 | The Mayor of Casterbridge (Wordsworth Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Just a wonderful book.
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 | The Emperor Of Dreams: Best Fantasy Tales (Fantasy Masterworks) by Clark Ashton Smith
Buy used from: £2.53 Clark Aston Smith wrote beautiful prose evoking rich, corupt, jewlled landscapes. This collection is a great introduction to his work.
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 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the few books I have read through twice back to back. Astounding novel.
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 | Billy Ray's Farm by Larry Brown
Buy used from: £3.25 A superb collection of essays by one of my favourite authors. Brown provides great insite into both the world of a writer and rural Mississippi.
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 | Land Under England (SF master series) by Joseph O'Neill
Buy used from: £0.99 Writen in 1935 this novel about the remnants of the Roman Empire living under Hadrians Wall is a brilliant defence of individuality and a attack on the rising Nazi menace.
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 | A Sand County Almanac: With other Essays on Conservation from `Round River' (Galaxy Books) by Aldo Leopold
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £2.04 One of the fathers of modern environmental thinking Leopold's work is still relevant today. This book is a joy to read.
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 | Deep Blues by Robert Palmer
Buy used from: £7.01 The best book ever writen on Blues.
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 | Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.10 Wonderfully observed book about society just after then turn of the last century.
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 | The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale (The Collected Works of James Hogg) by James Hogg
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £5.25 Great poem(s). Great edition.
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 | Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation by Alan Paton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.52 Great novel about life in South Africa just after World War 2 from both a Black and White perspective.
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 | Penguin Great Ideas : The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Winnig at all costs.
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 | Resurrection (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £1.51 Unusual, but great novel.
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 | The Ship of Ishtar: Collier Nucleus Fantasy & Science Fiction by Abraham Merritt
Buy used from: £6.50 I am amazed that Merritt is so overlooked today. Rich complex stories.
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 | The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 This will make your brain hurt. :-)
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 | The Thing on the Doorstep: And Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by H P Lovecraft
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.12 Lovecraft alternates between scary genius and over-writen purple prose. Any of the Penguin classics edition of his work are a great introduction to his writing.
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 | The Georgian Poets: Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Lascelles, Thomas (Writers & Their Work S.) by Rennie Parker
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £5.99 Excellent introduction to this forgotten movement in poetry.
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 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Hardy's wonderful evokation of rural England and rural life. A classic
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 | Selected Poems (Cape Poetry) by John Burnside
Buy new: £10.80 / Used from: £5.19 John Burnside is an extraordanary poet.
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 | Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Great little collection of prose and poems.
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 | The Castle (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.81 It may be a tough read but seeing the world from Kafka's view make it worth while.
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 | Tales Of The Dying Earth (Fantasy Masterworks) by Jack Vance
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £2.52 Great collection of stories in a similar vein to Clark Ashton Smith.
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 | Selected Poems by Mervyn Peake
Buy used from: £0.01 Peake had a wonderful comand of the English language. A splendid little collection.
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 | A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £0.20 This could well be the best book ever writen about English cricket.
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 | Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £2.50 Amazing novel. Needs to be read again and again.
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 | Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury
Buy used from: £0.01 A wondefully remembered 1920s summer.
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