 | The Dream Room by Marcel Moring
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 David and his family spend a summer constructing model aeroplanes for their landlord, a toy shop owner. At the same time, family secrets work their way out into the open...
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 | Pobby and Dingan / Specks in the Sky by Ben Rice
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £0.01 When Kellyannes imaginary friends disappear, she develops a mystery illness. This novella explores the nature of reality and the power of the imagination what is real and what is not?
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 | Claudine in Paris (Vintage classics) by Colette
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.50 A wonderful coming-of-age story, as fresh now as it was shocking when it was first published! It is so evocative, yet at the same time light and full of joie de vivre.
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 | The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Although the language is quite spare, the images are vivid and the whole island and surrounding areas come to life as you read. There are also many moments of gentle humour that will make you smile.
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 | Rain by Kirsty Gunn
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Childhood summers are vividly evoked, but with a sinister undertone, a sense that the idyll will not last.
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 | The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 This is completely unlike anything I have read before, and it mesmerised me. There is no predictable happy ending and a lot to think about.
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 | Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 The sense of minimalism in the story-telling gave a tremendous sense of everything that was left unsaid, a sense of something left hanging in the air.
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 | Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
Buy used from: £0.01 There's a brutality and a bitterness in the world Jack and Ennis live in, but there are touching moments in this story.
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 | Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 The characters are larger than life with a wicked sense of humour, and the dirty, smelly London is vividly depicted.
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 | Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico
Buy used from: £14.21 An intriguing modern fairy tale about a puppeteer with a multiple personality, and the redemption of evil by innocence. Truly magical.
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 | The Body Artist by Don DeLillo
Buy new: £5.64 / Used from: £1.47 A haunting love story that transcends death. Amazing use of language makes this an incredibly personal exploration of grief.
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 | Thursbitch by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.09 A swirling, poetic novel suffused with pagan magic - more complex and more absorbing than its length might suggest.
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 | The Character of Rain by Amelie Nothomb
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £0.01 A funny and fascinating child-s eye view of life from the first moments of consciousness.
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