 | The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Buy used from: £24.99 A book that shook me. Perhaps the best I've ever read. Then read Das Boot.
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 | Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Gentle brilliance.
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 | Down Under by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 Bill at his best. Didn't realise how big Aussy was.
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 | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Start here, then read forward through his diaries and enjoy. Until the shell drops and begin to understand where Spike came from..
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 | For Whom the Bell Tolls (Vintage Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.74 Let this start you on a personal voyage through a brilliant writers strength - and eventual madness. Read all his works, not just one.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £2.55 Of mice and men may be shorter. But this has the ending of all endings. I remember being on a cold, empty station platform, unable to stop reading. And I cried. Hope or hoplessnes?
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 | Rock Bottom by Paul Merson
Buy used from: £19.95 I've slipped, made forward progress and slipped. This is a book of hope and inspiration. Every time he kicks a ball he;s made one step forward. I don't idolise or follow. Just admire courage.One day..
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 | Foreign Land (Picador Books) by Jonathan Raban
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 In a boat, in a harbour, two feet from the harbour wall and totally unconnected to England. His best.
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 | An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £1.98 The start of understanding about the big destructive IT. Important and powerful.
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 | Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.88 A difficult book to get through. The film did justice. But the story is so powerful.
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 | The Plague by Albert Camus
Buy used from: £3.60 An author worth reading. This is not a first choice of his, just an example of his excellence
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 | The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 The Metamorphosis. The story of ...well you tell me. Haunting.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Cancer ward told me a little about hardship. This told me all.
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