FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[SomeSteve]

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is £0.99 at Kobo UK.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/norwegian-wood-3

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is £0.99 at Kobo UK.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/norwegian-wood-3

Very good novel. It was adapted to a poorly received film, though I enjoyed it.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami is £0.99 at Kobo UK.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/norwegian-wood-3

For those of us across the pond, it's $3 on Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/nor...7-4647bde10b1d

[salty-horse]

Stag Dance by Torrey Peters is $2 in the US (Kobo, Amazon)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People

In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.

In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.

Three startling stories surround Stag Dance: “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend. In “The Chaser,” a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, “The Masker,” a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.

Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles, and delights.

[SomeSteve]

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is £0.99 at Amazon UK and Kobo UK.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buried-Gian...dp/B00R0K7VF0/

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-buried-giant-2

[SomeSteve]

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami is $1.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.

https://www.amazon.com/Wind-Up-Bird-.../dp/B003XT605Y

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...bird-chronicle

[salty-horse]

Rapture by Emily Maguire is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but Kobo should be price-matchable)

The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and secure a place at the revered Fulda monastery.

So begins the life of John the a matchless scholar and scribe of Fulda, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge of the old and new languages of Europe, theology and Church law - and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful (and deadly) currency.

And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known - and loved.

[SomeSteve]

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, "the extraordinary lost novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude," is £0.99 at Kobo UK.

It's about 70 pages or 21,000 words long, according to Kobo. Apparently he wanted it destroyed, but as so often happens, those who survived him didn't destroy it.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/until-august-4

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, "the extraordinary lost novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude," is £0.99 at Kobo UK.

It's about 70 pages or 21,000 words long, according to Kobo. Apparently he wanted it destroyed, but as so often happens, those who survived him didn't destroy it.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/until-august-4

I love his work and have almost everything in ebook form, in addition to a few English First Editions.

Until August is one that I do not have at all.

Now purchased.

THANK YOU!

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by SomeSteve

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez, "the extraordinary lost novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude," is £0.99 at Kobo UK.

It's about 70 pages or 21,000 words long, according to Kobo. Apparently he wanted it destroyed, but as so often happens, those who survived him didn't destroy it.

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/until-august-4

I'd call 70 pages a novella, but what do I know...

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I'd call 70 pages a novella, but what do I know...

Yes, it's about half as big as a minimum size for a novel.

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

I'd call 70 pages a novella, but what do I know...

We both know enough to call it a novella. And we know a lot.

[Quoth]

The Scent of Water
by Elizabeth Goudge

It's 82% off
£11 -> £2 Kobo UK https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-scent-of-water-4

Slightly more expensive on Kobo Ireland

[ZodWallop]

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami is $2 at Amazon. Not on sale at Kobo

Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.

[sufue]

I used to post Simon Scarrow's Cato/Macro Eagles series under mystery, since that is the section I first found them in, in UK bookstores, on business trips there, way back when the series was new. But over time, they came to seem (to me, at least) to be more historical/military fiction with mysterious elements, and so I'm posting here.

Today's Big Deal at Kindle UK is the first eight Cato/Macro books by Simon Scarrow for £0.99 each. I'm crunched for time, so not going to type out all of the books, but here is the link to the Kindle webpage, and on a quick check, the prices seem to be available at Kobo UK also...

Kindle UK Big Deal webpage: https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/?_encodin...ode=4725112031
Kobo UK price-sorted serach on Simon Scarrow: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/search?qu...&sort=PriceAsc