotica | Small-format & wide-ranging textual selections | 1999 |
| Bussel, Rachel Kramer | Naughty spanking stories from A to Z | Just as bad as it sounds; like whipped cream | 2004 |
| Byatt, AS | Babel Tower | Heard her on NPR talking about this | 1996 |
| Byatt, AS | Biographer's Tale | Biography of impossible task: biography | 2000 |
| Byatt, AS | Possession: a romance | Very enjoyably filmed by Neil LaBute | 1990 |
| Calvino, Italo | If on a winter's night a traveller | Weaver's translation of self-referential reading; loopy! | 1979 |
| Canaway, WH | My feet upon a rock | Not read since the 60s in the Midlands | 1963 |
| Capote, Truman | Answered prayers | His unfinished novel of literary jet-set | 1986 |
| Capote, Truman | Complete stories | 20, dating from pre-1965 | 2004 |
| Capote, Truman | In cold blood | Killing of the Clutter family | 1966 |
| Capote, Truman | Music for Chameleons | Stories & journalism | 1980 |
| Caprio, Maria | Two weeks in May | Well-written; sexual servitude to clear husband's debts | 1993 |
| Carlson, Ron | Hotel Eden stories | Heard one on NPR. (the cauldron of oil report) | 1997 |
| Carr, JL | Day in summer | New introduction coincided with a TV film version | 1963 |
| Carr, JL | Harpole & Foxberrow General Publishers | Sort of follow-on. Wonderful stuff | 1992 |
| Carr, JL | How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers won FA Cup | Small-minded Middle England & its great game | 1975 |
| Carr, JL | Season in Sinji, A | Flying boat squadron in wartime West Africa | 1967 |
| Carr, JL | What Hetty did | Brutish home life in the Fens, much enlivened | 1988 |
| Carroll, Jock | Shy Photographer (aka Bottoms Up) | Olympia Press originally - a total hoot. Amazing | 1961 |
| Chalfoun, Michelle | Roustabout | Life in a modern American circus (cf. Dan Mannix) | 1996 |
| Chbosky, Stephen | Perks of being a wallflower | Juvenile angst with familial complications | 1999 |
| Chesterton, GK | Napoleon of Notting Hill | Kingdoms in a post-democratic London | 1904 |
| Christian, M | Burning Pen: sex writers on sex writing | Carol Queen, Pat(rick) Califia, Cecilia Tan & 11 more | 2001 |
| Cleland, John | Fanny Hill: illustrated | Abridged but unexpurgated (that's a neat trick!) | 1978 |
| Cohn, Rachel; Levithan, D | Nick & Norah's infinite playlist | After Hours meets Adventures in babysitting. Great | 2006 |
| Collier, John | Fancies and Goodnights | Grimly sardonic humour from the 1930s & 40s | 2003 |
| Cook, Claire | Must love dogs | Worked much better as a film | 2002 |
| Coote, John | Faber book of the sea | Nice selection of pieces | 1989 |
| Cousins-Mills, Jane | Bloomsbury guide to erotic literature | Good; 'generous eclecticism' according to Harriet Gilbert | 1993 |
| Crane, Milton | 50 great short stories | Hemingway, Parker, Pritchett, Forster... (Christa's book) | 1952 |
| Crispin, Edmund | Case of the Gilded Fly | His first tale of Gervase Fen | 1944 |
| Crumey, Andrew | Mobius Dick | Quantum mechanical mystery | 2004 |
| Dahl, Roald | Collected short stories of Roald Dahl | From 1946 to 1986, & includes 'The Surgeon' | 1991 |
| Daneman, Meredith | Chance to sit down | Stud in a ballet company & consequences | 1971 |
| Daneman, Meredith | Groundling | Teenage catalyst in an adult affair | 1982 |
| Darrich, Sybah | Love on a trampoline | Bought in Cambridge, a brief outing for Olympia Press offshoot | 1968 |
| Davies, Andrew | Very peculiar practice | Dr Stephen Daker & university life in the 80s | 1986 |
| Davies, Andrew | Very peculiar practice: new frontier | Daker is now head of the Medical Centre | 1988 |
| Davies, Vanessa | Women's Club | Female health club with male intimate massages on offer | 1995 |
| de Berg, Jean | Image & other stories of submission | 1992 translation, intro by Pauline Réage; see Juan Muntaner | 1956 |
| de Costa-Willis, et al | Black erotica / Erotique noire | Black writers & sensuality: 'Love juices & other squeezables' | 1992 |
| de Kretser, Michelle (ed) | Brief Encounters: stories of love, sex... | .. & travel. Includes a Carol Queen piece | 1998 |
| de Sade, Marquis | Justine | Printer asked that this be "well-spiced" | 1791 |
| Delacorte, Peter | Time on my hands | Time travel to prevent Ronald Reagan's presidency | 1997 |
| Delafield, EM | Diary of a Provincial Lady | Contains all 4 volumes from 1930 - 1940 | 1947 |
| Delany, Samuel R | Tides of lust | Underground classic | 1973 |
| Di Lampedusa, Guiseppe | Leopard | Supposedly a masterpiece | 1958 |
| Dibbell, Julian | My tiny life | Virtual crimes in a virtual world | 1998 |
| Dick, RA | Ghost and Mrs Muir | Gentle ghost story | 1947 |
| Diski, Jenny | Nothing natural | Sadomasochistic relationship seen from her viewpoint | 1986 |
| Diski, Jenny | Only human: a divine comedy | Featuring Abraham, Sarah and God | 2000 |
| Diski, Jenny | Rainforest | Solitude & sexual need | 1987 |
| Djerassi, Carl | Cantor's dilemma | By Dr 'Pill'; tale of Nobel-related guilt | 1989 |
| Doerr, Anthony | All the light we cannot see | Blind French girl and German boy in Occupied France | 2015 |
| Donoghue, Emma | Landing | Unorthodox long-distance relationship | 2008 |
| Doxiadis, Apostolos | Uncle Petros and Goldbach's conjecture | Mathematical obsession writ large | 1992 |
| Drummond, Bill; Manning, M | Bad wisdom | Anti-novel from half of KLF: fuckloads of vodka later... | 1996 |
| Dunant, Sarah | Transgressions | From BBC2 Late Show presenter, surprisingly. Wet stuff! | 1997 |
| Duncan, Glen | I, Lucifer | Bad guy's side of the story | 2002 |
| Eagleman, David | Sum: 40 tales from the afterlives | Intriguingly twisted fictions | 2009 |
| Earle, Steve | Doghouse roses | Stories by the songwriter | 2001 |
| Eco, Umberto | Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana | Rare-book dealer with strangely selective loss of memory | 2004 |
| Edwards-Jones, Imogen (ed) | In bed with | Female novelists cut loose | 2008 |
| Feder, Mike | New York son | Boy 'driving' a subway train story sticks | 1988 |
| Fell, Alison | Mistress of Lilliput | Overlooked wife's travails | 1999 |
| Fellowes, Julian | Snobs | Aristocrats & social climbers | 2004 |
| Ferguson, Patricia | Indefinite nights | Stories illuminating one nurse's life | 1987 |
| Ferris, Joshua | Then we came to the end | Recommended by Val Murr | 2007 |
| Finley, Karen | Aroused: a collection of erotic writing | As expected, not conventional erotica | 2001 |
| Foley, Mick | Tietam Brown | JD Salinger meets Dostoevsky, it seems | 2003 |
| Forster, EM | Room with a view | Well-filmed; Lucy Honeychurch & the Emersons | 1908 |
| Fowler, Karen Joy | Jane Austen Book Club | Sacramento Valley meets Jane | 2004 |
| Fowles, John | Mantissa | Supposed to be sexy. Unread | 1982 |
| Franzen, Jonathan | Corrections | Inside marriage, family & US culture | 2001 |
| Frayn, Michael | Spies | WW II espionage through children's eyes | 2002 |
| Frayn, Michael | Towards the end of the morning | The one with the appalling 'Reg Mounce' in it | 1967 |
| Frayn, Michael; Burke, D | Celia's secret: an investigation | Sean French recommended this curious prank tale | 2000 |
| Freeman, David | Hollywood Education | Skimmed | 1986 |
| French, Sean | Imaginary monkey | Not half bad | 1993 |
| French, Sean | Start from here | Insurance investigator social comedy | 2004 |
| Friday, Nancy | Forbidden flowers | Fantasies | 1975 |
| Friday, Nancy | My secret garden: women's sexual fantasies | Seminal (or is that seedy?) in several senses | 1973 |
| Fry, Stephen | Liar | Read but unremembered | 1991 |
| Fry, Stephen | Making history | Third novel, remaindered in WHS | 1996 |
| Gaiman, Neil | American Gods | Roadtrip, of sorts | 2001 |
| Gaiman, Neil | Fragile things | Some 27 stories | 2006 |
| Galsworthy, John | Forsyte Saga #1 | Man of Property 06; In Chancery 20; To Let 21 | 1978 |
| Galsworthy, John | Forsyte Saga #2 | White Monkey 24; Silver Spoon 26; Swan Song 28 | 1980 |
| Galsworthy, John | Forsyte Saga #3 | Maid in Waiting 31; Flowering wilderness 32; Over the River 33 | 1990 |
| Gardam, Jane | Old Filth | Life of a Malayan Raj orphan | 2004 |
| Gatiss, Mark | Vesuvius Club | Who is killing Edwardian vulcanologists? | 2004 |
| Giono, Jean | Man who planted trees | Great pity this is fiction | 1954 |
| Girodias, Maurice | Olympia Reader | Interesting, albeit heavyweight | 1965 |
| Golding, William | Darkness visible | Unread mystery story of a character from the Blitz | 1980 |
| Goodman, Roger B | World's best short short stories | 24, including 'Senor Payroll', 'Standard of living' | 1967 |
| Gordon, Mary | Spending | Money, sex & the world of art | 1998 |
| Graves, Robert | Shout, and other stories | 30 stories, dating from 1924 to 1962 | 1965 |
| Gray, Alasdair | Something leather | Curious, rambling style; interlinked shortish pieces | 1990 |
| Greene, Graham | Our man in Havana | Wormold & his vacuum cleaners | 1958 |
| Greene, Graham | Quiet American | Pyle (of the CIA) in 1950s Vietnam | 1955 |
| Greene, Graham | Twenty-one stories | Extraordinary range | 1954 |
| Guy, David | Autobiography of my body | Appetite versus intellect. Good stuff | 1991 |
| Haddon, Mark | Red House | Families and their domestic traumae | 2012 |
| Haddon, Mark | Spot of bother | Further, but middle-aged, angst | 2006 |
| Hadfield, John | Love on a Branch Line | He of those 'Saturday Books' of my youth; lovely on TV too | 1959 |
| Hamilton-Paterson, James | Cooking with Fernet Branca | Well-written Tuscan farce | 2004 |
| Hamilton-Paterson, James | Loving Monsters | Biographical fict/fact | 2001 |
| Hamilton-Paterson, James | Music: stories | We shall see | 1995 |
| Handler, Daniel | Adverbs | A bunch of different people & love | 2006 |
| Harrington, Donald | Nearly complete works of Donald Harrington | Kindle edition | 2012 |
| Harris, Frank | Bomb: classic novel of anarchist violence | New afterword, novel or confession? | 1909 |
| Harris, Martyn | Do it again | Going back, at age 39, is an unwise move | 1989 |
| Harris, Martyn | Mother-in-law joke | New-wave comedian in 80s Britain | 1992 |
| Harrison, Colin | Manhattan Nocturne | Pitched as 'Wall Street' meets 'Fatal Attraction' | 1996 |
| Harrison, Sarah | Cold feet | Free, fit, & just under 40. Stalled on p118 | 1989 |
| Harrison, Sarah | Foreign parts | Unread end of the trilogy | 1992 |
| Harrison, Sarah | Hot breath | 35, fit, solvent, ripe for it... | 1986 |
| Hawes, James | Speak for England | Re-invention of 50s England | 2005 |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch as catch can | Various collected writings | 2003 |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 | Desert Island book choice | 1961 |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 (in German) | Bought for Christa; Mutti read it first | 1971 |
| Heller, Joseph | Closing time | Catch 22 revisited; stalled, surprisingly | 1994 |
| Heller, Joseph | God knows | God owes David an apology, it seems | 1984 |
| Heller, Joseph | Good as Gold | Excellent, anti-Kissinger polemic | 1979 |
| Heller, Joseph | Picture this | Life, a usurer's manual? | 1988 |
| Heller, Joseph | Portrait of an artist, as an old man | Literally: how to top Catch-22? | 2000 |
| Heller, Joseph | Something happened | But not much in this book | 1974 |
| Heller, Ted | Funnymen | Sounds like Mr Saturday Night meets Sunshine Boys | 2002 |
| Heller, Ted | Slabrat | Joseph's son with a roman à clef in NY fashion mag world | 2000 |
| Hersey, John | Child Buyer | What's wrong with buying a child genius? | 1960 |
| Holland, Dominic | Only in America | Unknown's film script gets picked up by Hollywood | 2002 |
| Home, Stewart | 69 things to do with a dead princess | Juvenile Post-Modern? Anti-book? | 2002 |
| Home, Stewart | Tainted Love | London in the 1960s | 2005 |
| Homer & Associates | Bedside odyssey | Rare Girodias 'Travellers Companion' edition | 1962 |
| Hooper, Chloe | Child's book of True Crime | Admixture of adultery & unsolved murder | 2002 |
| Howard, Elizabeth Jane | Cazalet #1: The Light Years | 1937 here I come! | 1990 |
| Hughes, Richard | High Wind in Jamaica | Setting the scene for Lord of the Flies | 1929 |
| Huttning, Marcus | Linda's strange vacation | A week of sexuality to leave you weak | 1997 |
| Hutton, Mike | Vice captain | Soho in the 1950s | 2005 |
| Idle, Eric | Road to Mars | A post modem novel? | 1999 |
| Infante, G Cabrera | Infante's Inferno | A young journalist in Havana | 1979 |
| Inglis, Janet | Colour of sin | Unravelling a dead artist's affairs, literally | 1998 |
| Inglis, Janet | Daddy's girl | Outrageously large advance for this sexy first novel | 1994 |
| Inglis, Janet | Father of lies | Unread sequel, it seems | 1995 |
| Jacobson, Howard | No more Mr Nice Guy | Revisiting 50 years of sexual humiliation | 1998 |
| Jaivin, Linda | Eat me | Described as steamily erotic tales | 1995 |
| Jakubowski, Maxim | Confessions of a romantic pornographer | Variations on an S&M theme | 2004 |
| James, Clive | Remake | Too much name-dropping, probably too clever | 1987 |
| James, EL | Grey #1: Grey | Retold, but from Christian's POV (a la "Midnight Sun") | 2011 |
| James, EL | Shades #1: 50 Shades of Grey | Girl meets Boy, with a kinky twist (began as a Twilight fanfic) | 2011 |
| James, EL | Shades #2: 50 Shades Darker | Girl leaves Boy, but can't stay away | 2011 |
| James, EL | Shades #3: 50 Shades Freed | Girl and Boy settle down (after tribulations a-plenty) | 2011 |
| James, PD | Death comes to Pemberley | Posh Fanfic, but not actually very good! | 2011 |
| James, PD; Wood, Harriet H | Sightlines | New pieces in support of the RNIB Talking Books appeal | 2001 |
| Jansson, Tove | Summer Book | Adventure, humour & philosophy | 1972 |
| Jensen, Liz | Ark baby | Fertility crisis in UK in 2005 | 1998 |
| Jones, Richard Glyn | Naked graffiti (collection) | 20 stories, incl Califia, Vassi, Minot | 1996 |
| Joubert, Bernard | Nympho's revenge | Very silly | 2003 |
| Kästner, Erich | Going to the Dogs (aka Fabian) | I expect Christa would have read this | 1931 |
| Kaufman, Bel | Up the down staircase | Tribulations of a teacher at Calvin Coolidge High | 1964 |
| Keene, John | Pettibone's law | A version of Catch-22 for Vietnam, said the blurb | 1991 |
| Keillor, Garrison | Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 | Cod autobiography from NPR satirist/radio host | 2001 |
| Keillor, Garrison | We are still married | Essays, articles & gentle parodies | 1989 |
| Kesey, Ken | One flew over the cuckoo's nest | Brilliant, & well-filmed, & sad, & angry | 1962 |
| Kidd, Chip | Cheese Monkeys: novel in two semesters | Art school in the 1950s | 2001 |
| King, Florence | When sisterhood was in flower | Feminism begins in Boston, 1971, apparently | 1982 |
| Kolb, Ken | Couch Trip | Funny, though eventual film was much different | 1970 |
| Kolb, Ken | Getting straight | Dopily good tale of a campus Rabelais | 1967 |
| Kolm, Ron et al | Unbearables | Weird short pieces | 1995 |
| Kurzweil, Allen | Grand complication | Cabinet of 18th century curiosity | 2001 |
| Lahr, John | Hot to trot | Great | 1974 |
| Lanchester, John | Debt to pleasure | Art, appetite, jealousy & failure with Tarquin Winot | 1996 |
| Larkin, Philip | Trouble at Willow Gables | & other varied fictions | 2002 |
| Lawner, Lynne | I Modi: 16th century erotica | 16 pleasures: sonnets accompanying woodcuts of intercourse | 1984 |
| Lawrence, DH | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Rude but boring; Christa's copy, by the way! | 1928 |
| Lawson, Mark | Going out live | Talk-show host's job, life & secrets | 2001 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Very long way from anywhere else | Minor tale of tangled youngsters | 1976 |
| Lee, Harper | To kill a mockingbird | Magical mystery trip | 1960 |
| Levi, Primo | Wrench | Weaver again: in praise of homo faber | 1978 |
| Lewycka, Marina | Short history of tractors in Ukrainian | Families, wounds, old age | 2005 |
| Littell, Robert | October Circle | Bulgarian protests over Russia's Czech invasion | 1975 |
| Livings, Henry | Flying eggs and things | 11 Pennine short stories | 1986 |
| Llosa, Mario Vargas | Notebooks of Don Rigoberto | Set in modern day Lima | 1997 |
| Lloyd, Josie; Rees, Emlyn | Come together | City singles version of 'He said, she said' | 1999 |
| Lodge, David | Author, Author (Henry James) | Fictional biography, if that makes sense | 2004 |
| Lodge, David | British Museum is falling down | Ten parodies mixed into Rhythm Method blues | 1965 |
| Lodge, David | Changing places | Read in Guernsey; original replaced by Rummidge trilogy set | 1975 |
| Lodge, David | Deaf sentence | Early retirement and hearing loss and elderly parent | 2008 |
| Lodge, David | Ginger, you're barmy | Totally different take on 'Virgin Soldiers' territory | 1962 |
| Lodge, David | How far can you go? | Catholic dilemmas of Pill's social lubrication | 1980 |
| Lodge, David | Man of Parts (HG Wells) | Another more than somewhat imagined biography of a weird little chap | 2011 |
| Lodge, David | Man who wouldn't get up | Eight stories and a couple of essays | 2016 |
| Lodge, David | Nice work | Superb finale to Rummidge trilogy, & brilliant on TV | 1988 |
| Lodge, David | Out of the shelter | Post-war adolescence & a memorable finger-fuck scene! | 1985 |
| Lodge, David | Paradise news | Set in Hawaii; excellent | 1991 |
| Lodge, David | Picturegoers | Why did he dither about this re-issue? | 1960 |
| Lodge, David | Small world | Semi-sequel to 'Changing Places' - wonderful | 1984 |
| Lodge, David | Therapy | Wonderful: Tubby Passmore's knee pain & mid-life angst | 1995 |
| Lodge, David | Thinks... | AI 'media dong' & grieving novelist | 2001 |
| Longhi, Jon | Flashbacks and Premonitions | Punks, slackers, hippies & similar lost souls | 1998 |
| Lord, Graham | Time out of mind | I know I started this hard variant of Reggie Perrin... | 1986 |
| Love, Rosaleen | Evolution Annie and other stories | Title story resets balance with 'Evolution Man' | 1993 |
| Lowe, Tom | Spin | Postmodern Great Gatsby climbing in Californian politics | 1998 |
| MacBeth, George | Transformation | Sexual metamorphosis - his first novel | 1975 |
| Mackenzie, Compton | Rival Monster | Loch Ness Monster struck by flying saucer! | 1952 |
| Mackenzie, Compton | Thin Ice | High-rising repressed gay MP & straight friend from University | 1956 |
| Mackenzie, Compton | Water on the brain | Restoring a king to the Mendacian throne | 1933 |
| Madonna | Sex | Bought in Fort Lauderdale. What a load of tosh! | 1992 |
| Madsen, David | Memoirs of a gnostic dwarf | Now in some danger of becoming a cult book | 1995 |
| Maguire, Emily | Taming the Beast | Under age, after class, seduction | 2005 |
| Malamud, Bernard | Natural, The | Roy Hobbs, baseball player | 1952 |
| Mamet, David | Wilson: a consideration of the sources | Reassembling the past from downloaded memories | 2000 |
| Manhood, Herbert A | Selected stories | A nice teller of stories | 1947 |
| Markham, Beryl | Splendid Outcast | African stories, some semi-autobiographical, from between the wars | 1987 |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | Love in the time of cholera | Long-distance Caribbean love story | 1985 |
| Marquez, Gabriel Garcia | One hundred years of solitude | A new town in heart of South American jungle | 1967 |
| Martel, Yann | Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios | His debut set of stories | 1993 |
| Mason, Simon | Great English nude | Unread to date | 1990 |
| Maugham, W Somerset | Complete short stories | 91 that he selected to retain | 1951 |
| Maugham, W Somerset | Razor's edge | Shary Flenniken's favourite! Mum now has it | 1944 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Maybe the moon | Brilliant & sad; bought in Florida, 1st edition | 1992 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Night Listener | Perils of late night radio host & sort-of fostering | 2000 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #1: Tales of the city | Warm & wonderful episodes from the San Francisco Chronicle | 1978 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #2: More tales of the city | Mary Ann & her cult encounter | 1980 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #3: Further tales of the city | DeDe Halcyon Day's return, Brian's gay-bashing | 1982 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #4: Baby cakes | International mail-order brides, Mouse in London | 1984 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #5: Significant others | Parenthood & adventures in the woods | 1988 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #6: Sure of you | New York stardom or San Franciscan domesticity? | 1990 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #7: Michael Tolliver lives | Back to those Barbary Lane folk | 2007 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #8: Mary Ann in Autumn | Mary Ann's various crises | 2010 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales #9: Days of Anna Madrigal | Our favourite landlady's long-delayed road trip, at 92 | 2010 |
| McCarthy, Mary | Group | Contrived, funny, adult and erotic. Christa's copy | 1963 |
| McCauley, Stephen | Object of my affection | Surrogate unwed fatherhood of a gay man | 1987 |
| McEwan, Ian | Atonement | Childhood, love, war, class, England | 2001 |
| McEwan, Ian | Or shall we die? | Oratorio opposing nuclear weaponry | 1983 |
| Meades, Jonathan | Fowler family business | Warped map of death trade's quotidian strangeness? | 2002 |
| Mercurio, Jed | Bodies | Ex-doctor & TV medi-soap author novelises hospital life | 2002 |
| Merrit, Stephanie | Gaveston | Modern take on media & celebrity obsession by a < 30 year old | 2002 |
| Metalious, Grace | Peyton Place | Incredibly, now a Modern Classic! | 1956 |
| Miller, Isabel | Love of good women | Complexities of wartime gay relationships | 1986 |
| Mills, Magnus | Three to see the king | Rural comedy | 2001 |
| Mitchell, M; Leavitt, D | Pages passed from hand to hand | Hidden tradition of gay literature, 1748 to 1914 | 1997 |
| Moggach, Deborah | Porky | Appalling first-person viewpoint of incest | 1983 |
| Moody, Rick | Ice Storm | Suburban New England, 1973... | 1994 |
| Moody, Rick | Purple America | Crises of masculinity & modernity (it says here!) | 1997 |
| Moorcock, Michael | King of the City | 25-year cultural rumpus | 2000 |
| Mounce, DC | David's choice of erotica | Getting harder to make a living by hand, as it were | 1997 |
| Muntaner, Juan | Anne & the mirrors / Education in Charme | Published with De Berg's 'Image' | 1985 |
| Murnighan, Jack | Naughty bits: extracts from 'great books' | A Nerve editor scours libraries | 2001 |
| Murray, John (2) | Few short notes on tropical butterflies | aka Stories | 2003 |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita | Perverse, in some eyes | 1955 |
| Nichols, John | Sterile cuckoo (Pookie) | Wonderful & sad tale of a doomed college romance | 1965 |
| Nicholson, Geoff | Hunters and gatherers | Collectors & coincidences | 1991 |
| Nin, Anais | Artists and Models | Penguin 70th mini | 2005 |
| Nin, Anais | Delta of Venus | Rude in parts; supposed to be well-written at $1/page | 1969 |
| Nye, Robert | Tales I told my mother | 9 stories | 1969 |
| O'Neill, Joseph | This is the life | That rarity, a legal comedy | 1991 |
| Orton, Joe | Between us girls | Written in 1957, his first solo effort | 1998 |
| P., Melissa | One hundred strokes of the brush.. | ..before bed. Latest scandalous teenage memoir; Italian, this time | 2003 |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Choke | Fake choking gigs as a living | 2001 |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Fight Club | Didn't like film but still intrigued | 1996 |
| Parker, Derek | Anthology of erotic prose | Stirring stuff, much of it pretty venerable/venereal | 1981 |
| Parsons, Tony | Man and Boy | Looks interesting | 1999 |
| Peabody, R; Ebersole, L | Mondo Marilyn: fiction & poetry | Interesting blend, sexy in parts, weird in others | 1995 |
| Pitt-Kethley, Fiona | Literary companion to sex | Not received well by critics - who gives a toss?! | 1992 |
| Pitt-Kethley, Fiona | Misfortunes of Nigel | Bitter! | 1991 |
| Plater, Alan | Beiderbecke Connection (trilogy) | Whimsical exploits of Trevor & Jill (teachers/sleuths) | 1992 |
| Plater, Alan | Misterioso | Jazz-laden tale of tracking down a 'real' father | 1987 |
| Plater, Alan | Oliver's travels | Mild mayhem chasing after Aristotle: a crossword compiler | 1994 |
| Platt, Charles | Gas | Consequences of England under a cloud of aphrodisiac gas | 1970 |
| Plimmer, Martin | King of the Castle | Family life in the UK 90s? | 2002 |
| Plomer, William; Butts, A | Curious Relations | Private lives of Edwardian eccentrics | 1945 |
| Pond, Lily; Russo, Richard | Yellow silk: erotic arts and letters | Good in parts, as the saying goes | 1990 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #01: A Question of Upbringing | From school into the early 1920s | 1951 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #02: A Buyer's Market | Maybe this time I will finish the saga? | 1952 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #03: The Acceptance World | Unread | 1955 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #04: At Lady Molly's | Unread | 1957 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #05: Casanova's Chinese Restaurant | Unread | 1960 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #06: The Kindly Ones | Unread | 1962 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #07: The Valley of Bones | Unread | 1964 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #08: The Soldier's Art | Unread | 1966 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #09: The Military Philosophers | Unread | 1968 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #10: Books do furnish a room | Unread | 1971 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #11: Temporary Kings | Unread | 1973 |
| Powell, Anthony | Dance #12: Hearing secret harmonies | Unread | 1975 |
| Prager, Emily | Roger Fishbite | Perverse partial parody of Lolita | 1999 |
| Prager, Emily | Visit from the footbinder | Lincoln-Pruitt Anti-Rape Device et al; NatLamp alumna | 1982 |
| Preston, John | Flesh and the word #1 | Includes extra Exit to Eden episodes, Edmund White, Andros | 1992 |
| Preston, John | Flesh and the word #2 | More in a similar vein, plus women who write gay male porn | 1993 |
| Preston, John | Flesh and the word #3 | Preston died during compilation. Rice, Rutledge, good people | 1995 |
| Proulx, Annie | Close Range | Wyoming tales, including Brokeback Mountain | 1999 |
| Pym, Barbara | Crampton Hodnet | Her wartime North Oxford novel | 1985 |
| Queen, Carol | Leather Daddy & the Femme | Ms Queen kicks ass, as it were | 1998 |
| Ramsland, Katherine | Roquelaure Reader: companion to... | .. Anne Rice's erotica | 1996 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #01: Fielding Gray | Post-war public school, pre-University | 1967 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #02: Sound the retreat | Officer training in pre-independence India | 1971 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #03: The Sabre squadron | Jewish mathematician in 1952 Germany | 1966 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #04: The rich pay late | Publishing & political shenanigans | 1964 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #05: Friends in low places | Gambling, blackmail, merry sexual dances | 1965 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #06: The Judas boy | To be read | 1968 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #07: Places where they sing | To be read | 1970 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #08: Come like shadows | To be read | 1972 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #09: Bring forth the body | To be read | 1974 |
| Raven, Simon | Alms #10: The Survivors | To be read | 1976 |
| Raven, Simon | Egypt #05: Blood of my bone | Better late than never | 1989 |
| Raven, Simon | Feathers of Death | First novel, set in African & military | 1959 |
| Reage, Pauline | Story of O | Unbelievable. Current copy is hardback Olympia Press (42s!) | 1954 |
| Reage, Pauline | Story of O part 2 | More of the same, though I've never read it! | 1969 |
| Reynolds, Margaret | Penguin book of lesbian short stories | Dull; a century of polymorphous protagonists | 1993 |
