 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £7.39 / Used from: £2.74 Afghanistan - hard hitting, beautifully written story of two Afghan women
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Australia - quirky tale of a voyage to Tasmania
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 | Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Cameroon - excellent story centred on a zoologist studing chimpanzees in Africa
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Canada - an elderly woman reveals a complex past
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 | Wives of the East Wind by Liu Hong
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.95 China - follows two couples living through the revolutions and hardships of 20th century China
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 | Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £4.00 Colombia - age is no barrier to love in Marquez's classic
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 France - the ultimate swashbuckling epic
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £3.83 Germany - heartbreaking and brilliant story of ordinary people living through a war
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 | Animal's People by Indra Sinha
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £2.05 India - a povery stricken community fights to gain compensation from the chemical company whose burning factory killed and maimed many in their village
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 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Ireland - narrated with great style by the eponymous hero, a ten year old growing up in Dublin
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 | An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.74 Japan - a country and its people begin the slow process of recovering from war and an old man faces his own part in it
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.73 Nigeria - superbly written story set in the Nigeria-Biafra war
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 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.79 Pakistan - cleverly written narrative of a radical professor
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 | The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.04 Peru - very gripping story of the hunt for a mysterious guerilla leader
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 | War and Peace (Penguin Red Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.77 Russia - a book that really does have it all - and despite its famous lengthiness you'll never want it to end
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 | Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.97 Slovenia - a disillusioned young woman attempts suicide but then discovers the joy of living
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 | Birds without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Turkey - brilliant characterisation in this story of a community destroyed by ethnic and religous differences
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 | The Queen and I by Sue Townsend
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.41 UK - Her Majesty and family are packed off to a council estate by the new republican government, where they must learn to survive in the real world
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £2.39 USA - a decent lawyer defends a black man falsely accused of rape in a racist community in the 1930s southern US
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