E M Forster: a New Life (Bloomsbury, £25) is Wendy Moffat's thoughtful, generous and scrupulously researched account of a magnificent writer who once wrote, heartbreakingly, that "I know I am not a real artist."

A well researched, highly readable account of the debt crisis.

A deeply researched, thoughtful account, by a reporter for The Times, of an attempt to reform a discriminatory New York City system.

The Christian Science Monitor called it a "remarkable and almost compulsively researched account" and states that "the author spent a decade on the case, and it shows."

Highly readable and thoroughly researched account of the aftermath of the attack and the salvage efforts from December 8, 1941 through early 1944.

Furthermore, Ratcliffe suggests that Krakauer, by not mentioning the forecasts, did not produce an accurate or adequately researched account.

Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon By Lynne B. Sagalyn (2001) A real estate expert's extensively researched account of the recent redevelopment.

Last year in these pages, Natalie Angier called this a "riveting, cleanly written and brilliantly researched account of a world-famous case."

"The Lost Children of Wilder" is a brilliantly researched account of an attempt to make the New York City foster care system fair for all its children.

Fact filled, extensively researched account of the evolution of the roles of women in the United States Navy, treating the parallel and intertwined paths of the Navy Nurse Corps and the WAVES.