 | The Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Buy used from: £2.37 The imagery and atmosphere that surrounded me in these books have stayed with me for 25 years
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 | Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
Buy used from: £0.01 Brilliant.
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 | Experience by Martin Amis
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 He lets you into his head, emotions, literary world. If you like Amis, you have to read what he likes too-crammed with literary references.
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 | Winnie the Pooh: Complete Collection of Stories and Poems by A.A. Milne
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £8.97 What I'm most looking forward to about grandchildren. Get the old Lionel Jeffries audio tape if you can.
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 | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 Twisted. The first Banks book I read, I enjoyed this one the most.
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 | Glorious Knitting: Over 30 Exclusive Patterns by Kaffe Fassett
Buy used from: £15.00 Hours of endless amusement. Keeps ME sane, anyway.
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 | Eastern Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
Buy new: £8.39 / Used from: £4.50 Excellent value, you dont have to be Veggie. All the basic techniques, ingredients,dozens of recepies.
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 | The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Buy used from: £0.11 Buy this for every 15 year old. I wish I'd read it BEFORE I'd left school
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 | The Holocene: An Environmental History by Neil Roberts
Buy new: £25.64 / Used from: £13.67 A wake up call
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 | The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer
Buy used from: £0.33 At last, someone who sees it and says it as it is.
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![Monty Python's The Meaning of Life [1983]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FM4W8543L._SL75_.jpg) | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life [1983]
Buy new: £19.59 / Used from: £1.48 This is it. Needs no updating, still spot on.
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 | Selected Poems 1957-1994 by Ted Hughes
Buy used from: £9.45 Egghead. Page 10 I think. Another wake up call.
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![Leaving Las Vegas [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XA78WE6TL._SL75_.jpg) | Leaving Las Vegas [1996]
Buy used from: £6.99 Tragic, but compelling. Not normally a Cage fan, this is his best role. This is the only time I have ever bought a soundtrack, score is masterly.
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 | Journey by Ben Andrews
makes you shiver he's so good! Also get 'Stones In My Passway'. Never miss an opportunity to see him live. See internet.
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 | Gallows Pole by Ben Andrews
Buy new: £12.69 Amazing title track. Brilliant artist, a surprise in every track. Not miserable blues, happy blues!
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 | Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Buy new: £11.27 / Used from: £4.20 This is one of the sexiest pieces of music ever interpreted. Chill out zone.
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 | Piecing: Beyond the Basics by Ruth B. McDowell
Buy used from: £39.99 Inspiring
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