 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing tale of incest and hermaphroditism. See also The Virgin Suicides by same author.
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 | Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Buy new: £5.84 / Used from: £0.01 The film's out - awesome scenery - bit of a cautionary mountaineering tale.
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 | A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining Christmas present about oldie sexual exploits. Strangely compelling.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Children's Edition by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Critically acclaimed fictional account of Asperger's (autism). Bit overrated I thought, but still entertaining.
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 | Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey by Goran Kropp
Buy used from: £1.61 Mad Swedish guy who decided to climb Everest one day. And carry everything he needed with him (no sherpas/oxygen). Oh, and cycle there from Sweden. And then cycle back. Absolutely brilliant!
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 | His Dark Materials Gift Set: "Northern Lights", "The Subtle Knife", "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £6.49 Ignore the 'for children' label and read this - blows Potter out of the water.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 Can't recommend enough (don't go for the new one though - it was rubbish). Latin can actually be exciting... honest!
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 | The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £2.69 Russian account of the 1996 Everest tragedy. Exciting, poignant, heroic.
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 | Impossibility: Limits of Science and the Science of Limits by John D. Barrow
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.90 Exciting scientific book about... impossibility. (Pending)
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 | The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Matt Ridley
Buy used from: £1.62 My favourite science book ever. And it's pink!
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