 | Embers by Sandor Marai
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Emotional fire dies. So does an age.
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 | Le Testament Francais by Andrei Makine
Buy used from: £0.49 Essential. Enough Said!
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 | A Life's Music by Andreï Makine
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.69 Powerful and gentle, lulling one into a depth rarely reached.
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 | Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.47 I chose this one, but all the masters works should be read. Possibly the greatest modern writer??
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 | The Good Soldier Svejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.68 Svejk, one of the great literary characters - Borrowed (stolen!) often by other writers and movie directors!
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 | Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £0.01 Go the ManBooker!! Got it at the end, had to re-read immediately.
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 | Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.38 Sally Bowles, a lost character from a lost city.
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 | The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 So good, so good.
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 | Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.33 Read in grief. It won't help but you'll understand better.
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 | Judge On Trial by Ivan Klima
Buy used from: £4.52 Justice and the good twisted, dignity under siege.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £7.18 Heavy and light - not to be read by married men!!
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 | Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.07 When you get the joke you'll want to honour the author - then kill him.
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 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Buy new: £4.68 / Used from: £0.01 A writing paradox: To capture autism while not actually being autistic.
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 | I Served the King of England (Picador Books) by Bohumil Hrabal
Buy used from: £0.50 Follow the adventures (or mis-) of Ditie. Very good translation.
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 | Pere Goriot (Oxford World's Classics) by Honoré de Balzac
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.50 Shakespearian in proportion.
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 | Bringing up Girls in Bohemia by Michal Viewegh
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £3.49 The Czech Kingsley Amis.
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 | The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.99 Hilarious.
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 | Cloudstreet (Picador Books) by Tim Winton
Buy new: £5.19 / Used from: £3.95 There are two Australian books that must be read. This is the 1st.
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 | Illywhacker by Peter Carey
Buy used from: £0.01 .............and this is the second
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderfully imagined book - I can still feel, hear and taste it.
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