![]() | Joe by Larry Brown
Buy new: £6.60 / Used from: £3.97 Larry Brown was one of Americas GREAT writers. This is a simple yet thought provoking novel.
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![]() | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.00 Ah, Graham Greene! Exellent novel about the Britain of yesterday.
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![]() | The Iliad (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £3.18 The Robert Fagles translation of this classic poem is not only eminently readable but also a lot of fun.
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![]() | Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £1.30 I do not usually read travel books, yet this is a corker and it is a good introduction to Ibn Battutah one of the most intriguing travelers of any age.
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![]() | The Lord of The Rings (Based on the 50th Anniversary Single volume edition 2004) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.42 Forget what other people say. Forget the hundreds of thousands of second rate, copy-cat authors. Lord of the Rings is a great work of literature
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![]() | Julius Caesar (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Shakespeare's great play about political intrigue, loyalty and mob rule. One of my favourite of all Shakespeare's tragedies.
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![]() | The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Well writen, funny and moving. This is Banks best novel.
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![]() | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.98 Still has the power to shock today.
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![]() | The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 A great victorian novel with gothic overtures.
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![]() | A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £2.41 / Used from: £2.41 Hemingway was one of the 20th centuries greatest and most original authors. This is perhaps his best WW1 novel.
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![]() | General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £5.50 Kadare is amazing. One of Europe's very best writers. This novel blew me away.
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![]() | The Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics) by William Faulkner
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £3.01 Writen in a simplistic, yet brilliant way. A great Southern novel.
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![]() | In Dubious Battle (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £5.00 Steinbeck thought this was his greatest novel. While it may not be quiet as good as Grapes of Wrath it is still a great depresion era novel.
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![]() | Otherland: City of Golden Shadow Bk. 1 (Otherland) by Tad Williams
Buy new: £4.10 / Used from: £0.01 The first of four great books. Tad Williams at his original and literary best.
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![]() | Major Works (Oxford World's Classics) by John Clare
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £4.18 Clare was a exellent, if troubled poet. This is a great collection of his poems and prose.
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![]() | The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw: Shadow and Claw Vol 1 (Fantasy Masterworks) by Gene Wolfe
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.19 Brilliantly written dark, dark novels. Books three and four are also available in one volume in the fantasy masterwork series.
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![]() | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.99 One of the best novel to emerge out of the Second World War. Vonnegut takes his own experiences as a POW in Dresden to create a powerful anti-war novel.
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![]() | The Father-Thing: Volume Three Of The Collected Stories (Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.75 Astonishing collection of early Dick short stories. Contains some amazing examples of Dick's genius.
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![]() | The Waste Land and Other Poems (Penguin Classics) by T. S. Eliot
Buy new: £1.32 / Used from: £5.10 Eliot never fail to amaze me. The Waste Land is an extraordinary work.
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![]() | The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. Masterworks) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £1.45 Never fails to make me chuckle. Good point about religion too.
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![]() | Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy new: £6.28 / Used from: £6.28 Larkin is one of my favourite post-war English poets. Simple poems yet great meaning.
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![]() | The One Kingdom (Swans' War) by Sean Russell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Sean Russell crafts beautifully written novels. This is the first books of the exellent Swans' War trilogy full of mystery and imagination.
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![]() | Elephant and Other Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: £2.47 / Used from: £2.03 Short stories about every day life. Read everything Carver ever wrote. He was a genius.
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![]() | Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy used from: £20.00 Sutcliff wrote too infrequently for adults. Flowers of Adonis is a exellent historical novel. I can not believe it is out of print.
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![]() | Facing the Music (Front Porch Paperbacks) by Larry Brown
Buy used from: £10.94 Brown's first, and arguably his best, colection of short stories. Great literature.
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