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The Scrapper by Brendan O'Carroll from The O'Brien Press (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (October 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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Dublin boxer Sparrow McCabe has the Spanish contender on the floor. The World Featherweight title is his for the taking. But something stops Sparrow from throwing that final punch and suddenly it’s all over. Fifteen years later Sparrow is working as a driver for the gangster Simon Williams, trying to turn a blind eye to the scams, the extortion rackets and the rough justice handed out by Williams and his heavies. Then murder enters the picture and Sparrow decides to take a stand. This is one fight he cannot lose. From Brendan O'Carroll, author of the bestselling Mrs Brown trilogy and the BAFTA-nominated TV series Mrs Brown's Boys.

QI The Book of the Dead by John Mitchinson and John Lloyd from Faber and Faber Non Fiction (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Deal of the Day (October 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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In The Book of the Dead you will meet hundreds of Dead People, some well-known, others completely obscure, organised into 42 short chapters that play merry hell with the usual classifications. So, instead of Royalty, Scientists and Sportsmen, you'll find rather more diverting categories like People who died Penniless, The One-Legged, Only Children, People who failed at School, Those only Remembered by a Single Quotation and the Last People to Know Everything. Why did a church composer invent the hand grenade? What was Leonardo's proudest achievement? If The Book of the Dead doesn't persuade you to immediately join the massed ranks of those looking at the radishes from below, it will certainly make the tricky business of Living a tad less grim and a lot more interesting.

Deirdre and Desire (The Six Sisters) by M.C. Beaton from Harper Voyager (£0.99) is the Amazon UK Kindle Daily Deal (October 19) *Wait for price to reflect discount before 1-clicking

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The third in M.C. Beaton's great fun Regency Romance series: The Six Sisters.

Red-haired, jade-eyed Deirdre is determined to marry for Love - nothing else will do. So the fact her father's candidate for her hand, Lord Harry Desire, is well bred and good looking, interests her not a jot!