 | The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £1.70 A brilliant study of the destructive power of fustrated love. GG at his Catholic best
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 | Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Read this and say that you have no resonance with any of the the themes or dialogues and you are saying that you are not a true live human being It is life in all its painful awkward truth
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 Dave Eggers was not born of human parents. He is a rightfully self titled genius. This books moves everyone who is lucky enough to read it.
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 | The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £2.00 Read this and you are in Saigon. GG strikes again. Pure genuis, emotions are raw and real and utterly believable.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.28 Didn't we all read this and think "So there is more to literature that Shakespeare..." The book is brilliant, but the thoughts and passions that it provokes are even better.
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 | Going Gently by David Nobbs
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A real change for Nobbs. And what a change. Did he write it? It is really thought provoking and empathatic of a dying woman.
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 | Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 The panacea for the jaded and the tired. If you are feeling weary of life you must read this book. Escape into a world where anything is possible and everything happens for a reason.
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 | Larry's Party by Carol Shields
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Carol Shields should be read by everyone who has ever doubted anything ever at all. Larry is a normal guy. He lives a normal life and that is the beauty of the book. It is a work of literary art.
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 | Bonjour Tristesse (Essential Penguin) by Francoise Sagan
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 This book is the girl that you always wanted to be at school, perfect, small and to scale. It is genius for what it says and also for what it does not say
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 | Lady Chatterley's Lover (Essential Penguin) by D H Lawrence
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A timeless classic that could only have been written when it was.
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