Contest: Win one of the Metro Reads!

Here's your chance to win a free book from Penguin's new Metro Reads series!

A series of novels by 'promising first-time authors' and published by Penguin Books, Metro Reads are ideal reading companions for a plane or train journey. And the first three titles have just hit the bookshelves.

Now, you can win free copies of these books!

Today, we've published the last of three excerpts from Love over Coffee by Amrit N Shetty. This is the fictional story of Anup, a misfit in a software firm, who is head-over-laptops in love with his co-worker Rajni.

Here's how you can win a copy of Love over Coffee by penning a similar story of your own!.

Write a passage on whether you are for or against couples working in the same office and why. Fill in your contact details and type out your passage on the form below. The ten best entries will receive a copy of Love over Coffee each, so hurry! The contest closes March 9.

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