The Moving Toyshop is the one with the epic breach of the fourth wall, isn't it? "Left fork or right?" "Better take the left, this book is being published by Gollancz, after all."

My favourite, and the only one I think I currently own (I disposed of some of the others to charity) is Love Lies Bleeding where there's a couple offemale characters who completely cut against the grain. Mind you, they're still at school, and I've often noticed authors (Saki, for one) giving young teen schoolgirls agency, intelligence and capability which adult women characters never get; the "harpy or idiot" switch seems to be thrown at age 18 or so for them.