 | A Dance to the Music of Time : Autumn by Anthony Powell
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £12.33 Read all 12 - the WW2 ones are perhaps the strongest
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 | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £2.67 Earthy discussion, feels like you are in the Eagle and Child sharing a pint with him
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Epic of life and faith - not a word wasted
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 | What Ho!: The Best of P.G.Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £16.00 Pure genius. Words to delight for all.
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 | Louis MacNeice: Poems Selected by Michael Longley (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) by Louis MacNeice
Buy used from: £6.99 One of Ulster's great wordsmiths - see 'Carrickfergus' and 'Bagpipe Music'
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 | Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.41 Graves in peace and war - and honest and historic memoir
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 | The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £7.55 Stunning. Simultaneously a book of God and also very 'human'.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.54 Written from awful war experiences, a message of hope and humanity
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 | The First 49 Stories (Arrow Classic) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.75 A master of prose - these stories are perhaps his best work
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £7.00 Reads like an epic novel. Ackroyd's feel and love for London is infectious
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 | The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 London as much a character as More - an exemplary biography
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 | Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.49 A charming comedy - less nasty than Vile Bodies or Scoop
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 | The Whitsun Weddings (Faber Poetry) by Philip Larkin
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.89 A triumph, and not so pessimistic as the image has it - 'What will survive of us is Love' - An Arundel Tomb
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 | Collected Poems: Dylan Thomas (Everyman) by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £3.00 Spellbinding verse - read 'Fern Hill' and 'After the Funeral'
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 | Selected Poems by Simon Armitage
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.99 My hometown poet, but his verse touches anyone from anywhere
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 | Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Popular Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Buy used from: £0.01 Magical stories across time and history
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 | The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Wisdom and innocence
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 | The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
Buy used from: £0.36 Sasson, Owen, Rosenberg and the rest, as well poets from the other combatant countries - Great Stanley Spencer picture on the front
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