 | How to Write Really Badly by Anne Fine
Buy used from: £0.01 I'm starting with the books that made me want to read. It envolves a young boy and a semi-literate friend. Anne Fine is hilarious!
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 | The Beach Dogs by Andy Jennings
Buy used from: £0.01 This is the tale of a few dogs living, suprisingly, on a beach, and thier struggle to survive the desrt-like conditions. This is a child's book but gives an often harsh insight into life.
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 | The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis
Buy new: £1.65 / Used from: £0.01 Moving on to the Young Adultbooks. Deborah ellis shows us an adventure through the lives and cultures of Africa. An inspiring read with beautiful imagery.
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 | The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 I am aware that the title could be improved but don't be put off this is a beautiful story, It has an air of victorian England about it + ghostly magic foals and rooms with towers. :D
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 | The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Buy new: £2.33 / Used from: £0.01 The idea of a bunch of children living together is an over-used theme in todays kids books but don't be alarmed. This is a great intro to sci-f for younger readers and has been marketed for adults too
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 | Zoo: Life Couldn't Get Any Wilder by Graham Marks
Buy new: £0.90 / Used from: £0.01 This is insane. I met Graham Marks last year and he explained the ideas for this book. It envolves cloning, epic killings with aerosol cans, and a miami setting. an excellent thriller (no real zoos)!
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 | Old Magic by Marianne Curley
Buy used from: £0.01 Marriane Curley is better known for her Guardians of Time series. This book has more grit and belivability. It envolves magic, romance, and being an outsider. Essential.
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 | Just in Case by Meg Rosoff
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £0.01 Most of the english speaking world has probably read How I live now, by this author. This her second book talks of a boy who truly belives fate is out to get him. DC10s, goths, an evil deity. READ !
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 | The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
Buy new: £2.67 / Used from: £0.01 A young boy is strapped to the back of an enormous kite and flown in to the cloudsas a stunt. This book is amazinngly sad and shows the popular asian culture and it's values in beautiful fiction.
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 | Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £12.12 Onto the adult books. Don't be put off by the dastardly cover. The imagination of this guy is epically disturbing. the stories are fantastically creepy, a few have featured on the simpsons!
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy used from: £24.94 I cannot even begin to explain the complex, phenomenal story that this man has begun. One of the most amazing sci-fi's ever. Think desert cacti, giant worms, mind altering substances...
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 | Priest: v. 1 (Priest) by Min-Woo Hyung
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.57 I am no goth. If the storyline does not appeal to you just look at the art work. this is dark and exciting. It hold snippets of yankee america with the railroads. A definitive piece of manga!
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 | Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders) by Robin Hobb
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.66 This book 3 in the second trilogy by Robin Hobb. All 3 trilogies are linked so start with Assasin's apprentice. This concludes: pirates,wood carvers,ships, dragons, and thriving cultures.Unparalelled.
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 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Vintage East) by Dai Sijie
Buy used from: £0.23 Up in the chinese mountains, two young men go in search for a better life. They fall in love, with both subjects of the title, and struggle through the seasons. this is so beautiful. (^_^)
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 | Grayson by Lynne Cox
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £0.76 Written autobiographically when the protagonist was 16 and training to swim a horribly long way. We are shown the wrold of the ocean. If you like it look out for Swimming to Antartica by the same lady
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 | The Island by Victoria Hislop
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 This was plastered on the top ten for weeks lastyear. A greek girl sits down on a warm summmers afternoon and learns about her heritage. You will never regard Lepers in the same way again. Book= hope
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 | Luna by Julie Ann Peters
Buy used from: £1.35 This tells the story of a transsexual boy. Only his sister knows him for who he really is, a girl trapped inside the body of a boy. Compelling reading.
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 | Nausicaa Perfect Collection: Vol 1 (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Sagebrush)) by Hiyao Miyazaki
Buy used from: £10.95 For the enviromentally aware in all of us. this is Hayao Miyazaki's first film. The book tells you everything you missed. Gliders, toxic jungles, wind farms, this book was sooo ahead of it's time!
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 | A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 Nick Hornby wrote the book that became that brilliant movie About A Boy. This is even funnier. our people meet up on the same apatment block on new years eve to top themselves. irony and suprises.
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 | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Buy used from: £2.97 Six novellas in one novel. mixed up and lnked together. Diary of a ship, korean fast food, post apocolyptic, nursing homes, attomic power stations. Sensational.
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 | Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Alex Steffen
Buy new: £17.47 / Used from: £10.13 Forworded by Al Gore, the chap that made An Inconveniant Truth this tome assures us that with he right attitude humanity can escape becoming extinct.Rather than preach this is a dictionary of ideas.
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 | Concept Design by Neville Page
Half of the artists envolved with this project designed Minority Report. It all started with a guy wanting to make a book of pictureswith his friends. Wish mine were this talented.
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 | Imagemakers: Cutting Edge Fashion Illustration (Mitchell Beazley Art & Design) by Martin Dawber
Buy used from: £20.72 Speaking of design this little number conatoins inspirational creation sby the worlds'up and coming experts in Fashion Illustration. Indulge!
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 | Fruits by Shoichi Aoki
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £6.50 I'll end thius list with a touch of Japanese culture. Forget these fond ideas of noble people drinking tea. This is the real ghetto of Japan. Most amazing collection of outfits ever. Most ar handmade!
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