 | Catharine and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.41 Hilarious early works - savage, witty, surreal
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 | Erasure by Percival Everett
Buy new: £3.50 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny, very clever, more than a bit bitter
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 | Old School by Tobias Wolff
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Literary competition, adolescent hormones, and a savaging of Ayn Rand
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 | Inspector Cadaver (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
Buy used from: £1.23 One of the best of a fascinating, atmospheric series
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 | The Terror of St.Trinian's and Other Drawings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ronald Searle
Buy used from: £1.67 A great introductory colection, but why isn't he more in print?
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 | Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.99 Genuinely moving story of faith and family conflict
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 | From a Crooked Rib (Penguin Modern Classics) by Nuruddin Farah
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £4.00 A bleak view of Somali womanhood, and quite alien to comfortable Western eyes
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 | Let it Come Down (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £7.08 Like Graham Greene after the kif kicks in - the ending may disappoint some
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 | Blankets by Craig Thompson
Buy used from: £31.18 A wonderful graphic novel of first love and loss
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 | The Dancers at the End of Time (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.98 Clever, funny time-travel fin-de-siecle pastiche
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 | The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
Buy used from: £0.01 Probably his best - creepy, funny and inventive
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 | At Mrs. Lippincote's (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor
Buy used from: £0.01 A great book from a much-neglected writer - NOT the actress, thank God
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 | The Complete Critical Assembly: The Collected White Dwarf (and GM, and GMI) Sf Review Columns by David Langford
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £14.88 Some of the best, funniest and most readable SF criticism ever written, so there
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