Extracts
Extract: Small Circle of Beings by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
Galgut’s economy of style and his chilling gift for understatement and the macabre are nowhere more eloquently displayed than in this gripping story.
“A CRY IN THE NIGHT. Perhaps I have been waiting for it: I am instantly awake and fumbling for my gown. I wrap myself in it, and stumble barefooted across the wooden boards to...
Extract: The Quarry by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
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 SILENCE FELL. The minister leaned toward him and put a hand on his arm.
'You can talk to me,' he said....
Extract: In A Strange Room by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
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.
“HE AND ANNA HAVE A...
Extract: The Impostor by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
When Adam moves into the 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. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The...
Extract: The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
01 June 2021
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.
“HE LOOKED AROUND AT THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COURTYARD and I could see him relax...
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