 | Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.56 This has just been reissued by Penguin & is most welcome!
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 | Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley
Buy new: £5.23 / Used from: £0.01 Probably the best book of Huxley's to read first....
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 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.97 Orwell's most enjoyable, if not greatest, novel...
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 | The Rainbow (Penguin Modern Classics) by D.H. Lawrence
Buy used from: £0.92 Fascist-associations & accusations apart, this is an extremely strong work that advances on similar territory from Thomas Hardy....
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 | Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics) by HARDY
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Hardy's bleakest work and his final novel
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 | I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) by Dodie Smith
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Dodie Smith's charming novel - full of life and love & filmed quite wonderfully a few years ago...
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 | Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.99 Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt- every jammy Stressworth poet...
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 | The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics) by John Fowles
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £1.47 The location is Dorset and the timeframe is the 19th from the 20th Century...
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 | Lucky Jim (Essential Penguin) by Kingsley Amis
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny and perfect...
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 | Omnibus: Albert Angelo, House Mother Normal & Trawl (3 titles) by B.S. Johnson
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £36.81 An omnibus of lost cult novels from the writer of Christy Malry's Own Double-Entry...
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 | Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £2.68 I like this, though nostalgia is an enemy- especially when you get nostalgic for things that never occurred (see Homer Simpson & 'Happy Days'!)
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 | The Magic Toyshop (Virago modern classics) by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Strange coming of age novel from the always interesting Angela Carter....
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 | Howards End (Penguin Modern Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy used from: £0.97 "...only connect..."
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 | The Haunted Doll's House: and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by M.R. James
Buy used from: £0.01 The definitive English ghost-stories- here lies a nice collection...
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 | Goodbye to All That (Essential Penguin) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.52 English-life remembered just before leaving for Majorca...
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 | To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Poetic memories converge- see also 'The Waves'
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 | Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £0.62 Northern-Britain, mid-late 20th Century....
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 | David Copperfield: Personal History of David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.49 This and 'Against Nature' are placed in I's bag in "Withnail & I"-
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 | A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys
Buy used from: £22.00 A slab of English-magic....
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 | Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £0.01 Idyllic summer-fun and an antidote to bleak novels...
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Waugh's best known novel....
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 | Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus: The Mating Season; the Code of the Woosters; Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Buy used from: £53.45 This omnibus edition just edged out 'Cold Comfort Farm' (a sequel-list will follow at a later date)
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 | A Month in the Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by J. Carr
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £2.47 Sublime novella, World War I lurks around the English-joys therein...
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 The definitive English-novel written by a Japanese male who enrolled on the famous writing course in East Anglia...
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 | A Kestrel for a Knave (Penguin Modern Classics) by Barry Hines
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.98 Another perfect English-novel with a great cover- Ken Loach's film-adaptation is as great...
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