 | The Drowned World (S.F. Masterworks) by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £20.00 Chilling and believable - science fiction and study of a route into the human past
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 | Herzog (Penguin Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
Buy new: £5.60 / Used from: £3.78 A great book about memory, regret and writing
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 | An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Very funny, shows war as messy and pointless
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 | And the Ass Saw the Angel (Essential Penguin) by Nick Cave
Buy used from: £6.74 Dark but compelling
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 | The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer
Buy used from: £0.01 Simply, the source for all subsequent war films - gripping
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 | Harlot's Ghost by Norman Mailer
Buy used from: £1.53 The secret American state takes on Cuba, and then who gets it?
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 | The Sacred and Profane Love Machine by Iris Murdoch
All Iris Murdoch novels are worth reading (I have) - this is the best title
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 | My Idea of Fun by Will Self
Buy used from: £0.01 Where does Will Self get all this stuff from?
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 | Great Apes by Will Self
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Perhaps Will Selfs most conventional book, funny and thought provoking
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 | Lincoln (Narratives of a Golden Age) by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.99 History, drama, humour, politics, miltary tactics, its all here and more
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 | The Sirens Of Titan (S.F. Masterworks) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £2.00 A great and uplifting book about the futility of everything
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 | Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £2.69 Wacky science , a mad funny religion and an end to us all
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £3.04 Totally gripping - its a mad world, even for us who live in it all the time
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 | Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £1.95 Funniest book in the world
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.05 / Used from: £3.39 A book about sad and lost rich folk - a great tonic
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 | The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.00 This is a long and slow paced book with much to say about life, loss and war. Funny, too. A rare Waugh happy ending.
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