Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author.
'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael Ondaatje
Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'?
Retired sportswriter W. G. Karunasena is dying, and he wants to know.
W.G. will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down the mysterious Pradeep. On his quest he will also uncover a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, a Tamil Tiger warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself.
'Bristling with energy and confidence' Sunday Times
Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
- Comics and Graphic Novels
- New eBook additions
- Available now
- New kids additions
- The Art of the Short Story
- New teen additions
- Get Creative With Design & Photography
- Most popular
- Try something different
- Anzac Day: We Will Remember Them
- Very Short Introductions
- Captain Marvel, The Avengers and More - Marvel Comics Now Available
- See all
- Award Winning Audiobooks
- Recent Biographies & Autobiographies
- Available now
- Librarian's Choice
- New audiobook additions
- Self Help Audiobooks
- New kids additions
- Audiobooks for Road Trips
- New teen additions
- Most popular
- Try something different
- See all