Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class commun...

Silver: The Return of Treasure Island

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Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger

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