Of Pels Fishing Owls and trolls under bridges

Thank you Marilyn for having us all to an evening of entertaining chat about Pels Fishing Owls eating goldfish in a suburban garden in Newlands,
wonderful new books,


an inspiring photographic tour of Seattle complete with gorgeous granddaughter, snowy mountains, space ship towers and trolls under bridges,
and of course, delicious food!

Interesting to see that two of your chosen books were on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize, the winner was announced a day or so ago - Hilary Mantel's Bring up the bodies.
The list was:
Nicola Barker - The Yips
Ned Beauman - The Teleportation Accident
Andre Brink - Philida
Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
Michael Frayn - Skios
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
Alison Moore - The Lighthouse
Will Self - Umbrella
Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis
Sam Thompson - Communion

PS: Now was that an orangy-brown Pels feather that I saw in the Constantia Greenbelt?