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My fifth book has gone through 40 000 words and bar an unforeseen hiccup should be completed by the middle of this year. This gives me the confidence to share with you some preliminary information. Here is the foreword to the book and a dummy cover that I developed with the help of my son…
My wife and I visited Linene, one of the most southerly islands in the Bazaruto archipelago. These pictures give some idea of the range of moods we encountered.
“A rough and rugged ride”. Caleb is local author Peter Cleary’s third foray into the realm of fiction writing – although the authenticity of geographic, historic, cultural and other detail and description in the narrative leads you into thinking this is a true story. As with all Cleary’s books, the pace is swift, the action…
Caleb is an important development in my writing as it deals with a problem that has bothered me for some time and the novel has given me the freedom to explore it in a fictional medium. As with most of my writing personal experience plays a role, explained in the Postscript to the novel; “Two incidents…
The last weekend of July saw the completion of the first draft of my fourth book. The working title is Caleb. I sent it to my editor who is presently in Newfoundland and these were her opening comments; “Wow! Powerful story, Peter. The impact of one’s actions creating major consequences, the interaction of one person’s…
Peter Cleary, beter bekend as mnr Inyanga Motors het sy hand op papier gewaag. Hoewel hierdie nie sy eerste boek is nie, is dit sy eerste fiksie skrywe en ‘n heel aangename ervaring vir my as leser. In Second Chance ontvou ‘n aksie belaaide, speurverhaal met vele intriges. Liefde oor die kleurgrens wat afspeel gedurende…
“A trail of adventure” An eight year-old boy witnesses a farm attack so brutal that he pushes it into the furthest corner of his subconscious, to the point that he no longer remembers the vile incident. But it remembers him, shaping his future behaviour, surfacing at random times in explosions of anger and violence that…
“A proudly Zululand product” For this, his first foray into fiction, Zululander Peter Cleary can be more than proud of his effort. ‘Second Chance’ is an all-action book that races along, covering a period of two weeks of cloak-and-dagger action. Like Cleary, the main characters all have strong personalities. This includes the macho main role…
It’s interesting how a series of events and places can trigger the imagination. Our son Andrew got married in August last year and as is the custom of today the family gathered at the venue days before the event to celebrate. The venue was near the town of Mayfield, south-east of London. It also so…
