 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.90 A butler takes a break from his duties to visit a former housekeeper. If you enjoyed the film, this is a thousand times better
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 | Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £1.79 Set mostly in the 1970s around Cambridge, this dark novel follows the development of Mike Engleby. A clever and well written book which is an easy read but also contains much food for thought
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 | Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £1.40 Clare Allan's debut novel - a humorous study of life in a London asylum
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 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 A humourous and touching story. The daughter of a Ukrainian refugee is aghast when her eighty something year old father contemplates marriage to a much younger bride who is also from the Ukraine
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 | A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £1.60 Follows a year in the life of a young Chinese student who comes to London to learn English. Some might like this for its refreshing experimental style but I never quite believed in the main character
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 | Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 This novel follows the attempts of Matthew and Josie to establish the perfect step family. Has its moments but I found it too full of middle class people having middle class crises for my liking.
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 | Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Buy used from: £0.01 Humorous novel about a student whose ambition is to appear on University Challenge. Entertaining with well written dialogue but it falls short of being brilliant or memorable
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 | We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.33 / Used from: £0.01 Novel about a school killer. Some may not like the style or the subject matter. I found it compelling and disturbing but, from a distance, I feel that Kevin is based too heavily on real characters
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