I am sure one of you chaps (of chapesses) out there can help:
On various occasions, discussions on this group turn to matters chemical. This has always been one of the areas of science that I seem to keep missing the opportunity to study! At school we did Physics and Biology - combined science including chemistry did not come in until the year after ours. I tried again when doing A Levels - but the chemistry class clashed with the Physics group I wanted to be in. At university other than materials technology there was not much else related on offer.
Hence the question - can anyone recommend a good chemistry book? Not for someone who plans to take an exam in the subject - more for general interest in such things and how they relate to the world about us.