NASA: The Complete Illustrated History by Michael Gorn (Merrell, £17.95)

10:42am Thursday 26th June 2008

As Nasa prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Gavin Engelbrecht enjoys the narrative thrust of a history of the men behind the space exploration programme.

Blaire Unbound by Anthony Seldon (Simon & Schuster, £9.99)

10:41am Thursday 26th June 2008

LOOKING at Blair's tumultuous period in office from 9/11 to his departure from Number 10, this conclusion to Anthony Seldon's account of Blair is an intoxicating read.

The Last Oil Shock by David Strahan (John Murray, £8.99)

10:38am Thursday 26th June 2008

IF you think the news at the petrol pumps is bad, then you ain't seen nothing yet.

Flesh House by Stuart Macbride (HarperCollins, £12.99)

10:32am Thursday 26th June 2008

STUART Macbride is the most exciting thing to happen to British crime fiction in the last ten years.

Wedding Season by Katie Fforde (Century, £10.99)

10:31am Thursday 26th June 2008

THIS gently penned novel is a very English tale of romance and three women who get to know each other and themselves a little better.

The End Of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate, £7.99)

10:30am Thursday 26th June 2008

A FICTIONAL adventure through a post-modern universe, this invigorating and wildly imaginative book won debut author Scarlett Thomas many fans.

Sail by James Patterson (Century, £18.99)

10:29am Thursday 26th June 2008

MILLIONAIRESS Katherine Dunne has three dysfunctional children, all of them are still grieving the loss of their father four years earlier. So Katherine decides to take them on a two-month sailing trip with her brother-in-law, Jake, leaving her new husband, Peter Carlyle, behind.

Puppet Master by Joanne Owen (Orion, £12.99)

10:27am Thursday 26th June 2008

THIS beautifully produced book is an intriguing novel set in late 19th Century Prague. Milena's father, a successful puppeteer, has been murdered, and her mother has disappeared.

The Pain And The Privilege: The Women In Lloyd George's Life by Ffion Hague (Harper Press, £25)

5:28pm Thursday 19th June 2008

DAVID Lloyd George's own son apparently said that with an attractive woman he was as little to be trusted as a Bengal tiger with a gazelle.

The Palace Of Strange Girls by Sallie Day (HarperCollins, £14.99)

5:26pm Thursday 19th June 2008

THE tale of one family's week-long holiday in Blackpool in the late 1950s, a time of great social change as the younger generation clash with the attitudes of the wartime generation.

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