 | Nice by Jen Sacks
Buy used from: £0.01 The story of Sam & Grace and what happens when a nice girl can't say no
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 | An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Set during the Restoration, parts of the story are narrated by 4 very different characters but only 1 of them tells the whole story
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 | 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.08 / Used from: £2.20 ......frigteningly relevant
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 | Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell
Buy used from: £0.01 ......insightful and again with all classics, continues to be relevant to the present time
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: £3.74 ...please refer to comments for 1984 & Animal Farm
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 | The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Buy used from: £0.01 ......initially appears quite dull but I nearly fell off my chair in shock when the first 'crisis' of the book happened
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 | Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £0.01 .....the most genuinely scary book I have ever read
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 | The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Penguin Classics) by James Hogg
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £3.10 ....the Scottish vernacular continues to defeat me but it's well worth persisting with, it's view of madness & religion will be very familiar
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 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £1.98 Brilliant but a hard slog, it's not until the final chapter this book finally 'makes sense'
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.01 Beautifully written & occasionally confusing mostly due to the insistence of the family in recyclying names
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 | How the Dead Live by Will Self
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 Love the writing but don't forget your dictionary
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Utterly surreal, fantastically funny, one of my classics
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £5.94 / Used from: £0.01 Beautifully written, very moving account of 3 generations of women spanning the 20th century
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 | The Riddle and the Knight: in Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 My introduction to Milton, so vivid I wanted to follow the path myself. A historian who writes well is rarity & should be enjoyed
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