![]() | The Ninja (A Panther book) by Eric Lustbader
Buy used from: £0.01 An incredibly tense, violent face-off between a conflicted Japanese-American and his enemy. Incredibly powerful writing combined with deep character study and Japanese/Oriental details.
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![]() | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Terrifying, chilling modern serial killer novel - Harris's best - with two men locked together in a hunt to the death.
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![]() | Bad City Blues by Tim Willocks
Buy used from: £1.22 Utterly gripping, powerful, bloody, gruesome - this novel will grab you by the throat and won't let go. Captain Jefferson is one of the most compelling and corrupt characters in modern fiction.
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![]() | The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
Buy new: £5.17 / Used from: £0.01 Bored with your life? Not any more! Frustrated, ennui-laden psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart risks everything on the fall of the die - and transforms his life (and others) forever.
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![]() | The Beach by Alex Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 I've read this novel many times and keep coming back to it. The central metaphor for paradise and its eventual destruction just gets more telling as the modern age advances - who hasn't ever dreamed?
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![]() | Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.19 What would you do trapped on an island? Form a stable community, pitch in together and survive? Or descend into fear - and bloody destruction?
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![]() | The Hole by Guy Burt
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £0.11 This very short novel takes you to the precipice then drops you in. The last chapter is a psychological hammerblow that will keep coming back to haunt you.
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![]() | Complicity (Abacus Paperback) by Iain Banks
Buy new: £6.91 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite Iain Banks novel - recent efforts disappoint but this best combines his searing social commentary, screaming black humour and odd liking for large amounts of gore.
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![]() | Crash by J.G. Ballard
Buy used from: £1.04 His best-known if not best novel, this is a brilliant introduction to simply the most imaginative, surrealist visionary writing in England today. Hallucinatory and gruesome.
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![]() | Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.45 Another visionary for our times - Burroughs used his body as a chemical testing lab and it shows. You'll never recover from reading this.
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![]() | Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
Buy used from: £0.01 More rounded and complete than Bad City, Willocks delivers another heady mixture of violence, compassion and honour. The brutal riot of the prison is the setting for a monumental journey.
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![]() | American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.45 Black-hearted satire on the 80's and spiritually-dead consumerism. Patrick Bateman is the evil, shark-eyed personification of marketing nightmares - or dreams.
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![]() | Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Buy used from: £0.01 It's a blazing hot day in Hell and in American cities the inhabitants are tearing their lives, dreams and bodies apart.
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![]() | Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy new: £4.61 / Used from: £2.75 Soulless, sterile existence? Form an underground club to kick the hell out of other men! Brilliant tale of modern disenfranchisation and nihilism.
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