 | Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: £9.99 Amazing escapism for anyone over 10
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 | Fantomas (Penguin Classics) by Marcel Allain
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £6.15 The original Pulp Fiction novel....real page turner
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 | The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist
Buy new: £5.81 / Used from: £0.01 The best book i read last year-it's gothic, dangerous, a page turner with a sexy anti hero, nerdy intelligent and the most adorable heroine you'd love to be best friends with.
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 | The Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics) by Juvenal
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £5.68 The first grumpy old man-immense. Just try not to take Satire 6 personally girls!
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.99 Feminism in the Victorian era and a heroine to die for...
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 | Wyrd Sisters (A Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.13 If you love Shakespeare you'll enjoy the silliness of this-and get hooked for all the rest of the series....
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 | Twelth Night (Shakespeare Folios) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £8.55 The bard at his best....or his silliest. Whichever you prefer.
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 | Alanna, the First Adventure (Song of the Lioness) by Tamora Pierce
Buy new: £3.31 / Used from: £2.41 Pretend you're buying it for your neice. Then read it sneakily in the loo!
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 | The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill
Buy used from: £1.23 Just don't expect to listen to Frank Sinatra if you get the original soundtrack to listen to while you're reading the play....
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 | Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin) by Stella Gibbons
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £0.01 If you ever struggled through DH Lawrence and thought he was ripe to simply mock, read this. it's brilliant. And practical...
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 | The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark by Jill Tomlinson
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £0.01 Well, it changed my life age 5 anyway!
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 | Arrows of the Queen (Daw Science Fiction) by Mercedes Lackey
Buy used from: £1.01 Brilliant fantasy-really, you'll love it. Just hide the cover on the tube!
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 | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.59 Before any of the above this man invented the novel. And he did it really well!
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 | Vile Bodies (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.78 One of my favourite men in the world-and his books are brill too-get into the 1920's and try not to watch the Steven Fry film!
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 | Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad) by David Eddings
Buy new: £4.69 / Used from: £1.65 Everyone i know who i've given this to has been hooked-beware!
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 | Friday's Child by Georgette Heyer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The ultimate romance novel with some delicious irony-you will be laughing out loud i promise!
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Just lovely-read with a box of tissues
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 | The Worst Witch Collection - 5 Books in a Box Set, RRP £16.99 (Worst Witch) by Jill Murphy
Before Harry Potter there was Diana Wynne Jones and Jill Murphy. again, buy it for the neice, read secretly in the loo!
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 | Eloise by Kay Thompson
Buy new: £7.37 / Used from: £3.66 Genius. If you have children christmas will never be the same again with 'Eloise at Christmas'
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 | The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
Buy used from: £9.45 Defined my teenage angst and shaped my adult thinking.
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.67 What a man...not that i condone it or use it at all....ahem.
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 | The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
Buy new: £5.02 / Used from: £2.90 Came to the conclusion man cannot govern himself effectively....ah well. We tried!
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