 | Dangerous Love by Ben Okri
Buy used from: £0.01 An incredibly intelligent, beautiful and poetic retelling of a young man's life in Lagos
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 | The New Life by Orhan Pamuk
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 Turkish Magical Realism, the book begins: "I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
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 | Essential Rumi (Essential (Booksales)) by Jelaluddin Rumi
Buy used from: £11.37 The most perfect, exquisite poetry ever written
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 | Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Although there is a main narrative to this book, fairy tales and dreams run in and out of the text and it's hard to resist chasing after them too...
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 The story of the Buendias family, filled with magic, love, tragedy and mystery
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 | The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 A dazzling collection of short stories by the great Isabel Allende
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 | Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £0.01 A magical little fable of mozambiquan street-life that is as full of the small joys of personal life as it is its tragedies and sadnesses..delicate, beautiful and moving
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 | The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Ben Okri's masterpiece...read, then re-read again!
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 | The Bloody Chamber & Other Sto by Carter Angela
Buy used from: £6.43 A collection of short stories; Carter has taken classical children's tales and added glorious language with adult magic and sensuality
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 | God's Bits of Wood (African Writers Series) by Sembene Ousmane
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £4.05 Set during the railway strike in Senegal in the 1940s, this novel celebrates not only anti-colonial struggles, but the beauty of West-Afican life
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 | In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Anthony Appiah
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £13.17 African philosophy, and a truly fanastic thinker; here lies the future of the generations to come
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 | The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Buy used from: £9.99 Although a writer of childrens' books, Astrid Lindgren will always be the best writer ever to come out of Sweden; her books are as enchanting to me now as they were when I was little
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mervyn Peake by Lewis Carroll
Buy used from: £12.00 What a crazy, magical, delightful trip to go on!
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 | Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £8.50 Another very perfect writer. The best of them all, the short story "the sphinx without a secret"
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 | Introduction to Socialism by Leo Huberman
Buy new: £6.95 / Used from: £4.57 Beautiful because it is true and so important today and in the future ahead
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 | Waiting for an Angel by Helon Habila
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £1.47 "Political" novel set in Nigeria, beautifully judged, powerful, compassionate and complete
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 | The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by M., Joseph Bedier
Buy new: £27.99 Also known as "Tristan & Isolde", this is what Romeo &Juliet was based on, and together they really are the greatest love stories ever written
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 | "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (Arden Shakespeare: Second Series) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £6.64 / Used from: £2.90 One Word: Magic!
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