Terribly late but here are your Kindle bargains for June. In my defence I’ve been to the Test Match at Edgbaston and an actual gig. Usual rules: 99p only, 1.99 in exceptional cases. Strong month for classics and scifi, less so for novels and thrillers. And Keef! On sale until the end of the month, so another ten days.
CLASSICS
Tolstoy – Anna Karenina (Penguin)
Wodehouse – Carry On Jeeves
JG Farrell – Siege of Krishnapur
Olivia Manning – The ‘Balkan’ Trilogy
NOVELS
Jonathan Coe – What A Carve Up
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
SCIFI
Temi Oh – Do You Dream of Terra Two?
Peter F Hamilton – The Reality Dysfunction
Neal Stephenson – Snow Crash
NON-FICTION
Keith Richards – Life
Richard Coles – Fathomless Riches. The Commundars star and reverend autobiog.
THRILLERS
Philip Kerr – Greeks Bearing Gifts
Thanks Moseley, 99p for Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash’ is a snip – it’s a belter.
I’d add that ‘The F*ck it List’ , the latest from John Niven, is 99p for the whole of June. He’s too gross/ salty for some, but I’ve enjoyed everything he’s written to date.
John Niven’s a great writer, the Steven Stelfox books are probably my favs but yeah, salty is the word!
I would heartily recommend Snowcrash – with Neuromancer one of the founding texts of cyberpunk. And The Reality Dysfunction is 955 pages of slighty pulpy thrills, takes a while for the plot to get motoring but once it does…
The fact that the lead character in Snowcrash is a pizza delivery/hacker guy called Hiro Protagonist should give you an idea of whether you will like it or not. I loved it.
One of the greatest works of science fiction ever written. Can’t recommend it enough.
I notice (while on hold for Student finance, so I may be some time)
Flea – Acid for the Children 99p
Phil Collins – not dead yet 99p
(ok, neither are I think top of the Afterwords list of favourite musicians, but they are cheap.)
I recommend Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis 99p. You may know him from The Blind Side, and Moneyball. This is his first book about his time as a bond salesman at Solomon Brothers. I found it a useful insight into a terrible and damaging profession (you can see how the crash described in the Big Short could arise with these chancers).
The Phil Collins is worth a read.
It’s honest and self deprecating. He knows he was over exposed (oo er) in the eighties, and does seem aware of his own shortcomings.