![]() | The Lord of the Rings trilogy - one volume hardback (movie cover) by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £11.99 Jesus, it's long. But it's worth it. Better than the film, fills you in on information wilfully omitted in the film and gives you a better understanding of events.
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![]() | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Buy used from: £0.01 Delightful Deep South snapshot; engaging, charming and disturbing in turn. Forget the film, it killed the book.
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![]() | Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
Buy used from: £0.40 And his entire back catalogue. Ok, the Discworld back calalogue. If you're new to Pratchett, start with Guards! Guards! then Men at Arms then back to the first in the series. All hail Pterry...
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![]() | A Fish Caught in Time by Samantha Weinberg
Buy used from: £0.01 One of nature's marvels, the Coelacanth. With fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to be extinct, this is it's story since re-discovery in 1938. Absorbing and well written.
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![]() | The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 and the next two of his books. Surreal, unique and funny with a dark side. Wonderful, unrelentingly intelligent writing and, mercifully, nothing like Captain Corelli where L de B sold out.
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![]() | I and Claudius by Clare de Vries
Buy used from: £0.01 Quite good travel writing by a woman who's in love with her cat. Seriously in love. This is one for those of us who knows how she feels.
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![]() | Asterix and Cleopatra (Classic Asterix paperbacks) by Goscinny
Buy used from: £0.01 Learn how live like a true Queen. Invent cakes like those presented to Cleo. Light the fire, pour some tea and eat some of that excessive cake. Laugh, smile and be charmed by the best of the series.
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![]() | Selected Poems (Fyfield Books) by Robert Herrick
Buy used from: £0.01 Romantic poetry approached with earthy, bodice-ripping honesty. Touches of whimsy abound, but passion reigns.
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![]() | Ariel by Sylvia Plath
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.79 Get your brain in gear, read and think. A depressed and suicidal author left us wonderful, accessable words.
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![]() | The Mirror of Her Dreams (Mordant's Need) by Stephen Donaldson
Buy used from: £0.01 If you've stuck through all 6 parts of Thomas Covenant, rest assured, this is *alot* less hard going! It's pretty damn good. Infact, it might need re-reading again after finishing Tolkien.
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![]() | And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Buy used from: £2.99 of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds fame. Bizarre, surreal and hearty writing with glorious, divinely poetic writing in places. Stick with it, you won't regret it.
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![]() | Aberystwyth Mon Amour by Malcolm Pryce
Buy used from: £0.01 League of Gentlemen wierdness in the style of a pulp fiction detective story. It's bloody marvelous! Speed knitters of the world: unite!!
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![]() | The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
Buy used from: £0.01 Fry's intelligence is already legend and this book shows he's also a marvelous writer. Unlike The Liar this does not scream *Fry* at all. Very well thought out and highly recommended.
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![]() | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy used from: £0.01 Focussing predominantly on the US, but ultimately highlighting global fast food, this is well written, accessable & highly informative. Read it and boycot fast food forever for fear of your health.
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![]() | Restoration: Rebuilding of Windsor Castle (The Royal Collection) by Adam Nicolson
Buy used from: £3.48 Starting at just before the fire to the event itself, but mostly detailing the astonishing work carried out to restore the building and the spaces within. Fascinating and awe inspiring.
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![]() | Vigor Mortis: From Fear to Fashion - Discarding the Death Taboo by Kate Berridge
Buy used from: £2.77 A very in-depth, intelligent, heavily researched book about death written with a light hand. This book should be required reading for all of us.
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![]() | Moby Dick: Or, the Whale (Penguin Popular Classics) by Herman Melville
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Surprisingly easy read for a classic! Bloody marvelous book! Read it for the pleasure, the gain of knowledge or even just to be able to say that you've read it.
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![]() | Why Men Don't Iron: The New Reality of Gender Differences by Anne Moir
Buy used from: £0.01 A non man-bashing, non militant feminist gender gap book that shows us that men are great, just as women are. Should read by men too, despite the girlie presentation of the book cover.
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![]() | The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Buy new: £5.29 / Used from: £0.01 Charming, poignant and bittersweet. The fact that I lent mine to my *ex*-boss is not an indication of it's worth!
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![]() | Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona by Tim Parks
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 A good, funny observation of Italian family life. Lively characters and a wonderful portrayal of the life some of us may like to lead.
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![]() | I, Claudius & Claudius the God by Robert Graves
Buy used from: £2.49 Deeply researched, intelligent and utterly gripping. Superb rendition of historical fiction.
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![]() | Toast: Homage to a Superfood by Nick Parker
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £0.01 Ideal reading recalling lazy, hazy student days and student meals that we job-hunter's may soon be forced to re-enact...!
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