 | Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 10 times better than Captain Corelli
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 | The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 See above
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 | The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 See above
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.46 The best pop-science books for years
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 | Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.03 Forget school classics - this book is a real revelation
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 | Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £8.00 You wouldn't believe there was anything new in this subject
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 | Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane History) by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £5.50 Part 2 of the best Hitler book ever
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 | Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £3.50 Read this, then 'War and Peace'
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 | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.13 Profound. His best book yet
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 | Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 I'm hard, but I cried. You MUST read this short book
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 | Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.47 Who said fossils were boring? This is a classic
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 | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A deep and searching life of the great diarist
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 | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £13.29 / Used from: £3.76 The great question is finally answered
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: £188.00 Eat your heart out Harry Potter - this is the original and best
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 | The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell by Robert Lowell
Buy new: £28.00 / Used from: £19.80 My favourite poet
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 | William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books by David Bindman
Buy new: £20.97 / Used from: £14.99 Incomparable marriage of art and poetry
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 | Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkhas (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by John Masters
Buy used from: £19.98 Wonderful writing. Read the other two autobiographies as well
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 | The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite Wyndham.
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 | Foundation (The Foundation series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 The first in the series, and by far the best
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 | Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy used from: £11.95 'Independence Day' was crap. This is genius
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 | Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £8.95 The first Weir I read. They're all wonderful though
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 | The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and, The Lyre of Orpheus): What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Buy new: £11.19 / Used from: £1.06 Just read anything by Robertson Davies
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books) by Dee Brown
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.48 This book will change you
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 | Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum
Buy used from: £3.61 I loved this honest account of South American Indians
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 This stands for all the greatest English literature.
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