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The Poems of Ossian (Collected Works of James Hogg) (Collected Works of James Hogg)The Poems of Ossian (Collected Works of James Hogg) (Collected Works of James Hogg) by James Macpherson
Buy new: £36.10 / Used from: £24.90
Compulsory bedside reading for any ambitious civil servant. (Best edition around)
The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother YunThe Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun by Brother Yun
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01
The first, last and only book to have been read to be over the phone...
The Gladstone Diaries: Volume 11: July 1883-December 1886: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-ministerial CorrespondenceThe Gladstone Diaries: Volume 11: July 1883-December 1886: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-ministerial Correspondence by W. E. Gladstone
Buy new: £121.60
Worth the slog. If your pushed for time read the 31st December entries.
The Political Animal: An AnatomyThe Political Animal: An Anatomy by Jeremy Paxman
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Paxman lashes out with needless spite, which is a shame because a more disinterested tone, would have heightened the satire. Much better to read...
The Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number TenThe Powers Behind the Prime Minister: The Hidden Influence of Number Ten by Dennis Kavanagh
Buy used from: £1.27
...or...
How to be a MinisterHow to be a Minister by Gerald Kaufman
Buy used from: £2.98
...if you are lucky enough to find a copy.
The First CircleThe First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £9.46
First Circle has lost little of its charm, as has its neat contemporary...
Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics)Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.89
...Our Man in Havana. No one but Greene captures the British art of muddling through.
Bamboo CrossBamboo Cross by Homer E. Dowdy
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You may struggle to find this, but its worth the effort...
The Scots WorthiesThe Scots Worthies by John Howie
Buy used from: £49.92
...as it may be for the Scots Worthies.
Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Reconciliation v.4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation Vol 4 (Karl Barth Church Dogmatics)Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Reconciliation v.4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation Vol 4 (Karl Barth Church Dogmatics) by Karl Barth
Buy used from: £29.50
If Systematic Theology is more your cuppa tea then, Karl Barth is compulsory reading.
Transforming of the KirkTransforming of the Kirk by A.C. Cheyne
Buy used from: £8.09
Back to church history and I would recommend this favourite!!!
Rationalism in Politics and Other EssaysRationalism in Politics and Other Essays by Michael Oakeshott
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £6.26
I'm grateful for the privilege to have spilt tea over this Oakeshott sbornik.
A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Blackwell Reference Grammars)A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (Blackwell Reference Grammars) by Terence Wade
Buy new: £20.19 / Used from: £19.52
And not content with spligging tea, it was my great misfortune to set Wade's masterful Grammar on fire.
Nine SuitcasesNine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
Buy used from: £1.97
Nine Suitcases is worthy of the finest Earl Grey
Notes from Underground and The DoubleNotes from Underground and The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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...while Dostoyevsky's early masterpiece really captures the essense of the nonsense spoken when people talk of moral progress.
GladstoneGladstone by Roy Jenkins
Buy used from: £4.03
And as a Gladstone fan, then I can think of no more blissful way to pass a sunny afternoon in a Southern France orchard with this mighty tome.