 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Grotesque, murderous but gripping story of a man with a heightened sense of smell. Actually gets you interested in the craft of perfume making.
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 | What's it All About? by Michael Caine
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 Rags to riches tale of a humble bloke who starred in some of our favourite films. Get Carter, Italian Job, swinging sixties. Need I say more.
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 | The Trial (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.15 Man gets arrested for no reason at all and works against, and then with, the system to clear his name. Doesn't exactly go to plan.
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 | Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
Buy used from: £0.01 Well told, uncomplicated and rather different time travel story. For children and fans of The Cure.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £2.50 A guy gets fed up with school, leaves, then bums around acting slightly strange for 2 days. It's not until the final page that you really realise what's been going on. No peeping!
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 | The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.63 Girl about town starts to act a bit rebellious and it turns out she's descending into mental illness.
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 | Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Buy used from: £0.01 Laurie Lee's story of a hard but mostly happy childhood in the Cotswolds. Interesting portrayal of both the caring and irresponsible sides of his mother. Several mentions of Painswick.
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 | Going Gently by David Nobbs
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 It's got Nobbs written all over it. You feel like you know all the characters. Several weddings and some funerals. 99 years in 412 pages. Toothbrush, CJ.
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 | Silk by Alessandro Baricco
Buy used from: £0.01 Short, fable-like tale of a man, 2 women and some silk worms. Gets a bit saucy at one point. Had to shield it from my fellow commuters.
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 | Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.45 Fictitious journals of a man who lived through every decade of the 20th century. Touches on many renowned people and events. Informative and engrossing. Not as boring as I have probably made it sound.
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