 | The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written and easy to read, it will take to new places, but stay with you forever
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 | The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Buy new: £4.24 / Used from: £1.43 Dictated by the author's blinking eye from his hospital bed, after an incapacitating stroke, utterly gripping, poignant & beautiful
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 | Gormenghast (Gormenghast Trilogy (Book Two)) by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Superbly, rich, deep and utterly fanciful, one of the most significant works of imagination of the 20thC
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.30 A dark, prophetic & frightening vision of the power of the State to destroy our freedom
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 | The Book of Evidence by John Banville
Buy used from: £0.21 So superbly written that lines from it will always haunt you and remind you how well a story can be told
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 | Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £1.90 A titanic book, a tough read, but so well worth it, timeless Rosicrucian conspiracy at least 1000 times better than Da Vinci Code
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 | Seven by Five by H.E. Bates
Buy used from: £12.93 Short stories from an English master, many you will never forget, ever
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 | Consider Phlebas (The Culture) by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best Sci-Fi available, opens your eyes to machine intelligence and the truely BIG science of the Culture
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 | Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £1.87 Timeless. Where classic writting edges into fantasy, a handful of survivors witness the end of civilisation from the isolated archipelago
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 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderfully written, lushious, sensual & vivid account of fictional 18th C French flawed genius perfumier
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 | Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A glorious 17thC romp into Janette Winterson's imagination about love, sex, lies and truth
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 | The Illustrated Man (Flamingo modern classics) by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.41 One of my all time favourite books, short stories of a metal and rubber American future written in the 1950's
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.01 Totally engaging (a one sitting read) and a window in to the strange asbergers-ridden world of most men
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 | K-Pax by Gene Brewer
Buy used from: £0.01 Please don't watch the film, read the books and believe in Prot
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 | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Picador) by Oliver Sacks
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.79 Utterly gripping (true) case histories of the dysfunctional mind provide an incredible vision of how we tick
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