It’s the first of the month which brings a new set of 99p Monthly Deals for the Kindle. And we all (most) have more time on our hands. My personal selections:

Lit Fic: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving A Good Man in Africa William Boyd The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier by Michael Chabon The Slap – Tsiolkas Abide With Me – Liz Strout Closed Circle – Jonathan Coe Good selection – I can thoroughly recommend the Chabon and Tsiolkas, looking forward to the Boyd

There’s also the new Caitlin Moran on Britpop, How to Be Famous.

Classics Not a great month TBH but there’s the Penguin Classics version of Don Quixote (‘award winning translation’) which I think is made for the Kindle and I will yet again fail to quite commit to the Count of Monte Cristo.

Scifi John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War is very well reviewed, even if I generally steer well clear of military themed sci-fi. I can recommend Jeff Vermeer’s outstanding Annihilation, filmed a couple of years ago, as a genuinely new and deeply unsettling. I’m unconvinced by Adrian Tchiakovsky – he’s written a lot quite quickly – » Continue Reading.