Extracts
Extract: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
14 July 2023
'That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me.'
What if everything you remember was a lie? The explosive and conversation-starting book-club debut from a stunning new talent. A book...
Extract: Betrayal by Lesley Pearse
14 July 2023
Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children – Olly and Tabitha – but he is a bully. Worse than that, he hurts her. But, after one drunken rage too many, she has the courage to leave him. Eve is warned that it's a difficult path, yet she needs to give her children hope for the future.
Don,...
Extract: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
19 June 2023
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this masterful literary novel is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the...
Extract: The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
19 June 2023
The captivating new novel from Pip Williams, the internationally bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, is the perfect book for anyone obsessed with words. Dip in with this extract from the book.
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“Scraps. That’s all I got. Fragments that made no sense without the words before or the words after...
Extract: The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson
19 June 2023
Single mother Revelle Lee is an interpreter who spends her days translating for victims, witnesses and the accused across London. Only she knows what they're saying. Only she knows the truth. When she believes a grave injustice is about to happen, and a guilty man is going to be labelled innocent, she has the power to twist an alibi to...
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