Extracts
Extract: Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz
24 February 2022
Evan Smoak - Orphan X aka The Nowhere Man – is back at break-neck speed in a thrilling new adventure from Gregg Hurwitz.
1. A World That Contained Men Like Him
Some men speak of angels and devils.
Some talk about their emotions or unbidden urges.
Aragón Urrea knew it as a battle between two parts of...
Extract: The Milk Tart Murders by Sally Andrew
24 February 2022
When Oom Frik dies during a vintage movie screening in Ladismith, Tannie Maria and her policeman boyfriend Henk are on the scene.When a second body turns up, there’s a clue: a letter addressed to Tannie Maria asking for advice – and a milk tart recipe. Fifty-plus agony aunt Maria and feisty young journalist Jessie conduct their own...
Extract: Steal by James Patterson & Howard Roughan
23 February 2022
When a suicidal sophomore in his Abnormal Psychology class goes missing, Dr Dylan Reinhart becomes wrapped up in multi-million-dollar secrets and danger when the student's powerful father turns to him for help. It’ll take every bit of his expertise, and the help of NYPD Detective, Elizabeth Needham, to close the case. Can he stay ahead...
Extract: Influence is your Superpower by Zoe Chance
23 February 2022
Dynamic Yale professor rewrites the rules of persuasion in this breakthrough pop psych book – think Dale Carnegie for do-gooders or Quiet meets Robert Cialdini ’s Influence.
“Once upon a time, on an auspicious day in history, you were
born— influential. In fact, influence was your only means of...
Extract: When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
23 February 2022
A gorgeously immersive, mesmerising and life-affirming literary debut – a love story and a ghost story set in modern-day Trinidad.
Corbeau
Morne Marie, Trinidad. Yesterday
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Yejide
‘First thing you have to remember,’ Granny Catherine hold her
granddaughter, Yejide, close on her lap,...
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