 | The Eclipse of the Century (Point - Nurses) by Jan Mark
Buy used from: £0.01 A haunting, dream-like tale, I cannot recommend this enough
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 | The Real Heroes of Telemark: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Stop Hitler's Atomic Bomb by Raymond Mears
Buy used from: £3.39 Completely astonishing - the brave acts of these few men saved the world, and hollywood re-paid them by lying! Let us pray it never comes to this again.
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 | I Am Legend (S.F. Masterworks) by Richard Matheson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.94 Beg, steal, borrow, whatever, just read this book! It is without a doubt one of the finest ever written, and delivers a (at the time) new twist to vampire lore
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 | Fun Run and Other Oxymorons: Singular Reflections of an Englishman Abroad by Joe Bennett
Buy used from: £3.58 Sharp, witty, dry, and above all, hilarious. If you like anything by Clive James, Bill Bryson, Tony Hawks, or Dave Gorman you will love this
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass": His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £10.99 This should be on the National Curriculum. I watched the southbank show about it and I would very much like to punch that Daily Mail idiot. How can the pursuit of love and knowledge be blasphemous?
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 | Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure by Dave Gorman
Buy used from: £0.01 Heart-warming and hilarious. In this world of guns and suicide-bombers, Dave manages to meet a shed-load of strangers who, on the whole, turn out to be wonderful, bright, lovely people- all's not lost
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 | The Demolished Man (S.F. Masterworks) by Alfred Bester
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.85 This may sound similar to Minority Report but it's ten times better and written about four years earlier. Up there with I Am Legend, this is jaw-dropping from start to finish
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 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 You will laugh, and you will cry. More fool me for reading this, and subsequent volumes in public
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 | The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
Buy used from: £1.90 My Mum's been telling me to read this book for ages, and after she bought it for me at Christmas I finally got round to it, and good job too! If you only ever read one King novel, make it this one!
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 | Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Buy used from: £0.01 Very, very funny. When reading this I had three over-whelming thoughts: 1)Tony Hawks is a great guy 2)I want to go to Ireland and 3)I want a Guinness
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 | Consider Phlebas (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Everyone should read atleast one book by this guy, sci-fi or no, because he's brilliant. If you like sci-fi you may aswell start here
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 | A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life by John Simpson
Buy new: £4.14 / Used from: £0.01 This guy has seen it all, and anyone who likes a wee dram of Laphroig can't be half bad, eh?
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 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.99 The Princess Bride is my favouite film and I love the book perhaps even more. All I can hope for is that I have children who will love The Princess Bride, isn't it just the best story ever told?
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