The Bastille Falls
By: Simon Schama
3.45
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Simon Schama is famous both as a great scholar and as one of the UK's greatest popularizers of hist…
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1. Otherwise Pandemonium / Not a Star
By: Nick Hornby
3.59
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Otherwise Pandemonium features two Nick Hornby stories, both packed with the trademark wit and poig… read more
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2. Solaris
By: Stanisław Lem
3.99
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more
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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."-Stanisław Lem, Solaris
3. The Dressmaker's Child
By: William Trevor
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
William Trevor has won just about every literary award possible and he is frequently described by c… read more
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4. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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5. Artists and Models
By: Anaïs Nin
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Both stories capture a moment of sexual awakening, and reveal the subtle or explicit means by which… read more
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6. Forgetting Things
By: Sigmund Freud , Anthea Bell
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The founder of modern psychiatry, Sigmund Freud powerfully believed that conscious decisions are un… read more
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- nonfiction
7. Cloud, Castle, Lake
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: None pages,
A masterful novelist in both his native Russian and in English, Nabokov shocked a generation when P… read more
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8. The World's Wife
By: Carol Ann Duffy
4.42
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Be terrified. It's you I love, perfect man, Greek God, my own; but I know you'll go, betray me,… read more
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9. Noise
By: Hari Kunzru
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This collection of stories focuses on technology, the dot-com phenomenon and the wired generation s… read more
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10. Where I Was
By: James Kelman
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this collection of short stories, James Kelman introduces us to a superb collection of memorable… read more
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11. 9th and 13th
By: Jonathan Coe
3.89
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
When Penguin published What a Carve Up!in 1994, Jonathan Coe's lasting fame was assured. There foll… read more
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12. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
By: Susanna Clarke
1.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more
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13. I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.36
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When peo… read more
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"And you know what? Books live. The pages remember!"-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
14. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
15. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
16. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
By: Elena Kostyuchenko
4.41
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more
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17. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
By: Amy Jeffs
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more
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18. The Secret Annexe: from The diary of Anne Frank
By: Anne Frank
4.04
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
This extract from the Definitive Edition of Anne's diary begins on Tuesday 10 November 1942. For… read more
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19. The Desert and the Dancing Girls
By: Gustave Flaubert
3.21
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Gustave Flaubert transformed French literature and caused an outcry when his novel Madame Bovary, p… read more
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20. Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
By: Bettany Hughes
3.83
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning hist… read more
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21. Haiku
By: Matsuo Bashō
4.06
Format: 64 pages, Mass Market Paperback
By combining the ideals of karumi - lightness of touch - and oneness with nature, Bashō (1644-94) r… read more
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22. The Bastille Falls
By: Simon Schama
3.45
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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- french revolution
23. Christmas at Stalingrad
By: Antony Beevor
3.74
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, published by Penguin in 1998, was a worldwide bestseller, telling one o… read more
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