 | The Mayor of Casterbridge (Wordsworth Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.79 / Used from: £0.01 Just a wonderful book.
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 | The Emperor Of Dreams: Best Fantasy Tales (Fantasy Masterworks) by Clark Ashton Smith
Buy used from: £3.50 Clark Aston Smith wrote beautiful prose evoking rich, corupt, jewlled landscapes. This collection is a great introduction to his work.
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 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the few books I have read through twice back to back. Astounding novel.
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 | Billy Ray's Farm by Larry Brown
Buy new: £11.60 / Used from: £3.40 A superb collection of essays by one of my favourite authors. Brown provides great insite into both the world of a writer and rural Mississippi.
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 | Land Under England (SF master series) by Joseph O'Neill
Buy used from: £0.50 Writen in 1935 this novel about the remnants of the Roman Empire living under Hadrians Wall is a brilliant defence of individuality and a attack on the rising Nazi menace.
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 | A Sand County Almanac (Galaxy Books) by Aldo Leopold
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £2.35 One of the fathers of modern environmental thinking Leopold's work is still relevant today. This book is a joy to read.
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 | Deep Blues by Robert Palmer
Buy new: £4.05 / Used from: £4.95 The best book ever writen on Blues.
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 | Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) by EM Forster
Buy used from: £0.01 Wonderfully observed book about society just after then turn of the last century.
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 | The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale by James Hogg
Buy new: £7.91 / Used from: £6.00 Great poem(s). Great edition.
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 | Cry, the Beloved Country: A Story of Comfort in Desolation by Alan Paton
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £3.34 Great novel about life in South Africa just after World War 2 from both a Black and White perspective.
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 | Penguin Great Ideas : The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £0.86 / Used from: £0.01 Winnig at all costs.
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 | Resurrection (Oxford World's Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £1.93 Unusual, but great novel.
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 | The Ship of Ishtar (Collier Nucleus Fantasy & Science Fiction) by Abraham Merritt
Buy used from: £37.74 I am amazed that Merritt is so overlooked today. Rich complex stories.
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 | The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana: An Illustrated Novel by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 This will make your brain hurt. :-)
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 | The Thing on the Doorstep: And Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by H.P. Lovecraft
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.89 Lovecraft alternates between scary genius and over-writen purple prose. Any of the Penguin classics edition of his work are a great introduction to his writing.
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 | The Georgian Poets: Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Lascelles, Thomas (Writers & Their Work S.): Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Lascelles, Thomas (Writers & Their Work) by Rennie Parker
Buy new: £7.25 / Used from: £4.50 Excellent introduction to this forgotten movement in poetry.
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 Hardy's wonderful evokation of rural England and rural life. A classic
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 | Selected Poems by John Burnside
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £9.58 John Burnside is an extraordanary poet.
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 | Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.08 / Used from: £0.01 Great little collection of prose and poems.
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 | The Castle (Vintage Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £3.03 / Used from: £3.00 It may be a tough read but seeing the world from Kafka's view make it worth while.
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 | Tales Of The Dying Earth (Fantasy Masterworks) by Jack Vance
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.23 Great collection of stories in a similar vein to Clark Ashton Smith.
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 | Selected Poems by Mervyn Peake
Buy used from: £1.98 Peake had a wonderful comand of the English language. A splendid little collection.
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 | A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.12 This could well be the best book ever writen about English cricket.
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 | Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Buy new: £2.85 / Used from: £2.75 Amazing novel. Needs to be read again and again.
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 | Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury
Buy used from: £0.62 A wondefully remembered 1920s summer.
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