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It’s the second Wednesday of the month, and while we swelter through another heatwave (at least it’s July this time I guess?) it’s time for some Kindle deals.

Lets start with some of the ones that I bought while writing this post Kills Well With Others by Deanna Raybourn, which is the sequel to Killers of a Certain Age, which is 99p and I think for the first time. The third Castle Knoll book – How to Cheat Your Own Death – which only came out in April is 99p too, as is Uniform Justice by Donna Leon which is is the 12th in the Commissario Brunetti series which I’ve just started reading. And I also bought The Final Problem, which is a murder mystery set on a Greek Island whee an aging actor most known for playing Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating a death and Murder at Canterbury Cathedral by Jim Eldridge whose Museum Mysteries I’ve been reading recently.

Sticking with mysteries/thrillers but moving to stuff I have actually read, there’s The Queen Who Came in from the Cold the fifth H M the Queen Investigates book; Dissolution, the first Shardlake book; Murder Before Evensong, the first Canon Clement; Mrs Spy by M J Rowbotham, Missing in Soho the second Misty Divine book and The Comfort of Ghosts, the final in the Maisie Dobbs series which is also in Kindle Unlimited.

Away from mysteries, recent BotW The Heir Apparent is 99p as is new release Abby Offsides which I read last week about (and have thoughts on that I will share at some point!), the new Ashley Poston, The Someday Garden, which is also in Kindle Unlimited for those of you who subscribe, Emily Henry’s Book Lovers, as well as the much older One Day by David Mitchell which is about to be a musical as well as a movie and a TV series and Julie Soto’s Forget Me Not which I read back when it had a much less goth-y cover! The Eights – which I have on the physical pile – is 99p, and in non-fiction Travellers in the Third Reich is 99p and I can really recommend it, as I can also with The Formula.

A couple of my favourite Georgette Heyers are 99p this month – Venetia and These Old Shades as is What Happens in London from Julia Quinn‘s Bevelstoke series. And Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Casting Off is 99p too – this is my favourite in the Cazalet series I think (because it ties everything together so well) and I actually saw someone reading a paperback copy of this on the train last week and it made me *so* happy.

In stuff I haven’t read but that sounds interesting, there’s Hannah Bonham-Young’s Out on a Limb about a friends with benefits that turns to more in what I suspect is a pregnancy plot, I also bought Father Material which is down to 99p just a month after release, and First and Forever by Lynn Painter and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse which is a biography of four of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters. And surely that’s enough for this month. I hope your wallet has fared better than mine did when I was writing this.

Happy Humpday!

It’s the second Wednesday of January, and once again I’m back with the Kindle Offers that I’ve spotted that I think might interest you if you read this blog, or interested me while I was looking!

There is actually not a lot that I’ve already read and recommended on offer this month – probably because I don’t read a lot of romantasy or creepy thrillers. But there are a few to mention. I’m going to start with a former BotW: Armistead Maupin’s Mona of the Manor. My love for the Tales of the City books is well known at this point and this is the tenth (and probably last?) in the series. Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle, which was one of my 50 States books from 2023, is 99p as is the second Bridget Jones book The Edge of Reason and Amy Lea’s Set On You about a curvy fitness influencer is back on offer too.

On the buzzy books front there is Bob Mortimer’s The Hotel Avocado, Harlan Coban’s Run Away – presumably because the adaptation has just hit Netflix, and Hannah Grace’s Icebreaker which is one of a slew of ice hockey related romances on offer, presumably because of the imminent arrival of Heated Rivalry to our streaming screens. In other things I have’t read there is a T J Klune from a couple of years back The Bones Beneath My Skin which I didn’t buy but only because I still have two Klunes in the backlog and I have rules that I’m trying to stick to. Talking of rules I’m trying to stick to, Assistant to the Villain is back on offer – I bough this last year and still haven’t read it and really need to get around to it because there are already two sequels with a third coming in the summer. Also waiting to be read (as a paperback though not on the Kindle) is Ashley Herring Blake’s Dream On, Ramona Riley, presumably because the second book in that series, Get Over it, April Evans, is out at the start of February.

