1st year books

It might be useful if I share the books I've bought for this year. I should point out that Constitutional and Tort are IA (first part of the tripos/Y1 of a regular undergrad.) courses, whereas the remaining three are IB (second part of the tripos/Y2 of a regular undergrad.). You normally have between 2-3 books for each subject, although you're by no means obliged to get any books at all (although this would be a bit silly if you didn't!) There is normally an introductory text, a textbook and a casebook, although the latter two often tend to intersect, and for Constitutional there is no specific 'casebook'.

I'm listing my copies in this order, with a dash to show if I don't own the recommended title for that part. I'm also putting an asterix at the beginning of the book that I find most useful/use most often for each course. More info on these texts (i.e. years) and other recommended books can be found in the Law Faculty's handbook, which can be accessed here

Constitutional
Munro, Studies in Constitutional Law
* Bradley & Ewing, Constitutional and Administrative Law
Turpin & Tomkins, British Government and the Constitution

Contract
* McKendrick, Contract Law
Chesire, Fifoot & Furnston, The Law of Contract
McKendrick, Contracts, Cases and Materials

International
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Harris, Cases and Materials on International Law
(I only own one book in this paper, but I tend to use various texts from the library for this topic, so I don't have a particular one which I use most often)

Land
* Gray & Gray, Land Law
Smith, Property Law
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Tort
* Mullis & Oliphant, Tort
Markesinis & Deakin, Tort Law
Hepple, Matthews & Howarth, Tort: Cases and Materials

You also need the relevant statute books for all of these (aside from Contract and Tort which are together).

I bought nearly all these books (aside from the statutes as you need the newest editions) from individuals, or at the book fair, where you can get some really great deals. I would advise that people wait to attend their universities' book fair (if one is held) before they buy books online, although make sure you have figured out what is a 'good' price for a book by researching first. I found that most of the books at the fair were often 1/2 the best price that I had found online. However, make sure that you're purchasing the newest edition of the book, or that you aren't buying something which has a new edition in the pipeline, as this effectively renders the old book useless.