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London Fields
1.  London Fields by Martin Amis
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  "Dark, foreboding, and grimy - the countdown to a murder"
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Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid
2.  Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid by Tibor Fischer
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  "Short stories from one of the best contemporary writers"
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Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century
3.  Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century by Julie Peakman
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  "Everything you wanted to know about eighteenth century sexuality... but were afraid to ask"
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Feeding Frenzy
4.  Feeding Frenzy by Will Self
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  "A collection of Self's journalism... the 'emotional geography' of London and the restaurant review on acid are particular highlights"
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The Crow Road
5.  The Crow Road by Iain Banks
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  "Think your family are weird and your life is going nowhere? So does Prentice. Only he's funnier than you are... look at all those 5 star reviews if you don't believe me."
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The Turkish Embassy Letters
6.  The Turkish Embassy Letters by Lady Mary MWortley Montagu
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  "Poet, letter-writer, traveller, friend (then enemy) of Alexander Pope..  a truly remarkable woman."
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Fictions
7.  Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
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  "The master of the short story . Brilliant, un-pin-downable, mysterious - unlike anything you've ever read before"
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics)
8.  A Confederacy of Dunces (Pocket Penguin Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
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  "Don't let the author's tragic story put you off - pungently funny"
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Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics)
9.  Selected Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pope
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  ""A little learning is a dangerous thing" - just one of the many phrases we've cribbed from Pope, one of the eighteenth century's most talented poets."
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Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis
10.  Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
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  "Shocking expensive, as all poetry books are, but worth it. Stingingly funny, bitter and moving."
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