| Rice, Anne | Beauty's punishment | She finds punishment can be its own reward | 1984 |
| Rice, Anne | Beauty's release | This is the 'happily ever after' bit | 1985 |
| Rice, Anne | Belinda | Children's book illustrator seduced by child | 1986 |
| Rice, Anne | Claiming of Sleeping Beauty | Not exactly woken with a kiss... | 1983 |
| Rice, Anne | Exit to Eden | Well-filmed, I thought. Mistress Lisa & Elliott | 1985 |
| Roberts, Yvonne | Every woman deserves an adventure | Marriage. Motherhood. Monogamy. Monotony? | 1994 |
| Rodi, Robert | What they did to Princess Paragon | Watch out for rabid fans | 1994 |
| Rosoff, Meg | How I live now | One perfect summer with English cousins? | 2004 |
| Rosoff, Meg | What I was | Strange first love | 2007 |
| Rosten, Leo | Captain Newman, M.D. | Unusual near-genius U.S. Army psychiatrist | 1961 |
| Roth, Philip | Dying animal | Youth & beauty disrupt elderly academic | 2001 |
| Roth, Philip | Human stain | Set against 1998's Presidential impeachment hearings | 2000 |
| Roth, Philip | Portnoy's complaint | Never eat the family liver! | 1969 |
| Rowson, Martin | Snatches | Ideas that would never find elbow room in his cartoons | 2006 |
| Rule, Jane | Desert of the heart | Wonderfully filmed, too, by Donna Deitch as 'Desert Hearts' | 1964 |
| Russo, Richard | Empire Falls | Whiting men invariably marry women who make their lives a misery | 2001 |
| Russo, Richard | Mohawk | Small town on wrong side of tracks | 1986 |
| Russo, Richard | Nobody's fool | Marvellous (as is the film) small-town upstate New York tale | 1993 |
| Russo, Richard | Risk Pool | Growing up in Mohawk, New York | 1986 |
| Russo, Richard | Straight man | Moving into David Lodge territory | 1997 |
| Ryman, Geoff | 253: journey of 253 lifetimes | Originally on the Web. Different! | 1996 |
| Salinger, JD | Catcher in the Rye | Sad & unsettling | 1951 |
| Salinger, JD | For Esme with love and squalor | Unread | 1953 |
| Salinger, JD | Franny and Zooey | Unread | 1961 |
| Salinger, JD | Raise high the roof beam, carpenters | Unread | 1963 |
| Salinger, JD | Seymour: an introduction | Unread | 1959 |
| Savan, Glenn | White palace | Max & Nora's oddball romance. Excellent; good film, too | 1987 |
| Scheiner, Clifford J | Essential guide to erotic literature 1 | Before 1920; includes work by Salten (author of 'Bambi'!) | 1996 |
| Scheiner, Clifford J | Essential guide to erotic literature 2 | After 1920; further excellently-introduced XXX-tracts | 1996 |
| Scott, GC | Passive voice | Bondage & electrical stimulation. Don't try this at home | 1994 |
| Sedaris, David | Barrel fever | Unread so far | 1994 |
| Sedaris, David | Naked | More comic essays as read on BBC | 1997 |
| Sedaris, David | Santaland Diaries | More comic monologues | 1999 |
| Self, Will; Rowson, Martin | Sweet smell of psychosis | Nasty media clique in London | 1996 |
| Sellers, Terence | Correct sadist | Peter hasn't found this yet! Seriously weird | 1983 |
| Sher, Antony | Indoor boy | Unread | 1991 |
| Sibylline et al | First Time | 10 illustrated tales, various artists | 2008 |
| Silverman, Gerry | Happy Divorce | Skimmed | 1990 |
| Sinclair, Iain | Lights out for the territory | London journeys on foot, sanely bad-tempered on power & money | 1997 |
| Sixsmith, Martin | Spin | UK party politics circa 2011 | 2004 |
| Smith, Dinitia | Illusionist | Shades of 'Boys don't cry' plot | 2000 |
| Smith, Thorne | Bishop's Jaegers | What a writer! | 1934 |
| Smith, Thorne | Night life of the Gods | Sublimely well-written | 1931 |
| Smith, Thorne | Stray Lamb | Wicked but delicious | 1939 |
| Smith, Thorne | Topper takes a trip | A hoot from start to finish | 1934 |
| Southern, T; Hoffenburg, M | Candy | Quite stirring in parts! | 1970 |
| Stahl, Jerry | I, Fatty | Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle speaks out | 2005 |
| Stein, Sol | Living room | Powerful, though I forget the details! | 1974 |
| Stein, Sol | Other people | Unread tale of a rape | 1979 |
| Stephenson, Neal | Big U | American campus satire | 1984 |
| Stern, Brooke | Suffering the consequences | A spanking tale | 2004 |
| Stoppard, Tom | Lord Malquist & Mr Moon | Really ought to read this! | 1966 |
| Swan, Susan | Wives of Bath | Would John Wayne still be John Wayne if he had a vagina? | 1993 |
| Swansea, C; Campbell, B | Love stories by new women | Including the astounding 'Ode to your cock' | 1978 |
| Tanizaki, Junichiro | Key, The | Sex, marriage, & middle age diaries | 1956 |
| Tavares, Frank | Man who built boxes, and other stories | Kindle edition; Amazon freebie | 2013 |
| Terry, Philip (ed) | Ovid metamorphosed | Modern reworkings of Ovid's themes | 2000 |
| Tesich, Steve | Karoo | Alcoholic, spiritually-debauched, hack script doctor | 1998 |
| Theobald, Stephanie | Biche | Twentysomething wannabes in Montmartre | 2000 |
| Thirlwell, Adam | Politics | Rather down & dirty, it seems | 2003 |
| Thomas, Sean | Cheek perforation dance | Courtroom dissection of a relationship | 2002 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #1 | Sieff, Wroblewski, Shunga, China Hamilton | 1992 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #2 | Malanga, Lau, Wroblewski, & Skin Two territory | 1993 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #3 | Cadelo, Grace, Malanga, China Hamilton, Saudek, | 1993 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #4 | Wroblewski, Dahmane | 1993 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #5 | Morey, Bingham, Malanga, Roff, Rojankowski, Watson | 1994 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #6 | Randall, Jones, Nix, Williams, Gehenne, Carlos Clarke | 1994 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #7 | Ballivet, Roff, von Bayros, von Gotha, Bellmer, Sieff | 1994 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #8 | Blum, Malanga, Ballivet | 1994 |
| Thompson, Julia | Journal of erotica #9 | De Koning, Posener, Morey, Dahmane, Wroblewski | 1995 |
| Thomson, Rupert | Book of Revelation | Definitively strange! | 1999 |
| Toksvig, Sandi | Whistling for the elephants | Worth trying, I suspect | 1999 |
| Tolkin, Michael | Player, The | Magnificent film; paranoia of Hollywood executives | 1988 |
| Torday, Paul | Salmon fishing in the Yemen | Turned into an enjoyable film, too | 2007 |
| Tropper, Jonathan | This is where I leave you | Siblings sitting shiva, gloriously dysfunctionally | 2010 |
| Truss, Lynne | Going loco: a comedy of terrors | Gothic fiction impinges too close to home | 1999 |
| Truss, Lynne | Tennyson's Gift | July 1864, Freshwater Bay (IoW); let the romp begin | 1996 |
| Truss, Lynne | With one lousy free packet of seed | Sex, violence, murder & psychoanalysis in the garden shed | 1994 |
| Twain, Mark | Diary of Adam & Eve, & other Adamic... | ..stories. Languished until 1931! | 1905 |
| Tyler, Anne | Accidental tourist | Brilliant & moving as a film | 1985 |
| Tyler, Anne | Earthly possessions | Ottakar's sampler | 1977 |
| Tyler, Anne | Searching for Caleb | From Carol | 1975 |
| Updike, John | Couples | Bought in Paris WH Smith & scoured for 'good bits' | 1968 |
| Updike, John | Rabbit run; Rabbit redux; Rabbit is rich | America from the inside | 1990 |
| Van Heller, Marcus | Lusts of the Borgias | John Stevenson was Olympia's most prolific pornographer | 1990 |
| Various | Going down: lip service from great... | .. writers. On the art of oral sex (includes Zappa!) | 1998 |
| Verguin, Paul | Liliane | A night-long furnace of fornication! Unread | 1987 |
| Vidal, Gore | Live from Golgotha | Elegant | 1992 |
| von Sacher Masoch, Leopold | Venus in Furs | An inversion of O's story, I guess | 1886 |
| Wakefield, Tom | Lot's wife | Mischief in an old people's home | 1989 |
| Wakefield, Tom | War paint | Brilliant and moving; sexy and funny | 1993 |
| Walshe, Robert | Wales' work | Documenting a publisher's life | 1985 |
| Watts, Nigel | We all live in a house called innocence | Gay wheelchair-bound pornographer meets 90s Lucky Jim | 1992 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Black mischief | Unread | 1932 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Brideshead revisited | Good | 1945 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Decline and Fall | His first novel | 1928 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Handful of dust | Ending with Dickens in eternal jungle | 1934 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Loved One | Skimmed after seeing the film | 1948 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold | Schizoid | 1957 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Scoop | Up to a point, Lord Copper | 1938 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Sword of Honour trilogy | Superb & insightful, funny & moving, farcical & tragic | 1984 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Vile bodies | Unread | 1930 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | Work suspended (and other stories) | Including Charles Ryder's schooldays & two Basil Seal stories | 1982 |
| Welsh, Louise | Cutting Room | Aftermath of a deceased collector of erotica, & worse? | 2002 |
| Wesker, Arnold | King's daughters | 12 erotic stories | 1998 |
| Wharton, Edith | Age of Innocence | Countess Olenska in rigid society of New York | 1920 |
| Wharton, Edith | Ethan Frome | Rural isolation of Starkfield | 1911 |
| Wharton, Edith | House of Mirth | Lily Bart's scandolous end in NY city nouveaux riche | 1905 |
| Wharton, Edith | Summer | She described it as her 'hot Ethan' | 1916 |
| Wharton, William | Midnight clear | High IQ World War II soldiers in the Ardennes at Xmas | 1982 |
| Wheeler, David (editor) | No, but I saw the movie | Short stories that became, in many cases, classic films | 1989 |
| Wilde, Oscar | Complete works (Collins centenary edition) | WYSIWYG except for Teleny, of course | 1999 |
| Wilde, Oscar et al | Teleny: the reverse of the medal | Hopefully authoritative edition | 1893 |
| Williams, Nigel | Fortysomething | Angst in the BBC world | 1999 |
| Williams, Nigel | Hatchett & Lycett | Mayhem at a girls school during WW II | 2002 |
| Willingham, Calder | Providence Island | One man, two women, shipwrecked & bonking for 550 pages | 1969 |
| Willingham, Calder | Rambling Rose | What a scorcher. Sad, funny, sexy, nostalgic | 1972 |
| Wings, Mary | She came too late | Lesbian heroine thriller | 1986 |
| Winslow, Don | Ironwood Reader: fragments of erotica | From Tony Martin | 1994 |
| Wolitzer, Meg | Position | Long shadows from sexual openness | 2005 |
| Yu, Li | Carnal prayer mat | Unread, oddly | 1657 |
| Zacharia, Don | Match trick | Hot in spots, weird all over | 1982 |
| Zappa, Moon Unit | America the beautiful | New Age valley girlish, but is it a giant piss-take? | 2000 |
| Zweig, Stefan | Beware of Pity | Emotional blackmail and its consequences | 1939 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Adams, Douglas | Dirk Gently's Holistic detective agency | Fantasy of the Electric Monk variety | 1987 |
| Adams, Douglas | Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Trilogy in four parts... | 1986 |
| Adams, Douglas | Long dark tea-time of the soul | A phrase re-used from 3rd Hitch Hiker story :-) | 1988 |
| Adams, Douglas | Mostly harmless | And fast running out of steam | 1992 |
| Anderson, Poul | Broken Sword | Not the 1971 rework! | 1954 |
| Anderson, Poul | Time patrol | Full set of Manse Everard stories | 1991 |
| Anthony, Piers | Battle circle #1: Sos the rope | As radiation fades, it's into the badlands | 1968 |
| Anthony, Piers | Battle circle #2: Var the stick | Sol has the mountain, Sos has the Empire... | 1973 |
| Anthony, Piers | Battle circle #3: Neq the sword | The war concludes | 1975 |
| Anthony, Piers | Firefly | Too scary to finish! Ecstatic terror | 1992 |
| Anthony, Piers | Macroscope | Brilliant! Ivo & the super duper pooper scooper | 1969 |
| Anthony, Piers | Nacre #1: Omnivore | The strange third kingdom of fungi | 1968 |
| Anthony, Piers | Nacre #2: Orn | Veg, Cal, & Aquilon press on | 1970 |
| Anthony, Piers | Nacre #3: Ox | Mantas, robot killers, & OX | 1976 |
| Anthony, Piers | Prostho plus | Dentistry to the stars! | 1971 |
| Asimov, Isaac | End of Eternity | My name is Andrew Harlan. My job is to monitor Time | 1955 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #01: In the Garden of Iden | Majoring on Elizabethan politics and botany | 1997 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #02: Sky Coyote | Forward to a primitive California | 2011 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #03: Mendoza in Hollywood | Mendoza meets Edward near Catalina island | 2011 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #04: The Graveyard Game | Joseph and Lewis plot through the centuries | 2001 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #05: The Life of the World to Come | Alec Checkerfield loops back way back to meet Mendoza | 2001 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #06: The Children of the Company | Victor's long fall from grace | 2001 |
| Baker, Kage | Company #07: The Machine's Child | Mendoza and all three incarnations in Alec's body | 2001 |
| Ballard, JG | Crash | Brutal 'minatory vision of sex-technology mystique' (Playboy) | 1973 |
| Banks, Iain M | Algebraist | Looked promising. When will I learn? | 2004 |
| Banks, Iain M | Look to Windward | Why is his wit 'mordant', pray tell? | 2000 |
| Baum, L Frank | Emerald City of Oz | From the midpoint | 1910 |
| Baum, L Frank | Glinda of Oz | Posthumous final episode | 1920 |
| Baum, L Frank | Wizard of Oz | Saga starts | 1900 |
| Bear, Greg | Darwin's radio | Junk genes start waking up | 1999 |
| Beresford, JD | Hampdenshire wonder | Early ubermensch tale; found in Tony Martin's shop | 1911 |
| Bester, Alfred | Demolished man | Ben Reich versus the peepers | 1953 |
| Bester, Alfred | Tiger! Tiger! (aka Stars my destination) | Gully Foyle, jaunting, & big time quest for vengeance | 1955 |
| Blish, James | City #1: They shall have stars | Saga begins, in the only unreadable story! | 1957 |
| Blish, James | City #2: Life for the stars | Chris deFord, Amalfi's first city manager | 1962 |
| Blish, James | City #3: Earthman come home | Amalfi; an unforgettable mayor of the flying Manhattan | 1955 |
| Blish, James | City #4: Triumph of Time | Back, as it were, to the Big Bang | 1958 |
| Blish, James | Quincunx of Time | Expanded version of 'Beep' | 1973 |
| Boyd, John | Girl with the jade green eyes | All she wanted was a spoonful of Uranium, with which to refuel | 1978 |
| Boyd, John | Pollinators of Eden | Complete with lesbian scene between human & plant | 1969 |
| Brewer, Gene | K-PAX | Oliver Sacks meets Starman | 1995 |
| Brewer, Gene | K-PAX II: on a beam of light | Dedicated to his wife's retirement fund! | 2001 |
| Brewer, Gene | K-PAX III: the worlds of prot | Living happily ever after? | 2002 |
| Bright, MD; Priest, C | Quantum and Woody: the director's cut | World's worst superhero team; comix format | 1997 |
| Brown, Fredric | Martians, go home | They came, saw, & just wouldn't leave | 1955 |
| Brown, Fredric | Mind Thing | Scary alien mind parasite | 1961 |
| Brown, Fredric | What mad universe? | Trapped in an SF pulp universe | 1949 |
| Brunner, John | Altar on Asconel | Rebuilding a fallen galactic empire | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Born under Mars | Mars: the hope of the Solar System? | 1967 |
| Brunner, John | Children of the Thunder | Variation on Midwich Cuckoos territory | 1988 |
| Brunner, John | Crucible of time | Alien multi-generation survival saga | 1982 |
| Brunner, John | Dramaturges of Yan | Remote aliens & human colonists | 1972 |
| Brunner, John | Enigma from Tantalus | Encountering non-human intelligence | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Interstellar Empire | Links 'Altar on Asconel' with two shorter pieces | 1976 |
| Brunner, John | Jagged Orbit | Day in the life of a crazy planet; shades of Terminator, too | 1969 |
| Brunner, John | Ladder in the sky | Magic, or super-science? | 1962 |
| Brunner, John | Long Result | Re-readable; breakaway space colonists | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Productions of time | Similar idea to Kuttner's Vintage Season | 1967 |
| Brunner, John | Quicksand | Never finished | 1969 |
| Brunner, John | Repairmen of Cyclops | Galactic good guys and bad guys | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Sheep look up | Pollution & its bleak consequences for USA | 1972 |
| Brunner, John | Shockwave rider | Inspired by Toffler's Future Shock - still relevant/prescient | 1975 |
| Brunner, John | Squares of the city | Based on an 1892 chess game | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Stand on Zanzibar | Best SF novel of last 30 years, bar none! | 1968 |
| Brunner, John | Stone that never came down | Nice idea for a drug | 1973 |
| Brunner, John | Super barbarians | Axemen given spaceship technology conquer Earth | 1962 |
| Brunner, John | Telepathist | Gerald Howson, curative telepath | 1965 |
| Brunner, John | Tides of time | FTL & multi-dimensional 'travel' tale | 1984 |
| Brunner, John | To conquer Chaos | Read, but unremembered | 1964 |
| Brunner, John | Total eclipse | 19 light years away, an extinct civilisation. Why? | 1975 |
| Brunner, John | Traveller in black | Three of his 'Chaos' tales | 1971 |
| Brunner, John | Web of everywhere | Teleportation in post-nuclear world | 1974 |
| Brunner, John | World swappers | Human worlds in power struggle | 1959 |
| Brunner, John | Wrong end of time | Fortress America, Russia the enemy, & dastardly alien plot | 1971 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Chalion #1: The Curse of Chalion | Magical alternate Spain (Kindle edition) | 2002 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Chalion #2: Paladin of Souls | Three years later (Kindle edition) | 2005 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Chalion #3: The Hallowed Hunt | And a prequel (Kindle edition) | 2006 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #01: Shards of Honour | Cordelia Naismith's adventures start | 1986 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #02: Barrayar | Life with the Butcher of Komarr | 1991 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #03: the warrior's apprentice | Miles is 17; Free Dendarii Mercenaries formed | 1986 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #04: Vor game | Miles is 20; rescuing Emperor Gregor | 1990 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #05: Cetaganda | Miles is 22; at a state funeral | 1996 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #06: Ethan of Athos | All-male diversions with Elli Quinn | 1986 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #07: Brothers in Arms | Miles is 24: liberating POWs from Cetaganda | 1989 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #08: Borders of Infinity | Miles is 25: plots & rescues aplenty | 1989 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #09: Mirror Dance | Miles is 28; & Mark is in pieces | 1994 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #10: Memory | Miles is 29; and dead! | 1996 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #11: Komarr | Miles is 30; investigating orbital sabotage | 1998 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #12: a Civil Campaign | Miles is 30: Gregor's nuptials & those butterbugs | 2000 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #12: a Civil Campaign | Miles is 30: Gregor's nuptials & those butterbugs (Kindle edition) | 2000 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #12a: Winterfair Gifts | Novella in the "Miles in Love" omnibus edition | 2006 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #13: Diplomatic immunity | Miles is 32; duties interrupting his honeymoon | 2002 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #14: Captain Vorpatril's alliance | Ivan is 35; outbreak of moles in/under ImpSec HQ | 2012 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #14: Captain Vorpatril's alliance | Ivan is 35; outbreak of moles in/under ImpSec HQ (Kindle edition) | 2012 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #14: Cryoburn | Miles is 39; investigating cryonics (disappointing, frankly) | 2010 |
| Bujold, Lois McMaster | Vor #15: Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen | Concentrating on Cordelia, for a welcome change. Excellent | 2015 |
| Burdick, E; Wheeler, H | Fail-safe | Gripping, sweaty & all-too-believable | 1963 |
| Burgess, Anthony | Clockwork Orange | Film is better: 'I was cured alright' | 1962 |
| Chadwick, Philip G | Death Guard | Lost on first publication -- enhanced life warriors | 1939 |
| Christopher, John | Death of Grass | I wanted to re-read this! Good new intro, too | 1956 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | 2001: a space odyssey | Based on the screenplay, & SFSS 'The Sentinel' | 1968 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | 2010: odyssey two | Bringing 'Discovery' back from Jupiter orbit | 1982 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | 2061: odyssey three | Unread, despite Clive Sinclair's glowing review in NS | 1987 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | 3001: the final odyssey | Poole is retrieved, revived & enhanced | 1997 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Childhood's End | Man's last generation before absorption into Overmind | 1954 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Fall of Moondust | Can Dust-cruiser 'Selene' be rescued? | 1961 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Fountains of Paradise | Cable elevator into low orbit | 1979 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Rendezvous with Rama | 2077, and an artificial asteroid shows up | 1973 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Songs of distant Earth | Reworked from an early tale | 1986 |
| Clarke, Arthur C; Lee, G | Rama II | Sequel; unread | 1989 |
| Clement, Hal | Needle | Alien intruders in a very literal sense. Classic | 1949 |
| Clifton, Mark | Eight keys to Eden | Why has Eden colony, 11 light years away, ceased to respond? | 1960 |
| Connolly, John | Book of lost things | Old fairy tales re-interpreted | 2006 |
| Cooper, Edmund | All Fool's Day | Sun spots & suicides | 1966 |
| Cooper, Edmund | Transit | Shades of Fredric Brown's Arena, but with two couples | 1964 |
| Crossley-Holland, Kevin | Seeing Stone | Respinning the Arthurian legend(s) | 2000 |
| Cullen, Seamus | Astra and Flondrix | King Barlocks schtups an Elven princess, & chaos ensues | 1976 |
| de Camp, L Sprague | Lest darkness fall | 20th Century man in 6th Century Italy | 1939 |
| de Camp, L Sprague; Pratt, F | Castle of Iron | Harold Shea & the mathematics of magic; bought in Guernsey | 1941 |
| de Camp, L Sprague; Pratt, F | Incompleat Enchanter | More of Harold Shea's misadventures in Time | 1941 |
| Dewdney, AK | Planiverse | New take on Flatland | 1983 |
| Dick, Philip K | Flow my tears, the policeman said | Chandler meets Wagner, says 'New Scientist' reviewer | 1974 |
| Dick, Philip K | Man in the high castle | If the Nazis had won | 1962 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | Dorsai! | Revised version of Genetic General | 1960 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | Genetic general | Original, shorter, version of Dorsai! | 1960 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | No room for man (aka Necromancer) | Early in Childe Harold sequence; fighting benevolent machines | 1962 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | None but man | Cully When versus the Moldaug on border colonies | 1969 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | Soldier, ask not | Dorsai; Tam Olyn's quest for vengeance | 1967 |
| Dickson, Gordon R | Tactics of mistake | Early in the Dorsai cycle; Cletus Grahame | 1970 |
| Ellison, Harlan | City on the edge of forever | Script for Star Trek episode as a 'fotonovel' | 1977 |
| Ellison, Harlan; Bryant, Ed | Phoenix without ashes | Story of what (briefly) became a TV-mangled SF series | 1975 |
| Fforde, Jasper | Lost in a good book | Literary, multiverse-based po-mo-comedy | 2002 |
| Finney, Charles G | Circus of Dr Lao | Made a good film | 1935 |
| Finney, Charles G | Magician out of Manchuria | Published with 'Unholy City' | 1968 |
| Finney, Charles G | Unholy city | Similar, I suspect, to the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1937 |
| Flint, Eric | 1632 | 17th Century Germany, meet 20th Century US military | 2000 |
| Foster, MA | Book of the Ler | Collects three novels | 1985 |
| Gaiman, Neil | Neverwhere | Well-made on TV (London's real underground) | 1996 |
| Gaiman, Neil | Ocean at the end of the lane | Dark forces better left undisturbed | 2013 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Riddell, Chris | Neverwhere (author's preferred text) | 20 years after 1st edition, lovely illustrations | 2016 |
| Galouye, Daniel F | Dark universe | Blind as bats? Post nuclear war underground survivors | 1961 |
| Garner, Alan | Boneland | Finally, the last of the Weirdstone books | 2012 |
| Garner, Alan | Elidor | Scary stuff | 1965 |
| Garner, Alan | Moon of Gomrath | Alderly Edge author strikes gold again | 1963 |
| Garner, Alan | Owl service | Amazing version of Mabinogion myths | 1967 |
| Garner, Alan | Red shift | Amazing time & perspective shifts | 1973 |
| Garner, Alan | Weirdstone of Brisingamen | Masterful first novel from my (then) local author | 1960 |
| George, Peter | Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to... | .. stop worrying & love the Bomb. Unique & chilling sting | 1963 |
| Gibbon, Lewis Grassic | Gay Hunter | Post-holocaust, yet written in 1934 | 1934 |
| Gibson, William | Count Zero | Bioengineering Cowboys & Indians | 1986 |
| Gibson, William | Mona Lisa Overdrive | 3rd of the cyberspatial Cowboys & Indians | 1988 |
| Gibson, William | Neuromancer | Software Cowboys & Indians | 1984 |
| Gibson, William | Virtual Light | Black skip-tracer working in virtual reality | 1993 |
| Gibson, William; Sterling, B | Difference engine | Steam-driven Babbage Analytical Engines; parallel history | 1990 |
| Gilden, Mel | Hawaiian UFO aliens | The 'tec from T'toom is on another case | 1989 |
| Gilden, Mel | Surfing Samurai robots | Zoot Marlowe; four-foot alien & Private Eye | 1988 |
| Glynn, Alan | Limitless (aka The Dark Fields) | Somewhat akin to 'Flowers for Algernon' | 2001 |
| Golding, William | Lord of the flies | This is Christa's copy; I bought mine a year earlier! | 1954 |
| Goldman, William | Princess Bride | Wacky, & made a wonderful film too | 1973 |
| Gotlieb, Phyllis | Sunburst | On a par with Shiras' In Hiding / Beresford Hampdenshire Wonder | 1964 |
| Grant, Rob; Naylor, Doug | Better than Life | Red Dwarf | 1990 |
| Grant, Rob; Naylor, Doug | Red Dwarf | Funny | 1989 |
| Green, Joseph L | Gold the man | Enhanced human planted into an alien giant's brain | 1971 |
| Greenland, Colin | Take back plenty | Stalled on p108 | 1990 |
| Grimwood, Jon Courtenay | redRobe | Vatican billions lost in space... | 2000 |
| Grinnell, David | Edge of time | Miniature universe in a bottle | 1958 |
| Grossman, Lev | Magician King | Kindle edition. #2 in the sequence. Excellent | 2011 |
| Grossman, Lev | Magician's Land | Kindle edition. #3 of the trilogy. Excellent | 2014 |
| Grossman, Lev | Magicians | Kindle edition. #1 in the sequence. Excellent | 2011 |
| Gunn, JE; Williamson, J | Star bridge | Filched from Italy; an immortal 'parrot' tickles me | 1955 |
| Haldeman, Joe | Forever war | Vietnam set in near future & its Relativistic consequences | 1974 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Dawn #1: Reality Dysfunction | It's AD 2600 & a galaxy full of human problems | 1996 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Dawn #2: Neutronium Alchemist | 2nd lump, with horror as countless souls start to return | 1997 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Dawn #3: Naked God | See how it all wraps up | 1999 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Mandel #1: Mindstar rising | Now I can start | 1993 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Mandel #2: Quantum murder | Unread | 1994 |
| Hamilton, Peter F | Mandel #3: Nano Flower | Unread | 1995 |
| Harness, Charles L | Lurid dreams | Astral travel harnessed to history changing | 1990 |
| Harness, Charles L | Paradox men | Alar of Society of Thieves in America Imperial | 1953 |
