 | A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Starts great, I saw a lot of the second half coming, though!
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 | The Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 Entertaining if you ignore the glaringly unlikely coincidence...
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 | When We Were Bad: A Novel by Charlotte Mendelson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Good, didn't enjoy it as much as her others, though...
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 | Then We Came to the End: a Novel by Joshua Ferris
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Boring, overrated, and not even accurate re office life. Suspect the author worked in an office for 6 months maximum.
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 | The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 OK I guess...
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 | Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.02 The film was better.
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 | Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (Canongate Myths) by Ali Smith
Buy new: £7.87 / Used from: £0.01 Wonderful, life-affirming, amazing.
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 | Beneath the Bleeding by Val McDermid
Buy used from: £0.01 Bit ropey, especially re killers' "motives"...
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 | The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Peter Elkind
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.59 Fascinating account of corporate greed and delusion.
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 | Hard Times (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £4.15 / Used from: £0.01 Where does Sissy go?! She was awesome.
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 | The Long Firm (Sceptre 21's) by Jake Arnott
Buy used from: £0.01 Bit different to what I usually read, I liked it.
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 | A Great Deliverance: An Inspector Lynley Novel (Inspector Lynley Mystery) by Elizabeth George
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 No great mystery, but nicely written.
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 | Morality Tale by Sylvia Brownrigg
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Not my kind of subject matter, but engagingly written as always from this author.
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 | Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £0.01 Likeable, but familiar, account of a junior doctor's first year.
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 | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Buy used from: £0.01 Fascinating stuff, loved it.
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 | Rebecca (Virago modern classics) by Daphne Du Maurier
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.88 Finally got around to reading it - melodramatic but compelling.
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 | Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £0.01 Eye-opening, but not as well-written as some reviews suggest.
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.08 Slight story feels a little padded in places, but very interesting account of a true-life event.
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 | Sleep With Me by Joanna Briscoe
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 I wanted every character in this book to die horribly!! AARGH!
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 | Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £1.98 Ostensibly a true-crime story, but really an interesting history of Mormonism.
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 | The Irresistible Inheritance Of Wilberforce by Paul Torday
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Hugely entertaining account of a man's decline into alcoholism (or as he sees it, an appreciation of wine...) written in a very readable style, with an intriguing, unreliable, unlikeable narrator.
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 | Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £0.01 Readable, though a load of old balderdash.
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 | Crooked (Modern Plays) by Catherine Trieschmann
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £12.85 Likeable play with 3D characters that avoids the pitfall of a diatribe against religious fundamentalism.
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 | Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Intermittently extremely insightful and funny, but too lightweight to be compelling reading.
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 | Silence by Josie Henley-Einion
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Very disappointing.
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