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Recommendsday: November Kindle Offers

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It’s the second week of the month and it’s Wednesday so you know what that means: Kindle offers. And it’s quite a good crop this month, I spent more money than I should have (well I shouldn’t have been buying more books at all, so technically any money is more than I ought) when I was writing this!

I’m going to break with convention and start with books that I haven’t read because there are a lot of new releases on offer this month. Firstly, if you’re not finished with Halloween yet, Alexandria Bellefleur’s The Devil She Knows and Josie Silver’s Kooky Spooky Love are 99p. If you’re ready to move to Christmas reading, the new B K Borison High Spirits is 99p (as is the one from earlier this year, First Time Caller). This one has the literal Ghost of Christmas Past, so I’m not quite sure how we get to a happy ending with one portion of the couple being dead, but hey we all know I don’t have enough imagination for this. Martin Edward’s Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is 99p – I hve this on my reading list for this Christmas. The Marble Hall Murders aka Magpie Murders 3 is 99p too because it’s out in paperback now, which is a total bargain considering how hefty it is and how much it cost when the hardback first came out – and you know I’ve been watching the price of this one!

In stuff I have read, the first of Susan Mallery‘s Wishing Tree books The Christmas Wedding Guest is 99p as is Ali Hazelwood‘s The Love Hypothesis. The Cat Who Save the Library, the sequel to The Cat Who Saved Books is 99p. Kirsty Greenwood’s Love of My Afterlife is 99p – she’s just announced a new book coming in June next year.

If you want a murder mystery, The Marlow Murder Club (that’s the first in that series) is 99p and also in Kindle Unlimited. Catriona McPherson‘s latest The Edinburgh Murders is 99p – this was a BotW a couple of months ago. The Great Deceiver, the seventh (and currently final) in Elly Griffiths‘s Brighton mysteries is on offer too. Last year’s Christmas instalment in the Three Dahlia’s series A Lively Midwinter Murder is 99p as Rev Richard Coles’s Christmas novella Murder Under the Mistletoe is 99p (and both are now out in paperback). Also from last year Denzil Mayrick’s Murder at Holly House is 99p – I have this on the pile waiting to be read. Graham Norton’s Holding, which was turned into a really good TV series a few years back is 99p, although it has to be said that I didn’t get on with the book when I tried it.

As spotted in The New Bookshop the other week, the Terry Deary murder mystery Actually, I’m a Murder is 99p. Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong, Tom Hindle‘s Death in the Arctic, Jeeves Omnibus 5, Shardlake book six, Lamentation, and Joanne Harris’s Vianne are all 99p. The Terry Pratchett is Witches Abroad at £1.99, Hercule Poirot’s Christmas is 99p (and in KU) as is former BotW Mary Stewart‘s Thornyhold

In things I bought while writing the post there is Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T J Klune, the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea and Smiley’s People by John Le Carré. And that’s your lot – because that really is a lot of books. I hope your wallet hasn’t suffered too much!

Happy Humpday!

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Recommendsday: October Kindle Offers

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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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Recommendsday: September Kindle Offers

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After breaking my own rules yesterday, I’m back with the pattern today, and as it’s the second Wednesday of September,it’s time for this month’s Kindle Offers.

The most recent in Rev Richard Coles’s Daniel Clement series, A Death on Location, is 99p – I mentioned this in my Recommendsday about mysteries and film sets. The Maid is also on offer again, I think ahead of the paperback release of the third in Nita Prose‘s series. If you’re working your way through the Dr Ruth Galloway series, the final book The Last Remains is on offer too. The tenth Rivers of London book came out at the start of July and that is very much still priced as a hardback release, but the second, Moon over Soho, is on offer. Holly Stars’s Murder in the Dressing Room is on offer too, as is recent BotW Catriona McPherson‘s The Edinburgh Murders.

