 | Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £8.46 My all time favourite book... and it started me sailing
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 | Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 Spike Milligan at his very best.
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 | War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 An epic which led me to learn more about Tolstoy and Russian History
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 | The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
Buy new: £16.45 / Used from: £1.13 An eccentric book about a true eccentric
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 | Smileys People by John Lecarre
Buy used from: £13.85 So spies are trully like you and me
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| From Russia with Love (James Bond 007) by Ian Fleming
Buy used from: £0.01 But perhaps not. Ian Fleming and James Bond at their best
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 | Centennial by James Michener
Buy used from: £0.36 An interesting way to do history - the story of an American town from the beginning of time to the present day.
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| The Tenants of Time by Flanagen Thomas
Buy used from: £0.25 A historical novel of the 'troubles' in Ireland
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 | Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.06 A description of Bohemian Berlin and changing times
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 | No More Sad Refrains: The Life and Times of Sandy Denny by Clinton Heylin
Buy used from: £130.01 A sad, sad story of a tormented genius.
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 | Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall by Chris Welch
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £4.20 The world would be a sadder place without the likes of Vivian Stanshall and the Bonzo Dog Doh Dah Band
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 | Pennine Way Companion: A Pictorial Guide (Wainwright Pictorial Guides) by Alfred Wainwright
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £5.26 Hand written with sketches by the author - be very careful, if you read this you will find you have to do the walk!
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 | The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World by Deborah Cadbury
Buy new: £6.91 / Used from: £0.01 A fascinating story of scientific jealousy and of Mary Anning a fossil finder from Lyme Regis
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 | A Bit of a Do by David Nobbs
Buy used from: £0.01 A witty description of complex inter-relationships and class politics in a dull northern town
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| Borne on the Wind: The Extraordinary World of Insects in Flight by Stephen. Dalton
Buy used from: £0.11 Technically stunning and beautiful.
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 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 A beautiful story - probably the closest I have ever come to crying while reading a book
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 | Reach for the Sky: Story of Douglas Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C. (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Paul Brickhill
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £0.01 Possibly not a very nice person but this is what courage is all about.
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 | Book of Knots by Clifford W. Ashley
Buy new: £28.99 / Used from: £29.01 The Knotters Bible
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 | Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £2.43 Fascinating prose about the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the theory of evolution
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| Master Mariner: Bks. 1 & 2 by Nicholas Monsarrat
Monsarrats fascinating history of the British seaman
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 | The Eagle and the Raven by James A. Michener
Buy used from: £0.10 The story of the two main protagonists in the battle for Mexico
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| The Marquis of Montrose (Lost Treasures) by John Buchan
Buy used from: £0.01 I came on this book through a Steeleye Span song based on the words of a poem written by Montrose. The original 'romantic' hero
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| Black Sailed Traders: Keels and Wherries of Norfolk and Suffolk by Roy Clark
Buy used from: £14.99 A history of the majestic sailing craft of the Norfolk Broads
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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 The description of visiting Hampton Court Maze is one the funniest bits of writing I have come across
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 | "A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £23.63 Not a great lover of poetry, but this is a beautiful description of how it always snowed at Christmas when we were children
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