FREE/BARGAIN — Fiction (everything else)

[issybird]

Originally Posted by sufue

(and me and my husband grandparents !!!)

Congratulations! How delightful!

[salty-horse]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is $2 on Amazon.com

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”-The New York Times Book Review

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is $2 on Amazon.com

Will Kobo price-match this one?

[salty-horse]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Will Kobo price-match this one?

It's a "Digital list price" discount, so no.

[sufue]

Thanks, it is

Originally Posted by issybird

Congratulations! How delightful!

[sufue]

And now $1.99 in the US...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JNL65
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/tyr...he-empire-24-1

Originally Posted by sufue

Simon Scarrow's twenty-fourth and most recent (Nov 2025) Cato/Macro book, Tyrant of Rome, is £0.99 right now in the UK, for a few more hours. It's hard to believe I started reading these aloud to my military history loving son when he was maybe nine or ten years old - sliding over a few parts at first to be sure . And now he and his wife are about to become parents (and me and my husband grandparents !!!), and Cato/Macro are still going strong.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DP284P2X
Kobo UK: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/tyr...-the-empire-24

[Tarana]

Oops, already posted!

[salty-horse]

The Odyssey by Homer, new translation by Daniel Mendelsohn is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)

With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike – a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.

Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer’s work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.

As If by Isabel Waidner is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, price-matchable on Kobo)

'A brilliant, strange and tender exploration of what it is to fail, keep failing, and fail better' Sarah Bernstein, author of Study for Obedience

Two men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine is an ambivalent parent at best. Lewis is an erstwhile actor, too depressed to attend the big audition that has just fallen into his lap. Korine has tried a dozen dead-end jobs but never pursued his acting dreams.

Two men living mirror image lives. Each seeking a second chance to get things right. Each wanting what the other has.

As If is an existential farce about the road not taken. Surreal and slyly poignant, suffused with ironic melancholia, it is a parable for the twenty-first century everyman: a character trapped in reality’s hall of mirrors, endlessly searching for something to live for.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by salty-horse

The Odyssey by Homer, new translation by Daniel Mendelsohn is £1 in the UK (Amazon only, but price-matchable on Kobo)

The price has dropped at Kobo. Going by the Amazon site, the price drop has only about another 12 hours to go.

I came here to post this; thanks!