Moving away from mysteries, former BotW The Lido is on offer, as is the second in my beloved Cazalets books, Marking Time, and one of my favourite Katie Fforde‘s Stately Pursuits. Jen DeLuca‘s Haunted Ever After is on offer – Boneyard Key 2, Ghost Business comes out on Thursday. Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch, Barbara Pym’s Jane and Prudence, and Mary Roach’s Grunt is 99p, presumably because she has a new book Replaceable You out at the start of October.

In stuff I own but haven’t read yet, there’s The Whalebone Theatre and Kevin Kwan’s Lies and Weddings. And finally in stuff I don’t own (yet), there’s the second in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brody series, One Good Turn, the fifth in C J Sansom’s Shardlake series, Heartstone (although I did buy this one while writing this!), the novelisation of the recent TV series Bookish, Ali Hazelwood’s Bride and Uzma Jalaluddin’s Detective Aunty. And finally, if you’re of a certain age, you’ll almost certainly have read some of Terry Deary’s Horrible History books, and his adult history book A History of Britain in Ten Enemies is 99p.

Happy Humpday!

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Recommendsday: April Kindle Offers

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It may only be the 9th, but it’s already the second Wednesday of April and so it’s Kindle Offers o’clock again.

Lets start with a couple of books that I really enjoyed. Firstly there’s Elissa Sussman‘s former BotW Funny You Should Ask which is 99p, as is Jen DeLuca’s Well Played, the first in her Renaissance Faire series, and Christina Lauren’s In a Holidaze which is completely out of season at the moment, but is great. Early Morning Riser from Katherine Heiney is 99p and former BotW Standard Deviation is in Kindle Unlimited – I’m hoping we’ll get news on something new from her soon too. Rachel Lynn Solomon‘s The Ex Talk is 99p – it’s not my favourite of hers, because I had an issue with the journalistic ethics in it, but I know others didn’t have the same problem.

I’ve been on a massive Elly Griffiths binge over the last month and a half so it would be remiss of me not to mention that her latest book The Frozen People is 99p at the moment. It only came out a the end of February and it is the first in a new series featuring cold cases and what the blurb would suggest is time travel – and so of course I bought it while writing this post! In other murder mysteries, former BotW The Darkest Sin is 99p, as is the second Three Dahlias A Very Lively Mystery, and the second in the Rivers of London series, Moon over Soho.

In Golden Age crime writers, Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar is 99p, Georges Simenon’s The Hanging Man of Saint-Pholien. As a side note: more and more classic crime novels are now getting lots and lots of very cheap kindle editions, where it’s hard to know if they are any good or not. So it’s not exactly 99p, but all the “proper” Harper Collins kindle editions of the Miss Marple series are £2.99 at the moment. They’ve also got relatively new audiobook readings with narrators like Richard E Grant, Stephanie Cole and Emilia Fox, which are the ones that I’m listening too at the moment. And as E C R Lorac’s books perform well in their BLCC editions, there are more of her books popping up in other Kindle editions too – lots of which are 99p, although as ever I can’t vouch for the quality of all of them, although the ones that I have read have been ok.

In other authors I like, Anthony Horowitz’s With a Mind to a Kill, which is one of his James Bond novel is on offer for 99p, as is PG Woodhouse’s Summer Lightning which is one of the Blandings series,

And finally, in things I own but haven’t read yet and are now 99p: The Divorcees, Why Shoot a Butler by Georgette Heyer and Assistant to the Villain – which I’ve been waiting to drop in price for a while and which I bought while writing this post!

