 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 A day in the life of a London surgeon - dramatic, flawed, masterfully written
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 | Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £6.48 My own novel - please excuse the cheek - a big "Dickensian" detective story about immigrants legal and illegal linked by murder
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 | Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Buy new: £4.11 / Used from: £0.01 How does a Bangladeshi girl, imported to Tower Hamlets, cope in a country whose language she doesn't speak?
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 | London Fields by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.71 / Used from: £0.01 Amis at his funniest, nastiest and most skilful in an end-of-the milennium look at London
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 | Neverwhere: The Author's Preferred Text by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £3.25 A charming fantasy in which a dull man slips into the underworld of Neverhwere beneath London, discovers its Tube stations are all individuals and becomes a hero
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 | Vanity Fair (Wordsworth Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Georgian London, with its goodies, baddies and an unforgettable heroine in Becky Sharp. Hilarious, savage, wonderful
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £2.00 / Used from: £0.01 Dickens's most perfect novel. Poor Pip receives an education from a mysterious benefactor, comes to Victorian London and gets his heart broken. A mystery, a love story, pure uncluttered genius
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 | Bleak House (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 Jarndyce Vs Jarndyce and Dickens vs Dickens. Is London a place of horror, sickness and corruption or is there hope?
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 | The Quincunx: The Inheritance of John Huffam by Charles Palliser
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £4.26 Knocks every other Victorian pastiche into a cocked hat. A masterpiece of detective fiction, historicial fiction and wonderful writing
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 | The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £0.01 like Anita Brookner, but with sex and shopping - Jewish girl's escape from stultifying parents, rich and touching
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 | Enemy of the Good, The by Michael Arditti
Buy new: £8.17 / Used from: £5.64 A family riven by religion - and love. Saintly Clement's sister converts to Orthodox Judaism; the fallout is harrowing and funny
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 | Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.01 the Greek Gods alive and living in North London. Peerlessly funny
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