FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by tch65721

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

I can recommend this. A very good read.

[sufue]

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK, for a few more hours, is 9 books by Diana Gabaldon for £0.99 each, and one for £3.99 (???). There are 7 Outlander books and 3 books in the spin-off Lord John mystery series.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/node=4725112031

[salty-horse]

Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery is $2 in the US and elsewhere (Kobo US, Kobo WW, Amazon)

The Biedermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.

The residents give up breakfast, juggle competing jobs at rival presses, abandon their children, get laid off from the telephone company, attempt to retrain as stenographers, all with the shared awareness that their days as an institution are numbered, and they’d better make the most of it while it lasts.

[SomeSteve]

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald is $1.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US. This is the English translation. As far as Kobo is concerned, "Act fast – these great prices end tonight!"

W. G. Sebald’s celebrated masterpiece, “one of the supreme works of art of our time” (The Guardian), follows a man’s search for the answer to his life’s central riddle.

“Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, Kafka’s troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and New York Magazine Best Book of the Year

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize

https://www.amazon.com/Austerlitz-W-.../dp/B005LAK2ZM

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/austerlitz-2

[Desertway]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald is $1.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US. This is the English translation. As far as Kobo is concerned, "Act fast – these great prices end tonight!"



https://www.amazon.com/Austerlitz-W-.../dp/B005LAK2ZM

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/austerlitz-2

Bought it! Thanks very much.

[salty-horse]

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is £1 in the UK (Kobo, Amazon).
New-ish release.

Golden Age Hollywood - a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary temptress.

So when the film's mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

As Vera navigates the glitz and the gilded glamour of her new city, Nancy follows silently behind, trying to take everything she believes Vera has been unfairly handed.

But this is the tale of three women, for it is also the story of the princess Salome herself. Consumed with desire for the fiery prophet who foretells the doom of her stepfather, Salome is a woman torn between the decree of duty and the yearning of her heart.

And tragedy is waiting in the wings . . . for all three women.

[sufue]

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus sounds as if it might be funny, infuriating, and thought-provoking, all at the same time. And also as if it might hit close to home, given that the protagonist is the only woman on a chemistry research team in the 1960s, and even a decade later, in the late 1970s/early 1980s, I was often the only female engineer on a project. But I didn't go on to star in a TV show. Or foment rebellion among my fellow women, although I did try to be a mentor/role model.

Per its blurb, it won a bunch of awards, including Author of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award. And it was a Book of the Year for an insane number of magazines, newspapers, shows and retailers.

And it's £0.99 right now at Kindle UK as part of today's Daily Deal. Sadly it's not matched at Kobo UK, at least as of now, where it's currently £2.99, which is still not too bad.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099JC5HQK
Kobo UK (for price check): https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/lessons-in-chemistry-8

Spoiler:

Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, she would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.

But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality.

Forced to leave her job at the institute, she soon finds herself the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six.

But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook.

She's daring them to change the status quo. One molecule at a time.

[Quoth]

I'm seeing it @ £2.88 Amazon UK and £2.99 on Kobo UK.

Which I agree isn't a bad price.

When I was studying 3rd level there was only one woman student in the entire Engineering faculty. So she couldn't have fomented rebellion. She already worked in an Electronics company, in the Drawing office, who sponsored her. All the other women in the company were secretaries or production line / factory floor (none in QA).

[tch65721]

Originally Posted by sufue

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus sounds as if it might be funny, infuriating, and thought-provoking, all at the same time.

I thought it was great... and the Apple TV+ limited series as well.

[sufue]

I price-matched it at Kobo before the Kindle Daily Deal was over. Now I just have to find time to read it, but I already have four reviews due in early January, so it may be a while...

Originally Posted by tch65721

I thought it was great... and the Apple TV+ limited series as well.

[tch65721]

Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan - $1.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DYGNQ0

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp contemporary morality tale, cleverly disguised as a comic novel, Amsterdam is "a dark tour de force, perfectly fashioned" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Atonement.

[BetterRead]

The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne is currently $1.99 at Amazon, Kobo, and B&N.

Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award

Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple, Cyril Avery is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.

In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.

[Cactus Chef]

Struggled to figure out which deal thread to put this one in. Historical Fiction, perhaps?

Anyway, Books #1-4 of The Saxton Tales by Bernard Cornwell are on sale for $3.99 at the usual vendors:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LEYI47C
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...tion-books-1-4
https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=9mHoAwAAQBAJ

A collection of the first four 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. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.

Starting with The Last Kingdom, this is the exciting—yet little known—story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England’s four kingdoms.

This thrilling adventure—based on existing records of Cornwell’s ancestors—depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England.

“History comes alive.”—Boston Globe

Not read them. They sound interesting, but I fear they would just wilt on my digital bookshelf.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Struggled to figure out which deal thread to put this one in. Historical Fiction, perhaps?

Anyway, Books #1-4 of The Saxton Tales by Bernard Cornwell are on sale for $3.99 at the usual vendors:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LEYI47C
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...tion-books-1-4
https://play.google.com/store/books/...d=9mHoAwAAQBAJ



Not read them. They sound interesting, but I fear they would just wilt on my digital bookshelf.

I enjoyed them and think they are well worth reading. I have reread them too. I list them as Historical fiction.
Apache

[Sumanuil]

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich is $1.99 at Amazon US.