 | Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.92 I would follow Percy to the ends of the earth.
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 | The Ruby in the Smoke (Cover to Cover) by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £10.00 The Sally Lockheart mysteries are amoung some of the best books I have ever read, but Anton Lesser's readings make them come alive magnificently!
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 | Hogfather (Discworld Novels) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.29 I once heard that Pratchett said he didn't plan his books, but just rambled on until the end. I can believe it, but boy does he know how to ramble!
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 | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Collector's Edition (Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
Buy used from: £0.10 Need I say more? Surely no one ever looks at a wardrobe in quite the same way again after reading this book.
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 | Moonfleet (Penguin Popular Classics) by John Meade Falkner
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 As the ancient corpse in the coffin was revealed, I audibly gasped. This is a book to be read on a stormy night, alone, in the dark, beneath the covers with a lantern.
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 | The Thirty-nine Steps (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Buchan
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.33 Although Hitchcock changed the story for his 1935 film version, it was still very good, and I think it may even have improved it.
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 | Cold Comfort Farm (Essential Penguin) by Stella Gibbons
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.69 If I ever long to go home to Sussex, I read this book and then think better of it.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 My absolute favourite book. Surely here is nothing better than sitting at home where it is warm and dry, and reading about other people messing about in boats on the river.
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 | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.04 A frustrating and fairly unsatisfying adventure. Hate it with me.
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 | And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie Collection) by Agatha Christie
Buy used from: £13.41 You'll never look at the Burgh Island Hotel in the same way again.
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.20 Seen the film? Read the book! This author just has so much imagination!
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 | Arabian Nights: Tales of the Arabian Nights by Amabel Williams- Ellis
Buy used from: £1.53 What do you mean you haven't heard of Sinbad the sailor? I love this edition for the illustrations.
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 | A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Dickens) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.80 One of the most well known opening lines in the history of English literature, and a narrative that lives up to its opening.
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 | The Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics) by Gaston Leroux
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 A very different story from the musical.
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 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Walk the mean streets of Edinburgh with its greatest monster.
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 | Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Can Jane Eyre ever be happy?
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 | Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 I believe it was Will Self who said that this book ought to be taught to every school child in Britain by fully qualified satirists.
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 | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Popular Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Sherlock Holmes is a detective worth getting to know.
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 | Northanger Abbey (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.97 / Used from: £0.01 A book about someone looking for adventure, and finding trouble.
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 | The Prisoner of Zenda (Penguin Popular Classics) by Anthony Hope
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Just a jolly good yarn.
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 | Ivanhoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Walter Scott
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Tony Blair once said that this was his favourite book of all time.
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 | 20,000 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 You may already have seen the Nautilus in 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen', well this is where the story began.
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 | Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jules Verne
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Let your imagination take you to a world without areoplanes, where flying meant hot air balloons, and adventure really meant adventure!
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 To some, revenge is everything.
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 | Dracula (Penguin Popular Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 The summer that I turned 14, I read this book. All the grown-ups that saw it wrinkled up their noses in disgust. I thought it was ace!
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