Extracts
Extract: In Too Deep by Lee Child and Andrew Child

20 November 2024
Jack Reacher wakes up alone, handcuffed to a makeshift bed in the dark,
with no idea how he got there. His right arm is injured, his belongings are
gone, and the last thing he remembers is the car he hitched a ride in being
run off the road. The driver died, and his captors wrongly assume Reacher
was an accomplice. They patch him...
Extract: The House of Cross by James Patterson

01 November 2024
In the thirty-second thriller of James Patterson’s Alex Cross series,
Detective Alex Cross faces his most personal and perilous case yet.
A ruthless serial killer is targeting America’s top legal minds, and as
Cross is drawn deeper into the investigation, his wife Bree and best
friend John Sampson vanish. Now, he has only three...
Extract: Playground by Richard Powers

15 October 2024
Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, this powerful novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Powers (The Overstory, Bewilderment) follows Rafi and Todd, polar opposites who bond over a board game at an elite school. Their lives diverge—Rafi pursues literature, while Todd’s AI breakthrough reshapes humanity's future. Meanwhile, Evie...
Extract: The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

15 October 2024
From the global No.1 bestselling author of The Girl on the Train comes
a gripping new thriller. On the isolated island of Eris, reachable only
twelve hours a day, Grace lives in solitude. The island was once home
to Vanessa, a famous artist whose unfaithful husband vanished twenty
years ago. When a startling...
Extract: Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd

15 October 2024
In this thrilling novel, Britain’s greatest storyteller takes you to sixties
London, where Gabriel Dax, a travel writer haunted by memories of
his childhood home in flames, is drawn into the world of espionage.
When offered the chance to interview a political figure, Gabriel is
unwittingly pulled into a web of deception. Under the...