Extracts
Extract: The Fury by Alex Michaelides
24 January 2024
An exhilarating, gripping new psychological thriller from the author behind the record-breaking, multimillion-copy bestseller, The Silent Patient. This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? One spring morning, reclusive ex-movie star Lana Farrar invites a small group of...
Extract: Hippos, a Mongoose and Me by Karen Paolillo
14 December 2023
Hippos, a Mongoose and Me is a collection of vivid stories reflecting the decades that Karen Paolillo has lived and worked in the wilds of southeast Zimbabwe. The tales encompass a wide variety of animals and experiences, including Karen’s extraordinary affinity with hippos, life with her beloved mongoose, characterful baboons and...
Extract: Legends by Matthew Blackman & Nick Dall
05 December 2023
We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it’s easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen remarkable people – some well-known, others largely forgotten – who changed Mzansi...
Extract: Water by John Boyne
20 November 2023
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. A...
Extract: The Secret by Lee Child & Andrew Child
17 November 2023
In 1992 Chicago, a hospitalised man faces an impossible question from strangers before plummeting from his twelfth-floor window, drawing the attention of the Secretary of Defense. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Army Major, becomes part of an inter-agency task force to investigate. With a cold-blooded killer on the loose and a 23-year-old...
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