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 with the cow creamer, one of the best Woosters.
Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas (Penguin Classics)
SF
Trouble With Lichen – John Wyndham
So a very strong month except for SF, great novels line up and I’ll be in for the Maggie Gee, Wyndham and and a PD James with my 2.99 budget.
Thank you for letting me know about the Steve Jones. I’d have missed that!
‘The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay’ is worthy of anyone’s time. A magnificent read.
‘The Siberian Dilemma’ is not the best of Cruz’s excellent Renko series of Russian crime novels but it’s not among the worst either. ‘Polar Star’ is the absolute standout in the series, IMO.
‘Get Carter’, originally titled ‘Jack’s Return Home’ until it became the basis of the Michael Caine movie is a stone-cold classic. The book is sufficiently different from the movie adaptation to not be spoilt by it.
‘Papillon’ is probably a bit dated now. I enjoyed reading it long ago in my teens but would not bother now.
Omnibus version of the first three books in Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series are going for 99p.
That’s a bargain worth getting.
Just for info the Kindle Paperwhite device is on offer on Dodgers too.
I’d love to have one again (broke my original one a good while back) but the version on offer is the “with ads” one, so I’ll pass. Don’t want ads popping up while I’m in a book, thank you.
The ad appears on the front page when you switch on and goes away when you go to the actual book. Nothing then interrupts the reading. It’s not like the YouTube experience.
That sounds tolerable. Objection withdrawn.
The trouble is, I already rather stupidly have two Kindle Fires (why two? One for Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, one for reading) and don’t know what I’d do with the older of the two if I bought another paperwhite.
I still read a lot of paper & ink books but when I read ebooks I find using a Kindle much easier on my eyes than a tablet. I think it’s got something to do with the refresh rate of the screens. I’ve got an ad free paperwhite and it’s a marvellous little dohicky. I open it and the first thing I see is the cover of the book I’m currently reading before it transitions to where I left off.