Extracts
Extract: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
14 November 2025
A sweeping love story and family saga by Booker Prize-winner Kiran
Desai. When Sonia and Sunny meet on an overnight train, they’re
instantly drawn to each other – despite their grandparents’ failed
matchmaking years earlier. Sonia, an aspiring novelist haunted by
a past affair, returns to India after studying in Vermont....
Extract: The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three by Philip Pullman
14 November 2025
When readers last saw Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth, she was
alone in a ruined city, her dæmon Pantalaimon gone in search of her
lost imagination. Now, in The Rose Field, Lyra’s journey to find him
intertwines with Malcolm’s, as both travel east along the Silk Roads
toward a mysterious red building said to hold the...
Extract: Force for Good by Craig Wilkinson
14 November 2025
Force for Good is a bold, balanced exploration of positive masculinity, inspiring
men to become forces for good. Rejecting extremes – aggressive dominance
or passive disengagement – it presents a vision of healthy masculinity: strong
yet gentle, confident yet humble. The book emphasises that power, often
misunderstood, is...
Extract: Exit Strategy by Lee Child
14 November 2025
Jack Reacher plans three stops today – though only two are on his
list. First: a Baltimore coffee shop. Black coffee, corner seat, eyes
on the door. A brief scuffle, nothing serious. As he leaves, someone
brushes past him; his wallet’s fine, or so he thinks. Second: a store
for a new coat, plain and...
Extract: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
13 October 2025
In 2014, a remarkable poem is read aloud—and then lost, leaving generations
to wonder at its meaning. By 2119, rising seas have submerged the UK’s
lowlands, and survivors mourn the richness of the vanished world. Tom
Metcalfe, a scholar on Britain’s scattered archipelagos, studies early twenty-
first-...
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