 | The File on H. by Ismail Kadare
Buy used from: £6.27 Very funny book set in Albania
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 | Scotland: The Story of a Nation by Magnus Magnusson
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £4.50 Wonderfully written and detailed history.
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 | Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £3.14 Disturbing yet funny semi-autobiographical madness.
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 | The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston (Faber Paper-Covered Editions) by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £4.80 Vivid account of life before and during WW1.
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 One of the greatest books ever written
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 | East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.04 A wonderful, if a times dark, account of America
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 | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Penguin Modern Classics) by Carson McCullers
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.40 An odd, humorous, touching portrayal of outsiders.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.21 Hugely influential and still relevant both in terms of language and narrative.
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.01 True and funny. 'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others'
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 | Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £4.95 One of Britains most original novelists. Thought provoking and dazzlingly original.
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 | Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ralph Ellison
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.46 The tale of a black man growing up in 1950's America. Astounding read, comparable to Steinbeck at his best.
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 | The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.95 Truely a classic. This book will stay with you for a long time.
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £1.49 Incredible re-working of Jane Eyre. Rhys was a truely gifted writer.
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 | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Buy used from: £0.47 The best western ever written? Definitely, full of wonderfully drawn chartacters.
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 | Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
Buy new: £3.36 / Used from: £0.01 An inspirational autobiography. L'amour had a full and rich life.
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 | Smoke from the Altar: Poems by Louis L'Amour
Buy new: £8.70 / Used from: £3.30 L'amour's poetry sparkles in way his novels never came near to.
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 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg) by James Hogg
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.25 A true original masterpiece of gothic literature. Hogg deserves to be rescued from obscurity.
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 | The Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography by Louis MacNeice
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £2.69 Outstanding Autobiography. Perhaps the best I've ever read.
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 | Macbeth (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Perhaps Shakespeare's best tragedy, chocked full of memorable, wonderful language.
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 | The Walled Orchard by Tom Holt
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Set in ancient Greece this is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
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 | The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Wordsworth Classics) by Omar Khayyam
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 A joy to read.
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 | Beowulf: A New Translation
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.75 Heaney breathes new life into Beowulf.
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 | The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.55 Uniquely strange. A staggering feat of imagination
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 | The Collected Poems by Louis MacNeice
Buy used from: £13.00 The 20th century's greatest poet.
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 | On Fire by Larry Brown
Buy used from: £0.22 Larry Brown is one of Americas best.
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