 | Immoral Consensus by Richard Faith
Buy new: £8.90 / Used from: £7.30 Perhaps overdetailed, but I loved this book from the moment I read it. Political dynamite. Disturbing, but certainly provocative.
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 | Wind, Sand and Stars (Penguin Modern Classics) by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £1.00 Gorgeous writing from a master of spiritual and lyrical prose. I keep it close to hand.
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 | The Fateful Triangle: United States, Israel and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £10.66 / Used from: £4.03 A good, in-depth analysis of the origins and structure of the Middle East ongoing (manufactured) crisis.
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 | Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine, 1918-1948 by A.J. Sherman
Buy used from: £22.50 As an insight into a situation running out of control thanks to a lack of will and confusion, this is hard to beat.
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 | In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £1.99 Written in a wonderfully lucid style, it almost doesn't matter what the stories are. Tales of people away from their roots.
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 | Characters and Viewpoint (The Elements of Fiction Writing) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.40 / Used from: £4.45 Orson Scott Card's ideas for authors wanting to create believable characters. Entertaining and instructional.
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 | Rewriting: A Creative Approach to Writing Fiction (Books for Writers) by David Michael Kaplan
A good guide to being a ruthless self-editor - a worthwhile writer's guide.
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 | Novelist's Essential Guide to Crafting Scenes (Novelists Essentials) by Raymond Obstfeld
Buy new: £4.33 / Used from: £2.27 Excellent guide to the mechanics of dialogue and keeping the reader's motor running.
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 | From Pitch to Publication: Everything You Need to Know to Get Your Novel Published by Carole Blake
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £2.86 Wonderful guide, knowledgeably written and yet with the humanity to explain the long odds involved in the process of getting published.
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.50 There are not enough superlatives to describe Hemingway's writings. Read the reviews, then click "add to basket" - it's that simple.
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 | One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £3.50 An excellent and generally balanced account of Palestine under the British Mandate.
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 | Arabians: The Classic Arabian Horse by Peter Upton
Buy used from: £21.60 Beautifully illustrated homage to one of the most photogenic creatures on the planet.
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 | How to Get Planning Permission by Roy Speer
This one is an oddball entry, but having had to go through the process I was always glad to have had an earlier edition of this book to hand.
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 | Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 11 (Wildlife Photographer Annual)
Buy new: £16.25 / Used from: £15.00 Just about every book in this series is worth having, although you'll need to strengthen your coffee table if you want them all.
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 | Dead Weight by Brian Lecomber
Buy used from: £26.40 Lecomber gave up writing novels - but why? This is a brilliant tale with down-at-heel goodies and slimy villains, all set in the sunny Caribbean. Who could wish for more?
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| UK VFR Flight Guide
The latest edition of the UK's guide for "visual pilots" - necessary and useful, a must-have for your flight-bag.
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 | Pat Metheny Song Books by Pat Metheny
Buy new: £17.78 / Used from: £32.00 For those like me who cannot figure out just how such great music is made!
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 | War Story (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Derek Robinson
Buy used from: £6.49 An amusing and almost anecdotal story that gets across the futility of war without once descending into preaching.
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| Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry
Buy new: £12.40 / Used from: £4.49 Generally good anthology - definitely worth checking out.
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 | The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.00 I expect the very best of Dorothy Parker was spoken, not written, but this is a good second best!
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 | The Complete Poems (Cambridge Editions) by Anne Sexton
Buy used from: £9.24 Sometimes profound and sometimes very moving explorations of a troubled heart. A good insight into her life, in her own words.
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £7.26 One of the many episodes in human history where we could say "never again" - except that we're now allowing this in Palestine. A great insight into how movie culture can kill the realities of history.
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 | Still Me by Christopher Reeve
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.01 Christopher Reeve could fight just about anything - and now he's so sadly gone, we at least have his words on how an indomitable spirit can make something of anything fate has in store. Beautiful.
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| The Creative Leap: Psychological Transformation Through Crisis by Verena Kast
Buy new: £6.30 / Used from: £5.98 A fascinating and instructional book that offers the prospect of good in everything.
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 | I Was a Stranger by Sir John Hackett
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £1.81 Astonishing and moving account of Hackett's escape through occupied Holland after the debacle at Arnhem in Sept 1944. A brilliant insight into the courage of ordinary Dutch civilians - true heroes.
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