Happy Humpday everyone

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Recommendsday: September Kindle Offers

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Back once again to tempt you into opening your wallet/breaking your book purchasing rules, here I am with the Kindle post. t’s actually a really good month for offers – and given the positive orgy of book acquisition I’ve been on over the last few weeks, the very act of writing this was a little bit risky. How much more will I have spent by the end of this post? Who can tell, and you’ll have to read to the end to see if I’m prepared to admit to it…

Lets start with a book whose sample I loved so much that I bought the paperback straightaway – because the kindle edition was too expensive – because now that Kindle version is only 99p! Yes Summer Fridays is on offer, and it’s really good – although read my review for the caveats about why some romance readers may have an issue with it. Also a bargain and really good is last year’s Christina Lauren The True Love Experiment. I really enjoyed Kirsty Greenwood‘s The Love of My Afterlife when it came out a few months back, and it’s got loads of buzz and great reviews too – so it’s a total bargain for 99p at the moment. More expensive at £2.29 but worth mentioning because it’s also in Kindle Unlimited now is Annabel Monaghan’s latest book Summer Romance which was BotW just a couple of months ago. A little bit older, but still a BotW is Rachel Lynn Solomon’s Business or Pleasure.

Emily Henry’s Book Lovers, is 99p, as is one of the earlier Katie Ffordes Life Skills, which is one of her books that features canal boats (yes there are more than one of them). The fourth in Jenny Colgan’s Little Beach Street Bakery series Sunrise by the Sea is 99p at the moment. I’ve only read the first in the Lovelight Farms series, but I keep seeing them everywhere in the bookshops, so it’s only fair to mention that the final instalment Business Casual is 99p at the moment.

I’m a big fan of Curtis Sittenfeld as regular readers will know, and Rodham, her alternative story of what might have happened to Hillary if she hadn’t married Bill Clinton is 99p at the moment. I really like Barbara Pym and should probably mention her more often, so you should definitely take a look at Jane and Prudence which is 99p at the moment if you’re interested in witty British authors from the mid-twentieth century. Also in this category is Elizabeth Taylor – I bought one of hers that I haven’t read (yet) in Paris, but one of my favourites of hers is Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – I have a lovely Virago Designer hardback copy, but you don’t have to have such a pretty one when the ebook is 99p! Another book that I should probably have mentioned more, and which has a spot on the downstairs bookshelf is Mary McCartney’s The Group – if you haven’t read her novel about a group of young female Vassar graduates in the 1920s, where have you been?

I’m slowly working my way through the Matthew Shardlake books when I get a chance, and the second one of them, Dark Fire is £1.49 at the moment. I’ve got the TV adaptation on my list of things to watch next time I get a Disney+ subscription (which may be sooner rather than later given the arrival of the latest series of Only Murders in the Building). Also in historical mysteries is Umberto Eco’s In The Name of the Rose which I have recommended more than once and is really worth reading – there’s also a recent TV adaptation of it to add to the movie (which has Sean Connery!).

This month’s Discworld is Jingo at £1.99 – it’s the fourth in the City Watch sub-series, and it’s a good one, as a new island appears in the sea between Ankh Morpork and Klatch and causes no end of trouble. The Georgette Heyer is The Nonesuch, which I actually listened to (again) last week on Kindle and always think is underrated. Summer Lightning, which is one of my favourite of P G Wodehouse’s Blandings series is on offer too

Frank and Red by Matt Coyne is on my Kindle waiting to be read, but it’s also 99p at the moment. And I read a lot of Jenn McKinlay’s cozy mysteries but her latest non-cosy Love at First Book is 99p at the moment. On the non-fiction front, still on the pile after I bought an airport paperback copy when we went on holiday but now out in actual paperback and on offer for £1.99 is David Mitchell’s Unruly.

What did I buy while writing this? Well Patrick Stewart’s memoir Making It So, Hema Sukumar’s Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments which I’ve had my eye on for a while and is finally on offer and Nisha Sharma’s Marriage & Masti which is the third book in her series which started with Dating Dr Dil and is a Twelfth Night* retelling.

And that is surely enough books to tempt anyone – I hope you’re not leaving me to spend alone…

Happy Humpday everyone!

*my favourite Shakespeare play, forever and always.

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Recommendsday: June Kindle Offers

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Hello I’m back again to tempt you into spending more money on Kindle books to add your to-read piles, which I’m sure are already bulging, but we’re heading into summer holiday season, so if you needed an excuse to buy a book (or two) make this it!