| Harness, Charles L | Ring of Ritornel | Completely forgotten! | 1968 |
| Harris, Charlaine | TB#1: Dead until dark | True Blood series #1 basically | 2004 |
| Harris, Charlaine | TB#2: Living dead in Dallas | Saved by the vamps | 2002 |
| Harris, Charlaine | TB#3: Club Dead | Bill in Mississippi | 2003 |
| Harris, Charlaine | TB#4: Dead as a doornail | Jason as a were-panther | 2005 |
| Harris, Charlaine | TB#5: All together dead | Vampire summit | 2007 |
| Harris, Charlaine | TB#6: From Dead to worse | Enter the fairies | 2008 |
| Harrison, Harry | Bill, the Galactic hero | Wonderfully circular, but very twisted | 1965 |
| Harrison, Harry | Deathworld | Planet Pyrrus even showed up in comix form in 1960s | 1960 |
| Harrison, Harry | Deathworld 2 (aka Ethical Engineer) | Jason dinAlt dragged back to Cassylia for trial | 1964 |
| Harrison, Harry | Deathworld 3 | Weakest outing for Mr dinAlt. Bought in Majorca | 1968 |
| Harrison, Harry | Make room! Make room! (aka Soylent Green) | Filmed well with Edward G Robinson & Charlton Heston | 1966 |
| Harrison, Harry | Rebel in time | Unread time travel yarn | 1983 |
| Harrison, Harry | Stainless steel rat | One of Peter's earliest reads | 1961 |
| Harrison, Harry | Stainless steel rat's revenge | Peter likes these | 1970 |
| Harrison, Harry; Burns, Jim | Planet story | OK | 197? |
| Harrison, Harry; Minsky, M | Turing option | Earth's first machine intelligence | 1992 |
| Harrison, M John | Light | Returning to his genre | 2002 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Between planets | Earth, Mars, Venus & politics | 1951 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Beyond this horizon | Hamilton Felix, he of superior genes | 1948 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Citizen of the galaxy | Lot 97, a boy. Slavery in the galaxy | 1957 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Day after tomorrow | Early Cold War influences show | 1949 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Door into summer | Cats & dubious time-warped relationship with little girl! | 1956 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Double star | Film 'Dave' is very similar plot | 1956 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Farmer in the sky | Farming on Ganymede, moon of Jupiter | 1950 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Farnham's Freehold | Unusual & engrossing: Time, Race & ideologies | 1964 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | For us, the living | His 1938 novel, for completeists (such as me) | 2004 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Glory Road | Excellent; very under-rated | 1963 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Have space suit - will travel | Winning 2nd prize in a soap flake competition... | 1958 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | I will fear no evil | Overblown sex-change saga | 1970 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Methuselah's children | More of 'Libby' (Misfit) + first appearance of Lazarus Long | 1958 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Moon is a harsh mistress | Poor old Mike, the sentient 'Dinkum Thinkum' | 1966 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Orphans of the sky | Two-heads, & the journey to perpetual 'Good Eating' | 1963 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Podkayne of Mars | Robustly non-PC views well explored | 1963 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Puppet masters | Controlled by slug-like parasites | 1951 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Red planet | Willis the Martian bouncer; see 'Stranger in a strange land' | 1949 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Rocketship Galileo | Very early juvenile | 1947 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Space cadet | Trainees of the Interplanetary Patrol | 1948 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Space family Stone | The rolling Stones on their trip to the Asteroids | 1952 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Star beast | Is Lummox the pet or the owner? Bought in Oxford | 1954 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Starman Jones | Superb rite of passage saga | 1954 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Starship troopers | Verhoeven's film had better be good! (Hugo 1959) | 1959 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Stranger in a strange land (uncut) | Cool when fully grokked: 70,000 more words | 1961 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Time enough for love | The long long Lazarus Long book | 1973 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Time for the stars | Very nearly his best. Telepathic twins; one stays on Earth | 1956 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | To sail beyond the sunset | Lives & loves of Maureen Johnson | 1987 |
| Heinlein, Robert A | Tunnel in the sky | Another rite of passage as a planetary survival test goes awry | 1955 |
| Heinlein, Robert A; Robinson | Variable star | A 1955 outline now completed | 2006 |
| Helprin, Mark | New York Winter's Tale | Kindle edition. Long fantasy novel | 1983 |
| Herbert, Frank | Children of Dune | Last one worth bothering with, sadly | 1976 |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune | Illustrated hardback to mark my SciFi channel DVD version | 1965 |
| Herbert, Frank | Dune messiah | The difficult sequel, but not too bad | 1969 |
| Hogan, James P | Genesis machine | Big Science & future politics/warfare | 1978 |
| Hogan, James P | Gentle giants of Ganymede | Sequel to 'Inherit the stars' | 1978 |
| Hogan, James P | Giants' star | Unread 2nd sequel | 1981 |
| Hogan, James P | Inherit the stars | A 50,000 year-old corpse on the Moon, but wearing a spacesuit | 1977 |
| Hogan, James P | Voyage from yesteryear | Post-war Earth colonists seek to reassert supremacy | 1982 |
| Holt, Tom | You don't have to be evil to work here.. | ..but it helps. Going to work is hell | 2006 |
| Houghton, Gordon | Apprentice | Hades is dead, we need a replacement | 1999 |
| Household, Geoffrey | Arrows of desire | Euro-African federation 700 years in future | 1985 |
| Hoyle, Fred | Black Cloud | Basically intelligent life from space; still his hobby horse | 1957 |
| Hoyle, Fred | October the first is too late | Time fractures | 1966 |
| Hoyle, Fred; Elliot, John | A for Andromeda | A long lost favourite! | 1962 |
| Hughart, Barry | Bridge of birds | Promising, almost modern Kai Lung; but (type)set in Cheltenham! | 1984 |
| Hughart, Barry | Eight skilled gentlemen | Unread follow-up | 1991 |
| Hughes, Ted | Iron Man | It even inspired 'Black Sabbath'! | 1968 |
| Hughes, Ted | Iron Woman | About time too! | 1993 |
| Huxley, Aldous | Brave new world | Not sure I ever finished this, praise the Ford! | 1932 |
| James, John | Men went to Cattraeth | Story of the battle of Catterick | 1969 |
| James, John | Not for all the gold in Ireland | Photinus, older, is wandering into Celtic mythology | 1968 |
| James, John | Votan | Merchant Photinus the Greek manages to kick-start Norse mythology | 1966 |
| Jones, DF | Colossus | Very scary stuff, with no apparent way out | 1966 |
| Jones, DF | Xeno | Too scary to finish | 1979 |
| Juster, Norton | Annotated 'Phantom tollbooth' | Leonard Marcus brings new insights | 1961 |
| Juster, Norton | Phantom tollbooth | Schoolwork made more palatable | 1961 |
| Kapp, Colin | Patterns of Chaos | Weaponry despatched from many light years away | 1970 |
| Kelman, Nic | How to pass as human | A guide to assimilation for future androids | 2014 |
| Kessel, John | Corrupting Dr Nice | Time travel screwball comedy | 1997 |
| Knight, Damon | Rithian terror | Unread | 1965 |
| Kornbluth, Cyril M | Syndic | Unread tale of a future Mob-happy USA | 1953 |
| Kube-McDowell, M | Alternities | Alternates worlds; gateways guarded by USA's leader | 1988 |
| Kuttner, Henry | Mutant | Telepaths -- Baldies -- in post-war society | 1953 |
| Langford, David | Leaky Establishment | Atomic farce a la Grimbledon Down | 1984 |
| Lanier, Sterling E | Hiero's journey | Surprisingly good post-Apocalyptic journey/quest | 1973 |
| Lanier, Sterling E | Unforsaken Hiero | Disappointing sequel | 1983 |
| Laumer, Keith | Retief and the warlords | Usual double-dealing & espionage | 1968 |
| Laumer, Keith | Retief's ransom | Outwitting Groaci on Lumbaga | 1971 |
| Laumer, Keith | Trace of memory | Lost memories, that go back for centuries, Stonehenge & UFOs | 1963 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Dispossessed | Individualism & Collectivism meet on a strange planet | 1974 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Farthest shore | Earthsea trilogy's original finalé | 1973 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Left hand of darkness | Mutable sexes on Winter, & their society | 1969 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Other Wind | Earthsea with Ged as an old man, Tehanu a dragon | 2001 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Tehanu | Last Earthsea volume; unread | 1990 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Tombs of Atuan | Tenar, High Priestess, saves Ged (Sparrowhawk) | 1971 |
| Le Guin, Ursula K | Wizard of Earthsea | Young Sparrowhawk (Ged) shows off, disastrously | 1968 |
| Lee, Elaine | Skin tight orbit | Nice to ponder these sexy comix ladies | 1995 |
| Lee, Tanith | Thirty Four | Pursuit of a demon lover across a dreamscape | 2004 |
| Lessing, Doris | Mara and Dann | Trek across Africa (Ifrik) in future Ice Age | 1999 |
| Levinson, Paul | Plot to save Socrates | Time-travelling for a good reason | 2006 |
| Levinson, Paul | Unburning Alexandria | Return of the do-good Time-traveller, Sierra Waters | 2013 |
| Lewis, Roy | Evolution Man | Spare for a gift | 1960 |
| Lewis, Roy | Evolution Man | Spare for a gift | 1960 |
| Lewis, Roy | Once upon an ice age (aka Evolution man) | Sent to Shary Flenniken. ('Evolution Man' was Aldiss' title) | 1960 |
| Lewis, Roy | What we did to Father (aka Evolution Man) | One of a kind, Ernest the Ape-man's painful evolution | 1960 |
| MacAvoy, RA | Tea with the black dragon | Martha & her ex-Imperial Chinese dragon friend | 1983 |
| MacAvoy, RA | Third Eagle | Unread; warriors among the stars... | 1989 |
| MacAvoy, RA | Twisting the rope | Unread sequel to 'Tea' | 1986 |
| MacLeod, Ken | Cassini Division | Mid-next-millennial crises in the Solar System | 1998 |
| Magrs, Paul | To the devil - a diva! | Still on the bedside stack | 2004 |
| Mahy, Margaret | Changeover | Marvellous modern teenage folk-tale of possession | 1984 |
| Maine, Charles Eric | Darkest of nights | Virus & its deadly effects on society. Excellent/timeless/scary | 1962 |
| Mantley, John | 27th Day | Read in Harpenden, liberated from a hotel in Windsor years later! | 1956 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #01: A Game of Thrones | And so it begins | 1996 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #02: A Clash of Kings | Rather a turgid style | 1998 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #03a: A Storm of Swords | Unread so far | 2000 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #03b: Blood and Gold | Unread so far | 2000 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #04: A Feast for Crows | Unread so far | 2005 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #05a: Dreams and Dust | Unread so far | 2011 |
| Martin, George RR | I&F #05b: After the Feast | Unread so far | 2011 |
| Matheson, Richard | I am Legend | Terrifying as film 'Omega Man'; peak of paranoid SF | 1954 |
| Matheson, Richard | What dreams may come | 20+ years to film this | 1978 |
| May, Julian | Exiles #1: Many-coloured land | Post-Intervention, saga of temporal/psychic misfits begins | 1981 |
| May, Julian | Exiles #2: Golden Torc | Tanu versus Firvulag | 1981 |
| May, Julian | Exiles #3: Non born king | Aiken Drum temporarily triumphant | 1983 |
| May, Julian | Exiles #4: Adversary | Marc Remillard steps into fray, before departing for Duat! | 1984 |
| May, Julian | Milieu #0: Intervention | Uncle Rogi meets his family ghost (Marc, 6 million years on!) | 1987 |
| May, Julian | Milieu #1: Jack the Bodiless | Jack's remarkable early years & Fury's appearance | 1992 |
| May, Julian | Milieu #2: Diamond Mask | Jack & Dorothea; Denis unmasked as Fury | 1994 |
| May, Julian | Milieu #3: Magnificat | Undoing of Marc's 'Mental Man' & long loop back to Exiles #1 | 1996 |
| May, Julian | Rampart #1: Perseus Spur | Rather disappointing | 1998 |
| May, Julian | Rampart #2: Orion Arm | Next! | 1999 |
| May, Julian | Rampart #3: Sagittarius whorl | Conclusion | 2001 |
| McDevitt, Jack | Polaris | A far-future Marie Celeste mystery | 2004 |
| McDevitt, Jack | Seeker | A lost-colony, what happened? tale | 2005 |
| McDevitt, Jack | Talent for war | Tracking an ancient interstellar hero | 1989 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | Host | After the alien mind parasites won | 2008 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#1: Life and Death (Twilight reimagined) | Beau meets Edythe in a gender-swapped variation | 2015 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#1: Twilight | Bella meets Edward | 2005 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#2: New Moon | Bella loses Edward, gains Jacob | 2006 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#3: Eclipse | Bella contends with Victoria | 2007 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#4: Breaking Dawn | Bella's baby | 2008 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#5: Short second life of Bree Tanner | One of Victoria's coven | 2010 |
| Meyer, Stephenie | T#6: Saga: official illustrated guide | Soup to Nuts | 2008 |
| Millar, Martin | Good Fairies of New York | Highly praised by Neil Gaiman | 1992 |
| Miller, Walter M | Canticle for Leibowitz | Moving cyclic saga | 1959 |
| Nicholson, William | Wind #1: Wind singer | What evil grips walled city of Aramanth? | 2000 |
| Nicholson, William | Wind #2: Slaves of the Mastery | Kestrel's search for her brother Bowman | 2001 |
| Nicholson, William | Wind #3: Firesong | Now to seek their Homeland | 2002 |
| Niven, Larry | Gift from Earth | Mount LookItThat's population stability problems | 1968 |
| Niven, Larry | Integral trees | Lost starship colonists in a crazy Niven environment | 1983 |
| Niven, Larry | Magic goes away (illustrated) | Expanded version of the short story | 1978 |
| Niven, Larry | Patchwork girl (illustrated) | Gil 'ARM' Hamilton & a lunar murder | 1980 |
| Niven, Larry | Protector | Asteroid Belters meet Pak breeders | 1973 |
| Niven, Larry | Ringworld | Louis Wu's adventures with bred-for-luck Teela Brown | 1970 |
| Niven, Larry | Ringworld engineers | 23 years after initial adventures... | 1980 |
| Niven, Larry | World of Ptavvs | Telepath taken over by Kzanol from Thrintun | 1966 |
| Niven, Larry | World out of time | Expanded version of 'Rammer' | 1976 |
| Niven, Larry; Gerrold, D | Flying sorcerers | Tortuous pun: 'as a colour, shade of purple grey' | 1971 |
| Niven, Larry; Pournelle, J | Mote in God's eye | Some people like this turgid tome | 1974 |
| North, Claire | First fifteen lives of Harry August | Intriguing time travel variant, not unlike Kage Baker | 2014 |
| North, Claire | Touch | Intriguing body swapping/hopping variant. Unsettling | 2015 |
| Nourse, Alan E | Universe between | 2 shorts from 1951: 'High threshold' & 'Universe between' | 1965 |
| O'Brien, Robert C | Z for Zachariah | Terrifying; very tense; made good TV too | 1975 |
| O'Shea, Pat | Hounds of the Mórrígan | Goddess of Death & Destruction | 1985 |
| Orwell, George | 1984 | Scary classic | 1949 |
| Palmer, David R | Emergence | 11-year-old Candy, homo post hominem, after world war | 1984 |
| Palmer, David R | Threshold | Lost forever in Old Windsor? | 1987 |
| Panshin, Alexei | Rite of passage | It's 2198, & kids undergo a harsh survival test | 1968 |
| Petaja, Emil | Tramontane | Unread | 1967 |
| Piper, H Beam | Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen | Extended 'Paratime' setting | 1965 |
| Pohl, Frederik | Beyond the blue event horizon | Sequel to 'Gateway'. Unread | 1980 |
| Pohl, Frederik | Coming of the quantum cats | Paratemporally displaced persons... | 1986 |
| Pohl, Frederik | Gateway | Alien Heechee craft & 1 in 3 chance of high-technology gains | 1977 |
| Pohl, Frederik | Merchant's war | Long overdue sequel to 'Space Merchants' | 1984 |
| Pohl, Frederik; Kornbluth, C | Space merchants | Madison Avenue run riot | 1953 |
| Powers, Tim | Anubis Gates | Excellent, gripping time-travel fantasy swash-buckler | 1983 |
| Powers, Tim | Dinner at Deviant's palace | Brilliant & weird story of post-nuclear L.A. | 1985 |
| Powers, Tim | Drawing of the Dark | Brilliant: Vienna, 1529, & Brian Duffy (King Arthur) versus Turks | 1979 |
| Powers, Tim | Earthquake weather | Hopefully, a full return to form | 1997 |
| Powers, Tim | Expiration date | Unread | 1995 |
| Powers, Tim | Last call | Devil in Las Vegas; well, why not? | 1992 |
| Powers, Tim | On stranger tides | Piracy & sorcery in the Caribbean of 1718 | 1987 |
| Powers, Tim | Stress of her regard | Unread vampire chiller | 1989 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Dark side of the sun | Unread | 1976 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #01: Colour of magic | Rincewind (unlikely wizard) & the unforgettable Luggage | 1983 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #02: Light Fantastic | Trolls (who treat organic matter as inconvenient fog) | 1986 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #03: Equal rites | World's first female wizard | 1987 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #04: Mort | About the best; Mort is Death's apprentice | 1987 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #05: Sourcery | Return of Luggage, & Conina, daughter of Cohen the Barbarian | 1988 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #06: Wyrd sisters | Granny Weatherwax meddles in royal politics | 1988 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #07: Pyramids | Teppic, premature new king of Djelibeybi | 1989 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #08: Guards! Guards! | Dragons, over which I initially stalled on p151 | 1989 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #09: Moving pictures | Hollywood casts its magic spell | 1990 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #10: Eric (not Faust) | Discworld's hacker & his 3 wishes | 1990 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #11: Reaper man | Death is missing... presumed, er... gone | 1991 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #12: Witches abroad | More of the Wyrd Sisters | 1991 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #13: Small Gods | Unread | 1992 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #14: Lords and ladies | Midsummer night for Granny Weatherwax | 1992 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #15: Men at Arms | Be a MAN in the City Watch! | 1993 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #16: Soul music | Music with Rocks in... | 1994 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #17: Interesting Times | Rincewind can't even spell 'wizard' | 1994 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #18: Maskerade | Murder at the Opera | 1995 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #19: Feet of clay | A werewolf with Pre-Lunar Tension | 1996 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #20: Hogfather | Festive feast of darkness and death | 1996 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #21: Jingo | Discworld goes to a fishy-sounding war | 1997 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #22: the last continent | Somewhat Antipodean | 1998 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #23: Carpe Jugulum | Vampires versus witches | 1998 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #24: the fifth elephant | Vimes is on the run | 1999 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #25: the Truth | Discworld's first newspaper | 2000 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #26: Thief of Time | Stop all the clocks... | 2001 |
| Pratchett, Terry | Disc #27: the last Hero | Illustrated & large format: Cohen the Barbarian's last fling | 2001 |
| Pratchett, Terry; Gaiman, N | Good omens | Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous | 1990 |
| Price, Susan | Sterkarm Handshake | Modern variant of 'The future took us' I suspect | 1998 |
| Price, Susan | Sterkarm Kiss, A | Time Tube is back in action | 2003 |
| Priest, Christopher | Prestige | Duelling turn-of-(last)-century magicians | 1995 |
| Priest, Christopher | Separation, The | Alternate European history of 20th C | 2002 |
| Pullman, Philip | Dark #1: Northern Lights | Lyra, Dust, daemons, witches, armoured talking bears... | 1995 |
| Pullman, Philip | Dark #2: The subtle knife | .. and the strange gateways Will can cut with it | 1997 |
| Pullman, Philip | Dark #3: The Amber Spyglass | Revelations & resolutions aplenty | 2000 |
| Rankin, Robert | Armageddon: the musical | Life on Earth as intergalactic soap opera | 1990 |
| Reynolds, Alastair | Century Rain | Field trip to Earth after the Nanocaust... | 2004 |
| Reynolds, Alastair | RS01: Revelation Space | There was a razorstorm coming in... | 2000 |
| Reynolds, Alastair | RS02: Chasm City | Epsilon Eridani & its domed human settlement | 2001 |
| Reynolds, Alastair | RS03: Redemption Ark | The dead ship was a thing of obscene beauty | 2002 |
| Reynolds, Alastair | RS04: Absolution Gap | Ancient alien killing machines awaken | 2003 |
| Ringo, John | Hell's Faire | Has useful Baen Books CD attached | 2003 |
| Roberts, Keith | Anita | Replacing a student loan in 1972! She's one wicked witch | 1990 |
| Roberts, Keith | Kiteworld | Post-apocalyptic feudal-militant-religious oligarchy | 1985 |
| Roberts, Keith | Pavane | Wonderful alternate history | 1968 |
| Robinson, Spider | Callahan Touch | Unread tall tales from that tavern | 1993 |
| Robinson, Spider | Callahan's lady | Lady Sally's House, & Mike Callahan's wife | 1989 |
| Robinson, Spider | Callahan's Legacy | At a new Callahan's, viz. Mary's Place | 1996 |
| Robinson, Spider | Telempath | Amplified sense of smell (cf Alan E Nourse's 'Coffin Cure') | 1976 |
| Rucker, Rudy | Turing and Burroughs: a Beatnik SF novel | Alternate history, and then some | 2012 |
| Rushkoff, Douglas | Bull | A dot.com Candide in near future Manhattan | 2001 |
| Russ, Joanna | And chaos died | Telepathy & clairvoyance from the inside, as it were | 1970 |
| Russ, Joanna | Female man | Alternate worlds with feminist emphasis | 1975 |
| Russ, Joanna | Picnic on Paradise | Female trans-temporal agent sent to rescue eight VIPs | 1968 |
| Russ, Joanna | We who are about to... | Starship passengers stranded on unknown planet | 1977 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Dreadful sanctuary | 17th rocket to Mars also explodes... (in 1982) | 1953 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Entities: five novels & three SFSS | Edited by Rick Katze; sumptuous hardback | 2001 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Great explosion | Terran battle cruiser versus boondocks planet. No chance! | 1962 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Sentinels from Space | Set in same Deneb telepath universe as 'Metamorphosite' | 1953 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Sinister barrier | The hideous blobs of Viton! | 1939 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Space Willies (aka 'Plus X') | Reminiscent of 'Wasp' | 1956 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Three to conquer | Wade Harper, micro-forger, & telepath for FBI | 1955 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | Wasp | Lone agent stirring up trouble | 1958 |
| Russell, Eric Frank | With a strange device | Unread tale of old crime | 1964 |
| Russell, Mary Doria | Children of God | Emilio's reluctant return to Rakhat | 1998 |
| Russell, Mary Doria | Sparrow | Planet Rakhat meets the Jesuits | 1996 |
| Sagan, Carl; Druyan, Ann | Contact | Excellent. From an original stab at a screenplay in 1980-81 | 1985 |
| Saint, HF | Memoirs of an invisible man | If only you could see me now | 1987 |
| Sargent, Pamela | Shore of women | Yet another post-nuclear war, women in control | 1986 |
| Schmitz, James H | Lion game | Telzey hounded by psi-powered killer | 1971 |
| Schmitz, James H | Universe against her | Telzey, telepathic Crest Cats & Psychology Service | 1964 |
| Schmitz, James H | Witches of Karres | Captain Pausert of Nikkeldepain is much put upon | 1966 |
| Severn, David | Future took us | Favourite of mine as a kid | 1958 |
| Shea, Michael | In Yana, the touch of undying | Never sell a brothel to a demon | 1985 |
| Sheckley, Robert | Dimension of miracles | Getting home after collecting Intergalactic lottery prize | 1968 |
| Sheckley, Robert | Immortality, Inc. (in Sheckley Omnibus) | Waking in new body 200 years after car crash | 1959 |
| Sheckley, Robert | Journey of Joenes | Life among ancients of 21st Century | 1962 |
| Shepard, Lucius | Life during wartime | Psychic conflict in Guatamala | 1987 |
| Shiras, Wilmar H | Children of the atom | Expansion of superb 'In hiding' by 4 more linked stories | 1959 |
| Shute, Nevil | On the Beach | Classic slow radiation death of planet saga | 1959 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Dying inside | Superb insights into a telepath losing his gift | 1972 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Nightwings | Old Earth now faces alien invasion for revenge purposes | 1969 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Second trip | Brain-wiping criminals turns out not to be foolproof | 1972 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Time hoppers | Why's everyone hopping back from 25th Century? Stalled p35 | 1967 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Time of changes | Strange but wonderful world of rigid self-effacement | 1971 |
| Silverberg, Robert | Up the line | Time travel, hence time cops & usual set of paradoxes | 1969 |
| Silverberg, Robert | We, the marauders | Space hijacking | 1958 |
| Simak, Clifford D | City | Automation renders humans redundant; dogs take over | 1952 |
| Simak, Clifford D | Out of their minds | Creatures that have haunted us through the ages | 1970 |
| Simak, Clifford D | Way station | Enoch Wallace, & his very odd job. Wonderful long-time fave | 1963 |
| Simpson, George Gaylord | Dechronization of Sam Magruder | Arthur C Clarke & Stephen Jay Gould wrapped round dinosaurs! | 1996 |
| Sleator, William | Boy who reversed himself | Cross-dimensional goings-on | 1986 |
| Sleator, William | Green futures of Tycho | Only a brontosaurus saw the beings drop the thing... | 1981 |
| Sleator, William | Singularity | Time-shifting trickery | 1985 |
| Smith, Cordwainer | Norstrilia | aka 'The planet buyer' & 'The underpeople' | 1975 |
| Smith, EE | Galaxy primes | Psi-powered space pioneers | 1965 |
| Smith, EE | Lens #1: Triplanetary | Amazing space opera of Arisia versus Eddore | 1948 |
| Smith, EE | Lens #2: First Lensman | First visit of humans to Arisia itself | 1950 |
| Smith, EE | Lens #3: Galactic patrol | Kinnison infiltrates a Boskonian base | 1937 |
| Smith, EE | Lens #4: Gray Lensman | Probably the best, as Kinnison stumbles around | 1951 |
| Smith, EE | Lens #5: Second stage Lensmen | Finally married! | 1953 |
| Smith, EE | Lens #6: Children of the Lens | That's right: leave it to the kids | 1954 |
| Smith, EE | Masters of the vortex | Set in the Lensmen universe | 1960 |
| Smith, Michael Marshall | One of us | Life with a REMtemp, on the run | 1998 |
| Spinrad, Norman | Bug Jack Barron | Powerful if simplistic; banned by WHS, helped kill 'New Worlds' | 1969 |
| Spinrad, Norman | Mind game | Cult or religion? | 1980 |
| Stapledon, Olaf | Odd John | One of the early Ubermensch stories | 1936 |
| Stasheff, Christopher | Wiz #00: Escape velocity | Story of Gramarye's first colonists | 1983 |
| Stasheff, Christopher | Wiz #01: Warlock in spite of himself | Lost planet of Gramarye turned evil Medieval | 1969 |
| Stasheff, Christopher | Wiz #02: King Kobold | Initial version of sequel in battle against Kobold | 1971 |
| Stasheff, Christopher | Wiz #02a: King Kobold revived | Revised version | 1984 |
