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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
36.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Impostor by Damon Galgut
37.00 NZD
39.99 (7% off)
Category: General 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
35.00 NZD
Category: General 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
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (revised edition 2005) by Damon Galgut
27.00 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General 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
27.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 Promise by Damon Galgut
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
The Promise by Damon Galgut
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | 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
The Quarry by Damon Galgut
27.00 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Thriller
When a man of the spirit gives up his body, soul and identity to another, who is watching?On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to a new post in a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the dead man's identity only to discover that ...Show more
The Quarry by Damon Galgut
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
On a lonely stretch of road a nameless man commits a murder. The victim is a religious minister on his way to take up a post in a nearby town. The murderer decides to steal the dead man's identity only to discover that one of his first duties as the new minister is to bury a body that has just been foun ...Show more
The Quarry: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise by Damon Galgut
26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut's devastating 1995 novel on guilt and the pursuit of justiceGive yourself up. Whatever you've done. They'll find you. In the end.A man with no name staggers down a lonely stretch of road that cuts through the simmering veld of rural South Africa. He is exhausted and hung ...Show more
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