 | You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £0.05 A book that could easily be read in a few sittings, but one that should be savoured.
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 | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.88 This book will make you both happy and sad.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £2.98 A book that can make you laugh despite its dark basis.
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 | In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy used from: £6.05 A perfect travel book, a mixture of vivid descriptions and entertaining general knowledge.
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 | The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £7.40 An emotional epic and a book to ponder over. The main character is Alexandria, which is living and breathing amongst the pages.
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 | Penguin Great Ideas : On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Buy new: £3.46 / Used from: £0.93 A philosopher who has something intelligent and sensible to say - what a relief!
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 | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £17.24 The wonders of evolution and the natural world. Dawkins helps you look at the animals around you with 'open' eyes.
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 | The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Buy new: £5.33 / Used from: £0.01 In war 'saving face' and showing ones superiority is important to everyone.
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 | Bunker 13 by Anirudha Bahal
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £0.01 The book hits you like injecting Heroin during free-fall at 8,000 feet, unlike heroin, however, it doesn't let up. It is convoluted at times but very enjoyable.
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 | Coming through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £0.81 This is a small book, composed of many short chapters (often a page or two) that beautifully recreate a genius's tragic life.
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 | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £2.98 The 'real' James Bond; maybe not.
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 | The Comedians by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.83 / Used from: £2.86 Another Greene book set in the Caribbean. It appears that there are many comedians with parts to play, tragically 40 years later Haiti is still playing the same role.
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 | Being Dead by Jim Crace
Buy used from: £0.01 Jim Crace at his best. A book not about the murderer, but about the decaying corpses.
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Flashman is a bounder and a cheat but refreshingly so. These books are some of the most UN-PC around yet still immensely enjoyable.
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 | Louis de Bernieres Box Set of 3 books: The War of Don Emmanuels Nether Parts / Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord / The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
Buy used from: £32.49 One of the best trilogies ever written, magic surrealism ala Marquez but with a British (i.e. dark) sense of humour.
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 | Next Boxed Set: "The Eyre Affair", "Lost in a Good Book", "The Well of Lost Plots" AND "Something Rotten" by Jasper Fforde
Set in Swindon, but don't hold that against it, a future classic with some very subtle (and not so subtle) references to many other books. A literary journey in itself.
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 | The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) by Herodotus
Buy used from: £4.49 The first 'history' book, learn about who did what and when, even if it does include information about Phoenix' and other mythical beasts.
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 | The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
Buy used from: £2.99 If you only know of Che Guevare as a revolutionary then you should read this book. It gives a deeper insight into a great man and is a very enjoyable read at the same time.
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 | Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.25 The narrative is a little slow to start, but it sets the scene to a truly tragic story where the love affair takes second stage to the environment in which it is set.
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 | Istanbul (Lonely Planet City Guide) by Tom Brosnahan
Buy used from: £0.15 A great guide to the most enchanting city on earth.
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