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Secret Water – Arthur Ransome Of all the Swallows and Amazons books, this has a special place in my affections. I read very few child...

The Chinese Agent – Michael Moorcock A comic romp. Developing early work for Fleetway, especially Sexton Blake, this is one of severa...

The Zen Gun – Barrington J Bayley This book has it all. Vast galactic empire on the edge of collapse, space battles, aliens, space p...

The Mystery Of The Hasty Arrow – Anna Katharine Green It is instructive to see how tastes have changed editorially. This is an intere...

Ice – Anna Kavan An unnamed narrator undertakes an obsessive search for a girl he has known. She is frail, timid, and thin and she has l...

The Return Of The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett Hammett wrote some of the quintessential hard-boiled detective novels of the 20 th cen...

The Hound Of The Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Considered by many to be Conan Doyle’s best Sherlock Holmes, it certainly cont...