 | Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams by M.J. Simpson
Buy used from: £0.01 As Simon Jones says on the cover, M J Simpson knows/knew more about Douglas Adams than Douglas Adams did.
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 | Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English by R L Trask
Buy new: £5.41 / Used from: £1.28 A really good and usable style guide to the English language.
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 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Fiction) by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 The classic tale of Good versus Evil. With added chocolate and small singing people!
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 | Esio Trot (Puffin Fiction) by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Fifty-seven wonderful pages, a really clever and well-told story.
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 | Matilda by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 It was the first time I'd read this, and I absolutely adored it, I so wish I'd read it when I was younger. Roald Dahl was a genius, through his writing you care about Matilda and what happens to her.
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 | Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.49 Daniel's story as an autistic savant is made compelling by his almost unique level of self-awareness. His story is compelling and inspiring.
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 | The Giraffe And The Pelly And Me by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 I really enjoyed this little book, a fun and magical story.
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 | Surfing on the Internet: A Net-Head's Adventures On-Line by J.C. Herz
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Written in what seems like another age, but in reality only 13 years ago, the Internet before it become the thing we know today: IRC, Usenet, MOOs and MUSHs
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 | Uxbridge English Dictionary (I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue) by Jon Naismith
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Did you know that a hoarding is a prostitute's microwave, or a homophone is someone who doesn't like 'The Simpsons'? You do now!
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 | Silly Cow (Acting Edition) by Ben Elton
Buy new: £8.25 / Used from: £3.46 An excellent play, a satire on the world of meeja and celebrity. It would have been good to see this on the stage, or perhaps a TV adaptation.
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 | Far from the Sodding Crowd: More Uncommonly British Days Out by Jason Hazeley
Buy used from: £6.87 Just as good as the first book, crammed full of interesting places to go to in the UK
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 | The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco by John Birmingham
Buy used from: £0.01 Fast-paced, drug-fuelled, funny, tender and caring.
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 | First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
Buy used from: £4.70 The best book I've read for a couple of years. If nothing else, Jasper Fforde's love of proper nouns is amazing - read it and you'll see what I mean!
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 | Vince and Joy by Lisa Jewell
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 An absolutely cracking page-turner of a book. Chick-lit at its best.
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 | A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £0.01 I can only compare it to Haddon's first book ('The Curious Incident...'): not as good as that, but still an excellent book with an interesting tale
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 | Take One Young Man by Vivien Kelly
Buy used from: £0.01 An interesting take on the chick-lit/lad-lit genre. Excellent, with enough changes to make it more than just a generic example of the genres.
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 | Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 A delectably evil, disturbing and fantastic (in both senses of the word) book.
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 | Radio: A True Love Story by Libby Purves
Buy used from: £0.01 I used to be a radio anorak (I once helped run a radio station with Libby Purves' brother) and so found her description of her time in BBC local radio and the 'Today' programme really interesting
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 | Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
Buy used from: £0.01 I know I'm a soppy sod, but I cried at least twice reading this. Absolutely brilliant.
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 | Out of My Depth by Emily Barr
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Absolutely page-turningly, staying-up-till-I-get-it-finishedly brilliant. One of the best books I've read in a very long time.
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 | The 9/11 Commission Report: The Full Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
Buy new: £6.16 / Used from: £0.13 Even though it's written by politicans and lawyers, it's a really accessible read.
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 | Bronwen Astor: Her Life and Times by Peter Stanford
Buy used from: £0.01 It was a fascinating story of a woman with many different aspects to her life: Parisian fashion model, BBC television presenter and wife of an aristocrat caught up in the Profumo scandal.
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 | The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl by Shauna Reid
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.60 How she writes her story is wonderful, with humour and pathos. Each page spoke to me, mirroring how I've felt over the last 3 years as I've lost 4 stone and over the previous decade hating my body.
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