 | The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £0.01 Stunning prose - perfectly formed characters
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 | Rough Music by Patrick Gale
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Is he the best contemporary British author? Or is that Hollinghurst?
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 | Germinal (Penguin Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.58 The only way into 19th century French realism
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 | Atonement by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 The best yet from McEwan
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 | The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Open your eyes to what goes on in our world - masterpiece
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 | The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Toibin at his best
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 | The Sheltering Sky (Penguin Modern Classics) by Paul Bowles
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.98 Taut, claustrophobic, frightening, classy
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 | The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.97 The perfect novella?
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 | Oxygen by Andrew Miller
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderfully written - just wonderful
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Look what happens if the religious right get control - be afraid!
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 | Martin Bauman by David Leavitt
Buy used from: £0.01 Leavitt on top form
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 | New Boy by William Sutcliffe
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 One of the funniest books ever
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Start here then read the other five. Great for commuting.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.19 Majestic, dignified and heart-rending
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