Through his musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths , John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. This book, completed by the woman who knew him best, his wife, Shiela, presents an intimate portrait of his life, marriage and his family.

Louis Theroux makes programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Here, he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why they believe the things they believe, and to find out what has happened to them since he last saw them.

In 1841, the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce - a woman three years dead. In 2000, the author set out to recreate Clare's walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet and escape the gravity of his London obsessions.

Madeleine William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek. Lastly, there's the bizarre murder he's just witnessed.

This is a memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more more juicy marketable blows. The author, music journalist Andrew Collins, delves back into his past - growing up in the 1970s - using the diary he kept from the age of five.

A personal account of a Labour supporter's miserable eighteen years under a Tory government. A literary debut which combines wit with barbed insight from the author who has been a full time comedy writer since the voters of Battersea sacked him from his previous job as an MP's researcher for the House of Commons.