Launching For The People - Anelia Schutte

Guest Speaker Anelia Schutte

Luncheon at Buitenverwachting on Thursday 13 June at 12 noon for 12h30

Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna, lives in London and is currently based in the United States. She will be in Cape Town for a short time to promote her book For the People.

It is an interesting Biography/Autobiography based on her life in Knysna...

Anele says:

“I never thought I had a book in me. Not until, while on a writing retreat, I started remembering the stories. Stories my parents had told me when I was growing up. Of riots. Of secret meetings. Of phones being tapped. Of my mother driving through barricades of armoured vehicles and burning cars to help the black people on the other side. Stories of how she stood up to the police for arresting and detaining honest people. And eventually left her job because my father didn’t want to raise me and my brothers alone.

Snippets of memories from a childhood I hadn’t thought about for twenty years.

I wanted to know more; to find out what had really happened in my hometown all those years before.

I put my job in London on hold, got on a plane and went back to Knysna to find the truth.

What I found was a story much bigger than my mother. It was a story of a whole community, black, white and brown, torn apart and brought together by apartheid.

For the People is that story.”

The Restaurant

We are hoping to sit on the Terrace overlooking the mountains and the beautiful vineyards at Buitenverwachting. Menu available on request  The price per person is R440 inclusive of wine and service.

Please telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016 to book or for more information sandybailey@telkomsa.net .

Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers

Launching Crackerjack - Peter Church

Exciting local author Peter Church is to be the guest speaker at the Thursday Club's May luncheon to take place at Buitenverwachting Restaurant on Thursday 23 May, 12 Noon for 12h30...

He will be chatting about his edge of the seat, brand new, crime thriller Crackerjack.

Church is a family man and lives in Constantia with his wife and three children. Crackerjack is his third book.

THE BOOK

From Bantry Bay to Deep Cyber Crackerjack will keep you guessing; this page turning book takes you from when young, bright and sexy, Carla Vitale has been handpicked to run Supertech, Africa’s leading independent engineering firm… then, one Friday afternoon in Cape Town, her dream is shattered.

Her boss and mentor, Nial Townley, disappears, his luxury vehicle is found in a crevice at the bottom of Chapman’s Peak, and US$20 million is missing from Supertech’s overseas accounts.

Three months later the police still haven’t solved the riddle of either his death or the missing money. (See some reviews at the bottom of the invitation)

Menu not available as yet, but I can say with certainty that Chef Patron, Edgar Osojnik will be titillating our taste buds with an absolutely delicious lunch.

Crackerjack was released in the US to favourable reviews, such as the New York Journal of Books which commends Church's strong, believable characters. One of Church's other strengths is his ability to conjure a visual picture - from an icy midnight swim in the Atlantic to a high-speed drive down Ou Kaapse Weg. Crackerjack has a complex plot with unexpected twists and turns.

For more information or to book email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016