| Stasheff, Christopher | Wiz #08: Warlock's companion | Fess, the epileptic cyber horse, tells his story | 1988 |
| Stephenson, Neal | Cryptonomicon | Axis codes & Asian data haven | 1999 |
| Stephenson, Neal | Diamond Age | Sneak preview of 21st Century | 1995 |
| Stephenson, Neal | Snow crash | Life in virtual reality, & the Snow Crash computer virus | 1992 |
| Stewart, George R | Earth abides | Classic brave new world from ashes à la Triffids | 1950 |
| Stross, Charles | Accelerando | Technological progress, heh? | 2005 |
| Stross, Charles | Iron sunrise | Interplanetary conflicts on a grand scale | 2004 |
| Stross, Charles | Laundry #1: Atrocity Archives | Nazis from another dimension | 2014 |
| Stross, Charles | Laundry #2: The Jennifer Morgue | Quantum entangled with a mermaid | 2014 |
| Stross, Charles | Laundry #3: The Fuller Memorandum | Chasing the Eater of Souls | 2014 |
| Stross, Charles | Laundry #4: The Apocalypse Codex | Misguided evangelism | 2014 |
| Stross, Charles | Laundry #5: The Rhesus Chart | Vampires, and Angleton's death | 2014 |
| Stross, Charles | Laundry #6: The Annihilation Score | Mo's violin wants to kill Bob! | 2015 |
| Stross, Charles | Neptune's Brood | Interstellar society and 'real' physics | 2013 |
| Stross, Charles | Princes #1: Bloodline Feud (Family Trade and.. | .. Hidden family) | 2013 |
| Stross, Charles | Princes #2: Traders' War (Clan Corporate and.. | .. Merchants' War) | 2013 |
| Stross, Charles | Princes #3: Revolution Trade (Revolution.. | .. Business and Trade of Queens) | 2013 |
| Stross, Charles | Singularity sky | His debut | 2003 |
| Stross, Charles; Doctorow, Cory | Rapture of the Nerds | Fizzing with post-human, post-singularity, ideas | 2012 |
| Stroud, Jonathan | Bart #1: Amulet of Samarkand | Modern London, but run by magicians via djinnis | 2003 |
| Stroud, Jonathan | Bart #2: Golem's eye | You can't have a golem rampaging through London | 2004 |
| Stroud, Jonathan | Bart #3: Ptolemy's Gate | Suitably climactic end to excellent trilogy | 2005 |
| Swann, Thomas Burnett | Blue Monkeys | In an SF Reprise collection | 1966 |
| Taylor, GP | Shadowmancer | With unpublished final chapter | 2003 |
| Tevis, Walter | Man who fell to Earth | Free with Sight & Sound; classic alien visitor tale | 1963 |
| Tilley, Patrick | Fade-out | Sustained suspense as electricity is 'abolished' by aliens | 1975 |
| Tilley, Patrick | Mission | Unusual twist as Christ turns up in New York hospital | 1981 |
| Tilley, Patrick | Xan | Scary & unfinished! | 1986 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Brightness falls from the air | Unread aftermath of a nova | 1985 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Starry Rift | Unread tale of deep space | 1986 |
| Tiptree, James Jr | Up the walls of the world | Star Destroyer cuts thru galaxy | 1978 |
| Tucker, Wilson | Lincoln Hunters | Time travel always seems to end in headaches | 1958 |
| Turner, George | Sea and Summer | Climate change apocalypse tale set in Melbourne | 1987 |
| Twain, Mark | Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Fascinating 'future fish out of water' alternate history | 1889 |
| Van Vogt, AE | Slan | Classic tale of Jommy Cross - telepathic Slan | 1953 |
| Van Vogt, AE | Voyage of the Space Beagle | On and on Coeurl prowled... | 1951 |
| Vance, Jack | Tale #1: the dying Earth | Science replaced by magic | 1950 |
| Vance, Jack | Tale #2: the eyes of the Overworld | A million cities have fallen to dust | 1966 |
| Vance, Jack | Tale #3: Cugel's Saga | Cugel wants revenge! | 1983 |
| Vance, Jack | Tale #4: Rhialto the Marvellous | Troublesome IOUN stones | 1984 |
| Vidal, Gore | Smithsonian Institution | Tricksy work with space-time continuum in 1939 | 1998 |
| Vinge, Vernor | Across Realtime | Force shields to stop time, heh? | 1984 |
| Vinge, Vernor | Children of the Sky | Continuation of Fire upon the Deep | 2011 |
| Vinge, Vernor | Deepness in the Sky, A | If 30,000 years earlier constitutes a prequel | 1999 |
| Vinge, Vernor | Fire upon the Deep, A | Widescreen epic space opera | 1991 |
| Vinge, Vernor | True Names | Plus 9 non-SF essays and Minsky's afterword | 2001 |
| Vinge, Vernor | Zones of Thought | Reprints 'Fire' and 'Deepness' in one fat volume | 2010 |
| Weber, David | HH01: On Basilisk Station | Honor's first command, remote picket duty | 1993 |
| Weber, David | HH02: Honor of the Queen | Manticore needs planet Grayson as an ally | 1993 |
| Weber, David | HH03: Short victorious war | People's Republic of Haven errs seriously | 1994 |
| Weber, David | HH04: Field of Dishonor | Summervale & Pavel Young both killed in duels | 1994 |
| Weber, David | HH05: Flag in exile | Back to Steadholder duties on Grayson | 1995 |
| Weber, David | HH06: Honor among enemies | In charge of a jury-rigged armed merchantmen fleet | 1995 |
| Weber, David | HH07: In enemy hands | Forced into surrender, & bound for Hades | 1997 |
| Weber, David | HH08: Echoes of Honor | Staged execution, & eventual escape from prison planet | 1998 |
| Weber, David | HH09: Ashes of victory | Return from the dead, and trouble for Haven | 2000 |
| Weber, David | HH10: War of Honor | No one wanted another war... | 2003 |
| Weber, David | HH11: Shadow of Saganami | Recruits into premature battle | 2004 |
| Weber, David | HH12: At all costs | Admiral Lady Dame HH, at your service | 2005 |
| Weber, David | HH13: Mission of Honor | Not yet read | 2010 |
| Weber, David | HH14: A rising thunder | Not yet read | 2012 |
| Weber, David; Flint, Eric | 1633 | Alternate history meets military SF | 2003 |
| Wells, HG | War of the worlds | Still terrifying, even after Tim Burton's 'Mars attacks!' | 1898 |
| Wells, HG | When the sleeper wakes | Heinlein's favourite | 1899 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Humans | Complete change of subject | 1992 |
| White, James | Hospital station | Marvellous tales pre-dating 'ER' with 'ET'! | 1962 |
| White, James | Open prison | How do I get off this planet? | 1965 |
| White, James | Star surgeon | Good | 1963 |
| White, James | Watch below | Excellent and moving | 1966 |
| White, Ted | Android avenger | Unread (still!) | 1965 |
| Williams, Robert Moore | Darkness before tomorrow | Long forgotten, but back to back with a Brunner novelette | 1962 |
| Willis, Connie | Doomsday Book | Not read yet | 1997 |
| Wolfe, Gene | Book of the New Sun, Vol. #1 | Shadow of Torturer & Claw of Conciliator | 1980 |
| Wolfe, Gene | Book of the New Sun, Vol. #2 | Sword of the Lictor & Citadel of the Autarch | 1983 |
| Wyndham, John | Chocky | The person who (really) lived in Matthew's head | 1968 |
| Wyndham, John | Chrysalids | Telepaths post nuclear war making it to 'Sealand' | 1955 |
| Wyndham, John | Day of the triffids | When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday... | 1951 |
| Wyndham, John | Kraken wakes | Builds to a flood, literally | 1953 |
| Wyndham, John | Midwich cuckoos | Filmed as 'Village of the Damned' | 1957 |
| Wyndham, John | Outward urge | Ever onward with the Troons | 1961 |
| Wyndham, John | Plan for Chaos | Drafted in 1951, then abandoned | 2009 |
| Wyndham, John | Stowaway to Mars | Monetary prize for first interplanetary flight | 1935 |
| Wyndham, John | Trouble with lichen | What happens when you can arrest ageing process | 1960 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Archer's Goon | Bought for Peter | 1984 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Chrest #1: Charmed Life | Perils of a gifted witch | 1977 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Chrest #2: Magicians of Caprona | Magic awry in Italy | 1980 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Chrest #3: Witch Week | Witchery in the classroom | 1982 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Chrest #4: Lives of Christopher Chant | 25 years earlier... | 1988 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Ogre downstairs | Marvellous. Caught on 'Jackanory' while off sick one week | 1974 |
| Wynne Jones, Diana | Tale of Time City | Unread | 1987 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #01. Nine princes in Amber | Corwin, hospitalised in New York, exiled from Amber | 1972 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #02. Guns of Avalon | The long road back to Amber & its Pattern | 1973 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #03. Sign of the unicorn | The bloody war of succession | 1975 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #04. Hand of Oberon | Oberon, Amber's king, is missing. Blood on the Pattern, too | 1976 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #05. Courts of Chaos | Corwin's son Merlin ('Merle') appears | 1978 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #06. Trumps of doom | Starts with the annual attempt to kill Merle | 1985 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #07. Blood of Amber | Merle is back in Amber | 1986 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #08. Sign of Chaos | From Wonderland to the Courts of Chaos | 1987 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #09. Knight of Shadows | Where are Julia and Corwin? | 1989 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Amber #10. Prince of Chaos | See one coronation & you've seen them all... | 1991 |
| Zelazny, Roger | Eye of cat | Shape-shifting telepath & Navajo tracker | 1982 |
| Zelazny, Roger | My name is Legion | Three odd jobs! | 1979 |
| Zelazny, Roger | This immortal | Expanded version of 'And call me Conrad' | 1966 |
| Zelazny, Roger | To die in Italbar | A walking living pool of disease | 1973 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Agrentini, Guido | Silvereye | Chrome-plated nudes | 2005 |
| Alessandri, Claudio | (women)* | Opulent monochromatic selection | 2001 |
| Alskog, Inc | Art Kane: Persuasive image | Long before his suicide | 1975 |
| Alskog, Inc | Bert Stern: Photo illustration | Excellent sampler | 1974 |
| Alskog, Inc | Duane Michals: photographic illusion | Good series | 1975 |
| Alskog, Inc | Elliott Erwitt: Private experience | Good series | 1974 |
| Alskog, Inc | J Frederick Smith: photographing women | Glamour cat & some of his pussies | 1975 |
| Alskog, Inc | Mary Ellen Mark & Annie Leibovitz | Somewhat prescient, heh? | 1974 |
| Alskog, Inc | Paul Fusco & Will McBride: photo essay | Good series | 1974 |
| Angeli, Daniel et al | Private Pictures | Photos of pissed posh people | 1980 |
| Angelov, Mathias | Sexy bikini girls #1 | Dental floss indeed! | 2007 |
| Aperture | Issue 121: the body in question | Photos in Jock Sturges / Sally Mann mould | 1990 |
| Aperture | Master Breasts | Objectified, aestheticised, fantasised... excellent photos | 1998 |
| Araki, Nobuyoshi | Tokyo Lucky Hole | Tokyo's sex industry between 1983-85 indefatigably caught | 1997 |
| Aratow, Paul | 100 years of erotica | Gentle monochrome hardcore from around the globe | 1973 |
| Arbus, Diane | Magazine work | Idiosyncratic, yet capable of 'normality' | 1984 |
| Arbus, Diane | Monograph of photographs | One weird lady, but several very striking images | 1972 |
| Arlington House | Personal pleasures | Pretty softcore female solo sexuality | 1987 |
| Arlington House | Private parts | Peter likes it! Genuine hard core yet pretty photos | 1987 |
| Arnold, Eve | In America | 161 photos plus a revealing commentary by Arnold herself | 1981 |
| Arnold, Eve | Unretouched woman | Photos for Christa; nice stuff | 1976 |
| Arthus-Bertrand, Yann | Being a photographer | Includes a DVD documentary profile, too | 2004 |
| Aslan | Pin-Up | Airbrush artist who complained pubic hair ruined his eyesight! | 1983 |
| Aufray, Fred | Nu | Shades of Friedlander | 2000 |
| Avedon, Richard | Evidence 1944-1994 | For a retrospective at Whitney Museum of American Art | 1994 |
| Avedon, Richard | Naked & the Dressed | Gorgeous sets of Versace shoots over 20 years. Bought in York | 1998 |
| Avedon, Richard | Photographs: 1947-1977 | Marvellous, but a folded Verushka takes the biscuit | 1978 |
| Baetens, Pascal | EPS: the fragile touch | Photos of young nudes in deserted industrial settings | 1999 |
| Bailey, David | Bailey's democracy | Excellent monochrome figure shots | 2005 |
| Bailey, David | Trouble and strife | Mrs Bailey of the time (Marie Helvin) | 1980 |
| Balch, Adrian M | Heathrow in photographs | Celebrating 70 years of London's airport (photos by John's chum) | 2016 |
| Barents, Els | Mapplethorpe: ten by ten | Wonderful images | 1988 |
| Baronio, Joyce | 42nd Street Studio | B&W glamour made to look seedy | 1980 |
| Barry, Peter | Erotic aerobics | Any excuse! | 1986 |
| Batters, E; Kroll, E | Elmer Batters: from the tips of the toes.. | ..to the top of the hose. Right up my alley! | 1995 |
| Batters, Elmer | Legs that dance | Came wrapped in hosiery! But a little OTT for me | 1997 |
| Bernard, Barbara | Fashion in the 60s | Quant, Ossie Clark, 'The Look' of that distant decade | 1978 |
| Bianchi, Tom | On the couch #1 and #2 | Excellent male erotic photography | 2007 |
| Bisang, Bruno | Photographs | Unimaginative title doesn't do this justice | 1999 |
| Blum, Günter | EPS: Naked Steel | Somewhat hard-edged on edges of fetishism | 1999 |
| Blumenfeld, Yorick | Naked and the Veiled: photographic nudes.. | .. of (Erwin) Blumenfeld. Interesting commentary on good work | 1999 |
| Bown, Jane | Observer | A 45-year selection of her photos | 1996 |
| Boys, Michael | Book of nude photography | As described | 1981 |
| Brassai | Secret Paris of the 30s | Some pretty wonderful seedy stuff | 1976 |
| Bressler, Karen et al | Lingerie: a century of style | Icons of covered style uncovered | 1998 |
| Brien, Alan | Domes of fortune | Written while The Times was on strike. Shameless titfest | 1979 |
| Bright, Susie; Posener, Jill | Nothing but the girl (lesbian photography) | Superb & brave | 1996 |
| Campbell, Bryn | Great action photography | Good selection | 1983 |
| Campbell, Bryn | World photography | Lovely examples | 1981 |
| Carré, Didier | Come closer | Formula exactly as before | 2006 |
| Carré, Didier | Stainless Ladies | Elegant monochromatic Gallic hardcore | 2005 |
| Celant, Germano | Mapplethorpe photographs 1983 | Some wonderful pix | 1983 |
| Celant, Germano | Mapplethorpe photographs 1986 | Some more wonderful pix | 1986 |
| Celant, Germano | Mapplethorpe versus Rodin | Eye-wateringly amazing pix | 1992 |
| Chapman, Peggy | Nudes 2 | WYSIWYG - large format | 1997 |
| Clark, Larry | Perfect childhood | Ironic title for these photos from filmmaker of 'kids' | 1995 |
| Clements, Nick | Torso | Mini book of delicious nudes, profits to Breast Cancer charity | 1999 |
| Clergue, Lucien | Practical nude photography | As described | 1983 |
| Clyne, Jom | Exquisite creatures | Beautiful indeed. Monochrome photos | 1985 |
| Collum, Charles R | Dallas: Nude | Foreshadows Friedler's Naked New York | 1977 |
| Colmer, Michael | Bathing beauties: female swimwear | No pretensions to intellectuality | 1977 |
| Colmer, Michael | Calendar girls | Lightweight but easy on the eye | 1976 |
| Colmer, Michael | Whalebone to see-through: underwear | Enjoyable | 1979 |
| Colombo, Attilio | Fantastic photographs | Surreal would be nearer the mark | 1979 |
| Columbus Books | Contemporary American erotic photography | Pretty good on the whole (no pun) | 1984 |
| Columbus Books | More rear views | One angle, I suppose, on some amazing butts | 1984 |
| Cooper, Emmanuel | Fully exposed: male nudes (2nd ed) | Excellent: one of relatively few books of male pix | 1995 |
| Corré, J; Rees, Serena | Agent Provocateur: celebration of... | .. feminity. Nice mix of erotica & fashion | 1999 |
| Cunningham, Imogen | On the body | Richard Lorenz's overview of her work | 1998 |
| Currin, Tony | Black Woman: photographs | As described | 1978 |
| Dahmane | Dahmane | Explicit monochrome work. Lovely | 1990 |
| Dahmane | Dressed Nudes | More comprehensive (un)coverage | 2000 |
| Dahmane | Erotic sessions | 20+ year career | 2003 |
| Dahmane | Porn Art 1 | Amazingly cool, under the circumstances! | 1996 |
| Dahmane | Porn Art 2 | Definitely harder, but still detached | 1997 |
| Demarchelier, Patrick | Fashion photography | Beautiful creatures | 1989 |
| Demarchelier, Patrick | Photographs | Lovely stuff | 1995 |
| Devlin, Polly | Vogue book of fashion photography | Excellent | 1979 |
| Donegan, John | Layley | Monochromatic thesis of sorts | 2005 |
| Dunas, Jeff | Captured women | Nice photos from a glamour mag guy | 1981 |
| Dunas, Jeff | Mademoiselle, Mademoiselle! | More of the same | 1982 |
| Edgerton, Harold | Stopping time | High speed photography | 1987 |
| Edgren, Gretchen | Inside the Playboy Mansion | Her 3rd analysis of Hefner's empire | 1998 |
| Edgren, Gretchen | Playboy Book: forty years | Jumping the gun just slightly. 25-year editor's retrospective | 1994 |
| Edgren, Gretchen | Playmate Book: centrefolds | Wonderful but inexcusable (I suppose) | 1996 |
| Ehret, Theo | Exquisite mayhem: spectacular & erotic.. | .. world of wrestling (!?). Large format Taschen | 2001 |
| Eisenstaedt, Alfred | People | Mostly excellent | 1973 |
| Ellison, Nancy | Starlets: before they were famous | Pages 29, 39, & 109 struck home! | 2001 |
| Erotic Print Society | EPS: Extreme sex, new world of erotic.. | ..photography. Only mildly kinky by today's standards! | 2001 |
| Erwitt, Elliott | On the beach | Life's a beach, littered with dogs | 1991 |
| Evans, Harold | Eye witness: 25 years of photojournalism | Insightful selection | 1981 |
| Evans, Harold | Pictures on a page: photojournalism | Good stuff on this specialist art | 1978 |
| Evans, Mike | Bikini Book | 64 small, but beautifully illustrated, pages | 1996 |
| Ewing, William A | Body | Beautiful themed selection of 366 images; interesting notes, too | 1994 |
| Ewing, William A | Love and Desire | New themed collection of 331 images + excellent notes | 1999 |
| Farber, Robert | Fashion photographer | Not bad, but soft-edged | 1981 |
| Flatteau, John et al | Space images (NASA) | Good | 1982 |
| Francis, P; Jones, P | Images of Earth | Great | 1984 |
| Friedlander, Lee | Nudes | Beautiful photos, include unacknowledged pix of Madonna | 1991 |
| Friedler, Greg | Mattress | Reclining all-female nudes on simple mattress. Exquisite | 2002 |
| Friedler, Greg | Naked London | As (well) documented on Channel 5! | 2000 |
| Friedler, Greg | Naked Los Angeles | West Coast gets in on monochromatic naked act | 1999 |
| Friedler, Greg | Naked New York | Amazing clothed/unclothed pairs of monochrome photos. Magical | 1997 |
| Gabor, Mark | Girlie magazines: illustrated history | Who needed any excuse to buy this? | 1984 |
| Gabor, Mark | Pin-Up: a modest history | Amazing for its time | 1972 |
| Gaffney, Joe | Relief! | 3D anaglyphs, bursting at the bra seams | 1982 |
| Gauvin, Patrick 'Shrimp' | Thai girls | Easy on my eyes | 1988 |
| Glaviano, Marco | Sirens | Role call of world's leading models. Some serious babes here! | 1997 |
| Gnade, Michael | Perfect Nude photography | Excellent | 1980 |
| Goldsmith, Arthur | Nude in photography | Uninspired | 1976 |
| Gordon, Larry Dale | Versatile photographer | As described | 1987 |
| Gorman, Peter | Naked in Apartment 7 | Staged voyeurism, almost all of which works | 2001 |
| Gorman, Peter | Naked rooms | This time in colour, & not just his own apartment | 2002 |
| Gorman, Peter | Stripped naked | Venturing out onto others' home territory | 2004 |
| Graham, William M | What is a woman? | Careful what I say here! | 1966 |
| Gray, J; Busselle, M | Manual of nude photography | As described | 1983 |
| Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy | XXX 30 Porn-star portraits.. | .. & excellent mini essays, too | 2004 |
| Gruber, R & L Fritz | Imaginary Photo Museum | Fascinating selection | 1981 |
| Hall-Duncan, Nancy | History of fashion photography | Interesting | 1979 |
| Hamilton, China | EPS: Bittersweet sex | Entirely within the BDSM genre | 2002 |
| Hamilton, China | EPS: View from behind | #192: monochrome photos, rear-oriented! | 1997 |
| Hamilton, David | Age of Innocence | Somewhat in Jock Sturges mould, but far less stunning | 1995 |
| Hamilton, David | Private collection | Soft focus soft core | 1976 |
| Hammond, H; Mankowitz, G | Hit Parade: 35 years of Pop Stars | Nice photos | 1984 |
| Hanson, Dian | Big Book of Breasts | Taschen's large-format uncoverage | 2007 |
| Hanson, Dian | Big Book of Pussy | Taschen's large-format uncoverage | 2011 |
| Hanson, Dian | Naked as a Jaybird | Brief flowering of full-frontality in US magazines in late 1960s | 2003 |
| Hanson, Dian | Private Collection 1970-1979 | Berth Milton's Swedish porn magazine | 2009 |
| Hanson, Dian; Kroll, Eric | New erotic photography | Good range of people here. See p100! | 2007 |
| Harrison, Martin | Appearances: fashion photos since 1945 | Excellent | 1991 |
| Harrison, Martin | Beauty photography in Vogue | Very good | 1987 |
| Harrison, Martin; Bailey, D | Naked eye: great photographs of the nude | As described | 1987 |
| Harrison, Robert | Best of American Girlie magazines | Taschen 'brick book' celebrating the saucy 1950s | 1997 |
| Hawkes, Jason | London 360 degrees | Views inspired by BA's London 'Eye' | 2000 |
| Hawkes, Jason | Over London: a century of change | Documented photographically by Aerofilms | 2000 |
| Haworth-Booth, Mark | Photography now | Good | 1989 |
| Hedgecoe, John | Nude photography | Good | 1984 |
| Hegre, Petter | 100 naked girls | The road goes ever on | 2004 |
| Hegre, Petter | Luba | Wife number two, it seems! Via EPS | 2003 |
| Hegre, Petter | My Wife | Gloriously erotic unposed intimacy. Marvellous stuff | 2001 |
| Hegre, Petter | Russian Lolita | Strikingly similar model to his wife | 2002 |
| Hegre, Petter | Wild shaven angel | From Last Gasp -- gasp! | 2003 |
| Heimann, Jim | Sins of the City: real Los Angeles noir | Shades of Los Angeles Babylon culled from photo archives | 1999 |
| Helfrich, Mark | Naked pictures of my ex-girlfriends | Wonderfully truthful(?) title & tome, $42 | 2000 |
| Helvin, Marie | Catwalk: the art of model style | As described | 1985 |
| Hesselmann, Herbert W | Princess in Blond und Tango | Good, if typical, glamour shots | 1983 |
| Higonnet, Anne | Pictures of Innocence: history & crisis.. | .. of ideal childhood | 1998 |
| Horsch, RC | Eroto: v1 | Sexual anthropology | 2003 |
| Horsch, RC | Eroto: v2 | More of the same | 2003 |
| Howe, Graham et al | Paul Outerbridge Jr: photographs 1921-39 | Early, & often compelling, autochrome colour work | 1980 |
| Howell, Georgina | In Vogue: 75 years of style | Updated edition, mixture much the same; good | 1991 |
| Howell, Georgina | In Vogue: six decades of fashion | First edition; beautiful (un)coverage | 1975 |
| Iverslien, Gry | Men... for women only | Not seen too often: the penis! | 1988 |
| Jakubowski, Maxim | Mammoth Book of Erotic Women | In photographs, of course | 2005 |
| Jakubowski, Maxim et al | Mammoth book of erotic photography | Wide range of monochromatic pleasure | 2001 |
| Jaugey-Paget, Laurence | Nice girls don't: erotic photographs | Constant theme being girl-girl; I like it! | 1999 |
| Jay, Bill | Views on Nudes | As described | 1971 |
| Jones, Terry (2) | Private Viewing: contemporary erotica | I adore the shot of the girl shaving! | 1983 |
| Jonvelle | Jonvelle(s) | Some reprints & many new images - excellent as usual (250ff) | 1999 |
| Jonvelle | Mistress | Monochromatic eroticism of a very high order | 1983 |
| Jonvelle | Zwei | Excellent monochromatic eroticism | 1989 |
| Juan-Carlos, R; Flasche, P | Photographing the male | No stiffies! Why on earth not? | 1983 |
| Kane, Art | Paper dolls | What a shame! (His suicide) | 1984 |
| Karan, Donna | Leg | Essentially leg(ends) of photography/fashion | 1997 |
| Karsten, Thomas | Days of Intimacy | Amazon on order | 2005 |
| Keenan, Brigid | Women we wanted to look like | Fascinating | 1977 |
| Kempen, Uwe | Voyeur | German monochromatic eroticism | 1998 |
| Kent, Gavin | Flash bang wallop! - Press photography | Good, engaging rogue | 1978 |
| Kern, Richard | Action | Hard-edged shots | 2007 |
| Kern, Richard | Model release | Taschen joins Kern's scorching bandwagon | 2000 |
| Kern, Richard | New York Girls | Peter likes this, too | 1995 |
| Kern, Richard | Noir | New b&w work | 2002 |
| Kern, Richard | Richard Kern | 54 pix, 45 in colour. Italian selection | 1998 |
| Klaw, Irving | Bettie Page: Queen of Pin-Up | Peter likes this, too | 1987 |
| Klein, Kelly | Under world | 154 images of the body; various photographers | 1995 |
| Kloster, Doris | Forms of desire | Edgy fetish photos | 1998 |
| Kloster, Doris | Illustrated Story of O | photos + text extracts. Nicely done | 2001 |
| Kratochvil, Laurie | Rolling Stone: the photographs | Great selection; classic images | 1989 |
| Krider, Chas Ray | Motel Fetish: hideaway for dreams of... | .. desire. Taschen goes seedy! | 2002 |
| Kroll, Eric | Beauty parade | Extraordinary images, rather more sexual than 'Fetish Girls' | 1997 |
| Kroll, Eric | Eric Kroll's fetish days, 1996 (diary) | Given to Peter | 1995 |
| Kroll, Eric | Fetish girls | Peter loves this! | 1994 |
| Kroll, Eric | Transformations of Gwen | Fetishistic photo-essays | 2000 |
| Kroll, Eric | Transformations of Gwen #2 | Ruder than before | 2001 |
| Kula, Vlastimil | Vlastimil Kula | Monochromatic blurry eros | 2004 |
| Lacey, Peter | Nude Photography: nine modern masters | As described | 1985 |
| LaChapelle, David | Hotel LaChapelle | Beautifully extreme photography | 1999 |
| Lanting, Frans | Eye to Eye: 30 postcards | Animal photography par excellence | 1997 |
| Larkin, David | Complete Pirelli calendar book | Until 1975, at least. Update now temptingly available | 1975 |
| LaSala, Anthony | Nudes: world's top photographers | Stories behind their images | 2005 |
| Law, Lisa | Flashing on the Sixties | Some good shots | 1987 |
| Leddick, David | Male Nudes: Taschen | Mini survey of photographic century | 2001 |
| Lehndorff, V; Trulzsch, H | Veruschka: trans-figurations | Amazing, beautiful body camouflage photos | 1986 |
| Leibovitz, Annie | Photographs | Very good, now classic, images | 1983 |
| Leibovitz, Annie | Photographs: 1970 to 1990 | Amazing range | 1991 |
| Levenson, Randal | In search of the monkey girl | Has the Spalding Gray stories in it | 1982 |
| Lewinski, Jorge | Naked and the Nude: history of nude photos | Lovely to look at | 1987 |
| Loengard, John | Pictures under discussion | Very interesting selection & comments | 1987 |
| Loke, Margarett | World as it was: 1865-1921 | Photographic portraits from 3-d Keystone Mast collection | 1980 |
| Lorenz, Peter | Shaven angels | East German eroticism of a high quality | 1999 |
| Lorenz, Peter | Shaven angels 2 | Why change a successful recipe? | 2001 |
| Lorenz, Peter | Shaven angels 3 | Peerlessly hairless! | 2002 |
| Magaud, Patrick | Exhibition in Paris | Flashing around, literally | 1985 |
| Mapplethorpe, Robert | Lady Lisa Lyon | What a body! Val's friend Graham was a major league fan | 1983 |
| Mapplethorpe, Robert | Portraits | Excellent | 1988 |
| Mapplethorpe, Robert | Some women | Excellent | 1989 |
| Mason, Jerry | Family of Woman | Good | 1979 |
| Matanle, Ivan | Techniques of photographing the nude | Males, if memory (rather than mammary) serves | 1982 |
| McEnery, David | Smiles: humorous photographs | Staged, but still funny | 1975 |
| McGhee, Fi | Photographers and their images | Good selection | 1988 |
| Meadows, Daniel | Bus: free photographic omnibus 1973-2001 | Fabulous photo-documentary | 2001 |
| Melcher, C; Diamond, S | Voyeur | 119 stolen and/or staged erotic images | 1999 |
| Mitchell, Tony (2) | Female Nude: a private view | Editor of 'Skin 2' reveals excellent tastes! | 1999 |
| Mitchell, Tony (2) | Fetish | Extravaganza of 49 photographers | 1999 |
| Moore, Michaël | EPS: Polastory | X-rated Polaroid offcuts from a kinky fashion shoot | 2000 |
| Morey, Craig | Studio Nudes | Elegant, & haughtily erotic, monochromatic nudes | 1992 |
| Moss, Kate | Kate | Too skinny? Never! | 1995 |
| Mugler, Thierry | Fashion fetish fantasy | Wide range of fashion & related work | 1998 |
| Murrian, Richard | Reanna's Diaries | Hamiltonian territory | 2004 |
| National Geographic | Orbit: NASA astronauts photograph... | .. the earth. Perfect description | 1996 |
| Naz, Dave | Legs | Invading Elmer Batters' territory | 2004 |
| Naz, Dave | Panties | L.A. grunge is a lot cleaner than elsewhere! | 2002 |
| Nazarieff, Serge | Stereoscopic nudes: 1850-1930 | Early stereo pairs | 1985 |
