 | Pedestrian Wolves by James Grant
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £12.86 Dark and sexy, a true gem of a first novel; its the sort of book you will be compelled to read in a day and then wish you could read it again for the first time as soon as its over. Set in New Orlea
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 | Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.09 Mind blowing, murders set in Japan, a bit of body modification and a healthy dose of S&M what more do you want in a book?
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 | Twelve by Nick McDonnell
Buy used from: £0.01 Sinister and awesome in equal quantities.
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 | Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.26 An unusual book that made me feel
unusual.
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 | The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by Belle de Jour
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.16 Fun, sexy and amusing! Sadly the sequel is the worst book Ive ever forced myself to finish.
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 | Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story by Sandra Gregory
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Once you get past the self pitying nature of this book youve reached the end. I didnt enjoy the story I enjoyed the vignettes into Thai society.
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 | The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices by Xinran
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A nice bit of popular ethnography. The long and the short of this is how hard women have had it in china.
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 | The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Another book on how hard it is to be Chinese and female. One of those generally sad books where the heroine triumphs eventually, set in and around the communist era.
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 | Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Buy used from: £2.00 Bitchy anti-hero impacts on the lives of everyone around her, this book sticks in my mind for being a bit out of the ordinary.
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 | Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Quite a sad book over all, each chapter is preceded by a proverb.
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 | Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00 A great idea for a story! Written in a slightly more slick style than the other books by the same author.
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 | Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel (Body, Commodity, Text) by Susan Martha Kahn
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £11.95 An Ethnography on artificial insemination in Israel. The anthropology of bioscience is a truly fascinating field.
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 | The Testimony of Lives: Memory in Post Soviet Latvia by Vieda Skultans
Buy new: £24.69 / Used from: £9.49 Grim post communist Ethnography set in Latvia.
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 | Analysing Media Texts (with DVD) (Issues in Cultural/Media Studi) by Marie Gillespie
Buy new: £18.62 / Used from: £18.43 You will not find a better book to got you started on the road to pop-culture analysis.
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