Extracts
Extract: The Institute for Taxi Poetry by Imraan Coovadia
17 August 2021
Taxi poets are admired, sliding-door men rule, professors and politicians strut and fret and connive in a society shaped by violence and ambition, love, and the unsettling power of the imagination.
MONDAY
“PROBLEM #1: THERE WAS A CAT, Marmalade, who was out of his mind. Plus, Solly Greenfields, the only friend I could bear...
Extract: A Spy in Time by Imraan Coovadia
17 August 2021
If you could go back and change the past, would the future turn out the way you want it to? Imraan Coovadia’s dazzlingly original, A Spy in Time, is an extraordinary tale for extraordinary times.
“I NEVER SET OUT TO be anybody’s prophet. I didn’t see myself as a spy. I was twenty-five years old and I was ready for...
Extract: Thinking the Future by Clem Sunter and Mitch Ilbury
10 August 2021
In Thinking the Future, scenario specialists Clem Sunter and Mitch Ilbury teach us the futurist’s art of decision-making, where the flexibility of thinking like a fox plays a key role in adapting to a complex and interconnected world. The book rejects the appealing but misleading self-help narrative that you can decide your future through...
Extract: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
10 August 2021
A rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, memory and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
ISLAND
“ONCE UPON A MEMORY, at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea, there lay an island so beautiful and blue that the many travellers, pilgrims,...
Extract: The Noise by James Patterson
03 August 2021
Terror has a new sound... and it comes from the darkest corners of James Patterson's imagination.
CHAPTER ONE
TENNANT
“THE FOREST HAD A particular scent to it, a dewy moistness off the Columbia River mixed with Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, red cedar, hemlock, and maple. Overnight, a fog had rolled down from the peak of...
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