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	Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.89 What The Da Vinci Code could have been if Dan Brown was a good writer. Gripping, fascinating, bleakly funny.
	Ran [DVD] [1985] Buy used from: £5.80 King Lear, set in feudal Japan by the visionary and influential director Akira Kurosawa.
	Neon Genesis Evangelion - Perfect Collection [DVD] Buy used from: £259.99 The world ends to Bach, Beethoven and the noise of giant robots beating each other up. Love or hate it, can you resist the urge to analyse the symbolism and general wierdness? Buy The End of... too
	Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £4.49 A poetry maestro's greatest work. Is Satan hero or villain? Knowledge of religion and Classics reccomended, not essential (this edition has good notes).
	Akira - The Ultimate Collection [1991] [DVD] Buy used from: £11.24 The anime movie that your granny's seen, if she's seen any. Quite remarkable.
	Republic (Oxford World's Classics) by Plato Buy used from: £0.01 Western thought starts here.
	The Iliad: the Odyssey by Homer Buy used from: £22.46 . . . And Western literature starts here.
	The Sound of the Jam by The Jam Buy new: £18.59 Criminally underrappreciated. Think The Clash, in Woking.
	Best Sellers: Homeworld 2 (PC) Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.50 Quite remarkable, highly enjoyable.
	The Big Sleep", "Farewell My Lovely", "the High Window" (Everyman's Library classics) by Raymond Chandler Buy new: £12.25 / Used from: £6.00 The master of crime fiction (NOT the same as detective fiction). Chandler's key concern is justice, not the solution of mysteries.
	William Blake (Everyman Poetry) by William Blake Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Cheap as chips introduction to a wonderful poet.
	Yojimbo [1961] [DVD] Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £99.00 The inspiration for For a Fistful of Dollars. One of the greatest Samurai films ever.
	Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues (Oxford World's Classics) by George Berkeley Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £3.50 A man mad enough to strike for truth. Get rid of the external world, we don't need it.
	Thief: Deadly Shadows (PC) Buy used from: £0.49 If the previous Thief games work on your PC, play them first. If not, play this.
	Duellists, The [DVD] [1977] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.98 A film that explores honour, morality, law, hatred and courage. Vintage Ridley Scott.