Bill Wyman

Advantages: Very easy to use
Disadvantages: None

...Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands, Britain's History Uncovered (co-written by Bill Wyman and Richard Havers) is a most excellent book. Bill Wyman, rock musician, somewhat controversial man-about-town and history buff? Everyone has a dark secret in their lives. And Bill Wyman's is that he is a closet metal detectorist. Well, not so much closet, now he has written this book! Wyman relates how he bough his first metal detector in 1991, after a trying period in his life, and then spent many happy hours and days tramping round the fields surrounding his home in rural Suffolk. Always with the permission of the farmer, of course. Why did he take up this hobby? He relates that some men were working in the garden of his house found a 16th century water jug as they were digging. Wyman himself found a small pewter bowl in his rose garden. And he... Read review

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Advantages: Comprehensiveness, authority, Cricket Round the World
Disadvantages: Poor coverage of women's cricket

..., a grandson of Queen Victoria, played one innings for I Zingari? And so it goes on... perhaps the most impressive modern example given is the case of a charity match at The Oval where one Bill Wyman achieved a hat-trick consisting of Trevor McDonald, Charles Colville and Gary Lineker (whose one match for MCC against Germany had a familiar ring for him - "I always score one against the Germans," he said). The bulk of Wisden's pages, of course, deal with rather more conventional cricket, and this year we can revel in a blow-by-blow account of England's sensational series victory against West Indies, wresting back the Wisden Trophy after more than "thirty years of hurt" (to coin a phrase). As ever with Wisden, it's easy to get sidetracked - for example by the fact that the Third Test endured no less than five streakers (an increasingly tedious... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic Book
Disadvantages: Preffered by girls

...by Felicity Smith. I could tell that by the cover it was intentionally for girls in their late teens or even young women in the 20's. My mum even read this and she thoroughly enjoyed it. It is the type of book you just can't put down. This is the first book of four up to date. Once I found out there were more books in the sequence I had to buy them all. And up to now, as far as I know, there hasn't been a shopaholic book that I haven't bought. I hope you really enjoy reading this review. The book is fantastic, Sophie uses the best form of humour. You end up giggling whilst reading. I will do another review for the second shopaholic book, then the third then the fourth! It is a Black Swan Edition published in 2000, Great Britain by Cox and Wyman Ltd, Reading Berkshire. There are 24 chapters in total. On the first page is a tiny bio about... Read review

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