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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons" Woody Allen Outraged at your tax bill? Thrilled with a 99p flight around the world? Everything has its price, but there's no point in worrying about money - its value will soon change. Peter Pugh takes the long view, looking at our changing attitudes to money, from the day in Germany in 1923 when a basket was worth more than the cash it carried, to the $2.5 million credit card bill for a single purchase of a Lichtenstein painting (earning the buyer 2.5 million air miles, enough to take him and 8 of his friends to the moon and back).

Discover

- When stationery was worth stealing: the £120 biro in 1948

- Why Henry VIII is to blame for our glut of lawyers

- When footballers' wages were under £20 (not Rio Ferdinand's £110,000) a week

From the very serious to the utterly ridiculous, It's Only Money reveals how the Queen has somehow spent £5 billion in 15 years, why children are a bad investment, and how to kiss a German girl for free in this brilliant account of the unequal and curious nature of money.