Extracts
Extract: Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
31 March 2022
Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.
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NO NAME WOMAN
K’hwi...
Extract: History of South Africa by Thula Simpson
25 March 2022
With South Africa currently facing a crisis as severe as any in its history, the book shows that these challenges are neither unprecedented nor insurmountable, and that there are principles to be found in history that may lead us safely into the future.
“Following the deportation of the nine trade union leaders at the...
Extract: Spoilt Ballots by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall
25 March 2022
Spoilt Ballots is as much about the people who voted in some of our most decisive elections as it is about those who didn’t get to make their mark. It explains why a black man in the Cape had more political rights in 1854 than at any other point in the ensuing 140 years and how the enfranchisement of women in 1930 was actually a step...
Extract: What His Wife Knew by Jo Jakeman
25 March 2022
The enthralling, page-turning new thriller from the internationally acclaimed author of Sticks and Stones.
Stage One of Grief
DENIAL
CHAPTER ONE
Beth Lomas
Sorry.
Just one word on the back of a discarded envelope. I told
the police that no way, never, not in a million years was that
a suicide note.
I said...
Extract: The Match by Harlan Coben
25 March 2022
In this gripping new thriller from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author and creator of The Stranger, Wilde follows a tip that he hopes will finally solve the mystery of his abandonment, but instead sends him straight into the arms of a serial killer.
CHAPTER ONE
“At the age of somewhere between forty and forty...
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