I think the monthly all-in 99p sweep may have run its course, but you’ll still get occasional updates. This month the estimable imprint S.F. Masterworks has a big chunk of classics on at 99p.

A Scanner Darkly – Philip K Dick Inverted World – Christopher Priest Doomsday Book – Connie Willis Roadside Picnic – Arkady Strugatsky Mockingbird – Walter Tevis The Forever War – Joe Haldeman Rendezvous With Rama – Arthur C. Clarke The Dispossessed – Ursula K LeGuin

plus in other editions Neuromancer – William S Gibson Altered Carbon – Richard Morgan Revelation Space – Alistair Reynolds

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 » Continue Reading.

I’m going to make these posts briefer for a couple of reasons: the world is opening up, at least for the moment, so reading perhaps is falling back into a more natural place, and there is a lot of repetition in the offers. So more emphasis on new offers, just listings for the offers on repeat.

Novels A Dance to the Music of Time vol 1 – the first three volumes of Antony Powell’s 12-volume masterpiece. Vol 1 (school) and 2 are atypical, but by 3 Powell has hit his stride.

Skagboys – Irvine Welsh. Not a massive Welsh fan, but sure there are many on here.

Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith. First of the Ripley cycle, and so influential on the ‘charming psychopath’ gentre.

Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson. I remember this as epic but worth it, the first of his many doorstep novels.

Non-Fiction And In The End….by Ken McNab The end of the Beatles. An extra 30p.

Back on at 99p London a countercultural history by Barry Miles Empire Falls by Richard Russo Franchise affair by Josephine Tey A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbera Vine Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey

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

Your Kindle 99p bargains for May, as ever a little late. A great line-up of SF and some good thrillers, less strong in the other genres I follow but solid. As ever, grab them before the end of the month.

CLASSICS Olivia Manning – the Levant Trilogy. The successor to the Balkan trilogy, I’ve never quite gelled with her but 3 novels for 99p is good value.

NOVELS Michael Punke – The Revenant. Source for the film. Tim Winton – The Shepherd’s Hut. Cloud Street is the Great Australian Novel – another by Winton.

SF Iain Reid – Foe Very well reviewed, not read yet. Chris Beckett – Mother of Eden. Not read it either, another well-respected British writer, but this is the middle of a trilogy. Neal Stephenson – Anathem. If you are a later period Stephenson fan, this is another 900 page blockbuster. If not then I guess these doorsteps are never going to change your mind. Ted Chaing – Stories of Your Life. Quite superb, Chaing may be the Mozart of the modern sci-fi short story. Includes the novella that became the film Arrival.

Two absolute classics to finish…. Christopher Priest – Inverted World Philip K Dick » Continue Reading.

It’s a very strong month for sci-fi, and some good stuff in thrillers and Non-Fiction. Not much in the classics and contemporary fiction veins, but I think overall a good month for Kindle bargains and most people could spend a fiver fruitfully. As ever, there are other bargains for prices as extortionate as £2.99 but I try and stick to the 99p limit.

Detective and Thrillers Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey – classic detective story about the true fate of Richard III

The Nine Taylors – Dorothy L Sayers First of the Lord Peter Wimsy series – Golden Age Detective fiction

Prussian Blue – Philip Kerr Much-loved Bernie Gunther no 2. For those new to these Bernie is in the Berlin police in twenties – forties Berlin and so the novels explore police procedurals during the Nazi era.

Non Fiction The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt Mammoth investigation into the last 20 years of the game. As a City fan I am not expecting us to come out of it well.

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Vietnam war classic.

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safar Froer I like this writer » Continue Reading.

After the January prices outage I’ve kept the list under review, and these appear to be stable discounts…so at 99p until the end of February here are your 99p Kindle deals.

