KNYSNA NEWS - Acclaimed writer Sally Andrew brings her book, Recipes for Love and Murder, to the ninth annual Knysna Literary Festival.
Sally Andrew lives in a mud-brick house on a nature reserve in the Klein Karoo with her partner, artist Bowen Boshier, and other wildlife – including a giant eland and a secretive leopard.
She has a masters in adult education from the University of Cape Town.
For some decades she was a social and environmental activist, then the manager of Bowen’s art business, before she settled down to write full time.
Her books are being published in at least 14 languages, across five continents.
Recipes for Love, a book about Tannie Maria:
She’s 50-something, short and soft (perhaps a bit too soft in the wrong places) with brown curls and untidy Afrikaans.
She is also the agony aunt for the local paper, the Klein Karoo Gazette.
Her life takes a sinister turn when a woman who wrote her a letter is murdered, and she becomes entangled in the investigation – to the intense irritation of the handsome detective with a chestnut moustache.
But what else will this amateur detective uncover in a small town marinated in secrets?
Warm, poignant and entertaining, Andrew’s delightful heroine blends together intrigue, romance and cooking in this irresistible mystery, complete with a few mouthwatering recipes.
* There are still 33 tickets available for Sally Andrew's performance which will take place on 10 March, starting at 11:00 at The Turbine hotel. Book now at webticket.co.za.
Churchill and Smuts: The Friendship
Richard Steyn will discuss his book, Churchill and Smuts: The Friendship, on 9 March at 09:00, also at The Turbine.
Steyn, a graduate of Stellenbosch University, practised as a lawyer before switching to journalism. He edited the Natal Witness in Pietermaritzburg from 1975-90, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1985/86, and editor-in-chief of The Star from 1990-95.
He served as Standard Bank’s director of corporate affairs and communications from 1996-2001, before returning to writing, book reviewing and publishing.
The remarkable, and often touching friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts.
In youth, they occupied very different worlds: Churchill, the rambunctious and thrusting young aristocrat; Smuts, the ascetic, philosophical Cape farm boy who would go on to Cambridge.
Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the men forged a friendship that spanned the first half of the 20th Century and endured until Smuts’s death in 1950.
Steyn, author of Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness, examines this close friendship through two world wars and the intervening years, drawing on a maze of archival and secondary sources including letters, telegrams and the voluminous books written about both men.
This is a fascinating account of two remarkable men in war and peace: one the leader of the Empire, the other the leader of a small, fractious member of that Empire who nevertheless rose to global prominence.
* There are still 16 tickets available for his performance and it can be booked at webticket.co.za.
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