Extracts
Extract: Playground by Richard Powers
15 October 2024
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, this powerful novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers (The Overstory, Bewilderment) follows Rafi and Todd, polar opposites who bond over a board game at an elite school. Their lives diverge—Rafi pursues literature, while Todd’s AI breakthrough reshapes humanity's future. Meanwhile, Evie...
Extract: The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins
15 October 2024
From the global No.1 bestselling author of The Girl on the Train comes
a gripping new thriller. On the isolated island of Eris, reachable only
twelve hours a day, Grace lives in solitude. The island was once home
to Vanessa, a famous artist whose unfaithful husband vanished twenty
years ago. When a startling...
Extract: Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
15 October 2024
In this thrilling novel, Britain’s greatest storyteller takes you to sixties
London, where Gabriel Dax, a travel writer haunted by memories of
his childhood home in flames, is drawn into the world of espionage.
When offered the chance to interview a political figure, Gabriel is
unwittingly pulled into a web of deception. Under the...
Extract: Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
15 October 2024
In this anticipated new novel from the bestselling author behind
Big Little Lies, a diverse group of strangers are each absorbed
in their own lives – a flight attendant working on her birthday, a
young man returning from a funeral, an ER nurse contemplating
retirement. But when an elderly woman...
Extract: Run. Risk. Reward. by Ryan Sandes
13 September 2024
Ryan Sandes’ new book, Risk. Run. Reward., follows his extraordinary
ultra-trail running adventures since his 2016 autobiography, Trail Blazer.
It covers intense challenges like a 1,500-kilometre Himalayan journey
and a 700-kilometre solo run along Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, where he
encountered armed soldiers. Sandes also...
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