Regular Events
Fish Hoek Library literary tea with Tracy Farren & Yewanda Omotoso
Fish Hoek Library is holding a Literary tea party on Friday morning 30th March at 10a.m. in the Library Hall.
Local authors Tracy Farren (Whiplash and Snake) and Yewanda Omotoso (Bom Boy) will speak about their writing.
All welcome. Donation of R20 includes tea.
Enquiries – Jenny Srickland (021)782-7337
DONATIONS of unwanted books
If you are moving, de-cluttering or just refreshing your personal collection of books, please consider donating unwanted books to the library. Items may be used in our own library, shared with neighbouring Scenic South libraries, sold for library funds or passed on to charities. We are unfortunately unable to accept donations with conditions attached.
Story times for pre-school children – Fridays 11h00
Seniors’ film shows – Fridays 14h00
Literary tea – monthly last Friday 10h00
Craft market – monthly last Saturday 09h00
Friends’ Tea Shoppe – second & last Saturday each month
“Library Alive!” – annual fundraising fair, usually first week December
Bookworms' Blog
Read an engrossing book lately? Share your thoughts about it and about other literary and library matters with the rest of our reading fraternity!
Book launches at Kalk Bay Books 22-25 May
Eric the Brave by Johan Vlok Louw and Invisible Furies by Michiel Heyns
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Literary Tea income spent on good books at Fish Hoek Library
Dear Booklovers
I have bought the Books listed below with money from Literary Teas. Thanks for your support.
I’ve also ordered The Forgotted Waltz by Ann Enright and Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edyugan, from the Orange Prize short list.
Jenny Strikland
Stories from Africa
Gappah, Petina: An Elegy for Easterly.
This is a new Zimbabwean writer who was short-listed for Guardian First [...]
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Comment from poet Lewis Watling
Dear Viv
It was good to meet up with you at the Library this morning, and, as promised, I’m sending you this e-mail updating you with the note about the amazing journey that has been mine since I came to live in Fish Hoek in 2006 at the age of 85:
‘When I first [...]
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Margie Clough, Lewis Watling and other poetic voices
Talking Poetry by Jenny Strickland
Clough, Margie: At Least the Duck Survived. Margie is a delightful local poet, whose poetry is about real life and people we recognise. e.g.
To Isabel
Here it is almost night and the west wind
is blowing blobs of rain against my door;
my fingers stiffen and my feet get cold, but
where you are sitting colouring [...]
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Book series and other enjoyable reads
What IS it about book series?
I have always enjoyed series – detective stories where each book is stand-alone but the detective meets his girl, courts her, marries her, children arrive….. Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey stories were among the earliest I read. By the way, Jill Paton-Walsh has picked up on Wimsey’s first case and [...]
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