Extract: The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.
The Underground Pool
All
Extract: Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson & JD Barker
A stunning stand-alone thriller following a Detroit cop's hunt for a serial killer like no other.
CHAPTER 1
“Could a building sweat?
Extract: The Heist Men by Andrew Brown
In this explosive new crime thriller, Andrew Brown pits his haunted detective against the most elusive enemy he has yet faced. While dealing with his own demons, problems with his ex-wife and daughter, and a colonel with a history in the apartheid police force, Eberard moves ever closer to a dramatic showdown.
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Extract: Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
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Extract: History of South Africa by Thula Simpson
With South Africa currently facing a crisis as severe as any in its history, the book shows that these challenges are neither unprecedented nor insurmountable, and that there are principles to be found in history that may lead us safely into the future.
Extract: Spoilt Ballots by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall
Spoilt Ballots is as much about the people who voted in some of our most decisive elections as it is about those who didn’t get to make their mark. It explains why a black man in the Cape had more political rights in 1854 than at any other point in the ensuing 140 years and how the enfranchisement of women in 1930 was actually a step back for democracy.
Extract: What His Wife Knew by Jo Jakeman
The enthralling, page-turning new thriller from the internationally acclaimed author of Sticks and Stones.
Stage One of Grief
DENIAL
CHAPTER ONE
Extract: The Match by Harlan Coben
In this gripping new thriller from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger, Wilde follows a tip that he hopes will finally solve the mystery of his abandonment, but instead sends him straight into the arms of a serial killer.
CHAPTER ONE
Extract: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Meet the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott, heroine of the new and most exciting debut of 2022.
CHAPTER 1
November 1961
“Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined
Extract: This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel
A story of sisters, secrets and a sanctuary with a dark heart from author of Sunday Times bestseller The Recovery of Rose Gold.
Part One
I want to live a life in which I am free.
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