 | The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Hugely detailed, wonderfully descriptive and lengthy novel set in the shadowy and tragic world of Victorian prostitution
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.44 Fantastical and surreal, the devil and his minions roll up in Soviet era Moscow and reap havoc
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 | The Edwardians (Virago modern classics) by Vita Sackville-West
Buy new: £6.19 / Used from: £0.01 An enjoyable, eminently readable tale of the English Upper Classes
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 | A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Epic family saga set in post independence India
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 | High-Rise by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.99 Unnerving thriller/horror in which the affuent inhabitants of a high class apartment building descend into anarchy
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 | Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dahl's short stories for adults are perfectly crafted and satisfyingly twisted
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 | My Little Blue Dress: A Memoir by Bruno Maddox
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first half is the best bit - a very funny made up old ladies 'memoir'
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 | No Tears: Tales from the Square Mile by David Charters
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.41 Short, sharp stories about the inner workings of London's square mile
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 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.30 Set in a terrifying, rigidly structured future in which mankind is essentially doomed and living in fear, told from the perspective of a woman enslaved for her 'viable ovaries'
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 | Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.34 Classic tragedy of a provincial French housewife who longs for escape and romance
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 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: £0.01 Class collision in 80's New York
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 | The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope
Buy used from: £0.48 Difficult to pick my favourite Trollope novel - he is unputdownable!
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 | The Magic Toyshop (Virago modern classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.06 Rich, mythical and dark, Carter's writing is breath-taking
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 Satisfying historical epic about the American Civil War and self-centered heroine, the wonderfully named Scarlett O'Hara
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 | Perfume (Read Red) by Patrick Suskind
Buy used from: £0.01 Vivid, evocative novel about a perfumer in 18thC Paris, whose acute sense of smell drives him to murder in his quest to distill the perfect scent
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 | Dracula (Wordsworth Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 How amazing it must have been to pick up this classic occult book when it was newly published, and before the countless misinterpretations which followed!
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 | The Barrytown Trilogy: "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van" by Roddy Doyle
Buy new: £9.07 / Used from: £0.01 Laugh out loud funny, sad and poignant all at the same time. The quality of storytelling steadily improves throughout
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.96 Comedy, tragedy, magical realism and political history combine in this Columbian family saga
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 | Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Big, atmospheric 19thC fantasy about the rivalry between two English Magicians
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 | Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £8.24 A large family of genteel Victorian sisters face a grim future at home unless they manage to snag a husband, the youngest eventually being forced into near penuary as a governess in her old age
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 | Revolutionary Road (Vintage Classics) by Richard Yates
Buy new: £4.67 / Used from: £0.01 A cutting insight into the breakdown of an unhappy marriage in 50's US Suburbia
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 | East Lynne (Oxford World's Classics) by Ellen Wood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £4.59 Ridiculous Victorian premise, told with great enthusiasm, whereby an adulterous wife, believed dead, returns as her own children's governess, and nobody realises
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