 | Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Buy new: £6.50 / Used from: £0.01 I found this a powerful and dramatic account of the slave trade very readable
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 | The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining, moving bizarre but yet truthful somehow - I've never actually tried flytrapping.
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 | The "Rotters' Club" by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 Painful recognition of being a 70s teenager pulls a lot of history together, and is very funny.
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 | The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £1.30 Brilliant - explores the child at so many levels
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 | Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 Fascinating, sometimes harrowing book about language and the difficulty of finding things out
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.52 Very clever interlinking of huge range of genres
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 | This Is Your Life by John O'Farrell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Funny book about celebrity with great jokes
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent plot, well observed, insightful - it's a true classic
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 | A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.01 Tyler creates such believable characters, in books that manage to be wise without being trite
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 | The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Buy used from: £0.01 Very short, very funny
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