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Let It Bleed (Remastered Super Audio)Let It Bleed (Remastered Super Audio) by The Rolling Stones
Buy used from: £14.99
Perfect for those evenings alone or with friends. But preferably with a bottle of Bushmills
George Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell Omnibus: The Complete Novels: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and, 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
Buy used from: £11.50
1984 and Animal Farm may be best known, but Coming Up For Air, Aspidistra and Burmese Days are just as good. Pity about Clergyman's Daughter.
Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £2.55
Imperialism from the African perspective. Short novel, gripping and intense.
In Your MindIn Your Mind by Bryan Ferry
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Before the warble turned into a croon. Immaculate, fun, get a bottle out.
Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics)Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope
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Perfect. Get all six of the Barset novels.
Defying Hitler: A MemoirDefying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
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A book everyone should read. Written in the 30's by a German who understood what The Nazi's were.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage Crucial Classics)All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage Crucial Classics) by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy used from: £3.38
War shown to be what it really is. Better than Robert Graves' Goodbye to all That since it lacks the aloofness of the ex-British Officer writing style.
The Office - The Complete First Series [2001] [DVD]The Office - The Complete First Series [2001] [DVD]
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And the second series too, for that matter.
Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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Good old fashioned love, adultery, cruelty, mental illness, melodrama - just great.
Theatre Of Blood [DVD] [1973]Theatre Of Blood [DVD] [1973]
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Worth it just to see Mr. Price camp it up as Butch the male hardresser. Robert Morely calling his dogs is another classic moment.
Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics)Decline and Fall (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
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Either this, Scoop or Black Mischief
Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics)Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Thackeray
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Wonderful, to be read and read again.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics)The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £0.01
Great tale of loss, riches and more loss. Better than that Woodlanders pap we did at school. Could do with some furmity right now...
The Best Glam Rock Album in the World EverThe Best Glam Rock Album in the World Ever by Various Artists
Buy used from: £5.78
In fact, this would be perfect to listen to along with a bit of furmity.
Cancer Ward (Penguin Modern Classics)Cancer Ward (Penguin Modern Classics) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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People still functioning in a sick society.
Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit [1955]Ealing Comedy DVD Collection - The Ladykillers/Kind Hearts and Coronets/The Lavender Hill Mob/The Man in the White Suit [1955]
Buy used from: £19.45
Ealing comedy.... aah. Try also School for Scoundrels with Terry Thomas. Hard Cheese.
Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics)Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.17
OK, so it isn't perfect, the good guys are sickly sweet but the baddies are just wonderful.
Doctor Strangelove (Collectors Edition) [DVD] [1963]Doctor Strangelove (Collectors Edition) [DVD] [1963]
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Nuclear combat, toe to toe with the Ruskies.
Physical GraffitiPhysical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.49
The majesty of rock and the mystery of roll on two CD's. Get the Bushmills out again. Try to ignore Hobbit references.
The Moonstone (Penguin Popular Classics)The Moonstone (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £2.19 / Used from: £0.01
Just finished this one, superb.