Extracts
Extract: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
25 March 2022
Meet the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott, heroine of the new and most exciting debut of 2022.
CHAPTER 1
November 1961
“Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined
garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbelt-less
cars without giving it a second thought; back...
Extract: This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel
25 March 2022
A story of sisters, secrets and a sanctuary with a dark heart from author of Sunday Times bestseller The Recovery of Rose Gold.
Part One
I want to live a life in which I am free.
The world’s gone mad. People always say that.
On the contrary, we’re much too sane. We’re going to die
someday,...
Extract: Hammerman by Mike Nicol
25 March 2022
June 2018
“He’s known as AJ. Has been called AJ forever. The nickname his mother gave him. The A stands for André. The J for Jacobs, his surname. No one ever calls him André. Nor would he answer to it. Anyone calls him André over the phone, he disconnects. To his subordinates in the cops he’s Colonel...
Extract: Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood
10 March 2022
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon. In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds.
Frozen in Time
INTRODUCTION (2004)
"Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie and...
Extract: The Flames by Sophie Haydock
10 March 2022
Vienna, at the beginning of the 20th century, is an exhilarating social whirl, a city of ideas, of music, of groundbreaking art. Into this world come four women, each with a story to tell. In a city like Vienna, everything seems possible – until an act of betrayal changes everything.
Prologue
4 May 1968
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