Extracts
Extract: Ancestral by Charlie Human
29 July 2021
Clementine Khoza is a hard person; hard to know, hard to love, hard to fight. When she was a little girl, her grandfather put a stick and a shield in her hands and taught her the ancient stick-fighting art of her Zulu ancestors. The hard way.
“I’VE GOT A BLOOD-SMEARED Perspex riot shield in one hand and an iron-capped stick in...
Extract: The Tearoom by Gretchen Haley
29 July 2021
Sprinkled with delicious humour and spoonfuls of local flavour, The Tearoom is a warm tale with characters you’ll never forget.
“BY FOUR-THIRTY I was sold out for the day. My last customer was Gayle Nair who, like me and many others, went by a name that wasn’t on her birth certificate. Her first name was actually...
Extract: This Shining Life by Harriet Kline
29 July 2021
A boy struggling to process an unexpected loss believes he has been given a series of clues to the biggest puzzle of all—the meaning of life—in this deeply felt debut novel.
PROLOGUE
“HE FELL OVER AND LAY in the grass, laughing. ‘I didn’t think I’d had that much to drink.’
The sky...
Extract: Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
29 July 2021
The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and The End of Her who has sold more than
7 million copies of her books worldwide.
PROLOGUE
“THERE ARE MANY EXPENSIVE houses here in Brecken Hill, an enclave on the edge of Aylesford, in the Hudson Valley. Situated on the...
Extract: The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
29 July 2021
A cold case, an abandoned mansion, family trauma and dark secrets lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell's remarkable new novel.
ARACHNOPHOBIA
ARACHNOPHOBIA. It’s one of those words that sounds as bad as that which it describes. The hard ‘ack’ at the end of the second syllable suggestive of the repulsive angles of a spider...
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