 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 A fairytale for adults. Beautiful, heartwarming, funny, one of my favourite books of all time.
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £1.27 Though provoking, strange, sad and so readable you won't want to put it down.
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 | The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £2.00 Haunting, Exotic, atmospheric and exceptionally well written.
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 | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £0.01 A story about the enduring power of female friendship and a fascinating insight into Chinese womens history, rituals and the politics of footbinding. Absolutely exquisite.
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 | The House of Mirth (Wordsworth Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Facinating portrayal of the politics of upward mobility & the marriage market in 19th century New York. A more complex plot in terms of human psychology than it appears on the surface.
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 | Poems to Last a Lifetime
Buy used from: £41.99 This book alerted me to the power of poetry - there's no experience quite like finding the one poem that manages to articulate exactly what your'e feeling, however complicated!
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.38 Full of intrigue, atmosphere and suspense. Contains one of the best characters ever written in English literature - the evil housekeeper Mrs Danvers.
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 | Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Simply beautiful.
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 | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.01 Friendship, religion, the dark side of human nature juxtaposed with the sublime. All aspects of human emotion laid bare.
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 | Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy used from: £0.01 The brooding Mr Rochester...need I say more???
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