 | Small Island by Andrea Levy
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £0.01 A particularly memorable portrait of segregation in C20th Britain
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.50 Witty, original, complex, captivating. Unforgettable.
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 | We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Buy used from: £0.01 Once accustomed to Shriver's style, this book proves darkly impressive, intelligent and thought-provoking.
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 | Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 Gripping, challenging, shocking. Difficult, perhaps - to face the Godawful truth of largely hidden parts of society.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Great for the amateur scienttist. Full fo those facts you rarely wondered but are fascinating to know.
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 | Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £6.63 / Used from: £1.78 Odd enough to keep you interested; not odd enough to be dismissed.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.42 / Used from: £2.87 Impressive, humourous, controversial. To be read with a pinch of salt, and preferably alongside its counterpart (below)
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 | The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine by Alister McGrath
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.52 Disappointing next to Dawkins' style, but pleasing to have a direct response to the God Delusion.
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 | The Mammoth Hunters: Earth's Children 3 by Jean M Auel
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £1.49 MY personal favourite of a genrally successful series of five.
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