![]() | Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of the best books i've ever read. Certainly makes the subject far clearer than Cicero, Suetonius et al. Could have done with it when i did my Ancient History exams a few years ago.
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![]() | Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.80 Can't recommend this highly enough. Delve into the mind of the nuttiest writer around, (and one of the coolest living Americans). Hilariously funny in parts, vehemently poisonous in others.
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![]() | The Odyssey (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
Buy used from: £0.98 One of the greatest and most famous stories ever conceived. Always worth a re-read.
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![]() | In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.88 I adored this book. Was new to Capote's writing, will be reading lots more now.
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![]() | She (Oxford World's Classics) by H. Rider Haggard
Buy used from: £3.45 Possibly the oddest book i've read this year. Very good, but did Haggard have issues with women or something!!!
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![]() | Manon Lescaut (Oxford World's Classics) by Abbé Prévost
Buy used from: £3.50 More French controversy. Passionate and tragic in a way these French authors excelled at.
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![]() | The Elgin Marbles (Introductory Guides) by B.F. Cook
Buy used from: £0.04 Gives a clearer view of what the Parthenon would have actually looked like, from the one-time 'Keeper of the Elgin Marbles' at the British Museum.
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![]() | The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy: And Other Stories by Tim Burton
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 An utterly gorgeous little book of weird stories and wired drawings.
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![]() | Viggo Mortensen: Sign Language by Kevin Power
Buy used from: £33.59 Every home should have this. Some stunning photography. Get this and Recent Forgeries. A true poetic soul.
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![]() | The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £48.99 Nope, still can't get enough of this book! The annual read goes on.......
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![]() | The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Hollywood Life by Robert Evans
Buy used from: £2.68 Surprisingly well-written insight into Hollywood by a central character. Veers into arrogance, but the humour and stories make you forgive him for that.
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![]() | Hellblazer: Highwater (Hellblazer) by Brian Azzarello
Buy used from: £14.97 I love the Hellblazer series, and John Constantine is one of literature's finest creations. This is one of the best i've read in the series.
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![]() | The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £4.00 A supreme writer. This is one of his best, written in his own inimitable jazz-poetic style.
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![]() | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Wanted to see what all the fuss was about, was pleasantly surprised, very intense and tragic, but well-written.
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![]() | The War Zone by Alexander Stuart
Buy used from: £1.49 Possibly the heaviest book i've ever read. Very hard-going, an amazing story.
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![]() | Nana (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £2.20 Tragic, sexy French story of human existence in troubled times. Controversial in it's day, still quite racy now. Nana the book and character are fantastic.
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![]() | Neil Gaiman's 1602 by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.68 Another Neil Gaiman masterpiece. See familiar charcters in very unfamiliar surroundings. Great story.
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![]() | Hades' Daughter (The Troy game) by Sara Douglass
Buy used from: £3.00 I loved her Axis, Wayfarer and Crucible trilogies. This is the first of her Troy Game series, and i have to say, it's my least favourite of her books. Axis tril. remains her best work.
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![]() | Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla v. 5 (Dark Tower) by Stephen King
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £2.49 King's best work for years, and his life-long work at that. The Dark Tower up next for me.
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![]() | L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola
Buy used from: £7.14 Another from Emile Zola. A sad study of 'drinking culture' in the Parisian underclass. Main character is Nana's mum Gervaise, who's life is heart-breaking.
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![]() | Possessed: The Rise and Fall of "Prince" by Alex Hahn
Buy used from: £16.44 mmm Prince! Great study of the great man, not afraid to point out his faults either. Pics come in handy too.
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![]() | The Big Sleep and Other Novels (Penguin Modern Classics) by Raymond Chandler
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £4.83 Why have i never got round to reading this before. I missed out, it's excellent. Another great literary character.
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![]() | Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar by Aubrey Burl
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £4.04 'But ours is one brief day of life/Before the long last, everlasting night.'
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![]() | Alexander: Child of a Dream v. 1 (Alexander Trilogy) by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The first of another historical trilogy. All three are very good, and fairly accurate historically, though somewhat romanticised.
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![]() | The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Hmm, not that impressed. Some interesting 'facts', but spoilt by trashy dialogue and a rubbish ending that was obvious from about halfway through the book.
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