 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £1.55 Lest we forget. A dispassionate and haunting book describing life, death and survival.
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy used from: £0.01 How can so much happen in such a short space of time? A must-read for a long train journey.
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 | Song of Tiananmen Square by David Rice
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.45 A fictional account, based in fact, of the events leading up to the massacre on Tiananmen Square. A particularly detailed account from a gifted journalist.
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 | The Twins by Tessa De-Loo
Buy used from: £0.01 A riveting and unusual and haunting tale of families on two sides of the Second World War. A book picked up in a railway station and not put down again until the last word.
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 | The Stone of Heaven: The Secret History of Imperial Green Jade by Adrian Levy
Buy used from: £0.99 The worst of dynasty and empire fighting for glamour and wealth. There are clearly no lengths to which people will not go to own a rarity.
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 | Bob Dylan Razor's Edge: The Story of the Never Ending Tour by Andrew Muir
Buy new: £22.48 / Used from: £10.00 ... followed by another kind of obsession... the never-ending desire to see one's idol: I KNOW every word of this book to be the gushings of a man obsessed - a highly entertaining insight however
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 | The Assassination of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H. Wolfe
Buy new: £5.11 / Used from: £0.01 This is a real judge-for-yourself one - did she jump or was she pushed? Investigative journalism doing the sort of dirt-digging that leaves you wondering.
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 | Lauren Bacall, by Myself by Lauren Bacall
Buy used from: £0.01 Another dose of Hollywood. I read this years ago and still recommend it. A great read if you can forgive the constant ... as I was soon to find out. Seems to be in limited supply now
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 | Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.65 / Used from: £0.01 The best of Bryson as far as I'm concerned. Check out the red light district in Hamburg for the ultimate flight of fantasy
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 | The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
Buy used from: £0.07 My entry into grown-up books. One of those tales that weaves, fact, fantasy and mysticism. A host of wonderful characters including the postwoman who can't read!
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 | Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 The title says it all... a salutory tale about the dangers of betting while drunk!
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 | On the Black Hill (Vintage Classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £3.07 / Used from: £0.01 From my favourite travel writer.. the tale of brothers who go nowhere!
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 | Sybil: The True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £2.62 Ever wanted to know what it's like inside the head of a person with multiple personalities? A fascinating account.
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 | Danziger's Britain: A Journey to the Edge by Nick Danziger
Buy used from: £0.01 Researched in 1994, this book describes the harsh reality of great swathes of our green and pleasant land. The situation has not improved in the intervening years.
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