Books Worth Reading

Some novels, some non-fiction.
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A readable mix of articles about the global economic downturn - from the soberly sensible to the weird and worrying.
The Unpleasant profession of Jonathan Hoag (Penguin books. no. 2510.)
Inspired 1950s sci-fi novelette about a man with selective amnesia. Not quite like anything else.
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. Tactical Exercise. Love Among the Ruins (Penguin Books No.1794)
Beautifully convincing account of what it feels like to go mad. Plus droll, low-key book cover for this one.
Island
His last novel, the one Huxley thought was his most important. Brave New World is his dystopia. Island is his utopia.
Chimpanzee Politics – Power and Sex Among Apes 25th Anniversary Edition
New reissue of the Frans de Waal study. A sobering read. How very similarly we and our primate cousins fight for social power.
Tools for Thought
Naff cover, but a superb book about getting to intellectual grips with the world.
Dover and the Claret Tappers: A Detective Chief Inspect…
Little-known author Joyce Porter wrote a handful of very funny novels about Chief Inspector Dover, a deeply lazy, unpleasant, and devious police officer who gets other people to solve his cases for him, but makes sure he takes the credit. A comic detective anti-hero for the age of the bureaucrat.
Agaton Sax and the London Computer Plot (Target Books)
One of a set of entertaining Swedish books for children, featuring master detective Agaton Sax, here called on to foil yet another fiendishly cunning criminal conspiracy.
Islam
Islam Alfred Guillaume ; a Pelican Original // Read this off someone's shelf a couple of years ago. Concise, clear, well-written.
'Old Buttons' Book by Sylvia Llewelyn Old Buttons Shop
Cleanly-illustrated how-to book for antiques people. Life-size photos of rare buttons give you the delicious illusion you might have something valuable in that box under the stairs.