Extracts
Extract: Start with Why by Simon Sinek
28 September 2021
Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with why.
INTRODUCTION
WHY START WITH WHY?
“THIS BOOK IS ABOUT a naturally occurring pattern, a way of thinking, acting and communicating that gives some leaders the ability to...
Extract: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
28 September 2021
The second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand-new mystery.
PART ONE: Your Friends are Sure to Visit
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The following Thursday . . .
‘I was talking to a woman in Ruskin Court and she said she...
Extract: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
28 September 2021
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old.
“BUT WE MIGHT NEVER FIND THEM? We’d set up the scope on the deck, on a clear autumn night, on the edge of one of the last...
Extract: Wayfarer’s Hymns by Zakes Mda
23 September 2021
Infused with rhythm and melody, Zakes Mda’s new novel invites you to travel from Lesotho’s Mountain Kingdom to the City of Gold through the history of famo. Famo music was born in the drinking dens of migrant mineworkers in Lesotho, where the men would sing to unwind after work, accompanied by the accordion, a drum and sometimes a bass...
Extract: The Zulus of New York by Zakes Mda
23 September 2021
The impresario Farini introduced Em-Pee and his troupe to his kind of show business, and now they must earn their bread. In 1885 in a bustling New York City, they are the performers who know the true Zulu dances, while all around them fraudsters perform silly jigs.
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New York City – November 1885
The Wild Zulu
“THE...
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