The Books section
Review of the year: Books

- Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman
- The Occult Tradition by David S Katz
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Crime In Brief: The Inside Ring
Vanish
Mr Clarinet - Constitutional by Helen Simpson
- Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: the left bank world of Shakespeare and Co by Jeremy Mercer
- White Savage: William Johnson and the invention of America by Fintan O'Toole
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Paperbacks: Horseshoes and Holy Water
The Oxford Murders
Sardinia Without Lawrence
The Berlusconi Bonus
The Elizabethan Underworld
Heaven Lies About Us - Journey In Blue by Stig Dalager, trans John Mason
- The Prince, by Hushang Golshiri, trans. James Buchan
- The Long And The Short Of It: Poems 1955-2005, by Roy Fisher
- Proust's English, by Daniel Karlin
- Fair Trade For All. By Joseph Stiglitz & Andrew Charlton
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Synthetic Worlds. By Edward Castronova.
The A-Z of Cool Computer Games. By Jack Railton