It’s the second WEdnesday of the month, and I’m back with the Kindle Offers. And I know I’ve had this rant before but honestly it feels like every month Amazon is making it harder and harder to track down what’s on offer in a sensible way. I’ve waded through the same 30 or so books over and over in the quest to get back to the actual list that I used to use.
Figure skating season is well underway now (we’re three weeks in to the Grand Prix series already!) and so I’m starting with Layne Fargo’s The Favourites, which was a bonus review last year and is a Wuthering Heights-inspired ice dance drama. I’m looking forward to seeing what Fargo writes next – she wrote a serial killer thriller before this one which are not my thing at all – because I enjoyed this so much and I hope it’ll be something in a genre I read. Talking of books I loved, Dear Mrs Bird, the first of the Emmy Lake Chronicles is on offer – and I’m also still waiting for news on what next from A J Pearce who said at the end of the last Emmy Lake that she has a new series in mind. Also on offer is Julie Soto‘s Not Another Love Song, and there’s a (rarish) offer on a K J Charles book – How to Fake it in Society, On the mystery front, there’s Jeremy Vine’s Murder on Line One, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts by Robert Thorogood, which I was assuming was because there was a new Marlow Murders coming (they’re usually a January release) but I can’t see anything listed yet.
Halloween is over now, but Alexandria Bellefleur‘s paranormal romance Damned if I Do is 99p. If you want to start on some Christmas reading, Trisha Ashley‘s The Christmas Retreat, Ally Carter’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Murder, Agatha Christie‘s Midwinter Murders collection and Rev Richard Coles’s Murder under the Mistletoe novella.
Since I saw it in The Broken Binding, but Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice is suddenly everywhere I look – now it’s 99p as well. If you’ve never read the book that inspired the movie Cabaret, then this month might be your chance: Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Novels which includes Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin is on offer. If you want some modern fiction set in Berlin in the 1930s, there’s also Jane Thynne’s Midnight in Vienna which is a standalone mystery set in 1938 – I still have a couple of books in her Clara Vine series to catch up with before I’m allowed to buy any more of her books though! Brit Bennet‘s The Vanishing Half is on offer as is Jilly Cooper‘s Polo, Joanne Harris’s Vianne and Barbara Pym‘s Excellent Women and Quartet in Autumn.
This month’s Terry Pratchett is Snuff, Georgette Heyer’s Snowdrift (which was previously called Pistols for Two), Julia Quinn‘s On a Night Like This and The Sum of All Kisses, and one of my childhood favourites Goodnight Mr Tom. On the non-fiction front, there’s Mary Roach’s Grunt, Patrick Radden-Keefe’s excellent but disturbing Empire of Pain, I like my cook books in physical copies so I can write all over them, but if you like yours electronic, then Rukmini Iyer’s The Quick Roasting Tin is on offer and it’s really good – several of my regular weeknight dinners are from it.
In things I bought while writing this post: the latest Christina Lauren The Romance Revival and the new Kate Stayman-London See You Next Tuesday the first Harbinder Kaur mystery by Elly Griffiths The Stranger Diaries, and Last Night I Dreamt – which is a new biography of the Du Maurier family by Daphne Du Maurier’s oldest grandson. And f that isn’t enough cheap books for you I don’t know what is!
Happy Humpday!
