 | Mary Plain Goes to America by Gwynedd Rae
Buy used from: £46.91 A sweet 1950s children's series with a lovely little bear
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 | Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.22 I had forgotten how great this series was. Wonderful characters.
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 | The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £0.01 His books get bigger and less dark as the years progress but it was still a compelling story
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 | Gold by Dan Rhodes
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 You never know what you'll get with this author. A rather touching story.
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 | More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.09 |
 | The Affirmation (Gollancz S.F.) by Christopher Priest
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00 A brilliant look into the darkness of the human mind. Shows how untrustworthy a narrator can be
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 | Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £3.64 Very, very funny. A classic.
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 | Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
Buy used from: £0.01 I love her style and about my favourite poet as well. I'm not usually struck on historical novels but I throughly enjoyed this.
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| Fifth Sally by Daniel Keyes
I don't know why on earth this is out of print. Deals with multiple personality disorder with all the character's many voices narrating.
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 | Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.34 A man who deals with his many, genuines problems with great humour
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 | The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Buy used from: £0.01 I'm not sure about this one
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.01 Absolute rubbish. Can't see why it won anything. Can see why so many people don't finish it and I wish I hadn't
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| Mary Plain's whodunit (Knight Books) by Gwynedd Rae
Buy used from: £15.98 |
 | The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Buy used from: £0.01 You never know what this author is going to write about. Seems set in the past but it's actually the future. Gripping.
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 | Meow, Baby! by Jason
Buy used from: £79.63 A minimal but effective graphic novelist
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 | The Editor's Wife by Clare Chambers
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £0.01 A very interesting and clearly written novel
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 | Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh
Buy used from: £18.82 Another classic murder mystery
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 | Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Her great first novel, even better than The History of Love
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 | Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Buy new: £4.17 / Used from: £0.39 Always intriguing, short and strange
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 | Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £1.73 Marvellous and weird as ever
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 | Phobic: Modern Horror Stories by Jeremy Dyson
Buy used from: £6.00 A great collection of short stories that has given me a lot more authors to try
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 | Alice in Sunderland: An Entertainment by Bryan Talbot
Buy new: £11.36 / Used from: £7.92 A very in depth look at the Sunderland connections with Lewis Carrol in a very interesting way.
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