NON-FICTION Louise Wener – Just For One Day. The Inbetweener hitmaker and novelist recalls her life as a B-grade Britpop legend. Rachel Deloache – My Friend Anna. Loved the podcast on the Fake Heiress © this is her rich friend’s side of the story Pete Paphides – Broken Greek – much loved pop writer’s backstory Jon Ronson – The Psychopath Test – a journey through the madness backstory

SCIFI Sue Burke – Semiosis – have this on my to-read list. Peter F Hamilton – Pandora’s Star. If you are wondering where to start with Hamilton this is less daunting (slightly) than the Nights Dawn trilogy, being one of two. The world of Ozzie and Nigel, the relentless Paula and the truly alien MorningLightMountain may be my favourite of his.

Arkady Martine – A Memory of Empire – big award-winner, have this on my to read list.

FICTION Doris Lessing – The Golden Notebook. Forbidding. Would appreciate someone pitching on its behalf. Michael Chabon – Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and » Continue Reading.

After a few lean months it is bumper Monthly Deals month, with good choices in all my usual reporting areas. As ever a personal and partial selection of stuff I am keen to read, or have read and can recommend. On until the end of October, apologies for the delay.

Classics The Masque of the Red Death and other stories – reliable Penguin classics edition Barry Hines – A Kestrel for a Knave – adapted for the classic film Anthony Powell – A Dance to the Music of Time novels 1-3. I am now on book 10 of this unmatched 12-volume sequence. The first three volumes lay the groundwork for 4-9 which are just brilliant. They are not for everyone and always teeter on the edge of parody, but I would urge anyone to give them a go. The Penguin book of Ghost Stories Robert Graves – The Greek Myths

Non-fiction Ben Folds – A Dream of Lightning Bugs – mmmm Afterword catnip Stewart Lee – March of the Lemmings – mmmm Afterword catnip

Sci-fi Temi Oh – Do You Dream of Terra Two? Marina J. Lostetter – Noumenon These are two well-reviewed novels I am very happy are on » Continue Reading.

A little later than usual due to a family holiday, here’s my personal selection from this month’s kindle offers, with the emphasis on Fiction, Scifi, Classics and a bit of nonfiction. All 99p or thereabouts.

FICTION Decent month for lit fic. My Secret History – Paul Theroux I may have read this 20 years ago, have forgotten everything about it Oreo – Fran Ross – I loved The Sellout by Paul Beatty and this is referenced in several reviews, though written in 1974. Brazzaville Beach – William Boyd Girl – Edna O’Brien May be too dark for me as it’s O’Brien’s take on the Boko Harum schoolgirl abductions.

SCIFI Again, strong lineup Dark Eden – Chrs Beckett – first of a trilogy, very well reviewed. Autonomous – Annalee Newitz Read this a few weeks ago. Excellent on AI and genetic engineering. Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson – KSR’s take on the generation starship novel. Always worth reading him. The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu OK you should but#y this but not read it. It’s part two of a trilogy and I have just read part one – The Three Body Problem and it is fantastic. The Cultural Revolution, » Continue Reading.

The start of the month means there’s a new set of Monthly Deals for the Kindle. If you still hanker for some reading matter in between your marathon bouts of pub and restaurant visits, these are on at 99p for July. As ever, personal recommendations rather than authoritative list and mainly fiction. The Panzer Drivers memoirs (see other recent posts) are no doubt there but someone else will have to rate them. Also lots of books for more than 99p, but I have my rules (ok the Wandering Stars is 1.69 but he’s a very hot writer).

CLASSICS Uber-depressing and angry French working man classic Germinal by Zole. Read this a few years and really like it. Metamorphosis by Ovid. Never read. The Trial by Kafka. Nothing more to say – a book everyone should read at least once. Not long. All Penguin Classics so the translations and print will be good.

LITERATURE Cloud Street by Tim Winton – apparently the modern Australian classic novel. Our Antipodean correspondents please comment, looking forward to this. The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing. Forbidding. The Colour Purple – Alice Walker. Very of the moment. Disobedient by Naomi Alderman. Liked The Power, v zeitgeisty » Continue Reading.