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Books from independent and self-published authors you won't find on a bestseller table, short stories you can read free tonight, and a book quiz and Blind Date with a Book for when you can't decide.
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Every pick sits on one of our reading lists, with a line on why it's worth your evening.
- Fantasy startersSeth Bennett trades Boston for Ravenbrook, a small woodland town where the roads wander and almost nothing is what it seems.Ravenbrook of Water and Wonder by Louis Le Clercq
- Thriller startersEthan Parker vanished, then started posting videos. Ten videos, ten targets, and an elite university about to fall.10 Reasons Why Ethan Parker Vanished by Jastra “Jastra93”
- Romance startersAudrey arrives in a Maine seaside village with her baby son and thirty-six cents, ready to start again.Unbreak You by Michaela Kuntzmann
- Science fiction startersIn 2045 the doors close overnight, splitting rich from poor, and Dr Shanya Tourni wakes up on the wrong side.Shanya's Saga by David J Gibson
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The Glass Marches — Book I: The Burden-Bearer
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The NightWolf Chronicles: The Jagged Path
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The Dead Earth Protocol
Graeme Butler
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Triansh and the Doomsday of Omaris
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Triansh and the Resurrection of Revenants
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Triansh and the Land of Immortals
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happily (n)ever after: A Love Story Of One More Day
Jinesh Bhagdev
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Me for Myself
Abhishek Aggarwal
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AcClaim
Jean Thesquare
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Re:Claim
Jean Thesquare
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A Promise to Keep
Julia S. Allen
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The Apothecary's Debt
Anne Vellen
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The dark of the storm
Austin Rushworth
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A Lie Once Told
Nicola Hollingsworth
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After the Syzygy
J.D. Sanderson
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Dead in the Water
Ethan Taplin
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Ember Creek
Elle Laine
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Taking one step to change the world
Aham Singh
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I Do For Now
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The Silent Mark
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PANOPTICON
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Moonrise
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The Crown They Stole
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Trinity of Time
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The Lord's Prayer as a Way of Life
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Dorus
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Immitant: Volume I — Sigilbearer
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Ashes of the Sacred
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YLVARON: The Veiled Sangraíz
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A Half-Second Too Late: Volume 1: Rewound
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Finding Home
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Stuck In The Middle
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Tales From Hell
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