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Voodoo Academy
Theophilus Monroe
Urban fantasy · English
Book one of The Voodoo Legacy: an occult fantasy that balances humour with real conflict, opening the Gates of Eden storyline.
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Frankenstein
A. D. Wayne
Science fiction · English
A contemporary science-fiction reimagining of the Frankenstein story, opening an ongoing series. Rated for mature readers.
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The Demon in Me
Ashley Tomlinson
Paranormal · English
A paranormal novel that opens with its protagonist murdered and brought back, then follows the reckoning that comes next. "I may be a demon but I'm not a monster."
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Synchro: Gods, Kings and Warriors
Jonathan D. C.
Fantasy · English
Five kingdoms hold an uneasy peace in a world where people can reach godlike power. The young Blue Kingdom faces threats within and without as its youngest prince, Ash, comes into his own.
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Empire of Jackals
Morgan Cole
Military fantasy · English
The second volume of the Chrysathamere Trilogy, written for readers who come to fantasy for military strategy, warfare and political intrigue.
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Awaken the Three
D. L. Jennings
Epic fantasy · English
Book two of the Highglade series: epic fantasy with the supernatural set against humanity, moving quickly across several plot lines and a clearly drawn cast.
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And So It Goes
Gary E. Smith
Literary fiction · English
A literary novel by Gary E. Smith, recognised as a winner at the 2020 NYC Big Book Awards. Listed here with the author's permission; read it through the author's own retail pages.
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Life in a Leyline World
Jeff Atchison
Post-apocalyptic · English
Five years after an overlord named Hoyle summoned leylines out of the earth, the world is permanently changed. A post-apocalyptic fantasy of survival in that new order.
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House of Bastiion
K. L. Kolarich
Epic fantasy · English
An epic fantasy that takes its time laying the ground, then rewards it with politics and characters that stay with the reader well past the last page.
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Pauper King
E. Stuart Marlowe
Dark fantasy · English
A dark fantasy that keeps faith with fairytale lore while turning its attention to the characters left in the wake of the tale, and what cruelty costs them.
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Dreams of the Dying
Nicolas Samuel Lietzau
Dark fantasy · English
A dark fantasy following Jespar Dal'Varek. Written as a prequel within a wider fictional world, it reads as a complete standalone novel.
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Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Children's fiction · English
The boy who would not grow up takes the Darling children to Neverland, where refusing to age has a cost.
Public domain
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction · English
Three spirits walk a miser through his own past, present and grave in the course of one Christmas Eve.
Public domain
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Science fiction · English
A coded manuscript sends a professor, his nephew and a guide down an Icelandic volcano into a hidden world.
Public domain
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Classic fiction · English
A married woman's affair with Count Vronsky runs against the moral machinery of imperial Russian society.
Public domain
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction · English
An orphan escapes the workhouse into a London underworld of thieves, and into a question about his own origins.
Public domain
Middlemarch
George Eliot
Classic fiction · English
A study of provincial English life in which ambition, marriage and reform all bend under ordinary compromise.
Public domain
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction · English
Dickens's most autobiographical novel follows one boy from cruelty and poverty into work, love and authorship.
Public domain
Emma
Jane Austen
Classic fiction · English
A young woman convinced of her own matchmaking gifts misreads every heart around her, including her own.
Public domain
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Classic fiction · English
The confession of a bitter, self-aware civil servant withdrawn from a city he cannot forgive.
Public domain
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Classic fiction · English
Eight years after refusing a proposal, Anne Elliot meets the same man again, now a successful naval captain.
Public domain
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Classic fiction · English
Two sisters, one guided by restraint and one by feeling, face reduced circumstances and uncertain suitors.
Public domain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Classic fiction · English
Boyhood on the Mississippi: treasure, truancy, a graveyard murder and a trial no child should have witnessed.
Public domain
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Classic fiction · English
Stephen Dedalus moves from a Jesuit schoolroom to a decision to leave faith, family and country for art.
Public domain
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Classic fiction · English
Three brothers, a monstrous father and a murder that forces each of them to answer for what they believe.
Public domain
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery · English
A family curse, a moor at night and a hound whose footprints Holmes refuses to accept as supernatural.
Public domain
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
Children's fiction · English
An orphan sent by mistake to a Prince Edward Island farm talks her way permanently into two guarded lives.
Public domain
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Adventure · English
Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days, pursued by a detective who thinks him a thief.
Public domain
Dubliners
James Joyce
Short stories · English
Fifteen stories of Dublin lives arrested at the moment their limits become visible.
