FREE/BARGAIN - Historical Fiction - 2014

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

The link goes exactly to where it's supposed to, to that publishers current free offerings ("Current freebies from Endeavour"), the books listed on the first of the month just aren't free anymore. Like many freebies particular books often only stay free for a day or two sometimes a week.

So terribly sorry. I've become accustomed to links linking to the topic (title) in discussion

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Link goes to an entirely different offering

The link is to "current freebies from Endeavour" which changes of course.

If posters here want a permlink, valid even if the offer is over, please say.

Spoils of Olympus: By the Sword by Christian Kachel
The Macedonian Empire is on the verge of civil war following the sudden death of Alexander the Great.

As a boy Andrikos watched as Alexander's army marched through his homeland of Greek Ionia after defeating the Persians at the Granicus River.

Soon he will be embroiled in their world - and forced forced to flee his old life.

`The Spoils of Olympus: By the Sword' is a historical epic which follows the advancements of one soldier from boy to man during a time of increasing political and military unrest for Greece and Macedonia.

Christian Kachel lives in Washington D.C. `

This is his first novel.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O29RDVO/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00O29RDVO/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00O29RDVO/

[ATDrake]

Free again from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Witch by Cheryl Potter, 1st in her Witch Trilogy of historical thrillers about the 1600s witch-hunts, originally out from UK publisher Robert Hale in 1996.

1664-1666: years of plague, fire and superstition. Katharine Gurney is the daughter of an executed witch, a shepherdess with latent powers.
And then he came...

Francois Borri is a cunning man, an apostatized priest turned sorcerer, who seeks to use her as he has used others before in his brutal quest for wealth and status.

The Witch is a tale of murder and manipulation; a story of cruel domination and ultimate vengeance. It is the account of one woman's struggle for survival in a world which executed nine million women as witches ... and of the man...

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

The link is to "current freebies from Endeavour" which changes of course.

If posters here want a permlink, valid even if the offer is over, please say.

Spoils of Olympus: By the Sword by Christian Kachel
The Macedonian Empire is on the verge of civil war following the sudden death of Alexander the Great.

As a boy Andrikos watched as Alexander's army marched through his homeland of Greek Ionia after defeating the Persians at the Granicus River.

Soon he will be embroiled in their world - and forced forced to flee his old life.

`The Spoils of Olympus: By the Sword' is a historical epic which follows the advancements of one soldier from boy to man during a time of increasing political and military unrest for Greece and Macedonia.

Christian Kachel lives in Washington D.C. `

This is his first novel.

Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O29RDVO/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00O29RDVO/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00O29RDVO/

Yes, I believe we have all become rather accustomed to having a link go to the book in discussion rather than wade through a pile of titles that we may or may not be interested in

[Little.Egret]

A Hero of Our Time

Historical novel from Endeavour

Amid the ruins of a Germany defeated in war, the Byronic Wehrmacht officer Robert Fischer attempts to win back his soul.

At the same time, his feelings are shaped by the guilt he feels towards a Jewish academic, who he serves as a jailor to, and the love he feels for Charlotte, a young nurse.

A Hero of Our Time climaxes with the invasion of the Russian army.

Richard Foreman is the author of numerous best-selling books, including 'Augustus: Son of Rome' and the Raffles series of historical crime novellas. He is also the author of 'Warsaw', a literary novel set during the Second World War. He lives in London.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M3I5LRE/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00M3I5LRE/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00M3I5LRE/

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents for US-only from the "HarperCollins e-books" imprint:

There's a whole slew of historical fiction (and assorted period-set litfic), including a lot of westerns.

You can probably try getting them at the OmniLit 50% rebate Hallowe'en sale mentioned in GeoffR's alert thread and also be eligible for the Buy 10 Get 1 Free deal, or they're cheap enough that you can go to your favourite US store for them.

Here's the Kobo auto-search for the imprint, sorted by price and filtered by category so you can scroll through and spot if there's anything which looks interesting to you.

Also, some more specific category filtering for Historical and Western, though occasionally things get misfiled.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Nov 6th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard stores, price good for Canada & US, perhaps other regions as well, etc.):

The Firedrake by Cecelia Holland (ISFDB, Wikipedia), her debut historical fiction novel set in 11th century England, involving an Irish mercenary who joins the Norman invasion and winds up at the Battle of Hastings, originally out in 1966.

I haven't read this particular one, but I've enjoyed others of Holland's works that I've tried in the past, enough to make her an auto-buy for me when the prices get low enough, so I snapped this one up and am going to set price-drop alerts on the rest of her stuff in case ORM discounts more of her backlist.

In The Firedrake, an Irish mercenary knight in the eleventh century, in a constant personal battle with the rest of the world, joins William of Normandy for the invasion of England. There at Hastings he has to choose between power and wealth, and his personal demons of pride and honor.

The New York Times called Cecelia Holland “a literary phenomenon” in its review of this book, recognizing a stellar creative achievement by a young writer in her first published work.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ 99 cents for today only (Nov 18th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the usual stores, price good for Canada & US, possibly other regions as well):

Ruler of the Sky: A Novel of Genghis Khan by Nebula Award-winning feminist science fiction author Pamela Sargent (ISFDB, Wikipedia), her non-sfnal regular historical novel about Exactly What It Says In The Title, originally out from Crown Publishers in 1993.

