 | The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West by Sogyal Rinpoche
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £1.00 A book with a positive, balming effect, to get you out of troubled waters
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 An amazing survival story, for people who prefer climbing mountains from their armchair
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 | A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life by John Simpson
Buy new: £0.85 / Used from: £0.01 Whenever you get too enthusiastic about your day job take a look at what John Simpson does for a living, you'll be amazed of what he's gone through to get you the news
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 | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £3.10 George Orwell fought the Spanish Civil war on the republican side, a tragic story of utopian dreams gone wrong
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 | A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Buy used from: £0.01 On the surface an encouraging happy-sad real story of facing a family tragedy, but underneath remains Dave's search for his own reasons to be writing about this at all.
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 | My Brother's Gun: A Novel of Disposable Lives, Immediate Fame and a Big Black Automatic ("Rebel Inc") by Ray Loriga
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.35 The best young spanish writer, a very direct style full of cinema-like images. Hemingway meets Bret Easton Ellis.
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 | Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence by Martin Amis
Buy used from: £0.01 A narrative trick (telling the stroy backwards) works perfectly to deliver an engaging story. If you liked the film Memento you'll like this book.
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 | Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Remember the 80s? Bret Easton Ellis will make sure you feel your life was a bore compared to the frentic life of these guys. Btw the film, despite having James Spader in it, is crap
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Because there is laughter in other planets
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 | Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £2.55 Everything you ever wanted (or didn't want) to learn about bullfighting, told with Hemigway's precise and passionate prose and looking at the golden era of toreros in Spain
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