 | Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £4.25 True story of Britian's recent colonial past. Also a great love story
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £1.75 First of Roth's brilliant Zuckerman trilogy. Angry polemic. Riveting.
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 | Independence Day (Harvill Panther) by Richard Ford
Buy used from: £0.01 Ford's wonderful tale of modern America. I could not put it down.
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 | Dead as Doornails: A Memoir by Anthony Cronin
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £37.52 Memoir of literary Dublin at its creative peak. A great read.
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 | Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £2.23 She has brought me back to the short story. Richard Ford's Favourite of 2007.
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 | The Gathering by Anne Enright
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant. Funny, Sad, - I was exhausted at the end, and in tears
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 | Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £0.01 Horrifying expose of Hollywood; very sympathetic warts and all biog. Really enjoyable.
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 | Ava Gardner by Lee Server
Buy used from: £0.75 I loved this book and at the end, I loved the Ava even more than before.
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 | The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £0.01 Great finish to Ford's seminal trilogy on modern America. A must read in the aftermath of 9-11
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 | The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.28 The best Art History book I have read; great story with great characters, and it's all tru!!
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 | "Founded on Fear": Letterfrack Industrial School, War and Exile by Peter Tyrrell
Buy used from: £7.56 The best book about this dark period in recent Irish history.
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 | Lifelines, New and Collected: Letters from Famous People About Their Favourite Poem
Buy used from: £28.00 Buy this book if you don't own any book of poetry. Wonderful collection with a difference.
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 | The Leavetaking by John McGahern
Buy used from: £0.01 McGahern's fictionalised story of his own literary exile.
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 | Le Grand Meaulnes (Classiques De Poche) by Henri Alain-Fournier
Buy used from: £1.49 A wonderful little book that has lingered with me. A real classic and a gem.
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 | Amongst Women by John McGahern
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 The book that should have won the Booker Prize in 1990. A classic
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 | Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 Enthralling story of Jewish life undercover in occupied France. A gem
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 | Promise Me by Harlan Coben
Buy used from: £0.01 Discovered him this year. All his books are unputdownable.
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 | I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.92 2nd Zuckerman trilogy. Love, betrayal and politics in McCarthyite America. Very Angry
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 | Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers by Anthony Murphy
Buy used from: £22.94 Beautiful and unbelievable book about one of the Wonders of the World
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 | All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £9.11 A treasure - all this wonderful American poet's poetry in one place. A favourite book.
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 | Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £2.97 What a thoroughly awful character - brilliantly brought to life. Read APRIL BLOOD also
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 | Seminary Boy by John Cornwell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Life in an English Catholic seminary-brilliantly written memoir
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| Island Funeral by Muiris Mac Conghail
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £10.00 Wonderful photos of a funeral on the Aran Islands (Ireland) with commentary
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 | The Man Who Smiled by Henning Mankell
Buy used from: £0.10 Just discovered him - I feel I'm going to like him
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 | How to Get a PhD - 4th edition: A Handbook for Students and their Supervisors (Study Skills) by Estelle Phillips
Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £13.90 One book I have neglected this year to my COST!!
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