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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"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
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
"Beautifully written and utterly compelling. . . . A vivid, moving account of [E.M. Forster] that makes you want to read all his books again."--The TimesThis masterpiece novel about E.M. Forster, his life, struggles with homosexuality, and the writing of his universally loved novel A Passage to India wi ...Show more
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut; Sam Redman (Editor)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize In this newest novel from South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Europe, and India. Unsure what he's after, and reluctant to return home, he follows the paths of travelers he meets along the way. Treated as a lover, a ...Show more
In a Strange Room: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' - Tash Aw
Small Circle of Beings: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
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: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2003 by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the Booker Prize-winning author.
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting, Frank is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust ...Show more
The Impostor by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
A gripping tale of guilty secrets, betrayal, and racial tension, of isolation and revenge in modern-day South Africa, from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Good Doctor. When Adam moves into the abandoned house on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | 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
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dia ...Show more