Bookdiva is part of the Bookswarm Network
Bookbitz
Bookhugger
Booknoir
Bookgeeks
Bookbreeze
Feedread
Real Readers
Browse: Home / Extracts

Extracts

Stuck for what to read next? Why not dip in to these extracts and find something that takes your fancy?

Esther Lomax is Stranded

Esther Lomax is Stranded

By Headline on September 26, 2012

If no one knows you’re missing, how can you be found?.

The unmissable new novel from the queen of psychological, suspenseful women’s fiction, Emily Barr.

Posted in | Tagged | Leave a response

The Other Half of Me, by Morgan McCarthy

The Other Half of Me, by Morgan McCarthy

By Headline on September 24, 2012

Beautifully written, evocative, suspenseful, and shot through with a delicious thread of menace, The Other Half of Me is an incredibly exciting debut. Read an extract.

Posted in | Tagged | Leave a response

Haiku for the Single Girl

Haiku for the Single Girl

By Canongate on August 9, 2012

An uproarious, uplifting and brazenly honest gift book that celebrates the single girl’s life in 72 haikus…

Posted in | Tagged | Leave a response

All she longed for was a child...

All she longed for was a child…

By Headline on July 13, 2012

Read an extract from The Price to Pay, a riveting, heart-rending tale of betrayal and revenge by Lynda Page.

Posted in | Tagged | Leave a response

An extract from Empress of Rome, by Kate Quinn

An extract from Empress of Rome, by Kate Quinn

By Headline on July 9, 2012

Passion. Treachery. Murder…

A heart-stopping epic about a Jewish slave girl and Rome’s greatest gladiator, who become involved in a plot to assassinate an emperor…

Posted in | Tagged | Leave a response

Read an extract from Separate Lives, by Kathryn Flett

Read an extract from Separate Lives, by Kathryn Flett

By Quercus Books on July 6, 2012

Separate Lives is an achingly funny, moving and honest portrayal of marriage and adultery. These characters are never less than totally human. You’ll have met people like them. They might even be you.

Posted in | Tagged | Leave a response

An extract from The Wonder Girls, by Catherine Jones

An extract from The Wonder Girls, by Catherine Jones

By Simon & Schuster UK on July 4, 2012

‘Don’t follow the crowd,’ she’d be telling schoolgirls at the swimming baths. ‘Follow your own star and when you have achieved your goal you will have that with you for the rest of your life…’

Posted in , | Tagged | Leave a response

Simple Chinese Home Cooking

Simple Chinese Home Cooking

By Bloomsbury on July 2, 2012

Exciting recipes from Fuschia Dunlop’s Every Grain of Rice.

With stunning photography and clear instructions, this is an essential volume for beginners and connoisseurs alike.

Posted in | Tagged , | Leave a response

An extract from It's All News to Me

An extract from It’s All News to Me

By Simon & Schuster UK on June 20, 2012

Jeremy Vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in 2012 clocks up a quarter of a century at the BBC. In It’s All News to Me, he takes a look back over his career from the very first day when he arrived at broadcasting house, (by coincidence an inauspicious news day – the fateful Black Monday of 1987)…

Posted in , | Tagged | Leave a response

Can the Lost Angels find what they're looking for?

Can the Lost Angels find what they’re looking for?

By Headline on June 13, 2012

The Lost Angels – Four archangels each with their own soulmate. As dangerous forces array against them, will they be able to find a love that was cast down from heaven? Sexy, dangerous, immortal – these archangels are definitely no angels…

Posted in , | Tagged | Leave a response

Next »