Kindle shop Recommendations

[ZOK]

On 05/02/2022 at 13:11, Ste Pickford said:

 

Ah, cheers.  Not heard of that one, so it didn't mean anything to me.  I think I've already read both the Spike Milligan and the William Gibson books, but quite a while ago.

Funnily enough it looks like Netflix have just made a series out of Delvey’s story, I saw it on the splash screen today…here’s the trailer:

 

 

I guess that’s why the book was on sale. The series looks odd but I think I’ll watch it as it’s such a fascinatingly trashy story…and the Delvey accent is dot on.

[Ste Pickford]

I just watched the trailer this morning.  My missus listened to a podcast about this a few months back, and I remember telling me about the story then.

[davidcotton]

Robert Jordan’s Eye of The World 0.99p. 

[ZOK]

43 minutes ago, Ste Pickford said:

I just watched the trailer this morning.  My missus listened to a podcast about this a few months back, and I remember telling me about the story then.

That might be the BBB Sounds one, it’s excellently done, well worth a listen.

[Silent Runner]

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz is on sale at the moment as a tie-in with the TV show. It's about a writer who is murdered, his editor thinks the explanation might be in the pages of his new book - unfortunately the last chapter of his new book has gone missing. 

 

I thought this was really clever. It's quite meta in that we get the full book the victim has written, which is in itself an excellent Poirot-esq mystery. Then it switches back to 'reality' and the editor trying to solve the crime. 

 

Recommended for any mystery fans. The TV show is really good too.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magpie-Murders-bestseller-thriller-fiendish-ebook/dp/B01EG5HLR4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2HMSI3IXUMRT1&keywords=magpie+murders&qid=1645883222&sprefix=magpie%2Caps%2C82&sr=8-2

[Stopharage]

Some interesting stuff this month:-

 

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett £1.99

 

Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

 

Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman £2.29

 

We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins £1.99

 

Can Everyone Please Calm Down?: A Guide to 21st Century Sexuality by Mae Martin

 

True Crime Story by Joseph Knox

 

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan

 

The Audacity by Katherine Ryan

 

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall £2.19

 

The Chysalids by John Wyndham

 

Past Imperfect: An Autobiography by Joan Collins

 

Loose Head: Confessions of an (un)professional rugby player) by Joe Marler £1.99

 

Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig

 

Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death by Jenny Kleeman

 

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall £1.79

 

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis

 

Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History by Ben Mezrich

 

Toll The Hounds (The Malazan Book of the Fallen 8) by Steven Erikson

 

The Terror by Dan Simons

 

Boy by Roald Dahl

 

She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey £2.29

 

Anathem by Neal Stephenson £1.29

 

Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything by Rob Eastaway

 

North Korea Journal by Michael Palin

 

Coming Undone by Terri White £2.89

 

Skint Estate by Cash Carraway £1.99

 

Ice Cream War by William Boyd

 

The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 by Mark Honigsbaum

 

It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin

 

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai

 

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokimizo £1.89

 

The Collector by John Fowles

 

The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

 

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

 

Doctor Who: The Ruby's Curse by Alex Kingston £1.99

 

In Black and White: A Young Barrister's Story of Race and Class in a Broken Justice System by Alexandra Wilson

 

In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

 

No Spin by Shane Warne

 

The Penelopiad by Margaret Attwood £3.09

 

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami £1.99

 

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

 

Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

 

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle

 

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

[sandman]

Everyone get on The Collector. Top 10 of all time for me. 

[Stopharage]

20 minutes ago, sandman said:

Everyone get on The Collector. Top 10 of all time for me. 

That's enough of a recommendation for me. Ordered. Still got to make my way through The Magus. 

[ZOK]

Cheers - time for a re-read of The Chrysalids!

[Talvalin]

For the fantasy fans out there, the first Black Company omnibus collecting the first books in Glen Cook's series (cited by Steven Erikson and others as a influence) is going for  a mere £2.99 (apparently the Kindle edition may have been a quick OCR job with punctuation errors all over the shop so caveat emptor).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chronicles-Black-Company-Shadows-Linger/dp/0575084170

[Percy Filth]

George Orwell - The Complete Novels

Free right now (might have been posted before, sorry if that's true) . 

[milko]

Dunno about before, but it's showing 79p for me at the moment.

[wullie]

79p for me too, although this appears to be a different version of the exact same collection and is showing as free

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09T3XNQ1W/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

[Stopharage]

You can download them all individually for free as well, which I find preferable. 