I either bought this via Fictionwise a long time ago, or it was on my wishlist and I never got around to buying it before they shut down. If the latter turns out to be the case, I'm definitely snapping this one up.

In 1167, in the harsh homeland of Mongol tribes, a child was born who was to change the course of human history. His father named him Temujin, but the world knows him as Genghis Khan. Set amid the barbaric splendor of the Mongol hordes, RULER OF THE SKY tells the tale of the warrior who forged one of the greatest and most terrifying armies the world had ever seen, and conquered the world from Peking to Persia.

Not only is this the story of Genghis Khan, it is also the story of those who were closest to him, especially the women who played such an important role in his life. From the windswept plains of Mongolia to the opulence of the Chinese court, RULER OF THE SKY is unforgettable.

[ATDrake]

Free from the author via KDP Select @ Amazon:

The Dispatch Rider by Robert Broomall, an historical western action adventure set in Kansas. This is a newly-written 3rd installment in a series that began with K Company, the 1st which was originally paperbacked by Fawcett in 1992.

Link Hayward ( "K Company," "Conroy's First Command") is a mean SOB, who's been busted in rank more times than he can count. He's also the guy you want next to you when things go bad. While carrying dispatches, Link meets Prudence Wainwright, a pious Eastern woman whose husband has been murdered and whose daughter has been kidnapped by a gang of renegade Jayhawkers. Teaming up reluctantly, Link and Prudence must cross hundreds of miles of hostile territory and recapture Hope before her kidnappers sell her to the Comancheros and she is lost to them forever.

[ATDrake]

Bargain @ $2.99 for Canadians in the Kobo store as the Deal of the Day (Nov 23rd, should be good until 9 PM Pacific Time, when their servers switch over) from Doubleday Canada:

The Tudor Inheritance: A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower from popular historian-turned-novelist Alison Weir (Wikipedia), about Exactly What It Says In The Title.

This is "on sale" for $4.99 from Google Play, so it looks like Kobo may have discounted it by another $2 just for today (seems to be matched at iTunes & Amazon Canada, though; the trick will be to see if it goes up later tonight), as they sometimes do for their Daily Deal (in my previous experience with these, the price will go back up immediately once the "day" is over). Also in my experience, Kobo's price listings start to fluctuate at 8 PM Pacific Time, but between then and 9 PM, you can still get a book at the sale price, even if when adding to cart you see the higher price, as long as it says the lower price you expect it to in the actual checkout confirmation page before you pay (take screenshots just in case, though).

England's Tower of London was the terrifying last stop for generations of English political prisoners. A Dangerous Inheritance weaves together the lives and fates of four of its youngest and most blameless: Lady Katherine Grey, Lady Jane's younger sister; Kate Plantagenet, an English princess who lived nearly a century before her; and Edward and Richard, the boy princes imprisoned by their ruthless uncle, Richard III, never to be heard from again. Across the years, these four young royals shared the same small rooms in their dark prison, as all four shared the unfortunate role of being perceived as threats to the reigning monarch.

Weaving together their lives and fates into a dark mystery of thwarted love and ruthless ambition, Alison Weir has written the most suspenseful, large-scale novel of her career.

[Little.Egret]

Sword of Fortune by Christopher Nicole

Richard Bryant arrives in India as a humble clerk with the John Company.

But he is driven by an ambition and military enthusiasm that sees him rise beyond his status.

He has barely been in Bombay a year when a disastrous love affair with Barbara Smythe forces him to flee the city and start a new life as an outlaw

`...told with smooth authenticity' - Publishers' Weekly

Endeavour Press reprint

Christopher Nicole is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He wrote as Christopher Nicole under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York,Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams,Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the penname Max Marlow co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OROA9GU/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OROA9GU/
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00OROA9GU/

[Dr. Drib]

How is the above a 'bargain'? (It's not free, either.)


Don
(Moderator)

[KyBunnies]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

How is the above a 'bargain'? (It's not free, either.)


Don
(Moderator)

It was free yesterday Don. I got it.

[Apache]

I picked it up for free yesterday too.
Apache

[peachiekene]

Free

Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freeman

'Mrs. Mike' is a love story, a true story; the story of Katherine Mary O’Fallon, a sixteen year-old Irish girl from Boston, and Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police who meet at her uncle’s ranch in Alberta, Canada where she is sent to recover from pleurisy. They meet, they court, they marry and, following Mike’s orders, move to Hudson’s Hope far into the interior of Alberta.
But it is more than a love story between two people: it is also a love story of the land and animals, of the beavers and the ice, the northern lights and the fires, of whooping cough and whiskey running. It is a love story of the First Peoples and their struggles, the immigrants and their hopes and all the people who came and went through Mike and Kathy’s lives.

AmazonUS

-This was offered free about a year ago, which is when I picked it up. This is an old favorite and I highly recommend it. (You will possibly need tissues handy.)

--Including it in the historical fiction because while it is based on a true story, much like Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Herriot, and Scott O'Dell, there's a lot of embellishment so it's not exactly non-fiction.