The Book of Gifts with Craig Higginson
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Wed Mar 11, 18:00 - Wed Mar 11, 20:00
The Fred England Centre, St John's Prep
ABOUT
Join us at st John's College for an evening with Craig Higginson who will be chatting about his new novel 'The Book of Gifts'.
Craig has a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches English and Drama at St John's College. His novel "The Dream House" is also the IEB Matric setwork for South African schools (2019 to 2021). Come and listen to Craig chat to Digby Ricci, Head of English at Roedean School about his new book, meet your setwork author, buy a copy of "The Book of Gifts", and get it signed.
Refreshments will be served.
The cost of a ticket is a R50 donation to the St John's College Academy (or more if you'd like). A portion of the book sales will also go to the Academy. The St John's College Academy is an afternoon enrichment programme for talented young men in Grades 10 to 12 who live in our neighbouring communities of Berea, Hillbrow and Yeoville. These young men join us on campus three days a week for extra lessons in English, maths, science and life skills.
This event is suitable for high school children and adults.
What is the cost of giving a gift? What is the cost of receiving one?
At eleven years old, Julian Flint prefers to remain invisible, safe inside the architecture of adults provided by his mother, his uncle and his aunt. But when his mother Emma, a celebrated sculptor, takes them all on a family holiday to a hotel by the sea, he meets the captivating and irreverent Clare and everything he thought he knew begins to shift – setting off a chain of events that will determine each of their fates.
“The Book of Gifts” is Craig Higginson’s most gripping and nuanced novel to date. Moving from the lush beaches of uMhlanga Rocks to the stark midwinter wastes of Johannesburg and the rich and strange coral reefs of Mauritius, this masterfully plotted novel explores and fault lines between loyalty and betrayal, innocence and accountability, blindness and perception, entrapment and flight. Craig Higginson dives into the deepest and most hazardous reaches of human consciousness in order to catch the brightest fish.
“Poignant and profound, ‘The Book of Gifts’ affirms Craig Higginson as one of the most significant voices in contemporary South African literature,” Michael Titlestad, Professor of English, Wits.
