 | The Spire by William Golding
Buy used from: £0.01 Much more complex and symbolic than Lord of the Flies, and therefore much more satisfying
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 | Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £5.12 / Used from: £0.21 One of the best modernist novels, an extraordinary depiction of consciousness.
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 | Clerical Errors by Alan Isler
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Well-paced, irreverent and exceedingly funny
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 | The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 Surely his masterpiece, even though it's not his best-known work. Eerie, dreamlike, and utterly compelling
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 | Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (Clarendon Paperbacks) by David Garland
Buy new: £29.29 / Used from: £26.00 Perhaps the best book written about various theoretical interpretations of punishment. Extremely rewarding and interesting
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 | The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A book which displays copious amounts of wit, in both the original and current senses of the word
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 | Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Buy used from: £4.75 The best introduction to literary theory available. Lucid, provocative, humourous and insightful
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 | The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 An insightful and illuminating analysis of the dynamics of female friendship from one of the best novelists around
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 | Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy used from: £9.47 Wonderful collection from the best Poet Laureate Britain never had
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 | Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas by R S Thomas
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £3.98 The best Welsh poet of all time, nominated for the Nobel prize on four occasions. This is why
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 Yes, it contains historical inaccuracies, but it remains a great piece of good old-fashioned story-telling
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 | The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty by Ben Macintyre
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.61 A brilliant study of the original Moriarty
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 | Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Buy new: £8.38 / Used from: £4.09 Excellent example of literary biography; revealing portrait of a complex figure
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 | Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate by Ullica Segerstrale
Buy used from: £3.11 A very well-written, clear-headed and fair-minded account of the debates surrounding sociobiology
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 | Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Fielding
Buy used from: £1.15 'A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery.' I think that's a good thing, and it's very, very funny
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 | The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy used from: £0.01 A towering psychological portrait, and perhaps the best of Hardy's many great novels
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 | A Cure for Gravity by Joe Jackson
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £4.60 A memoir of grace, humour, honesty and flair
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 | Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 An intelligent and very funny farce, brilliantly deflating the pretensions of academe
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 | Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.22 A novel with a great sense of place and atmosphere, and a convincing depiction of mental illness
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 | Symbolist Art Theories: A Critical Anthology by Dorra
Buy new: £17.05 / Used from: £2.71 A comprehensive anthology which does exactly what it says on the tin. Incisive commentary from Henri Dorra
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