 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £1.68 Not the best known of Irving's but definitely the BEST!
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 | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Robert Tressell
Buy used from: £3.35 If you can't get to grips with Marx's Das Kapital (like me) then this explains perfectly why Capital doesn't benefit people. Still very relevant. (Avail in other editions).
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 | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.72 Great, imaginative writing, wonderful style and very satirical.
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 | Getting Rid of Mister Kitchen by Charlie Higson
Buy new: £17.51 / Used from: £0.01 Recommend all of Higson's very funny novels. Not just great on TV!
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 | The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.75 It seems easy to learn our native tongue. But how do we manage it?! Very accessible and enjoyable book.
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 | Hegemony or Survival : America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.00 My hero. He started a linguistic revolution and he's a powerful political and social commentator.
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 | Hidden Agendas by John Pilger
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 What they won't tell you is happening in the world on BBC News 24, ITV, Sky, CNN, FOX News etc.
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 | Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.99 A wonderful man with an interesting life, personality and perspective.
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 | The Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics) by Marilyn French
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.80 A fantastic novel on liberation. Have read and re-read.
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 | I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 I couldn't put this massive novel down. Identical twins and one becomes a paranoid schizophrenic. Elegantly and sensitively written fiction.
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A mystery set in the seventeenth century. Surprisingly gripping.
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 | George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £12.34 / Used from: £10.47 Either frighteningly prescient writing or still very relevant today.
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 | Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Some of the best writing around on Hitler the man. Intelligent and reasoned.
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 | My Year Off: Rediscovering Life After a Stroke by Robert McCrum
Buy used from: £0.33 Wonderfully written insight into recovering from Stroke when still relatively young.
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 | The Man Who Lost His Language by Sheila Hale
Buy used from: £1.68 A different experience of Stroke and its affects on everyone concerned.
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 | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: £3.55 / Used from: £0.01 Glad I'm vegetarian and don't eat at McDonalds!
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 | Dark Heart: The Shocking Truth About Hidden Britain by Nick Davies
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £5.38 Poverty in Britian. And it's getting worse.
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 | How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland
Buy used from: £8.29 Sounds morbid but is very reassuring. Brilliantly written and fascinating.
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 | The Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration; The Eye in the Door; The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
Buy used from: £15.00 The impact of WWI must never be forgotten. These wonderful novels will help.
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