Extracts
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...
Extract: The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
03 August 2021
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.
PART 1
4 FEBRUARY 2004
“IN A WAITING ROOM at St Mary’s Hospital,...
Extract: The Shadow by James Patterson & Brian Sitts
29 July 2021
Only two people know Lamont Cranston's secret identity as the Shadow, a vigilante of justice: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. Then Khan ambushes the couple, who find the slimmest chance of survival . . . in the uncertain future.
NEW YORK CITY / 1937
ONE
“IN THE BAR room of...
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