 | The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. Masterworks) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £1.45 Whats it all about? Who knows, who cares - but hey this just might be the answer
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 | The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Buy new: £8.03 / Used from: £2.44 stories from the master story teller recreate a vanished world My top choice for a desert island
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 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.60 1984 is good, but this is completely different and maybe better
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 | A David Lodge Trilogy: "Changing Places", "Small World", "Nice Work" by David Lodge
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £2.64 Is the academic life this much fun -sadly not in my experience!
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 | Erewhon (English Library) by Samuel Butler
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £1.40 It was a mad world when this book was written, its even madder now
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 | Therapy by David Lodge
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 therapy-we all need it
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 | Coming from Behind by Howard Jacobson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.73 Jewish lecturer trapped in the Midlands...seems familiar (and very funny)
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 | The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.34 Never get bored with this one-great sci-fi
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 | The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.99 when it all goes horribly wrong...some consolation
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 | Enemies: A Love Story (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Buy used from: £312.84 can live with them, cant live without them....
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 | Of Human Bondage (Vintage classics) by William Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.50 not what it sound like a! a gripping tale of obsession
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 | The Life and Death of St. Kilda by Tom Steel
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.25 The strange and wonderful story of St Kilda
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| Ralph Glasser Omnibus: 'Growing Up in the Gorbals', 'Gorbals Boy at Oxford', 'Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs' by Ralph Glasser
Buy used from: £0.01 Gorbals boy goes to Oxford
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 | Clayhanger (Modern Classics) by Arnold Bennett
Buy used from: £0.01 Life in the 5 towns brilliantly described
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 | The Chrysalids (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Wyndham
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.59 Another masterpiece by John Wyndham
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 | Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.71 Great fun
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| Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood (Canongate Classics): An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood (Canongate Classics) by David Daiches
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.75 enough already! more on being jewish and scottish
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 | England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock by Jon Savage
Buy new: £42.73 / Used from: £4.75 The story of punk rock and the sex pistols-you shoulda been there!
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 | Bare-faced Messiah: True Story of L.Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller
Buy used from: £13.00 It doesnt get weirder than this!
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 | "Beatles" Complete Chord Songbook by Rikky Rooksby
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £13.03 All you need for life on a desert island (except a guitar)
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| The Grass Arena: An Autobiography by John Healy
Buy used from: £7.00 from the gutter to chess master-there's hope!
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 | Selling Hitler: Story of the Hitler Diaries by Robert Harris
Buy used from: £7.99 the truth can funnier (and scarier) than fiction
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy used from: £0.01 should be more widely read than the bible...
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 | A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
Buy used from: £0.01 not a happy ending, but who said there would be?
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 | The World According to Garp (Black Swan) by John Irving
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Not as good after re-reading but the initial impact was great-watch out for the undertoad...
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