 | An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite novel. Incredibly evocative.
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 | Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter
Buy used from: £4.27 Fantastic lesbian detective story written entirely in verse.
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 | The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.31 Brilliantly written.
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Magical. I could not put this book down.
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 | Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.26 / Used from: £0.01 Very moving.
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 | Summer Lightning (Everyman Wodehouse) by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy new: £7.69 Wodehouse's funniest, in my opinion.
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 | Quartet (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £7.76 / Used from: £6.27 Haunting book - sad, but fascinating.
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 | The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the few sci-fi books I adore - not as flashy as 'Triffids', but one I keep coming back to.
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 | The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.01 The classic John Wyndham novel in the genre "unhappily known" as science fiction.
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 | Wide Sargasso Sea (Essential Penguin) by Jean Rhys
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.51 Dreamlike.
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 | The Camomile Lawn (Black Swan) by Mary Wesley
Buy used from: £0.01 Well-written and oddly affecting. Don't be put off by its slightly trashy rep.
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 | The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Sei Shonagon
Buy used from: £0.85 Fascinating and humourous insight into Japanese court life a millienium ago.
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 | Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Buy used from: £2.22 Don't be fooled by the soppy title - an unsettling book about romantic obsession.
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 | The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
Buy used from: £0.01 Romantic and dreamy and creepy. I now understand why it's my mother's favourite book!
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 | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy used from: £0.01 Beautiful descriptive language.
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 | Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Buy used from: £0.01 Greene's funniest story.
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 | The Third Man. by Graham Greene
Buy new: £3.16 / Used from: £2.70 Classic tale of friendship and betrayal in post-war Vienna.
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 | Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles by David Thomson
Buy used from: £0.46 Darkly lyrical biography of Orson Welles.
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 | Delta of Venus (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anais Nin
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.95 Anais Nin's classic collection of erotic short stories.
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 | The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £10.28 / Used from: £5.38 A bumper omnibus by my favourite short story writer - each story with a wicked sting in its tail.
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 | The Cay (Puffin Books) by Taylor Theodore
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £0.01 Simple but powerful story about racial prejudice and survival at sea.
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 | Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) by William Golding
Buy used from: £4.66 Wonderful, frightening.
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 | Magician by Raymond E. Feist
Buy used from: £150.00 The great non-Tolkien fantasy novel.
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 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £2.38 Brilliant and evil.
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 | Hitchcock: A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £8.83 Absolutely essential if you're at all interested in the art of film-making.
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