Extracts
Extract: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
13 October 2025
In 2014, a remarkable poem is read aloud—and then lost, leaving generations
to wonder at its meaning. By 2119, rising seas have submerged the UK’s
lowlands, and survivors mourn the richness of the vanished world. Tom
Metcalfe, a scholar on Britain’s scattered archipelagos, studies early twenty-
first-...
Extract: Mafia Land by Kyle Cowan
13 October 2025
Beneath South Africa’s surface lies a brutal world of mafias and cartels
vying for the nation’s wealth – the tobacco, taxi, water, hospital, construction,
and police mafias all exploit a system of corruption reaching from streets to
government. Patronage networks entangle municipalities, state enterprises,
political...
Extract: Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
08 October 2025
Maggie McCabe is on the edge. A renowned army combat surgeon, she’s
always lived on the frontline, but a string of personal tragedies leaves her
adrift. Then a former colleague offers a lifeline: a high-stakes, anonymous
assignment for one of the world’s most mysterious men, whose wealth
demands the finest care and absolute...
Extract: Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen
16 September 2025
Wolves are the new dragons! This sizzling, addictive romantasy will grip
fans of Fourth Wing, When the Moon Hatched and Quicksilver. In a world
where humans and direwolves forge mental bonds through brutal trials,
only the worthy survive. Meryn Cooper despises the Bonded, but when
her sister is kidnapped ...
Extract: Wicked Smart by Douglas Kruger
10 September 2025
New results demand new ways of seeing and acting – this is reframing, one of humanity’s most powerful tools. Recent decades have unlocked behavioural economics breakthroughs, now gathered in one place as “smart-cuts.” Steve Jobs once said technology is a “bicycle for the mind” – and the world is full of...
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