Extracts
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...
Extract: The Mad House by TJ Benson
07 April 2021
In his exhilarating debut, TJ Benson conjures up a kaleidoscope of Nigeria. The Mad House is the extraordinary tale of five people bound by blood, each searching for a way through.
LIFTING ANDRÉ OUT OF THE TUB the night before he would leave for America to take his life, Max had told himself comforting things like ‘First...
Extract: Isle by Claire Robertson
16 March 2021
Claire Robertson, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and a South African Literary Award, is the author of the novels The Spiral House, The Magistrate of Gower and Under Glass. Here is an extract from her latest, Isle.
“HIS FOREHEAD IS SLICK and his face is stiff from...
Extract: Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
12 March 2021
In Beyond Order, his long-awaited follow-up to 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson proffers 12 more rules to balance chaos with order. Here is an extract taken from the first rule of the book, Do Not Carelessly Denigrate Social Institutions or Creative Achievement.
LONELINESS AND CONFUSION
“FOR YEARS, I SAW A CLIENT WHO...
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