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Judy wrote: "I've got a paperback copy of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders - must move it up my list!!"Just watch out for the Note in the beginning - it was compared to reading the yellow pages!
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945: The Number One BestsellerHope Close
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest CountryNorthwest Corner
The FishermenWorthless Men
The First StoneThe Goddess of Buttercups & Daisies
The Demon's Brood: A Plantagenet History from Anjou to Bosworth
I loved The Goddess of Buttercups & Daisies. Hilarious, I think up there with P G Wodehouse for pure silliness. I might reread while on lockdown.
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I had my eye on this when it was on the Women's Prize longlist in 2019 only many of the reviews were so-so - still, worth a go at this price.
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US - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.Not 20th century but a deal on Ron Chernow's Grant.
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99p Motherwell: A Girlhood
The Iceberg
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This week in lockdown, we'll be dropping the price of these fantastic books to just 99p - one a day, every day, for a week.
Here's what's coming up this week in our Daily Deals. We're travelling from the founding days of Liberia to the Jewish communities of Antwerp, a masked killer in Japan to a mythical realm under siege. We'll be posting about them every day on our social media, so be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
THIS WEEK...
A LETTER, A WILL, A NOTE
Monday: Hotel Silence
by Au?ur Ava ?lafsdttir
(tr. Brian FitzGibbon)
Jnas is done with life. He buys a one-way ticket to a war-torn country, but what he finds there changes everything.
Tuesday: The Inugami Curse
by Seishi Yokomizo
(tr. Yumiko Yamazaki)
From the bestselling author of The Honjin Murders. When the head of the Inugami clan dies, his will reveals a surprising twist. Soon, a series of gruesome murders begin to befall his beneficiaries...
Wednesday: The Letter for the King
by Tonke Dragt
(tr. Laura Watkinson)
Now a major Netflix series, this beloved Dutch adventure follows a young knight-in-training as he's tasked with a world-changing mission.
Thursday: Mazel Tov
by J.S. Margot
(tr. Jane Hedley-Pr?le)
For fans of Unorthodox, this charming yet candid memoir of a young girl tutoring the children of an Orthodox Jewish family is an eye-opening yet genuinely funny read.
Friday: She Would Be King
by Waytu Moore
Gbessa is an outcast. Forced to leave her village, she discovers that she has mysterious powers... and she's not the only one. A magical exploration of the founding years of Liberia.
Saturday: Lost
by Ele Fountain
From the award-winning author of Boy 87, Lost follows Lola and Amit, brother and sister who are forced onto the streets after their father doesn't return home one night. Compassionate and compelling.
Sunday: Bird in a Cage
by Frdric Dard
(tr. David Bellos)
Set on a trip home to the family and unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage is an existentialist French noir for fans of Simenon.
Today's book: Hotel Silence
Looks good. 99p
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The Inugami Curse
Daisy Jones & The Six (highly recommended for music fans - loved this novel)Memoirs of a Geisha
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary EditionThe Parisians
The Last Bathing BeautyFractured
Child 44Summer House with Swimming Pool
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary ForgerA Meal In Winter
The Little Village SchoolStrange Weather in Tokyo
Storm Front (book 1 - books 1-5 are reduced today)
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The Letter for the King (Pushkin)The Inn: Their perfect escape could become their worst nightmare
(I have never read anything by James Patterson, but he has so many books out with different co-authors - it makes me wonder whether he just lends his name to things? Anyone know?)
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I did read somewhere that Patterson comes up with an idea and plan and then gives it to another author to write the book. Whether that is true I have no idea.
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Yes those were his first books , written by just him
Susan wrote: "OK, good to hear. He has a book about John Lennon on pre-order, but I am just curious about him. Was that an early series, Jill? Maybe - probably - he wrote the early books, but, maybe now he uses ..."Although maybe he actually did do some writing on the book he did with Bill Clinton.
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(Kindle deal of the Day - cover looks like a kids book, but appears to be adult)99p Mazel Tov: The Story of My Extraordinary Friendship with an Orthodox Jewish Family
(Pushkin)
The Prison Doctor
RoomDefending Jacob
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Never Let Me Go99p Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of the English Republic
The Woman in Our House
Rain Will Come99 Reasons Why
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship1000 Years of Annoying the French
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99p Warlight
The Colour of Magic (book 1)
Murder in the Village(book 4)The Crossing
(book 1)
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BESTSELLING PUSHKIN FOR JUST 99P
This week in lockdown, we'll be dropping the price of these fantastic books to just 99p - one a day, every day, for a week.
Here's what's coming up this week in our Daily Deals. From moral quandaries to locked room mysteries, Japanese comedy to magical beasts, we'll be posting about them every day on our social media, so be sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
THIS WEEK...
Monday: Liar
by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
(tr. Sondra Silverston)
If you enjoyed Waking Lions...
Nofar feels invisible. But when a celebrity is accused of assaulting her, Nofar becomes the centre of attention. How can she go back?
Tuesday: Spark
by Naoki Matayoshi
(tr. Alison Watts)
Comedic, compelling and completely bizarre, Spark is the story of a young manzai comedian and the relationship between himself, his eccentric mentor and the unforgiving world of comedy.
Wednesday: A World Gone Mad: The Wartime Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippy Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
(tr. Sarah Death)
Astrid Lindgren, one of the twentieth century's greatest children's authors, celebrates 75 years since the publication of her beloved classic, Pippy Longstocking, this year. A World Gone Mad is her personal and vivid chronicle of the Second World War.
Thursday: Murder in the Crooked House
by Soji Shimada
(tr. Louise Heal Kawai)
From the author of The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, this fiendish Japanese locked room mystery is set in a snow-topped house with sloping floors, hidden rooms and impossible murders.
