 | The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Buy used from: £3.99 Recalcitrant me: I read this modern Turkish classic while in Greece
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 | Freedom and Death by Nikos Kazantzakis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.82 Recalcitrant me II: I read this Greek classic while in Turkey
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 Contrasts: I read this British countryside novel on a Thai beach
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 | Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Buy used from: £0.01 Contrasts: I read this wintry novel in the August heat in Rome
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 | New Boy by William Sutcliffe
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Laughing Matter: This book is hilarious and spot-on.
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 | Blandings Castle: And Elsewhere by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £0.01 Laughing Matter II: Blanding's Castle is where I want to spend the rest of my days
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 | The Servant to Two Masters (Modern Plays) by Carlo Goldoni
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £0.99 Laughing matter III: Anything by Goldoni is guaranteed to make me laugh :)
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 | Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Buy used from: £0.01 Short fiction: a heart-wrenching, complex and rich novella
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 | The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Buy used from: £0.99 Short fiction II: re-reading does not exist in Mansfield's universe: it feels like the first time every time
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 | A Home at the End of the World (Essential Penguin) by Michael Cunningham
Buy new: £5.79 / Used from: £0.08 As good as the film: Family is whatever you want it to be
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 | The Ripley Omnibus: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Underground, Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £7.43 As good as the film II: sleak and sexy and great psychological insight
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 | Four Feathers Tie in by A.E.W. Mason
Buy used from: £0.01 much better than the film; a great adventure and romance
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 | The Crime of Father Amaro by Eca de Queiros
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £2.29 much better than the film II: though only because the film is shorter
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 | Crying Shame by Renate Dorrestein
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Two unexpected protagonists: a 10 year old girl and a 70 year old lady, both running away from the past
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Two unexpected protagonists: a hindu-muslim-christian boy and a Bengal tiger, both floating in the Pacific Ocean
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