Extracts
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...
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...
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