Wordery's Deal of the Day cuts a John Edgar Wideman novel by 82%

Wordery has put John Edgar Wideman's novel Look for Me and I'll Be Gone up as its Deal of the Day at £3.00, down from a £16.99 recommended retail price — a saving of £13.99, or 82%. The offer sits at the top of the Wordery homepage and, as with the retailer's daily slot, runs for the day rather than to a published end date. It is a single-title promotion, but it lands alongside a catalogue that is discounted broadly enough to be worth a browse in its own right.

What's in the sale

The Deal of the Day is the headline, and the rest of the front page carries standing reductions across fiction, non-fiction, cookery and children's titles. Discounts of 50% are common; the outliers reach into the 80s.

• Look for Me and I'll Be Gone — John Edgar Wideman — £3.00 (RRP £16.99), 82% off
• Outbreaks and Pandemics — Meera Senthilingam — £3.00 (RRP £20.00), 85% off
• A Most Intriguing Lady — Sarah Ferguson — £3.00 (RRP £14.99), 80% off
• Animal Farm — George Orwell — £4.00 (RRP £10.99), 64% off
• This Is Gomorrah — Tom Chatfield — £4.00 (RRP £8.99), 55% off
• Heartstopper, Volume 1 — Alice Oseman — £6.43 (RRP £14.99), 57% off
• The Observant Walker — John Wright — £9.35 (RRP £20.00), 53% off
• Overspill — Charlotte Paradise — £8.50 (RRP £16.99), 50% off
• The Women Behind the Door — Roddy Doyle — £10.00 (RRP £20.00), 50% off
• Bewilderment — Richard Powers — £5.00 (RRP £9.99), 50% off
• The Wrong Hands — Mark Billingham — £11.00 (RRP £22.00), 50% off
• 100 Novels That Changed the World — Colin Salter — £11.00 (RRP £22.00), 50% off
• Summer Feasting from the Fire — Valerie Aikman-Smith — £14.25 (RRP £25.00), 43% off

How the discount works

There is no code involved. The Deal of the Day price is applied directly to that one title and rotates daily, while the other reductions are standing catalogue prices rather than part of a timed event. Wordery prices against publisher RRP, so the percentages quoted are measured from the cover price rather than from a previous selling price. Hardbacks make up most of the steepest cuts — the £3.00 titles above are all hardback editions carrying £15–£20 cover prices — which is why the headline percentages look larger than the cash savings on cheaper paperbacks.

Worth it?

At £3.00 the Deal of the Day is a straightforward buy if the title appeals: Wideman is a well-regarded literary novelist and this is a recent hardback, not a remainder-priced backlist paperback. The wider catalogue is more mixed. The 50%-off titles are decent but broadly in line with what the larger online booksellers charge, so they are worth adding to make a single order worthwhile rather than chasing individually. The genuine finds are the hardbacks that have fallen to £3–£4, where the cash saving is real. Worth checking delivery cost against your basket total before ordering, and worth noting the daily slot changes over — if the Wideman is not for you, tomorrow's title will be a different book entirely.