Kobo Canada is running two rather nice sales over the weekend: one general, and one genre.
Save On Homegrown Chills: Ice cold Canadian mysteries & thrillers runs until May 4th, and comprises selected titles from Dundurn, one of the semi-major small press Canadian publishers. They have quite a number of award-nominated authors in their stable, almost all of whom have entries on SYKM (and in a nice touch, Dundurn has begun putting specific award-nom mentions at the beginnings of their blurbs, which you easily see while scrolling through the listings).
Main sale page, with categories:
Reads To Get Your Heart Racing,
Police Procedurals,
Women Sleuths,
Private Investigators
These are all ~ $3 (regularly $6.99 CAD), and Dundurn is both couponable/VIP-eligible, and one of the publishers who doesn't tend to match Kobo special sale prices at Amazon or other stores. We've previously gotten a generous batch of
1st-in-series freebies from Dundurn for a number of the featured authors, in case you liked their books (or want to give the freebies a try now to see if you'd like to continue the series).
The more general
Warm up to great reads for spring runs until May 1st, and is the usual long weekend event mix of Big 5, smaller press, and indie authors, discounted to $3.99 CAD and under.
A chunk of this is already sale-promo stuff which is just being spotlighted, but a number of things have been marked down specially for this sale, especially from the small press specialty and Canadian local publishers. There's also Australian, ex-Soviet Russian (including a book about the
smuggling of Boris Pasternak's typescripts for
Doctor Zhivago outside the Soviet Union), and ex-British colonial Chinese history & cultural interest non-fiction titles from non-Canadian specialty imprints.
Main page, with categories:
Fantastic Fiction,
Dazzling Literary Fiction,
Heartwarming Romance,
Historical Fiction (mix of historical romance and historical military/drama),
Mystery & Suspense,
Science Fiction & Fantasy (mostly indie, but there are 3 nice-looking small-press anthologies of Canadian and
US-resident Latin American science fiction, the latter of which has a number of well-known literary authors such as Junot Díaz (
Wikipedia) and Giannina Braschi (
Wikipedia)),
Young Adult,
Non-Fiction (a generous selection of 15 pages),
Food & Drink (the cannabis cookbook is still on sale),
Kids & Middle Grade
Highlights include a rather
nice-looking biography/memoir of
The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, by his daughter Anne Serling, and
the just-released 4th in Norwegian author Thomas Enger's Henning Juul series (#1-3 are really cheap in the UK at the moment), which was on my wishlist.
And if you're a Wes Anderson fan, Abrams Media has a number of deep-discounted artbooks and interview/companion guides to his films, alongside some charming-looking kids' picture biographies of historical figures like proto-computer programming mathematician Ada Lovelace.