Public domain
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Adventure · English
Buck, stolen from a Californian ranch, is driven north into the Klondike and back toward instinct.
Public domain
The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells
Science fiction · English
A scientist achieves invisibility and finds it is a trap rather than a power.
Public domain
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Drama · English
Two men invent the same imaginary relative, and Wilde turns Victorian respectability into farce.
Public domain
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Non-fiction · English
Two years, two months and two days beside a Massachusetts pond, recorded as an argument for deliberate living.
Public domain
White Fang
Jack London
Adventure · English
A wolf-dog born in the Yukon wild is broken by men, and then, slowly, taught something other than cruelty.
Public domain
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
Adventure · English
Captured aboard the Nautilus, three men see the ocean as Captain Nemo knows it. First published 1870.
Public domain
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Classics · English
Four sisters grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War. First published 1868.
Public domain
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Classics · English
A lawyer investigates his friends connection to a violent stranger. First published 1886.
Public domain
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
Science Fiction · English
A scientist travels forward through time and finds humanity divided in two. First published 1895.
Public domain
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Science Fiction · English
Martian machines land in Surrey and an ordinary narrator records the collapse of everyday England. First published 1898.
Public domain
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventure · English
A boy finds a map, joins a voyage, and learns who Long John Silver really is. First published 1883.
Public domain
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
Classics · English
An orphan sent to her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and what happens when she is taken away. First published 1881.
Public domain
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
Classics · English
Jean Valjean, a stolen loaf of bread, and a policeman who will not let go. First published 1862.
Public domain
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Adventure · English
A shipwrecked sailor builds a life alone on an island for twenty-eight years. First published 1719.
Public domain
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
Classics · English
A summer in Louisiana changes what Edna Pontellier will accept of her own life. First published 1899.
Public domain
The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
Gothic · English
A visitor arrives at a decaying house and watches its last family unravel. First published 1839.
Public domain
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Classics · English
Stories of Mowgli among the wolves, and of other animals under the law of the jungle. First published 1894.
Public domain
The Odyssey
Homer
Poetry · English
Ten years of sea, delay and disguise on the way home to Ithaca. Composed in antiquity.
Public domain
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Classics · English
In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne refuses to name the father of her child. First published 1850.
Public domain
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Classics · English
A locked garden on a Yorkshire estate changes two difficult children. First published 1911.
Public domain
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Fantasy · English
A Kansas cyclone carries Dorothy to a country of witches, roads and unlikely companions. First published 1900.
Public domain
Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift
Satire · English
Four voyages, each one a mirror held up to English politics and pride. First published 1726.
Public domain
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Philosophy · English
Thirteen short chapters on strategy, terrain and the cost of fighting badly. Composed in antiquity.
Public domain
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Classics · English
A horse narrates his own life across a series of owners in Victorian England. First published 1877.
Public domain
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Classics · English
A country gentleman reads too many romances and rides out to revive knighthood. First published 1605 and 1615.
Public domain
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Adventure · English
Imprisoned without trial, Edmond Dantes returns with a new name and a plan. First published 1844.
Public domain
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Classics · English
A young man stays untouched by his own life while his portrait keeps the account.
Public domain
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Classics · English
An orphaned governess arrives at Thornfield Hall and refuses, at every turn, to be made smaller than she is.
Public domain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Classics · English
Huck and Jim raft down the Mississippi, and a boy's conscience argues with everything he has been taught.
Public domain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Classics · English
Alice follows a rabbit underground into a country with its own rules of logic, courtesy and croquet.
Public domain
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Classics · English
Told in letters, diaries and telegrams: a Transylvanian count moves to England, and a small group of friends work out what he is.
Public domain
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Classics · English
London and Paris on either side of the French Revolution, and a lawyer who finds one act of sacrifice worth a whole wasted life.
Public domain
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Classics · English
Five aristocratic families through Russia's Napoleonic wars, in Tolstoy's panorama of history, chance and ordinary life. Public-domain Maude translation.
Public domain
Moby Dick; or, The Whale
Herman Melville
Classics · English
Ishmael ships aboard the Pequod under a captain who wants one whale more than he wants his crew.
Public domain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery · English
Twelve short cases narrated by Dr Watson, from "A Scandal in Bohemia" to "The Copper Beeches".
Public domain
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Classics · English
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misjudge one another across the drawing rooms of Regency England, in Austen's study of pride, prejudice and the economics of marriage.
Public domain
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Classics · English
A destitute former student in St Petersburg commits a murder to test a theory about himself, and cannot live inside the answer. Public-domain Garnett translation.
