 | No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West
Buy used from: £0.01 Terribly moving, simple, exquisite.
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 | Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
Buy used from: £0.50 Funniest book I've read - and very biting.
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 | Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Buy used from: £0.01 Best novel: rattling good yarn, makes you believe in people again (just in case you'd stopped)
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 | God on the Rocks (Abacus Books) by Jane Gardam
Buy used from: £0.01 - but it could have been anything by Jane Gardam. She should be very famous - but perhaps she wouldn't like to be.
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.36 If you think you don't like Woolf, please try again.
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 | The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Donne
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.21 Aids to sex and prayer - what more can you ask?
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 | Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy used from: £0.01 Great page-turner, my favourite characters, plenty to get your teeth into.
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 | Cranford (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Buy used from: £0.01 Shows you don't have to be harsh to be true and funny
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: £0.01 I don't like tragedy but I do like this tragedy
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 | Howards End (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.98 A story about loving a house, and common humanity
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 | The Comforters by Muriel Spark
Buy used from: £2.53 Clever, and I don't usually like cleverness either.
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 | Selected Poems (Penguin Poets) by Tony Harrison
Buy used from: £1.93 Angry, lyrical, intelligent.
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 | Christmas Poems by U.A. Fanthorpe
Buy new: £6.54 / Used from: £6.72 Sweet, funny and painfully moving poems.
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 | Collected Short Stories by Shena Mackay
Buy used from: £0.01 Or any volume of her stories: satisfying and make you want loads more
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 | Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 Completely absorbing in a world that's vivid but not quite real
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 | The Tempest (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 If some idiot has put you off him, don't let them get away with it.
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 | The Revelations of Divine Love (Penguin Classics) by Julian of Norwich
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.24 Ignore the silly picture - if you've ever taken stuff to gain perception, try this.
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 | The Human Factor (Vintage classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Don't read this Greene first - it's the best, keep it to last
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 | Four Quartets (Faber Poetry) by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £3.64 I've always liked this, but as I get older I appreciate it more and more
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