Extracts

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...

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. 1 “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...

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