Extracts
Extract: The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North

05 June 2025
Dan Garvie can't move on from a thing he didn't do. He saw the boy.
He knew he needed help. But he ran and hid – and a terrifying serial
killer got away. Years later, Dan is a successful criminal psychiatrist,
unpicking the very darkest of human behaviour. Because, despite
what he saw that day,...
Extract: This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen

05 June 2025
Two unlikely detectives. A killer cocktail of suspects. Mimi, 77, prefers
her Gibson martini served with a crossword puzzle — not at a lavish
auction party hosted by the infamous Jane Ireland. But when she’s
blackmailed into attending the event at a grand mansion on Mackinac
Island, she drags along her...
Extract: Silver Elite by Dani Francis

05 June 2025
Twenty-year-old Wren Darlington is a powerful Mod hiding her psychic
abilities to survive in a world where Modifieds are hunted by the Primes
– immune elites who want them eliminated. While aiding the rebel Uprising,
a mistake lands Wren in the Continent’s elite military program, Silver Block,
giving her a chance to...
Extract: The Immortalites by Claire Robertson

05 June 2025
Ellie Kent, abandoned as a child and raised in a bleak and harsh asylum,
becomes a governess for a family bound for South Africa. Before reaching
their destination, she is abandoned again and left to navigate a vast and
unforgiving land alone. Forced to join a caravan of settlers, Ellie travels
with a questionable trader, a...
Extract: Blood’s Inner Rhyme by Antjie Krog

13 May 2025
In Blood’s Inner Rhyme, Antjie Krog returns to her Free State roots and to
her mother, writer Dot Serfontein. In her nineties, Dot is frail but sharp, and
their complex bond unfolds through letters, diary entries and care-home
records. This deeply personal book explores creative legacy, generational
tension, race, land,...