Extracts
Extract: Chisoni by JG Jesman
04 May 2022
Following his brother’s funeral, Chisoni embarks on a flight to England, where he lives. In his pocket is a note to their father, written by his brother shortly before his death. Chisoni cannot bring himself to look at the note, let alone deliver it. His neighbour on the plane is a loquacious Irishman and, over the course of their 13-hour...
Extract: Three Assassins by Kotaro Isaka
04 May 2022
Their mission is murder. His is revenge. A propulsive thriller from the prizewinning author of Bullet Train.
SUZUKI
Looking out at the city, Suzuki thinks about insects. It’s night but the scene is ablaze with gaudy neon and streetlamps. People everywhere. Like a writhing mass of luridly...
Extract: Yinka, Where is your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
04 May 2022
Riotously funny and full of heart, Yinka is the heroine we've all been waiting for... Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her. She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, a preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is far too small as a...
Extract: 22 Seconds by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro
04 May 2022
The thrilling new instalment in the globally bestselling series. The Women's Murder Club is back with a fiendish new case which the four friends will need to call upon all their ingenuity to solve.
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CINDY THOMAS WAS working at the dining table she’d bought at a tag sale down the block. It...
Extract: Theatre of Marvels by Lianne Dillsworth
04 May 2022
An immersive historical debut which tells the story of a mixed-race woman who plays a freak on the stage in Victorian London and finds herself caught in a reckoning with her own identity.
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The African in the Audience
"Go to the theatre much? No, nor me. At least not before I became an actress. I know what you...
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