Extracts
Extract: Jack Reacher 14: 61 Hours by Lee Child
02 June 2022
Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat.
ONE
Five minutes to three in the afternoon. Exactly sixty-one hours before it...
Extract: No Less the Devil by Stuart MacBride
01 June 2022
Introducing an original and intriguing new lead character, Stuart MacBride's new novel showcases a crime-writing master at the top of his game.
“Malcolm ran. One hand curled against his chest, the wrist swollen and aching, the fingers numb and almost black in the sickly yellow streetlight. His other hand clenched...
Extract: The Second Verse by Onke Mazibuko
27 May 2022
Bokang Damane is a dreamer and an outsider with mad problems. Things only get worse when everyone thinks he wants to off himself just because he wrote an essay on suicide. Really? Talk about d.r.a.m.a. Life at the moment is just a sorry son-of-a-checklist of insolvable problems...
“Within the hour, I’m done...
Extract: The People on Platform 5 by Clare Pooley
24 May 2022
The brand-new feel-good novel from the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project.
Iona
08:05 Hampton Court to Waterloo
“Until the point when a man started dying right in front of her on the 08:05, Iona’s day had been just like any other.
She always left the house at half past seven. It took her an...
Extract: Breathless by Amy McCulloch
24 May 2022
When you're this high up, no one can hear you scream: an ice-cold thriller from an expert mountaineer turned bestselling author.
Prologue
Summit day
Breathe, Cecily.
Cold air filled her lungs. It was strange. When she’d pictured breathing up here, she’d assumed it would feel like suffocating. Choking....
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