This is an admirable attempt to unravel the complexities of book buying for the micro user. It's just as its name implies - a list of many - the authors say more than 400 - of the books available.

It separates books into four main categories - background, languages, specific micros and hardware and software - and goes on to list them by publisher, author and title with occasional comments on who would find them useful.

It is a good guide to what's available - 26 titles beginning 'Basic...' for instance - but in many cases goes little further in helping you sort through them.

At £9.50 it's reasonably costly but it puts the micro book market into perspective with the intention, as its editors say in the introduction, to give micro users an idea of what's available, on what.