Search for your favourite author or book

The Good Doctor

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

Death on the Limpopo
Andrew, Sally
NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES AS SEEN ON MNET   Tannie Maria might be the Karoo’s...
Read More
Die tale wat ons praat
Wanneer is dit aantal, wanneer getal? Hoe hou ambisie verband met ambulans? Ry ’n mens in...
Read More
The Boy and the Tree
A sad little boy climbs up a hill, unhappy because he doesn’t have the shiny new toys that...
Read More
Thirty Second World
van der Vliet, Emma
Saucy and smart, Thirty Second World is a funny, moving, real-world tale set in the unreal world of...
Read More