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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The glorious new novel from the international bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
Saturday, August 27, 1983
7:00 a.m.
Warm-hearted and funny, Limerence is a tale guaranteed to lift the spirits of even the sourest of exes.
“NOT FOR CLARISSA THE PADDING AROUND THE HOUSE IN SLIPPERS, dressing gown and kopdoek, chasing down some elusive creative thought before it slithered into the shadows. She wasn’t one for the anxious cups of too-strong coffee, followed by frantic clacking at a keyboard.