![]() | The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Buy used from: £0.01 Love, loss, an angel befriends a human, the whole world is about to be discussed and torn apart. It will make you question everything - love, God, Devil, pain, eternity - and probably cry.
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![]() | Interview with the Vampire (Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 The ultimate vampire book, but also a book about loneliness, the human condition, the passage of time and Good and Evil. Beautifully written.
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![]() | The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £0.38 How far could one go to lose one's identity and be reborn as a supposedly more appealing person? Ripley is scary, but tender. one has to ask how shallow friendships and identities are today.
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![]() | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: £0.01 a mysterious, soft, entrancing story about 5 suicidal girls. But it's also a story about young love and it's poetic, enduring power. AMAZING!
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![]() | White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Gut-wrentching and so lyrical one forgets there's murder, loss, violence, death in it at all.
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![]() | Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
Buy used from: £0.01 simple, clean-cut but completely heartbreaking. I still love The Motocycle Boy's dark wit. An elegy to lost youth.
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![]() | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Some say that it's the best book ever written. It's possible. So good and gripping you must stop to catch your breath. One falls in this parallel world of intellect and mystery.
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![]() | In a Land of Plenty by Tim Pears
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A family saga, but every word is pure magic, pure longing, pure heartbreak. The tv series was equally brilliant. Every character is a gift.
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![]() | Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy used from: £2.60 It's about love and dream and ghosts. And the imaginary pop culture and getting over your past and your dark fears. Powerful!
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![]() | Strangers (Virago Modern Classics) by Antonia White
Buy used from: £0.01 She is not known enough, but her short-storiues are this tiny world similar to Plath's - cold, private, sad, lyrical... lovely.
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![]() | Love by Angela Carter
Buy new: £3.03 / Used from: £3.01 Dreamy and breathtaking- very small, but very disturbing. Doom is hanging in every page.
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![]() | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £3.05 / Used from: £3.04 A new take on fairy tales... a darker one, but one you'll never forget. "The Lady of the House of Love" is my favourite- vampires with a Romantic touch.
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![]() | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £1.67 The greatest American novel - can one not cry with that sad, sad pool scene? oh the careless ones...
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![]() | Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 It's raw, dark, grimy, real, God and devotion, faith and carnal love explored. Hardy's masterpiece.
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![]() | Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Buy used from: £0.01 It's quiet and soft at first, but beautifully written. About the disgrace and pain lurking beneath mundane things like families, marriages, love and betrayal.
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