 | Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Buy used from: £0.01 Absolutley breathtaking book. Restrained look at obsession with subtle murky undercurrents of horror.
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 | 28 Barbary Lane: A Tales of the City Omnibus by Armistead Maupin
Buy used from: £17.21 The definition of a page turner. Short and punchy chapters that you just can't resist reading one more of!
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 | And Then There Were None (The Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy used from: £0.01 The original compelling thriller. Agatha Christie at her most nihlistic.
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 | She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01 This book absolutley blew my mind. Vast and compeling. Just ignore the Oprahs Book Club recommendation. This doesn't mean it's a tacky insincere book!
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 | To be Someone by Louise Voss
Buy used from: £0.01 Disturbing, bleak, funny and heart warming. Not often you get all these combinations in one book.
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 | Like People in History by Felice Picano
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £0.01 Huge saga of a novel. Kept me hooked all the way.
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 | Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Classic camp novel. Ignore everything you think you know about this from the film. The book is much darker and more amusing.
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 | Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Buy used from: £27.00 Camp, camp, camp expose of tacky film legend Joan Crawford by her clearly embittered adopted daughter. Did I mention it was camp?
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 | Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £0.01 Strange and beautiful.
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 | Foot of the Rainbow by Tony Warren
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny saga from the creator of Coronation Street, with all the bleak northern wit you'd expect.
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 | Camberwell Beauty by Jenny Eclair
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Twisted, bitter, hilairious and gasp out loud nasty. Loved it.
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 | War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £0.01 A funny and dark book about bad, bad people and their wicked behaviour.
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 | The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A haunting, beautiful and sad book
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.89 / Used from: £0.01 Stunning, compelling and sinister. Believe all the hype!
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 | Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Forget all the other 'my horrible childhood' books. This one knocks them into a tin hat. This bizarre book is at times both moving and hilairiously funny.
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 | Three Junes by Julia Glass
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant first novel with a fantastic writing style that is almost poetic. Profoundly moving and compelling.
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 | Seesaw by Deborah Moggach
Buy used from: £0.01 Well executed thriller about twisted family dynamics
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 | Vanity Fierce by Graeme Aitken
Buy used from: £7.00 A fascinating densley plotted novel
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 | Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
Buy used from: £0.01 Fascinating novel from an entirely unconventional woman with an eccentric and bizarre family.
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 | Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic brooding novel about guilt
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 | We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliant novel. Perfectly executed and thoroughly gripping. An unusual subject matter well handled.
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