 | A Dandy in Aspic by Derek Marlowe
Buy used from: £8.00 A lost cold war spy classic.
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 | The Monkey Wrench Gang (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward Abbey
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £4.95 From an age when environmentalism was about doing, not talking.
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 | Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Buy used from: £2.98 The best candidate yet for the "Great American Novel".
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 | Antwerp (Five Star Paperback) by Nicholas Royle
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A superb evocation of a gritty port city.
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 | GB84 by David Peace
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £1.98 One side of the Eighties: Class war narrated.
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 | The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Buy new: £10.89 / Used from: £0.01 The opposite side of the Eighties in London in crisp prose.
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 | The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £2.96 / Used from: £1.48 We could all have this in store.
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 | Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.07 A cast of characters patrol the "it" place of the moment.
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 A good novel about comic book heroes? Unlikely, but this is it.
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 | Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer
Buy used from: £0.01 The Hungarian uprising and Basketball intertwined.
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 | The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist) by Jonathan Franzen
Buy new: £9.76 / Used from: £0.01 Does for St. Louis what The Wire does for Baltimore.
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 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £2.94 More than a decade's absence and more than worth the wait.
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 | The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.04 The immigrant experience described to perfection.
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 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Knotty, bewitching sentences.
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 | Downriver by Iain Sinclair
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £4.93 Research on the hoof of the East London hood.
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 | The Malayan Trilogy: "Time for a Tiger", "Enemy in the Blanket", "Beds in the East" (Vintage classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.68 Burgess captures the birth of a nation.
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 | Barnaby Rudge (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Unjustly overlooked. This is far from minor Dickens.
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 | Bodies by Jed Mercurio
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 A chilling condemnation of market based health care.
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 | Complicity by Iain Banks
Buy used from: £0.01 Stomach churning, but gripping.
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 | Daniel Deronda (Wordsworth Classics) by George Eliot
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Psychological depth and an in your face honesty.
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