 | The Man of Feeling by Javier Marias
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £0.01 Subtlety of thought and language. Absolutely top.
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 | Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
Buy used from: £2.85 This book is lively, sharp and very funny.
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 | Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Borges
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £3.50 Stories with a twist of magnificent literary imagination.
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 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Penguin Modern Classics) by Giorgio Bassani
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.64 A haunting poetic and very human novel.
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 | The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classics) by Mikhail Bulgakov
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.36 Extraordinary satire!
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 | Zeno's Conscience (Penguin Modern Classics) by Italo Svevo
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £4.41 Ironic, humorous and with many insights into human nature.
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 | The Ogre by Tournier
Buy new: £16.50 / Used from: £12.99 Continually holding your attention as it dazzles and shocks.
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 | The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Panther) by Jose Saramago
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £0.81 Captivating story with much invention and so well written.
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 | Samarkand by Amin Maalouf
Buy new: £5.91 / Used from: £1.84 A rich tapestry of love, history, east and west.
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 | The Late Mattia Pascal (New York Review Books Classics) by Luigi Pirandello
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £3.71 A master storyteller.
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 | The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 This writer confronts all the important issues of our time.
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 | The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Buy used from: £8.07 A spellbinding book of profound revelation.
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 | The Castle (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £3.10 I've read this book three times in my life and each time it's great in a different way.
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 | The Diary of A.O. Barnabooth (Recovered Classics) by Valery Larbaud
Buy used from: £8.50 Classic modernist fiction.
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 | Invisible Cities (Vintage Classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.99 Cities of the imagination in splendid lush poetic prose.
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 | The Abyss by Marguerite Yourcenar
Buy used from: £6.00 Northern Renaissance Europe comes alive. Why didnt she win the Nobel prize?
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 | Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier
Buy used from: £15.44 Lyrical haunting first-class world literature.
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 | Begger / the Thief and the Dogs / Autumn by Naguib Mahfouz
Buy new: £8.74 / Used from: £6.94 Three short novels that can serve as a taste for a monumental writer.
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 | The Force of the Past by Sandro Veronesi
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.18 Italys most promising novelist. His next book "Stilles Chaos is even better but has not yet been translated into English.
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 | The Periodic Table (Penguin Modern Classics) by Primo Levi
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.44 Moving, painful, beautiful.
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 | On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
Buy used from: £29.99 The great predecessor of Latin American magic-realist fiction. What a read!
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 | The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Vintage Classics) by Yukio Mishima
Buy new: £5.07 / Used from: £2.59 A violent and sad man who had a real genius for writing.
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| Passing time (Jupiter books;no.10) by Michel Butor
Buy used from: £49.98 No better way to pass time than to read this charming book.
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 | Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy used from: £24.83 Electrifying prose.
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| René Leys by Victor Segalen
Buy used from: £7.24 Mesmerising fiction from a forgotten great writer.
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