Extracts
Extract - How To Be an Antiracist
16 September 2020
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.
In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem....
Extract - Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
05 August 2020
Chapter 1
The Golden Beetle of New Caledonia, 1914
When Margery was ten, she fell in love with a beetle.
It was a bright summer’s day and all the windows of the rectory
were open. She had an idea about sailing her wooden animals across
the floor, two by two, but the set had belonged to her brothers...
Extract - Loves and Miracles of Pistola
07 May 2020
Pigs, Love and a Bride Bereft
Two basic life principles become as clear as consommé to Pistola one steamy afternoon during the long summer holidays of his last high school year. He’s watching his grandfather slaughter two geese for Teresa Faccincani’s wedding when the first principle strikes him. It’s the notion...
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