 | Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £0.05 has got the post-thatcher generation down in all their self-pitying glory. always trying to love. always too scared. this book is a swoon in prose.
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 | Life After God by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £2.89 / Used from: £1.20 'winnie the pooh' for the slacker generation. charming, sentimental and heart-warming in its working-through of our seemingly inescapable cultural melancholia.
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 | The Bobby Dazzlers by Andrew Martin
Buy new: £0.85 / Used from: £0.01 a beautifully balanced comic romp (with a few moments of violence) through yorkshire celebrity and youthful venality.
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 | Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 the *other* great journalism satire. for a more up-to-date one, check andrew martin's 'Bilton'.
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 | Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford
Buy used from: £1.93 weird but mild stories from young america. mutant dogs, chainsaws, giant slugs - but in a good way.
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 | Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Buy new: £2.91 / Used from: £0.93 hard to prefer to the superbly cast film if, like me, you saw that first. a gorgeous read, nonetheless.
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 | Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 a breath of fresh air. only helen simpson comes close to her evocation of the quiet aching glory at the centre of the happy(-ish) family. speaking of whom...
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 | Dear George and Other Stories by Helen Simpson
Buy new: £2.89 / Used from: £0.01 for the story 'Heavy Weather', which will make you want to be middle class, have kids and be stretched to the point of nervous collapse.
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