 | Pointing from the Grave: A True Story of Murder and DNA by Samantha Weinberg
Buy used from: £0.01 Try The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh instead.
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 | Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
Buy used from: £0.01 A scholarly, and dull, history of mountaineering.
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 | River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Buy used from: £0.01 A crime thriller set in post-WW1 England. Very good.
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 | Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: £5.95 / Used from: £1.43 There are better books about Mormons and violent faith. Try A Gathering of Saints by Robert Lindsay.
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 | The Deep Blue Goodbye (Crime Masterworks) by John D. MacDonald
Buy used from: £0.01 Punchy American crime.
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 | Maximum Diner: Making it Big in Uckfield by Christopher Nye
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Don't open a restaurant without reading this first!
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 | Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 Couldn't get into this.
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 | Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Buy used from: £0.01 ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.
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 | The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Buy used from: £1.95 Great storytelling, a wartime classic.
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 | Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Effortlessly readable and entertaining.
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 | The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro by Paul Theroux
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Disappointing and uninvolving.
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 | Broken Music - A Memoir by Sting
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £0.01 Much better than you might think.
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 | Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
Buy used from: £0.01 Dexter never lets you down, although he can lose you on the way.
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 | Rude Kids: The Unfeasible Story of "Viz" by Chris Donald
Buy used from: £0.21 Not as funny as it used to be.
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 | Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £4.30 For everyone who ever fancied being a pilot.
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 | Purple Cane Road (A Dave Robicheaux Mystery) by James Lee Burke
Buy used from: £0.01 The Deep South of James Lee Burke - read this series and you'll be too scared to ever visit!
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 | Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic by Redmond O'Hanlon
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Thoughtful and amusing look at life on a North Sea trawler.
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 | Where Did it All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s by Andrew Collins
Buy new: £5.13 / Used from: £0.01 Featherlight antidote to those books about childhood misery a la Dave Pelzer.
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 | Birdman by Mo Hayder
Buy used from: £0.01 Female crime writers - why are they all so brutal and humourless?
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