British Book Bargains + Ken Follett in the US

September 16, 2025

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Fans of Ken Follett’s epic historical fiction will be pleased to know his latest, Circle of Days, will be out next week. This time around, he’s written a story exploring the mystery of how Stonehenge was created.

Fans of his work may be able to catch him in person this month - at least on the East Coast. He has three scheduled appearances before heading back to the UK:

  • Monday, September 22nd - Free Library of Philadelphia (Details HERE)

  • Tuesday, September 23rd - Brooklyn Public Library (Details HERE)

  • Wednesday, September 24th - Bardavon Operate House in Poughkeepsie, NY (Details HERE)

You can view his full event calendar HERE. If you’re in the UK, he has a number of appearances scheduled after the brief stop here in the US.

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British eBooks on Sale: September 16th

As always, a short disclaimer on the sale listings - the overwhelming majority of our readers are US-based, so sale availability may vary outside of the US (it’s up to the publisher/author if they wish to coordinate sales internationally). Deals can disappear at any time, but all e-books were $2.99 or less at time of writing.

  • Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner - In 1950s London, three women working at a century-old bookshop—stylish Vivien, practical Grace, and ambitious Evie—struggle against outdated rules, clashing colleagues, and a changing literary world as they pursue dreams of independence, love, and opportunity.

  • Close Knit by Jenny Colgan - In Scotland’s remote Northern Isles, islander Gertie MacIntyre swaps her knitting circle for a job as an air stewardess on a tiny local plane, where new friendships, daring flights, and the possibility of love push her to imagine a life beyond the familiar shores she’s always known.

  • An Eye for an Eye by Jeffrey Archer - A murder in a glittering city abroad and a sudden death shaking Britain’s elite prove fatally linked, leaving a London detective racing to stop a master criminal’s revenge.

  • Complete Birds of a Feather Mysteries by Marty Wingate - Four witty village mysteries set in Suffolk follow Julia “Jools” Lanchester, an ornithologist’s daughter turned tourist centre manager, whose quiet country life keeps colliding with murder.

  • Network of Evil by Bill Kitson - On the Yorkshire moors, Detective Mike Nash is called to a hanging in Stark Ghyll, a body at Black Fell cliffs, and the disappearance of a teenage gymnast — all tied to a ruthless killer bent on revenge.

  • The Only Child by S Englefield - After a tragic accident leaves Amelia Simpson orphaned on the Isle of Wight, a string of suspicious deaths draws DI Jennifer Stone into a chilling web of family secrets, betrayal, and long-buried truths.

  • To Swoon & the Spar by Martha Waters - A marriage of convenience brings Viscount Penvale back to his ancestral home with sharp-tongued Jane Spencer, but when her staged haunting fails to drive him away, their reluctant partnership begins to spark into something far more complicated.

  • Deadhead & Buried by HY Hanna - When city girl Poppy inherits a ramshackle English cottage garden nursery — along with a bossy ginger cat and a nosy village full of secrets — she must solve a murder among the roses before her fresh start wilts away.

  • Discovering Nicola by Clare Ashton - In Iffley Village, Oxford, fierce rivals Nicola Albright KC and Geeta Sachdeva—linked by their daughters and years of animosity—reluctantly call a truce, only to discover that friendship might turn into something far more complicated.

  • The Persephone Code by Julia Golding - In 1812 Buckinghamshire, Dora Pennington and disgraced doctor Jacob Sandys join forces to solve a murder in the Hellfire Caves, uncovering a deadly conspiracy linking the Illuminati, high society, and their own forbidden attraction.

A Few Print Book Deals…

Print books aren’t sold as cheaply as ebooks (and Amazon has recently announced plans to take larger fees on books priced under $9.99, causing many publishers/authors to increase prices), so for these we look for books priced at $10-12 or less at time of writing.

  • Paper Girls by Alex Smith - After losing his wife to an unsolved disappearance, DCI Robert Kett moves to Norwich with his children — but when two paper girls vanish, he’s pulled into a chilling case that may expose the truth about his own family’s tragedy.

  • Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley - In a lonely farmhouse on the northern moors, Richard and Juliette Willoughby reel from the sudden death of their young son — one drawn to occultists who promise contact with the boy, the other to a barren field where he digs for a fabled oak, both unearthing horrors buried deeper than grief.

  • The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell - In 9th-century England, as Viking invaders crush kingdom after kingdom, a young warrior torn between Saxon birth and Danish upbringing witnesses the struggle of one king whose fate will decide the future of the realm.

  • Echoes on the Fens by Joy Ellis - In the bleak, misty Lincolnshire Fens, Detective Nikki Galena faces three murders in as many days — an apparent overdose, a deliberate hit-and-run, and a man found bleeding on his dining room floor — but the only link between them may be Nikki’s own mother.

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