| Néret, Gilles | 1000 Dessous: a history of lingerie | Typical Taschen brick-book | 1998 |
| Néret, Gilles | Serge Jacques | Taschen thuds home again | 1998 |
| Newman, Bill | Art of Page 3 | Not sure about art, but fine photography | 1993 |
| Newton, Helmut | 47 Nudes | Some of them very large! | 1981 |
| Newton, Helmut | Helmut Newton (1998 desk diary) | The nudes are still statuesque | 1997 |
| Newton, Helmut | Helmut Newton's Illustrated (#2) | Large format rudery | 1987 |
| Newton, Helmut | Newton's Illustrated #1 - #4 | From 1987 onward, Newton's Pix-only irregular magazine | 2000 |
| Newton, Helmut | Playboy photos | Nice retrospective of nearly 30 years work | 2005 |
| Newton, Helmut | Pola woman | Good | 1992 |
| Newton, Helmut | Portraits | Good | 1987 |
| Newton, Helmut | Private property | Intro by Marshall Blonsky on Newton's 'pornography' | 1986 |
| Newton, Helmut | Sleepless Nights | Undercharged by Bunty in Hammicks, Windsor, as Xmas present! | 1978 |
| Newton, Helmut | Special collection 24 photo lithos | I wonder if WHS realise this has a blow job among the pix? | 1979 |
| Newton, Helmut | White women | Newton's 1st hardback foray | 1976 |
| Newton, Helmut | Work | Accompanies Berlin exhibition | 2000 |
| Newton, Helmut | World without men | My sort of place | 1984 |
| Nikolai, Simon | Sexy girlfriends (absolut amateur #1) | WYSIWYG like Vulis | 2001 |
| Oliver, Chris | Long Hot Summer | Collection of relatively 'candid' Australian beach shots | 1986 |
| Olley, Michelle | Femmes | Considerably better & wide range of good photographers | 2001 |
| Olley, Michelle | Venus: masterpieces of erotic photography | Self-described, alas | 2000 |
| Ommer, Uwe | Asian Ladies | Ommer meets the Orient | 2000 |
| Ommer, Uwe | Black ladies 1 | First version, with poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor | 1986 |
| Ommer, Uwe | Black ladies 2 | Second version, with tri-lingual poems by Calixthe Beyala | 1995 |
| Ommer, Uwe | Exotic (German edition) | Characteristically-posed (mostly) glamour work | 1983 |
| Ommer, Uwe | Photoedition 2 | I suspect I started Ommer collecting as early as anyone! | 1980 |
| Ommer, Uwe | Uwe Ommer - erotic photographs | Includes 'typical' travel diary & nice selection | 1988 |
| Parkinson, Norman | Lifework | Good overview | 1983 |
| Parkinson, Norman | Parkinson photographs 1935 - 1990 | Wonderful man; nice sausages, too! edited by Martin Harrison | 1994 |
| Parkinson, Norman | Sisters under the skin | He was good at sausage making, too | 1980 |
| Parkinson, Norman | Would you let your daughter? | Parks strikes again | 1985 |
| Pellerin, Michael | Masterpieces of erotic photography | Yes, a few are quite good | 1977 |
| Perzan, Vittoria | EPS: Cinema hard | On Italian porno sets with a digital camera | 2005 |
| Photofile | Helmut Newton | Intro by Karl Lagerfeld | 1986 |
| Photofile | Nude | Intro by Bernard Noel (cf Castle of Communion!) | 1986 |
| Pomasanoff, Alex | Invisible World | Close-ups | 1981 |
| Probert, Christina | Lingerie in 'Vogue' since 1910 | Lip-smackin' | 1981 |
| Probert, Christina | Swimwear in 'Vogue' since 1910 | Thirst-quenchin' | 1981 |
| Pye, Michael | Pirelli calendar album | I note another album in 1997! | 1988 |
| Radio Times | Times gone by: Britain 1856-1956 | Good | 1977 |
| Rancinan, Gerard | Urban Jungle | Nudes from NY, London, Paris, Berlin & Tokyo | 1999 |
| Rankin | Nudes | Some startling & large-scale images | 1999 |
| Ray, Man | Man Ray | Solarisation, right? | 1992 |
| Reger, Janet | Chastity in focus (lingerie) | Basically a catalogue | 1980 |
| Reid, Ron; Bailey, Liam | Glastonbury: the festival | Monochromic mudness! | 1995 |
| Remy, Patrick | Strip | Collage of engagingly voyeuristic photos | 1998 |
| Rheims, Bettina | Bettina Rheims Exhibition | Japanese catalogue of 1997 show | 1997 |
| Rheims, Bettina | Female trouble | Silly title for excellent set of portraits | 1991 |
| Rheims, Bettina | Femmes Fatales | Large format 'Stern' photo library collection, $24 | 1999 |
| Rheims, Bettina | Room in the Museum of Modern Art.. | .. in Frankfurt. Overlaps with 'Chambre Close' | 2000 |
| Rheims, Bettina; Bramly, S | Chambre close | Weird & sexy photos | 1994 |
| Rheims, Bettina; Bramly, S | X'MAS | Three sets of stunning colour semi-nudes | 2000 |
| Rheinboldt, Frank | Die Quadratur des Weibes | Well-made glamour shots | 1986 |
| Richardson, Terry | Terryworld | Typically Taschen oddness | 2008 |
| Rivière, Marc | Up & Down | Shades of Garry Winogrand, but with exposed breasts | 1999 |
| Robin, Marie-Monique | 100 historic photos of the 20th century | An international trail of woe, mostly | 1999 |
| Roff, Charlie | EPS: Erotic Journey | #112: vaguely Helmut Newton-esque | 2001 |
| Rosenblum, Naomi | World history of photography | 3rd edition since 1984, weighs in at 690 pp | 1997 |
| Rotenberg, Mark | Forbidden erotica: photo collection | Taschen strikes 'harder' with lovely monochromatic lewdity | 2000 |
| Rotenberg, Mark | Rotenberg collection: cheesecake! | Taschen strikes again with 1950s/1960s 'nostalgia' | 1999 |
| Rougeron, Jean | Phantasmes I | Surprisingly sexy work of glamour photographer | 1984 |
| Rougeron, Jean | Phantasmes II | Attractive, semi-clad women, sexily-posed | 1986 |
| Roversi, Paolo | Nudi | WYSIWYG: 46 of the planet's supermodels, starkers (oddly insipid) | 1999 |
| Rowell, Galen | Mountain light | Astonishing photos | 1986 |
| Saint Laurent, Yves | Images of design 1958 - 1988 | Good to look through | 1988 |
| Salvemini, Lorella P | United Colors: the Benetton Campaigns | Oliviero Toscani's forceful yet dispassionate ads imagery | 2002 |
| Saudek, Jan | Jan Saudek | Taschen survey of 25+ years work | 1998 |
| Scavullo, Francesco | Nudes | Stylish & cool, includes Rene Russo from 1974/5 | 2000 |
| Scheunemann, Diana | Ambisexual | Recommendation from Rankin stable | 2000 |
| Schofield, Jack | How famous photographers work | Schofield now reports on computing... | 1983 |
| Schreiber, Martin H | Madonna nudes 1979 | See also Lee Friedlander's 'Nudes' for three more pix | 1990 |
| Serrano, Andres | History of Sex | Truly startling photos | 1998 |
| Shaw, John | Closeups in Nature | Good | 1987 |
| Sieff, Jeanloup | Forty years of photography | Often fashion-oriented | 1990 |
| Sieff, Jeanloup | Jeanloup Sieff | Taschen mini-collection; nice work | 1988 |
| Silke, Jim | Bettie Page: queen of hearts | Glorious celebration of her cultural influence | 1995 |
| Silmon, Pedro | Bikini | Not an intellectual stretch, I admit! | 1986 |
| Slocombe, Romain | Tokyo sex underground | Western take on Araki territory | 2000 |
| St Joseph, JKS | Uses of air photography | Good | 1977 |
| Steele-Perkins, Chris | About 70 photographs | Comments on striking images | 1980 |
| Sternberg, J; Chapelot, P | Pin-Up | Pleasant to look at | 1971 |
| Stoddart, John | Peep World | (Mostly) commissioned; Hedgecoe territory | 2004 |
| Stonehouse, Bernard | Britain from the air | Some lovely shots | 1982 |
| Strick, David | Our Hollywood | Glamorous people & places | 1988 |
| Stuart, Roy | Glympstorys | Not from Taschen, for a change | 2012 |
| Stuart, Roy | Roy Stuart desk diary (2001) | Daily doses | 2000 |
| Stuart, Roy | Roy Stuart Volume I | Hard-edged erotica from Taschen (who else?) | 1998 |
| Stuart, Roy | Roy Stuart Volume II | More &, if anything, harder-edged | 1999 |
| Stuart, Roy | Roy Stuart Volume III | More of the (excellent) same from Leg Show, etc. | 2000 |
| Stuart, Roy | Roy Stuart: the fourth body | Slightly larger than life! | 2004 |
| Stuart, Roy | Roy Stuart: Volume V | Delivered minus its DVD | 2008 |
| Stuart, Roy | Voyeurs | Italian magazine special edition | 1997 |
| Sturges, Jock | Fanny | Stunning monochrome portraits over 20 years | 2015 |
| Sturges, Jock | Jock Sturges | Marvellous & quite stunning exhibition catalogue | 1996 |
| Sturges, Jock | Last day of summer | His first collection, bought in NY. Superb | 1991 |
| Sturges, Jock | Life-Time | Stunning colour portraits | 2008 |
| Sturges, Jock | Misty Dawn: portrait of a muse | One of his subjects for 25 years | 2008 |
| Sturges, Jock | New Work 1996 to 2000 | 89 new portraits, 8 in colour. Stunning | 2000 |
| Sturges, Jock | Notes | Behind the scenes with this fabulous man | 2004 |
| Sturges, Jock | Radiant Identities | Fabulous, bought in Oxford with Claire | 1994 |
| Swannell, John | Fine lines | Includes the delicious Aristoc stockings image | 1982 |
| Testino, Mario | Any objections? | 'In your faeces' school of fashion photography | 1998 |
| Thornton, John | Pipe dreams | Bought in Germany on first IBM trip | 1979 |
| Turner, Peter | History of photography | Good | 1987 |
| Various | Day in the life of Hollywood | Fascinating & pretty to look at, too | 1992 |
| Various | More sex & drugs & rock'n'roll | Still amazing | 1988 |
| Various | Sex & drugs & rock'n'roll | Amazing | 1986 |
| Various | With compliments: Charlotte Rampling | Quite a female | 1987 |
| Veronese, Marcel | L'Amour | Photos and German text | 1970 |
| Visualbooks | Showing off | Exhibitionist fantasies, going cheap in Oxford! | 1988 |
| Vulis, Ralf | 100 naked girls on a chair | WYSIWYG! In all her subtle varieties | 2001 |
| Vulis, Ralf | Crazy sexy girls | Exactly as described; monochromatic Latvian nudes | 1999 |
| Vulis, Ralf | Sex kitsch girls and fun | Latvian lovelies, in full colour | 1998 |
| Vulis, Ralf | Sexy girl next door | Thicker but still juicy. What is he on? | 2001 |
| Vulis, Ralf | Sexy sports | Latvian monochrome sports ladies. Delicious | 2000 |
| Vulis, Ralf | Sexy sports 2 | Can you guess?! Delicious | 2001 |
| Vulis, Ralf | Vulis' crazy sexy pics mix | Large & lewdly colourful | 2001 |
| Ward, Tony | Orgasm | One of Nerve's photographers with graphic monochrome | 2000 |
| Ward, Tony | Orgasm XL | Larger, newer, and in colour | 2002 |
| Warhol, Andy | Exposures | Underbelly of New York photographed, often blotto or stoned | 1979 |
| Watson, Trevor | EPS: Bounce! | Further uplifting imagery abreast of the times | 2004 |
| Watson, Trevor | EPS: Cheek! | #278: getting to the bottom of things | 2000 |
| Watson, Trevor | EPS: Girls behaving badly | #166: monochrome photos, fetishistic | 1998 |
| Watson, Trevor | EPS: Kink! | Determinedly perverse, but lacking Petter Hegre's charm | 2002 |
| Werner, Horst | Fetisch: latex girls | Rubber, at a stretch, can be beguiling! | 2000 |
| Weston, Edward | Nudes | OK | 1977 |
| Whitney Museum | Robert Mapplethorpe | Wonderful | 1988 |
| Wiesenfeld, Cheryl et al | Women see Woman | Good | 1976 |
| Wilkins, Eric | EPS: Beyond the Top shelf | Pre-dating razor blades, it seems | 2004 |
| Wilkins, Eric | EPS: Real women | In praise, as it were, of the older woman | 2006 |
| Wilkins, Eric | EPS: Spank! | Fiery-cheeked 1970s photo-sessions | 2005 |
| Wilkins, Eric | EPS: Top shelf girls | Swansong of sexual imagery, if the Internet has its way | 2002 |
| Windlin, C; Teller, J | Juergen Teller | Weird photos | 1996 |
| Winogrand, Garry | Women are beautiful | Wow! Monochrome photos prove his point repeatedly | 1975 |
| World Press Photo | Eyewitness 1990 | Good | 1990 |
| World Press Photo | Eyewitness 1991 | Good | 1991 |
| Wrigley, Richard | Ansel Adams: images of the US West | Good | 1992 |
| Yeager, Bunny | Bunny's honeys: queen of pin-up photos | Great stuff! | 1994 |
| Young, R; Wilson, C | By invitation only | Pissed toffs | 1981 |
| Zannier, Italo; Vergani, G | Pirelli Calendars Complete | At least as far as 1998! | 1999 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Adcock, Fleur | Virgin & the nightingale | Rude medieval poems (mostly in Latin) | 1983 |
| Allott, Kenneth | Penguin contemporary verse | Includes Reed, MacNeice, Spender, Larkin, Hughes etc | 1962 |
| Amis, Kingsley | New Oxford book of light verse | 80 poets, 250+ poems, 'to raise a good-natured smile' | 1978 |
| Anness Publishing | Mermaids: anthology of verse & prose | Slim but beautiful | 1996 |
| Armitage, Simon | Killing Time | 1,000 lines counting down to the Millennium | 1999 |
| Armitage, Simon | Zoom! | First collection | 1989 |
| Astley, Neil (ed) | Being alive: the sequel to Staying alive | Well-reviewed | 2004 |
| Astley, Neil (ed) | Being human | Last of the trilogy | 2011 |
| Astley, Neil (ed) | Staying alive: real poems for unreal times | Browsed Roger's copy | 2002 |
| Baring-Gould, WS | Lure of the limerick | Nicely illustrated survey; many examples | 1967 |
| BBC Books | Nation's favourite poems | Ozymandias, Xanadu, If, Elegy, Prufrock & 95 more | 1996 |
| Belloc, Hilaire | Cautionary verses (complete) | Sublime moral instruction: 'always keep a-hold of nurse' | 1940 |
| Belloc, Hilaire; Tripp, W | Bad child's pop-up book of beasts | Wonderful | 1896 |
| Betjeman, John | Collected poems | Come friendly bombs, rain down on Slough | 1970 |
| Blake, Quentin | Penguin book of nonsense verse | Chosen & illustrated. Read in one gulp, too | 1994 |
| Bold, Alan | Making Love: erotic verse | From Greeks to ineffable McGough | 1978 |
| Briggs, ADP (ed) | Love please! 100 passionate poems | Nice selection, pleasant watercolours | 2001 |
| Brookes, John | Verses Private & General | Poems from Middle Eastern WWII theatre & (far) beyond | 1989 |
| Carroll, Lewis | Hunting of the Snark | Folio Society; illus. by Quentin Blake | 1976 |
| Carroll, Lewis | Hunting of the Snark | illus. by Mahendra Singh, in comix format | 2010 |
| Carter, Angela | Unicorn: the poetry of Angela Carter | Written between 1963 and 1971, but uncollected | 2015 |
| Catullus | Catullus in English | Fascinating set of translations & imitations; various voices | 2001 |
| Catullus | Poems | Translated by Peter Whigham. Well rude! | 1966 |
| Catullus (ed Jo. Balmer) | Poems of love and hate | Translations of impeccable clarity | 2004 |
| Chesterton, GK | Collected nonsense and light verse | Parodies, drinking songs, satire, ballades... | 1987 |
| Cohen, JM | Choice of comic and curious verse | From three anthologies in the 1950s. Excellent batch | 1975 |
| Coleridge, S; Doré, Gustav | Rime of the ancient mariner | Large format & wonderful engravings | 1979 |
| Cope, Wendy | If I don't know | Includes the long 'Teacher's Tale' | 2001 |
| Cope, Wendy | Making cocoa for Kingsley Amis | Actually just a title! Super collection | 1986 |
| Cope, Wendy | Serious Concerns | Still going strong | 1992 |
| Coward, Noël | Collected verse | His private pleasure | 1984 |
| Coward, Noël | Lyrics of Noël Coward | 276 lyrics from the Master | 1965 |
| cummings, ee; Chagall, Marc | may i feel said he | Nearly one painting per line | 1995 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Fresh carpet | Typical | 1986 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Is that your flap, Jack? | No! | 1992 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Large et Puffy | Cutler to a "T" | 1984 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Nice wee present from Scotland, A | Typical | 1988 |
| Cutler, Ivor | Private habits | Idiosyncratic | 1981 |
| Dante | Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory.. | ..Paradise, with Gustav Dore's engravings from 1867 | 2006 |
| Dawson, Jill | Virago Book of wicked verse | Excellent, varied selection | 1992 |
| de la Fontaine, Jean | Forbidden fruit | Adult flipside of his fables of 1694 (Contes); new translation | 1998 |
| Dennis, Felix | Glass half full | He of the 'Oz' trial turns surprisingly poetical | 2002 |
| Dennis, Felix | Homeless in my heart | He even covers the Old Bailey. Great stuff | 2008 |
| Dennis, Felix | Love, of a kind | His post-cancer volume of new verses (illustrations by Eric Gill) | 2013 |
| Dennis, Felix | Nursery rhymes for modern times | Including When Jack sued Jill | 2006 |
| Dennis, Felix | This is the Way of the World | Currently his final batch of poems (plus a CD of readings) | 2014 |
| Douglas, Lord Alfred | Tails with a twist | Animal nonsense verse | 1928 |
| Douglas, Norman | Norman Douglas limerick book | Gems on practically every page | 192? |
| Dubes, Fanny | Hard Lines: new poetry and prose | Ian Dury's intro alone is worth the price | 1983 |
| Dunn, Douglas | Elegies | Passed on by Val Murr after Christa's death | 1985 |
| Durcan, Paul | Snail in my Prime: new and selected poems | I bought this for "Sister Agnes writes to her mother" | 1999 |
| Eliot, TS | Collected poems 1909-1962 | Christa's copy. Includes Prufrock & Waste Land | 1963 |
| Elson, Rebecca | Responsibility to Awe: poems from a.. | .. gifted astronomer, dead at 39, after 10 years of cancer | 2001 |
| Ewart, Gavin | Collected poems 1980-1990 | Includes many of his superb 'little ones' | 1991 |
| Farrow, Rob | I remember, I remember: famous people's.. | ..favourite childhood poems | 1993 |
| Fenton, James; Fuller, John | Partingtime Hall | Wonderful, especially 'Nuns' sequence of six limericks | 1987 |
| Fitzgerald, Edward | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Wonderful, even if inaccurate translation | 1859 |
| Fry, Stephen | Ode Less Travelled: unlocking the poet.. | ..within. Erudite & elegant | 2005 |
| Gaiman, Neil; Jones, S | Now we are sick (anthology) | Sicko poems from the SF world; excellent bad taste | 1991 |
| Ginsberg, Allen | Howl and other poems | I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness... | 1956 |
| Graham, Harry | Ruthless rhymes | When Grandmama fell off the boat & others | 1984 |
| Graham, Harry | When Grandmama fell off the boat | Wonderful. See Calculating Clara, page 156 | 1986 |
| Graves, R; Ali-Shah, Omar | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | More accurate than Fitzgerald, but not half so memorable | 1967 |
| Grigson, Geoffrey | Penguin book of unrespectable verse | Includes Wilmot, Belloc, Mitchell, Graves, Pope | 1971 |
| Gross, John | Oxford book of comic verse | Some absolute gems | 1994 |
| Harrison, GB | Book of English poetry | Christa's copy; covers 14th to 19th Century | 1937 |
| Hart, Harold H | Bawdy bedside reader: riddles, verses... | .. songs, graffiti, parodies, limericks | 1971 |
| Heaney, S; Hughes, Ted | Rattle bag | Vast grab-bag of approachable verse | 1982 |
| Hegley, John | These were your father's | Poet's 4th collection, going cheap! | 1994 |
| Houlihan, Patricia | Unspeakable verse (anthology) | Good choices | 1996 |
| Houseman, AE | Unkind to unicorns (comic verse) | To mark the centenary of 'A Shropshire Lad' | 1995 |
| Hughes, Ted | Birthday letters | Biographical poetry | 1998 |
| Hughes, Ted | Meet my folks! | An extraordinary family, plus nice cartoons | 1961 |
| Hughes, Ted | Tales from Ovid | 24 passages from the Metamorphoses | 1997 |
| Hurford, Christopher | Erotic verse | Not really in the same league as Alan Bold's anthology | 1995 |
| Ireson, Barbara | Faber book of nursery verse | Excellent | 1965 |
| James, Clive | Book of my enemy has been.. | ..remaindered. Collected verse from 1958 onward | 2003 |
| Juhlen, Gerda | Limericks (German translations) | 240 examples, all very rude indeed. Some very funny | 1974 |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Rudyard Kipling: everyman's poetry | Worth it for 'Female of the Species' alone | 1998 |
| Kitchen, David | Axed between the ears | Good selection for late teens (allegedly) | 1987 |
| Landesman, Fran | Thorny side of love | Very bitter in parts | 1992 |
| Larkin, Philip | Collected poems | Before revisionism & 'shocking' revelations; bloody people... | 1988 |
| Larkin, Philip (ed A Burnett) | Complete Poems | And copious commentary | 2012 |
| Legman, Gershon | Limerick | Indefatigable, 1739 examples + 200 pages of notes | 1964 |
| Legman, Gershon | More Limericks | More! Another 2749 with SF appearing. 120+ pp of notes, too | 1977 |
| Logue, Christopher | Sweet & Sour: comic verse | Excellent selection of some classic pieces of vitriol | 1983 |
| MacBeth, George | Patient, The | Shortly before his death from motor-neurone disease | 1992 |
| MacNeice, Louis | Selected poems | Skimmed | 1988 |
| March, Joseph Moncure | Wild Party (illus. Art Spiegelman) | What a riot! | 1928 |
| Marquis, Don | archy & mehitabel | lowercase philosophy | 1958 |
| Marquis, Don | archy's life of mehitabel | lowercase low life | 1934 |
| Marquis, Don | archyology | long lost tales, recently unearthed, including a trip to paris | 1996 |
| Martial | Epigrams | Trans. James Michie. Witty & extremely pithy | 1973 |
| Marvell, Andrew | Complete Poems | Useful 50+ pages of introduction etc | 1984 |
| Masters, Edgar Lee | Spoon River anthology | Verses from a mythical mid-West town; Shary Flenniken's tip | 1915 |
| McGonagall, William | Poetic gems | Ye gods! Folio Society edition | 1934 |
| McGough, Roger | After the merrymaking | Includes 11 poems of P.C. Plod | 1971 |
| McGough, Roger | As far as I know | Includes 11 poems of P.C. Plod | 2012 |
| McGough, Roger | Bad bad cats | On St Valentine's Day we massacre mice (Mafia cats) | 1997 |
| McGough, Roger | Blazing fruit | Selected poems from 1967 to 1987; some minor tinkerings | 1989 |
| McGough, Roger | Collected Poems | Bought out of loyalty! | 2003 |
| McGough, Roger | Comic verse: Kingfisher book | Some lovely pieces | 1986 |
| McGough, Roger | Defying gravity | Includes 'The Elements' (See John Emsley) & extra: Fool's Gold | 1992 |
| McGough, Roger | Everyday Eclipses | As heard, in part, last time we saw him | 2002 |
| McGough, Roger | Gig | Waiting for the somnambulance to arrive | 1973 |
| McGough, Roger | Good enough to eat | Food for thoughtful Juniors | 2002 |
| McGough, Roger | Great smile robbery | Brilliant | 198? |
| McGough, Roger | Holiday on Death Row | Take off your blouse, Miss Smith, I feel a love poem coming on | 1979 |
| McGough, Roger | Imaginary menagerie | Is there a longer meal than a conger eel? | 1988 |
| McGough, Roger | In the glassroom | Olé to bed and Olé to rise, only the tourists outnumber the flies | 1976 |
| McGough, Roger | It never rains | Latest of his deliciously wry output | 2003 |
| McGough, Roger | Lucky | Rasta pasta: Spaghetti with ganja sauce | 1993 |
| McGough, Roger | Melting into the foreground | Where would we be without worry? | 1986 |
| McGough, Roger | Nailing the shadow | Great | 1987 |
| McGough, Roger | Pillow talk | It never fails, talking at cross porpoises | 1990 |
| McGough, Roger | Sky in the pie | Also (nearly) an LP title! | 1983 |
| McGough, Roger | Sporting relations (revised from 1974) | Granny plays whist better when pwist | 1996 |
| McGough, Roger | Spotted Unicorn | Our bard goes East: Panda, panda burning bright! | 1998 |
| McGough, Roger | State of Poetry | Penguin 70th mini | 2005 |
| McGough, Roger | Strictly private | Anthology | 1981 |
| McGough, Roger | Summer with Monika | For i locked a yellowdoor & i threw away the key... | 1978 |
| McGough, Roger | That awkward age | Namely, between birth and death | 2009 |
| McGough, Roger | Watchwords (withdrawn in 1983) | Discretion is the better part of Valerie | 1969 |
| McGough, Roger | Waving at trains | Where once I used to scintillate, now I sin till ten past three | 1982 |
| McGough, Roger | Way things are | Latest sublime outpourings: 'Dialectically Opposed' | 1999 |
| McGough, Roger; Rosen, M | You tell me | McGough 17; Rosen 24 | 1979 |
| Mitchell, Adrian | Adrian Mitchell's greatest hits | Very good | 1991 |
| Mitchell, Adrian | For Beauty Douglas | Powerful stuff | 1982 |
| Mitchell, Adrian | Orchard book of poems | Arranged by theme, wide-ranging collection | 1993 |
| Morice, Dave | Poetry comics: cartooniverse of poems | Comix: as good an introductory method as any | 1982 |
| Murray, John G | Old chestnuts warmed up | His personal collection of poetry, verse & doggerel | 1997 |
| Nash, Ogden | Best of Ogden Nash | 400+ examples chosen by his daughters | 1983 |
| Nash, Ogden | Everyone but me and thee | I'm mad about mustard, even on custard | 1963 |
| Nash, Ogden | Many long years ago | And as for boils, well, my pen recoils... | 1954 |
| Nash, Ogden | Private dining room & other verses | Try Medusa & the mot juste, or Peekaboo, I almost see you | 1952 |
| Nash, Ogden | There's always another windmill | Tell me no fiblets, where are the giblets? | 1969 |
| Nash, Ogden | You can't get there from here | Complete with 50 Sendak line drawings! | 1957 |
| Normal, Henry | Nude modelling for the afterlife | OK | 1993 |
| Parkin, Molly | Parkin's purple passages | Wonderfully rude, illustrated by Frank Dickens too! | 1979 |
| Parrott, EO | Limerick delight | A Puffin collection | 1985 |
| Parrott, EO | Penguin book of limericks | 800 or so, mostly far too clean | 1983 |
| Patten, Brian | Gargling with jelly | TES said this was a poetic version of the Beano! | 1985 |
| Penguin Modern Poets | Mersey sound: Henri, McGough, Patten | Classic anthology | 1974 |
| Philip, Neil (ed) | Best-loved poems | Includes Wynken, Blynken & Nod! | 2000 |
| Pitt-Kethley, Fiona | Dogs | Poems, & some notes relating to them | 1993 |
| Pitt-Kethley, Fiona | Perfect Man | Poems, & notes to accompany them | 1989 |
| Pitt-Kethley, Fiona | Private Parts | Her second collection | 1987 |
| Pitt-Kethley, Fiona | Sky Ray Lolly | Her first collection | 1986 |
| Plath, Sylvia | Sylvia Plath poems selected by.. | ..Ted Hughes. Includes the sublime 'Insomniac' | 1985 |
| Poe, Edgar Allan | Selected poems | Bought mainly for 'The Raven' of course | 1948 |
| Rae, Simon; Rushton, Willie | Soft targets | Tories at end of 1980s were easiest of targets | 1991 |
| Read, Mike | 100 favourite humorous poems | Classic FM's excellent selection from listener suggestions | 1998 |
| Reid, Alec | With great pleasure (BBC Radio 4) | Poetry & prose from 64 guests of BBC radio programme | 1988 |
| Riordan, Maurice; Turney, J | Quark for Mister Mark: poems about science | 101 poems | 2000 |
| Roberts, Michael | Faber book of comic verse | Revised in 1974, a goodly selection | 1942 |
| Robins, Stephen | World's worst poetry: an anthology | I've measured it from side to side; 'Tis 3 feet long and 2 feet wide | 2002 |
| Rosen, Michael | Action replay: anecdotal poems | All sorts, by all sorts, all s(h)ort(ish) | 1993 |
| Rosen, Michael | Culture shock | Useful selection from various cynics & others | 1990 |
| Rosen, Michael | Mind the gap | Excellent items for a 'not for maiden aunts' collection | 1992 |
| Rosen, Michael | This is not my nose | 80 prose poems exploring illness & recovery | 2004 |
| Smith, Philip | 100 best-loved poems | Dover thrift edition | 1995 |
| Stanford, Derek | Body of Love: erotic poetry | Some lovely choices | 1965 |
| Sunday Times | More worse verse | Ditto | 1972 |
| Sunday Times | Worse verse | Sometimes quite mordant | 1971 |
| Thackray, Jake | Jake's progress | Country Bus, North country Bus... & other verses | 1977 |
| Tosswill, TD | Seven Romantic poets | Blake, Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth | 1964 |
| Untermeyer, Louis | Collins Albatross book of verse | aka Book of Living Verse (Christa's copy from Würzburg) | 1960 |
| Verlaine, Paul | Femmes / Hombres (trans Elliot) | Rude and very well translated | 1979 |
| Verlaine, Paul | Men and Women (trans Stone) | Rude and very differently translated | 1984 |
| Weller, Shane | Great love poems | Dover thrift edition | 1992 |
| Whitworth, John | Faber book of blue verse | Good selection of candidly sexual verse | 1990 |
| Wilmot, John (Rochester) | Complete Poems of John Wilmot | Magic in parts, edited and introduced by David Vieth (Yale) | 1968 |
| Wilmot, John (Rochester) | Lord Rochester | Edited and introduced by Paddy Lyons | 1996 |
| Wilmot, John (Rochester) | Rochester: Complete Poems & Plays | Edited by Paddy Lyons | 1993 |
| Wodehouse, PG | Parrot, and other poems | Truly inspired comic verse | 1988 |
| Wright, Kit | Bump-starting the hearse | The wonderful 'Underneath the Archers', too | 1983 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Adams, Scott | Always postpone meetings with... | .. time-wasting morons. Dilbert cartoons | 1994 |
| Adams, Scott | Bring me the head of Willy the mailboy! | Dilbert cartoons | 1995 |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert & the way of the weasel | Remains insightful & vicious | 2002 |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert future: thriving on stupidity... | .. in the 21st Century. Text plus cartoons | 1997 |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert gives you the Business | Themed recapitulations of corporate insanity | 1999 |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert Principle: cubicle eye's view... | .. of bosses, meetings, management fads, workplace afflictions | 1996 |
