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Bookshops have rolled out their New Year sales offers with Waterstone's, Amazon.co.uk and W H Smith all offering at least 70% off selected titles.
Amazon is taking as much as 75% off selected books, including Chris Evans' It's Not What You Think which is now available for £4.99, and 65% off Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain and Keith Floyd's Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography.
Play is also selling Chris Evans' memoir at 75% discount, priced £4.99. Among its other deals are Cecelia Ahern's The Book of Tomorrow at £5.99 (60% off) and Ross Kemp's Pirates priced £6.99 (58% off).
Waterstone's and WHS are also selling many of last year's key Christmas titles at half price. Waterstone's is offering 80% discounts on some titles, and e-books from £2. Saturday Night Peter by Peter Kay and Chris Evans' It's Not What You Think are being sold in the sale at discounts of 60%. WHS is offering up to 75% off some books. It is selling Ant and Dec's Oh, What a Lovely Pair, Chris Evans' It's not What you Think and Martina Cole's The Business at half price.
At Blackwell, the academic bookseller is selling Michael O'Mara's range of quirky education titles, including My Grammar and I, As Easy as Pi and A Classical Education at half price. Stieg Larsson's The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals are the Christmas 2009 titles sold at half price.
Foyles is offering as much as 50% off selected titles, including Transition by Iain Banks and Summertime by J M Coetzee. Other half price titles include Ion Trewin's biography of Conservative MP Alan Clark, William Shawcross' biography of the Queen Mother and David Byrne's Bicycle Diaries.