 | The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
Buy used from: £0.01 A fine, thought-provoking book, moving and relevant
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 | A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
Buy used from: £0.47 Shocking, disturbing, entirely believeable.
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 | A Question of Integrity by Susan Howatch
Buy used from: £0.01 Very moving, one identifies with the characters, perhaps desite oneself
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 | The Collected Dorothy Parker (Penguin Modern Classics) by Dorothy Parker
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £4.68 Why was this clever, gifted, witty woman so unhappy for most of her life?
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 | The Walking Stick by Winston Graham
Buy used from: £0.01 Sad, compelling, leaves one wondering what happened next.
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 | A Pin to See the Peepshow (Virago modern classics) by F.Tennyson Jesse
Buy used from: £4.38 Fascinating and horrifying - and it is based on fact. The people who make sensational headlines are such ordinary people.
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 | Out of the Blackout by Robert Barnard
Buy used from: £0.01 Excellent, debunking the sentimental myth that a child's natural parents are invariably the best people to bring him or her up
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 | Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark
Buy used from: £0.01 An interesting look at American politics, religious mania and psychic powers.
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| The Rapstone Chronicles by John Mortimer
Buy used from: £0.01 Solid gold humour, tragedy, sex, politics, protesters. Entirely un-putdownable.
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 | The Sound of Trumpets by John Mortimer
Buy used from: £0.01 Titmuss is horrible, so why does one have to read this? Because one has to know what happens to him
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 | Noel Coward Diaries by Noel Coward
Buy used from: £3.15 What a remarkable man, and what an interesting insight into the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.
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 | The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
Buy new: £6.41 / Used from: £3.67 I defy anyone to read this book and not weep. One is humbled, inspired, confused and deeply affected. An absolute must.
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 | The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank (Definitive Edition - New translation) by Anne Frank
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £1.94 One of the most inspiring and compelling books ever written - and it started out as the jottins of a teenage girl.
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 | Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny, clever and heartwarming.
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 | The Private Lives of Noel and Gertie (Oberon Books) by Sheridan Morley
Buy used from: £9.84 Marvellous. Anyone interested in the theatre will not be able to resist this book.
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 | Lace by Shirley Conran
Buy used from: £0.01 A rattling good yarn, and she knows wherof she writes.
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 | Windmills of the Gods by Sidney Sheldon
Buy used from: £0.01 A superbly told thriller - it fascinates and horrifies, and the final twist makes one realises just how clever the plot is.
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 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £6.99 A masterful storyteller. Try to ration yourself to one a day, I bet that you can't.
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 | Dylan Thomas Omnibus: "Under Milk Wood", Poems, Stories and Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £4.91 He was rather horrid, really, but he could write beautiful poetry and prose.
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 | Pieces of Justice by Margaret Yorke
Buy used from: £0.01 A really good collection of short stories. Each time I read one, I discover something new.
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 | Asta's Book by Barbara Vine
Buy used from: £0.01 This book has just about everything - history, suspense, mystery, a family story and even romance
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 | Endless Night (The Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy used from: £0.01 A clever book, one does not easily guess the ending
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| The Raj Quartet: The Jewel in the Crown/the Day of the Scorpion/the Towers of Silence/a Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott
Buy used from: £20.00 Four excellent novels, very relevant to today - these are the events that shaped so much of the modern world
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £0.01 One needs to read this - there is so much more than the love story. It explains so much about the American south
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| Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books) by Louis De Bernieres
Buy used from: £9.99 Once again, a book with everything. History, sociology, suspense and a totally convincing love story
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