Extracts
Extract: Jailhouse Lawyer by James Patterson & Nancy Allen
13 September 2021
A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown
– and ends up behind bars...
PROLOGUE
“I WASN’T PRESENT at the courthouse in Erva, Alabama, on that morning in June, when events unfolded that would suck me into the undertow of Douglas County. But I’ve talked to the people...
Extract: Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
13 September 2021
The highly anticipated new novel from the worldwide Number One
bestselling author behind the Emmy and Golden Globe
winning HBO series Big Little Lies.
PROLOGUE
“THE BIKE LAY ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD beneath a grey oak, the handlebars at an odd jutted angle, as if it had been thrown with angry force.
It was...
Extract: Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks
01 September 2021
The epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his most powerful novel since Birdsong.
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“FROM HIS HEIGHT only a hundred feet above the trees, the pilot could see two people running over the ground below – one coming out of a wood, another through a gate in the lane, clinging on to his
hat as...
Extract: The Poisoners by Imraan Coovadia
01 September 2021
The Poisoners is a history of four devastating chapters in the making of the region, seen through the disturbing use of toxins and accusations of poisoning circulated by soldiers, spies, and politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
“ON 4 FEBRUARY 2020, a court in South Africa issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Jacob Zuma....
Extract: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
01 September 2021
The scorching new thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train.
“BLOOD-SODDEN, the girl staggers into the black. Her clothes are dishevelled, hanging off her young body, revealing expanses of pale flesh. Shoe lost, foot bleeding. She is in agony, but the pain has become inconsequential, eclipsed by other sufferings.
Her face...
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