 | The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.01 An absolutely beautiful piece of literature
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 | Amongst Women by John McGahern
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.93 One of the finest examples of Irish literature
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 | The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Some great descriptions of New York
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 | Homage to Barcelona by Colm Toibin
Buy used from: £0.98 Gives good insight into the city of Barcelona and its erstwhile residents
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 | The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy used from: £0.01 Again, beautifully moving
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 | The First Circle (European Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: £12.20 Gives memorable (and humourous at times) account of life in Soviet camp
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 | Notes from the Underground (Hesperus Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.72 A classic, such depth of thought it's scary at times
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Coetzee - one of his best, every word is chosen with such care
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 | Resurrection (Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: £7.49 / Used from: £0.01 A fine Tolstoy written in his final years and one of his less well known works
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 | A Burnt-out Case (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.62 Greene - a man seeking refuge and annonymity
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 | Moscow (Topographics) by Karl Schlogel
Buy new: £14.41 / Used from: £6.95 One of the most interesting guides to Moscow I've ever read
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 So funny and yet so true
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 | Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £3.75 If you want a cultural history of Russia, this is the one
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 | The Heart of a Dog (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy used from: £3.30 Hilarious and resonant
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 | Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Buy new: £5.88 / Used from: £0.01 Trevor at his darkest
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 | Black Earth: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall by Andrew Meier
Buy used from: £2.66 He talks to a vast array of people, well known and not, across Russia and gathers a wide array of views and experiences
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 | The Dark by John McGahern
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Mc Gahern - his perceptiveness and insight is astounding
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 | Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.02 Power, food, hunger
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 | A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Buy used from: £2.94 The effect of poverty on heightening the appeal of food
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 | In Hiding: Life of Manuel Cortes by Ronald Fraser
Buy used from: £14.70 Astounding true story, he hid for so long from the Nationalists
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 | The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea
Buy used from: £27.24 Long and at times a bit dull, but an excellent autobiography which charts the history of Spain from turn of the 20th century
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 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Vintage classics) by James Joyce
Buy used from: £0.01 Catholic guilt in Ireland
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 | Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.38 Such imagination and strange images
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 | Half a Life by V. S. Naipaul
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Explores the theme of belonging
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