This month the Terry Pratchett are the second and third in the Discworld series, The Light Fantastic and Equal Rites. Frederica is the Georgette Heyer One of my favourite Katie Fforde’s is on offer too – Flora’s Lot is set in an auction house and has bonus kittens. Romancing Mr Bridgerton is back on offer too – this is the book that the last season of Bridgerton was based on. Sidenote: the new season drops at the end of the month and is Benedict’s story aka based on An Offer from a Gentleman (which also happens to be in Kindle Unlimited at the moment). If you’re in the market for historical romance, Mary Balogh’s Remember When from her Ravenswood series is on offer as well. In classics, Ross Poldark, the first in Winston Graham’s Poldark series is on offer too.

In things I booked while writing this post we have The Almighty Dollar by Dharshini David and Dan Jones’s Henry V book (which is £1.99 rather than 99p) which is positively restrained.

Happy Humpday!

Happy December everyone, it’s nearly Christmas and I’m back with the last batch of Kindle offers for the year. And there are a lot of festive offerings on offer and as most people only read Christmas books in the six weeks or so around the holidays, I’m going to focus mostly on them this month.

Lets start with the Christmas books I haven’t read: the new Sarah Morgan All Together for Christmas is 99p as is Trisha Ashley’s latest The Christmas Retreat, Fallon Ballard’s All I Want is You, and the Sierra Simone and Julie Murphy novella Snow Place Like LA. Not 99p but £1.99, Sarah Morgenthaler’s The Christmas You Found Me is one of the books that I wrote while writing the post.

I started The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year last week and that’s 99p and in Kindle Unlimited. And I’ve read Christmas is All Around by Martha Walters, Jill Shalvis’s The Family You Make, A Very Merry Bromance from Lyssa Kay Adam’s Bromance Book Club series, B K Borison’s Lovelight Farms, Jasmine Guillory’s royal-adjacent romance Royal Holiday, the Agatha Christie short story anthology Midwinter Murders and M C Beaton‘s Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye and A Highland Christmas which is a Hamish Macbeth and are also all 99p.

On to the non-festive stuff. One of my favourite new books of the year is 99p too – Layne Fargo’s The Favourites, just in time to fill the gap left after the Grand Prix final at the weekend and the European Championships in Sheffield in a month’s time. I also made The Rom Commers a BotW I loved Legends and Lattes when I read it earlier this year and the new book just came out, so it’s nice to see Bookshops and Bonedust on offer too. We’ve also had some teaser photos from the filming of series two of The Rivals – if you haven’t read the book yet it’s on offer as well.

If you need a curl-up-on-the-sofa-and-ignore-the-world read, The Light Years, the first Cazalet Chronicle is 99p and Helen Fielding’s ninties classic If you need a curl-up-on-the-sofa-and-ignore-the-world read, The Light Years, the first Cazalet Chronicle is 99p and Helen Fielding’s nineties classic Bridget Jones’s Diary. Both A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting and A Lady’s Guide to Scandal by Sophie Irwin are 99p, as are Cathy Yardley‘s Role Playing and Do Me a Favour both of which were Books of the Week. And if that’s still not enough for you, my Alaska read for this year’s 50 States Challenge Any Trope But You by Victoria Lavine and the first in the Ruth Galloway series The Crossing places are both 99p and the cheap Terry Pratchett this month is – unsuprisingly – Hogfather.

Happy Humpday!

It’s the second Wednesday of the month, so it’s time for some more Kindle offers. And I’m not going to lie, given that it’s Valentine’s Day this month, I was expecting more romances on offer than I actually found. But hey, maybe this is counter programming?

Lets star with the romances I did find though. There’s an older Katie Fforde Living Dangerously, Casey McQuiston’s Red, White and Royal Blue, Kirsty Greenwood’s The Love of My Afterlife, How to End a Love Story (which I had some reservations about), recent release (and even more recently mentioned) Not in My Book and one of the Christina Laurens I haven’t read – Love and Other Words.

There are a few intriguing looking new releases on offer – like Frances White’s Voyage of the Damned, which claims “if Agatha Christie wrote fantasy, this would be it” which is quite the claim and almost enough to get me to buy it without reading a sample for 99p. But not quite enough because I’m working on that impulse control, so I have the sample on the Kindle now.

