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An Eclectic Top Ten Books
London FieldsLondon Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01
Dark, foreboding, and grimy - the countdown to a murder
Don't Read This Book If You're StupidDon't Read This Book If You're Stupid by Tibor Fischer
Buy new: £5.05 / Used from: £0.01
Short stories from one of the best contemporary writers
Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth CenturyLascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century by Julie Peakman
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.03
Everything you wanted to know about eighteenth century sexuality... but were afraid to ask
Feeding FrenzyFeeding Frenzy by Will Self
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A collection of Self's journalism... the 'emotional geography' of London and the restaurant review on acid are particular highlights
The Crow RoadThe Crow Road by Iain Banks
Buy new: £5.35 / Used from: £0.01
Think your family are weird and your life is going nowhere? So does Prentice. Only he's funnier than you are... look at all those 5 star reviews if you don't believe me.
The Turkish Embassy LettersThe Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.05
Poet, letter-writer, traveller, friend (then enemy) of Alexander Pope.. a truly remarkable woman.
FictionsFictions by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.23
The master of the short story . Brilliant, un-pin-downable, mysterious - unlike anything you've ever read before
A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics)A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £1.99
Don't let the author's tragic story put you off - pungently funny
Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pope
Buy used from: £1.43
"A little learning is a dangerous thing" - just one of the many phrases we've cribbed from Pope, one of the eighteenth century's most talented poets.
Making Cocoa for Kingsley AmisMaking Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01
Shocking expensive, as all poetry books are, but worth it. Stingingly funny, bitter and moving.