 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: £4.28 / Used from: £1.99 Quite simply a classic
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 | The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £2.42 Pre war African settlement through the eyes of a child
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 | The Bonfire of the Vanities (Picador Books) by Tom Wolfe
Buy used from: £0.01 Characterisation and analysis that perfectly encapsulates the time and the place
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 | The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream by Christina Lamb
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £0.01 Colonial eccentrcity and dogma at it's best
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 | In Cold Blood: A True Account of A Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Essential Penguin) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £8.04 / Used from: £2.95 A fantastic crime novel with the added spice that it is a true story
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 | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.75 Quintessentially British humour describes a man out of his depth in exotic circumstances
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 | Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey by Fergal Keane
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £1.00 The blood runs cold on every page as the author relieves our ignorance of the Rwandan genocide
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 | Heaven and Earth: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
Buy used from: £0.01 Real-life tragedy of the Vietnam conflict
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 | Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
Buy new: £8.42 / Used from: £2.37 Scotland's long and brutal history in one book
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 | Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 An unpleasant slice of Americana
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 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Buy used from: £0.98 You probably have your own view on this guy, you are probably misguided if you haven't read this book
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 | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £1.17 Not easy reading but it will help you understand what the Cambodians survived
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 | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 A grumpy old man humphs, moans and mutters through the most obscure corners of Africa
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 | Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery by Norman Mailer
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £1.97 Gives conspiracy theorists enough analysis to make their heads burst
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 | Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £3.00 I have just re-read this on holiday for the first time in 10 years. I still think this is a future classic
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £2.87 Very humourous and evocative of New Orleans
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 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Buy used from: £0.01 As you read this you live the Deep South. You may even break into a sweat
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 | Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 Just read it before you go to Rome
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written and incredibly touching story of a boy with Aspergers Syndrome
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 | Tender is the Night (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 This probably gives a sense of time and place like no other book
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