Book on Order...

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and his Nation - Susan Williams
A relationship that took on the politics of it's time.

Conversatons on Books...

History's Worst Decisions: An Encyclopedia Idiotica - Stephen Weir
From Adam & Eve to Y2K.

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors - Michael Farquhar
From Nero's nagging mother to Catherine's stable of studs.

The Book of Heroic Failures - Stephen Pile

Harry Potter series

Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series
Light and cheerful reading about a lady detective in Botswana.

This Can't Be Happening at Mcdonald Hall! - Gordon Korman
Written when the author was 12 years old.

Beware The Fish - Gordon Korman

The Railway Children - Edith Nesbit
Published in 1906. Full transcript on link.

Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella

The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler

The Tesla Legacy - Robert G Barrett
Who was Nikola Tesla?

One Corpse Too Many - Ellis Peters (audio book)
Murder mystery set in 12 Century with monks

Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
From Gorky Park to Chernobyl

Regina's Song - David and Leigh Edwards
Murder Mystery about identical twins

The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker
On linguistics

The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place In Nature - David Suzuki
About the Web of Life

Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
A novel which "tries to capture something of the increasingly impermanent, interconnected and rootless societies we inhabit".

Snow - Orhan Pamuk
‘who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has dicovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures’.

Snow

The Kurdish youth whose uncle lived in Germany was the most outspoken on this point: "When they write poems or sing songs in the West they speak for all humanity. They're human beings - but we're just Muslims. When we write something, it's just ethnic poetry."

Excerpt from Orhan Pamuk's book Snow