Justin Cartwright at Buitenverwachting

From Whitbread Novel Award Winning and Booker Prize shortlisted

Author Justin Cartwright comes an intimate exploration of one man’s

relationship with South Africa and its turbulent history

               Tuesday 15 September at 12 noon for 12:30

              Buitenverwachting Restaurant

Guest Speaker award winning author Justin Cartwright is on a lightning visit to South Africa to attend the Open Book Festival in Cape Town.

A descendant of Piet Retief, he was born in South Africa and lives in London;  in his brilliant new book Up Against the Night he manages to include Notting Hill, the New Forest, Cape Town and California as well as Boer Leaders and Scientologists.

Justin Cartwright possesses that rarest of novelist’s skills – the ability to create fiction which is intensely serious but which also vividly encompasses the absurdity and comedy of life. Up Against the Night is a subtle, brilliant novel about South Africa – its beautiful, superbly evoked landscape, its violent past and its uncertain present.

It's a great menu which will be complemented by Buitenverwachting’s elegant wines. 

The price per person is R270 fully inclusive.

For more information or to book please telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016 or book by emailing sandybailey@telkomsa.net 

International Praise :

‘Justin Cartwright is one of our best novelists’  - Daily Telegraph

‘Few living British novelists write English fiction quite as well as Cartwright’ - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

‘Sharp observation, waspish wit, and evocative expertise’ - Sunday Times on Lionheart