Extracts
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...
Extract - The Promised Land by Barack Obama
16 February 2021
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a...
Extract: The Push
03 February 2021
About the book:
What happens when your experience of motherhood is nothing at all what you hoped for, but everything you always feared?
'The women in this family, we're different...'
Blythe Connor doesn't want history to repeat itself. Violet...
Extract: You Never Really Know
03 February 2021
About the book:
One lowly barista. One coffee-drinking dictator. John Hunt’s playful and damning satire on political power
Meet our young hero Cappuccino – barista to the President – who’s never lived anywhere other than in the big man’s compound. Left in the...
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