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bargainjunkie · 4 January 2014 at 11:41AM

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton now 99p on Kindle and Nook.

circes · 4 January 2014 at 9:36PM

Terry Pratchett - Raising Steam is 99p now!!!!!!:D

Al.e · 4 January 2014 at 10:00PM

I think Amazon are price matching Nook who are offering "NOOK's 100 Best Books of 2013 Just 99p Each". Includes Ian Rankin, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult, Bill Bryson, Nick Hornby etc etc and Terry Pratchett as posted by Circes. Sorry I'm not able to post link.

gallygirl · 4 January 2014 at 11:14PM

Tiglath · 4 January 2014 at 11:26PM

Ooh, tempted by Donna Tartt - loved The Secret History.

belfastgirl23 · 4 January 2014 at 11:35PM

Thanks for that Gallygirl, most kind

I managed to hold myself to buying just two.

I just bought this for 95p - books are known as the Cazalet Chronicles, this is the first one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Years-Cazalet-Chronicle-ebook/dp/B004SOJ3MK/ref=la_B000AP99PC_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388874683&sr=1-2

It's a saga but a pretty good one IMHO. Probably this price because the author sadly just passed away. There are 5 books in total.

kitty5 · 4 January 2014 at 11:55PM

The Husbands Secret - Liane Moriarty. £1.52

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Husbands-Secret-Liane-Moriarty-ebook/dp/B00BQ4NLC8/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

Meadows · 5 January 2014 at 10:38AM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Needle-House-DS-Lasser-ebook/dp/B00CPQJZBW/
The Needle House - 462 pages
The West Pennine moors, endless miles of unspoilt, windswept beauty. A haven for the weekend walker, and nature lover. A playground, for those with disposable income.
Though when the mutilated remains of a fourteen-year-old boy are discovered, it becomes apparent someone is using the desolate landscape as a killing field.

When seventeen-year- old Jenna Fotheringay writes to author Patrick Fossey, she hardly imagines he will take an interest in her research. Unlike many of the girls in the nearby town, she is in no hurry to lose her virginity and gain a cocaine habit. Rather, she spends her days at the local library, searching old microfiche films, and devouring all she can about the Radfield family. Weekends are spent with her grandfather scouring the local countryside. Searching for clues, which will shed light on the powerful landowners who once owned great swathes of the countryside, including the farm, she now calls home.

When Fossey agrees to pay her a visit, Jenna is in some kind of heaven. Although when she takes Fossey to the old gamekeeper’s cottages, neither of them is prepared for the horror that lies within.

Ronnie Fotheringay is a farmer to the core, dark earth beneath his fingernails, money in the bank and bailer twine holding up his trousers. A man raised on the land who adores his only granddaughter. He sowed the seeds, which instilled in her a love of the past. Now in his twilight years he lives for the times they share, the long walks and imparting of knowledge which Jenna, absorbs with relish.

At first, he is delighted when Fossey takes an interest in her research. Yet as fear begins to grip the local community, Ronnie begins to wonder if it was a mistake, as the writer starts to delve into a history Ronnie would sooner lay buried.

Like the town, DS Lasser feels jaded, frayed around the edges, and losing interest in a job he no longer sees as relevant. Families live hand to mouth, fathers spending years on the dole, mothers eking out an existence, supplemented by the occasional win on the bingo, and their offspring running wild.
A town on the skids, no jobs no money, and no hope.
So, when Billy Jones fails to return home it is hardly earth shattering news. A family of thieves, and !!!! artists, the father and eldest son are doing time and young Billy is rapidly following suit.

As clues are unearthed that lead directly to the Radfield family, Lasser becomes convinced they have found their man.
Ashley Radfield, last of the local aristocracy, a man who has led a life of privilege and undeserved respect. Now along with his ageing father he lives in the rambling manor house. Paint peeling from the windows and weeds in the gutter, mothballed rooms, and a huge kitchen like the cutting room of an abattoir. For the Radfields the days of prosperity and huntsman’s balls are a distant memory.
However, when another body is revealed, Lasser’s convictions are thrown into turmoil. It is all too easy, the clues too convenient, someone is playing a vicious game, someone with a burning hatred for the Radfield family.
As the long hot summer ends and the nights grow longer, Lasser finds himself in a race against time as he tries to unravel the dark secrets that bind the two families. Secrets stretching back over four decades, blackmail and murder reaching out to ensnare the innocent as well as the guilty.

Meadows · 6 January 2014 at 9:04AM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Goldfinch-Donna-Tartt-ebook/dp/product-description/B00C74SHRK/
The Goldfinch - 785 pages
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, miraculously survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is bewildered by his new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld.

As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

lynnemcf · 6 January 2014 at 3:24PM

Meadows wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Goldfinch-Donna-Tartt-ebook/dp/product-description/B00C74SHRK/
The Goldfinch - 785 pages
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, miraculously survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is bewildered by his new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years he clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the criminal underworld.

As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

I loved this book, it is HUGE and complex and at times WAYYYYY over detailed, but I completely fell in love with the character of Theo.

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