 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy new: £16.67 / Used from: £5.14 Undoubtedly one of the great masterpieces of science
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 | Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.38 My favourite fiction book ever!
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 | Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Chris Stewart's entire series is brilliant!
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 | La Naissance Du Jour (Garnier-Flammarion) by Colette
Buy new: £17.86 / Used from: £24.78 Read in French this book is beautiful- Colette was a literary genius
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 | The Merchant of Venice (Wordsworth Classics - Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 One of my favourite Shakespeare plays- I love them all!
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 | The Ripening Sun: One Woman and the Creation of a Vineyard by Patricia Atkinson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A touching tale of la vraie vie rustique francaise
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 | Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £3.68 / Used from: £0.01 A hilarious account of European travelling
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 | The Minpins (Picture Puffins) by Roald Dahl
Buy new: £1.86 / Used from: £0.54 One of my childhood favourites!
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 | Le Notaire Du Havre by Duhamel
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £0.34 Cleverly written French novel
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 | Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
Buy new: £4.10 / Used from: £0.01 Fantastic story- far better than the Da Vinci Code!
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 | Himalaya by Michael Palin
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £0.01 Interesting stories of the mountains and peoples of the Himalaya
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 | Digital Fortress by Dan Brown
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Complex interwoven plot but perhaps lacking in richness
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 | Francesco's Italy by Francesco da Mosto
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £13.37 Exquisitely written personal journey through a remarkable country
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 | Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics) by Chretien de Troyes
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £4.17 An ancient French masterpiece, easily read in modern English
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 | Heresy by Anselm Audley
Buy used from: £1.43 Easy-reading fantasy trilogy by young author- not the best-written collection but a good attempt
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 | King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Marcia Williams
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.49 Whichever version you choose, this is a must-read of all time, one of Britian's greatest legends
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 | I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson
Buy new: £4.25 / Used from: £0.01 Clever, light-hearted yet cynical take on modern technology by a hilarious author
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 | The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages by Sean Martin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.00 An interesting followup I chose to read having been absorbed by Kate Mosse's 'Labyrinth'
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 | The Great Elephant Chase by Gillian Cross
Buy new: £1.03 / Used from: £0.01 One of my Primary School favourites!
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 | Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.86 I must have read this book about five times in a couple of years- no matter how many times you read it, how old you are, you always get something new out of it
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 | Saturday by Ian McEwan
Buy new: £4.95 / Used from: £0.01 One of the English language's most eloquent writers currently on the scene
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 | The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £28.69 / Used from: £4.52 Undoubtedly the greatest epic of the 20th century
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 | The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 A beautifully-written prelude to the more well-known Lord of the Rings
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