Time for a first round up of new and forthcoming titles. Unsurprisingly, the journalists and politicians have plenty of titles hot off the presses. Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor Vince Cable's The Storm is already published, and also was reviewed in the Economist and the Guardian. Two by journalists: Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed by BBC Newsnight's Paul Mason is out very soon, as is Gillian Tett of the FT's Fool's Gold. Martin Wolf's Fixing Global Finance is another recent book by an eminent FT writer. The BBC's excellent Hugh Pym and co-author Nick Kochan have What Happened? And Other Questions Everyone is Asking About the Credit Crunch.

From the academic world, Robert Shiller's The Subprime Solution is excellent. Also illuminating about the origins of the crisis is Inside the Fed Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin through Greenspan to Bernanke, by Stephen Axilrod.

More practically oriented, by the highly regarded John Calverley of Standard Chartered, is When Bubbles Burst: Surviving the Financial Fallout. One I haven't looked at but has a promising title is The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Markets Fallacy by George Cooper. I've also read good things about Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles Morris but again haven't read it myself yet.

Loads more possibilities. An Amazon search on 'credit crunch' returns 93 titles including the Credit Crunch Cookbook. And no doubt loads more to come.