Agency pricing on Amazon UK:
Amazon.co.uk has lost its fight with three major publishers, which are now setting ebook prices for themselves. Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins and Penguin now setting their own e-book prices and if you are about to buy an ebook which has been priced according to the agency model Amazon displays on their page the message: "This price was set by the publisher."
This has caused outcry on the Amazon UK forums, as certain books have sky-rocked by more than 3 times in price such as "Just After Sunset" which now costs £17.99 as opposed to a £5 price tag just a few days ago. Almost all books by these publishers have risen in price.
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Rated 3/5 stars average from 5 reviews.
Synopsis: "Blood is thicker than water -- and far more deadly ! A woman is lured to a remote spot in the Scottish Highlands and strangled almost to the point of death. As she begs for mercy, her tormentor begins to carve her face, before burying her alive. In Edinburgh, unorthodox young lawyer Brodie McLennan becomes tangled up in the case. When it emerges that Brodie was the last person to see the victim and crucial evidence is found at her flat, she must fight to clear her name - and save her own skin. Meanwhile in an asylum in Inverness, a deranged patient writes the name Brodie over and over in her own blood! As another mutilated body is discovered bearing the same ritualistic markings, Brodie is running scared from unknown forces, eager to see blood on her hands! Prepared to be shocked in this dark and gripping thriller, for fans of Ian Rankin and Mo Hayder!"
Synopsis: "One man’s journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it and do some of the journey on foot. When he himself was a young man, Thesiger led an expedition to explore the course of the Awash river in Ethiopia. Every westerner that had gone before him had been killed by local tribesmen. Needless to say, he survived. Alternating chapters chart Warwick’s journey with that of Thesiger creating a captivating dual narrative that is part travel book, part biography, part autobiography, part history with fair doses of philosophy and humour thrown in for good measure.In Praise of Savagery is a highly original book that defies classification but is always effortlessly readable."
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