 | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists by Gideon Defoe
Buy new: £1.20 / Used from: £0.32 More japes and horse-foolery with The Pirate Captain and his crew!
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 | The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Intelligent and gripping twist on the vampire tale, a little slow going - the pace doesn't pick up until the very end
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 | Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £2.50 I laughed out loud on countless occassions throughout this book, then blubbed like a baby as I read the final chapters coming into land at Naples airport. The cabin crew thought I was weird.
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy used from: £2.00 Worth reading just for the chapter on the evolution of sonar in bats. Dawkins writes science with a passion that you cannot help but be swept up by.
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 | The Confusion (Baroque Cycle 2) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.28 Excellent. Perhaps the finest collision of sword-fights, maths, whores, witty asides, commerce, Spanish dukes suffering from Tourette's, Jesuit Samurais, syphillis, and international intrigue!
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 | Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £1.99 Quite a simple (though gripping) plot, that is made compelling by the amazing world that Mieville has conjured up. Some of his creations will blow your mind.
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 | Revelation Space (Gollancz S.F.) by Alastair Reynolds
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Good solid space opera, but I felt that the main plot line was a bit boring and wished that the author would delve deeper into the intriguing sub-plots and back-history
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 | Thud! by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.17 Trademark Pratchett, and Vimes at his second best (see Nightwatch for that!). I love the fact that Pratchett is getting angrier. A timely novel of the stupidity of religious/cultural squabbling.
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 | The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Bk. 1 (Dark Tower) by Stephen King
Buy new: £3.01 / Used from: £1.00 I had high hopes for this, so I'm going to trust everyone else and hope that the second book is the one that sucks me in...
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 | The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
Buy new: £2.31 / Used from: £0.01 A fun and wry thriller, shows plenty of promise to develop into a series of ripping yarns
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 | The Traveller (Fourth Realm Trilogy 1) by John Twelve Hawks
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very disappointing. Uses every cliche in the same old way. Add one part highlander, two parts Matrix then sprinkle with a predictable and poorly written story
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 | Gateway (S.F. Masterworks) by Frederik Pohl
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.00 Has so much more potential. The main idea could have been used far more effectively as the backdrop to a sprawling space opera. Instead its used to hang-out some dreary and dated psycho-analysis
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 | Friends, Voters, Countrymen by Boris Johnson
Buy used from: £15.48 Reading this intelligent and gently humourous book has almost dispelled the image of a hopelessly blundering buffoon, almost! And though I'm no Tory, he does talk an awful lot of sense sometimes.
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 | The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 My favourite SF writer. Galaxy spanning and brimful of marvellous ideas and creations; Banks also provides some truly hilarious moments. Highly Recommended.
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 | Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade - A Dirty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.00 I agree with the reader's review titled "Cult classic rather than great novel". Vonneguts other SF books work much better as novels in their own right.
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 | Going Postal (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £1.68 Not the most amazing Discworld novel, but then again, even a bad Discworld novel is still excellent and highly enjoyable.
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 | The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime Adventures 1) by Jasper Fforde
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Just started reading this, and am already thoroughly enjoying it...stay tuned for my final opinion!
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 | This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Excellent re-telling of the voyages of the Beagle, the ship that took Darwin on his travels of discovery. Very good and all the better for being true!
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 | Explorers of the New Century by Magnus Mills
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £0.01 Darkly comic allegory, with an amazing revelation that will shock.
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