 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.78 Stevens, the butler, is the most repressed narrator imaginable yet tells a powerful tale of unfulfilled love and loyalty betrayed.
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 | The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Lucy Fly narrates her murder confession - or is it? - from a Tokyo police cell. The prose is spare, disturbing and beautiful. A modern-day classic.
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 | The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 The intriguing ramblings of the distinctly unpleasant Tarquin Winot, a man who likes his food...
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 | Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 Barbara persuades us she's only acting in Sheba's best interest but, as the scandal deepens, we suspect we've all been fooled. Sinister and compelling.
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.11 1980s lust for money. John Self can't help himself. Witty and scathing.
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 | The Underground Man by Mick Jackson
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.42 The original and very moving story of the fifth Duke of Portland on a mission to create a network of tunnels beneath his country estate. Eccentric, funny and entrancing.
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 | Reader, I Married Him by Michele Roberts
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 A witty and vivacious take on romance, with a sinister twist. A narrator so busy that she just can't get round to telling us everything...
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 | The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 The lives of Iris and Laura, but whose story is it and who is really telling it?
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 | War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £0.01 Gloria is glorious. A brilliant and captivating narrator but she's getting old and there's something wrong with her memory. Or is there?
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 | Wise Children (Vintage Classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Funny, bawdy, full of energy, Dora Chance recounts her wild, theatrical life with twin sister Nora.
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