Chatto & Windus

Blackwater

BOOK ADDED: Wed, 02/07/2008 - 12:21pm by Karen Chisholm

Midsummer's Eve, 1974, in the far north of Sweden. Annie Raft arrives with her six-year-old daughter Mia in a small town called Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a commune. But Dan is not there to meet them. Panicking, Annie treks into the wilderness to find the commune, in the strange...Read more

The Promise

BOOK ADDED: Mon, 09/10/2023 - 5:18pm by Karen Chisholm

The Promise, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, 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 family stand for -- not least the...Read more