![]() | Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £0.01 10 times better than Captain Corelli
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![]() | The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 See above
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![]() | The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 See above
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![]() | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.20 The best pop-science books for years
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![]() | Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Forget school classics - this book is a real revelation
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![]() | Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £7.00 You wouldn't believe there was anything new in this subject
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![]() | Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane History) by Ian Kershaw
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £6.05 Part 2 of the best Hitler book ever
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![]() | Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £3.99 Read this, then 'War and Peace'
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![]() | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Profound. His best book yet
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![]() | Red Dog by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £0.01 I'm hard, but I cried. You MUST read this short book
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![]() | Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.50 Who said fossils were boring? This is a classic
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![]() | Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 A deep and searching life of the great diarist
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![]() | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £3.58 The great question is finally answered
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![]() | The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £26.49 / Used from: £10.55 Eat your heart out Harry Potter - this is the original and best
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![]() | The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell by Robert Lowell
Buy new: £23.58 / Used from: £19.80 My favourite poet
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![]() | William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books by David Bindman
Buy new: £17.17 / Used from: £15.17 Incomparable marriage of art and poetry
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![]() | Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkhas (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by John Masters
Buy used from: £38.99 Wonderful writing. Read the other two autobiographies as well
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![]() | The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Buy used from: £0.32 My favourite Wyndham.
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![]() | Foundation (The Foundation Series) by Isaac Asimov
Buy new: £2.72 / Used from: £0.01 The first in the series, and by far the best
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![]() | Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Buy used from: £28.03 'Independence Day' was crap. This is genius
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![]() | Elizabeth, the Queen by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £6.99 The first Weir I read. They're all wonderful though
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![]() | The Cornish Trilogy: The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, and, The Lyre of Orpheus: What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Buy new: £11.19 / Used from: £1.41 Just read anything by Robertson Davies
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![]() | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Arena Books) by Dee Brown
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.99 This book will change you
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![]() | Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum
Buy used from: £4.86 I loved this honest account of South American Indians
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![]() | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Bronte
Buy new: £1.80 / Used from: £0.01 This stands for all the greatest English literature.
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