Tuesday 28 January 2020

Ian Sutherland on his book Featherstream



Guest Speaker Ian Sutherland

Date                Thursday 13 February 2020
Time                12 noon for 12h30
Venue              Blockhouse Kitchen, Constantia Uitsig

Our first get together in 2020 promises to be thoroughly enjoyable.  Chatting to Ian Sutherland our guest speaker whets the appetite to hear more… His book Featherstone is a really good read. Couldn’t put it down…

THE AUTHOR
Ian Sutherland graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from UCT in 2016. Featherstream is his debut novel, and two romantic thrillers are in advanced stages of production. He has been shortlisted for the 2018 Short Sharp Stories Award and previously placed second and fourth in the annual SA Writers College short story competition.


Ian’s work has appeared in publications as diverse as the Anthology of South African Short Stories and Engineering News. Originally qualifying as an engineer, Ian later earned an MBA from Columbia University and has worked in management consulting and banking in New York and Sydney. He currently lives and works in Cape Town and enjoys traveling, surfing, cycling and dancing the tango.

 THE BOOK
Featherstream is a romantic suspense novel set at the southernmost tip of Africa during the Second World War. The novel’s landscape ranges from the remote fynbos plains of Agulhas in the Southern Cape through the Moravian hamlet of Elim to Cape Town. Based on extensive historical research, it explores the deep ideological tensions in South Africa between supporters of the pro-war government of General Jan Smuts and those of Dr Daniel Malan’s Purified National Party, through the striving of a young woman to reconcile her own loyalties (divided between her country, family and new-found love) and break free of an overbearing father.

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

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