 | A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.75 This was brilliant. I'm pretty sure that time travel is on its way..
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.94 / Used from: £0.01 This has GOT to come with a gov health warning. It's way too absorbing. I forget about the rest of the world while reading this!
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 | The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.50 Wow, fantastic and phwoa! just don't quite do it justice. This will stay with you long after the last page is read.
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy used from: £0.46 Another Eugenides masterpiece. The story is just so worth it because it is so different and so wonderfully ORIGINAL.
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 | Othello (New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 A brilliant example of the frailities of human nature.
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 | The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
Buy new: £5.76 / Used from: £1.37 Pinter is just a genius. Need I say more?
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy used from: £0.01 Amazing. There is nothing that I can say that will convey the sheer beauty and poetry of the language nor the optimism and the hope that this story instils in you.
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 | Human Computer Interaction (ICS) by Jenny Preece
Buy used from: £0.74 An excellent HCI reference guide (yeah this is kind of a wildcard in this list!)
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 A story and a passion that will always stay with me.
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 | No Man Is an Island (Inspirational) (Inspirational) by John Donne
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.30 My favorite poet in the whole history of metaphysical poetry
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 Contains my favorite and oft used phrase - I'll think about it tomorrow.
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 | Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on a Bummel (Wordsworth Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Classic Jerome!
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 | Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition by Oscar Wilde
Buy used from: £25.74 Worship at the altar of Oscar Wilde. He is just perfection!
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 | The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: Seven Great English Classics by Jane Austen
Buy new: £9.71 / Used from: £2.05 Jane Austen is wonderful for a light-hearted and painless read and I make no apologies for liking her. So there!
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| D.H.Lawrence's "The Rainbow" (20th Century Interpretations)
Buy used from: £11.40 Actually, ANYTHING by DH Lawrence is beautiful...
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 | Teaching Today: A Practical Guide by Geoffrey Petty
Buy used from: £14.38 I'm a lecturer. Surely you expected at least ONE book about education?!
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| Teaching in Further Education (Continuum education) by L.B. Curzon
Buy used from: £4.00 Ok. Maybe two books about education...
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 | The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage by James Naughtie
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Hooo boy was this intriguing!
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| The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Buy new: £3.50 / Used from: £0.72 Another one of those rare books (see life of pi) that is a balm for the soul
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 | Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Evocative, intense, sensual, passionate and discomfiting. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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