 | The Tartar Steppe (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dino Buzzati
Buy used from: £75.00 Terrifying and awesome in equal measure.
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 | Danube (Panther) by Claudio Magris
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.46 Sublime and erudite. An unusual travelogue without peer.
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 | Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £0.96 If you want to understand the middle east, then this is a great introduction as well as being one of the greatest novels of all time. We need more Maaloufs and fewer Huntingdons.
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 | Ports of Call by Amin Maalouf
Buy used from: £12.95 Humane and ultimately heartbreaking tale of people caught between the gaps in history.
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 | What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies
Buy used from: £0.01 No great message. Simply an entertaining and great gothic novel.
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 | Utz (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.18 Chatwin was capable of rubbish, but in this book he found his voice. Perhaps because the protagonist so resembled himself.
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 | The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Buy used from: £3.99 An allegory detailing the rise of modern Italy, seen through the eyes of one of the last members of the old order.
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 | Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat-Moon
Buy used from: £6.60 A beautiful book, detailing all that's best in America.
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 | The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.19 |
 | Christ Stopped at Eboli (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carlo Levi
Buy new: £6.42 / Used from: £0.68 A book to read after you've read Lampedusa's "Leopard".
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