Bargain @ $9.99 for Canada only from HarperCollins' uncollinated Harper imprint (non-couponable, linkage goes to Kobo, should be matched in the standard Canadian stores, £17.99 in UK, does not exist in the US store):
The Warrior Chronicles Books 1-6 by Bernard Cornwell (
Wikipedia), the first 6 books in what's currently an 8-book-plus series about King Alfred during Anglo-Saxon England pushing back the Viking invasions. This is pretty much a dirt-cheap price for them considering that the omnibuses of #1-3 & #4-6 are each still $23-25 and the individuals appear to be $10 and up. Maybe one day HC will come up with an even more money-saving complete edition, but the series is still in progress and that's somewhere off in the far future, most likely.
The Empty Throne, #8 can also be had for $4.99 (#7 is $17.99 CAD).
A couple of weirdly inconsistent bargains, also out from HarperCollins, on Maurice Druon's (
Wikipedia) The Accursed Kings series, which is the translated version of his Les Rois Maudits series based on 13th-14th C medieval France, which in turn George R. R. Martin used as inspiration for A Song of Ice and Fire.
The Iron King, #1, is $2.99 in Canada ($8.99 in US).
The Strangled Queen, #2, is $4.99 in Canada, but $1.99 in US (ETA:
slightly different US version which is actually on sale).
So if you're willing to shop in more than one region, you can get the first two books at a reasonably steeply discounted price (most of the rest are $12 or so), and even at full price for #3, it's cheaper than the upcoming 3-book bundle of #1-3 which is pre-order priced at $21.99 CAD. (ETA: this might not be true for US persons, who can apparently pre-order the
#1-3 bundle for $15.99, which works out to be roughly the same money, since #3 is $9.99 US, although there's a chance it might drop later.)
Myself, I'm going to hold out for the complete omnibus which I'm sure will come one day and go on discount sale as well, since the library seems to have these in paper.
Incidentally, for those looking for the original French version:
Les Rois Maudits — L'intégrale of all 7 @ $45.99 CAD from Plon, which is about $2 cheaper per volume than for the individuals. I could have sworn that the UK store had an even cheaper edition from a different publisher, but it seems to be gone now. ETA: apparently this is even lower-priced from the US, at $34.99 USD. Of course, there's currency conversion to take into account.