 | The Colour of Magic (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 All the Discworld novels are great, but to start anywhere you should start at the beginning.
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 | Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
Buy used from: £0.01 Very cinematic. Gripping and one of the best books I've ever read.
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 | Spares by Michael Marshall Smith
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.45 The best MMS novel. Elements of sci-fi, crime, hard-boiled...everything.
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 | The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 All MC's books are great with some great interlacing of characters in the later books - but start at the beginning with this one.
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 | I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.68 Funny...well paced...tells the story of the world from the side of the Devil.
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 | The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £1.86 Wildly inventive. Funny. Clever. First in the series. You should be seeing a motif in this first in series stuff.
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 | Scepticism Inc. by Bo Fowler
Buy used from: £6.99 Off the wall and crazy...metaphysical betting?
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 | Savage Season by Joe R Lansdale
Buy used from: £6.91 Did some body say hardboiled? The Hap and Leonard series is great. Unsurprisingly, this is the first.
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 | Fup: A Modern Fable by Jim Dodge
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 This little book is a comic masterpiece. Jim Dodge is great. That is all I needed to say.
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 | Goodnight Mister Tom (New Longman Literature 11-14) by Michelle Magorian
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.01 From my childhood - so much better than the TV adaptation.
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 | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Everyone knows the Hitchiker's Guide...but this is a fantastic comic novel
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 | Anonymous Rex by Eric Garcia
Buy used from: £3.81 Hardboiled and funny? The only dinosaur detective I am aware of is both.
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