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Your Kindle bargains for September – leaves on the line

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I’m blaming the site speed but actually it’s just work, kids going off to uni, nice weather and all that. But here with a whole 3 days to go are your kindle bargains for September! 99p bar as usual, up until 30 September.

Novels The Flood – Maggie Gee At Freddie’s – penelope Fitzgerald the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. A stonecold classic by Michael Chabon. If you’ve not read you are in for a treat. Papillon – Henri Charriere Freedom – Jonathan Frantzen. Possibly the most lauded writer in the US, of Big Important White Male Books, but given that another great novel.

THRILLERS/DETECTIVE Get Carter – Ted Lewis The Siberian Dilemma – Martin Cruz Smith, yes a Renko. Adam Dalgleish – PD James, many many of her detective series are on at shock 1.19

NON-FICTION Just for One Day: Louise Wener. the Road to Wigan Pier – Orwell A year at the Circus – Jon Sopel. Enjoyed his US election coverage, this is the book. Lonely boy – Steve Jones (of ver Pistols) Rommel, Gunner Who – Spike Milligan. Actually uncategorisable but will leave it here.

CLASSICS Code of the Woosters – PG Wodehouse. AKA the one » Continue Reading.

Your Kindle bargains for August – one week to snap them up

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Not so much commentary. Classics all in recognised publisher editions, as ever a purely partial selection for 99p. Apart from the Murakami which is so good it’s worth a whole 1.99, possibly more if you are a runner.

CLASSICS The Great Gatsby The Decameron Classics from the 1001 Nights Germinal – Zola The World of Blandings – Wodehouse

NON-FICTION What I Talk About when I talk abour running – Murakami. Don Delillo is apparently a runner too (fits) and I’d love his slim volume on 10k’s but this is delight for us runners. The Dreamer – Cliff Richard. I dream of helicopters over my house…oh hang on. A Dream about Lightning Bugs – Ben Folds Catch Me If You Can – Frank Abagnale – inspro for the film This your Brain on Music – Daniel Levitin – great medical/psychological investigation into how music works on us.

NOVELS About A Boy – N Hornby Anathem – Neal Stephenson Brooklyn – Colm Toibin Post Office – Bukowski Amy and Isabelle – Elizabeth Strout

SF Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury

THRILLERS The One from the Other – Philip Kerr

Your Kindle bargains for March

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So it’s nearly mid-March and I can only plead work and family stuff distracting me from the vital task of your Kindle 99p bargains. Hey, who knows this may well be old hat in a few months time as we rush from gig to theatre show to pub and back again with nary a thought of picking up the Kindle until we sink exhausted to our beds. But until then….

LITERATURE Faces In The Water – Janet Frame. The author’s descent through psychiatric institutions

Don Quixote – very long and in a dependable Penguin Classics edition.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes – again in a dependable edition.

NOVELS

Offshore – Penelope Fitzgerald. Booker-prize winning chronicle of a houseboat community in London.

A Spell of Winter – Helen Dunmore

Postcards from the Edge – Carrie Fisher

Between the Assassinations – Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger

THRILLERS

Lupin by Maurice Le Blanc – a big Netflix hit, the ‘gentleman thief’ and French answer to Sherlock Holmes.

Robichaux by James Lee Burke – Burke’s style is not for me, but his bayou-heavy thrillers have lots of fans around here I know.

NONFICTION

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Your Kindle bargains for January – sort of

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Ok something is happening with Kindle deals. I had a bumper monthly list, as per normal, ready to go when 48 hours ago almost all the prices reverted to normal levels. What’s left is this:

Puckoon – Prime Spike. The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga. Booker Prize winner and shortly to get the Netflix treatment. An Ice-Cream War – William Boyd. Frequent author on this list, one of his better-known novels. Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas. Penguin Classic Translation.

Also yesterday’s daily deal looked very like todays. Something is shifting in the world of Amazon. Gather these 99ps while ye may.

Your Kindle bargains for December – lateish

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Kicked by the kind concern of @jaygee, I must admit that the pickings were somewhat thin this month I was not hugely motivated. Some of these have also been on the Monthly Deal within the last 12 months. But here we go, all at 99p until 2022:

THRILLERS Archangel by Robert Harris. Big fan of Fatherland, never read anything else of his. Siberian Dilemma by Martin Cruz-Smith. Renko is regularly on these lists, this is number 9 which may mean diminishing returns. A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre – on my Kindle from the last time, not yet read.

NOVELS Stars and Bars by William Boyd – an early novel, probably a good thing. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth – perfect on the Kindle, unless you want to give up a good chunk of your shelves.

CLASSICS (only Penguin Classics = decent translation/edition) War and Peace – as A Suitable Boy Letters from a Stoic – Seneca

SCIFI This is how you lose the time war – Gladstone and El-Mohtar – lauded queer epistolatory scifi romance novella. I will probably give this a go. Cage of Souls – Adrian Tchiakovsky. I won’t, but he » Continue Reading.

Your Kindle bargains for September

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Here’s my highly personal selection of what’s on on at 99p or thereabouts during September:

Literary Fiction A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin – cult short story writer recently rediscovered, in the Carver/Ford/Munro/Oates vein Empire Falls – Richard Russo – not sure I am up for 800 pages but it won the Pulitzer…doesn’t help I confuse him with SF writer Richard Paul Russo. What a Carve Up! Jonathan Coe – justly celebrated dissection of Thatcherite England, which Coe keeps returning to with diminishing returns Milkman – Anna Burns – breaking my 99p rule for this, recent Booker winner is £2.49 and one of the best novels written over the last 20 years. For the first 30 pages you wonder what is going on and how you can read on, for the next 200 it has you by the short and curlies.

Classics Very slim pickings. The Master and Margarita – Bulgakov – lots of his at 99p. I find this one quite hard going, but really enjoyed Heart of a Dog.

Non Fiction The Pigeon Tunnel – Le Carre – his autobiography A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush – Eric Newby – classic travel writing Wishful Drinking » Continue Reading.