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

Backstage Passes – Life on the wildside with David » Continue Reading.