Kindle monthly deals for October

Here we are, with a whole fortnight before the roster changes. As ever 99p the bar.

Novels
Offshore – penelope Fitzgerald
The Lamplighters – Emma Stonex. This got great reviews, one of my 3 purchases this month. Another lighthouse mystery.

Scifi
Hold Up the Sky by Cixin Liu – short stories by the Three Body Problem author, thoroughly recommended having read that.
Semiosis – Sue Burke. Not an easy read especially at the start, but this ‘lost colony’ novel is a great spin on how humans and plants might co-evolve. Prince Charles a big fan I hear.
Winter’s Orbit – Evarina Maxwell. Big stir as self-published, taken up by proper publishers. LGBTQ+ scifi is having a moment.
The Kraken Wakes – John Wyndham. I reread this recently, not up there with Triffids and Midwich Cuckoos but very entertaining.
The Memory Police – Yogo Ogawa.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

Non-fiction
I’ll Never write my memoirs – Grace Jones
Life and Times – Benjamin Zephaniah
Postcards from the edge – Carrie Fisher
The Guns of August – Barbera Tuchman. Classic history of the outbreak of WW1.

Thrillers/Detective
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy. Absolutely brilliant neo-noir. First of the LA Quartet, of which LA Confidential as filmed is the second.
In a House of Lies – Ian Rankin

Horror
The Fog – James Herbert. The gym scene!
Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin

Classics
Ghost Stories – Dickens
Complete Holmes – Conan Doyle
crime and Punishment – Dostoeyvsky

Strongest line-up for many months. I’ll be using my 3 picks for the Lamplighters, Cixin Liu and Evarina Maxwell. Particularly strong for scifi, thrillers and non-fiction.

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