Extracts
Extract: Shackleton: A Biography by Ranulph Fiennes
28 September 2021
In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history.
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“THE GIGGLING, CRIES AND GASPS...
Extract: Start with Why by Simon Sinek
28 September 2021
Start with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with why.
INTRODUCTION
WHY START WITH WHY?
“THIS BOOK IS ABOUT a naturally occurring pattern, a way of thinking, acting and communicating that gives some leaders the ability to...
Extract: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
28 September 2021
The second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand-new mystery.
PART ONE: Your Friends are Sure to Visit
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The following Thursday . . .
‘I was talking to a woman in Ruskin Court and she said she...
Extract: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
28 September 2021
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old.
“BUT WE MIGHT NEVER FIND THEM? We’d set up the scope on the deck, on a clear autumn night, on the edge of one of the last...
Extract: Wayfarer’s Hymns by Zakes Mda
23 September 2021
Infused with rhythm and melody, Zakes Mda’s new novel invites you to travel from Lesotho’s Mountain Kingdom to the City of Gold through the history of famo. Famo music was born in the drinking dens of migrant mineworkers in Lesotho, where the men would sing to unwind after work, accompanied by the accordion, a drum and sometimes a bass...
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