Extracts
Extract: All the Broken Places by John Boyne
15 November 2022
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't...
Extract: Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
15 November 2022
Retired tennis player Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.
CHAN VS. CORTEZ
US Open
September 1994
“My entire life’s work rests on the outcome of...
Extract: Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
15 November 2022
From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, a mesmerising novel set in Soho in the 1920s, when gangsters and politicians, peers and dancing girls, rubbed shoulders in a dazzling new world.
1926
Holloway
‘Is it a hanging?’ an eager newspaper delivery boy asked no one
in particular. He was...
Extract: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
15 November 2022
In The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama opens a frank and honest dialogue with readers, considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build enduring and honest relationships? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Michelle Obama believes...
Extract: The Romantic by William Boyd
14 November 2022
From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel about the tumult and unexpected nature of life, set in the 19th century.
1
Cashel always claimed that his first memory was of a man in
black, leading a black horse. A man who – he then suspected –
wanted to kill him...
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