Self published book of the month
A competition to find and review the self published book of the month
Self-published book of the month: Jalan Jalan by Mike Stoner
The story of an escape from Britain that becomes a personal transformation, this is an effective – if surprisingly conventional – novel
Self-published book of the month: Yesterday by Sheila Norton – review
An air of self-congratulation undermines this story of a journalist investigating her teenage past, writes Alfred Hickling
Self-published book of the month: Café Insomniac by Mark Capell
In this dreamily compulsive novel, a man who can't sleep opens an establishment for nighthawks. But when a customer is murdered, his nocturnal life starts to unravel, writes Alison Flood
Self-published book of the month: Shoot the Savage by LM Latham – review
Jane Housham: An aspiring actor's struggles with racism in 1930s Hollywood are depicted convincingly in a perfectly-engineered story
Self-published book of the month: The Gift of Looking Closely by Al Brookes
A novel about assisted suicide written in the second person is not an easy feat to bring off without alienating readers. But Brookes succeeds
Self-published book of the month: The Right of the Subjects by Jude Starling – review
A closely researched and passionately told story of suffragism, this novel could have been greatly improved by a conventional publisher
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Self-published book of the month: Dinosaurs and Prime Numbers by Tom Moran – review
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