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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of EM Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embark ...Show more
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his ...Show more
Impostor by Damon Galgut
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning - a shadowy figure from his childhood - and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning h ...Show more
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Short-listed for the 2010 man Booker Prize. A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge ...Show more
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet ...Show more
Small Circle of Beings: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary first collection of stories from the 2021 Booker Prize winnerSmall Circle of Beings is the first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the compl ...Show more
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (revised edition 2005) by Damon Galgut
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A year ago Patrick Winter, a young South African, was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the country's first free elections, Patrick is back. Back in the country he once defended and the place where he fell in love for the first and only time. With the country poised to change forev ...Show more
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Laurance Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a w ...Show more
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful, taut and intense tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is ...Show more
The Impostor by Damon Galgut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author. When Adam moves into an abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from the 2021 Booker Prizewinning author Damon Galgut The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the fam ...Show more