There are a bunch of former Books of the Week on offer this month so lets start there. I mentioned The Dead Romantics in my Books with Ghosts recommendsday the other week, so it’s only fair to mention that this former BotW is 99p at the moment. Another is Cathy Yardley‘s Role Playing – I loved this so much this time last year – then there is also Forget Me Not by Julie Soto – who has her second book out next month. At the same price is A Very Lively Murder, the second Three Dahlias book – ahead of the arrival of book three next month.

The third Emmy Lake book is 99p at the moment – I reviewed Mrs Porter Calling when it came out last year, but it’s got a fresh cover (I assume for the paperback edition) in case that’s confusing you. I’m still hoping for a fourth in the series too, but no news yet and it’s usually two years between these so it’s not “due” until next year so I’m not worried yet. It’s got a new cover since I bought it, but K J Charles‘s The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting is 99p – the second in this series (although it will be standalone) is out next month as well.

Carley Fortune is a new to me author, but I’ve seen lots of good reviews of her other books and her latest This Summer Will Be Different is 99p at the moment – I bought this last month – but it’s still on offer as I write this. In other new books that I haven’t read yet, Sarah Morgan’s summer novel is 99p at the moment – it’s called The Summer Swap. And I mentioned Kirsty Greenwood’s new book in my Summer of Not Sequels post, so it’s only fair to mention that another of the Novelicious crew Cressida McLaughlin has a new book out this summer too and The Happy Hour is 99p.

We’re only on series three of Bridgerton, but book five in the series – aka Eloise’s story – is on offer at the moment. I really like To Sir Philip, With Love, but I know that it’s not everyone’s favourite and if you’ve watched the series before reading the books it may be a bit of a shock to you! In other TV tie-in news, we have The Magpie Murders at 99p – I loved the books, I loved the TV series and I’m on record as wishing Anthony Horowitz could write more of them. I’m almost embarrassed about how many times I’ve mentioned Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy now, but I did love it so much that I can’t really be sorry. It’s 99p, read it on the beach.

If you want some non-fiction, Jen Gunter’s The Vagina Bible is 99p -which I’ve read, and her Menopause Manifesto, which I haven’t.

My dad recently discovered that there was a Discworld book he hadn’t read – I wish I could have a similar moment but sadly I know I’ve read them all. But it’s that time of year again where I’m thinking about which Discworld book to re-read – and Guards! Guards! is always right up there and if I didn’t already own it, it’s £1.99 at the moment and is a great place to start the series. GNU Sir Terry and if you’re wondering, the one that Dad hadn’t read was Equal Rites. Talking of my family, Ralph’s Party by Lisa Jewell was one of my sister’s favourites back when we were teenagers, I thought it was new at the time – but doing the maths as it has a 25th anniversary edition out now, it really can’t have been!

The Convenient Marriage is this month’s 99p Georgette Heyer, both the first Poirot and the first Miss Marple books are 99p if you want some Agatha Christie, and The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford is also on offer if you want some Bright Young Things in action.

And surely that’s enough books now? It’s all you’re getting anyway – so Happy Humpday!

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Books in the Wild: Works summer update

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I wasn’t going to do this this week but then I went into my local The Works and they had a tonne of summer books and I though that I had to flag it to you all so you can get your holiday/vacation purchasing underway.

This is the new book section – and there’s a few that aren’t my thing but there’s the new Emily Henry, some of the big memoirs from Christmas at a bargain price (now coming out in paperback which is presumably why) the paperback of Yellowface, some TV tie-ins and cook books.

Let’s start by saying that if it wasn’t for NetGalley, pre-orders and airport purchasing, I would have spent a tonne of money because they have such good stuff at the moment. There’s the new Olivia Dade, the Tessa Bailey I bought on the way to Manila, Elle Kennedy, the new Amy Lea, and so many of the current New Adult favourites.

This is the slightly older but still not old enough to be in the 3 for £6 selection – all the Richard Osmans, Lessons in Chemistry, The Maid, the first Megan Clawson (the new one is in the first photo), Beth O’Leary and a tonne of sagas and crimes that are too much for me!

