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This poem is Shakespearean in its vision, Dantesque in its despair and Quixotic in its pursuit.

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The poem, in its polyphony, loses its voice.

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Bingham's brilliance lies in his clarity and concision in tackling a subject neither clear nor concise.

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None of them truly want love.

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Barbarians At The Gate (Burrough & Helyar)

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Barbarians At The Gate (Burrough & Helyar)

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Nowhere has Caesar's command been more brutally enacted: ālea iacta est.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll)

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Comedy with the depth of King Lear.

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Old English riddles are the most economic and elaborate form of language play.

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I think the crux of the novel is not a Freudian crisis but a crisis of faith. To what can we turn when we reject both heavenly and earthly love?

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More literary than scientific in its moments of doubt, in its awe of beauty and in its triumph of humanity.

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Chesterton scrutinises society under the deadly lens of humour.

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The treatise climaxes in Chapter 3, in Mill's uncompromising celebration of individualism.

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Pressingly prescient.

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Monkey Business: Swinging Through The Wall Street Jungle (Rolfe & Troob)

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Monkey Business: Swinging Through The Wall Street Jungle (Rolfe & Troob)

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Investment bankers know that with great gains come with great losses. Troob and Rolfe shine light on what it costs to be a slightly shinier cog in a fundamentally rusty machine.

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As Ralph learns, we can only understand happiness through suffering, love through loss.

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The Road to the Well at World's End (Morris)

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The Road to the Well at World's End (Morris)

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Ursula does not deserve Disney's nominative defamation. The Well itself is comically anticlimactic.

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And so Ralph treks on.

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This, children, is how not to go about finding the love of your life.

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The Concept of Law and 'The Concept of Law' (MacCormick)

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The Concept of Law and 'The Concept of Law' (MacCormick)

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Neil writes clearly and encouragingly about something that is very rarely clear or encouraging. Building on precedent, he defines the law.

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Great writers usually rise in greatness. Carlyle fell - but from what heights did he fall!

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Browning at his meridian. Pompilia weeps as Cordelia weeps: with suffering salvation and deathless grace.

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This is undeniably a love-letter.

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His cheeky demeanor belies a formidable discipline of mind and money: Robbie teaches us all that wealth comes from cultivation, not lotteries.

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A Bible for those who have ceased to believe.

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I am spooked.

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The worthiest and warmest of novels: one that neither averts nor winks at folly, but embraces it in all its ephemeral beauty and delusion.

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Despite the beauty of the translation, I still find Beowulf an insufferable brat.

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Irrefutably symbolic, but what exactly does it symbolise?

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If this doesn't convince you of just how important politics is, only catastrophic failure will.

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The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (Gneezy & List)

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The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (Gneezy & List)

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The best introduction to behavioural economics I have yet encountered.

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What's The Economy For, Anyway? (Graaf & Batker)

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What's The Economy For, Anyway? (Graaf & Batker)

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The American Dream has become a nightmare and waking up requires the lucidity of purpose of books like this.

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An Amorous Discourse In The Suburbs Of Hell (Levy)

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An Amorous Discourse In The Suburbs Of Hell (Levy)

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Darkly funny.

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Sublimely ridiculous and ridiculously sublime.

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How do you become rich? Buy assets, not liabilities. But most get stuck differentiating the two.

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Everyone is a little suspicious, and some are very suspicious. But the murderer is the one we suspect the least.

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Like Le Cirque De Rêves itself, there is a fleeting beauty to the prose. This is fantasy made literal and literary.

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Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night 

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Oxford Literature Companions: Twelfth Night 

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To my fortuitous surprise, it's good! This is a brilliant revision guide for GCSE 9s and a solid introduction to Shakespeare criticism.

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Twelfth Night: Language & Writing (Dolan)

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Twelfth Night: Language & Writing (Dolan)

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The questions posed are as valuable as the linguistic unpickings: what does silence say? Why is Olivia like a nun? What's 'carpe diem' got to do with the play?

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Wish she'd done more with the megalomaniacal lord.

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The Courage To Be Disliked (Kishimi & Koga)

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The Courage To Be Disliked (Kishimi & Koga)

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This series of Socratic dialogues between  a 'Youth' and a 'Philosopher' tears apart our ideas of 'the norm' with terrifying clarity. This is an uncomfortable and deeply necessary book.

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This one book justifies the whole genre.

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As mind-altering as LSD itself.

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Bad for Christie, good for your average crime thriller.

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A play in which the greatest sin is an over-predilection for cucumber sandwiches is a play to be undeniably enjoyed.

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Oh, so the dandy has some heart after all?

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Wilde takes the classic 'virtuous prostitute' and turns it into 'not-so-virtuous dubious-mother'.

