Extracts
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...
Extract: The Cloisters by Katy Hays
20 January 2023
The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed Met Cloisters museum.
PROLOGUE
Death always visited me in August. A slow and delicious...
Extract: We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
19 January 2023
A heart-wrenching yet laugh-out-loud celebration of friendship at its imperfect and radiant best.
Prologue
“Edi. Are you sleeping?”
I’m whispering, even though the point is to wake her up. Her eyelids look bruised, and her lips are pale and peeling, but still she’s so gorgeous I could bite her face. Her...
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