Extracts
Extract: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
27 January 2023
England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright – restless, stifled – makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife, is not the adventure – or the escape – that she hoped for....
Extract: After You by Jojo Moyes
27 January 2023
Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for? Close the door...
Extract: The Good Life by Marc Schulz and Robert J. Waldinger
27 January 2023
What is the key to a good life? Directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, bring together over 80 years of research to reveal the true components of a happy, fulfilled life. In their ground-breaking book, The Good Life.
“Consider the feeling you get when you love someone, or when...
Extract: Mirage by David Viviers
26 January 2023
A century-old trunk has been dug up near the railway village of Sterfontein. Inside is the lost journal of Victorian author Elizabeth Tenant – and what appear to be the remains of a child.
The day the sign appears in the sky, Elizabeth watches William Booysen carry the carcass away. It is slung over his shoulder, the head...
Extract: The Drift by CJ Tudor
26 January 2023
Hannah is trapped inside a coach with a handful of survivors, a brewing virus, and no way to call for help. Former detective, Meg is in a cable car suspended far above a snowstorm and surrounded by strangers. Carter and his ragtag compatriots manage a precarious survival, manufacturing vaccines against a deadly virus. But as their generator begins...
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