Extract: Small Circle of Beings by Damon Galgut
Galgut’s economy of style and his chilling gift for understatement and the macabre are nowhere more eloquently displayed than in this gripping story.
Archive - Jun 2021
Extract: The Quarry by Damon Galgut
In The Quarry, Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, Damon Galgut brings the power of myth to his tender prose to create a devastating drama that builds to a climax almost too much to bear.
Extract: In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut
A novel prize of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, In a Strange Room is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man’s search for love, and a place to call home. Shortlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize.
Extract: The Impostor by Damon Galgut
Extract: The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the 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. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, Damon Galgut.
Extract: The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
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.
Extract: The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs by Damon Galgut
A year ago Patrick Winter, a young South African, was sent to Namibia to complete his military service and to defend his country against ‘terrorism’. Now he is back, to meet Godfrey, his mother’s freedom-fighter boyfriend, and to witness the country’s first free elections. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, Damon Galgut.
Extract: Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Against the backdrop of a world in flux at the start of a new century, Arctic Summer from Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise, Damon Galgut, portrays the life of British writer E. M. Forster: his inner turmoil, his search for love and the story behind one of the greatest novels in English, A Passage to India.
Extract: Better Off Dead by Lee Child & Andrew Child
Jack Reacher is back, in the brand new thriller from bestselling authors Lee and Andrew Child. Relentless action, a gripping mystery and a host of evil new enemies who are soon going to learn... they'd be better off dead. Read on for an exclusive first chapter from Better Off Dead.