 | Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.96 Back to the alternative 1988, with dodos, professional croquet and George Formby as President. Good fun.
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 | Through A Glass, Darkly (Dolphin Paperbacks) by Jostein Gaarder
Buy used from: £0.01 "I believe you rewind many reruns of old thoughts which in fact ought to have been completely thought out long ago". Wise words indeed.
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 | Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £4.71 / Used from: £1.34 Excellent. Very disturbing childrens book, but in a good way. Had a deep effect on me, much to my surprise. Can't wait for the film.
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 | A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Buy new: £7.47 / Used from: £0.01 This book is well written and tells an absorbing tale. Yet it didn't grab me as much as the Kite Runner. Perhaps because I never expected to enjoy that book; I knew what to expect this time.
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 | Comedy Writer by Peter Farrelly
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 I really disliked the main character of this book, enough to nearly put me off reading. There was *something* that kept me going though, something very compelling. All credit for that.
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 | Holes by Louis Sachar
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.01 I'm not going to be liked much for this, but I was disappointed by Holes. Probably because I had heard so many great reviews and I was expecting a killer twist. My fault, not the book's.
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 | Brand New Friend by Mike Gayle
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 As close as I'll ever get to chick-lit, even though it's written by a guy. I guess I like Mr Gayle as he shows that men can be neurotic , thus proving the trait isn't exclusive to us girls.
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 | Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £1.97 I love Jon Ronson's columns in the paper and I love these collections. Enough said really, it's a matter of whether his world view corresponds with your own.
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 | Love, etc by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £5.15 / Used from: £0.01 Read this before 'Talking It Over' and it works okay as a stand-alone. Interesting style and easy to read. A lot darker than you first realise.
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 | Talking It Over (Picador paperback Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Rather than viewing this as the 'original novel', I used it to fill in the background to 'Love Etc'. Enjoyable yet an ultimately sad and tragic story.
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 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.01 An excellent book on the sheer incompetence that was the American occupation if Iraq. Beyond belief.
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 | Naive. Super by Erlend Loe
Buy new: £4.22 / Used from: £1.10 |
 | Rock on: How I Tried to Stop Caring About Music and Learn to Love Corporate Rock by Dan Kennedy
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £0.05 |
 | How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir by Toby Young
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £0.01 |
 | The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.69 |
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