Extracts
Extract: Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
14 July 2023
We all have an ikigai. It's the Japanese word for 'a reason to live'. The place where your needs, ambitions, skills and satisfaction meet. A place of balance. From authors Héctor García and Francesc Miralles comes a book that will help you unlock what your ikigai is and equip you to change your life.
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Extract: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
14 July 2023
What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? Here, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.
Facing Trauma
One does not have be a combat soldier, or visit a refugee camp in...
Extract: The Girls of Summer by Katie Bishop
14 July 2023
'That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me.'
What if everything you remember was a lie? The explosive and conversation-starting book-club debut from a stunning new talent. A book...
Extract: Betrayal by Lesley Pearse
14 July 2023
Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children – Olly and Tabitha – but he is a bully. Worse than that, he hurts her. But, after one drunken rage too many, she has the courage to leave him. Eve is warned that it's a difficult path, yet she needs to give her children hope for the future.
Don,...
Extract: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
19 June 2023
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this masterful literary novel is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. A shimmering evocation of a lost India and of the...
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