Extracts
Extract: Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
06 February 2025
When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In her memoir, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the...
Extract: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
20 November 2024
A hopeful novel about friendship, love, and the desire to leave a mark on
the world by Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Strout. In Maine, lawyer Bob
Burgess defends a man accused of murder while forming a deep bond
with writer Lucy Barton. Lucy also befriends Olive Kitteridge, and together
they share stories of “unrecorded lives,...
Extract: In Too Deep by Lee Child and Andrew Child
20 November 2024
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, handcuffed to a makeshift bed in the dark,
with no idea how he got there. His right arm is injured, his belongings are
gone, and the last thing he remembers is the car he hitched a ride in being
run off the road. The driver died, and his captors wrongly assume Reacher
was an accomplice. They patch him...
Extract: The House of Cross by James Patterson
01 November 2024
In the thirty-second thriller of James Patterson’s Alex Cross series,
Detective Alex Cross faces his most personal and perilous case yet.
A ruthless serial killer is targeting America’s top legal minds, and as
Cross is drawn deeper into the investigation, his wife Bree and best
friend John Sampson vanish. Now, he has only three...
Extract: Playground by Richard Powers
15 October 2024
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, this powerful novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers (The Overstory, Bewilderment) follows Rafi and Todd, polar opposites who bond over a board game at an elite school. Their lives diverge—Rafi pursues literature, while Todd’s AI breakthrough reshapes humanity's future. Meanwhile, Evie...
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