 | Villette (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy used from: £0.49 A must for fans of gothic romance. This stunner is more gripping than Jane Eyre and doesn't rely on trite unbelievable plot devices (e.g. Jane psychically hearing Rochester in trouble). Brilliant.
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 | Gather Together in My Name (Virago Paperback Original) by Maya Angelou
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Short, snappy and intoxicating. Maya takes us on a rollercoaster ride of events after the sentimental end to caged bird. The seediest chapter of her life leads to my fave of her six autobiographies
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 | Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy used from: £0.01 A truly delightful novel, as Austen (in the 1st major work she wrote) subverts and distorts the world of gothic literature. My 2nd fave Austen (after Mansfield Park).
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 | Sketch for the Theory of Emotions (Routledge Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £3.93 Written before Being and Nothingness this serves as a good introduction to Satre's thoughts and ideas, before tackling the later work.
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 | The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 An often overlooked classic from the superb Mags Atwood. Zenia is a great creation and the three main characters come together to weave a fascinating and entrancing tale.
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 | The Passion (Contemporary classics) by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.97 Everyone I know seems to think Lighthousekeeping is Winterson's 3rd novel (After OANTOF and STC). Think like these fools and you will have missed out on this fantastic work.
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 | Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Between publication of the hit and miss The Collossus and the posthumous Ariel, Plath wrote a plethora of poetry, some of which is very good. Along with Winter Trees this charts her work inbetween.
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 | Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 After the movie Serendipity, every girl I know wanted a copy of Love in the Time of Cholera. But if you only read one Marquez book, forget that (and 100 Years of Solitude) and pick up this bad boy
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 | The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Less blah than Atonement ,and with more involving and realistic characters than Enduring Love, this novel is truly moving.
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