Extracts

Extract: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
25 August 2021
Chloe looks like an ordinary university student, but she's actually a highly intelligent psychopath on a revenge mission. From a stunning new voice in thriller writing.   Day 60 “AS SOON AS THE DOOR to my new dorm room closed, I went to the window, scanning across the quad for him. It wasn’t like there was any possibility...
Extract: A Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
25 August 2021
In the third Hawthorne book from Anthony Horowitz, there has never been a murder on Alderney… Until now.   1 An Invitation   “MY PUBLISHERS, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, have offices on the Vauxhall Bridge Road, the other side of Victoria. It’s an odd part of London. Considering that the River Thames is at the top of the...
Extract: Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce
20 August 2021
Based on the true story of Belle Gunness whose killing spree began in Chicago in 1900, Triflers Need Not Apply is a novelistic tour de force exploring one woman's determination to pay men back for all they have taken.   PERSONAL – comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts in LaPorte...
Extract: Green-eyed Thieves by Imraan Coovadia
18 August 2021
Green-eyed Thieves has everything a reader could want: fast-paced action, a startling conclusion, and an investigation of the most frightening idea that Firoze can imagine: the idea that all men are brothers. More than that, it offers a pleasure that may well be greater than the illicit joys of the brothers' lives - the bliss of language....
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...

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