 | A Grief Observed (Faber paperbacks) by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.00 Amazing. But if you've just lost someone, make sure you're really ready before you start reading.
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 So wonderful. Reads like an early twentieth-century classic. Like Woolf or Forster.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £0.01 A classic of its type of course, but not really my cup of tea.
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 | Gigi and the Cat (Vintage Classics) by Colette
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Loved Gigi. The Cat was okay too.
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 | The Collector (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.07 A real page-turner. Loved seeing the story from the two perspectives.
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 | The Bell (Vintage Classics) by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.95 I love novels that make me think more carefully about my beliefs.
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 | Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 Light, fluffy and insubstantial.
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 | Gentlemen's Gentlemen: My Friends in Service by Rosina Harrison
Buy used from: £0.01 A nice insight into life below stairs back when people like me knew their place.
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.67 Deeply disturbing and 'icky'.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.44 Intriguing for the first few chapters but ultimately disappointing.
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 | The Foundling (Hesperus Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £1.75 Interesting juvenalia. You can definitely see the promise.
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Enjoyable, but not memorable.
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 | Enduring Love: Now a major motion picture by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Okay, but shallow and somehow false when compared with 'Atonement'. The psycho stalker was more sympathetic than his victims - surely not what McEwan intended.
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 | Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
Buy used from: £0.18 Wonderful. Thought-provoking. Provides no easy answers. I know I'll read it again some day.
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 | Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 My knickers aren't in a knot because of the atheism; each to their own. I mind more about finding myself frequently bored. I'll stick with J K Rowling and C S Lewis, thanks.
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 | The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £5.10 A beautiful poem which I read aloud to my two year old. Wonderful illustrations.
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 | A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings (Penguin Classics by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.64 / Used from: £2.21 I only read 'A Christmas Carol'. And it's wonderful. Best read in December out loud to someone who wont mind snuggling with you, preferably in front of the fire.
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