Public domain
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Classics · English
Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect, and his family adjusts to the inconvenience. Public-domain English translation.
Public domain
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
Classics · English
Victor Frankenstein animates a creature from dead matter, then abandons it, in the novel that founded modern science fiction.
Public domain
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Classics · English
Pip, an orphan raised on the Kent marshes, is lifted into London society by an unknown benefactor and learns what his expectations really cost.
Public domain
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Classics · English
Marlow travels up the Congo to retrieve a company agent, and finds what empire does to the men who serve it.
Public domain
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Classics · English
Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors, and two generations undone by one obsession.
Public domain
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
Mystery · English
Agatha Christie's 1920 debut novel and the first appearance of Hercule Poirot. During the First World War, Emily Inglethorp is found fatally poisoned at Styles Court; Captain Hastings, a guest in the house, calls on his old friend, the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to establish who was responsible.
Public domain
Kiki Coto
Edward Avanessy
Crime thriller, suspense and spiritual fiction · English
A thriller that moves between crime, conscience and the unseen: 372 pages of suspense in which every choice carries a weight the characters cannot fully measure.
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Flee to the Forest
Barry John Cohen
Historical fiction, family saga · English
A sweeping saga of survival, love and resilience across generations, from the shtetls of Lithuania to a moshav in Israel.
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Journey of a Muizenberg Boy
Barry John Cohen
Memoir · English
A memoir of doubt, courage and passion, following a working life across music, theatre, business, politics and sport.
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Last Flight From Pemba
Barry John Cohen
Conflict / Geopolitical Thriller · English
Northern Mozambique is burning, and Pemba has become the last way out for civilians, contractors and foreign operatives.
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The Cedric Kushner Story
Barry John Cohen
Biography, sport and music · English
From working a passage on a freighter to promoting more than 300 world title fights: the life of Cedric Kushner.
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The Boys from Bulawayo
Barry John Cohen
Legal drama · English
Two men survive the Rhodesian war, leave Mugabe's regime for Australia, and are drawn into a high-profile legal battle.
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The De La Rey Conspiracy
Barry John Cohen
African history and politics · English
Honour, political identity and rebellion in the years after the Anglo-Boer War, and the memory that followed.
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The House on the Hill
Barry John Cohen
Historical fiction · English
A 32-room mansion in Altenburg, a war-torn Europe, and a painting that reopens a family's stolen legacy.
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AI for Simpletons
Barry John Cohen
Business and technology · English
A plain-language guide to using AI tools when you are buying property, written for readers who are not technical.
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Voodoo Academy
Theophilus Monroe
Urban fantasy · English
Book one of The Voodoo Legacy: an occult fantasy that balances humour with real conflict, opening the Gates of Eden storyline.
Listing metadata and official link only
Empire of Jackals
Morgan Cole
Military fantasy · English
The second volume of the Chrysathamere Trilogy, written for readers who come to fantasy for military strategy, warfare and political intrigue.
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And So It Goes
Gary E. Smith
Literary fiction · English
A literary novel by Gary E. Smith, recognised as a winner at the 2020 NYC Big Book Awards. Listed here with the author's permission; read it through the author's own retail pages.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Classic fiction · English
Three spirits walk a miser through his own past, present and grave in the course of one Christmas Eve.
Public domain
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Voodoo Academy
Theophilus Monroe
Urban fantasy · English
Book one of The Voodoo Legacy: an occult fantasy that balances humour with real conflict, opening the Gates of Eden storyline.
Listing metadata and official link only
Frankenstein
A. D. Wayne
Science fiction · English
A contemporary science-fiction reimagining of the Frankenstein story, opening an ongoing series. Rated for mature readers.
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The Demon in Me
Ashley Tomlinson
Paranormal · English
A paranormal novel that opens with its protagonist murdered and brought back, then follows the reckoning that comes next. "I may be a demon but I'm not a monster."
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Synchro: Gods, Kings and Warriors
Jonathan D. C.
Fantasy · English
Five kingdoms hold an uneasy peace in a world where people can reach godlike power. The young Blue Kingdom faces threats within and without as its youngest prince, Ash, comes into his own.
Listing metadata and official link only
Empire of Jackals
Morgan Cole
Military fantasy · English
The second volume of the Chrysathamere Trilogy, written for readers who come to fantasy for military strategy, warfare and political intrigue.
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Awaken the Three
D. L. Jennings
Epic fantasy · English
Book two of the Highglade series: epic fantasy with the supernatural set against humanity, moving quickly across several plot lines and a clearly drawn cast.
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