 | The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £4.66 Amazing - in my opinion, Greene's finest - a beautiful book about explosive love in the rubble....
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 | Venus in Furs (Penguin Classics) by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Buy new: £2.52 / Used from: £3.98 Because everyone gets a perverse thrill from bloodying heads against beautiful and austere brick walls
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 | Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £4.15 God bless George Harvey Bone and the inevitability of his useless love
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 | Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £2.22 / Used from: £0.74 There are passages in this book that flow as pure poetry - some of these sentences will literally make you wince
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 | Tipping the Velvet (Virago V) by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.68 I love everything that Sarah Waters has written but don't wanna lez this list out... I recommend the DVD too - buff!!
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 | The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Buy new: £2.42 / Used from: £1.46 You'd think this would be cheese-fest, but its actually absolutely amazing
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 | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
Buy new: £2.44 / Used from: £5.19 Love is so short, forgetting is so long........
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 | The Well of Loneliness (Wordsworth Classics) by Radclyffe Hall
Buy new: £16.24 / Used from: £14.18 Lezzing it up once again, this text is fraught with the useless beauty of the inverts. Diggit
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 obviously
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 | Of Love and Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics) by Julian Maclaren-Ross
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £3.88 Forgotten feelings from a forgotten age
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 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Buy new: £2.49 / Used from: £0.93 I'll never decide whether I adore this or not. For the sake of argument, lets just say I do
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 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.55 Let the hysterical weeping commence.....
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 | Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Vintage Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.71 Why is Patrick Hamilton not treated like the legend he so obviously is??!! This is not a rhetorical question!!
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 | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy new: £3.02 / Used from: £2.00 I love you, but you're green
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 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Flamingo Modern Classic) by Alan Sillitoe
Buy used from: £14.80 Genius!! Full of proper, 1950s Yorkshire slang......like, "rat-clock" ?!!!? Seriously, what!!?
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 | Of Human Bondage (Vintage Classics) by William Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.04 "formative, tortured, masochistic affair" - have you been reading my diary?!!?
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 | The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £0.20 Just dont buy this book for someone you secretly love.... trust me, cats get let out of bags.....in a bad way
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 | Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £8.13 My favourite man, my favourite collection of poems
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £2.49 BeautifulBeautifulBeautiful.... Even the most sordid and repugnant attractions can be turned into poetry by the overwhelming, transformative powers of love
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 | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £9.98 My only music choice - PLEASE listen to this, you wont be sorry, "the movements were beautiful, all in your ovaries"
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