 | Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
Buy used from: £3.27 trains of thought that fair make you want to jitterbug in gleeful empathy
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 | The Naked Civil Servant (Stranger Than...) by Quentin Crisp
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 hilarious, pathetic and strangely affecting, a picture of the darker side of 1930s London through the eyes of a wordperfect &candid "homosexual"...
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 | Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 gorgeous enthralling prose, quite wrongly enjoyable... the subject matter is definitely secondary to nabokov's inimitable style
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 | Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.20 earthshattering
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £1.98 / Used from: £0.01 one of the few english "classics" to have really resonated with me. amazing style
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 | The Fountainhead (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ayn Rand
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.74 there is no way to describe this. all-encompassing genius.
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 | Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Buy used from: £0.01 alright, another classic I suppose, but it doesnt count, it's Conrad... just... amazing.
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 | Truly Wilde: The Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Unusual Niece by Joan Schenkar
Buy used from: £3.85 i don't remember if this was well-written or not, that was sort of irrelevant - i fell madly in love with the whole period & everyone described - lifechanging
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 | Making History by Stephen Fry
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.24 any and all stephen fry is to be worshipped. this is my favourite, along with "the Liar".
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