 | The Food Taster by Peter Elbling
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £0.01 An excellent read. Funny and, at times, gruesomely real.
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 | Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Another fantastically told epic. I must stop believing every word, though.
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 | Sabriel by Garth Nix
Buy used from: £0.19 Okay, it's a children's book, but it's an excellent read - so are the other two!
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 | Blow Your House Down (Virago Modern Classics) by Pat Barker
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £0.99 Truely shocking. For one who remebers the 80's up north - more so.
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 | Going Postal (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Buy used from: £1.95 Another gem from a master of his field.
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 | Wells' "History of Mr.Polly", "The First Men in the Moon", "Kipps" (Coles Notes)
Buy used from: £9.50 Wells as you don't expect him. Social commentary without science.
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 | The Clan of the Cave Bear (Random House Large Print (Hardcover)) by Jean M. Auel
Buy used from: £44.67 One to last quite a few train journeys, and make every one more than just a journey on a train
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 | Kindred (Bluestreak) by Octavia E. Butler
Buy new: £3.60 / Used from: £2.95 Excellent story telling. Science fiction as Wells would have loved it.
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 | Hunger by Hamsun Knut
Buy new: £1.16 / Used from: £31.20 Not the most inspiring read to prepare you for work, but hope is abundant and ultimately, successful.
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 | The Tain: From the Irish Epic "Tain Bo Cuailnge"
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.15 And he read page one, and thence after two, followed by three and five interrupted only by page four, until all were read and duly discarded.
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