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Good advanced chemistry book?

I need a good chemistry book that goes more in depth than the text books that we actually get. I think they're too brief.

I am doing OCR A chemistry AS&A2

Advanced Chemistry: Volume 2: Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Vol 2 (Cambridge Advanced Sciences) -PhillipMatthews

I thought that may be a good book?

Advanced Chemistry: Volume 1: Physical and Industrial Chemistry v. 1

That is also part of the series but I'm not sure whether or not I need it... what exactly is physical and industrial chemistry?

Should I get both anyone used these before?

or these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chemistry-1-Cambridge-Advanced-Sciences/dp/0521787785/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389870867&sr=1-8&keywords=chemistry+advanced

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chemistry-2-Brian-Ratcliff/dp/0521798825/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389870867&sr=1-12&keywords=chemistry+advanced

Thank you

Reply 1

ManicMetalhead

I've never used the books you've put in the thread, and unfortunately the links won't open on my phone, so this may be a misinformed idea, but there is a book called Chemistry3 (Chemistry cubed) by Burrows, Holman, Parsons, Pilling and Price (and one other but the name escapes me, I'll add it in an edit when I find it) which essentially covers everything you need to know in First Year Undergrad chemistry, and also contains a fair bit of basic info to help you understand everything fully :smile: