 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Who said it was only fiction? The greatest book of last century
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 | Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.98 Fascinating experimental literature. The Interior Monologue in its epitome.
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.81 The most horrific book you could ever read. Startling, thought provoking.
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 | Our Man in Havana (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.88 The funniest novel of the 50's, an incredible parody of intelligence.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.90 Great teenage Skaz! An alluring, unputdownable novel which captured a generation.
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 | Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.21 A great cynical look on high society in the 20's. Follows Paul Pennyfeather in his most tumultous year.
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 | Stamboul Train (Vintage classics) by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.26 Wistful quality.
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 | Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season; the Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £5.29 The funniest stories. Wodehouse truly was the master. Code of the Woosters surpasses all, exploits with a cow creamer.
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 | Collected Poems by W.H. Auden
Buy used from: £12.94 The greatest Poet of the 20th Century. Read 'Stop all the Clocks' and 'In Memory of W.B.Yeats' first
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 | A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £4.50 Read it in the summer, the most lovely book for this time of year. You will cherish the memory, I do.
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 | A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £2.99 Stylish, satirical, simply great.
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.42 Insightful and chilling, Solzhenitsyn has painted an immortal portrait of an awful history.
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 | Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man (FF Classics) by Siegfried Sassoon
Buy used from: £1.99 A classic look at the world in which the author grew up, played cricket and hunted.
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 | John Keats: The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
Buy new: £8.58 / Used from: £3.08 The greatest romantic. His death at only 25 was a tragedy.
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 | The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 by Martin Amis
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £3.79 The wittist critic and author produces a great anthology of his best critiques.
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 | The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £9.72 / Used from: £5.34 Another Waugh, The Second World War - The humour is biting, the situations farcical, the overall impression; brilliant.
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 | Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £5.33 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful attack on everything that makes up America today, apart from Garbage dispoal widgets, which the author adores! Be prepared to be alienated by all due to incessant cackling!
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 | Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Bohemian London in its prime.
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 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic by Alfred Lansing
Buy used from: £6.15 The definitive account of Shackleton's disastorus yet glorious expedition.
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 | Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.66 An indictment of the Stalin Purges - whilst concurently portraying Koester's Social Theories
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