Free (Kindle) 4 novels by Annie Ayre [Literary, Historical, Comedy, Romance]

[ATDrake]

Four standalone novels by literary fiction author Annie Ayre, previously published under the pseudonym as by Rosemary Kingsland (apparently there is now another, presumably unrelated, author by the same name ETA: it turns out this is exactly the same author who has written a tell-all memoir about an affair with actor Richard Burton, which makes Ayre the penname), are free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Odyssey imprint.

These have a mix of satirical, historical, and romantic elements, in differing combinations per book.

• A Small Death in Berlin @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else worldwide via the KDP Select exclusive-or-else program), a satirical post-war story set in the aftermath of WWI, which finds a Prussian officer returning to a Berlin seemingly changed for the worse, where he has no employment prospects except at the local brothel, which in turn leads him down an increasingly strange and surprising life path.
  
  This was originally published under the title Just a Gigolo in 1979 by Corgi, and appears to be a novelization of the eponymous film (Wikipedia) starring the late David Bowie and also featuring the last performance of the legendary Marlene Dietrich. The quoted newspaper praise in the blurb from The Sunday Times likens it to Evelyn Waugh's classic Sword of Honour trilogy, which has a rather nice TV adaptation starring Daniel Craig, just so you know.
• The Roar of the Tiger @ Amazon, a literary comedy set in Northern India in 1930 (the author herself was born and raised in India, though later emigrated to the UK and then the US), centred around the railroad which is based in an English settler township and the many eccentric characters who live there and pass through. Originally published in 1985 by Penguin's Viking imprint as After the Ball is Over.
• A Year in Tuscany @ Amazon, a literary contemporary romantic comedy about the daughters of a Danish duke who abruptly announces he is selling the family villa in Italy (the author's bio-blurb says she has also lived in Tuscany), and the various escapades that ensue as a result, including courtships, estranged spouses, and scheming. Originally published in 1987 by Penguin's Viking imprint under the title Cassata.
• Midnight Dancer @ Amazon, a drama with f/m romantic and suspense elements set in 1960s London, starring a hostess at an exotic club where prostitution is one of the employment options, who falls in love with a man who wants to take her away from it all, a prospective move which is complicated by both characters' shady pasts showing up to haunt them, even as she seeks to make a better life for herself and her young son. Originally published in 1980 by Sphere under the title Hussy, and apparently a novelization of the eponymous film (Wikipedia) starring Helen Mirren.

[TrevorViking]

Amazon link for the first book, of double wiki-linked it ATD.
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Death-B...2259003&sr=1-4

[ATDrake]

Oops. Fixed, thanks!

[ATDrake]

Midnight Dancer is now a repeat freebie, if you happened to miss it earlier.