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Extract: Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister

Simone’s holiday to Texas was meant to be some much needed bonding time with her teenage daughter, Lucy. On their first night in the desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings: Lucy has been taken and, in order to get her back, Simone must commit […]

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Extract: The Bells of Nagasaki by Takashi Nagai

Chimoto-san was cutting grass on Mount Kawabira. From where he worked he could see Urakami three kilometers down to the southwest. The hot summer sun was shin- ing lazily over the beautiful town and its hills. Suddenly Chimoto-san heard the familiar, still faint sound of a plane. Sickle in hand, he straightened his body and […]

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Extract: Fallen Stars by Imani Erriu

Read an exclusive extract from the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling celestial Heavenly Bodies series from TikTok romantasy phenomenon Imani Erriu! Part One Prologue Blood dripped from Enzo’s side, which he clutched as he staggered on, head whipping back periodically to check behind him. The Dreamlands were a cruel and cursed place. His […]

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Extract: Read the opening chapter from Men in Love by Irvine Welsh

When Irvine Welsh burst onto the literary scene in 1990, he didn’t just arrive – he revolutionised it. His debut novel, Trainspotting, was instantly hailed as a classic and a defining cultural moment, a legacy that continues to inspire and provoke artistic creation to this very day. In this highly anticipated sequal, Men in Love […]

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Extract: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

It’s late. You’re waiting up for your son. Then you spot him: he’s with someone. And – you can’t believe what you see – your funny, happy teenage boy stabs this stranger. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is charged with murder. His future is lost. That night […]

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Extract: How to Disappear by Gillian McAllister

You can run, you can hide, but can you disappear for good? Lauren’s daughter Zara witnessed a terrible crime. But speaking up comes with a price, and when Zara’s identity is revealed online, it puts a target on her back. The only choice is to disappear. To keep Zara safe, Lauren will give up everything […]

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Extract: The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister

17 years after being convicted of murder, Izzy’s father is finally released from prison. She wants nothing to do with him – but he claims to be innocent. She’s always believed he killed her mother, but now doubts are creeping in. Because if he’s telling the truth, then someone else has been lying all this […]

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Extract: That Night by Gillian McAllister

What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There’s been an accident: she hit a man with her car and he’s dead. She’s overcome with terror – fearing years in a foreign jail away from her child. She asks for […]

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Extract: The President’s Shadow by James Patterson

Read an extract from The President’s Shadow by James Patterson, the unputdownable new thriller from the #1 bestseller. PROLOGUE I CANNOT STOP thinking about college. This afternoon is Maddy’s graduation from City College of New York, and the only person more excited than me and my wife, Margo, is Grandma Jessica. Unfortunately, the day and […]

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Extract: The House of Cross by James Patterson

Read an extract from The House of Cross by James Patterson, the latest thriller in the #1 bestselling series. PROLOGUE Potomac, Maryland MARGARET BLEVINS LOVED HER morning runs. They allowed her time alone, which kept her even-keeled in a beyond-hectic life. That mid-December morning, the fifty-two-year-old mother of three teenagers followed her normal three-and-a-half-mile route […]

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Extract: Emma on Fire by James Patterson

Read an extract from James Patterson’s new thriller, Emma on Fire. Out now in paperback. CHAPTER 1 Four days before the fire EMMA CAROLINE BLAKE decides to drop the bomb in third- period AP English. It’s not a literal bomb, obviously. It won’t blow up any buildings; it’s not even going to knock over a […]

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Extract: The Loft by Marlen Haushofer

Pruschen, September 6th I don’t like the gamekeeper. He looks at me as if he is wondering whether for Hubert’s family’s sake he oughtn’t to shoot me dead. He’s used to giving sick animals the coup de grâce. I’m hiding these papers in the mattress because it’s unlikely anyone will look for them there. Not […]

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Extract: The Ocean’s Menagerie by Drew Harvell

All life began in the sea. Multicelled animals without backbones— the invertebrates—a rose in the oceans roughly 700 million years ago, and for upward of 200 million years, they were the only game in town. No animals lived on land, and vertebrates, in the form of fish, had yet to emerge. A menagerie of otherworldly […]

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Extract: Always on My Mind by Carys Green

Prologue She needed to stop thinking. Her mind. It had to be empty. Still. Silent. It was dark within the walk- in wardrobe. The only movement the gentle rocking as Anna shifted back and forth, knees bunched up tight to her chest. Don’t think. She wanted to listen out for a creak. The thud of […]

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‘Write what you know’: an extract from Sophie Kinsella’s new book, What Does It Feel Like?

An extract from Sophie Kinsella's new novella about a bestselling writer who receives a medical diagnosis.

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Extract: The House with Nine Locks by Philip Gray

Brussels, February 1952 The dead man had been taken away. The only thing still living in the charred skeleton of the warehouse was a tiger-striped tabby cat with demonic yellow eyes. It showed no sign of having narrowly escaped being burned alive, except for a sooty smudge on the bridge of its nose and a […]

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Extract: Anne Tyler’s Three Days in June

An extract from Three Days in June by Anne Tyler: The clock gathered itself together with a whirring of gears and struck a series of blurry notes. Nine o’clock, I was thinking; but no, it turned out to be ten. I’d been sitting there in a sort of stupor, evidently. I stood up and hung my purse in the closet, but then outside the window I saw some movement on the other side of the curtain, some dark and ponderous shape laboring up my front walk.

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Book cover of Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan

Extract: Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan

From the Polari Prize winning author of Bellies, Disappoint Me is a voice-driven, funny and poignant exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bougie domesticity. It’s four a.m. and the house party hasn’t thinned. New Year’s! Everyone wants to go to a party, but nobody wants to host a party, and […]

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Extract: The Fisherman’s Gift by Julia Kelly

Prologue: Scotland, 1900 Joseph knows the storm is coming. He sees the yellow glow of the halo around the moon and the ice-glitter of the winter sky when he comes up from the beach, pausing every now and then to give his knees rest from their groan and creak. Later, the wind shifts, swinging from […]

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Book cover of We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes

Extract: We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes

There is a framed photograph on Lila’s bedside table that she hasn’t yet had the energy, or perhaps the inclination, to get rid of. Four faces squished together in front of an enormous aquarium in some foreign holiday attraction – she forgets where now – a shoal of enormous iridescent stripy fish gazing blankly from […]