 | The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gollancz S.F.) by Scott Lynch
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent fantasy about young reckless genius con artist in a gang known as the Gentleman Bastards. full of banter, devious con-work, high adventure, razor sharp dialogue and rich atmopshere
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 | The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading: Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 adult fairy tale of a Deaf-blind mute dwarf
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 | The Life of God (as Told by Himself) by Franco Ferrucci
Buy new: £6.00 / Used from: £1.99 God inhabits bodies through the ages to try and fathom what makes his creation tick, thought provoking
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 | Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.36 a quest in the apocalyptic year of the beast - 1666, to find the 100th name of god. Amazing detail
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 | The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £2.80 Random, bizarre and great, full of woderful characters in the mysterious world of Zamonia
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 | Grimus by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £1.80 Wonderfully crafted story with mythological characters mixing on calf island.
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 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Puffin Books) by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.50 About a boy who has to enter his fathers story telling world on an orbiting moon to save him and stories
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 | Sabriel by Garth Nix
Buy new: £4.11 / Used from: £0.01 Old Kingdom necromancy and free magic
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.01 eccentric book based on the startling idea that English magic did not die
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 | Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.51 Tale of the son of the spider God trying to live a normal life in the modern world
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 | His Dark Materials Boxed set (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £13.20 / Used from: £9.75 good take on the world and god and has armoured bears
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 | Collins Tree Guide (Collins) by Owen Johnson
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £10.00 Superb field tree guide
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 | Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, Book One) by Lian Hearn
Buy used from: £0.01 beautifully fabricated fictional Japanese world of The Three Countries
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 | The Stone Raft (Panther) by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.99 very recomended - magical realism crafting relationships between people, earth and causation, politics and romance
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 | Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.40 Extraordinary true story. Orwell chronicles his experiences during an era of equality and freedom - his involvemnt in the Spanish Civil War
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 | Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol.2 by Ivor Cutler
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.00 Scotland's unsung genius
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 | The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders
Buy new: £3.00 / Used from: £0.01 great short story - When a gapper gets near a goat it gives off a continual high-pitched happy shriek
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 | Amphigorey: Fifteen Stories by Edward Gorey
Buy new: £5.66 / Used from: £5.90 Amazingly illustrated eccentric compilation of short cautionary tales and limericks
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 | Rumo by Walter Moers
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £6.00 The greatest hero in the history of Zamonia
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.40 A true great, blending worlds of the magical and realistic
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 | The Palace of Dreams by Ismail Kadare
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £4.59 dark tale of dreams, interpretation and state control
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 | The Magicians' Guild (Black Magician Trilogy) by Trudi Canavan
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 light fantasy reading
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 | The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy) by Jonathan Stroud
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 fun quick reading tale based around Bartimaeus a wisecracking Djinni
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 | Fresh Carpet by Ivor Cutler
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £2.19 A great book to keep in your pocket for those surreal moments. It came in handy on a cliff top with a student geologist once.
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 | The Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin
Buy new: £9.77 / Used from: £16.07 A new world view
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