 | Traveller by Richard Adams
Buy used from: £0.01 Lee's horse talks about the Civil War: only Adams could get away with this
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 | Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 Everything you need to know about Flaubert, parrots, language, reading...
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| Doctor Mirabilis by James Blish
Buy used from: £6.95 Roger Bacon invents the scientific method: it must have been like this
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| Elephant for Aristotle by L.Sprague De Camp
The lost story of Alexander the Great and Aristotle brilliantly re-invented
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 | The Viceroy of Ouidah (Vintage classics) by Bruce Chatwin
Buy new: £2.39 / Used from: £1.39 Beautifully written story of the horrible trade in slaves and how it harmed this trader
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| Neighbouring Lives by Thomas M. Disch
Buy used from: £5.00 The Carlyles and their world made human, all too human
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £4.39 / Used from: £0.18 Don't stop at the first book: seriously funny 19th century history
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| The Wreckage of Agathon by John Gardner
Buy used from: £15.95 Ancient Greece as seen by a great writer who was also a great historian
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 | Red Shift (Collins Voyager) by Alan Garner
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £1.28 Experimental fiction for children. Adults can read it too if they're young enough
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 | Entered from the Sun: The Murder of Marlowe by George P. Garrett
Buy new: £8.16 / Used from: £13.91 Powerfully written story about Christopher Marlowe doesn't pull any punches
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 | The Spire by William Golding
Buy new: £2.87 / Used from: £0.01 Birth of the individual from the medieval age of faith
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 | Life as Carola by Joan Grant
Buy new: £23.97 / Used from: £10.13 Renaissance Italy so vividly realised it makes you believe in reincarnation
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 | I, Claudius (Penguin Classics) by Robert Graves
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.20 Ancient Rome can indeed tell us a lot about our own times
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| Dreamer of the Vine by Liz Greene
Buy used from: £2.75 The story of Nostradamus: an absorbing prophecy of the past
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 | The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.57 This book explodes our many myths to explore the human Jesus: test yourself
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 | The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) by Umberto Eco
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.25 The battle of rationalism and faith in the guise of a 14th century mystery story
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 | Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.46 Ancient Egypt in all its mystery and magic
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 | The Source by James A. Michener
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £5.50 A town in Israel reveals the story of Judaism through the centuries
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 | An Insular Possession by Timothy Mo
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £2.50 The Opium Wars in all their gory
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 | Behold The Man (S.F. Masterworks) by Michael Moorcock
Buy new: £2.43 / Used from: £1.77 Does separating the life of Jesus from the myth tell us more about ourselves than we want to know?
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 | The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.50 As alive as ancient times can get: recommended for those who find history boring
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| Flowers of Adonis by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy used from: £20.00 About Alcibiades: powerful, almost overwhelming writing
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 | Creation by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £4.75 Fifth century BC, when you could meet Zoroastra, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates and Pythagoras
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 | The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £1.04 Everything about King Arthur and one of the most beautifully written of books
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