Extracts
Extract: A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland
23 September 2021
In the Eastern Cape, Stephen (Malusi) Mzamane, a young Anglican priest, must journey to his mother’s rural home to inform her of his elder brother’s death.
“THEY HAVE SMASHED THE BELLS. All over Kaffraria the sound has ceased.
There is a great silence. More profound, more still than the dim before the dawn. A great...
Extract: Shades by Marguerite Poland
23 September 2021
Against a backdrop of drought, the rinderpest pandemic, the South African War, the burgeoning gold-mining industry and the complex birth of the exploitative system of recruiting migrant labour, Shades explores the growing tensions between cultures in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century and the deepening awareness of the black...
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...
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