It’s the second Wednesday of the month, so as always I am back with the Kindle deals for the month. And it’s a really good month, with quite a lot of new releases among the cheap deals – including several that I have been waiting to drop in price.
I’m going to start with Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy because it is 99p. I really, really loved this when I read it as it came out, and it was both the first book I read that had the pandemic in it but also the first in what is now a lot of books in the current trend of famous people-normal people romances in fiction (especially in romance). Just writing about it again has made me want to go back and re-read it.
Elly Griffiths‘ latest The Frozen People is on offer again – I bought it back when it was on a deal in April and really need to get around to reading it because there is a sequel coming early next year. Talking of sequels, Murder on the Marlow Belle is on offer, book five in the Marlow Murder Club is coming in January and there’s a third series of the TV series coming in 2026 too. The third Molly the Maid, The Maid’s Secret, is 99p as is
Just warning you, this next paragraph contains multiple books that I bought while writing this post. If you’re after some Halloween-themed reading, I have exciting news: Jen DeLuca’s new book Ghost Business is 99p – as are Rosie Danan‘s Fan Service and Do Your Worst, Josie Silver’s Crazy Spooky Love, Jenna Levine’s Road Trip with a Vampire and Lauren Evans’s Casket Case. If you just want autumnal, I think You, Again has the most autumnal cover of anything I’ve recently seen.
T J Klune‘s The House in the Cerulean Sea is 99p, I think because the sequel Somewhere Beyond the Sea came out in paperback at the end of September. The fifth in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, Before We Forget Kindness, is on offer as is Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet which is the first in her Wayfarers series. This summer’s Trisha Ashley is 99p too – A Recipe for Romance was originally published as Chocolate Wishes and is one of her Lancashire books.
This month’s Terry Pratchett is Soul Music – if you haven’t read the story of that time when Music With Rocks In It came to the Disc, then you’re really missing out. If you like your P G Wodehouse, the fourth volume (of five) of Jeeves omnibuses is 99p. The Autumn Chills Agatha Christie collection is 99p (as well as being in Kindle Unlimited)
On the non-fiction front, Otto English’s Notorious (which is waiting on my shelf after buying it on the way to Ghana) is 99p, as is Didion & Babitz by Lili Anolik and Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth)’s Girl in a Band. There are also two of Tim Marshall’s books at 99p – Worth Dying For about the power of flags and Shadowplay about his time reporting on the Yugoslav conflict. And David Hepworth’s Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There about the British invasion of the US music charts in the 1960s is on offer too.
And that’s your lot. I’m not telling you how many books I bought while writing this because I’m trying not to think about it!
Happy Humpday!
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