I really enjoyed Neil Shubin’s Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, and now here’s his recent Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA on sale at Kindle UK for £0.99 as part of today’s Daily Deal. I do wish non-fiction titles […]

I remember reading The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, by John Godey, back when I was probably barely old enough to be reading thrillers, but I liked it. I have no idea whether my adult self would like it, nor whether it will have managed to withstand the test of time, but I may

Iain Pears’ Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano series is one of my top ten favorite series, and might even sneak into my top five on a particularly good day – even though he hasn’t written anything new in the series since 2000. Unfortunately, although some of them used to be available in the US

I’m a huge Francophile, so I’m definitely buying France: An Adventure History, by Graham Robb. It looks like a fun way of picking up more French history, presented in a slightly different way than usual. It’s on sale right now at Kindle UK for £0.99, and has pretty decent reviews, although not a lot overall.

Crime Classics was an imprint (???) of UK publisher Agora books. They e-published mostly lesser-known Golden Age UK authors, like George Bellairs, Helen McCloy, and Henrietta Hamilton. And they had some better known authors too, like Michael Innes and Nicholas Blake. They sometimes even found (as with Hamilton) previously unpublished material and would work with

A bundle of the first four books in the Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J Maas is on sale for £3.99 at Kindle UK right now. This is a good price if you need all four, but if you’ve picked up a few of the titles individually when they’ve been on sale,

Bangkok 8 is the first in John Burdett’s Sonchai Jitpleecheep, set in Thailand. It’s on sale right now in the US for $1.99. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US

I’ve liked Susannah Nix’s Chemistry Lessons romance series (helped by the fact that I’m a nerd at heart), and now here is a novella for free in one of her other series, the Starstruck series. Star Bright is free in both the US and UK right now. Buy at Kindle US | Kobo US |

A Necessary Evil is the second in the Captain Sam Wyndham/Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee series by Abir Mukherjee. It has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK. Buy at Kindle UK