Book excerpts
Read an excerpt from Lee Child’s new Jack Reacher adventure Past Tense – the most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018
Don’t believe us? Read an extract here: https://bit.ly/2Eeqdse then rush out to get your own copy of Jack Reacher’s most stomach-clenching, hair-raising, blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the international bestseller by Holly Ringland
Staying in this evening? Settle in with a glass of wine and this extended excerpt from The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, the enchanting and captivating debut novel from Holly Ringland.
‘Wife and Independence’ – Read an excerpt and view photos from Michelle Obama’s intimate, powerful and inspiring memoir, Becoming
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Rebecca Davis’s new book Self-Helpless: A Cynic’s Search for Sanity
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Read an excerpt from Unsheltered, the compulsively readable new novel from Barbara Kingsolver
Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.
Read ‘The Mistake Maker’, an extract from Markus Zusak’s new novel Bridge of Clay
At the end of the lesson, with snow falling outside, he stopped her playing and held her hands, and they were whipped and small and warm. He clenched them, but softly, in his own obelisk fingers.
‘Juz wystavczy,’ he said, ‘dziewczyno bledow …’ which she translated, for us, as this:
‘That’s enough, mistake maker.’
‘To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous’ – Read an extract from Anna Burns’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Milkman
Jonathan Ball Publishers has shared an extract from Anna Burns’s novel Milkman, which was recently awarded the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Friday Night Book Club: Read ‘The High Heel Killer’ – a short story from Mohale Mashigo’s new book Intruders
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‘She was with you in Durban, wasn’t she?’ Read an excerpt from Theo and Flora, the new novel from Mark Winkler
If you’re still waiting to pick up your copy of Theo & Flora by Mark Winkler, here’s an extract to keep you going!
‘If you dead, you wake up again in your homeland. You wake up free.’ – Read an excerpt from Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black
Read an excerpt from Washington Black by Esi Edugyan, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Read an excerpt from Robert Galbraith’s gripping, page-turning new novel Lethal White
Lethal White is new instalment in the highly acclaimed Strike series, written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Plus One, the debut novel from Vanessa Raphaely
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Find out more about the agile and artful caracal in an excerpt from David Muirhead’s Cat Among the Pigeons
Cat Among the Pigeons, the new book from David Muirhead, is out now from Penguin Random House!
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from The Carnivorous City by Toni Kan – a story of love, family and just desserts
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‘Some of us still wear our struggle names like war wounds’ – Read an excerpt from Barry Gilder’s debut novel The List
Jacana Media has shared an excerpt from Barry Gilder’s debut novel The List! April 2020 I tell this story now in the knowledge …
Read an extract from Green as the Sky is Blue, the new novel by award-winning author Eben Venter
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Eben Venter’s new novel Green as the Sky is Blue, a bold, unflinching exploration of sexuality, intimacy, and the paradox that lies at the heart of our humanity.
The trap is set. Nowhere left to run. Read an extract from Ambush by James Patterson
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Ambush – the new novel by James Patterson and James O Born.
Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
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Read the first 100 words of Christina Dalcher’s new dystopian thriller Vox
In a future, not far off imagined from ours, the government silences people to 100 words a day.
But only if you’re a woman.
‘No one knew exactly what the word “hippie” meant, and it didn’t much matter’ – Read an excerpt from Paulo Coelho’s new novel
The stories that follow come from my personal experiences. I’ve altered the order, names, and details of the people here, I was forced to condense some scenes, but everything that follows truly happened to me. I’ve used the third person because this allowed me to give characters unique voices with which to describe their lives.