Search for your favourite author or book

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

About the Author
Damon Galgut’s latest novel, The Promise,  was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for 2021. Two other novels of Galgut, The Good Doctor,  and In a Strange Room,  have also previously been shortlisted for this prize. Hailed in the press as one of the world’s finest writers, Galgut published his first novel at seventeen and since then his work has been translated into sixteen languages. Two films were made of his book The Quarry.  Locally, his previous novel, Arctic Summer,  was awarded the Sunday Times  Fiction Prize. Galgut is also a past winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Africa region. He lives and works in Cape Town.

Others also viewed

Harry Hole faces a deadly foe in the new thriller from Sunday Times  number one...
Eerste Veldgids tot Gesteentes & Minerale, die jongste toevoeging tot die gewilde Struik...
Kaptein Albertus Beeslaar het genoeg gehad van die platteland. Hy het pas sy bedanking ingedien,...
Pocket Guide: Wild Flowers of South Africa covers some 260 flowers representing all of the...