| Adams, Scott | Dilbert: a treasury of Sunday strips | An excuse for 200 colour strips | 2000 |
| Adams, Scott | Seven years of highly defective people | Guided tour of the evolution of 'Dilbert' character | 1997 |
| Adams, Scott | Shave the whales | Dilbert cartoons | 1992 |
| Anderson, Oliver | Rotten borough | Pre-war corrupt local (Grantham) politics, banned after 3 weeks | 1937 |
| Apuleius, Lucius | Golden Ass | Trans. Robert Graves. Ancient Latin satire | 1950 |
| Bell, Steve | Apes of Wrath | War on Terror in dying colour | 2004 |
| Bell, Steve | Bell's Eye: 20 years of drawing blood | Fascinating overview of terrible policies & politicians | 1999 |
| Bell, Steve | For whom Bell tolls | Good selection | 1994 |
| Bell, Steve | Further down on Maggie's Farm | More nibbles | 1982 |
| Bell, Steve | IF files... | From the mid-1990s | 1997 |
| Bell, Steve | Maggie's Farm | Biting stuff | 1981 |
| Bell, Steve | Maggie's Farm: the last round up | Same recipe | 1987 |
| Bell, Steve; Homer, Brian | Waiting for the upturn | Grim | 1986 |
| Bell, Steve; Woddis, Roger | Funny old world: Thatcher's decline and.. | .. fall. Biting verses & pix. | 1991 |
| Bolling, Ruben | Thrilling Tom the Dancing Bug stories | See p148 Steinberg parody | 2004 |
| Bradshaw, Peter | Not Alan Clark's diaries | Superior pastiche of Tory buffoonery | 1998 |
| Bremner, Bird & Fortune | You are here: a dossier | Joke Intelligence Community | 2004 |
| Briggs, Raymond | Tin-Pot Foreign General & Old Iron Woman | Thatcher cannot have read this | 1984 |
| Briggs, Raymond | When the wind blows | Bet Thatcher never read this | 1982 |
| Brown, Craig | Agreeable world of Arnold Wallace | Keep meaning to try this | 1990 |
| Brown, Craig | Hug me while I weep | Bel Littlejohn columns from the Guardian | 1998 |
| Brown, Craig | Marsh Marlowe letters | Spoof of Lyttelton Hart-Davis letters! | 1984 |
| Brown, Craig | Rear columns: diaries of the famous | And this | 1992 |
| Brown, Craig | This is Craig Brown! | Wickedly witty man | 2003 |
| Browning, Guy | Weak at the Top | Columns from Management Today, somewhat silly | 2002 |
| Bryant, Mark | Publish and be damned! | Unread & currently missing | 1988 |
| Clark, Incledon | Thomas the privatised tank engine | Plus Gordon the Virgin Engine, Selina the Sprinter, etc. | 1994 |
| Cook, William | 25 years of Viz | Perhaps the 'shittest' magazine in Britain? | 2004 |
| Cornford, FM | Microcosmographica Academica | Superb advice on upward mobility, bought in Oxford with Carol | 1908 |
| Creme, Lol; Godley, Kevin | Fun starts here: a rock memoir | Very rare, apparently | 1981 |
| Dell Books | Cracked Up | Would-be satire | 1974 |
| Dennis, Nigel | Cards of identity | Crises in a country mansion | 1955 |
| Dikkers, Scott et al | Onion's finest news reporting: Vol 1 | Microsoft patents ones, zeroes & similar unlikely tales | 2000 |
| Dikkers, Scott et al | Onion: Our dumb century; Onion presents... | .. 100 years of headlines | 1999 |
| Don, CB | Management by vice | R&D life in a fictitious company | 1999 |
| Dower & Riddell | Inside Britain | Dedicated to all the Blenkinsops of Britain | 1937 |
| Dower & Riddell | Outside Britain | A guide to this grave new world | 1938 |
| Durrell, Lawrence | Antrobus complete | Ridiculously good, drawings by Marc (Boxer) too | 1985 |
| Ellenbogen, Glenn C | More Oral sadism & vegetarian personality | Polymorphous Perversity strikes again | 1996 |
| Ellenbogen, Glenn C | Primal whimper: polymorphous perversity | Spoof journal articles; 'National Lampoon' for psychologists | 1989 |
| Elton, Ben | Popcorn | Thriller killer satire? | 1996 |
| Fortune, John; Wells, John | Melon for ecstasy | Rude satire of a chap sexually obsessed by trees | 1971 |
| Frayn, Michael | Additional Michael Frayn | Includes 'Speak after the beep' & 'Brought to Book' | 2000 |
| Frayn, Michael | Original Michael Frayn | Guardian & Observer columns from the early 1960s | 1990 |
| Frayn, Michael | Tin Men | William Morris Institute of Automation Research | 1965 |
| Frazer, JD (Illiad) | Even grues get full | XP: one thing to rule them all... | 2003 |
| Frazer, JD (Illiad) | Evil Geniuses in a nutshell | User Friendly's guide to world domination | 2000 |
| Frazer, JD (Illiad) | Root of all evil | aka 500 free assimilations | 2001 |
| Frazer, JD (Illiad) | User Friendly: the comic strip | A Dilbert for the UNIX geeks | 1999 |
| G., Bill | Secret diary of Bill Gates | All too plausible satire | 1998 |
| Geissman, Grant | MAD about the eighties | Decade marking death of satire (qv Kissinger's Peace Prize!) | 1999 |
| Geissman, Grant | MAD about the fifties | Seminal silliness from the usual gang of idiots | 1997 |
| Geissman, Grant | MAD about the seventies | What a decade! | 1996 |
| Geissman, Grant | MAD about the sixties | A special decade of stoned zaniness; bought in Gosh | 1995 |
| Gibbons, Stella | Cold Comfort Farm | Something nasty in the woodshed | 1948 |
| Green, Michael | Art of coarse acting (revised edition!) | aka How to wreck an Amateur Dramatic Society | 1994 |
| Gubbins, N; Hendy, W | Dear Sir, Unless... | Early tax protest satire; guide to dodging Income Tax | 1936 |
| Harvard Lampoon | Time: parody issue | Brilliant, & timeless | 1969 |
| Hasek, Jaroslav; Lada, J | Good soldier Svejk | Czech satire, wonderful new translation by Cecil Parrot | 1973 |
| Hasek, Jaroslav; Lada, J | Red Commissar | First five stories of Svejk, plus much else (trans. Cecil Parrott) | 1981 |
| Heller, Steven | Jules Feiffer's America | Excellent | 1982 |
| Heller, Steven | Man bites man: 2 decades of satiric art | Some very good stuff buried here | 1981 |
| Hillocks, George | Last laugh (aka Cutlass & Rapier) | Cartoons, poems, songs, stories | 1974 |
| Holland, Brad | Human scandals | Playboy cartoonist hits usual targets well | 1977 |
| Holt, T & V | Fragments from France (Bairnsfather) | Incredible World War I stuff | 1978 |
| Humphries, Barry | Dame Edna's coffee table book | Lightweight but funny | 1976 |
| Humphries, Barry | Nice Night's Entertainment | Sketches, monologues, letters, ruminations | 1981 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #01 | Cod letters to Bill Deedes from Denis Thatcher, May 79 to April 80 | 1980 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #02: the other half | May 80 to April 81 | 1981 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #03: One for the road | April 81 to April 82: start of Falklands fiasco | 1982 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #04: My round! | May 82 to April 83: Falklands, then run-up to next election | 1983 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #05: Bottoms up! | May 83 to April 84: Parkinson love child, Oman contract | 1984 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #06: Down the hatch | May 84 to June 85: miners' strike, Reagan, Brighton bomb | 1985 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #07: Just the one | July 85 to May 86: Parkinson's rehabilitation, Westland affair | 1986 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #08: Mud in your eye! | June 86 to May 87: MI5 trial, Archer resigns, next election | 1987 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #09: Still going strong | June 87 to June 88: NHS crumbles, unlike Attila the Hen | 1988 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #10: Number 10 | June 88 to May 89: We are a grandmother, Ridley and water sell-off | 1989 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Dear Bill #11: On and On? | June 89 to May 90: Howe & Lawson go, Gummer's hamburgers | 1990 |
| Ingrams, R; Wells, J | Secret diary of John Major/last Dear Bill | The joke's finally over! | 1992 |
| Ingrams, Richard | Private Eye: life and times 1961-1971 | Very good | 1971 |
| Ingrams, Richard et al | Private Eye's Romantic England | Good | 1963 |
| Jay, Antony; Frost, David | To England with love | Dated satire, but contains seeds of 'Yes, Minister' | 1967 |
| Kent, John | Varoomshka bumper colouring annual | Rude but surprisingly timeless satire | 1975 |
| Kington, Miles (translator) | Wolf in frog's clothing: best of Allais | Lighthouse based on smell of French regional cheeses, et al | 1976 |
| Kriegel, Volker | Truth about dogs | Weird | 1988 |
| Kuhn, Leon | Big bang for bureaucrats | (In)credible & angry | 1983 |
| Lancaster, Osbert | Littlehampton Saga | OK | 1984 |
| Lloyd, John | Spitting Image | Trivial | 1985 |
| Lloyd, John et al | Not! the nine o'clock news | Trivial | 1980 |
| Lynn, J; Jay, A | Yes Minister (complete) | Superb in written form | 1984 |
| Lynn, J; Jay, A | Yes Prime Minister (complete) | Superb, again | 1987 |
| Lynn, J; Jay, A | Yes, Minister miscellany | Revised endings for the hapless trio! | 2009 |
| Macaulay, David | Great moments in Architecture | Including L'Arc de Defeat, Tour-i-Fell | 1978 |
| Macauley, David | Motel of the Mysteries | 4022 AD & archaeologists excavate a US motel! | 1979 |
| Macdonell, AG | Autobiography of a cad | England changes. But politicians? Never! | 1938 |
| Macdonell, AG | England their England | Classic village cricket match scene | 1933 |
| Marshall, A; Renwick, D | Whoops Apocalypse | Trivial satire | 1982 |
| McCall, Bruce | Zany afternoons | Artwork from National Lampoon and New Yorker | 1983 |
| McFadden, Cyra | Serial: year in life of Marin County | First use of word 'cunt' in a film on UK TV! | 1977 |
| Monty Python | Brand new Monty Python Papperbok | Great stuff | 197? |
| Morton, Paul | Drawing conclusions: political postcards | Good images | 1989 |
| Mullin, Chris | Very British coup | Made into great TV by Alan Plater's script | 1982 |
| National Lampoon | Animal House | Nice Flenniken piece | 1978 |
| National Lampoon | Best of National Lampoon No. 4 | Good collection | 1973 |
| National Lampoon | Big Book of Love | Includes Flenniken's History of Sex (1987) | 2004 |
| National Lampoon | Encyclopedia of Humor | Nary a fleck of Flenniken! | 1973 |
| National Lampoon | Gentleman's Bathroom Companion | Good | 1975 |
| National Lampoon | High School parody, 1964 | Also lost on the English | 1979 |
| National Lampoon | Naked and the Nude: Hollywood & beyond | Good | 1976 |
| National Lampoon | Sunday Newspaper parody | Somewhat lost on the English, I guess | 1978 |
| National Lampoon | Tenth anniversary anthology: 1970-1980 | I had to send real money over for this | 1979 |
| National Lampoon | Very large book of comical funnies | Good | 1975 |
| National Portrait Gallery | Heroes & Villains: Gerald Scarfe | Vitriolic & very pointed | 2003 |
| Parkinson, C Northcote | Law, The | Work expands... & its (many) companions | 1979 |
| Pink Floyd | Wall, The | Illustrated story behind the film of the album... | 1982 |
| Poortvliet & Huygen | Gnomes | Silly mock-serious study | 1976 |
| Private Eye | Cover-Up! | Collection of cover artwork | 1989 |
| Private Eye | Load of old rubbish | From 1974 | 1974 |
| Private Eye | Private Eyeballs | Golden Treasury of Bad Taste | 1969 |
| Private Eye | Private Eyesores | Plus more Boobs | 1970 |
| Private Eye | Private Eyewash | Winner of Prix de Gnome '68 | 1968 |
| Private Eye | Private Pop Eye | Life & times of Spiggy Topes | 1968 |
| Reade, Winwood | Martyrdom of Man | Interesting predictions | 1872 |
| Reading, Bryan | Belchers: a story of would-be... | .. self-sufficient folk. Strip from 'Vole' magazine, 1977-81 | 1983 |
| Roth, Philip | Our Gang: Tricky and his friends | Anybody remember tricky Dicky? | 1971 |
| Scarfe, Gerald | Gerald Scarfe | Powerful & scathing stuff | 1982 |
| Scarfe, Gerald | Scarfeland - lost world | Excellent | 1989 |
| Schneider, Charles | Cad: a handbook for heels | Two-fisted, two-breasted red-blooded US entertainment | 1992 |
| Self, Will | Quantity theory of insanity | Six strange tales | 1991 |
| Siegel, Robert et al | Onion: dispatches from the tenth circle | More madcap spoof news | 2001 |
| Smith, VL; Sparks, Paul | Loose ends: the book | OK | 1988 |
| Sorel, Edward | Superpen: cartoons and caricatures | Acidic | 1978 |
| Spark, Muriel | Abbess of Crewe | Filmed as 'Nasty Habits' (Watergate satire) | 1974 |
| Steadman, Ralph | Between the eyes: 27 years of... | .. violence, religion, police, politicos, thugs | 1984 |
| Steadman, Ralph | Near the bone | Positively canine | 1990 |
| Steadman, Ralph | Scar strangled banger | Acerbic | 1987 |
| Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's travels (illus Rex Whistler) | Amazing for any time, let alone 1735. Facsimile edition | 1984 |
| Swift, Jonathan | Modest Proposal & other satires | Includes Tale of a Tub, Battle of the Books | 1997 |
| Trudeau, GB | 40: a Doonesbury's retrospective | Sumptuous present from my son | 2010 |
| Trudeau, GB | Action figure! Doonesbury's Uncle Duke | Trip to London for this 'Action Man' | 1992 |
| Trudeau, GB | And that's my final offer! | Duke's shenanigans, Joanie & Zeke etc | 1980 |
| Trudeau, GB | Any grooming hints for your fans, Rollie? | Korean Lobby, laetrile market, Jogger Agonistes, etc | 1978 |
| Trudeau, GB | Ask for May, settle for June | Rick & Joan's wedding, Duke as hostage in Iran, General Haig | 1982 |
| Trudeau, GB | Buck Wild Doonesbury | Well-nigh perfect | 1999 |
| Trudeau, GB | Bundled Doonesbury | 9,000 strips on CDROM + 700 hard copy, many Sunday coloureds | 1998 |
| Trudeau, GB | Call me when you find America | Mark as a programmer?! The bike trip | 1973 |
| Trudeau, GB | Check your egos at the door | USA for Africa recording, political transplants, etc | 1985 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury Chronicles | Courtesy of Ken Goddard's US girl friend | 1975 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury deluxe | Fantastic | 1987 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury dossier: the Reagan years | Incredible | 1984 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury Nation | Woodstock 25 years on, tobacco safe as Twinkies, OJ Simpson | 1995 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury stamp album, 1990 | Graphic oddity | 1990 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury's greatest hits: mid-70s | I came late to Trudeau! | 1978 |
| Trudeau, GB | Doonesbury: the original Yale cartoons | Bought in Atlanta airport on way back from ID Symposium | 1971 |
| Trudeau, GB | Dude: the big book of Zonker | Well stone us all! | 2005 |
| Trudeau, GB | Duke 2000: whatever it takes | Ferret in the pants of the government | 2000 |
| Trudeau, GB | Flashbacks: 25 years of Doonesbury | Also on the complete CDROM, courtesy of Carol | 1995 |
| Trudeau, GB | Give those nymphs some hooters! | Dan Quayle, Donald Trump, John Tower, Mr Butts | 1989 |
| Trudeau, GB | Got War? | Iraq, file-sharing, Dubya, regime change, Duke | 2003 |
| Trudeau, GB | He's never heard of you, either | Outreach programmes for the well-to-do! | 1981 |
| Trudeau, GB | Heckuva job, Bushie! | Bush-bashing continues apace | 2006 |
| Trudeau, GB | I'd go with the helmet, Ray | Gulf War, S&L crisis, Andy Lippincott dies of AIDS | 1991 |
| Trudeau, GB | In search of cigarette holder man | Duke & JFK assassination industry, Mark comes out, grade inflation | 1994 |
| Trudeau, GB | In search of Reagan's brain | Bought in Reading; this one was bounced to the news pages | 1981 |
| Trudeau, GB | Long Road home: one step at a time | Poor ol' BD! Legless in a bad cause | 2005 |
| Trudeau, GB | Mel's story: surviving military sexual assault | A further Iraq-based story | 2010 |
| Trudeau, GB | My shorts R bunching. Thoughts? | Tweets of Roland Hedley | 2009 |
| Trudeau, GB | Peace Out, Dawg! | Tales from Ground Zero | 2002 |
| Trudeau, GB | People's Doonesbury: notes from underfoot | Marvellous stuff | 1981 |
| Trudeau, GB | Planet Doonesbury | Donald Trump says Trudeau's a jerk. A pathetic moron :-) | 1997 |
| Trudeau, GB | Quality time on Highway 1 | BD as highway cop, Boopsie's daughter, Campaign '92 | 1993 |
| Trudeau, GB | Read my lips, make my day, eat quiche... | Walden reunion, Trump Princess, pregnant JJ | 1989 |
| Trudeau, GB | Recycled Doonesbury | Excellent | 1990 |
| Trudeau, GB | Red Rascal's War | Now full colour | 2011 |
| Trudeau, GB | Signature wound: Rocking TBI | Iraq-based stories | 2010 |
| Trudeau, GB | Squared away | Now full colour | 2013 |
| Trudeau, GB | Tad overweight, but violet eyes to die for | Refers to Liz Taylor (then married to Senator John Warner) | 1980 |
| Trudeau, GB | Talk to the Hand! | Arnie, BD's war wound, Duke running Iraq city | 2004 |
| Trudeau, GB | Tee Time in Berzerkistan | Duke in and around Afghanistan | 2009 |
| Trudeau, GB | That's Doctor Sinatra, you little Bimbo | Sinatra: attempts at humour without regard for fairness or decency | 1986 |
| Trudeau, GB | Virtual Doonesbury | From strength to strength via web sites! | 1996 |
| Trudeau, GB | War within: one more step at a time | BD's personal journey | 2006 |
| Trudeau, GB | Washed out bridges and other disasters | Turmoil at Walden college, Flood of '93, Duke's faked death | 1994 |
| Trudeau, GB | Welcome to Club Scud! | Ground War, Nancy's unauthorised biog, Mike 'between jobs' | 1991 |
| Trudeau, GB | Welcome to the Nerd Farm! | Gen-Nexter Alex is off to MIT | 2007 |
| Trudeau, GB | What is it, Tink, is Pan in trouble? | ex-nanny Zonker goes home, perfectly educated for Bronze Age | 1992 |
| Trudeau, GB | Wreck of the 'Rusty Nail' | Duke's short-term, night-time, high-speed charters out of Miami... | 1983 |
| Trudeau, GB | You give great meeting, Sid | The De Lorean movie project | 1983 |
| Trudeau, GB | You're smokin' now, Mr Butts! | Big Jim's trophy wife, rat in the White House pool, Duke's wedding | 1990 |
| Tsvetkov, Yanko | Atlas of Prejudice, Volume #1 | From the Mapping Stereotypes project | 2013 |
| Various | Lightest blues: US humour from the 30s | OK | 1984 |
| Various | Not the general election | Dated satire | 1983 |
| Vidal, Gore | Myra Breckinridge and Myron | Strange but compelling double dose | 1987 |
| Webb, Colin | Not the Royal Wedding | Dated | 1981 |
| Wells, John | Anyone for Denis? | Riotous weekend at Thatcher's country retreat | 1982 |
| Wells, John | Fifty glorious years: Thatcher tribute! | Good | 1984 |
| Wells, John | Masterpieces | Good stuff | 1982 |
| Wiley | Non Sequitur survival guide for the 90s | Unrecalled | 1995 |
| Winokur, Jon | Curmudgeon's garden of love | Vitriolic | 1989 |
| Winokur, Jon | Friendly advice | Excellent | 1990 |
| Winokur, Jon | Portable Curmudgeon | Excellent | 1989 |
| Winokur, Jon | True confessions: famous intimate secrets | Brilliant | 1992 |
| Wuerker, Matt | Standing tall in deep doo-doo | Cartoons of Campaign '92 & Bush / Quayle era. From Books Etc | 1992 |
| Young, Michael | Rise of the Meritocracy | Classic sociological satire now taken seriously | 1958 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Adams, Fred | Our living Multiverse | Genesis, cosmologically speaking | 2004 |
| Al-Khalili, Jim | Quantum: a guide for the perplexed | Nature's conjuring trick, or joke? | 2003 |
| Allan, DS; Delair, JB | Cataclysm! Compelling evidence of cosmic.. | .. catastrophe in 9500 BC | 1997 |
| Allen, Joseph P | Entering Space: an astronaut's odyssey | Photos from Earth orbit | 1984 |
| Amato, Ivan | Super vision: new view of nature | Worth it for "offensive jelly" (page 95) alone! | 2003 |
| Andrews, Michael | Flight of the Condor | BBC book of spectacular TV series | 1982 |
| Andrews, Michael | Life that lives on Man | Itchy; 'positiflea delightful' -- The Listener! | 1976 |
| Angier, Natalie | Beauty of the beastly | Unjustly maligned creatures (eg scorpions!) | 1995 |
| Angier, Natalie | Canon: beautiful basics of science | Yet another Grand Tour of the basics | 2007 |
| Angier, Natalie | Woman: an intimate geography | A celebration of the female body (who needs any excuse?) | 1999 |
| Ashcroft, Frances | Life at the Extremes: science of survival | Much too readable | 2000 |
| Ashton, John; Laura, Ron | Perils of Progress | Painstakingly documented health & environmental hazards | 1998 |
| Atkins, Peter | Galileo's finger | Pointing to Western scientific thought | 2003 |
| Atkins, PW | Molecules | Scientific American look at chemistry. Excellent of its type | 1987 |
| Atkins, PW | Second Law: energy, chaos and form | Scientific American look at thermodynamics. Heavy! | 1994 |
| Axelrod, Robert | Evolution of Co-operation | ...in a world of self-seeking egoists | 1984 |
| Ball, Philip | H2O: a biography of water | A most peculiar compound | 1999 |
| Ballard, Robert D | Eternal darkness: personal history of... | ..deep-sea exploration | 2000 |
| Baron-Cohen, Simon | Essential Difference: male & female brains | Empathising & systemising. Fascinating stuff | 2003 |
| Baron-Cohen, Simon | Zero degrees of empathy: a new theory.. | .. of human cruelty and kindness | 2011 |
| Barrow, John D | Artful Universe | Deep structures & our relationship to them | 1997 |
| Barrow, John D | Impossibility: limits of science & the... | .. science of limits | 1998 |
| Barrow, John D | Theories of everything | Holy Grail: a theory of everything | 1990 |
| Barrow, John D | World within the world | Some nuggets, deeply-buried | 1988 |
| Barrow, John D; Tipler, FJ | Anthropic cosmological principle | Design, & our place in the universe | 1986 |
| Begelman, M; Rees, M | Gravity's fatal attraction: black holes... | .. in the Universe (updated 1997) | 1996 |
| Behe, Michael J | Darwin's Black Box: biochemical challenge | ... to evolution. Poses seemingly real posers | 1996 |
| Berenbaum, May R | Buzzwords: sex, bugs, and rock'n'roll | Entomologist lets rip, with gusto | 2000 |
| Bernstein, Jeremy | Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos | New Yorker essayist on science, Tom Lehrer, and all sorts | 1993 |
| Bernstein, Jeremy | Einstein | Short on biography, long on essentials of his theories | 1973 |
| Bernstein, Jeremy | Quantum Profiles | New Yorker essayist | 1990 |
| Blackmore, Susan | Meme machine | Mechanism for replicating cultural change? | 1999 |
| Bloom, Paul | Descartes' Baby | Insights from science of child development | 2004 |
| Bodanis, David | e=mc squared | Biography of the world's most famous equation | 2000 |
| Bohren, Craig F | Clouds in a glass of beer | Simple experiments in atmospheric physics | 1987 |
| Bolles, Edmund Blair | Galileo's commandment: great science... | .. writing. Many excellent usual suspects | 1997 |
| Borsook, Paulina | Cyberselfish: critical romp through the.. | .. terribly libertarian w(h)orl(d) of Hi-Tech | 2000 |
| Brand, Stewart | How buildings learn: what happens after.. | .. they're built. (They fall down?) | 1994 |
| Brand, Stewart | Media Lab: inventing the future | Ought to be even better | 1988 |
| Brand, Stewart | Space colonies | Before his Media Lab got famous | 1977 |
| Brennan, Richard P | Heisenberg probably slept here | Lives of 20th C physicists | 1997 |
| Brockman, J; Matson, K | How things are: science tool-kit | 34 essays & snippets | 1995 |
| Brockman, John | Curious minds: how a child becomes.. | ..a scientist. Dawkins, Dennett, Dyson, Gell-Mann, Pinker | 2004 |
| Brockman, John | Science at the Edge | Anthology of some key thinkers, or so they think | 2003 |
| Brockman,Spoto John (ed) | Intelligent thought: science versus.. | ..intelligent design movement. 16 counterblasting essays | 2006 |
| Broderick, Damien | Last mortal generation | Scientific prospect of immortality, of a sort | 1999 |
| Broderick, Damien | Spike: accelerating into the unimaginable | future. Nanotech & other nightmares | 1997 |
| Bromhall, Clive | Eternal child: how evolution has made.. | ..children of us all | 2003 |
| Brown, Andrew | Darwin Wars: scientific battle for soul.. | .. of man. Neo-Darwinist debates | 1999 |
| Brown, Andrew | In the beginning was the worm | Nematodes, & their key to life's little secrets | 2003 |
| Brown, Guy | Energy of Life | Wide-ranging bioenergetics romp | 1999 |
| Bryson, Bill | Short history of nearly everything | From Big Bang to Civilisation; progress? | 2003 |
| Buchanan, Mark | Ubiquity | Power laws governing history | 2000 |
| Burgess, Jeremy | Microcosmos | Damned if I can remember this one | 1987 |
| Cadogan, Peter | From quark to quasar: scale of Universe | Usual sort of stuff | 1985 |
| Calder, Nigel | 1984 and beyond | Updates to some of the 1964 New Scientist predictions | 1983 |
| Calder, Nigel | Weather machine and the threat of ice | Standard Calder | 1974 |
| Calder, Nigel | World in 1984 (2 volumes) | Computing & other predictions all entertainingly dated | 1964 |
| Calvin, William H | How brains think | Evolving intelligence, then & now | 1996 |
| Casti, John L | Paradigms lost | Dense strikes against scientific illiteracy | 1989 |
| Casti, John L | Paradigms regained | His six Big Questions revisited | 2000 |
| Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca | Genes, peoples and languages | Archaeogenetics, for want of a better term | 2000 |
| Chant, Colin | Sources Vol 2: 1870-1950 | Secondary sources, mixture as before | 1988 |
| Charlesworth, K; Gribbin, J | Cartoon history of Time | Excellent approach | 1990 |
| Chown, Marcus | Universe next door | 12 questions answered in essays | 2002 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | 1984 Spring: choice of futures | People don't pay enough attention | 1984 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Greetings, carbon-based bipeds! | Essays, reviews & articles | 1999 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | Report on planet three... | .. & other speculations. 23 essays | 1972 |
| Clarke, Arthur C | View from Serendip | 25 essays & autobiographical notes | 1978 |
| Close, Frank | Particle Explosion | Strangely boring, but nice pix | 1987 |
| Clover, Charles | End of the Line: how overfishing is.. | ..changing the world & what we eat | 2004 |
| Collins, H; Pinch, T | Golem: what everyone should know... | .. about science. Powerful yet potentially dangerous | 1993 |
| Corkin, Suzanne | Permanent present tense | Mixture of biography and neuroscience case study | 2013 |
| Coveney, P; Highfield, R | Arrow of Time | Why does Time point from the past? Indeed, does it always? | 1990 |
| Damasio, Antonio | Feeling of what happens | Body, emotion & consciousness | 1999 |
| Davies, Paul | Accidental Universe | Is it the way it is because we're here to see it?! | 1982 |
| Davies, Paul | How to build a time machine | Physics, free will, & all the usual paradoxes | 2001 |
| Davies, Paul | Mind of God | Provocative | 1992 |
| Davies, Paul | Other worlds | Science essays | 1980 |
| Davies, Paul et al | New Physics: modern essays | Good stuff | 1989 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Devil's chaplain: essays | Evidence-based science; now there's a novelty | 2003 |
| Dawkins, Richard | Unweaving the rainbow | About science in general, life & foolishness in particular | 1998 |
| Dawkins, Richard (ed) | Oxford book of modern science writing | Rounded up many usual suspects | 2008 |
| Day, Peter; Catlow, Richard | Candle revisited: Royal Institute essays | Quirky & fascinating | 1994 |
| Dennett, Daniel C | Freedom evolves | Free will & evolution, basically | 2003 |
| Deutsch, David | Fabric of Reality: deep explanations of... | .. structure of reality, time, quantum computation, etc. | 1997 |
| Diamond, Jared | Collapse: how societies choose to.. | ..fail or survive | 2005 |
| Diamond, Jared | Guns, germs and steel | Short history of everybody for last 13,000 years | 1997 |
| Diamond, Jared | Rise and fall of the third chimpanzee | Excellent. From big mammal to world conqueror, & back? | 1991 |
| Diamond, Jared | Why is sex fun? | Evolution of human sexuality | 1997 |
| Diamond, Jared | World until Yesterday | Traditional tribal societies | 2012 |
| Dickson, Paul | Out of this world: NASA photographs | As described; see also 'Orbit' | 1977 |
| Dixon, Bernard | From Creation to Chaos: classic writings | Some famous, some plucked from (deserved?) obscurity | 1989 |
| Dixon, Bernard | Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World | A journey, bug by blasted bug. Revised edition | 1996 |
| Dunbar, Robin | Grooming, gossip, & evolution of language | Must read this! | 1996 |
| Dyson, Freeman | Disturbing the Universe | Essays, some New Yorker, on science in action | 1979 |
| Dyson, Freeman | From Eros to Gaia | Essays, and lecture notes, on science in action | 1992 |
| Dyson, Freeman | Infinite in all directions | Amazing range of this man's mind | 1988 |
