 | Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan
Buy used from: £0.01 Magical, disturbing, breathtaking writing--how did it ever fall under the Booker radar?
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 | My Dark Places: A L.A. Crime Memoir by James Ellroy
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.01 Dark indeed, a remarkable book.
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 | Stories I Stole: A Journey to Georgia by Wendell Steavenson
Buy used from: £0.01 A brilliant debut from a seriously talented writer
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 | The Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy by John Armstrong
Buy used from: £1.22 A truly herat-warming essay, pulls off the difficult trick of being intellectually stimulating and emotionally satisfying.
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 | The Blood of Strangers: True Stories from the Emergency Room by Frank Huyler
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.33 Powerful, poetic and clinical
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 Rip-roaring adventure, from a master fo narrative story-telling
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 | Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01 Just because I've spent too much time and cash in NYC restaurants
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 | The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics) by F Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 We are not worthy
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 | Dispatches (Picador thirty) by Michael Herr
Buy used from: £0.01 Smell the napalm and tast the terror. Some of the best non-fiction ever published.
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 | Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space by Schivelbusch
Buy used from: £16.55 The most extraordinary synthesis of psychoanalysis and economic history you'll ever read. Truly explains why we see the world as we do. Oh, it's too good and big to explain--read it!
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 | Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (Harvest Book) by Richard Selzer
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £3.39 Bloody marvellous
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 | Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Vintage Classics) by Roland Barthes
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.83 Proof that theory doesn't have to be dry
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 | Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £3.18 Horrific, violent and poetic--Sam Peckinpah meets Milton.
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £7.00 I'd just moved to London and this was the book that made me look beyond the transport hassle and the council tax to what London really means. Slightly repetitive in places.
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 | Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.14 A jewel and wonderfully evocative use of two distinct voices.
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 | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.63 You'll never think about you body and the bodies of those around you in the same way. Hell, you won't think about life the same way!
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.59 Takes a little while to get going, but once it does it fully deserves praise as one of the finest novels of the last century.
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 | Essays (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £6.71 A terrific read. He was right then, and he's right now, more's the pity.
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 | Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day by E J Hobsbawm
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £6.24 The book that brought history alive for me and made it relevant and passionate.
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 | The Empty Space (Penguin literary criticism) by Peter Brook
Buy used from: £0.01 For anyone interested in theatre and performance, a wonderful read, and full of ideas--too rare a treat!
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 | Noise: Political Economy of Music (Theory & History of Literature)
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £18.39 What Schivelbusch does for perpective, Attali does for sound.
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