Extracts
Extract: Blood Stone by Irna van Zyl
27 July 2021
From the murky streets of London to the diamond bourse in Antwerp, from secluded Port Nolloth to Storm’s beloved Hermanus, Irna van Zyl’s third crime novel unfolds at a heart-stopping pace.
PREVIOUSLY
LONDON
“DETECTIVE WARRANT OFFICER STORM van der Merwe’s mother did not fall under the train on Paddington...
Extract: Death Cup by Irna van Zyl
27 July 2021
Detective Storm van der Merwe and Andreas Moerdyk are back in this thriller by Dead in the Water author, Irna van Zyl.
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“IT WAS THE DAY THE COUNTRY’S most infamous food blogger keeled over and died in Chef Zeb Tswalo’s award-winning restaurant in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley.
Everyone was chatting in the hushed...
Extract: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
23 July 2021
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people.
Chapter One
Amma
“Amma
is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by
to her left is the nautical- themed footbridge with its deck- like walkway and...
Extract: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
23 July 2021
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the...
Extract: Rising Tide by Sam Lloyd
13 July 2021
The new pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of The Memory Wood.
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“The news doesn’t strike cleanly, like a guillotine’s blade. There’s no quick severing. Nothing so merciful. This news is a slovenly traveller, dragging its feet, gradually revealing its horrors. And it announces itself first with...






