Extracts
Extract: Junx by Tshidiso Moletsane
15 November 2022
Prepare for a party night that courses from Soweto to the Joburg CBD as Tshidiso Moletsane’s explosive novel serves shots of sex, drugs and anxiety while tearing into life, death, race and politics.
“THE SOUTHERN LIGHTS ARE STILL DANCING ABOVE ME. The rain against the metal train carriages sounds like applause. The...
Extract: The Quality of Mercy by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
15 November 2022
In her most magnificent novel yet, award-winning author Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu showcases the history of a country transitioning from a colonial to a postcolonial state with a deft touch and a compassionate eye for poignant detail. Linked to The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, Ndlovu’s novel nevertheless stands...
Extract: All the Broken Places by John Boyne
15 November 2022
Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't...
Extract: Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
15 November 2022
Retired tennis player Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.
CHAN VS. CORTEZ
US Open
September 1994
“My entire life’s work rests on the outcome of...
Extract: Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
15 November 2022
From the inimitable bestselling author, Kate Atkinson, a mesmerising novel set in Soho in the 1920s, when gangsters and politicians, peers and dancing girls, rubbed shoulders in a dazzling new world.
1926
Holloway
‘Is it a hanging?’ an eager newspaper delivery boy asked no one
in particular. He was...
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