The books that changed the world

Shakespeare makes it on to the list but there is no place for Austen, Dickens or - thankfully - the Da Vinci Code. Melvyn Bragg is to host a new TV series, 12 Books That Changed The World, about the tomes which have shaped our lives. They include the first rule book of the Football Association, drawn up in 1863 and the basis for the modern game. The King James Bible is in the list, along with the Magna Carta and Darwin's The Origin of Species. Also included is Married Love by family planning campaigner Marie Stopes. Published in 1918, it was the UK's first sex manual and was branded obscene by the church and the medical establishment."