UNDERBERG vet and successful short story author, Tod Collins, will launch his prize winning autobiographic novel, Cullen at Kloof Library Study Centre on Tuesday, 2 August at 5.30pm.
In Cullen, Tod Collins tells the riveting story of a tragic climbing expedition which happened in the Himalayas in 1975 and its amazing consequences and mystery. Taking the reader from Lhotse – the 4th highest peak in the world, to the South Pacific and to England.
South African editor and author, Vanessa Finaughty said Tod Collins has written a book which narrates “a very human true-life drama which weaves a story of adventure, love and tragedy, and the author toys with and marries these elements in his tantalising style.”
The intrigue of the tale has received widespread acclaim and a fair amount of controversy among the climbing fraternity in England and Nepal.
Cullen won the novel section at the 2016 JM Coetzee and Athol Fugard Literary Festival. Its national launch was at Richmond in the Karroo (Booktown SA) at the 2015 Boekbedonnerd Festival where Tod’s presentation was rated best of the festival.
Tod will present the launch talk with slides of how, after 40 years, the pieces for this story (from England to the Himalaya to the South Pacific) fell into place and resulted in Cullen. It is spellbinding.
There is no charge for attending the launch, but booking is essential as space is limited. Book now at the library on 031 764 7543.
