 | Cordelia's Honor (Hugo Winners) (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £2.79 Good entry point to the wonderful Miles Vorkosigan series by Louis McMaster Bujold. Good plots, unlikely heros, excellent combat scenes, romance, intrigue. I heartily recommend all these books.
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 | Gateway (S.F. Masterworks) by Frederik Pohl
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.38 Gateway by FP is the first of a great series of books. Slightly hokey, but one of the Science fiction greats.
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 | Pashazade: The First Arabesk by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Pashazade is the first in an excellent series set in an alternative Ottoman north Africa. Murder, politics, intrigue, corporate exploitation, romance..
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 | 84 Charing Cross Road (Virago modern classics) by Helene Hanff
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.13 Much better than the film. Compelling reading.
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 | Replay (Fantasy Masterworks) by Ken Grimwood
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.41 Look out for this reprint. It gets bogged down a bit in the middle, but is a great 'What if?' time travel story
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 | 28 Barbary Lane: A Tales of the City Omnibus by Armistead Maupin
Buy used from: £4.00 Great series of books encapsulates San Francisco in the seventies and eighties. Trashy but good.
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 | Rule Britannia (Virago Modern Classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.46 America invades failing Blighty, the locals are not convinced about their liberation. Sound familiar? Some of the characterisation is off the mark, but it carries you with it.
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 | Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 High camp farce. Gold diggers meet their match in a contrived Mafia wedding. Frasier meets Wodehouse via Robert Rodi?
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 | The Cover Artist by Paul Micou
Buy used from: £0.01 Odd, gentle, warm, a good read. A celebrity nude caricaturist en vacance with Labrador companion and Canine Expressionist Elizabeth.
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 | To Serve Them All My Days by Ronald Frederick Delderfield
Buy used from: £0.01 Much better than 'Good-Bye, Mr Chips'
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 | Time And Again (Fantasy Masterworks) by Jack Finney
Buy used from: £3.26 Jack Finney time travel classic from the creator of 'The body snatchers'
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 | To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.49 Connie Willis' books take patience, sometimes seem contrived, but usually reward. This is a goodie, and it comes via 'Three men in a boat'.
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 | A Fire Upon The Deep (Gollancz S.F.) by Vernor Vinge
Buy used from: £1.79 Sci fi concepts too broad to describe. Worth the read
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 | Foundation (The Foundation series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 The first was the best. Short stories woven into an epoch-spanning tale.
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 | A Canticle for Leibowitz (Saint Leibowtiz Series) by Walter M. Miller
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.95 Thought provoking. A must read.
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 | A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah! (Gollancz SF collectors' editions) by Harry Harrison
Buy used from: £6.54 Alternate history romp in 'modern day' Victorian England. Fluff of the first order.
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 | Night Watch: A Discworld Novel (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Pratchett at the top of his form.
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 | My Family and Other Animals (Essential Penguin) by Gerald Durrell
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Gerald Durrell at his best
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 | Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy used from: £20.12 Look out for this classic Heinlein. Survivalist students trapped on an alien world when their final exam goes badly wrong. I have the 1955 Ace paperback.
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 | Dune by Frank Herbert
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first and best Dune novel. Forget TV and film, this packs in so much more!
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 | Beiderbecke Affair by Alan Plater
Buy used from: £0.85 Jazz, woodwork, conservationist English teacher Jill Swinburn, champions of the alternative economy Big Al + Little Norm, Sergeant Hobson BA + political conspiracy on the mean streets of Leeds. Great!
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 | The Martian Chronicles (Flamingo Modern Classic) by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £1.42 A book in a league of its own. It has a poetic dreamy quality. I originally read this as 'the silver locusts' at primary school. It is still as good now I'm thirty-something-too big-to-mention.
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 | Ender's Game (The Ender saga) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.51 First and best of the Ender saga. Read this one, enjoy, and leave the rest alone.
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