That will be why his older books are on special offer, I've noticed that often happens when an author has a new book coming out, as a kind of trailer.

The Kite Runner by the same author and a few other books published by Bloomsbury are £1.79 each.

I was surprised to learn that some of these are so young, but maybe I'm feeling my own age (just a little past it!). I liked Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age very much, and also Joanna Kavenna's The Birth of Love. I've read books by Naomi Alderman and Zadie Smith and have others by all these 4 and another 7 writers among my print and ...

The Women's Prize for fiction shortlist has been announced - 4 big names/previous winners and or shortlisted writers, 1 who has written lots of books and one 2nd novel Kate Atkinson Life After Life Doubleday British 8th Novel A.M Homes May We Be Forgiven Granta American 6th Novel Barbara Kingsolver Flight Behaviour Faber & Faber ...

Are people still thinking of going to this or decided one way or the other? I took the magazine which arrived this week to the park this afternoon as Mike and my dad were both around to keep an eye on the monsters, and spotted this (though it's a bit daft on the part of New Books to spend a page plugging it without saying anywhere ...

I have a lot of work to do but mostly reviewing rather than reading - fortunately I think I only have one book still to start reading from this year, and one which I'm reading now and will probably finish tomorrow, but I have a lot from last year, then I probably have 8-10 reviews. They might be a bit minimalist, but hey-ho - so long as they ...

I don't think they'll add to this sale, but I'm glad to see there is one, and have bought a few books already. And on 1 April there may be more offers under the banner of 100 books at £2.99 or less

Kitty Aldridge - A Trick I Learned From Dead Men (Jonathan Cape) - have just borrowed from the library and started reading - I wanted to read this last year Kate Atkinson - Life After Life (Doubleday)  - definitely one I want to read, this is an author whose books I would aways want to read Ros Barber - The Marlow Papers ...

Oh no, don't do that. Adrian is so much my generation, actually he's 15 months older than me. And I thought the Prostrate Years was one of the best in the series, he's still very much him but somehow my attitude towards him shifted.

Kathleen Rowntree, Between Friends is free at the moment This seems to be a self-published Kindle edition of a book that was originally published in the Black Swan (Transworld) imprint which published a lot of fairly commercial women's fiction in the late 90s (notably Joanna Trollope and Mary Wesley) - seems worth a go as a freebie, and if ...