 | A Month in the Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by J.L. Carr
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £5.34 A short, bucolic novel, but tinged with sadness. Great read.
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 | The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £2.60 Beautiful narratives
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 | Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.23 Quite funny but a bit farcical for my tastes
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 | The Regeneration Trilogy: "Regeneration", "Eye in the Door", "Ghost Road" by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £9.90 Absolutely brilliant
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 | Monsieur Monde Vanishes (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
Buy used from: £15.00 Developed a bit of a Simenon addiction this year
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 | Maigret and the Ghost (Penguin Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.99 |
 | My Friend Maigret (Penguin Red Classics) by Georges Simenon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.73 Much better than I thought it would be, but I did get a bit fed up of the main character's constant ball aching
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 | The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
Buy new: £3.54 / Used from: £0.01 One of the most disturbing characters I've read. Excellent.
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 | The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Edith Wharton
Buy new: £2.11 / Used from: £0.19 Can't believe I'd not read this before. Amazing.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.12 I was re-reading this, and it hasn't lost any of its power
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 | Revolutionary Road (Modern American Fiction) by Richard Yates
Buy used from: £15.00 Not as good as I had hoped. Characters are all quite unpleasant
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 | The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
Buy used from: £19.60 Same here, quite disappointing
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 | Double Vision by Pat Barker
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Nowhere near as good as Regeneration, but worth a read
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 | Life Class by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £19.93 A bit disappointing but still engrossing
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 | Crossing to Safety (Penguin Modern Classics) by Wallace Stegner
Buy new: £4.02 / Used from: £4.47 Never heard of it before, but one of the best novels I've read
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 | The Lost Estate (Penguin Classics) by Henri Alain-Fournier
Buy new: £3.10 / Used from: £3.85 Very moving, excellent
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 | On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £3.79 / Used from: £1.50 Didn;t like it at all. Clumsy, too many cultural references shoe-horned in
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 | Resistance by Owen Sheers
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.95 Great read. Imagining Nazis marching through Hereford is quite chilling (as a Herefordian)
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 | The Secrets of the Chess Machine by Robert Löhr
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £3.89 Bought it because I liked the cover. Not a bad read though
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 | Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller
Buy used from: £1.73 A bit rubbish really
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 | Angel (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.00 brilliant portrayal of a very ugly character. Humourous and cringeworthy, but very clever
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 | Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (Virago Modern Classics) by Elizabeth Taylor
Buy new: £3.11 / Used from: £3.23 Moving, funny, brilliant
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.52 |
 | A Woman in Berlin: Diary 20 April 1945 to 22 June 1945 by Anonymous
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £1.20 |
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