 | Spies by Michael Frayn
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully accomplished, richly nostalgic novel about supposed Second World War espionage seen through the eyes of a young boy.
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 | The Calendar: The 5000-year Struggle to Align the Clock and the Heavens - and What Happened to the Missing Ten Days by David Ewing Duncan
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £0.01 Intriguing review of the inventive approaches that have lead to the various calendars over the last 5 millenia.
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 | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Buy new: £5.43 / Used from: £0.01 A colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love.
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 | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Vintage East) by Dai Sijie
Buy used from: £0.37 An enchanting book about books and reading during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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 | Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Dangerous Waters by Derek Lundy
Buy used from: £0.85 Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Dangerous Waters
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 | The Perfect Storm: The True Story of Men Against the Sea by S Junger
Buy used from: £0.04 The Perfect Storm: The True Story of Men Against the Sea
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 | Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Fresh, original, smart, devious, and crammed with absorbing lore.
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 | Longitude by Dava Sobel
Buy used from: £0.01 Longitude
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 An Instance of the Fingerpost
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 | The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 The Dream of Scipio
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 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Oxford World's Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy used from: £0.93 A favorite from my childhood
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 | English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Buy new: £4.51 / Used from: £0.01 A moving story about eccentric Eglishmen who set sail in search of the Garden of Eden, and of a young Tasmanian aborigine and his tribe, struggling against the invading British. Compelling, worthy.
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 | The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 Moving, tragic, beautiful. A book begging to be re-read.
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 | The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.32 A beautiful book about relationships between two boys and their fathers
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 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.68 Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty... A must-read.
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 | A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Island of Lost Maps: A Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
Buy used from: £0.01 Intresting read for anyone interested in map collecting, and for anyone interested in a good mystery...
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 | Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin
Buy new: £7.64 / Used from: £2.53 Engaging, witty, sharp. One of my favorite novels.
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 | A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £2.46 Rich with excitement, accomplished, gripping and authoritative, A Voyage for Madmen is the story of the yachting tournament from hell.
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