 | Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pope
Buy used from: £6.53 A wonderful collection - if only it featured the "Essay On Man"
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 | Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Sir Berlin
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £7.54 Essay on Joseph de Maistre is especially interesting, and rather disturbingly convincing...
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 | The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £10.27 Very readable - imagine being at these lectures. There's a wonderful compendium of wildly contradictory "what Romanticism was" type statements in the first essay...
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 | Futility ): A Revived Modern Classic (New Directions Paperbook, 718 (Revived Modern Classic) by W Gerhardie
Buy used from: £4.58 Hilarious. Deserves to be as famous as Waugh.
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 | Feet of Clay: Study of Gurus by Anthony Storr
Buy used from: £3.50 Anthony Storr is definitely the most lucid psyhiatrist-writer I've read - has a great gift for explaining simple concepts clearly and for recognising the limits of his profession
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 | The Witchdoctor of Chisale by Stephen McWilliams
Buy new: £6.09 / Used from: £11.49 I know the author!
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 | Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Before Huxley decided to devote himself to saving the world.
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 | Metro-Land
Buy new: £10.98 Innocent, charming, funny, and poignant.
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 | Real Presences by Steiner
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £4.99 An extraordinary book - quite densely argued and difficult to read but endlessly stimulating....
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![Ordet [1954]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Fc6LkrbRL._SL75_.jpg) | Ordet [1954]
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £14.16 A really extraordinarily hypnotic movie. I would not recommend this to someone who has been recently bereaved however.
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 | Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ancient Greek Philosophy But Didn't Know Who to Ask by Patricia F. O'Grady
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £15.40 featuring my deathless prose....
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 | In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by Todd Swift
Buy used from: £1.16 .. and featuring my deathless fiction....
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 | Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op 24; Toccata Festiva, Op 24
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.50 Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a wonderful piece that deserves to be much better known - captures the wonder and poignancy of childhood summers
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 | Tarik O'Regan - VOICES by James McVinnie
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £6.48 Choral music from a contemporary composer - don't let that put you off though!
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 | Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
Buy new: £9.73 / Used from: £8.20 Very thought provoking - go to www.badmedicine.co.uk to read my further thoughts on it!
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 | Wagner - The Flying Dutchman - An Introduction to by Thomson Smillie
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.15 Buy this with a performance of The Flying Dutchman for an accesible introduction to Wagner's most likeable and accessible opera...
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 | Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Buy new: £22.98 / Used from: £20.66 A wonderful package, a wonderful performance - after The Flying Dutchman the next step in your Wagnerisation!
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 | Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
All of which leads one to the Daddy of them all. It's pretty awesome. Haven't heard this particular one but it has good reviews here...
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![The Night Of The Hunter [1955]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412J3D2PZML._SL75_.jpg) | The Night Of The Hunter [1955]
Buy new: £8.84 / Used from: £4.60 Just watch it. An amazing film. The moment when Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish are singing together (just watch it, OK?) never fails to set my hairs standing on end
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 | The Balkan Trilogy: "Great Fortune", "Spoilt City" and "Friends and Heroes" by Olivia Manning
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £10.59 A great Anglo-Irish novelist, unjustly forgotten in Ireland. This is a wonderful evocation of the chaos of Romania and then Greece in WWII, along with an intimate portrait of a marriage
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 | The Levant Trilogy: The Danger Tree; The Battle Lost and Won; The Sum of Things: "Danger Tree", "Battle Lost and Won" and "Sum of Things" by Olivia Manning
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.45 Following on from The Balkan Trilogy
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 | Troubles: (New York Review Books Classics) by J. G. Farrell
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £7.77 The greatest Irish novel - and it is an Irish novel - I've ever read (full disclosure: I've read half of "Ulysses")
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 | Samuel Johnson: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by Samuel Johnson
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £6.00 The Great Cham himself. Probably my favourite literary figure of all time - largely because there's something very human about his emotional directness, prejudices and enthusiasms.
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