When the month starts on a Wednesday it does mean the Kindle offer post comes around very quickly doesn’t it? Anyway, we did Quick Reviews last week, so it is time – and here are are this month’s offers. And it’s a real bumper month – so it’s been a lot of fun to pull it all together.
First of all, I mentioned To Woo and to Wed when it came out back in February, I’ve got the paperback sitting on my shelf waiting for me, but the Kindle price has done a big old drop to 99p at the moment. Also 99p is Katherine Center’s The Bodyguard, which is one of the celebrity and normal person romances that seemed to be everywhere last year! Ali Hazelwood’s Love, Theoretically is also 99p this month – I’m a little bit over Giant Men and Tiny Women, but this does have a good grovel in it if you want one of those at the moment. Side note: We’re just over a month away from this year’s Ali Hazelwood contemporary romance, Not In Love, which is out in mid June. It’s only a week or two since my post about the Bright Falls series, so it’s a good time to mention that Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail is 99p at the moment. Well Matched from the Willow Creek series is also on offer
I feel like I mention Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible every time it’s on offer, but I love it so much I’m not even sorry. I read The Other Side of Mrs Wood last year – if you like novels about mediums and spiritualism in the Victorian era, this might be 99p you want to spend. Also on the historical fiction front, there is Elizabeth Macneal’s Circus of Wonders, which was a Book of the Week back in 2021. Slightly more expensive, but there are quite a few of Susan Elizabeth Philips’s Chicago Stars series on offer at £1.99 at the moment – including the newest one Simply the Best which I really enjoyed.
On the mystery front, the second in Richard Coles’ Canon Clement series, A Death in the Parish is 99p, presumably because we’re less than a month out from the release of book three now. If you’re a Kindle Unlimited member, The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, the first two books in Andrew Taylor’s Marwood and Lovett series is in KU at the moment – I reviewed Ashes a year or two back.
On the non fiction front, The Radium Girls is 99p – it’s hard to read because of what happened to the women but it is a really interesting and readable book about a forgotten bit of history. Lucy Worsley’s Agatha Christie biography was in the Quick reviews last week and while that’s not on offer at the moment, a couple of her other books are 99p: Queen Victoria which I’ve mentioned before and A Very British Murder, which I haven’t read but I did watch the TV series that goes with it back when it came out. The Missing Cryptoqueen is 99p at the moment – I haven’t read the book but I’ve listened to the podcast series so if it’s anywhere near as good as that it’ll be a great read.
And in this month’s edition of books I bought while researching this post, we have: Truly, Madly – about Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier; Not Far from Brideshead – about Oxford between the Wars; Fallon Ballard’s Right on Cue – a second chance contemporary romance about a writer and a movie star; Barbara Pym‘s Some Tame Gazelle; Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club and Ritual of Fire, the third Cesare Aldo book.
Happy Wednesday everyone!