Extracts
Extract: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
01 April 2022
A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.
The Underground Pool
“The pool is located deep underground, in a large cavernous chamber many feet beneath...
Extract: Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson & JD Barker
01 April 2022
A stunning stand-alone thriller following a Detroit cop's hunt for a serial killer like no other.
CHAPTER 1
“Could a building sweat?
If someone were to ask him, Walter O’Brien would say no. But that was exactly what the square brick structure on the corner of Park and Woodward in downtown Detroit...
Extract: The Heist Men by Andrew Brown
31 March 2022
In this explosive new crime thriller, Andrew Brown pits his haunted detective against the most elusive enemy he has yet faced. While dealing with his own demons, problems with his ex-wife and daughter, and a colonel with a history in the apartheid police force, Eberard moves ever closer to a dramatic showdown.
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Extract: Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
31 March 2022
Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
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NO NAME WOMAN
K’hwi...
Extract: History of South Africa by Thula Simpson
25 March 2022
With South Africa currently facing a crisis as severe as any in its history, the book shows that these challenges are neither unprecedented nor insurmountable, and that there are principles to be found in history that may lead us safely into the future.
“Following the deportation of the nine trade union leaders at the...
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