FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

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The Bloody Ground (Starbuck Chronicles Volume Four) by Bernard Cornwell - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N2HBZW

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The Saxon Tales Collection: Books #5-8: The Burning Land, Death of Kings, The Pagan Lord, and The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell - $3.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M719WGS

A collection of the fifth through eighth installments of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.

[salty-horse]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño is £1 on Amazon UK
Translated by Natasha Wimmer.

An exuberant, raunchy, wildly inventive, and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run.

The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances.

A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño is £1 on Amazon UK
Translated by Natasha Wimmer.

An incredible literary novel! I'm looking forward to re-reading this one, since it's been about 15 years.

[salty-horse]

The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

With extraordinary narrative power, Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history.

When the world cowered before the legions of Rome, two extraordinary men dreamed of personal glory: the military genius and wealthy rural "upstart" Marius, and Sulla, penniless and debauched but of aristocratic birth. Men of exceptional vision, courage, cunning, and ruthless ambition, separately they faced the insurmountable opposition of powerful, vindictive foes. Yet allied they could answer the treachery of rivals, lovers, enemy generals, and senatorial vipers with intricate and merciless machinations of their own—to achieve in the end a bloody and splendid foretold destiny . . . and win the most coveted honor the Republic could bestow.

[tch65721]

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JMKRLQ

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.

In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers back in time to the compelling life of Roman Senator Marcus Cicero. The re-creation of a vanished biography written by his household slave and righthand man, Tiro, Imperium follows Cicero’s extraordinary struggle to attain supreme power in Rome.

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The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00851M70C

Award-wining author Guy Gavriel’s sixth novel, hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, is both a brilliant adventure and a moving story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake -- or destroy -- a world.

[ZodWallop]

Crime and Punishment: A New Translation by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz (Translator) is $3 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.

A celebrated new translation of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece reveals the “social problems facing our own society” (Nation).

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS “Great American Read,” Michael Katz’s sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who sees himself as extraordinary and therefore free to commit crimes—even murder—in a work that best embodies the existential dilemmas of man’s instinctual will to power. Embracing the complex linguistic blend inherent in modern literary Russian, Katz “revives the intensity Dostoevsky’s first readers experienced, and proves that Crime and Punishment still has the power to surprise and enthrall us” (Susan Reynolds).

With its searing and unique portrayal of the labyrinthine universe of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, this “rare Dostoevsky translation” (William Mills Todd III, Harvard) will captivate lovers of world literature for years to come.

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The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003V1WUR6

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell—one of the greatest yet little-known skirmishes of the Revolution: the Penobscot Expedition, a battle that would reveal the true character of a legendary Revolutionary hero.

[SomeSteve]

The Vegetarian by Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year, is around $2/€2 at Kobo US and various Amazon sites, three of which are linked below. The Vegetarian won the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016.

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-vegetarian-1

https://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-No.../dp/B00X2F7NRI

https://www.amazon.fr/Vegetarian-Nov.../dp/B00X2F7NRI

https://www.amazon.de/Vegetarian-Nov.../dp/B00X2F7NRI

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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CFA91Y

A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly • Amazon • Hudson Booksellers • Washington Post

[SomeSteve]

Originally Posted by tch65721

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt - $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CFA91Y

A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly • Amazon • Hudson Booksellers • Washington Post

Same price at Kobo US:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-sisters-brothers-1

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The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)
About the AIDS epidemic in the US.

A dazzling novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister.

Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

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Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Same price at Kobo US:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-sisters-brothers-1

The price I see is $14.99... If it was on sale it isn't anymore...

[tch65721]

Gallows Thief: A Novel by Bernard Cornwell - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N2HC10