 | Whitaker's Almanack 2003: 135th Annual Edition. Standard Edition
Buy used from: £0.01 invaluable reference of everything you dont need to know about britain
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 | The Chambers Dictionary by Chambers
Buy new: £30.00 / Used from: £5.85 best english dictionary - beats Oxford easily
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 great book, and this has few notes to irritate the reader
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 | Now We are Six (Winnie-the-Pooh) by A.A. Milne
Buy used from: £0.01 great primer (I learned to read with this and The Guardian)
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 | "The Times" Comprehensive Atlas of the World 2000 (10th Edition)
Buy used from: £65.00 recently converted to times atlases - best i've seen and this is the top
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy used from: £0.01 This is an education in how things do not change - and psychs people out too!
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 | The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wordsworth Special Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £0.89 Trite but true - enough reading of all sorts to keep the desert island going for a while
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 | The Penguin Complete Saki (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Saki
Buy used from: £25.22 Essential - Sredni Vastar kept me sane during adolescence and Gabriel Earnest is not to be read at dusk
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 | Peacock Pie (Faber Children's Classics) by Walter de la Mare
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.09 brilliant route into poetry for the young
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 | Adventures of Hadrian Hedgehog by Candida Lycett Green
Buy used from: £18.00 out of print, sadly, but as kids poetry it's wonderful - I can still quote reams of it, 35 years later!
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 | The Crimson Fairy Book
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.49 This is for the illustrations - keep an eye out for anything illustrated by HJFord
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 | The Agricola and the Germania (Classics S.) by H. Mattingly
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.34 Fascinating history, really readable - this makes the millenia appear to shrink to yesterday
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 | Nanda Devi: Exploration and Ascent by Eric Shipton
Buy used from: £19.99 If this is the book I think it is, I read an ancient battered paperback of my Father's and it's the best mountaineering book I've read - it's readable, fascinating routes.....
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 | Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel) by Peter Fleming
Buy new: £14.50 / Used from: £6.26 a jumble sale treasure, this one - written by Ian (007) Fleming's brother and rather better than the Bond books. Basically, up the Amazon in a canoe......
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