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Never cheap before, now just 99p each > Dr Jen Gunter on Amazon >
She's dynamite on Twitter, and jumped to fame after taking on Paltrow's fake science (steamed vagina, jade eggs, etc).
First time ever cheap, now just 99p - this is #6/6 - the others do occasionally drop to 99p too (but not currently) >
The Ink Black Heart (Strike 6) - by Robert Galbraith [JKR] - 4.2/5 (31k ratings)
An impressive 1000 pages, about a character accused of transphobia ... one for @ jez ?
^ nice spot, @wooglie ?
1-year since release, first time cheap, and gets good reviews.
A new biography by the fantasy novelist’s longtime assistant provides a joyful and painful closeup of the irrepressible writer who made the absurd strangely convincing.
Caring for someone who has dementia is an overwhelmingly vivid experience, full of pain and comedy. There are heartbreaking and funny stories in A Life With Footnotes – started by Pratchett himself but written and completed by his longtime assistant Rob Wilkins – about the things that Pratchett’s shrinking brain made him do.
... here, Wilkins, who started working for the author in 2000, attempts to recover Pratchett pre-dementia. His closeness to the subject means that the book is sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate.
Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry. ― Neil GaimanHeart breaking and funny . . . sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . . it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life. -- Observer
No one, after Pratchett's wife, Lyn, and daughter, Rhianna, knew the author as well as Wilkins. I wept through the last 20 pages - beautifully done - charting Pratchett's decline in a way that is both sensitive and unsparing. ― The Times
The joy of this biography . . . is that it spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did. ― The Telegraph
Fond, funny and conveys a pitch-perfect sense of how Pratchett managed to take the elements of his 1950s working-class childhood . . . and turn it into a universe of limitless richness and invention. ― Mail on Sunday
99p - The Boy: Stirling Moss: A Life in 60 Laps - by Richard Williams
‘Moss raced in 108 different cars, many lovingly described by Williams, who knows his torque from his traction. He writes skilfully for petrolheads but also those of us whose delight is in the quirky details... a book that is rather more than a biography.’ ― The Times
'Williams's fast-paced and affectionate biography...captures the bold, engaging spirit of one of Britain’s best-loved sporting heroes... [he] seems incapable of writing a dull sentence about these now legendary racing cars’ ― Sunday Times
'sympathetic, exhaustive anatomy of an international sporting hero, part-time playboy and ultimate family man' ― Spectator
First time ever cheap since release 10 years ago, now just 99p >
Stalin Ate My Homework - by Alexei Sayle
- 'It's not like other comedians' memoirs. It's funny.' -- Guardian
- 'Sayle shares with Alan Bennett the genius for making the mundane fascinating' -- The Times
- 'The brilliant satires on modern life are contemporary gems.' -- Independent
? It's not class or ideology
Colour creed or roots
The only thing that unites us
Is Doctor Martens boots ?
First time at 99p >
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers - by Max Porter
Note that it's 125 pages of stylised prose/poetry.
One of the most surprising books this year. ― Spectator Books of the Year
A blast and a breeze and, strangely, a delight. -- Independent
A beguiling literary hybrid. -- Observer
Funny and warm and real, this little book is one to linger on and savour. -- Telegraph
Brilliant . . . solid, muscular, moving, funny and clever. -- Nick Hornby
Takes us through a dark and emotionally fraught subject, as though transported by wings. -- Guardian
