 | Dawn of the Dumb: Dispatches from the Idiotic Frontline by Charlie Brooker
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £1.19 Arguably the funniest book I have ever read. Brooker turns his acerbic wit onto TV, idiots and just about anything else that iritates him, in this second collection of Grauniad columns. Sheer genius.
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 | Northern Lights: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £0.01 Lyra's world is beautifully realised in this thoughtfully spellbinding fantasy. Forget "Harry Potter", Pullman's epic is the true classic of its age.
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 | The Subtle Knife: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.09 / Used from: £0.01 At first I wasn't sure about this second installment in Pullman's trilogy but by the cliffhanger ending I was transfixed.
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 | The Amber Spyglass. (His Dark Materials): Adult Edition by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £0.01 Thrilling, sad, but true—true as any book about Angels, Witches and Daemons can be.
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £1.30 This grim dystopia born of Christian fundamentalism is up there with 'Brave New World' and '1984', and all too likely to come true...
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 | Photography: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Steve Edwards
Buy new: £2.37 / Used from: £4.53 Photography. What is it, where did it come from and what does it mean? This is a whistle-stop explanation.
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