If you want to start the Rivers of London series ahead of the next book this summer, the first book is 99p this month. There are a couple of Agatha Christies on offer too – Sparkling Cyanide and Nemesis. Also in old favourites there’s Memoirs of a Geisha, which I first read at uni and is way better than the movie of it is.

In stuff I have but haven’t read yet, there’s T J Klune’s retelling of Pinoccio In the Lives of Puppets and Stephanie Garber’s Caravel.

Two Discworld books to flag this month – I Shall Wear Midnight from the Tiffany Aching middle grade series is 99p and Feet of Clay from the Watch sequence is £1.99. There’s a Georgette Heyer murder mystery, Death in the Stocks, on offer at 99p as well as a few romances including one of my all time favourites in Devil’s Cub and short story collection Pistols for Two at £1.99.

Happy Humpday!

It’s January. It’s incredibly cold. So you should buy books. And there are some kindle bargains to help you with that!

Let’s start with two authors who I mentioned in my anticipated books post at the weekend. Firstly Taylor Jenkins Reid whose tennis comeback story Carrie Soto is Back is 99p this month just in time for the Australian Open. Then there is Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five – also 99p and really worth reading – especially given how much it upset a lot of the so-called “Ripperologists”. If you’re interested in social history and the lives that women lead in the past (and that don’t often get covered) you will find it really interesting, even if (like me) you don’t usually do Jack the Ripper content.

We’re under a week away from another Presidential inauguration (and we just had the funeral of another former president), and Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife is on offer – this is her book that’s inspired by Laura Bush. I like it (but not as much as I like Romantic Comedy) and I am looking forward to her collection of short stories that is coming out next month. Ready Player One is back on offer – I like the book way more than the film, and I say that as someone who likes the film, although I still haven’t managed to bring myself to read the sequel.

On the non-fiction front, there is Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking – which I actually listened to on audiobook (read by Carrie herself) a few years ago (while painting the spare room at the old house), but as a tale of growing up in Hollywood it’s incredible – and really funny and well written: after all Fisher was a script doctor who punched up the scripts of movies including favourites of mine like Sister Act and The Wedding Singer. On the history front, we have Alison Weir’s The Six Wives of Henry VIII which is a good starting point if you’re interested in the wives and want to know more. Also in the historical overview section of reading is Ian Mortimer’s The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, which is some of the most fun you can have reading about an era where the Plague could get you if the dysentery didn’t and if a woman made it to my age she was doing well. Talking about fun historical reads: Greg Jenner‘s Ask a Historian is also on offer, I’m guessing because there’s about to be a new series of You’re Dead To Me.

Excellent news on the Terry Pratchett front: Men at Arms is £1.99 this month. It’s the second in the Watch sequence, but it’s still early enough in the series that you can read it standalone without missing too many jokes. This one is playing with all the tropes about secret kings as well as a band of misfits finding home in the city police force. Also on offer is the graphic novel The Last Hero, which was a BotW a couple of years ago. This month’s Georgette Heyer is Black Sheep, there are Agatha Raisins and Hamish MacBeth’s on offer in the form of Down the Hatch and Death of a Spy. Josephine Tey’s The Man in the Queue which is the first in the Alan Grant series is 99p

In stuff I have waiting on the tbr pile (virtual or otherwise) that is on offer, we have Beth O’Leary’s The Road Trip (now in a tie-in edition because of the Paramount+ adaptation), Frank and Red by Matt Coyne, which is about an unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and the six year old who moves in next door to him. The Socialites was my Amazon Prime reads pick last month – and is now out and 99p. It says it’s for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid (tick), Katherine Tessaro (tick) and Fiona Davis (tick) and follows three girls from their convent school in the 1920s to their lives as actresses and writers and similar. This definitely falls into the fictionalised real people area of my reading wheelhouse.

And finally, in other stuff worth mentioning, Elusive, the second in Genevieve Cogman’s French Revolution series is on offer, ahead of the release of the third in the series later this year.

Happy Wednesday!