 | Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D.H.Lawrence by Geoff Dyer
Buy new: £6.87 / Used from: £3.14 Took two attempts to get into this. But once engaged, it was well worth it. A great narrative/extended essay that focuses as much on the author as the subject.
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 | Harold and the Purple Crayon (Purple Crayon Books) by Crockett Johnson
Buy new: £3.20 / Used from: £1.11 Tracked down my favourite book as a little boy to read to my little boy who loves it.
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 | A Year in Green Tea and Tuk-Tuks: My Unlikely Adventure Creating an Eco Farm in Sri Lanka by Rory Spowers
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £2.35 Ambivolent really. Strong on Sri Lanka, but didn't necessarily warm to the author.
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 | The Rum Diary (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.95 pacy hardcore drink fuelled trials and tensions in Puerto Rico. Great fun.
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 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Buy new: £4.60 / Used from: £0.01 Beutiful, beautiful evocative writing. But don't expect too many happy moments.
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 | Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder
Buy new: £8.59 / Used from: £0.01 Really enjoyed this quirky travelogue through some of the former Soviet republics. Long live "anti-tourism"
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 | Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football by David Winner
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.20 Who said that football writing can't be smart. An absorbing insight into the relationship between 'Totalfootball' and the Dutch psyche.
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 | JPod by Douglas Coupland
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 my least favourite of Coupland's books. Found it dragged and a bit too self-indulgent.
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 | Life After God by Douglas Coupland
Buy used from: £1.03 Whereas returning to one of his earlier works was well rewarded.
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 | Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 What a read. It thunders along and keeps throwing up surprises along the way.
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 | Three Men in a Boat: to Say Nothing of the Dog (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jerome K. Jerome
Buy new: £2.16 / Used from: £0.01 Kept me giggling all the way through. Would recommend to all.
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 | Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin) by Hermann Hesse
Buy new: £5.72 / Used from: £2.94 Attempted to read this a number of years ago. Glad I tried again, it was well worth it.
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