 | War and Peace (Modern Library) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy used from: £3.89 Reading War and Peace for the first time is dangerous. Whatever come next is never going to feel as good
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 | Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £4.88 Words are alive in the pages of Speak memory. Often they lift themselves as butterflies do, and start flying away
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 | Babylon Revisited and Other Stories: A Scribner Classic by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Buy used from: £0.59 Babylon Revisited is FFS's finest hour. Decadence has never been described with so much sharpness
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 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
Buy used from: £0.01 What is truth and what is deceat ? You will not find anywhere else more shades of grey. Buy the trilogy.
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 | Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £6.98 If you are fashinated by Russia, Natasha will hold your hand while your mind travels back in the days when in Russia.......
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 | The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) by A. J. P. Taylor
Buy new: £19.73 / Used from: £7.15 AJP may not be everyone's favourite historian, but few write better English, and this panorama of XIXth century Europe is unrivalled
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 | Selected Poems by W.H. Auden
Buy new: £7.77 / Used from: £2.35 100 reasons to sit down, lay down and open your heart:
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 | The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
We aged a hundred years, and this Happened in a single hour...... An absolute tribute to Poetry
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| Our Age: Portrait of a Generation by Noel Gilroy Annan
Buy used from: £5.98 When Britain was still worth an adjectiv
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 | The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £8.80 Do I really need to explain why?
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 | The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1907-1963
Buy new: £16.00 / Used from: £9.93 With Nabovok's exception, the Diarist par exellence
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 | How War Came by Donald Cameron Watt
Buy new: £12.75 / Used from: £4.50 Unrivalled, unsurpassed and unlikely to be. How it all started in one of the historical pivotal works of the XXth century. Not for the historical novice
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 | Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Hew Maclean
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £3.07 James Bond: when art imitates life
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 | Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists by Robert Hughes
The most devasting critique to the fraudolent world of Contemporary Art - and to PC :)
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 | Diplomacy by Henry A. Kissinger
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £6.22 Whatever you think of Kissinger, this is one of the best tome of XIXth and XXth century diplomatic history in the English language. You are a negotiator? Do not miss the part on China!!
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 | Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £32.99 Machiavelli's real masterpiece (the Prince was an Executive Summary for Politicians)
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 | Kant: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Roger Scruton
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £2.65 fatti non fummo per viver come bruti
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| The Other Russia by Stone
Buy used from: £2.37 a world destroyed
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 | A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.27 / Used from: £1.14 Paris 1920's......I wish I had been there as a young man with Jack
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 | Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
Buy new: £8.35 / Used from: £0.01 and you thought that yours was an interesting life?
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 | Live/1975-85 by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Buy new: £17.98 / Used from: £9.17 The best American writer of his generation, with the added power of the E Street Band
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 | Puccini: Turandot
Buy new: £14.68 / Used from: £10.45 Pavarotti in top form. Nessun Dorma has never sounded like this
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 | Capital Gold Jazz Legends by Various Artists
Buy used from: £1.29 Good all-rounded collection, featuring Miles Davis' unforgettable Concierto De Aranjuez. If only, worthy for this track
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 | Wagner: Tristan und Isolde; Tannhäuser; Die Meistersinger - Orchestral Music by Wagner
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £5.74 Tannhäuser Overture: Raw teutonic power
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 | The Great Ashkenazy - The Ultimate Collection of Piano Melodies
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £6.99 The ultimate introduction to Piano concerto
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