Friday: The Beast Player
by Nahoko Uehashi
(tr. Cathy Hirano)
For years Elin's kingdom have controlled the mighty beasts, exploiting them as weapons of war. But when they begin dying, can Elin use her powers to save her queen and her kingdom, while keeping her beloved beasts out of harm's way?
Saturday: Wild Swims
by Dorthe Nors
(tr. Misha Hoekstra)
New from the Man Booker International prize-listed author comes this collection of elegant and precise short stories. Full of the pain of miscommunication and dislocation, these stories are exceptionally moving.
Sunday: The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
by Franz Kafka
(tr. Alexander Starritt)
Franz Kafka is loved and known worldwide for his dark and enigmatic works. However, these essential stories show the true breadth of his skill, with stories of fizzing humour and wit, as well as longing, horror, and intense contemplation.
Today's title is: The Liar
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the RipperWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019
A Silent Death
The Nightingale Gallery (book 1 - reissue of an old series)Names for the Sea
by the wonderful Sarah Moss
The Secret ScriptureWinner of the 2008 Costa Book of the Year
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2008
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2008
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
A Sunday Times Top 100 Novel of the Twenty-First Century
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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Judy wrote: "PS - ŷ kindly recommended a diet book to me, I think because I was reading Few Eggs and No Oranges. Admittedly I could do with it, even more so after a few more weeks of lockdown ;)"The trouble is with lockdown it makes your clothes shrink!
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Very true! ;)
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A World Gone Mad: The Wartime Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking
A Delicate TruthThe Silkworm
(book 2)
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The Corfu Trilogy99p Murder in the Crooked House
The Falling Sword
(book 2)
Brideshead Revisited (I absolutely adore this book)
Susan wrote: "?1.99 The Corfu Trilogy99p Murder in the Crooked House
The Falling Sword..."</i>
Wishing [book:Murder in the Crooked House was on sale here. I really liked his The Tokyo Zodiac Murders, except the Note.
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A Gentleman in MoscowAnimal Farm
(a graded reader for GCSE/A Level, I assume)
A Little Hatred (book 1)The Guest List
Big Deal of the Day is Max Hastings
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975
Nemesis: The Battle For Japan, 1944-45Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield
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The Vicarage Murder (book 1)Monarchy from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Blood, Sweat & TeaFallen Idols
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(Tom Wilde series book 4)99p
The Fiery Cross (Outlander book 5)Murder in the Garden
(book 9)
Live by NightThe Glass Castle
The 100(book 1)freddie mercury bohemian rhapsody
Fingersmith
The Savage Altar (book 1)Whose Body?
(first Lord Peter Wimsey book)
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Bury Your Past (book 2)Platform Seven
The Guilty Ones (book 4)When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Ms Ice SandwichBig Deal of the Day: Douglas Adams 42nd Anniversary
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
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Monday: Ms Ice Sandwich
by Mieko Kawakami
(tr. Louise Heal Kawai)
With her new novel, Breasts and Eggs, releasing in August, discover Mieko Kawakami's fantastically tender and amusing novella, Ms Ice Sandwich.
Tuesday: You Were Never Really Here
by Jonathan Ames
Brutal and redemptive, this hardboiled noir was adapted into a 2018 film starring Joaquin Phoenix to huge critical acclaim - now on Netflix.
Wednesday: The Rabbit Back Literature Society
by Pasi Ilmari J??skel?inen
(tr. Lola Rogers)
For fans of The Secret History and Twin Peaks, this conspiratorial novel follows the disturbing discoveries of a children's author who is invited to join an elite literary society.
Thursday: In the House in the Dark of the Woods
by Laird Hunt
Eerie and totally escapist, this creepy novel from the author of Neverhome will pull you deep into the woods, where you can never be sure what is real, and what is smoke and mirrors.
Friday: The Disappearances
by Emily Bain Murphy
This beautiful novel of magic, loss and truth was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and has adoring fans in Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Stephanie Garber.
Saturday: An Untouched House
by Willem Frederik Hermans
(tr. David Colmer)
Listed as a Sunday Times Book of the Year, this vivid wartime classic follows a partisan fighting the Red Army as he takes shelter in an abandoned house. Woken by a Nazi patrol, his only chance of survival is to pose as the owner - and abandon his beliefs.
Sunday: War in Val D'Orcia
by Iris Origo
Elegant and vivd, Iris Origo's diaries from 1943-44 trace life as war came to her peaceful farming valley, where she and her husband worked to aid refugee children.
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99p You Were Never Really Here
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the CrownThe First Law Trilogy
The North WaterDisappearing Earth
Work Like Any Other
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And Then There Were None
(voted THE best Christie)
In the House in the Dark of the WoodsHe Is Watching You
(book 1)
Dark EdenThe Things you find in Rockpools
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English LanguageNot Tonight, Josephine: A Road Trip Through Small-Town America
You Let Me InThe Orphan Master's Son
Once Upon a River
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Perfect for those who can't decide between fast-paced thriller or culinary cozy... or is that just us? Be quick and get all your favourites now!
Summon Up The Blood
(love this series)
In the Presence of EvilGods of Gold
Murder in the Holy CityThe Dead Hand of History
Out of the Dawn LightDark Entry
OnslaughtThe Watchman
Blood TracksCity of Dreadful Night
Curtain CallDeath Notes
The Dark Side of the RoadBuried in Beignets
Hiding in Plain SightA Reason To Kill
The Case of the Dotty Dowager
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The DisappearancesBirdwatching With Your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong
The Last King of Lydia
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