| Dyson, George | Project Orion | To the stars on the crest of a (nuclear) shockwave | 2002 |
| Eagleman, David | Incognito | Thought processes get weird when examined | 2013 |
| Eames, Charles et al | Powers of ten | Perspective bending. Cf. opening shot of Zemeckis 'Contact' | 1982 |
| Ebbesmeyer, Curtis | Flotsametrics and the floating world | What we learned about ocean science from rubber ducks | 2010 |
| Edwards, Frank | Stranger than science (replacement copy) | I was given my original copy in 1964 | 1963 |
| Ehrlich, Robert | Eight preposterous propositions | Benefits of global warming, etc | 2005 |
| Ehrlich, Robert | Nine crazy ideas in science | A few might even be true... | 2001 |
| Eiseley, Loren | Star Thrower | His final (magnificent) collection | 1978 |
| Eiseley, Loren | Unexpected Universe | Essays based on Stanford 'William Haas' lectures | 1969 |
| Emsley, John | Molecules at an exhibition | Chemistry of everyday materials demystified | 1998 |
| Emsley, John; McGough, R | A-Z of the Elements | Channel 4; includes paragraph on each + eight McGough verses | 1991 |
| Enders, Giulia | Gut: the inside story of our body's most.. | .. under-rated organ. Similar territory to Mary Roach | 2014 |
| Engel, Cindy | Wild Health: how animals keep themselves.. | .. well & what we can learn from them | 2002 |
| Epstein, Lewis Carroll | Thinking physics: practical lessons | Good, but ignored by Peter | 1988 |
| Etcoff, Nancy | Survival of the prettiest | Science of beauty | 1999 |
| Evans, D; Zarate, O | Introducing evolutionary psychology | Why are we the way we are? (We're not 'ere 'cos urea?) | 1999 |
| Fagan, Brian | Long summer: how climate changed.. | ..civilisation. Human history is not geologically venerable! | 2004 |
| Farmelo, Graham | It must be beautiful: great equations of.. | ..modern science. 12 essays by bright people! | 2002 |
| Fauvel, J et al | Let Newton be! | Nice overview | 1988 |
| Ferris, Timothy | Coming of age in the Milky Way | Aristotle to big bang, with wonderful 'brief history' appendix | 1988 |
| Ferris, Timothy | Galaxies | Eye opening | 1980 |
| Ferris, Timothy | Physics, Astronomy & Maths treasury | Amazing stuff | 1991 |
| Ferris, Timothy | Whole Shebang: a state-of-the-universe(s) | ..report. History & state of cosmology | 1997 |
| Fester, "Uncle" | Practical LSD Manufacture | Bought just for the cover illustration (honest!) | 1997 |
| Feynman, Richard P | Character of Physical Law | Cornell University 'Messenger' lectures from 1964 | 1965 |
| Feynman, Richard P | Meaning of it all | Lectures (April 1963) on scientist looking at society | 1998 |
| Feynman, Richard P | Pleasure of finding things out | Shorter pieces from diverse sources. Excellent | 1999 |
| Feynman, Richard P | QED: strange theory of light and matter | Quantum electrodynamics made simpler. No equations | 1985 |
| Feynman, Richard P | Six not-so-easy pieces | From his 1962/3 physics lectures at CalTech | 1997 |
| File, Dick | Weather facts | Complete guide to weather and climate | 1990 |
| Fischer, D; Duerbeck, H | Hubble: a new window to the universe | Proof of the utility of the (repaired) space telescope | 1996 |
| Fisher, Len | How to dunk a doughnut: science of every.. | ..day life, including boomerangs, biscuits & fertilisation | 2002 |
| Flood, R; Lockwood, M | Nature of Time | Unread, or certainly unremembered | 1986 |
| Fortey, Richard | Dry store room No. 1 | Natural History Museum | 2008 |
| Fortey, Richard | Life: an unauthorised biography | Natural history of first 4,000,000,000 years or so | 1997 |
| Fortey, Richard | Trilobite! Eyewitness to evolution | Arthropods from seas of early Earth | 2000 |
| Freeman, Derek | Fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead | Samoan researching more than somewhat debunked | 1999 |
| Gamow, George | Mr Tompkins in paperback | Wonderland & atomic exploration together. Amusing essays | 1965 |
| Gardner, Martin | Ambidextrous Universe | Fall of parity & why mirrors reverse (seemingly) | 1964 |
| Gardner, Martin | Did Adam and Eve have navels? | More punctured pseudoscience | 2000 |
| Gardner, Martin | New Age: notes of a fringe watcher | Confronting old (T Lobsang Rampa) & new trends in pseudoscience | 1991 |
| Gardner, Martin | Order and Surprise | Articles & reviews over 50 years | 1983 |
| Gardner, Martin | Sacred Beetle, and other great essays | Has a good claim to be the best collection so far | 1984 |
| Gardner, Martin | Science: good, bad and bogus | Articles & book reviews skewering parascience claims | 1981 |
| Gaute, JHH; Odell, R | Murder 'What dunit' | Investigation & detection of murder | 1982 |
| Gee, Henry | Deep Time | Cladistics: churning palaeontology upside down | 2000 |
| Gilbert, Daniel | Stumbling on happiness | Amusing insights | 2006 |
| Gingerich, Owen | Book nobody read | De revolutionibus by Copernicus from 1543 | 2004 |
| Glass, Don | Why you can never get to the end of a... | .. rainbow. Pop science, including cockroach escape tactics | 1993 |
| Gleick, James | Best American science writing 2000 | Scientific journalism, to be strictly accurate | 2000 |
| Gleick, James | Chaos: making a new science | Whatever happened to chaos?! I stalled on p 144 | 1987 |
| Goldacre, Ben | I think you'll find it's a bit more.. | .. complicated than that. Amusing tales from the Bad Science guy | 2014 |
| Goldsmith, Donald | Supernova | Violent death of a star (Supernova 1987A) | 1989 |
| Gorman, James | Man with no endorphins & other reflections | Science writer as stand-up comic. Links to Djerassi (p 88) | 1989 |
| Gosling, Sam | Snoop: what your stuff says about you | Pop psychology | 2008 |
| Gratzer, Walter | Bedside 'Nature' | Genius & eccentricity in science, 1869 - 1953 | 1996 |
| Gratzer, Walter | Eurekas and Euphorias | Corrected paperback edition | 2004 |
| Gratzer, Walter | Eurekas and Euphorias, aka Oxford book.. | .. of scientific anecdotes | 2002 |
| Gratzer, Walter | Longman Literary companion to science | Culled from literature, biography, reportage & poetry | 1989 |
| Greco, Carlo & Stefano | Piercing the surface: X rays of nature | Good | 1986 |
| Greene, Brian | Elegant Universe | or Superstrings made simple | 1999 |
| Greene, Brian | Fabric of the Cosmos | Texture of reality, heh? | 2004 |
| Greenfield, Susan | Human brain: a guided tour | Xmas 1994 Royal Institution lectures serve as basis | 1997 |
| Greenstein, George | Frozen star | Pulsars, black holes & the fate of stars | 1983 |
| Gribbin, John; Cherfas, J | First Chimpanzee | Did chimps descend from people? | 2001 |
| Gribbin, John; Kelly, Mick | Winds of change | Skimmed | 1989 |
| Hall, Stephen S | Mapping the next millennium | Computer-driven progress in cartography of all types | 1992 |
| Hartmann, WK; Miller, R | Cycles of Fire: stars galaxies deep space | Fascinating | 1987 |
| Hartston, William | Drunken goldfish: irrelevant research | Ace collection. If this is genuine, it's a weird world indeed | 1987 |
| Hartston, William | How was it for you, Professor? | Spoof (mostly, I hope!) sex research | 1992 |
| Hawking, Stephen | Brief history of Time | Big Bang to Black Holes; intro by Carl Sagan | 1988 |
| Hawking, Stephen | Universe in a nutshell | Fabulous graphics to offset boggling ideas | 2001 |
| Heisenberg, Werner | Physics and Philosophy | The implications (for reality) of Uncertainty | 1958 |
| Hey, Tony; Walters, Patrick | Einstein's mirror | If a mirror & I move at light speed, what do I see? Stars? | 1997 |
| Holmes, Hannah | Secret life of dust | Cosmos to kitchen counter | 2001 |
| Hood, Bruce | Supersense | Neuroscience behind belief and superstition | 2009 |
| Horrobin, David | Madness of Adam & Eve | Schizophrenia as an evolutionary driver | 2001 |
| Howse, Derek | Greenwich Time & the Longitude | Official Millennium edition, plentifully illustrated | 1997 |
| Hoyle, Fred | Intelligent Universe | Good survey of plausible explanations | 1983 |
| Hoyle, Fred; Wickramasinghe | Our place in the cosmos | Earth-based evolution is as unenlightened as astrology... | 1993 |
| Jahme, Carole | Beauty & the Beasts: Woman, Ape & ... | ..evolution. Noteworthy for its chapter on female orgasms | 2000 |
| Jarmul, David | Headline news, science views II | 75 essays on science in the news | 1993 |
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| Comfort, Alex | More joy of sex | Old roué strikes again | 1973 |
| Copstick, Kate | EPS: masterclass - girl on girl | Nice pix, poorly proof-read! | 2007 |
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| Delvin, David | EPS: Sexperfect | Indefatigable & explicit | 2005 |
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| Love, Brenda | Encyclopedia of unusual sex practices | Peter bought, & later discarded, his own copy of this | 1992 |
| Maier, Thomas | Masters of Sex: life and times of.. | ..Masters and Johnson | 2009 |
| Margolis, Jonathan | O: the intimate history of the orgasm | Treading some familiar territory | 2004 |
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| McDonald, Dee | EPS: masterclass - sex toys | Good, albeit miniature, overview | 2003 |
| Metcalfe, Alice | EPS: masterclass - blow-jobs | This is definitely a stretch | 2003 |
| Mounce, DC | Millennium Handbook | Fourth (HTML) draft now completed. Taschen here I come? | 2003 |
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| Roach, Mary | Bonk | Sex and science | 2008 |
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| Silverstein, Charles | New Joy of gay sex | Co-written by Edmund White | 1992 |
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| Stanway, Andrew | New guide to loving | New split pages format, at least | 1998 |
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| Taormino, Tristan | Down & Dirty sex secrets | aka Pucker Up. Detailed directions | 2001 |
| Taormino, Tristan | Tristan Taormino's True Lust | Who does your pubic hair? & similar columns | 2002 |
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| Venus, Brenda | Secrets of seduction for women | One of Henry Miller's correspondents | 1996 |
| Webb, Charlotte | EPS: masterclass - anal sex | Creeping round the back door | 2006 |
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| Winks, Cathy; Semans, Anne | Good Vibrations guide to sex | Probably the only guide worth keeping | 1994 |
| Winks, Cathy; Semans, Anne | New Good Vibrations guide to sex | Revised & expanded (2nd edition) sanity | 1997 |
| Yorke, Dr Andrew | Art of erotic massage | As described | 1988 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
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| Abelove, Henry | Lesbian and gay studies reader | 666 pp, including the amazing 'Tearooms and sympathy' | 1993 |
| Ableman, Paul | Anatomy of nakedness | British attitudes to public nudity & sexuality | 1982 |
| Abrams, Fran | Below the Breadline: living on minimum... | ..wage in the UK. Compare Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel & Dimed | 2002 |
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| Adam, Michael | Womankind: a celebration | Eclectic selection of pix & texts | 1979 |
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| Alyson Publications | Alyson Almanac | Treasury of information for gays. Fascinating | 1989 |
| Amende, Coral | Hollywood Confidential | Public careers & private lives of Hollywood's rich & famous | 1997 |
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| Anand, Margo | Art of sexual ecstasy | Based on Tantra, with tinges of a New Age flavour too | 1989 |
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| Bancroft, John et al | Sex and Humor: Kinsey Institute archives | A perfect combination | 2002 |
| Banham, M; Hillier, B | Tonic to the nation: 1951 Festival | Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end | 1976 |
| Barrington, Judith | Intimate wilderness: lesbians on sexuality | 45 interesting essays, stories & poems | 1991 |
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| Bayley, Stephen | Sex, drink and fast cars | Essays on creation and consumption of images | 1986 |
| Beckett, Andy | Promised you a miracle: UK 80-82 | As Thatcher's grip tightened | 2015 |
| Bennett, Tony; Woollacott, J | Bond and beyond: a popular hero | Political career & acquisition of historical validity | 1987 |
| Beresford, Philip | Book of the Rich: Sunday Times | UK's 400 richest people; handy for when revolution comes! | 1990 |
| Berkowitz, Eric | Sex and Punishment: 4000 years of judging | .. desire. Fascinating and maddening | 2012 |
| Berube, Allan | Coming out under fire: gays in WWII | 10 years of interviews for a well-researched hidden history | 1990 |
| Bishop, Clifford | Sex and Spirit: ecstasy, ritual & taboo | Intersection of sex & religion, worldwide | 1996 |
| Blank, Joani | Femalia | 32 glorious colour close-ups of vulvas; vivid & startling | 1993 |
| Blank, Joani | First person sexual: self-pleasuring | 44 magical accounts of self-discovery | 1996 |
| Blank, Joani | I am my lover: women pleasure themselves | Gorgeous monochrome photos by six artists (2nd edition) | 1997 |
| Boffin, T; Fraser, J | Stolen glances: lesbians take photographs | Lesbian representation by lesbians. Wordy & very worthy | 1991 |
| Bordo, Susan | Male Body: men in public & private | Candid cultural analysis | 1999 |
| Boulware, Jack | Sex, American style: illustrated romp... | .. thru golden age of heterosexuality | 1997 |
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| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed: undercover in low-wage.. | .. USA. Compare with Fran Abrams' Below the breadline (UK) | 2001 |
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| Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan | Doctors | Fascinating | 1984 |
| Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan | Love sex marriage and divorce | Amazing range | 1981 |
| Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan | Public school phenomenon | Comprehensive history of our weird institution | 1977 |
| Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan | Rise and fall of the British Nanny | All aspects of the (strange) Nanny phenonmenon | 1972 |
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| Gelb, Norman | Irresistible impulse | Sex! What else? Erotic notions & practices through the ages | 1979 |
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| Gilbert, Harriett | Sexual imagination: from Acker to Zola | Excellent tiny essays; 500 words on masturbation, for example | 1993 |
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| Hardyment, Christina | Home comfort: domestic arrangements | Excellent | 1992 |
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| Harrisson, Tom | Britain | A Mass Observation look at 30s life | 1939 |
| Harrisson, Tom | Living through the Blitz | Eye-witness, Mass Observation, accounts. Stalled on p146 | 1976 |
| Harrisson, Tom | Pub and the people | A Mass Observation survey of, inter alia, Daily Drink Speeds! | 1943 |
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| Jenkins, Emily | Tongue first: adventures in physical... | .. culture. Or trying everything that's socially taboo | 1998 |
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| Kerekes, David | Headpress #15: War in Heaven | Interesting & iconoclastic | 1997 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #17: into the psyche | Wide range of topics | 1998 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #18: agony & ecstasy of... | ..underground culture. Interviews with Al Goldstein, etc. | 1999 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #19: world without end | More societal scrapings | 1999 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #21: unreal is real | Jerry Sadowitz, Gershon Legman obituary, Frederick Wiseman... | 2001 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #22: bad birds | Sex and death etc. | 2001 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #23: funhouse | Last house on Dead End Street | 2002 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #24: powered by love | Interviews with Stagliano & Palahniuk | 2002 |
| Kerekes, David | Headpress #25: flicker machine edition | A William Burroughs theme | 2003 |
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| Polsky, Ned | Hustlers, Beats, and others | Sociology of porn, Pool rooms, & NY Village Beats, circa 1960 | 1967 |
| Porter, Roy; Hall, Lesley | Facts of Life: sexual knowledge, 1650-1950 | Good grief! | 1995 |
| Posener, Jill | Louder than words | 100+ photos of grafitti in Australia & Britain | 1986 |
| Powell, C; Paton, GEC | Humour in society: resistance & control | Papers on sociology of humour & its production | 1988 |
| Pressley, Alison | Best of Times: growing up in Britain in... | .. the 1950s. Nostalgia rules. Present from Christa | 1999 |
| Pressley, Alison | Changing Times: being young in Britain... | .. in the 60s. So long ago! | 2000 |
| Pressley, Alison | Seventies: good times, bad taste | Further socio-pop-cultural stripmining | 2002 |
| Queen, Carol | Real live nude girls | Superb chronicles of sex-positive culture | 1997 |
| Queen, Carol; Schimel, L | PoMoSexuals: challenging assumptions... | .. about gender & sexuality | 1997 |
| Quilliam, Susan | Women on sex | Oral opinions of 200 women on all manner of things sexual | 1994 |
| Rapoport, Anatol | Conflict in man-made environment | Herman Kahn to Mike Hammer, Northern Ireland to apartheid | 1974 |
| Ratigan, Dylan | Greedy Bastard$! How to reverse the ... | .. damage done by unfettered Capitalism. Kindle edition | 2012 |
| Re/search | Re/search #13: angry women | 16 amazing interviews with Annie Sprinkle, Susie Bright etc | 1991 |
| Rees, Phil | Dining with terrorists | World's hot-list of wanted militants | 2005 |
| Reich, Robert B | Future of success: work & life in new.. | .. economy (of USA, of course) | 2000 |
| Rheims, Bettina | Kim Harlow | AIDS & sexual transformation: a poignant diary | 1994 |
| Ribeiro, Aileen | Dress and morality | Nice (un)coverage | 1986 |
| Richardson, Jo | Lexicon of Love | Mostly duplicates Emily Ford's Pillow Book, but cheaper! | 2002 |
| Rimmer, Gary | How to make a camel smoothie | Surreal & bizarre arithmetic on Planet Earth | 2005 |
| Ritzer, George | McDonaldization of Society | Weber's theory of rationalisation in guise of fast food | 1996 |
| Roberts, Nickie | Whores in history (Western society) | Interesting | 1992 |
| Roberts, Paul | End of Oil | Decline of petroleum economy + afterword (2005) | 2004 |
| Roberts, Yvonne | Mad about women | Can there ever be fair play between the sexes? | 1992 |
| Rogers, Susan Fox | Sportsdykes | Pieces celebrating lesbian sports experience(s) | 1994 |
| Root, Jane | Pictures of women: sexuality | Depressing mass media portrayal of women | 1984 |
| Rosen, Michael A | Lust and Romance: rated X fine art photos | WYSIWY (monochromatically) G $29.95/Amazon | 1998 |
| Rosen, Michael A | Sexual art: photos that test the limits | Monochromatic WYSIWYG | 1994 |
| Ross, Christopher | Tunnel visions | Lived experience on London's Underground, but see p151! | 2001 |
| Rowe, Marsha | Spare Rib Reader: selection from 10 years | 600 superb & well-organised pages | 1982 |
| Rubin, Lillian B | Erotic wars: the sexual revolution... | .. and its aftermath. Snippets from many interviews | 1990 |
| Rucker, Rudy et al | Mondo 2000: user's guide to the new edge | Cyberpunk, VR, wetware, AI etc. predating Web & now dated! | 1992 |
| Rutledge, Leigh W | Gay book of lists | Alternately fascinating & aggravating trivia | 1987 |
| Rutledge, Leigh W | Gay decades | Parallels my CICS Chronicle as far as 1990! | 1992 |
| Rutledge, Leigh W | Gay Fireside companion | Alphabetised collection of unusual information | 1989 |
| Rutledge, Leigh W | Unnatural quotations | By, or about, gays | 1988 |
| Rutledge, LW; Hancock, GP | Too much of a good thing... | Nice set of quotations | 2000 |
| Sandbrook, Dominic | Great British Dream Factory | Celebratory survey of our culture | 2015 |
| Sandbrook, Dominic | Seasons in the sun: Battle for Britain.. | .. events from 1974 to 1979 | 2012 |
| Sanderson, Terry | Potts correspondence & other gay humour | Anecdotage & funny memoirs from 'Gay Times' | 1987 |
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| Schramm-Evans, Zoe | Making out: lesbian sex and sexuality | Cashing in on 'lesbian-chic' I suspect | 1995 |
| Seabrook, Jeremy | City close-up | They're poor 'up North' | 1971 |
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| Seidler, Victor J | Achilles Heel reader | Men, sexual politics & socialism. Key articles | 1991 |
| Shapiro, Evelyn & Barry | Women's Lib & Men's consciousness | OK | 1979 |
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| Sheppard, Simon | Kinkorama: despatches from the front.. | ..lines of perversion. He rates 3 of my favourite authors! | 2003 |
| Sherman, Carol; Smith, A | Highlights: an illustrated history of... | .. cannabis. Beautifully produced | 1999 |
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| Showalter, Elaine | Hystories: hysterical epidemics & modern.. | .. culture. Alien abductions, recovered memory, Gulf War syndrome | 1997 |
| Showalter, Elaine | Sexual anarchy: gender & culture | Society at end of 19th Century | 1990 |
| Simpson, Mark | It's a queer world | UK culture in 1990s, via a perverse eye | 1996 |
| Smith, Joan | Different for girls | More collected essays, inc. Princess Di | 1997 |
| Smith, Joan | Misogynies | Men's secret dread of women. I made it to p117 | 1989 |
| Snitow, Ann et al | Desire: politics of sexuality | Incredible range of pieces, with best for last! | 1983 |
| Sonntag, Linda | Seduction through the ages | Fairly superficial eye candy whizz thru history | 2001 |
| Spencer, Colin | Homosexuality: a history | Unread | 1995 |
| Sprinkle, Annie | Post-porn modernist: my 25 years as a... | .. multimedia whore. Fascinating scrapbook of lovely weirdness | 1998 |
| Steinberg, David | Erotic by nature | Wonderful & evocative & very sexy photos & prose | 1988 |
| Steinberg, David | Erotic impulse: honoring the sensual self | Marvellous & eclectic selection of pieces | 1992 |
| Steinberg, David | Photo Sex: fine art sexual photography.. | ..comes of age. Some old, some new, most blue! | 2003 |
| Steinem, Gloria | Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions | Articles by America's leading old feminist | 1983 |
| Stevens, Robin | Girlfriend #1; lesbian life in the 90s | Good take on Gen-X lesbians, inspired by Kris Kovick! | 1994 |
| Stoller, Robert J | Porn: myths for the 20th century | Unread | 1991 |
| Stott, Mary | Women talking: Guardian women's page | From 1922-35 and 1957-71; some great stuff | 1987 |
| Streatfeild, Dominic | Cocaine: an unauthorised biography | Light style for a heavy topic, well-researched | 2001 |
| Surowiecki, James | Wisdom of crowds | Not news to John Brunner in 1973! | 2004 |
| Tang, Isabel | Pornography: the secret history of ... | .. civilisation, for excellent C4 series by Fenton Bailey | 1999 |
| Tarrant, Chris | Ready steady go! Growing up in 50s and 60s | Great stuff, nostalgia! | 1990 |
| Tatchell, Peter | Safer sexy: guide to gay sex safely | More 'new directions' than you can shake a stick at | 1994 |
| Taylor, Craig | Londoners: the days and nights of London.. | ..now, (oral history) | 2011 |
| Taylor, Laurie | In the underworld | Taylor, with John McVicar as minder, & a tape recorder | 1984 |
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| Thomas, Keith | Oxford book of work | Serendipitous grab-bag | 1999 |
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| Thompson, Bill | Soft core: moral crusades against porn | Demonisation of porn for those 'of the wrong background' | 1994 |
| Thompson, Jane L | It's a matter of people | Good | 1985 |
| Tisdale, Sallie | Talk dirty to me: philosophy of sex | Tisdale's self-revelatory essays on sexuality | 1994 |
| Toffler, Alvin | Power shift | Knowledge wealth & violence at edge of 21st Century | 1990 |
| Tomlinson, Alan (ed) | Consumption, identity, & style | Essays on marketing, TV, censorship, Mills & Boon, pop, leisure | 1990 |
| Tone, Andrea | Devices & Desires: contraceptives in USA | Bootleg birth control from soup, as it were, to nuts | 2001 |
| Toth, Jennifer | Mole people: tunnels beneath NY City... | .. & their denizens. Scary stuff | 1993 |
| Toynbee, Polly | Hard Work: life in low-pay Britain | What a shocking country | 2003 |
| Trachtenburg, Peter | Casanova complex | Sexual addiction & some famous addicts (stalled on p78) | 1986 |
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| Tribe, David | Questions of censorship | Assisted by Arts Council. Sadly, not yet dated! | 1973 |
| Turner, Grady T | NYC Sex: from Museum of Sex archives | The gang(bang)'s all here, or Sodom on the Hudson | 2002 |
| Ulrich, Barbara | Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin | Estrogen-driven erotica; see Voluptuous Panic, too | 2002 |
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| Vankin, Jonathan et al | Big Book of the 70s | Comix take on 10 years of tackiness & Flenniken on Womens Lib | 2000 |
| Veitch, Andrew | Naked Ape: male chauvinism (Guardian) | OK | 1981 |
| Vermorel, Judy & Fred | Fandemonium! | Unusual | 1989 |
| Vidal, Gore | Sexually speaking: collected sex writings | From 1965 onward; excellent stuff | 1999 |
| Vinen, Richard | National Service: a generation in uniform | Good coverage of many issues in this, now distant, history | 2015 |
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| White, Edmund | Burning Library | Post-Stonewall: art, politics & sexuality 1969-1993 | 1994 |
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| Wilson, Colin | Misfits | OK | 1988 |
| Wilson, Colin | Written in blood: forensic detection | Interesting | 1989 |
| Wilson, Elizabeth | Adorned in dreams: fashion & modernity | Good | 1985 |
| Wilson, Elizabeth | Hallucinations: life in postmodern city | Wide-ranging essays | 1988 |
| Winder, Robert | Granta book of the Family | 22 pieces of reportage and memoir | 1995 |
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| de Botton, Alain | On seeing and noticing | Penguin 70th mini | 2005 |
| Delerm, Philippe | Small pleasures of Life | Tiny essays on things like shelling peas | 1997 |
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| Dixon, Norman F | Psychology of military incompetence | Brilliant & incisive analysis of blunders & bullshit | 1976 |
| Dowman, Keith | Masters of enchantment | Lives & legends of Mahasiddhas, founders of Tantric Buddhism | 1988 |
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| Frankfurt, Harry G | On Bullshit | The WSJ wouldn't even print the whole title! | 2005 |
| Frankl, Viktor E | Man's search for meaning | Holocaust survivor | 1959 |
| Frayn, Michael | Human touch: our part in the.. | ..creation of a Universe - or not? | 2006 |
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| Gardner, Martin | Gardner's Whys and Wherefores | Good | 1989 |
| Gardner, Martin | Night is large: essays, 1938 - 1995 | 47 essays on wide range of topics | 1996 |
| Gardner, Martin | When you were a tadpole and I was a fish | Speculations about this and that | 2009 |
| Gardner, Martin | Whys of a philosophical scrivener | Good | 1983 |
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| Gibran, Kahlil | Prophet | Lebanese poet's wisdom | 1923 |
| Goffman, Erving | Presentation of self in everyday life | Social encounters as dramatic performance | 1959 |
| Goldhill, Simon | Love, sex and tragedy | Why classics matters & historical amnesia | 2004 |
| Goleman, Daniel | Vital lies, simple truths | Psychology of self-deception | 1985 |
| Gonick, Larry | Cartoon guide to (non) communication | Good | 1989 |
| Gower, Ralph | Frontiers | Unread, & God knows where | 1983 |
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| Grayling, AC | Meaning of Things: applying philosophy... | .. to life. Collected columns of mini-essays | 2001 |
| Grayling, AC | Reason of Things: living with philosophy | Longer, but still thoughtful, pieces of everyday wisdom | 2002 |
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| Griffiths, Jay | Pip Pip | Entrancing rambles on & in Time | 2000 |
| Griffiths, Sian | Predictions: 30 great minds on the future | From Times Higher Education Supplement | 2000 |
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| Handy, Charles | Gods of Management | Early British version of Tom Peters | 1978 |
