 | When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 A detective story set in war torn China. A refreshing ending that leaves you guessing until the very end.
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 | Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 I thought the plot for this looked weak and only read it as I've loved his other works. This turned out to be one of my favourite all time books, Unmissable.
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 | All Points North by Simon Armitage
Buy used from: £0.01 A look at contemporary life in Yorkshire. Funny, educational, passionate and interesting to the very end, you'd be mad to not read it.
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 | Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Based on the author's months in exile travelling around the Chinese mountains, this books provides you with a look at the people of China missed by most Western authors.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 Set in occupied Czechoslovakia, this novel details and examines the complicated and entwined love lives of a small group of ill fated characters.
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 | Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 The mind and thoughts of one man over one night may not sound all that interesting a plotline, but Kureishi does superbly with this tale of adultery and indecision.
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 | Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 A strange tale about a struggling medieval village on the Japanese coastline who rely on the bounty of shipwrecks to avoid starvation.
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Buy used from: £2.00 This isn't just one novel but many novels, or at least the first chapters of them. It inquires as to the nature of novels and is an amazing read.
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 | The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.50 Surreal, hilarious, bizarre and certainly unique, come read about when the devil decided to give a party in Moscow
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 | The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.28 Kundera is so wonderful I had to include him twice!
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 | Death and the Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 The best in contemporary literature which features penguins.
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