Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Dec 8th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, price should be the same in the other usual Canada & US stores, may also be discounted in other regions, etc):
Life in the West by multiple Hugo & BFSA-winner Brian W. Aldiss, OBE (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia), 1st in his Squire Quartet, originally published in 1980. This appears to be a series of sfnal-ish psychological thrillers (the 4th one is set in the future; Kobo actually files this 1st one in the Romance section, and Amazon under Political Satire, so YMMV).
Now with a New Introduction by the Author!
Thomas C. Squire, creator of the hit documentary series Frankenstein Among the Arts, one-time secret agent and founder of the Society for Popular aesthetics, is attending an international media symposium in Sicily. It is here that he becomes involved with lovely, but calculating Selina Ajdina. Alongside the drama of the conference is the story of Squire's private life - the tale of his infidelity, the horrifying circumstances surrounding his father's death and the threatened future of his ancestral home in England.
Selected by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 best novels published since 1939.
ORM are also having a 1-day sale bargain on 10 1st-in-series sf/fantasy novels for $1.99 each.
These are the Kindle Sci-Fi/Fantasy deal of the day over at Amazon, but should be price-matched in the usual other stores (couponable @ Kobo).
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I have about half of these already from previous Fictionwise sales, and I especially recommend John DeChancie's
Castle Perilous which is very funny (the later books moreso than this starter), Barbara Hambly's
Dragonsbane which is truly excellent and a long-time favourite of mine in paperback, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's
The Godmother has an entertaining take on modern-day fairy tales.