 | Life, A Users Manual by George Perec
Buy used from: £13.84 A novel, cookery book, detective story, puzzle and modern-day Proustian prose. A good solid and surprising novel in a quirky, faithful (so I'm told) translation.
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 | London Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £2.27 The first of Amis Jnr's mature books. This is dense complex intelligent writing. A grim, rivetting read. 5 Stars.
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 | Dead Babies by Martin Amis
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £3.02 One of the top five books about sex & drugs ever. Those gangs of people you see in bars and clubs? The trendier places? Here Amis dissects them for your reading pleasure.
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 | A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £4.84 / Used from: £1.41 Seminal early work by a polymath and visionary. Forty odd years later we are living largely in a facsimilie of Burgess' dystopian Britain.
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 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story by Richard Bach
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.90 "Like a double expresso for the soul"
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 | The Malayan Trilogy: "Time for a Tiger", "Enemy in the Blanket", "Beds in the East" (Vintage classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £4.70 All three of these superb books in a single volume that stashes away nicely in the loo. One of the higher peaks in a mountainous career. Burgess on fine insightful, sharp, peppery form.
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 | Earthly Powers (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £3.81 Defies mere copy. This is one of the finest novels of the modern age. Epic, bawdy, clever, funny, pretentious, ground-breaking, philosophical. You cannot tire of it.
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 | Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/outdoor Medical Grower's Bible by Jorge Cervantes
Buy new: £15.39 / Used from: £12.23 Essential reference for heads.
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 | Complete Poems and Plays T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £8.89 The Guv'nor. The essence of the first half of the Twentieth Century in poems and prose.
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 | Rebus: The Early Years - Knots and Crosses / Hide and Seek / Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin
Buy new: £8.96 / Used from: £4.45 Best introduction to this fine collection of addictive stories about John Rebus, the troubled, self-aware Police Detective working in modern-day Edinburgh.
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 | The Art of War (Running Press Miniatures) by Tzu Sun
Buy new: £2.81 / Used from: £0.20 'War' and 'Live' being interchangeable in the context. Age-old wisdom in a handy volume. You know its good because after a while it reads like common sense and profoundity.
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.59 Part of the personal library of people from the Borgias to Hitler through to Napoleon to Thatcher. The perfect companion to The Art of War.
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 | The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £2.13 Honest, angry, brutal, seminal. Anyone who hasn't read this by the time they're 30 is probably already dead.
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 | Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.65 Part one of the brilliant autobiography by the Twentieth Century's greatest writer. He stands over the century like a nicotine-stained Colossus.
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 | You've Had Your Time (Vintage Classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.16 Part two of Burgess' autobiography. Just get it.
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 | Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, 35th Edition
Buy new: £315.00 / Used from: £125.00 For 'drugstore cowboys' and general hobbyists alike.
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 | British National Formulary: v. 52
Buy new: £24.95 / Used from: £0.01 For the traditionalists among you. This is what I cut my teeth on back in the day...
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 | Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
Buy used from: £6.63 If you work in a creative field, this book will probably have already changed your life and the way you look at the work you do. Essential reading for anyone who works with other human beings. *****
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 | David Copperfield (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy used from: £0.01 A c l a s s i c epic tale from the Novelist's Novelist and superlative storyteller. Read it weekly (like the original) for maximum effect.
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 | The Complete Enderby (Vintage classics) by Anthony Burgess
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.41 Probably best recommended for those who like their humour on the darker side. The three volume adventures of the failed poet and alcoholic who writes best on the lavatory.
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 | The Talisman by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.24 You might think this is King having a go at one of those nerdy, sci-fi/fantasy books about warlocks, long hair, body odour and not having a girlfriend. But its nothing like. Its actually superb.
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 | It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It: A Dilbert Treasury (Dilbert Books (Paperback Andrews McMeel)) by Scott Adams
Buy new: £9.35 / Used from: £2.09 Good introduction to the consistently excellent series of strips. For anyone who regularly winces at corporate stupidity or has a ball-bag for a Manager :)
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 | Halliwell's Film, Video and DVD Guide 2005 by Leslie Halliwell
Buy used from: £0.01 In this age of wiki-mania we all need something definitive to rely on re: films.
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 | Durer (Albums) by John Berger
Buy used from: £1.15 Cheap n' cheerful anthology of the astonishing work of this most overlooked of (Northern) Renaissance artists.
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 | The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
Buy new: £15.47 / Used from: £12.48 Free-form coffeetable book/anti-manifesto. Lemon sorbet for the visual cortex of the brain. "Keep looking sideways!" > Also recommended: Norton Juster's 'The Phantom Tollbooth'. Peace :)
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