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Diverse without being discursive, not to mention the gorgeous graphics.

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God, this guy is brilliant. I knew nothing about consultancy and even less about consultancy interviews. Now, at least I have hope.

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Pages 196-197 say it all.

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Spoiler alert (come on, you've had 130 years to read this): authorial sadism reaches new peaks.

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Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humourous Quotations (ed. Metcalf)

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Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humourous Quotations (ed. Metcalf)

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They pilfered from the Oxford Library.

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Book I has an immensely enjoyable range - from Parker's humour to Vespasian's hubris. The other two books are a bit technical.

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Imagine someone taking the best bits from the best articles from the best newspaper in the UK and putting them in a book - that's what Mr Standage does.

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A compulsively readable beauty. It is hard not to fall for Anna - her wicked charm, her tortured unconventionality, her uncompromising love for life.

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More like a novel than a biography - for once, fact is wilder and more wonderful than fiction.

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My latest illustrated object of pride as an Oxfam bargain hunter!

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AQA A Level Maths: A Level Exam Practice Workbook (AQA)

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AQA A Level Maths: A Level Exam Practice Workbook (AQA)

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Harder than anything you'll get in the exam.

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What else could you do with the money you're spending on an MBA? How many fans do you need to live off doing what you love? This ain't a business book - this is a lifestyle book.

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Surprisingly sharply increasingly pertinent.

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Modelled upon the compact beauty of Francis Bacon, the writing is as stylishly succinct as the newspaper.

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Les Meilleures Pages du 'FIGARO' (ed. Courtney)

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Les Meilleures Pages du 'FIGARO' (ed. Courtney)

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Je suis d'accord.

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And who could the narrator possibly be?

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Taste and morals cannot be separated: we cannot simply be good because we'll be jailed if we're not - we must like being good to be truly good.

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Engagingly written, although the number of times he emphasises toil over talent did make me feel like I was being lectured by my mother.

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Capture's the essence of Sappho: ordinary men and women filtered through the lens of overpowering love.

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Preferable to the sad ditty it inspired.

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La légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier (Flaubert)

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La légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier (Flaubert)

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L'histoire a dû hanter Flaubert.

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Subtitle speaks for itself.

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Le Bon)

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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Le Bon)

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A much-needed guide to mobocracy: 130 pages of sobering sanity.

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He's overdone it with the names.

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Better than Thucydides. He captures the greatest of men in the smallest of deeds.

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Chapter on marriage, like marriage itself, is an eye-opener. Also has a nice reading list.

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Watch out for these names.

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I have found my new Bible.

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Petrucci does Hafez justice. Divine justice.

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The domestic poems are tersely brilliant. Not a fan of the technological passages though.

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Lovely and loverly.

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The modernity resides in word choice - 'birdless' - rather than form.

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I don't like how I didn't think I would like it.

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Duffy gives Ovid's heroines Duffy voices. Pollard gives Ovid's heroines voices.

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Je n’ai jamais connu un géant aussi sage ni aussi excentrique que Micromégas.

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At times questionable, at times whimsical, this is indeed pure pleasure.

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He talks in fields, numbers of peoples, building materials, army divisions. But he talks them alive.

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I did not think I would find the eye-opening history of a small island within one grumpy traveller's account.

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As fresh and timeless as an unpicked daisy.

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I aspire to insult like him.

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Call me reactionary, but we have regressed.

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Therapeutic bling bling.

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Knew it was coming but still hurt.

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Say what you will about 'cheap fiction', I marvel at Kristoff's dark modernisation of Egyptian myth and the cool maps.

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A dead funny narrator - at times more dead than funny.

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (Mackay)

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (Mackay)

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A bit boring but some thoughtful definitions.

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Keats knows his Shakespeare but tries too hard to show it. He forgets, at times, that little words and simple lines work just as well as elongated elocution and carefully numbered metrical constructions.

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The Cambridge Companion to Keats (ed.  Wolfson)

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The Cambridge Companion to Keats (ed.  Wolfson)

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A mixed bag. Stewart's is the apotheosis.

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Distinctly American. Surprisingly human.

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Bloom)

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Bloom)

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His predilection for the word 'superb' (sometimes 'superbly') does not make his observations any less superb.

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Chameleon: at once we hear echoes of Shakespearean monologue, Eliotesque refrain and Owen's own bitter laugh.

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Sobriety was expected. Delightfully lucid imagery and anticipatory 'sprung' rhythm were not.

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Bloom is not the maestro of literary criticism. He is a hopeless, helpless lover into books - and by the end, so are we.

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In this book.

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If her poems were reduced to one-liners, she may be the pioneer of meaningful minimalism.