 | Map of Bones (Sigma Force 2) by James Rollins
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Better than Dan Brown. Mind you that isn't difficult
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 | Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.44 A fairy tale as it should be - brooding and dark-not for kids.
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 | The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Bit boggy but okay. Still better than Dan Brown.
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 | Captain Alatriste (Adventures of Capt Alatriste 1) by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 Uncomplicated swashbuckler-type.
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 | The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel by Mike Carey
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.12 THE best book of the year. Out-Gaiman's Gaiman. Unpretentious, dark and funny.
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 | Atlantis Found (A Dirk Pitt Novel) by Clive Cussler
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 You get what you pay for when the hero is called Dirk Pitt, but good fun.
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 | The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime Adventures 1) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant. And this was rejected by publishers initially...
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 | Panic by Jeff Abbott
Buy used from: £0.01 Could have been brilliant but only above average. Still better than Dan Brown.
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 | Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
Buy used from: £0.01 Pathetic. The worst book ever. An insult to readers and writers everywhere. Makes Dan Brown seem like literature.
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 | In Your Dreams by Tom Holt
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent stuff
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 | In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.01 A Japanese take on an American serial-killer - it's good!
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 | I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 What gives machinery a 'soul'? A tall, grumpy man with lamentable dress-sense investigates
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 | Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £1.85 Why do drug dealers live with their mums? Why is dan Brown successful? Oh, sorry that's not in it.
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 | When the Eagle Hunts by Simon Scarrow
Buy used from: £0.01 Like Sharpe but with togas. What more do you want?
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 | Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £1.79 Beautifully written vampire tale.
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £2.15 Betrayal, deceit, French people, friendship, big trousers, revenge.
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 | Mr. Bump (Mr. Men Library) by Roger Hargreaves
Buy used from: £0.01 Deep, gripping,moving and meaningful. You can't see the twist at the end coming...
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 | Nobody True by James Herbert
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 For God's sake Herbert just write a proper horror story. One with rats or a haunted house.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £1.33 This one IS for kids. Borderline psychopathic kids yes, but kids nevertheless.
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 | Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Hard, frustrating work but worth it. Perhaps that's the point. Are you
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 | Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Overrated, boring and sleep-inducing. Still better than Dan Brown
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 | The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Average but better than Dan 'Mr. Talent' Brown. Can you notice a pattern here?
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 | The Third Secret by Steve Berry
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Very well written. Better than Dan Brown.
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 | The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 More 'Stand by me' than 'The Da Vinci Code'. I hate Dan Brown
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 | American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.57 Reflective and wise. I still hate Dan Brown.
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