| Handy, Charles | Taking stock: being 50 in the 80s | Just after he went freelance, becoming a management guru | 1983 |
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| Hardison Jr, OB | Disappearing through the skylight | Skimmed but found it very heavy going | 1989 |
| Harth, Erich | Dawn of a millennium | Stone Age bodies & brains into 21st Century. Stalled on p139 | 1990 |
| Harth, Erich | Windows on the mind | Physical basis of consciousness | 1982 |
| Hayakawa, Samuel I | Language in thought and action | Senator Sam | 1978 |
| Hitchens, Christopher | God is not great | How religion poisons everything | 2008 |
| Hodgkinson, Tom | How to be free | To be idle is to live free | 2006 |
| Hodgkinson, Tom | How to be free | The Idler chap | 2006 |
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| Hofstadter, Douglas | I am a strange loop | An elephant in a matchbox is neither fish nor fowl | 2007 |
| Hofstadter, Douglas R | Godel, Escher, Bach: eternal golden braid | I still find this largely unreadable, though clever | 1979 |
| Hofstadter, Douglas R | Metamagical themas: mind and pattern | Heavy columns, mostly from 'Scientific American' | 1985 |
| Hofstadter, Douglas R | Le Ton beau de Marot | In praise of the music of language & the art of translation | 1997 |
| Hofstadter, DR; Dennett, D | Mind's I: reflections on self and soul | Stalled on p53. Is the soul greater than the hum of its parts? | 1981 |
| Holmes, Donald | Illuminati conspiracy | Basically, New Age conspiracy ramblings | 1987 |
| Hughes, P; Brecht, G | Vicious circles and infinity | Paradoxes galore: 'It is forbidden to forbid' | 1975 |
| Humphrey, Nicholas | History of the mind | Heavy, but worth a skim | 1992 |
| Hyde, Lewis | Gift: how the creative spirit transforms.. | ..the world | 1983 |
| Jacobs, Barbara | Loving Mr Spock | Partnering someone with Asperger's syndrome | 2003 |
| James, Aaron | Ass-holes: a theory | Little or no shortage of source material on this planet | 2013 |
| Jay, Antony | Corporation Man | As wise as Machiavelli; but did anyone listen? | 1972 |
| Jay, Antony | Effective presentation | Good hints & advice | 1993 |
| Jay, Antony | Management and Machiavelli | Still masterly: always leave a face-saving exit! | 1967 |
| Kincher, Jonni | First honest book about lies | But can we trust the title? | 1992 |
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| Knuth, Donald E | Things a computer scientist rarely.. | ..talks about. Religion, for example | 2001 |
| Kosko, Bart | Fuzzy thinking (fuzzy logic) | What things are when they're neither true nor false | 1993 |
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| Kuijsten, Marcel | Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: the theories.. | .. of Julian Jaynes. New interpretations | 2016 |
| Kuijsten, Marcel (ed) | Reflections on the dawn of consciousness.. | Kindle edition. Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes) revisited | 2013 |
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| Lane, John | Timeless Simplicity: creative living in.. | ..a consumer society. If such be possible, at least | 2001 |
| LaVey, Anton Szandor | Devil's notebook | Essays from a Satanist. Interesting | 1992 |
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| Law, Stephen | Philosophy of Christmas | Santa Claus has a white beard: discuss | 2003 |
| Leary, Timothy | Neuropolitique | Originally drafted in jail in Nixon's era | 1988 |
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| Lelord, Francois | Hector and the search for happiness | Kindle edition. Written with child-like clarity | 2011 |
| Levi, Primo; Regge, Tullio | Conversations | Writer encounters physicist | 1984 |
| Lewis, HW | Why flip a coin? The art & science of... | .. good decisions. Good companion to 'Irrationality' | 1997 |
| Lilly, John C | Centre of the Cyclone | Dolphins, serotonin, & alpha waves | 1972 |
| Lotringer, Sylvere et al | Semiotext(e) USA | Heavy | 1987 |
| Lyle, Colin | What the civilian manager isn't taught | Interesting military take on management | 1987 |
| Magee, Bryan | Modern British philosophy | Interviews with 1960s figures | 1971 |
| Magee, Bryan | Story of philosophy | Can you believe a Dorling Kindersley primer? | 1998 |
| Maitland, Sara | Book of Silence | Many varieties of silence | 2008 |
| Marriott, John | Sensoria from censorium | Rich pickings from Underground culture | 1993 |
| Merton, Robert K | On the shoulders of giants | Newton's observation, teased out à la Tristram Shandy | 1965 |
| Michalko, Michael | Thinkertoys | I think it made me think! | 1991 |
| Miller, George A | Psychology of communication: 7 essays | He who gave us the magic of number seven | 1967 |
| Miller, Jonathan; Durant, J | Laughing matters (BAAS, 1987) | Unfunny & dull, surprisingly | 1988 |
| Munroe, Randall | Thing Explainer | Large format XKCD technical expositions in simple language | 2015 |
| Munroe, Randall | What if? Collected musings from XKCD.. | .. chap with his lively mind pondering absurd hypotheticals | 2014 |
| Norman, Donald A | Psychology of everyday things | Like door handles that are counter-intuitive | 1988 |
| Ornstein, Robert | Evolution of consciousness | Origins of way we think, plus wonderful cartoon drawings | 1991 |
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| Paterson, Don | Book of Shadows | Aphorisms & quasi-proverbs. Bears re-reading, see p33! | 2004 |
| Persig, Robert M | Lila: an inquiry into morals | Heavy in several senses | 1991 |
| Persig, Robert M | Zen & the art of motorcycle maintenance | Brilliant but sometimes very dreary, too | 1974 |
| Pinker, Steven | How the mind works | Another verbal mountain to scale. Good so far | 1997 |
| Pinker, Steven | Stuff of thought | Language-based neural insights | 2007 |
| Potter, Christopher | How to make a human being | More like a commonplace book | 2014 |
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| Reps, Paul | Zen flesh, zen bones | Almost a book of Zen scriptures | 1957 |
| Rhinehart, Luke | Book of est | Semi-fictionalised diary of a typical Erhardt weekend | 1976 |
| Rolls, Geoff | Taking the proverbial | Psychology of proverbs & sayings | 2007 |
| Ronson, Jon | Psychopath Test | Traversing the 'madness industry' | 2011 |
| Rowson, Martin | Dog Allusion: pets, gods, & how to.. | ..be human | 2008 |
| Russell, Alex | Clear thinking for all | From my Hatfield Poly days | 1967 |
| Russell, Bertrand | Bertrand Russell's best | Silhouettes in satire. Good snippets from his writings | 1958 |
| Saul, John Ralston | Voltaire's bastards | Dictatorship of reason in the West. Ideas v action | 1992 |
| Scarry, Elaine | Body in Pain: making/unmaking the world | Strange meditations on torture, war, & meaning of pain | 1985 |
| Schwartz, Steven | Pavlov's heirs | Interesting accounts of experiments | 1987 |
| Searle, John | Minds, brains & science (Reith lectures) | Good | 1984 |
| Shermer, Michael | Why people believe weird things | Pseudoscience, superstition, & other modern confusions | 1997 |
| Smith, Anthony | Sideways look, A | Zany angles on some established ideas | 1983 |
| Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean | Intellectual impostures | Story behind undetected parody pisstake/scandal of PostModernism | 1999 |
| Solomon, Andrew | Far from the Tree: Parents, children and the .. | .. search for identity. A long slog, it seems | 2012 |
| Solomon, Andrew | Noonday Demon: an anatomy of depression | Hefty enough to displace Burton's (1750) Melancholy? | 2001 |
| Solomon, Sheldon et al | Worm at the Core: on the role of death.. | ..in life. Humane terror management! | 2015 |
| Soper, Kerry D | Garry Trudeau: aesthetics of satire | Lightweight appraisal of Doonesbury | 2008 |
| Storr, Anthony | Churchill's Black Dog & other essays | On creativity & internal forces | 1989 |
| Storr, Anthony | Feet of clay: a study of Gurus | Gurdjieff, Jung, Freud, Jesus, Rajneesh | 1996 |
| Sutherland, Stuart | Irrationality: the enemy within | And possible cures from author of 'Breakdown' | 1992 |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Antifragile: things that gain from.. | ..disorder, not just in economics spheres | 2012 |
| Taleb, Nassim Nicholas | Black Swan: impact of the highly.. | ..improbable, mostly in economics spheres | 2007 |
| Tallis, Raymond | Hunger | The art of living | 2008 |
| Tallis, Raymond | Kingdom of Infinite Space | Inside the noggin | 2008 |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden | Pond-side reflections & contemplations | 1854 |
| Thorp, Gary | Sweeping changes: Zen & the art of... | ..household maintenance?! | 2000 |
| Thouless, Robert H | Straight and crooked thinking | Say what? | 1953 |
| Tiger, Lionel | Pursuit of pleasure | The experience, its many diverse forms, & its repression | 1992 |
| Van Swaaij, Louise et al | Atlas of Experience | Very nearly perfectly uncategorisable! Copy to Chris Palmer | 2000 |
| von Oech, Roger | Whack on the side of the head | Lateral thoughts | 1983 |
| Ward, G Kingsley | Letters of a bu$ine$$man to his son | Completely self-explanatory and absorbing | 1985 |
| Warner, Marina | From the beast to the blonde | Fairy tales & their tellers | 1994 |
| Warner, Marina | No go the bogeyman: scaring, lulling... | .. & making mock. Males characters of terror in fairy tales | 1998 |
| Whittaker, David | Stafford Beer: Think before you think | Gorgeous anthology of all manner of 'stuff' from a great mind | 2009 |
| Wilson, Colin | War against sleep | Philosophy of Gurdjieff | 1980 |
| Wilson, Robert Anton | Coincidance: a head test | Bought in Penzance? Some excellent snippets | 1988 |
| Wilson, Robert Anton | Cosmic trigger Vol 2 | Written during the Gulf War; it shows! | 1991 |
| Wilson, Robert Anton | New Inquisition | His diagnosis of the irrationality of modern science | 1986 |
| Wilson, Robert Anton | Prometheus rising | What might our next (mental) evolutionary step be like? | 1983 |
| Wilson, Robert Anton | Sex and drugs | Original edition had 'and the Occult' in its title | 1973 |
| Wisnewski, J Jeremy (ed) | Family Guy and Philosophy | Modern PopCulture as an illuminant | 2007 |
| Wittkower, DE | Philip K Dick and philosophy: do androids | .. have kindred spirits? Not sure this answers that | 2011 |
| Wolff, Cynthia G | Other lives | Unread | 1973 |
| Young, JZ | Programs of the brain | Heavy | 1978 |
| Zechmeister, EB; Johnson, JE | Critical thinking: a functional approach | Applied to real-life situations; lots of 'think about it' | 1992 |
| Author | Title | Notes | Year |
|---|
| Bagley, Desmond | Enemy | Spies & nasty counter-spies. Excellent, & sad. Bought in Guernsey | 1977 |
| Bagley, Desmond | Freedom Trap | Long-term prisoners getting sprung; double agents in Malta | 1971 |
| Bagley, Desmond | Landslide | Taught me 'thixotropic'. Dams in British Columbia. Read in 6th form | 1967 |
| Bagley, Desmond | Running blind | Department messenger boy & spies in Iceland | 1970 |
| Bagley, Desmond | Tightrope Men | Waking up with a new face; now there's a thing! | 1973 |
| Behm, Marc | Eye of the beholder | Filmed twice, a wild trip through obsessive madness | 1980 |
| Behm, Marc | Ice maiden | Slow socialisation of a criminal vampire | 1983 |
| Behm, Marc | Queen of the night | Nazi Germany & a search for an elusive father figure | 1977 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril | Mort #1: Don't point that thing at me | Trilogy in one replacement volume: Texan & the Goya | 1972 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril | Mort #2: After you with the pistol | Charlie Mortdecai, in out of his depth | 1979 |
| Bonfiglioli, Kyril | Mort #3: Something nasty in the woodshed | Charlie Mortdecai | 1976 |
| Boucher, Anthony | Case of the crumpled knave | Irish detective O'Breen and a dead man's final message | 1939 |
| Boucher, Anthony | Case of the seven of Calvary | Sanskrit expert & weird heretical cult | 1937 |
| Boucher, Anthony | Nine times nine | A locked room murder | 1940 |
| Boucher, Anthony | Rocket to the morgue | Further impossible murders | 1942 |
| Brackett, Leigh | No good from a corpse | Jealousy, blackmail, revenge, murder: the usual suspects | 1944 |
| Brown, Fredric | Fabulous clipjoint | Best first novel award. Midnight in a Chicago murder alley | 1947 |
| Brown, Fredric | Knock three-one-two | Filmed twice. Gambling liquor salesman watching killings | 1959 |
| Brown, Fredric | Night of the Jabberwock | Murder, bank-robbing, haunted houses, gangsters | 1950 |
| Brown, Fredric | Screaming Mimi | Film with Anita Ekberg. Beauty, the Beast, & a Ripper | 1949 |
| Buchan, John | Greenmantle | Still unread, alas! | 1916 |
| Buchan, John | Island of sheep | Devoured as a kid | 1936 |
| Buchan, John | John Macnab | Fishy! Read several times as a kid | 1925 |
| Buchan, John | Mr Standfast | Still unread | 1919 |
| Buchan, John | Thirty-nine steps | Films were strangely better! | 1915 |
| Buchan, John | Three hostages | Read several times | 1924 |
| Burnett, WR | Asphalt jungle | Film by Huston (Bogart & Hayden). Study of a major crime | 1949 |
| Burnett, WR | High Sierra | Film by Raoul Walsh (Bogart). Hallucinatory flight from police | 1940 |
| Burnett, WR | Little Caesar | Film by LeRoy (Edward G Robinson). Italian gangster in USA | 1929 |
| Burnett, WR | Vanity Row | Usual big city corruption with murder in high places | 1952 |
| Castle, Richard | Naked Heat | A piece of meta-fiction ghosted for ABC studio TV series "Castle" | 2011 |
| Chandler, Raymond | Big Sleep | General Sternwood and his family problems | 1939 |
| Chandler, Raymond | Farewell, my lovely | Moose Malloy and a missing nightclub crooner | 1940 |
| Chandler, Raymond | High Window | Seeking a jinxed gold doubloon | 1942 |
| Chandler, Raymond | Lady in the Lake | Seeking the missing wife of Derace Kingsley | 1943 |
| Chandler, Raymond | Little Sister | Nobody ever looked less like Lady Macbeth | 1949 |
| Chandler, Raymond | Long Good-bye | Terry Lennox and his dead wife, Sylvia | 1953 |
| Charyn, Jerome | Isaac #1: Marilyn the wild | Hot-headed daughter of Police Boss used in vendetta against him | 1976 |
| Charyn, Jerome | Isaac #2: Blue eyes | Blond Jewish cop who preferred ping-pong, hunted by Chinaman | 1974 |
| Charyn, Jerome | Isaac #3: Education of Patrick Silver | Giant Irish ex-cop: pawn in war between Isaac & Peruvian pimps | 1976 |
| Charyn, Jerome | Isaac #4: Secret Isaac | Isaac's trip to Dublin | 1978 |
| Coben, Harlan | Tell no one | Return of a dead? kidnap victim? | 2001 |
| Connolly, JJ | Layer Cake | Levels of the druggy underworld, well-filmed | 2000 |
| Dibdin, Michael | Dirty tricks | To be inside her before her husband had driven away... | 1991 |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Sherlock Holmes collection | Penguin boxed set & Further Adventures, too | 1997 |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Sherlock Holmes: complete short stories | All 56: Adventures, Memoirs, Return, Last bow, Case-book | 1927 |
| Forester, CS | Ship, The | World War II convoy to Malta | 1943 |
| Fowler, Christopher | B&M#1: Full Dark House | Flashing back to 1940 London | 2003 |
| Fowler, Christopher | B&M#2: The Water Room | Kentish Town murders | 2004 |
| Fowler, Christopher | B&M#3: Seventy-seven clocks | Set in the 1973 winter of discontent | 2005 |
| Fowler, Christopher | B&M#4: Ten-second staircase | Highwayman Fever? | 2006 |
| Fowler, Christopher | B&M#5: White Corridor | En route to Dartmoor | 2007 |
| Fowler, Christopher | B&M#6: The Victoria Vanishes | Disappearing pubs | 2008 |
| French, Sean; Gerrard, Nicci | Beneath the skin | Outing #4 | 2000 |
| French, Sean; Gerrard, Nicci | Killing me softly | Joined-Up Writing strikes for 3rd time | 1999 |
| French, Sean; Gerrard, Nicci | Memory Game | Skeletons in cupboards & garden | 1997 |
| French, Sean; Gerrard, Nicci | Safe House | Post-traumatic stress doctor & her woes | 1998 |
| Gee, Maggie | Dying, in other words | Ambitious, but not wholly readable | 1981 |
| Goodis, David | Dark passage | Filmed with Bogart & Bacall. Man on the run; plastic surgery | 1946 |
| Goodis, David | Down there | Filmed as 'Shoot the Pianist' (Truffaut). Pianist hits Skid Row | 1956 |
| Goodis, David | Moon in the gutter | Filmed by Jean-Jacques Beineix (Kinski + Depardieu) | 1953 |
| Goodis, David | Nightfall | Filmed by Jacques Tourneur. Amnesiac possible murderer | 1947 |
| Hammett, Dashiell | Thin Man | Filmed well; Nick Charles, retired Private Eye | 1932 |
| Hopler, Jay | Killing spirit: anthology of assassins | 17, incl Hemingway's The Killers | 1996 |
| Jakubowski, Maxim | Mammoth book of comic crime | All the usual suspects; 42 all told | 2002 |
| Jakubowski, Maxim | Mammoth book of Pulp Fiction | 32 hard-boiled lumps, incl Westlake, Brown, Bloch, Nolan | 1996 |
| Kavanagh, Dan | Fiddle city | Duffy, bisexual sleuth, & Heathrow thefts | 1981 |
| Kavanagh, Dan | Going to the dogs | Duffy & dirty doings on a Bank Holiday weekend | 1987 |
| Kavanagh, Dan | Putting the boot in | Duffy & excess violence at a football club | 1985 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Be cool | Chili Palmer & music business | 1998 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Get Shorty | Ice-cool Chili Palmer | 1990 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Maximum Bob | Alligators & general weirdness in Florida Everglades | 1991 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Out of sight | Bank robber & US Marshall | 1986 |
| Leonard, Elmore | Rum Punch (aka Jackie brown) | Made a good Tarantino movie | 1992 |
| Littell, Robert | Agent in place | Cold War plots & counter-plots | 1991 |
| Littell, Robert | Amateur | Bloody as a film | 1981 |
| Littell, Robert | Company: a novel of the CIA | Fat! | 2002 |
| Littell, Robert | Debriefing | Deceit & deception aplenty | 1979 |
| Littell, Robert | Defection of AJ Lewinter | Brilliant début spy story with delicious final twist | 1973 |
| Littell, Robert | Mother Russia | A Cold War Russia the world never saw | 1978 |
| Littell, Robert | Once and future spy | Excellent & moving | 1990 |
| Littell, Robert | Sisters | More twisted Cold War shenanigans | 1986 |
| Littell, Robert | Sweet Reason | Maritime mayhem patrolling off North Vietnam | 1974 |
| Littell, Robert | Visiting Professor | Russian theoretical chaoticist meets US chaos | 1993 |
| Littell, Robert | Walking back the cat | KGB in US, Apache casino, CIA spooks | 1996 |
| Ludlum, Robert | Bourne Identity | Fished out of Mediterranean, shot & amnesiac | 1980 |
| Ludlum, Robert | Bourne Supremacy | Was a reasonable film, at least | 1986 |
| Ludlum, Robert | Bourne Ultimatum | Forced out of retirement | 1990 |
| MacBeth, George | Cadbury & the born losers | Female James Bond, licensed for licence | 1981 |
| MacBeth, George | Cadbury & the Samurai | Female James Bond blazes brighter than Modesty Blaise | 1975 |
| MacBeth, George | Cadbury & the seven witches | Agent 69 is on the job | 1978 |
| MacDonald, John D | Deadly shade of gold | Starts as simple match-making | 1965 |
| Maclean, Alistair | Golden Rendezvous | Re-readable naval nuclear hi-jack romp (new copy!) | 1962 |
| Mallalieu, JPW | Very Ordinary Seaman | Classic account of WW II Arctic convoy duties. Superb | 1944 |
| Mayersberg, Paul | Homme fatale | Lust & murderous games | 1992 |
| McCoy, Horace | I should have stayed home | Hollywood exposé: gigolos, starlets, fanzines, despair & glitter | 1938 |
| McCoy, Horace | Kiss tomorrow goodbye | Story from the Dillinger era | 1948 |
| McCoy, Horace | No pockets in a shroud | Newspaper-based shenanigans | 1948 |
| McCoy, Horace | They shoot horses, don't they? | Filmed by Pollack (Fonda & Sarrazin). California dance contest | 1935 |
| McCrumb, Sharon | Bimbos of the death sun | Unread tale of murder at a fantasy convention | 1987 |
| Monsarrat, Nicholas | Three corvettes | Three stories of the naval war; gift from John Perry | 1945 |
| Moore, Susanna | In the cut | Disturbing & vicious inside tale of serial sex killer | 1995 |
| Parker, Robert B | Night passage | From Carol: new sequence, new hero | 1997 |
| Player, Robert | Let's talk of graves, worms, and epitaphs | It was not every man whose father was both a pope & a murderer | 1975 |
| Rawle, Graham | Diary of an amateur photographer | A collage-style mystery set in 1950's seedy glamour world | 1998 |
| Reese, Laura | Topping from below | Sister of murder victim sexually stalks the killer | 1995 |
| Sapper | Bulldog Drummond v Carl Peterson | BD, Black Gang, Third Round, Final Count - nice omnibus | 1950 |
| Sapper | Female of the Species | Even now, after three months' calm thought... | 1928 |
| Sapper | Return of Bulldog Drummond | Post-Peterson, just Irma (ppbk, 2/6d, Dad's) | 1932 |
| Sapper | Temple Tower | 1931 hardback, mysterious flashes over Romney Marsh | 1929 |
| Stein, Sol | Childkeeper | Unread | 1975 |
| Stein, Sol | Magician | Amazing, tense & moving, & angry | 1971 |
| Stein, Sol | Resort | Unread | 1980 |
| Stephenson, Neal | Zodiac: the eco-thriller | New Age Sam Spade in an environmental wetsuit | 1988 |
| Thompson, Jim | After dark, my sweet | One-time boxer now out of his 4th mental institution | 1955 |
| Thompson, Jim | Alcoholics | A clinic, oddball patients, sadistic nurse... | 1953 |
| Thompson, Jim | Criminal | Teenage rape, murder, railroading of innocent, crazy carnival | 1953 |
| Thompson, Jim | Cropper's cabin | Hard heads, fast tempers, white trash | 1952 |
| Thompson, Jim | Getaway | Film by Peckinpah (McQueen + McGraw). Destination: Hell | 1958 |
| Thompson, Jim | Golden Gizmo | Footsore goldbuyer in L.A.'s underworld | 1954 |
| Thompson, Jim | Grifters | Film with Cusack, Huston, Bening. Screenplay by Westlake | 1963 |
| Thompson, Jim | Heed the Thunder | Brawling family of the Fargos of Verdon, Nebraska | 1946 |
| Thompson, Jim | Hell of a woman | Vicious aunt with a stash of money | 1954 |
| Thompson, Jim | Kill-off | Whodunnit as who'll-do-it | 1957 |
| Thompson, Jim | Killer inside me | Film by Burt Kennedy (Keach + Tyrell). Sheriff as murderer | 1952 |
| Thompson, Jim | Nothing Man | A killer, or sadistically framed? | 1954 |
| Thompson, Jim | Nothing more than murder | Love, hate, & a murderous end to a marriage | 1949 |
| Thompson, Jim | Now and on Earth | Underaged bell-boy, dysfunctional Okies, wartime California | 1942 |
| Thompson, Jim | Pop. 1280 | Film by B Tavernier 'Clean Slate' (Huppert + Noiret) | 1964 |
| Thompson, Jim | Recoil | Getting parole has a price | 1953 |
| Thompson, Jim | Rip-off | Screwball comedy of terrors | 1989 |
| Thompson, Jim | Savage night | Fresh-faced college kid or poised killer? | 1953 |
| Thompson, Jim | South of Heaven | Gas pipeline gang in 1920s Texas | 1967 |
| Thompson, Jim | Swell-looking babe | Respectable hotel? I think not | 1954 |
| Thompson, Jim | Texas by the tail | Girlfriend & ruthless wife bring need for fast money | 1965 |
| Thompson, Jim | Transgressors | Sheriff's deputy on Death Row | 1961 |
| Thompson, Jim | Wild Town | Graft-filled frontier boom town | 1957 |
| Thomson, Rupert | Insult | Strange loss of sight | 1996 |
| Trevanian | Shibumi | Actually well-written | 1979 |
| Turow, Scott | Burden of proof | Just as good | 1990 |
| Turow, Scott | Pleading Guilty | Pretty good | 1993 |
| Turow, Scott | Presumed Innocent | Original page-turner | 1987 |
| Westlake, DE; Garfield, B | Gangway! | Still unread | 1973 |
| Westlake, Donald E | 361 | Family revenge saga | 1962 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Ax, The | Disintegration of innocent middle class | 1997 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Baby, would I lie? | Sequel to the tabloid-based 'Trust me on this' | 1994 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Busy body | Bodies are less trouble if they stay underground | 1966 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Enough! | One damn thing after another! | 1977 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Fugitive pigeon | Comedy of peril | 1965 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Gro #01: Damsel | Grofield, shot, holed up in Mexico | 1967 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Gro #02: Dame | Grofield in Puerto Rico | 1969 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Gro #03: Blackbird | Grofield's moves in the wake of 'Slayground', same opening chapter | 1969 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Gro #04: Lemons never lie | Grofield, starts in Las Vegas | 1971 |
| Westlake, Donald E | High adventure | Smuggling in Belize | 1985 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Kahawa | African terrorism | 1981 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Killy | Crooked cops | 1963 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Levine | Gritty stories of Abe Levine, cop | 1984 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #01: Hunter (aka Point blank) | Crossed by the Mob | 1962 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #02: Steel Hit | Cosmetic surgery & armoured car heist, plus Alma | 1963 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #03: Outfit | Hitting the Mob again | 1963 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #04: Mourner | Priceless statue, a defecting Red, & the Mob | 1963 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #05: Killtown (aka Score) | Taking out a whole town for revenge | 1964 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #06: Jugger | Cop chases Parker after a mythical list of loot | 1965 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #07: Run lethal (The Handle) | Helping the Mob hit an offshore casino | 1966 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #08: Rare coin score | A coin convention, & a change of girlfriend | 1967 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #09: Green eagle score | Air Force payroll heist | 1967 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #10: Black ice score | Jewel-hungry Africans and a kidnapped Claire | 1968 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #11: Sour lemon score | Post-heist split causes trouble | 1969 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #12: Deadly edge | Rock concert heist & complicated heroin aftermath | 1971 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #13: Slayground | Fun Island amusement park -- see Blackbird for Grofield | 1971 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #14: Plunder squad | Old adversaries & old pictures | 1972 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #16: Comeback | Stadium heist and double crosses | 1997 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #18: Flashfire | Mid-west bank heist plus Palm Beach jewellery job | 2000 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #19: Firebreak | More old adversaries & old pictures, much higher tech | 2001 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #20: Breakout | Getting caught, breaking out, breaking in, same old same old | 2002 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #22: Ask the Parrot | Mid-west bank heist plus Palm Beach jewellery job | 2006 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Parker #23: Dirty Money | Stadium heist and double crosses | 2008 |
| Westlake, Donald E | Wax apple | Tobin and the Midway Sanatorium | 1970 |
| Williams, Nigel | Stalking Fiona | 24 hours to uncover a murderer | 1997 |
| Woolrich, Cornell | Bride wore black | Film by Truffaut (Jeanne Moreau). Husband killed at wedding | 1940 |
| Woolrich, Cornell | Phantom lady | Film by Siodmak (Tone & Ranes). Condemned man's alibi is missing | 1942 |
| Woolrich, Cornell | Rear window | Film by Hitchcock (Stewart & Kelly). Wheelchair voyeurism | 1954 |
| Woolrich, Cornell | Waltz into darkness | Film by Truffaut (Deneuve & Belmondo). Marriage to wrong woman | 1947 |
| Wouk, Herman | Caine Mutiny | Willie Keith's unheroic exploits in WWII Pacific arena | 1951 |
| Yates, Dornford | Adele and Co | Jill's priceless pearls, & Berry's cufflinks! | 1931 |
| Yates, Dornford | B-Berry and I look back | Semi-autobiographical novel of his lifetime | 1958 |
| Yates, Dornford | Berry and Co | Somebody's pinched the Rolls | 1920 |
| Yates, Dornford | Brother of Daphne | Agreeable nonsense | 1914 |
| Yates, Dornford | Courts of Idleness | Careering across WW1 Europe | 1920 |
| Yates, Dornford | Jonah and Co | 'Shall I massage it?' said Berry | 1922 |