 | Audrey Hepburn by Barry Paris
Buy used from: £3.36 Definitely a good read for any Audrey Hepburn fan, such as myself.
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 | George Bush: Dark Prince of Love (Virago V) by Lydia Millet
Buy used from: £0.01 A very funny book. At first I thought it quite annoying, but once it'd clicked in my head that it was a satire, it took on a whole new life for me and it was brilliantly written
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 | The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £0.01 The story is fun, fascinating, compelling and incredibly well written.
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 | Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World by Ewan McGregor
Buy used from: £7.78 I really enjoyed this. Both Ewan and Charley wrote in engaging styles and were honest about how they coped with the journey they undertook.
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 | Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £1.24 Kate Fox has definitely done her research into the subject of why the English are like they are, and the result is this entertaining, funny and at time cringe-making volume.
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 | Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £0.01 You keep having to remind yourself whilst reading this that it is a true story. Some of the horrors that Adeline Yen Mah has to deal with in her life are truly scary.
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 | All Points North by Simon Armitage
Buy used from: £0.01 if you live or know West Yorkshire (the bits around Huddersfield especially), then you'll recognise many of the people, places, events and stories that Simon Armitage has collected in his life.
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 | Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Buy new: £5.15 / Used from: £2.47 Very Orwellian, neighbours reporting other neighbours to the authorities, shades of Newspeak and the desire to stamp out literature.
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 | Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down by Nicey
Buy used from: £0.01 A fantastic book, a real labour of love, from the people who brought us www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com. They go into quite some detail about tea, biscuits, cake and sitting down - all very important!
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 | Number Ten by Sue Townsend
Buy used from: £0.01 As the book comes to its conclusion, it gets serious, interesting and has a lot to say about Britain in the early 21st century.
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 | Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast (Radio 4 Book of the Week) by Charlie Connelly
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £0.01 I really enjoyed this. The author made many of the things that he found on his journey seem very real through his writing.
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 | Deception Point by Dan Brown
Buy used from: £0.01 Better than The Da Vinci Code (which was good anyway). An absolute stunner of a page-turner - Jeffrey Archer meets Capricorn One
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 | The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years by Christina Lamb
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £3.00 A fascinating book, more or less a history of Afghanistan from ancient times to today, concentrating on the rise, reign and fall of the Taliban.
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 | The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £4.32 / Used from: £0.01 A really good thriller, from the Dr Kay Scarpetta forensic science series.
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 | The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.07 The book has everything you could ever want: passion, cunning, humour, action and Inigo Montoya uttering that famous line!
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 | Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour by Andrew Rawnsley
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best books I've read all year. What happened was in parts shocking, as was the fact that the stories came out.
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 | Cuban Heels by Emily Barr
Buy used from: £0.01 The only book ever to make me gasp whilst reading it. The plot twist at the end of chapter 17 was staggering.
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 | The Secret Life of Sooty by Geoff Tibballs
Buy used from: £14.76 By reading this I've learnt so much more about Harry, Matthew and the star himself.
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 | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Wonderful stories from a master storyteller.
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 | The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
Buy used from: £0.01 It may be the knowledge that there will never be anything else from him, but this may be the best book DNA ever wrote.
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 | Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Buy used from: £0.01 Incredibly funny, intelligent and wicked. A wonderful read!
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 | Blood, Sweat and Tea: Real Life Adventures in an Inner-city Ambulance by Tom Reynolds
Buy new: £4.75 / Used from: £0.01 From his paramedic blog - it should be required reading for doctors, nurses, social workers, bad drivers and everybody else!
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 | The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Buy new: £5.37 / Used from: £0.01 The back cover blurb made me think the story was going to take one direction, it started to take another and then the final direction was sad and poignant.
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 | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Manslaughter, illegal immigration, talking to strangers and an act of terrorism, all in on book. But as it's Roald Dahl, he gets away with it. Fantastic!
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 | Flying Dutch by Tom Holt
Buy used from: £0.01 The blurb on the cover quotes SFX as saying "the best similes since Douglas Adams", and, yes, I have to agree.
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