Extracts
Extract: The Lion by Conn Iggulden

04 July 2022
Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning first instalment of The Golden Age, an epic new series from the nation's finest historical novelist.
Prologue
Pausanias took a deep breath, feeling calm spread through him. He exchanged a glance with his soothsayer, then rose from kneeling to walk...
Extract: Mr Wrong Number by Lynn Painter

04 July 2022
Bad luck has always followed Olivia. But when a steamy text from a random number turns into the most entertaining relationship of her life, it seems things are looking up... Colin has always considered Olivia his flatmate's annoying little sister. Until she moves in with them, and he realizes she's turned into an altogether sexier...
Extract: Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen

04 July 2022
The eagerly anticipated new Rizzoli & Isles thriller from No.1 bestselling author Tess Gerritsen.
One
Amy
I SHOULD HAVE WORN MY BOOTS, she thought as she stepped out of Snell Library and saw the fresh layer of sleet and slush covering the campus. When she’d left for school that morning it had been a balmy forty- nine...
Extract: Deception by Lesley Pearse

04 July 2022
After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice is approached by a man who claims to be her father. What does he hope to gain telling her this now, 30 years on? How can her adored Ralph not be her true father? And why did her mother betray her so badly? She had accepted Sally’s many faults, and reluctance to never speak of the past. But now...
Extract: A Kiss After Dying by Ashok Banker

04 July 2022
Charming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy life when, out of the blue, he bumps into a shy pretty girl named Hannah. That's not her real name. Ricky has always had his pick of women. But when chance brings them together a second time, he finds himself irresistibly drawn in. Which is exactly how she planned it. It's...