 | The Beach Road by Sarah Diamond
Buy used from: £0.01 She's just fantastic. This is Sarah's first book, a haunting tale about one girl's dark, obsessive adoration of another. I couldn't put it down, and the same goes for the other 3 books she has written
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 | Blood Sugar (Flamingo Original) by Suzannah Dunn
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 A former student at my university, not all her books are brilliant, but this one and Venus Flaring stand out. The characters are so vivid that you want to start the book again when you've finished!
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 | Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
Buy used from: £0.01 Who doesn't love Mrs Keyes? She's witty, a good writer, (unlike some chick lit authors) and every book is different
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 | Spellbound by Jane Green
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 What I love about Jane's books is the way she draws you in, involving the reader by asking direct questions. This book was great, you're really rooting for Alice by the end
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 | After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Buy used from: £1.09 I can't wait for her to write another book - all three are rich, vibrant and cracking good reads, as well as being fantastically well-written
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 | Wasted by Mikki Goffin
Buy used from: £0.01 I picked this up for 50p at the library and boy am I glad I did! Just read it and you'll agree with me :)
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 | Finding Myself by Toby Litt
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Completely different from anything else - yes, not a lot happens but that really doesn't detract from how great the book is. Both modernist and postmodern - you'll understand if you read it!
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 | The Ladykiller by Martina Cole
Buy new: £4.41 / Used from: £0.01 She's gone over a bit now - her stories are becoming parodies of themselves, but her early novels, like this one, rollocked along
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 | Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 Even if you're not interested in philosophy, this is an amazing book - I think it should be a set text at school because it really does open your mind
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 | The Pangs of Love and Other Stories (Abacus Books) by Jane Gardam
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £0.01 As with most collections of short stories, they won't all be to everyone's taste but I'd definitely recommend having a read. Inspired!
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 | Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Sometimes he's a bit pretentious but this book doesn't portray that - I loved it
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 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful little book - read it and see :)
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 | The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £0.01 Proof that great playwrights make great authors too - it's just a shame he's not written another one since!
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 Scary, symbolic and an all-round good read. The film's not bad either!
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 | The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock by John Harris
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.94 Essential reading for anyone who looks back on the days of Britpop and Blair with a fond smile
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 | Together by Nicole Appleton
Buy used from: £0.01 A really good, juicy autobiography that, along with their fantastic album, proves just where the talent in All Saints really came from
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.90 This book terrified me when I first read it and it still does, but what a writer. What a book! Absolutely essential reading
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 | Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £7.74 This is a favourite collection by an established author who knows how to tell a good tale
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