Sublimely crafted jazz, even if Miles’ trumpet playing is still as over-piercing as ever.

Worth it just for the absolutely stonking performance of ‘A Perfect Day Elise’.

Pop-up mazes. Awesome.

Kaku runs away with his metaphors sometimes, and I felt like there was a lot of repetition, but all in all this is a pretty good intro ride through some higher-dimensional theories.

Some good advice, but I suspect that I’m a bit too freestyle for Hurford.

Saw me through two years of running a chapel choir at Cambridge, so it can’t be too bad.

The rhyming mnemonics in this book are painfully corny, and rely on American English pronounciation. But that’s what makes them so memorable! A great, quick way to learn the kana, in a guided sensible order.

Hugely over-rated. There are better books out there if you want to read about this stuff.

Full of the kind of bloody obvious advice that you need to read in a book like this before you actually sit up and pay attention. Good stuff.

It’s a self-help book that isn’t just full of one person’s bullshit, but is actually backed up and motivated by real psychology.