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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama He describes his childhood to manhood in such a sensitive & interesting way. An honest & frank look at race issues that he had to consider due to his mixed race & ancestry. Until I'd read the book, I hadn't realised how deep he was. I Highly Recommend this book! Once I started it , I then looked forward to my next train journeys, to get the next instalment. And its now solved my Xmas gift ideas! I'm...    Read More >>

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Barack Obama's first book, Dreams from My Father, was a compelling and moving memoir focusing on personal issues of race, identity, and community. With his second book The Audacity of Hope,...    Read More >>

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson    Read More >>

Kitchener's Last Volunteer: The Life of Henry Allingham, Britain's Oldest Man and the Oldest Surviving Veteran of the Great War Henry Allingham What amazes me the most about Henry Allingham's fascinating and inspiring life story is that for 30 years he lived a quiet life in his Eastbourne flat, and hadn't spoken about the War since it ended. Then, after reaching 100, his life changed completely and he's now had up to 47 event appearances in a single year. This shows astonishing flexibility and ability to change. It is a truly inspiring book....    Read More >>

A History of Modern Britain Andrew Marr This is an interesting and readable history of our country since the Second World War marred (pun intended) by a liberal/left-wing bias. Andrew Marr deals with a number of topics and this book is neither political nor social history but contains bits of each and more. Much of the book is a re-hash of information that I had already gathered from elsewhere but some topics were new to me....    Read More >>

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher Kate Summerscale I usually take ages to read a book but this one took a couple of weeks as I couldn't put it down. Very enjoyable and well written.    Read More >>

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge) John O'Farrell Though it claims to be witty, I'm afraid I can't add to the glowing reports of this book. This is not to say that it is an awful book, merely that I found it hard to engage with the style of John O'Farrell. The reading is light and is a good a book to snuggle up in bed with as any, but I found the jokes were sometimes lacking and repetitive. In terms of information I can't say that it...    Read More >>

Henry: Virtuous Prince David Starkey I was really looking forwards to this book, I am an avid reader of anything to do with Tudor history and the wars of the roses and as there is relatively little written on the early years of Henry VIII I was keen to discover more about his personality, his friendships, his marriage, his life and what made him into the tyrant most people recognise him as. Starkey's introduction was promising, I was...    Read More >>

Seven Troop Andy McNab Not a lot going for this book. The author spends a lot of time explaining what broken and lost people some of his former comrades in arms are (most of this is described in other books by the people involved), and that war wrecks peoples lives so perhaps they need professional help. Not exactly news to anyone, one might think.    Read More >>

The American Future: A History Simon Schama This book is for those of you who like history as a sweep of events and with interlocking sections that you have to piece together to get your overall picture. Although this makes reference to the current election I think its only because I think the author sees the two candidates as potentially the Hamilton and Jefferson characters of this age - one quite happy to use American military strength and...    Read More >>