This shelf was where I learned that there are now three Finlay Donovan books! And I still haven’t read the first one. There’s a tonne of magic, sports romance, murder mystery and paranormal. Basically there are books for you in all the key genres that are trending at the moment no matter what sort of budget you’re working on. As long as you don’t read as many books as I do. For once I managed to resist purchasing, but that’s only because I was heading to buy a stack of books to give as a gift and couldn’t carry any more!

Have a great Saturday everyone

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Recommendsday: May Kindle Offers

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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!

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Recommendsday: April Kindle Offers

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It’s the second Wednesday of the month, and you know what that means, it’s time for me to tempt you to spend a whole bunch of money on cheap Kindle books!

In relatively recent picks, Come as You Are is 99p – this one was a BotW pick last year – and I think the price is down now because a second book in the series has just come out – and although that one is more expensive to buy Lips Like Sugar is also in Kindle Unlimited! Also 99p is Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, which is the first in Ashley Herring Blake’s Bright Falls series. As you know I’m currently reading the last one (when I can find the paperback, which I keep misplacing!) in this trio of romances featuring a friendship group in a small town. Alexandria Bellefleur also has a new book coming out this month and I think that’s why all three of her Written in the Stars series are £1.99 at the moment.

I’ve written whole posts about how much I love A J Pearce’s books about Emmy Lake, so it’s only right that I flag to you that the second in the trilogy (so far) Yours, Cheerfully is 99p this month – and the first one is in Kindle Unlimited at the moment as well. Double bonus. I read Alexander McCall Smith from time to time – and I think The 44 Scotland Street series is my favourite of his – and the first one of those is 99p at the moment. He’s definitely an author to read in order and if you binge too many in a row (like MC Beaton) you may notice patterns and trends and enjoy them less so pace yourself for best effect.

In older favourites, Jenny Colgan’s Little Beach Street Bakery is 99p. The heroine escapes a horrible relationship and does some healing through bakery, way before sourdough was the craze of the early pandemic. I have a special place in my heart for this book, because I won a competition when this came out and the prize was a new oven. I think enough time has passed now that I can admit that what I actually got was a stack of John Lewis vouchers to buy the oven – and as I didn’t need a new oven at the time, I held on to them and they bought new pillows and a new washer dryer when the one that I inherited from my grandpa gave up the ghost! Thank you lovely competition.

Another old favourite is Trisha Ashley – and her Wedding Tiers is 99p this month if you want to visit her Lancashire universe. We’re only a just over a month away from the first part of the third series of Bridgerton dropping on Netflix, but if you can’t wait (and bearing in mind everything I’ve said about the difference between the books and the series) then The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown is 99p – this is a collaborative effort with Julia Quinn and two other authors each telling a story in the Whistledown world.

This month’s bargain Georgette Heyer is Bath Tangle, which isn’t one of my favourites, but which I probably should re-read again to see if I’ve changed my mind on it, as can sometimes happen as I get older and wiser. This has a formerly engaged couple coming back into contact with each other when he is appointed her trustee after the death of her father. Devil’s Cub and An Infamous Army are among the ones at £1.99, There’s also a PG Wodehouse omnibus on offer for 99p if you want some Jeeves and Wooster.

I should probably mention some non-fiction too right? The Dress Diary of Miss Anne Sykes is 99p. I don’t recommend a lot of cook books, but when I do it tends to be Rukmini Iyer – I love her Roasting Tin series, and The Green Roasting Tin is £1.99 if you are someone who can cope with cook books on tablets.

And in books I bought while writing this post, there’s Genevieve Cogman’s Scarlet – I’ve read The Invisible Library and really liked it and this is French revolutionary vampires and comes with comparisons to Gail Carriger who you know I love. I’m excited to read it – and there is a sequel coming next month too. I also bought The Storied Life of A J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin, which was her big book before Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow went mega-huge. And finally I bought The Partner Plot which is the new book from Kristina Forrest, who wrote The Neigbor Favor which was a book of the week last summer.

