The first eight novels in the Patrick O’Brian seafaring stories are 99p today on Kindle. I am not a historical novel fan, but make an exception for Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell and Patrick O’Brian’s perfectly realised sequence of Napoleonic navy tales. If you only know this world from Russell Crowe’s uber-macho frockcoat action in Master and Commander, the novels are so much more vivid, detailed and complex. You only have three hours left probably, sorry, been out and about.