 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Bountiful and erudite tale of death, deceit and discovery within the competitive intellectual community of 1660's Oxford.
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 | Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 This book left me gasping - it was wonderful and challenging and ultimately memorable. By far the best read of 2004.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 Felt like I was last to the party on this one, but on arrival found it enjoyable and moving, if slightly forced stylistically.
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 | Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory
Buy used from: £0.01 Languid, pleasant and well-researched, with some tender examinations of early 17th C homosexuality.
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 | To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 And it really is as good as they claim it is...
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £0.01 Visceral and disturbing portrait of a psychopath...but was I the only one who saw the plot revelation a mile away???
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 | Utopia (Penguin Classics) by Sir Thomas More
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £2.15 Thoroughly enjoyed this, and felt attracted and repulsed by its message.
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 | The Divine Comedy: I. Inferno: Inferno. Parallel Text Vol 1 (Galaxy Books) by Alighieri Dante
Buy new: £7.74 / Used from: £1.85 Again :-) Despite criticisms I really find this to be the most lucid translation.
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 | North and South (Penguin Classics) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.85 I used to like Gaskell more than Austen when I was younger; I've changed my mind since then, but N & S was good nostalgia reading.
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 | King's Dragon (Crown of Stars) by Kate Elliott
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £0.01 Infuriatingly bad in places, and full of bland cliche. Still I finished it, and I'd read the sequel/s if anyone cared to donate it/them free of charge?
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 | Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £3.15 Spent a good month note-taking from Lee and loved every second - this is classy biographical writing.
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 | The Construction of Social Reality by John R Searle
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £4.86 Rewarding foray into the world of modern philosophy (v. daunting). Tis a good job he repeats things 40 times.
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