Extracts

10 September 2025

New results demand new ways of seeing and acting – this is reframing, one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Recent decades have unlocked behavioural economics breakthroughs, now gathered in one place as “smart-cuts.” Steve Jobs once said technology is a “bicycle for the mind” – and the world is full of...

Extract: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

10 September 2025

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon returns in The Secret of Secrets, Dan Brown’s first novel in over eight years. When celebrated academic Katherine Solomon vanishes without a trace in Prague, Langdon is thrust into a perilous search through one of Europe’s oldest, most mysterious cities. Beneath vast castles, labyrinthine passages,...

Extract: The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

10 September 2025

Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets a...

Extract: The Advocate by Jackie Phamotse

10 September 2025

Beneath the Coal family’s flawless facade lies a dynasty on the verge of collapse. Luna Parks’ fragile marriage, riddled with secrets, ignites further turmoil when an unwelcome guest arrives on the farm. Meanwhile, the Fletchers tighten their sinister hold over Clanwilliam, forcing the advocate to become the last line of...

Extract: One Night in Paris by Nina George

04 August 2025

Claire Cousteau, a respected French biologist, appears to have it all – but behind closed doors, her marriage is strained by infidelity. As the family heads to Brittany for the summer, her son Nico invites his new girlfriend, Julie, to join them. Ambitious and uncertain about Nico, Julie harbours doubts of her own. What no one...

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