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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Category: World 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Impostor by Damon Galgut
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Now available in paperback, "The Impostor" is the first new novel from Damon Galgut since the Man-Booker-shortlisted "The Good Doctor". 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 ...Show more
The Promise by Damon Galgut
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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: World 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
Category: World fiction
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
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