Extracts
Extract: The Immortalites by Claire Robertson
05 June 2025
Ellie Kent, abandoned as a child and raised in a bleak and harsh asylum,
becomes a governess for a family bound for South Africa. Before reaching
their destination, she is abandoned again and left to navigate a vast and
unforgiving land alone. Forced to join a caravan of settlers, Ellie travels
with a questionable trader, a...
Extract: Blood’s Inner Rhyme by Antjie Krog
13 May 2025
In Blood’s Inner Rhyme, Antjie Krog returns to her Free State roots and to
her mother, writer Dot Serfontein. In her nineties, Dot is frail but sharp, and
their complex bond unfolds through letters, diary entries and care-home
records. This deeply personal book explores creative legacy, generational
tension, race, land,...
Extract: The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce
12 May 2025
During a sweltering European heatwave, Goose and his sisters reunite
at their family home in Italy after their artist father’s sudden death. His
masterpiece is missing, and so are the answers they seek. Once a
close-knit group, the siblings uncover unsettling truths about their father,
his young new wife, and each other....
Extract: The Nicotine Gospel by Sven Axelrad
12 May 2025
When Nate and Danny’s mother is killed by lightning on New Year’s Eve
1987, their eccentric father copes by inventing the Nicotine Gospel – his
theory that a man’s cigarette choice reveals everything. Desperate for
connection, the boys embrace his odd teachings. But as Nate thrives and
Danny spirals...
Extract: We Can Do Hard Things by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle
12 May 2025
We Can Do Hard Things is a guidebook for navigating life’s hardest
roads – love, grief, parenting, aging, and everything in between.
Glennon Doyle, alongside her sister Amanda and wife Abby, turned
to honest conversations during a year of crisis, asking 118 remarkable
people to share hard-won wisdom. What they found is simple...
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