 | Knots And Crosses by Ian Rankin
Buy new: £3.79 / Used from: £0.01 My first Rebus, but I'm not sure I'm convinced.
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 | The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
Buy used from: £5.28 Yawn. More passion and less politics please.
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 | Pay Days (Harpur & Iles) by Bill James
Buy used from: £4.44 Another corker from Britains most under-rated crime novelist.
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 | A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.78 Brilliant book about Round the World yachting.
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 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.86 Oh those Russians. Too serious and thoughtful by half.
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 | To the Baltic with Bob: An Epic Misadventure by Griff Rhys Jones
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Maybe of nterest to Griff and his mates, like Bob (who? why?) but nobody else.
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 | Hell Bent for Leather: Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict by Seb Hunter
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.49 Terrific. Had me digging out my old Whitesnake albums and tour T-shirts.
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 | Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £3.72 / Used from: £1.65 Easy reading at its best.
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 | The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery by Simon Worrall
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £0.59 Nowhere near as good as A Gathering of Saints which tells the same story.
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 | The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A deeper and more thoughtful thriller than, say, anything Dan Brown has written.
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 | A Time to Die: The Kursk Disaster by Robert Moore
Buy used from: £1.92 Russians and tragedy. Again. But a fascinating and sympathetic account.
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 | The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
Buy new: £0.75 / Used from: £0.01 Richard and Judy - just how many of their viewers will enjoy this? Two?
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 | Inside Hitler's Bunker by Joachim C. Fest
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.67 It wasn't a laugh a minute.
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 | Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco by Jason Webster
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £0.45 Entertaining and probably as true as you or I learning flamenco guitar in two years.
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 | The "Rotters' Club" by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 Didn't think I'd like this at all, and loved it.
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 | In Black and White: The Untold Story of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens by Donald McRae
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.26 Good, if a bit worthy and possibly anachronistic.
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 | Hallelujah!: The Extraordinary Story of Shaun Ryder and "Happy Mondays" by John Warburton
Buy new: £3.58 / Used from: £0.65 A must, if you think taking drugs and getting drunk is big, clever and hilarious.
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 | Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers and Led His Men to Safety: The Fireman's ... the Twin Towers and Lead His Men to Safety by Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto
Buy new: £0.05 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting, kind of.
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 | True Grit by Charles Portis
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 Not as good as the blurbs suggested.
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 | Millennium People by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 Another cool muse on middle-class rebellion.
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 | Past Mortem by Ben Elton
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Good crime thriller, and Ben's still trying to shock with kinky sex.
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 | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.39 A great tour of Africa from the best travel writer around.
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 | I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.00 An insult to Old Nick.
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 | Feet in the Clouds: A Story of Fell Running and Obsession by Richard Askwith
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.37 You won't be inspired to take this up! But it's entertaining to read of those who do.
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 | The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.03 Disappointing sequel.
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