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Susan wrote: "99p Wolf Hall (a buddy read this month, so good timing!)"


Yes - it's a sign Susan

Meagre pickings today however...


Three Sisters, Three Queens

by

Philippa Gregory

is 99 pence in the UK today

Has anyone read it?
Is it any good?

I'm vaguely intrigued

When Katherine of Aragón is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined—with Margaret’s younger sister Mary—to a sisterhood unique in all the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France.

United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret and kills her husband James IV of Scotland. But Margaret’s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son. Mary steals the widowed Margaret’s proposed husband, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss, and passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king

Philippa Gregory's earlier novels are good, but I am less keen on later ones. I haven't read that one.

99p My Secret History

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

A Week in Winter

Nigeyb, I've only read one by Philippa Gregory, The Virgin's Lover - I see that I noted at the time: "I was interested in the story of Elizabeth's romance with Leicester, but found the flowery writing style hard to take."

Thanks Judy. I’ve decided to pass on the offer 🤠

US - I know that I am late today but I just noticed Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill.

99p A Kestrel for a Knave (pretty sure this was being discussed recently)

Women of the Dunes

Susan wrote: "99p A Kestrel for a Knave"


A wonderful read

Nigeyb wrote: "Susan wrote: "99p A Kestrel for a Knave"


A wonderful read"

Yep, brilliant!

Thought that the ending was a bit strange though....didn’t quite get it.

Football match...excellent! Poor, poor Man U :)

Ian wrote: "....the ending of A Kestrel for a Knave was a bit strange though....didn’t quite get it."


Here's my tenpenneth Ian - click the "view spoiler" link below....

(view spoiler)[Barry Hines links the loss of Billy's Kestrel to the loss of his father. In a flashback we discover that Billy's mother had an affair with another man, and it was this that prompted Billy's father to leave the family. Back in the present, Billy retreats to the cinema he once visited with his father, and which is now boarded up and closed. Presumably this symbolises the decline of the society Billy lives in. It's a pretty dark and depressing ending which mirrors Billy's world. Nothing is going to get better anytime soon. (hide spoiler)]

I read A Kestrel for a Knave in November 2019

It's very short - but A Kestrel for a Knave (1968) by Barry Hines packs a huge emotional punch.

Here’s my review

5/5

Like your spoiler Nigeyb - just about spot on I’d say.

Yeah, makes sense to me but just thought that the cinema was a bit abstract - but when you take into account his father (like you say) then it makes perfect sense. Fits in perfectly with the depressing state of affairs associated with Billy’s surroundings/society etc.
Very powerful.

Thanks for posting it Nige - informative, useful and, as ever, appreciated.

A pleasure as always Ian

99p Appointment with Death

1989: The Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall

Berlin: Caught in the Mousetrap (book 1)

The Spy Who Swapped Shoes (book 1)

The Woman in White (Penguin English Library Edition - other books in the series which are also 99p are Ghost Stories and Little Women

Tempted by the Berlin Wall book - thanks Susan

£1.29 Ghost Wall

Also £1.29 All Among The Barley
WINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE - didn't know there WAS an EU prize for literature

99p Miracle Creek

Big Deal of the Day are five books in the Rivers of London series - I have only read the first, Rivers of London but it was good fun. The deal has book 1 -5 if you want to discover Ben Aaronovitch series for yourself.

Rivers of London is good - I've read another one in the series too. I'm not sure I'd ever get round to reading the whole lot though with so many other competing attractions.

98p The Flood

£1.89 Girl

49p Kiss of Steel (book 1)

99p The Friendly Ones

99p The Divinities: A Crane and Drake Novel (book 1)

99p A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

The Children's Block: Based on a true story by an Auschwitz survivor

The Battle For England: Women at war in Medieval England

Sorry, couldn't post the offers this morning as Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ was over capacity.

99p Social Creature

Fatal Inheritance

£1.49 Traveler and the Moonlight by the wonderful Antal Szerb

99p The Thirteenth Tale

Spinning Silver

Uncommon Type: Some Stories

£1.19 Never Let Me Go

99p The Aftermath (I prefer this cover to the version on Amazon, which has actress Keira Knightley with the same expression she seems to wear in every film!)

A House of Ghosts

99p The Night Circus

The Tenth Muse

£1.29 West (mixed reviews on this one)

99p That Wild Country: An Epic Journey through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands

99p Once Night Falls

98p Metropole

99p Casino Royale

No Tomorrow

£1.49 The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

99p Six Stories

Nine Elms

99p Everything I Never Told You

US - Studs Terkel - Chicago @ $2.99

99p Animal Farm

Down and Out in Paris and London

99p Convenience Store Woman

Chickenhawk

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Anathem

The Spirit of the Dragon

99p The Rosie Result (book 30

Dark Eden

Watching the English

At the Going Down of the Sun (book 1) and
And in the Morning (book 2)

99p The Blue Salt Road

US - special today is Graham Greene - including The Quiet American, The Living Room, Our Man in Havana, among others.

Hmmm, sadly not for us Jan.

£1.89 Who Am I, Again?

Jan C wrote: "US - special today is Graham Greene - including The Quiet American, The Living Room, Our Man in Havana, among others."

Wow - I hope our US members filled their boots

Susan wrote: "Hmmm, sadly not for us Jan.


£1.89 Who Am I, Again?"

Intriguing. I might partake

Thanks Susan

99p The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Waste Tide

99p Alexander's Legacy: To The Strongest (1st in new series)

99p France: A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

Who Do the English Think They Are?: From the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit

The Greatest Day in History: How the Great War Really Ended

99p Burmese Days

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

£1.29 The Wall

99p Lancelot

Big Deal of the Day is the Master of War series
Master of War - there are 5 books in the deal

Moonlight over Mayfair

Dear Coca-Cola: A Customer Relations Nightmare.

The Last Kingdom (book 1)

99p She Lies in Wait

Blind Eye (book 5)

The Glittering Hour

The Distant Echo (book 1)

99p A Suitable Boy

A Death in Sweden

Don't know if anyone is interested in Bowie

Thanks Jill


I'm pretty sure Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie was originally published many years ago now. I've never read it as it always seemed a bit of cash in. I may read it one of these fine days though. Thanks again for the the tip.

99p The English and their History: The First Thirteen Centuries

The Art of Not Falling Apart

In a Dark, Dark Wood

99p Anything is Possible