 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £6.45 / Used from: £1.49 Funny and sad in equal measures. A good story with a serious message.
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 | Cider House Rules - The Novel by John Irving
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 One of a rare number of books you will take through life, reading again and again. *Recommended
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 | Saville by David Storey
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 An intelligent young man from a northern coal mining village yearns to escape, but family loyalties hold him back. This is not an action packed novel, its strength is in its simplicity, read and enjoy
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.54 I will need to read this a few times i suspect if i am to fully understand its apparant complexities. This though will be a joy rather than a chore.
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 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £1.16 The Diary of Anne Frank will always be given to young adults who wish to understand the horrors of the holocaust. John Boyne's novel though is a welcome addition its that good.
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 | Archangel by Robert Harris
Buy used from: £0.01 A terrific yarn. Nuff said
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 | The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Sailmate) by Nicholas Tomalin
Buy used from: £8.49 A moving, disturbing story of one of the biggest hoaxes in history
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 | The First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £0.01 Deserves to be recognised alongside Jeeves and Wooster for typically British comedy characters. The best of the trilogy.
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 | The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £0.01 Its 1982, the falklands war is raging and there is a royal baby. Theroux sets out to discover Britain but instead gets an insight into the British mentality (not to be read if a fervent nationalist )
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 | The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
Buy used from: £0.01 A five year old boys father returns from war to a now liberated wife and a community he can no longer relate to. Wonderfully written.
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 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £9.36 Orwell would not allow any re-prints of this novel in his lifetime as he did not approve of the quality of his earlier work. In my humble opinion it is as good as 1984
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 | Holiday by Stanley Middleton
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £3.55 Stanley Middleton is a terrific observer of human nature. A novel sadly largely ignored, stay with the first 50 pages and be rewarded with a book you will not forget in a hurry.
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 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £1.93 Regarded by many as a classic already. Quirky, innovative, funny and sad in equal measures, a real page turner and a book that really does live up to the hype.. a wonderful, wonderful book.
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