![]() | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.03 / Used from: £0.48 Seldom has a writer said so much by writing so little. Reading it is like skywatching and feeling wonderfully small.
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![]() | Hell Among the Yearlings by Gillian Welch
Buy used from: £3.50 Dark, haunting and timeless. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings make music that ranks with the all-time greats.
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![]() | A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: £5.93 / Used from: £2.95 A comic masterpiece starring Ignatius J. Reilly, a behemoth who inhabits the moral high ground of his imagination and considers The Wizard Of Oz to be perverted filth.
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![]() | Gris-Gris by Dr. John
Buy new: £6.58 / Used from: £3.90 A distillation of New Orleans, African, Jazz and Blues music into a record that is utterly unique. Do not buy for Grandma, unless she is a voodoo priestess.
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![]() | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (International Writers) by Patrick Suskind
Buy new: £4.45 / Used from: £0.01 This book stinks. High praise indeed.
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![]() | Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings by Miles Davis
Buy used from: £59.28 Not cheap, but neither is the music. These recordings rank amongst the towering achievements of 20th Century music.
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![]() | The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes: Contains 56 Stories and 4 Novels including The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £12.32 / Used from: £0.01 My blushes, Watson! Every one of the swollen-headed sleuth's escapades in one unputdownable volume. Fabulous stuff.
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![]() | Doctor Who - The Talons Of Weng Chiang [1977] [DVD] [1963]
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £5.29 The Doctor travels to Victorian London and delights in his intellectual superiority to a theatrical impressario, a Chinaman with glowing eyes and a Peking Homunculus. As you do.
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![]() | Time by Andy Goldsworthy
Buy used from: £14.29 A stunning collection of the environmental artist's recent work. I lose myself in these wonderful images and pretend that Emin, Hirst et al don't exist.
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![]() | Hamlet (The New Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy used from: £0.01 Cheer up old boy, things can't be that bad. Oh, they are. Oh well. Willy the Shake invents the teenager- brilliantly.
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![]() | Dangerous by Bill Hicks
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £6.59 The late, great comic at his blistering best. His passing is an absolute tragedy.
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![]() | Exile on Main St. by Rolling Stones
Buy used from: £11.25 The Stones decamp to Keef's house in France, make merry in the cellar and create a rock n' roll masterpiece. The Human Riff's most groovesome hour-and-a-bit.
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![]() | Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Buy used from: £1.31 The complete works of Hull's finest... He might come across all Mr Magoo at times, but his best poems are startling, honest and beautiful.
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![]() | Mose Allison Sings and Plays by Mose Allison
Buy used from: £11.99 A fantastic collection of the idiosyncratic singer and pianist's music.
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![]() | Led Zeppelin: DVD (2DVD) [2003]
Buy new: £14.58 / Used from: £3.99 Just the DVD to watch in a cottage in rural Wales or in the hallowed halls of Valhalla. Rock on, Percy.
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![]() | The Rattle Bag
Buy used from: £1.09 A remarkable poetry collection that is perfect for dipping in and out of... highly reccomended.
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![]() | Moments From This Theatre by Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
Buy used from: £3.30 The southern soul duo in concert... stripped-down lyrical and musical perfection.
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![]() | Cannery Row (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £3.20 Steinbeck's deep humanity was never more heartfelt and appealing than in this wonderful book. We hang with the hobos, drunks and misfits of Cannery Row, and revel in their love of life.
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![]() | The Sound of the City - New Orleans by Various Artists
Buy used from: £39.99 Esteemed DJ Charlie Gillett does us all a favour and pulls together the fonkiest music to come out of the Crescent City... a real treat.
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![]() | Casablanca [1942] [DVD]
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £3.26 The greatest movie ever made? I'll be playing it again, that's for sure (Ouch!)
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![]() | The Whispering Years by Bob Harris
Buy used from: £1.48 A very entertaining autobiography from the legendary DJ and OGWT presenter.
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![]() | Shoot Out the Lights by Richard Thompson
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £3.50 One of the greatest records ever made- RT is a national treasure, even if he does wear a beret!
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![]() | Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (Jumbo) by Irmgard Musch
Buy used from: £154.91 Although I don't own this book, it has to be the most beautiful I've ever seen. Go to a bookshop and take a look- one man's life's work, and it's staggering.
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![]() | North By Northwest [1959] [DVD]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.84 Hitchcock's artistry at its peak. Every frame is a visual feast to be enjoyed over and over again.
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![]() | Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi [DVD] [1983]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.02 You'll never feel like going to work again after watching this mind-melting visual collage of the wonders of nature and the suffocation of urban living.
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