 | Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: £1.01 / Used from: £0.80 England: You don't get much more English than this - bonnets, dashing young men, mansions. Fabulous.
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 | The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.80 France: Massive book that will keep you entertained for weeks. Dungeons, smugglers, revenge, it's all in there. Great fun.
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 | The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £4.90 / Used from: £0.01 Spain: Great story to curl up round the fire with. Ivy-covered mansions, creaking floorboards, missing authors and plenty of suspense. I loved it.
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 | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £2.96 Germany: Very moving (fictional) story written by a German soldier in WW1. Beautifully written and not easily forgotten.
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 | Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.28 Slovenia: A seemingly happy young girl decides she wants to die. A story of life, love and death. Great ending.
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 | People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £9.99 Bosnia: An ancient manuscript is discovered in Bosnia and we track it's story back through the ages and countries (Spain, Austria, Australia all make an appearance). Really good read.
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 | Birds Without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £4.94 / Used from: £0.01 Turkey: Set over 100 years ago, follows the story of a once peaceful town where muslims and christians have lived together until now.
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 | In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.43 Libya: A very moving book about a young boy in 70's Libya who saw something he shouldn't. Recommended.
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 | The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.57 Egypt: True story (obviously) written in such an engrossing way. Hard to put down.
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 | The Source by James A. Michener
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.23 Israel: An archaeological dig in Israel uncovers some long buried secrets. Takes us back through the ages and peoples. Great book.
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 | Forbidden Love by Norma Khouri
Buy used from: £0.75 Jordan: True story about the honour killing of a young muslim girl who falls in love with a catholic boy. Very sad, but an important subject.
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 | The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther
Buy new: £0.75 / Used from: £0.01 Iran: A British Iranian goes back to her roots. Lovely book.
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 | Diplomatic Baggage: The Adventures of a Trailing Spouse by Brigid Keenan
Buy new: £2.88 / Used from: £0.01 Khazakstan: Very funny book written by the wife of a British Diplomat who is posted all over the world at a moments notice. This time she is in Khazakstan. Made me laugh.
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 | Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £2.99 Azerbaijan: Beautifully written love story. Book about human relationships and love.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy new: £4.45 / Used from: £0.01 India: Very unusual book about a family in India coming from a childs view. Great writing.
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| All the Right Places (Vintage Departures) by Brad Newsham
Buy used from: £1.75 Mongolia: Travel memoirs that take us through China, Japan and Russia as well as Mongolia. Great book - one of the best travel books I have read.
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 | The Painted Veil by W.Somerset Maugham
Buy new: £2.60 / Used from: £2.00 China: Beautiful book about an unfaithful wife's penance served by her British husband deep in China during a cholera epidenic. Recommended.
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 | Strangers by Taichi Yamada
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 Japan: An unusual ghost story. Very bizzare but really works.
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 | A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.50 Australia: Starts in Malaya in WW2 and is the story of the marches (that really happened) and then moves to Australia in search of a kind soldier who helped her. Lovely book.
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 | One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Buy used from: £0.83 Columbia: Stories of several family members of the same family over many years.
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 | A Tourist in the Yucatan by James McNay Brumfield
Buy new: £4.00 / Used from: £2.72 Mexico: Great adventure story. Absolutely loved this book.
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 | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.50 America: Classic story of a family's journey from the dustbowl, Oklahoma to the golden state of California. Classic for a very good reason.
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 | Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Canada: Through a series of flashbacks a middle aged woman remembers her childhood as a bullied outcast.
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 | Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Buy new: £4.09 / Used from: £0.55 Nigeria: Beautifully written story of 1970's Biafra. Stays with you.
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 | Shopaholic Abroad by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.79 England: Back home to the Shopaholic. Well, a girl's gotta have some fun. Loved the whole series.
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