 | The Bookshop (Flamingo) by Penelope Fitzgerald
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.01 This slim novel is absolutely flawless. No one can match Fitzgerald's prose style.
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 | Snobs: A Novel by Julian Fellowes
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 Hugely satisfying read that combines romance with the uniquely British obsession with class.
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 | The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne
Buy new: £4.62 / Used from: £0.01 Cambridge graduate Hester Browne serves up posh chick lit with a retro twist. Delicious.
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 | The Hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.90 / Used from: £0.08 Fry is always fun to read, but this book is especially good.
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 | Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Since Keyes is Irish, technically this book belongs on another list but it is set in London.
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 | An Unsuitable Job for A Woman by P.D. James
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £1.00 One of P.D. James earliest books. This one features a quintessential English heroine who's set on finding a murder in Cambridge.
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 | Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsley Mystery (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) by Dorothy L Sayers
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Detective fiction from the golden age, featuring another English heroine in a university town.
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 | Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Delightful, but you don't need me to tell you that.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 An obvious choice, perhaps, but enjoyable nonetheless.
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Restoration mystery told in four parts.
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 | Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
Buy used from: £0.01 Despite the moral tone, I found this a light satisfying read. It does raise interesting questions about power and morality.
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 | Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Clare Boylan develops Charlotte Bronte's fragment into a satisfying yarn. Perfect reading for any time of year.
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 | A Room with a View (Penguin Classics) by E.M. Forster
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £2.27 Hugely readable and very pleasurable.
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 | Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 Another readable classic. Enjoyable to read and thoughtful as well.
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 | Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot
Buy used from: £0.01 I'm too ashamed to admit how long it took me to read this book, but it was well worth the effort.
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