 | The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
Buy new: £1.05 / Used from: £0.01 Comical, moving and absurd stuff from the writer of "Withnail & I".
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 | Sons and Lovers (Penguin Popular Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Compassionate tale about the turmoil of family life.
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 | Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £3.54 A beautiful collection of tales. The title story is a brilliant tale of redemption.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.98 Vivid depictions of trench warfare. Touching moments of camaraderie. ESSENTIAL.
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 | Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.99 Possibly the ULTIMATE graphic novel. A heartbreaking study of loneliness.
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 | The Bandini Quartet by John Fante
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £4.25 At turns witty and utterly grim. Our hero Bandini has spent many hours riding the cycle of despair.
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 | We Need to Talk About Kevin (Five Star Paperback) by Lionel Shriver
Buy new: £4.67 / Used from: £0.01 Intelligently written and enormously gripping novel. The conclusion is BLISTERING.
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 | Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Buy used from: £1.72 A journey inside the mind of a horrifically wounded war soldier. Disturbing and devastating.
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.95 One of the greats - Humorous, dark, suspenseful. Long live Oscar Wilde!
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 | Ladies Man by Richard Price
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £13.40 A New Yorker does some soul searching in this seedy but addictive tale.
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 | The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.25 A metaphysical masterpiece. Murakami's best book.
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 | Looks and Smiles by Barry Hines
Buy used from: £0.01 Gritty social realism from the author of KES. Also check out "The Blinder" by Hines.
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 | Ham On Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £3.72 An angry "rites of passage" novel that spits its words out at the reader.
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 | The Emperor of Ice Cream (Paladin Books) by Brian Moore
Buy used from: £3.47 WW2 enters Belfast in this affecting story.
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 | The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.14 Delightfully far-fetched tale that twists and turns like an angry, boiled snake!
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 | What Happens Now by Jeremy Dyson
Buy new: £10.44 / Used from: £0.13 This book ends beautifully. It is simultaneously upsetting and uplifting.
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 | The Affirmation (Gollancz S.F.) by Christopher Priest
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £1.67 WHAT IS GOING ON? Read this trance-inducing, beguiling book and decide for yourself!
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 | Filth by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 FILTH is, I reckon, the last great book by Irvine Welsh. A rivetting read.
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 | The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Flamingo Modern Classic) by Alan Sillitoe
Buy used from: £1.23 The title story here is an all-time classic. Razor-sharp kitchen sink drama.
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 | Dracula (Oxford World's Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £0.01 You may have heard of this book. It is shrouded in a rich, gothic atmosphere. Brilliant.
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 | The Room by Hubert Selby Jr
Buy new: £4.08 / Used from: £3.20 Approach this pitch black book with caution. It makes "American Psycho" look like "Mary Poppins"!
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 | Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron by Daniel Clowes
Buy new: £6.38 / Used from: £7.68 Surreal, unsettling and darkly comic. A superior graphic novel.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £2.90 / Used from: £2.58 A novel that will consume the reader with its incredible prose. A "real horrorshow" novel.
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 | The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £10.00 The best graphic novel ever written? Quite possibly. The most important? Definitely.
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 | My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.49 This magical book cast its spell over me when I read it on a childhood holiday. Captivating stuff.
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