Extracts
Extract: President’s Daughter by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
24 June 2021
The new standalone political thriller from former US president, Bill Clinton and James Patterson will have you on the edge of your seat. The following extract taken from the book is the tense lead-up to the kidnapping of Melanie, the daughter of Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL – and a past president.
LAKE MARIE
New Hampshire...
Extract: Mad Women’s Ball by Victoria Mas
24 June 2021
A gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women – one deemed mad, the other sane – who find their salvation at The Mad Women's Ball.
3 March 1885
‘LOUISE. IT IS TIME.’
With one hand, Geneviève pulls back the blanket that hides the sleeping figure of the girl. Curled up in a foetal...
Extract: Afraid of the Light by Douglas Kennedy
24 June 2021
A gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness and The Moment.
A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. A timely novel to...
Extract: Small Circle of Beings by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
Galgut’s economy of style and his chilling gift for understatement and the macabre are nowhere more eloquently displayed than in this gripping story.
“A CRY IN THE NIGHT. Perhaps I have been waiting for it: I am instantly awake and fumbling for my gown. I wrap myself in it, and stumble barefooted across the wooden boards to...
Extract: The Quarry by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
In The Quarry, Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, Damon Galgut brings the power of myth to his tender prose to create a devastating drama that builds to a climax almost too much to bear.
“A SILENCE FELL. The minister leaned toward him and put a hand on his arm.
'You can talk to me,' he said....
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