Happy Humpday everyone!

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Recommendsday: February Kindle offers

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Here we are with this month’s Kindle offers for your delectation – and there are a lot of them so lets get right to it.

Killers of a Certain Age

Deanna Raybourn’s Killers of a Certain Age is 99p this month, I’m not quite sure why as the paperback isn’t out until March, but take advantage while you can. I really enjoyed this tale of retired assassins on the run – and one of my besties is reading it at the moment and really enjoying it too (unless something has changed!). Jill Hornby’s Godmersham Park is 99p at the moment, Miss Austen was a book of the Week and I really enjoyed Godmersham Park, which is a sort of sequel – it’s definitely a continuation set in the same world. I mentioned Daphne Du Maurier in my post about books set in Devon and Cornwall – if you fancy a bit of Cornish Smuggling action, Frenchman’s Creek is 99p this month – it’s not my favourite, but I do love my beautiful Virago Designer Hardback copy!

Another recent BotW pick The Last Hero is 99p, but one of my all time favourite Terry Pratchetts, Going Postal, is £1.99. There are a lot of Georgette Heyers at £1.99 this month, including some of my favourites like Sylvester, These Old Shades, Devil’s Cub, Venetia and Frederica. It’s actually easier just to send you to the list than the original pages! On the Wimsey front, some of the series are now dropping out of copyright so there are a lot of quite cheap kindle books popping up, but I can’t vouch for their formatting and accuracy. Of the editions that match the Hodder and Stoughton paperbacks, The Nine Tailors is the 99p book this month – if you haven’t read it, it’s set in the Fenland, there are floods and church bells and bodies in the wrong grave and its really quite something.

If you were tempted by the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates books after my series review last year, the second book in the series is 99p at the moment – A Three Dog Problem is set around Buckingham Palace after a murder at the palace swimming pool (a real thing!). Very recent release Shipwrecked by Olivia Dade is 99p, as is In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer (which I talked about in my late summer reading post) and Miss Aldrige Regrets is on offer again.

We don’t have a date for series three of Bridgerton yet (please can it be soon Netflix, thank you), but the good news is that this month Romancing Mr Bridgerton aka the book the next series is based on is 99p – read it before the series. Interestingly Colin and Eloise’s story is actually the fourth in the series, not the third, but I do fully support the decision to skip book three (Benedict’s story) for now because it’s a Cinderella retelling and it’s a) not my favourite and b) doesn’t fit in with what they’ve been doing with the series. I am fascinated to see what they decide to do about it – and also about Eloise’s book which is number five, but now doesn’t fit in at all with the chronology they’ve created if she’s going to end up with the same person as she does in the books. And that’s all I can say without it being a spoiler!

Whistling through some other stuff – A Village in the Third Reich is £1.99 – you may remember I bought myself this and Travellers in the Third Reich when I was writing the Buy Me a Book for Christmas post last year! There are a couple of Mhairi McFarlane novels that are 99p – including You Had Me At Hello and Last Night. In other authors that I like, Christina Lauren’s Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating is 99p, and there are quite a few Trisha Ashley‘s for 99p including my all time favourite A Winter’s Tale, which is a Christmas novel but which I can read any time of year!

In stuff I purchased while writing this post, there is Nora Goes off Script, about a scriptwriter for a romance channel who turns her divorce into a screenplay and the “sexiest man alive” is cast as her ex-husband. In stuff I should have read but haven’t got around to (yet), Stephanie Gerber’s Caraval trilogy is 99p for the complete thing which is a total bargain. Likewise, in stuff I haven’t read yet, Jodi Taylor’s newest Time Police (that’s the spin off series from Chronicles of St Mary’s) novel About Time is 99p too. Also 99p is David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue which I really keep meaning to get around to!

It’s a short month, so catch them while you can! Happy Reading!