Extracts
Extract: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

10 August 2021
A rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, memory and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
ISLAND
“ONCE UPON A MEMORY, at the far end of the Mediterranean Sea, there lay an island so beautiful and blue that the many travellers, pilgrims,...
Extract: The Noise by James Patterson

03 August 2021
Terror has a new sound... and it comes from the darkest corners of James Patterson's imagination.
CHAPTER ONE
TENNANT
“THE FOREST HAD A particular scent to it, a dewy moistness off the Columbia River mixed with Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, red cedar, hemlock, and maple. Overnight, a fog had rolled down from the peak of...
Extract: The Echo Chamber by John Boyne

03 August 2021
What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept.
PART 1
4 FEBRUARY 2004
“IN A WAITING ROOM at St Mary’s Hospital,...
Extract: The Shadow by James Patterson & Brian Sitts

29 July 2021
Only two people know Lamont Cranston's secret identity as the Shadow, a vigilante of justice: his greatest love, Margo Lane, and his fiercest enemy, Shiwan Khan. Then Khan ambushes the couple, who find the slimmest chance of survival . . . in the uncertain future.
NEW YORK CITY / 1937
ONE
“IN THE BAR room of...
Extract: Such a Quiet Place by Megan Miranda

29 July 2021
A riveting suspense novel about a shocking murder in an idyllic and close-knit neighbourhood, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last House Guest.
SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH
HOLLOW’S EDGE COMMUNITY PAGE
Subject: SHE’S BACK
Posted: 11:47AM
Tate Cora: There’s a cab outside the house. Did...