Extracts
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...
Extract: The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
19 June 2023
The captivating new novel from Pip Williams, the internationally bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, is the perfect book for anyone obsessed with words. Dip in with this extract from the book.
Before
“Scraps. That’s all I got. Fragments that made no sense without the words before or the words after...
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