Extracts
Extract: The Half Burnt House by Alex North
11 May 2023
Katie prided herself on being a responsible big sister – until she left her brother Chris alone for one selfish afternoon, and he became the victim of a vicious attack. Although he survived, the scars ran deep. Now they're adults, and they haven't spoken in years. Then she gets a call. A body has been found – and Chris is the...
Extract: Happy Place by Emily Henry
04 May 2023
Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have left behind their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth. Harriet...
Extract: Go as a River by Shelley Read
04 May 2023
Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.
Prologue
“Imagine what lingers on the black bottom of a lake. Debris, rivered in or tossed from boats, grows shaggy and soft. Pouty fish swim their...
Extract: Sons of Mud by Johan Vlok Louw
25 April 2023
At an army base close to Voortrekkerhoogte in Pretoria, at the height of summer and South Africa’s Border War, 18-year-old recruits endure an appalling drill sergeant bent on turning them into killing machines for the SADF. They are sleep deprived, and tension mounts in this group of disparate individuals – boys from all walks of life...
Extract: I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
25 April 2023
From the # 1 author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Stay Close, a page-turning thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page. The new Harlan Coben blockbuster has arrived.
Chapter One
I am serving the fifth year of a life sentence for murdering my own child.
Spoiler alert: I didn’t do it...
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