 | The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £7.50 Changed the way I look at culture forever
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 | The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Buy used from: £0.55 This and the subsequent Lymond novels are my favourite historical novels. Bodice rippers with a degree in Renaissance studies.
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 | The Steel Bonnets: Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £8.00 Quite simply one of the most gripping history books I've ever read.
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 | The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
Buy used from: £2.19 Read it aged 13, never looked back - it was OK to be clever.
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 | Villette (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
Buy used from: £0.01 My favourite of Charlotte Bronte's novels, perhaps a touch more grown up than Jane Eyre, although I love that as well.
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 | Lords and Ladies (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.24 Pratchett's finest hour. He has read things like old English ballads and got the elves for what they really are. Genuine menace and real poetry in places, a thing you find in much of his work .
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 | Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.88 / Used from: £0.01 Love this. Catches a quintessentially British daftness.
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| The Rattle Bag
An anthology which doesn't just trot out the old favourites but encourages you to read other poets.
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 | The Metaphysical Poets
Buy used from: £0.01 All the best bits of my favourite period of English poetry in one slim vol - a friend for thirty years
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 | The Vampire Lestat (Second Volume of the Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The best of the Vampire Chronicles - read it before Interview with the Vampire and it makes a lot more sense
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