Extracts
Extract: The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa.
“HE LOOKED AROUND AT THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COURTYARD and I could see him relax...
Extract: The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
A year ago Patrick Winter, a young South African, was sent to Namibia to complete his military service and to defend his country against ‘terrorism’. Now he is back, to meet Godfrey, his mother’s freedom-fighter boyfriend, and to witness the country’s first free elections. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The...
Extract: Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
Against the backdrop of a world in flux at the start of a new century, Arctic Summer from Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, Damon Galgut, portrays the life of British writer E. M. Forster: his inner turmoil, his search for love and the story behind one of the greatest novels in English, A Passage to India.
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Extract: Better Off Dead by Lee Child & Andrew Child
01 June 2021
Jack Reacher is back, in the brand new thriller from bestselling authors Lee and Andrew Child. Relentless action, a gripping mystery and a host of evil new enemies who are soon going to learn... they'd be better off dead. Read on for an exclusive first chapter from Better Off Dead.
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Extract: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
28 May 2021
The glorious new novel from the international bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
Saturday, August 27, 1983
7:00 a.m.
“NINA RIVA WOKE UP WITHOUT EVEN OPENING HER EYES. Consciousness seeped into her slowly, as if breaking the morning to her gently. She lay in bed dreaming of her surfboard underneath her chest in...
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