 | Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Unputdownable, tangible atmosphere and suspense, twists and turns that will make you gasp.
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 | The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent literary mystery story, with the supernatural thrown in. Great stuff.
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 | Royal Blood: King Richard III and the Mystery of the Princes by Bertram Fields
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.77 A lawyer examines the case of the Princes in the Tower, great history lesson and intriguing investigation.
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 | Marianne Dreams (Faber Children's Classics) by Catherine Storr
Buy new: £3.25 / Used from: £0.01 Not just for children. Eerie and strange, good story.
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 | Clan of the Cave Bear (Earths Children 1) by Jean M Auel
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £2.93 Has had mixed reviews but I enjoyed it. Never read anything like it before.
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 | Dracula by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £7.16 / Used from: £4.31 Absolute classic. Scarier than any film.
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 | Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Absorbing literary detective / romance story.
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 | Katherine by Anya Seton
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.68 Historical fiction at its best, a real page-turner.
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 | Beauty by Robin McKinley
Buy new: £4.18 / Used from: £0.02 Original and thoughtful retelling of 'Beauty and the Beast'.
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 | The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £1.04 I could not believe how this book held me, there are so many layers of mystery and spine-tingling moments.
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 | The Holocaust on Trial: History, Justice and the David Irving Libel Case by D.D. Guttenplan
Buy new: £5.82 / Used from: £3.61 Excellent and insightful coverage of the Irving trial and intelligent investigation into the issues raised, particularly that of 'proving' History.
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 | The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Corinne May Botz
Buy new: £16.68 / Used from: £13.16 Not everyone's cup of tea, but really fascinating, looking at the original dolls house-type replicas of crime scenes to educate forensic science students. Have a go at solving them yourself.
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.93 Deep and complex medieval literary mystery. Amazing stuff.
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 | The Moonlit Cage by Linda Holeman
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 More great historical fiction. I loved this and couldn't put it down.
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 | The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £9.86 / Used from: £4.10 It's hard to communicate how great I think this book is. Just read it.
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 | Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.53 Great comic children's book which is a very well-told tale, I've still not grown out of it and doubt I ever will. Better than the (admittedly good) animated film version of it.
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 | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Buy used from: £0.01 Absorbing true-life murder mystery and the detective who tried to solve it.
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 | Journal of a Ghost Hunter: In Search of the Undead from Ireland to Transylvania by Simon Marsden
Buy used from: £4.99 Documents ghostly goings-on but worth perusing for the spectacularly atmospheric black and white photographs of the locations featured.
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 | Down the Common: A Year in the Life of a Medieval Woman by Ann Baer
Buy used from: £2.22 Not a standard novel. Brings to life twelve months in the life of a medieval peasant woman and her family. Makes you appreciate gas fires and not having to defecate in an outdoor cess pit.
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 | Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740 - 1832 by Stella Tillyard
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Detailed and intricate yet accessible biography of four remarkable women.
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 | Countess Dracula: Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess by Tony Thorne
Buy used from: £15.00 Fascinating biography of an intriguing figure, though occasionally graphic in descriptions of torture.
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.95 How amazing is this book? Highly original, outstanding plot, just read it.
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 | The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 An unforgettable beginning leads on to a spell-binding narrative. I want the cemetery of forgotten books to be real!
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 | Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.17 Brilliant tale about the alternative world under London from Gaiman's incomparable imagination.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: £14.91 / Used from: £13.89 There is a wealth of history, detail and intriguing storytelling in this very thick graphic novel about Jack the Ripper - you won't leave your chair for ages - the footnotes are all worth reading too!
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