 | This Sporting Life by David Storey
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.86 A title filled with pathos.
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 | Tender Taxes: Translations from Rainer Maria Rilke by Jo Shapcott
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.22 Versions of Rilke's rose poems, a chorus of speaking vaginas.
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 | Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.75 Lead singer Karen O is also the second-best named rock star, close behind Shivaree's Ambrosia Parsley.
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 | Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles by Derrida
Buy new: £15.68 / Used from: £18.00 Styles spur us on to new interpretations.
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 | Pills to Purge Melancholy
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £7.85 Songs collected by Thomas D'Urfrey, take two of these text pills before bed and in the morning go on living.
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 | Debbie: An Epic by Lisa Robertson
Buy used from: £13.61 Wait until the Nurses of Perfidy arrive! Just when you thought you were safe from Virgil.
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 | A Thousand Plateaus (Continuum Impacts): Capitaliism and Schizophrenia: 21 by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: £11.38 / Used from: £10.45 Is it really 25 years since this appeared in France? It seems still to be the essential modern read.
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 | Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £6.25 A wake, a funferal, awake, a bow wave.
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 | The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
Buy new: £9.67 / Used from: £5.33 The man without qualities had trouble compiling his c.v.
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![Claire's Knee [DVD] [1970]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BSTRWR46L._SL75_.jpg) | Claire's Knee [DVD] [1970]
Buy new: £19.59 / Used from: £16.99 Rohmer's films seem so effortless and so humane. I never tire of them.
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 | Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.52 Here's to all our laughable loves!
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 | "Much Ado About Nothing" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 You are a very nothing! One of Shakespeare's touch-words, like Stuff and Eye. Nothing shall come of it.
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 | The Europe of Trusts by S Howe
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £3.43 I love Susan Howe's poetry and this is maybe the best place to start... soon you'll be - a ballad / lost in a ballad
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 | The Ticklish Subject: Absent Centre of Political Ontology (Wo es war) by Slavoj Zizek
Buy new: £10.55 / Used from: £7.89 Subject: object: atchoo!
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 | Wakefulness: Poems by John Ashbery
Buy used from: £6.31 Ashbery is good at titles, see also Houseboat Days. Usually a one-word title for a poetry collection signals bad news but here the news is very good.
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 | Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics) by Walt Whitman
Buy used from: £1.22 An American conception of the book: Leaves Of Grass
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 | Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
Buy new: £9.41 / Used from: £6.50 What other kind of revolution is worthwhile?
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![The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie [DVD] [1972] [US Import] [NTSC]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GCD4BKGJL._SL75_.jpg) | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie [DVD] [1972] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £29.81 Few films have interesting titles, but Bunuel's do. See also The Phantom of Liberty
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![Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (L'Amour des Trois Oranges) [DVD] [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X9JDG8CSL._SL75_.jpg) | Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (L'Amour des Trois Oranges) [DVD] [1989]
Buy new: £24.49 / Used from: £17.49 Operas also seem uninspired title-wise, but this is a great one. The production on this DVD is also a "must".
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 | Lifting Belly by Gertrude Stein
Buy used from: £3.32 Good title for a love poem. But buy it in a bigger Stein volume for better value, I recommend the Library of America editions.
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 | Dandelion Days by Henry Williamson
Buy used from: £7.89 Part of the Flax of Dream quartet. This Faber edition has a bright yellow cover.
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