Extracts

05 May 2021

A searing story of forbidden love and the curtailing of female wildness set amongst the long shadows cast by the Pendle Witch Trials is the bewitching debut from a magnetic new voice in historical fiction. Lancashire, 1620 “ANNIE SLEEPS CURLED UP ON THE BED we share, wet thumb fallen from her mouth. I kneel, calling and shaking her...

Extract: The Ends of the Earth by Abbie Greaves

28 April 2021

The breath-taking new novel from the author of The Silent Treatment – for fans of Jojo Moyes, Joanna Cannon and Ruth Jones. MARY CAN REMEMBER exactly where she was standing, the moment she first saw James. Not because of fate or the fixing point of Cupid’s arrow, or some other nonsense she didn’t have the head or time...

Extract: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

28 April 2021

A moving and immersive debut: when a team of scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters starts a parallel book containing all the "objectionable" words the men choose to omit. September 1898 DURING THE DAY I helped Mrs Ballard in the kitchen, and I only ventured towards the Scriptorium in the...

Extract: Tall Bones by Anna Bailey

20 April 2021

When a 17 year-old-girl goes missing, the façade of Whistling Ridge, Colorado - a tinder-box of small town rage ruled over by a crazy preacher - is split wide open. Based on the author's first-hand experience of an American smalltown community and religious rage. “IT'S ALL HER FAULT. That’s what they’...

Extract: Win by Harlan Coben

08 April 2021

From the number one bestselling author and creator of the Netflix hit series, The Stranger, comes a riveting thriller starring a great new hero, Windsor Horne Lockwood III – or Win, as he is known to his few friends… “WE HIT A LITTLE BIT OF A WALL. Young and Lopez want to take me someplace without further...

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