 | The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
Buy used from: £0.18 A woman's tale - but with wide appeal. Coe pulls it off brilliantly.
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 | Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon
Buy used from: £0.01 Brunetti is a marvellous creation - but Venice is the real star.
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 | The British Museum is Falling Down by David Lodge
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £0.01 A clever comedy incorporating many passages of literary pastiche - so I found out after chuckling my way through it.
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 | Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £15.29 / Used from: £0.01 A curious hybrid fictionalised biography of a sensational police case of the time.
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 | Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.74 Delightful, brilliant and very funny indeed.
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 | The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Buy used from: £0.50 This homage to Jane Eyre underwhelmed me.
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 | Boy A by Jonathan Trigell
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 I didn't want to enjoy this book, but did immensely.
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 | Jasmine's Tortoise: A Modern History Novel of Intrigue and Espionage Set in Baghdad and London by Corinne Souza
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £5.75 Family and politics in Baghdad and London
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 | The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £24.95 A fantastic novella. Woman sleeps and wakes up trapped in the body of a tubercular Victorian girl
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 | Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander Mystery) by Henning Mankell
Buy used from: £0.40 The first in the Wallander series - I'll definitely be reading more.
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 A modern what if tale - very thought provoking. Brilliant.
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 | Clear: A Transparent Novel by Nicola Barker
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £0.01 This author has such a brilliant ear for London dialogue.
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 | Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.00 A must for all biblioholics
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 | The House of Lost Souls by F.G. Cottam
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Clever creepy horror novel featuring Aleister Crowley and Dennis Wheatley as characters
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 | How I Live Now (Penguin Celebrations) by Meg Rosoff
Buy used from: £0.01 A crossover classic.
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 | Mutant Message Down Under: A Woman's Journey into Dreamtime Australia by Marlo Morgan
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £0.01 Read as a novel and enjoy, but it's not reality
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 | The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 Ambitious contemporary Gothic type novel with mind/time travel. Mostly brill, but slightly long.
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 | Mothernight by Sarah Stovell
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Dysfunctional families in middle England. Tense and compelling
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 | The Food Taster: A Novel by Peter Elbling
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 Masters and peasants in a small town in Renaissance Italy - delightfully funny and bawdy.
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 | Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet by M.C. Beaton
Buy new: £3.78 / Used from: £0.01 Undemanding fun quick read
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 | The Dig by John Preston
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 The story of the Sutton Hoo dig, a truely lovely novel about gentlemen archaeologists
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 | Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, 1992-97 by Gyles Brandreth
Buy used from: £28.00 Witty and insightful political diaries
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 | Devil May Care (James Bond) by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £0.01 Bond is back - not perfect but certainly with the right style
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 | The Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.38 Witty dystopian yet retro French novel - watch Delicatessen to compare
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 | Thirteen by Sebastian Beaumont
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £0.01 Magic realism comes to a Brighton taxi driver - brilliant!
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