 | The Razor's Edge (Vintage classics) by W. Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.40 My favourite writer. Hitchcock used to read Maugham for his style.
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 | The Getaway (Crime Masterworks) by Jim Thompson
Buy used from: £0.01 I've just read this. Intense. Disturbing. Not like the movie. Like nothing i have read.
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 | The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by Paul Auster
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.34 It feels like Auster is talking directly to you. Great storyteller. At times the story is unimportant, you read on just to be in his company.
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 | The Collected Stories by William Trevor
Buy used from: £22.40 A master of the short story. I'd love to have a pint and a chat with this guy. He'd be making notes about me in his head, though.
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 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.60 Big Brother is reading this and planning accordingly.
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 | On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy (Film/Tv tie-in series) by Jim Garrison
Buy used from: £0.01 Reads like a thriller. Make your own mind up.
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 | Who the Devil Made it?: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors by Peter Bogdanovich
Buy used from: £44.95 Hitchcock chapter is the best film interview i have ever read. Movie masterclass.
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 | The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £10.48 Best critic going bar none. A must have for film fans. As he says you don't have to agree with him.
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 | Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £5.65 Fantastic book. I was shocked how good a writer he is.
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 | Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Collins classics) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £1.50 I've heard of this guy.
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 | To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Great writer. Admit it , a man alone.............
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 | "Rio Bravo" (BFI Film Classics) by Robin Wood
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £10.31 Sorry don't get it done, Dude.
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 | Hitchcock's Films Revisited by Robin Wood
Buy used from: £16.45 Great for a reading of the films. The rest of the book can be hard to get into.
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 | The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.50 Reminds me of Anthony Mann's movie Man Of The West with Gary Cooper.
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 | The Browning Version (Nick Hern Books) by Terence Rattigan
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £2.99 Masterpiece. The Redgrave film is much better than the Albert Finney one.
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 | Separate Tables (Nick Hern Books) by Terence Rattigan
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £3.61 David Niven won an Oscar as the Major. Alan Bates was better.
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 | Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford
Buy new: £9.97 / Used from: £0.87 Cracking book. Trevor Griffiths turned it into a great tv drama with Martin Shaw.
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 | The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance by David Icke
Buy new: £12.73 / Used from: £4.48 Interested in organized religions? This will make you think.
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 | The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.81 Amusing and thought-provoking. His tv shows are better.
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 | Vincent by Himself by Vincent Van Gogh
Buy used from: £9.20 A human being. I love the film Lust For Life. This is one of a great series on artists featuring letters and paintings.
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 | I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies by N Ray
Buy new: £18.00 / Used from: £14.89 On Dangerous Ground is one of the best movies ever. Nicholas Ray made it. Great with actors. This shows how he got a performance out of them.
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 | The Casablanca Man: Career of Michael Curtiz by Dr James C Robertson
Buy used from: £24.14 I want this book. I'd love to have been around when Curtiz, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh,and Frank Capra made their films.
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 | Boys from the Blackstuff (Studio Scripts) by Alan Bleasdale
Buy used from: £1.67 Best british tv series ever. As a kid i rooted for Yosser. now i like Dixie Dean. Georgeson should have shared the bafta with Bernard Hill for best actor.
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 | Journey's End a Play in Three Acts by R. C. Sherriff
Buy used from: £12.74 I read this years ago, and have seen it's influence in films and books everywhere.
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| A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin
Buy used from: £1.58 Best British single tv drama i have seen. Book ends differently. Both are good. The great Alan Plater's tv ending left it to us, the electorate to decide.
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