Extracts
Extract: The Keeper by Marguerite Poland
23 September 2021
Written in the exquisite, haunting prose for which Marguerite Poland is renowned, The Keeper is the story of two generations of lighthouse keepers – men obsessed by their duty to the light – and the wives who accompany them into a life of frightening isolation.
“WHEN THE CALL CAME, Maisie Beukes was alone in the...
Extract: Jailhouse Lawyer by James Patterson & Nancy Allen
13 September 2021
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown
– and ends up behind bars...
PROLOGUE
“I WASN’T PRESENT at the courthouse in Erva, Alabama, on that morning in June, when events unfolded that would suck me into the undertow of Douglas County. But I’ve talked to the people...
Extract: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
13 September 2021
The highly anticipated new novel from the worldwide Number One
bestselling author behind the Emmy and Golden Globe
winning HBO series Big Little Lies.
PROLOGUE
“THE BIKE LAY ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD beneath a grey oak, the handlebars at an odd jutted angle, as if it had been thrown with angry force.
It was...
Extract: Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks
01 September 2021
The epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his most powerful novel since Birdsong.
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“FROM HIS HEIGHT only a hundred feet above the trees, the pilot could see two people running over the ground below – one coming out of a wood, another through a gate in the lane, clinging on to his
hat as...
Extract: The Poisoners by Imraan Coovadia
01 September 2021
The Poisoners is a history of four devastating chapters in the making of the region, seen through the disturbing use of toxins and accusations of poisoning circulated by soldiers, spies, and politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
“ON 4 FEBRUARY 2020, a court in South Africa issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Jacob Zuma....
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