 | The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary classics) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.60 Superbly written. Very dark, very chilling.
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 | Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy used from: £3.32 My favourite Z. Brite book. Filled with raw emotion. Fairly graphic sex and horror sceens but ulimately a story about love.
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 | The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Gregory's detailed research really shows. The story hints at great darkness throughout but without streching credibility too far.
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 | Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Pacy and gripping.
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 | Perfectly Correct by Philippa Gregory
Buy new: £4.13 / Used from: £0.01 A hilarious critique of feminists who take themseles too seriously.
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 | The Divide by Nicholas Evans
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Beatufully told. I didn't want it to end.
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 | A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.01 A great book for anyone who's ever lived in France.
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 | The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (Canongate Myths) by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.01 A good retelling of the Illiad from Penelope's point of view. This has since been made into a stunning play.
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 | The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Buy used from: £16.50 One of the ultimate children's series' ever.
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 | Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £3.07 Superb. Witty, dark. I couldn't put it down.
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Gaiman and Pratchett perfectly compliment each other's humour.
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 | Interview with the Vampire: The First Book in The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Full of rich details
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 | Cry to Heaven by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £4.20 Well researched. Full of passion and pain.
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 | Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £0.01 Funny yet melancholic. A true story of growing up in poverty.
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 | Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck "Essentials") by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.50 One of the most touching stories ever written.
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 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years 1) by Gregory Maguire
Buy new: £5.14 / Used from: £2.49 A very interesting take on the Wizard of Oz
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 | Boudica: Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica 1) by M.C. Scott
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The first of the sreies. It left me desperate to read the rest.
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 | Ils Partiront Dans l'Ivresse by Lucie Aubrac
Buy new: £7.75 / Used from: £4.50 A great French read about one of the hardest times in french history.
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 | Romanitas (OME): Volume 1 by Sophia McDougall
Buy used from: £0.01 Very original.
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 | Les Miserables (Classics) by Victor Hugo
Buy new: £6.59 / Used from: £0.01 A great work of Literature
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.16 Brilliant
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