It’s the second Wednesday of May and so we’re back to Kindle offers and the post that is traditionally the most expensive for me to write in any given month!
OK, lets start with a recent BotW Katherine Center’s The Love Haters, which is 99p, as is the first Tuga book Welcome to Glorious Tuga and given that book two is out in paperback next month I wouldn’t be surpised to see a price drop on that in June. There’s also the third Emmy Lake book, Mrs Porter Calling, the middle Kiss Quotient book The Bride Test and for £2.89 you can pick up Love and Other Brain Experiments which was a BotW back in March.
Also in romances that I’ve read, there’s Sarah Adam’s When in Rome which has a very Taylor Swift-figure goes to small town and falls in love vibe about it, but which was a little too New Adult for my tastes and then there is Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail from Ashley Herring Blake‘s Bright Falls series which I liked a lot more.
Among the recent releases there’s the new Kate Claybourn Paris Match, and the new Cat Sebastian Star Shipped which I would totally be buying if I didn’t already own a copy (even if the copy is at my parents. In other books waiting on the TBR shelf there’s Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time, the sequel to The Maid, The Mystery Guest; S J Paris’s Traitor’s Legacy and last year’s Ashley Poston Sounds Like Love,
In mystery there is recent release A Murder in Eight Cocktails; the first Ruth Galloway book The Crossing Places; the third Canon Clement Murder at the Monastery; the Rivers of London novella, What Abigail did that Summer; the third Three Dahlias book, Seven Lively Suspects; the first in Simon Brett’s latest series Major Bricket and the Circus Corpse ahead of the release of the sequel later this month; the third Cesare Aldo Ritual of Fire; the third Grave Expectations book, The Grapples of Wrath; the first Flavia De Luce book The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – presumably to coincide with the new TV adaptation and there’s also the latest Hamish MacBeth, Death of a Groom and a much earlier one The Death of a Glutton as well as the second Agatha Raisin The Vicious Vet.
In other fiction, there is Curtis Sittenfeld‘s Prep; the third Cazalet Chronicle, Confusion and The Mysterious Affair at Castaway House which was a featured review a looooong time ago (in a time before BotWs I think). In non-fiction there’s Kate Moore’s The Radium Girls; the Spinal Tap ‘memoir’ A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever; Dan Jones‘s The Hollow Crown and Ronan Farrow‘s Catch and Kill.
In things I bought while writing the post there is the first in Rhys Bowen‘s Molly Murphy series, Murphy’s Law; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold which I have been eyeing up in bookshops since the stage version was on in the West End at the start of the year; The Chinese Gold Murders which likewise I have been eyeing up in bookshops for a while; Nancy Goldstone’s The Rebel Empresses (likewise) and Mark Galeotti’s A Short History of Russia. And surely that is enough for this month…
Happy Humpday!
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