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Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
"In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his ...Show more
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
"Beautifully written and utterly compelling. . . . A vivid, moving account of [E.M. Forster] that makes you want to read all his books again."--The TimesThis masterpiece novel about E.M. Forster, his life, struggles with homosexuality, and the writing of his universally loved novel A Passage to India wi ...Show more
Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
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
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Category: Biography
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
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut; Sam Redman (Editor)
Category: Fiction
A finalist for the 2010 Man Booker Prize In this newest novel from South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Europe, and India. Unsure what he's after, and reluctant to return home, he follows the paths of travelers he meets along the way. Treated as a lover, a ...Show more
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. It is as if, without these encounters, the person he is cannot exist. And yet ...Show more
In a Strange Room: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' - Tash Aw
Small Circle of Beings: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Promise by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary first collection of stories from the 2021 Booker Prize winnerSmall Circle of Beings is the first collection of extraordinary stories from one of the greatest writers of our time. With astonishing clarity, Galgut explores both the intimacies and violence of family life against the compl ...Show more
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2003 by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the Booker Prize-winning author.
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
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 Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
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
The Impostor by Damon Galgut
Category: Fiction
A gripping, claustrophobic novel of guilty secrets, obsession and self-reinvention on the African Savannah from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author. 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 ...Show more