This week, Hazel reviews The Promise by Damon Galgut. Find out more about our What we are reading series here.

“My book group’s just read the 2021 Booker Prize winner, Damon Galgut’s The Promise. I thought it was brilliant. I don’t know his work at all but his evocation of pre- and post-apartheid South Africa through the eyes of one, not particularly likeable, white South African farming family knocked my socks off. It was darkly funny with a satirical edge (especially the relationships between the various family members, most of whom don’t particularly like each other either), vividly descriptive of both people and landscapes, and had a convincingly nuanced and morally grey ending. Would recommend!”

Talking of the Booker Prize, did you know that Oxford Brookes is home of the unique Booker Prize Archive?