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my top 20ish books
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Penguin Modern Classics)Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph (Penguin Modern Classics) by T.E. Lawrence
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £3.48
Two up, bags of camels
Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials)Northern Lights: WITH Subtle Knife AND Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £9.87
Harry Potter - my arse!
London FieldsLondon Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01
Jocky wilson on speed
Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics)Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.09
can I have chips and mushy Pequods with the fish mate please?
The Third Policeman (Paladin Books)The Third Policeman (Paladin Books) by Flann O'Brien
Buy used from: £0.11
I have read this so many times now and it still makes me laugh
The Washing of the Spears: Rise and Fall of the Great Zulu NationThe Washing of the Spears: Rise and Fall of the Great Zulu Nation by Donald R. Morris
Buy new: £12.29 / Used from: £6.55
Two up and bags of assagis
Philip Larkin: A Writer's LifePhilip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion
Buy new: £10.19 / Used from: £4.38
Onanist, womaniser, brilliant poet.
The Once and Future KingThe Once and Future King by T. H. White
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.08
two up, bags of fewmets
Quartered Safe Out HereQuartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.75
two up, bags of Jap. The best book about soldiering I have read.
The Restraint of BeastsThe Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Buy used from: £0.01
Two up, bags of high tensile fencing- a very odd book
Greavsie: The AutobiographyGreavsie: The Autobiography by Jimmy Greaves
Buy new: £6.83 / Used from: £0.01
Two up, a few vodkas, get up, then score some sublime goals
The Kenneth Williams DiariesThe Kenneth Williams Diaries by Kenneth Williams
Buy new: £9.72 / Used from: £0.01
Infamy, infamy- they've all got it infamy
The Forest People (Pimlico)The Forest People (Pimlico) by Colin M. Turnbull
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £6.50
Two up and a molomo - an anthropology classic
The Wasp FactoryThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Eeeek!
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman RepublicRubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £0.38
2 up, bags of ballistas
The Little FriendThe Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Buy used from: £0.01
Harriet - uber heroine
I, Claudius & Claudius the GodI, Claudius & Claudius the God by Robert Graves
Buy used from: £2.24
Graves - classics for the non classisist (me)
Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin)Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.00
Two up, bags of casualties
Helter Skelter - the True Story of the Manson MurdersHelter Skelter - the True Story of the Manson Murders by V Bugliosi
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £6.12
Charles Manson, twinned with Peter Sutcliffe, mad as a bloody hatter
Heart Of Darkness :Heart Of Darkness : by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: £0.01
A truly great book.
StalingradStalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.58
Glad I swerved that one
Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Picador Books)Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Picador Books) by Neil Sheehan
Buy used from: £1.55
two up, gooks on the wire!
A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.58 / Used from: £8.50
The Women's Battalion of Death -Ha!
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01
Raskalnikov v Petrovich a mind war
Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books) by Heinrich Harrer
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01
for Jacqui - will take her there one day