 | The Warden (English Library) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 Part 1 - small but perfectly formed
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 | Barchester Towers (English Library) by Anthony Trollope
Buy new: £2.69 / Used from: £0.01 Part 2 - a perfect companion - now get the BBC DVD
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 | The Magus (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.77 Read in the summer - this could take over your life
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 | Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America by Garrison Keillor
Buy new: £3.04 / Used from: £3.69 Restore your faith in Americans - they are not all like W
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 An extraordinary and rewarding book No 1
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 | Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 An extraordinary and astonishing book No 2. What I particularly liked was the balance - seeing the events from different perspectives - unlike, say, a Ken Loach film.
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 | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Buy new: £1.20 / Used from: £0.01 An extraordinary and rewarding book No 3.
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 | American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.14 An extraordinary and rewarding book No 4. I heard John Humphrys saying something like "... and anything by Philip Roth." So I tried one - this one - and was absorbed and unsettled.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 I should have read this when it came out - but the title put me off. I'm a little more grown up now and a father - it moved me.
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 | William Tyndale: If God Spare My Life - Martyrdom, Betrayal and the English Bible by Brian Moynahan
Buy new: £7.04 / Used from: £4.28 The cover and title got me. Not normally my tasse de the, but I found it rewarding and absorbing.
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 | Branson by Tom Bower
Buy new: £19.19 / Used from: £0.01 Read this Gordon before you hand Northern Rock over to this man.
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 | A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
Buy new: £8.49 This is a delight. Get to know your own backyard. Guys like Roy Strong should be running the country.
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