Eye/Lightning Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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All the Beautiful Liars
Sylvia Petter
It's not the best time to launch a novel but we had a great blog tour for @SylviaAPetter's All the Beautiful Liars, a tale of family secrets inspired by her own Austrian roots. As one of our Lightning Bolts, it's an ebook exclusive and only 99p (for now) https://amzn.to/2wtz3Pr https://t.co/oFw2PovL2G
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Girl from the Hermitage
Molly Gartland
Ebook bargain alert: Molly Gartland's debut novel The Girl from the Hermitage, listed for four prizes before publication, is currently just 99p on ebook. It won't be that cheap forever so, if you haven't read it yet, download it while it's a bargain https://amzn.to/2xNrKD8 https://t.co/VNLyFE8qoO
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And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
'Stone Heart Deep has vibes of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. Darkly twisted too which makes for a good thriller. I struggled to put it down’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CTl4P4zgiJJ/ https://t.co/hKfs4RM6oL
Paperback, Mass Market, 2011
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ms. Demeanor
Elinor Lipman
‘Books I’ve finished but still in the pile: “Ms. Demeanor,” by Elinor Lipman, because I never miss one of her funny, delightful novels,’ says @judyblume in @nytimesbooks. Good news for UK readers: we’re publishing our own edition of @ElinorLipman’s Ms. Demeanor in September https://t.co/XYy1e9nK81
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rachel to the Rescue
Elinor Lipman
Tomorrow is US Election Day. It's also publication day for @ElinorLipman's RACHEL TO THE RESCUE, the Trump satire that America wouldn't publish. Sacked from the White House, Rachel Klein is hit by a car driven by what the press will call ‘a personal friend of the President’. https://t.co/RasF4RTAzJ
Paperback, 2021
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Need to Talk
Jonathan Crane
Today we publish the fifth of our six debut novels for 2021. WE NEED TO TALK by Jonathan Crane is a series of beautifully crafted vignettes, each focusing on a different resident or group of residents of a Hampshire market town. It's a wickedly honest portrait of Middle England. https://t.co/8aYw0d3G24
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Riddance
Elinor Lipman
Good Riddance by @ElinorLipman is recommended today as one of @alifeinbooks' Five Comfort Reads. Buy it from us (free UK p&p) and we'll also send you Elinor's other new novel On Turpentine Lane completely FREE. See thread 👇for details https://alifeinbooks.co.uk/2020/03/five-comfort-reads-ive-read/ https://t.co/GMSs6InouT
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Outsiders
James Corbett
We're over the moon for seasoned football writer turned novelist @james_corbett, whose fiction debut The Outsiders is on the long list for @ThePortico Prize (aka the Booker of the North). https://t.co/WymPLPDBZP
Hardcover, 2021
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Little Grower's Cookbook: Projects for Every Season
Julia Parker
Hot off the press: THE LITTLE GROWER'S COOKBOOK is a sensationally lovely book of cooking and gardening activities for kids, written by Julia Parker and @GhillieJames, with a foreword by Olivia Colman (@ColmanUpdates). Perfect for lockdown in the spring http://eye-books.com/books/the-little-growers-cookbook https://t.co/WacXYkUSVM
Hardcover, 2021
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The End of the World Is Flat
Simon Edge
1/ Today is publication day for @simonjedge's fifth novel, THE END OF THE WORLD IS FLAT, described by @FrancisWheen as ‘a bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle’ https://t.co/M7JB5XLqjj
Paperback, 2021
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book