I’ve had my beloved Kindle since, I think, 2010 and it still works! It’s one of the really early ones, with a keyboard. Now Amazon have the Paperwhite for quite a good price in their sale, so I’m wondering whether to go for it. How easy is it to move your books over? Do you have to do it manually? Another consideration is that the networks may ( Read more... )

Back in 2009, reviewing Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, I wrote this:

'Speaking of long historical novels, there’s one which gives a completely contrasting view of the Reformation. It’s The Man on a Donkey by H F M Prescott, about that doomed rebellion the Pilgrimage of Grace. It centred on York and interestingly Mantel has Cromwell regard Yorkshire as a ( Read more... )

Spook Street, the fourth Jackson Lamb mystery, is 99p for the Kindle today.


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Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall is 99p for the kindle today.


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I've been sent a voucher for a free Kindle book. I was thinking of getting one by Elizabeth Edmondson but don't know which to choose.
Any particular favourites? I've already read Finding Philippe and the Very English Mysteries.

Edit. Bleh. You can only choose from a shortlist of bad books. Heigh ho.

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