 | Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 Ignore the offputting title and read this before you die! Truly brilliant.
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 | Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Is there such a thing as a bad Kate Atkinson novel?
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.18 A huge tale - bury yourself and be moved
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 A little wordy in places, but what a story... made me cry on the tube!
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 | What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.01 An excellent yarn - step inside a family of monsters
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 | The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 More great stuff from Jonathan Coe
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £14.97 / Used from: £13.86 An intelligent and gripping graphic novel - (but skip the film version!)
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £0.45 A creepy classic, read it then see Hitchcock's film version
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 | Crime and Punishment (Oxford World's Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buy used from: £0.82 Crime thriller supreme - let the paranoia infect your bones
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 | Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £0.01 A fine tale... even abridged. (Enjoy the stage musical)
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £6.49 Fantastic in every sense... anyone over 12 will be captivated
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 | Harry Potter Pbk Boxed Set by J.K. Rowling
Buy used from: £24.99 Do believe the hype - hedonstic reading for anyone over 10!
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.83 / Used from: £0.37 Brilliant, funny and moving. Another one that made me cry on the tube...
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 | The Best a Man Can Get by John O'Farrell
Buy used from: £1.51 Laugh-out-loud nonsense, many will recognise themselves or their men!
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 | The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A beautifully evoked tale of love and horror in war-torn Siberia.
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 I always like a book that makes me want to find out more
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 | The School of Night by Alan Wall
Buy used from: £0.01 A clever tale... guaranteed to get you 'Googling'
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 | Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds
Buy used from: £3.53 Banish preconceptions, this is a fabulous graphic novel not aimed at teenage boys!
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.34 A shame to read Gemma Bovery without also reading the classic that inspired it
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 | Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Buy new: £2.19 / Used from: £0.01 A rollicking good story - ultra-readable 17th century fun
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 | The Bridesmaid by Ruth Rendell
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Forget the 'Crime' label... Rendell's non-Wexford novels deserve to be read outside the genre
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 | Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis
Buy new: £6.57 / Used from: £3.99 This series converted me to graphic novels - (make sure you read them in order)
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 | Creature Tech by Doug TenNapel
Buy used from: £8.85 A charming little graphic novel to make you smile
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 | Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A touching story - my favourite Joanne Harris novel
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 | The Portrait by Iain Pears
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 A quick read with sinister undertones. Quite different in tone to the art-mystery novels by the same author
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