[Alexlotl]

Careful, I've found that the quality of these free e-Book collections of out of copyright stuff on Amazon have gone downhill hugely in the last 10 years. There's basically no-one policing them (and no legal framework to do so), and an obvious incentive from companies like Penguin Classics and Collins to deliberately pee in the pool. I downloaded a few a year or so back that were a real mess, full of OCR errors, large sections missing, etc.

 

A better bet is finding ones from Gutenberg or ones curated by the community, and sticking them on your Kindle via USB.

[little che]

The Terror by Dan Simmons is a great book. Very long but well worth your time.

[idiwa]

1 hour ago, little che said:

The Terror by Dan Simmons is a great book. Very long but well worth your time.

 

I concur.

[Stopharage]

Daisy Jones and The Six is 99p today. 
 

I enjoyed this. Tale of a rock band who achieve rapid success who then join up with an engaging and mesmeric muse. Trials and tribulations of their rise and all the debauchery you’d expect from it. 
 

I’m a bit of a sucker for Almost Famous, so it resonated with me. 

[Kingpin]

Not usually a lighthouse enthusiast, I read this article (or similar) a few years ago and added Seashaken Houses (Link) to my wishlist. It’s on sale today for 99p. Not my normal thing but added it to the pile. 

[Kingpin]

Mark Lanegan’s Sing Backwards & Weep is in the daily deal 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Y5HV57Q/ref=mh_s9_acsd_hps_c2_x_2_t?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=mobile-hybrid-3&pf_rd_r=375EVWH6JB4BE2WWNV3N&pf_rd_t=30901&pf_rd_p=98327ccb-8288-4654-a9ad-4265def95a12&pf_rd_i=5400977031

[Stopharage]

Ukraine war, energy prices rocketing, National Insurance increase and an initially disappointing month of Kindle deals. Although there's less decent deals than normal (unless you like Kindle cookery books and books with the strapline 'The TikTok sensation') there's a mixture of excellent and promising books below. Very much quality over quantity this month. Ordinarily I'd only buy 1 or 2 of the books I post in these monthly updates but I've bought 6 of these. 

 

Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6) by Terry Pratchett

 

1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami

 

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

 

Beloved by Toni Morrison

 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

 

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan £1.99

 

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

 

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

 

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing by Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse

 

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

 

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

 

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

 

Half a War by Joe Abercrombie

 

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft

 

Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick and David McVea

 

Robbo:Now You're Gonna Believe Us. Our Year, My Story. by Andy Robertson

 

The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

 

[Miner Willy]

Which six, @Stopharage?

 

Big recommendation on Senlin Ascends from me - I loved it. The other books in the series also good, but the first was the best. 

[ZOK]

Starship Troopers six times.

[Sane]

Anyone read 1Q84? Reviews seem mixed, some people love it some hate it, not much in between. 

[QuackQuack]

11 minutes ago, Sane said:

Anyone read 1Q84? Reviews seem mixed, some people love it some hate it, not much in between. 

 

If you like Murakami, you’ll like it.

 

If you find him to be a weird twat, it won’t change your mind. I’m very much in this camp.

[Sane]

I haven't actually read anything by him. I guess I'll try it and find out. 

[Stopharage]

23 hours ago, Miner Willy said:

Which six, @Stopharage?

 

Big recommendation on Senlin Ascends from me - I loved it. The other books in the series also good, but the first was the best. 

 

23 hours ago, Stopharage said:

1Q84: Books 1 and 2 by Haruki Murakami

 

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

 

Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North

 

Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

 

Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick and David McVea

 

The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

 

The Troubles book is of interest as I recently read Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, which helped to stem my ignorance on the topic. Heartily recommended. Enjoy Murakami, can be hit and miss but always quite interesting. Claire North is a great ideas writer, even if the delivery can be pretty flawed. VanderMeer is similar to North in that respect. 

[Sane]

I'm a big Vandermeer fan but I found Hummingbird Salamander a bit disappointing. I'd recommend most of his other books over that one. 

 

Edit: I bought notes from the burning age. Missed the sale on 1Q84 though. 

[Stopharage]

If you have kids of an age you might be interested that loads of David Williams offerings are reduced today. 

[Miner Willy]

3 hours ago, Stopharage said:

 

The Troubles book is of interest as I recently read Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, which helped to stem my ignorance on the topic. Heartily recommended. Enjoy Murakami, can be hit and miss but always quite interesting. Claire North is a great ideas writer, even if the delivery can be pretty flawed. VanderMeer is similar to North in that respect. 

 

Thanks. I bought Lonely Castle and Notes from a Burning Age too, and was considering the Troubles one for the same reason. 

 

Bought The Future We Choose as well now..