{"id":4164,"date":"2013-01-20T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T12:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2013-01-20T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T16:00:48","slug":"sunday-brunch-another-big-batch-of-fresh-kindle-freebies-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weberbooks.com\/kindle\/2013\/01\/20\/sunday-brunch-another-big-batch-of-fresh-kindle-freebies-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch: Another big batch of fresh Kindle freebies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anne Digby, a hugely prolific British children’s author, is best known for the Trebizon series, published between 1978 and 1994.\u00a0A Horse Called September<\/em> was her debut novel, and a yellowed used copy of the paperback would set you back $25 plus shipping. But today it’s free on Kindle, look for it at the top of the buffet. The artwork for the Kindle edition is from the First Edition hardcover, which costs about $125 from collectible dealers if it’s in good condition.<\/p>\n

Before penning her 14 novels set in the fictional Cornish boarding school, Digby was a magazine journalist and lived in Paris for a while. But her dream was to become a “proper” author, and she certainly did, even though her agent was skeptical that a school-days series would sell in the 1970s and 80s. But Anne freshened the boarding-school genre, drawing on her own experience and her research of contemporary schools, and the books were well received.\u00a0She went on to write\u00a0the Me, Jill Robinson<\/em> series,\u00a0the Jug Valley Juniors<\/em> series, Quicksilver Horse<\/em> and The Big Swim of the Summer<\/em>. She added six books to Enid Blyton’s Naughtiest Girl<\/em> series and created the Three R Detective<\/em> children’s books.<\/p>\n

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All her books are long out of print, but are finding a new audience of Kindle readers. Nowadays Anne, 78, lives in East Sussex.<\/p>\n

As usual, each book listed here has gone FREE within the past 24 hours (except for the “Kindle Daily Deals” on page 3). Warning: Kindle book promotions can end without notice, so before downloading click the link “See Kindle price at Amazon” to verify that the book is still free.<\/span> (Prices and availability may differ outside USA.)<\/p>\n

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Children’s eBooks<\/p>\n

Author: Anne Digby<\/div>\n

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