99p

The Sunday Times and Waterstones have been teaming up for the past couple of weeks offering readers a voucher to acquire books off the Times Contemporary classic list for a mere 99p. I noticed this offer rather late - apparently it's been going every week since mid May (if not earlier). My dad gets this newspaper every Sunday but it even past us by, after seeing a little cardboard display in my local Waterstones I thought I'd make sure I looked out, and grabbed this weeks offer. Each voucher which last a week - comes with the addition of one new book - this weeks its The Wonder Boys but you can backtrack and use your voucher on the older book selection from previous weeks.

I ended up buying The Vagrants by Yiyun Li - a tale set in the late 1970s centring on the execution of a revolutionary girl in communist China and how her death affects her home village. Its not going to be light hearted and does seem a deep but I love books that get you thinking and are set away from the lovely dovey.

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If there's an end to this offer it's not being published nor are all the details on forth coming books or the "contemporary classic list" they are being picked from but it keeps part of the excitement going! I do love how these offers get you thinking and buying books you might not normally buy and while I am meant to be getting through and decreasing my book collection - I need something new to keep my interest going. Excuses ... excuses ...

Any recommendations for any other good books out there at the moment?

This post was off my own back and hasn't been at the hand or enticement of Waterstones or The Sunday Times - merely me trying to highlight an offer that so nearly passed me by.