Bøger af Gerald W Searle

The winds of change are blowing over Africa, and South Africa, the last bastion of white supremacy, refuses to give up its unjust policy of Apartheid in the midst of international pressure and internal conflict. It is the late seventies and Father Christopher Wright one of the few 'coloured priests' in Cape Town meets a pregnant Joanna Poggenpoel, a simple coloured country girl working as housekeeper for Fr Patrick O'Shaunessy, a white priest, a missionary from Ireland. This sets off a wave of intricate events and relationships across the racial, religious and political divide bringing together whites, blacks, coloureds and every one in between as crimes unfold and forbidden liaisons are formed. What unfolds is unimaginable and will shock you, but at the same time the characters in Winds of Change will make you laugh and cry.

What happens if you are neither white nor black in Apartheid South Africa at its worst? The boy on a bike is neither white nor black. What will become of him? Gerald Searle was born in 1936 and grew up in Cape Town, one of ten children, living in a semi-detached two-bedroom cottage without today's mod cons. For six years he lived and studied in Rome at a pontifical university on Vatican territory. But on returning to Cape Town as an ordained Catholic priest, he fell in love and left the priesthood to marry. 'The Boy on a Bike' is an uncut, warts-and-all story that runs from the shadows of Devil's Peak and Table Mountain, through a going-nowhere existence on factory floors in the backwoods of Cape Town, to rubbing shoulders with popes and crashing through the Australian 'Whites-only' immigration policy to a life in the lucky country. 'The Boy on a Bike' reads like a novel, but sometimes truth is stranger, and so much more captivating and enjoyable than fiction. Read the story, and then see 'The Boy on a Bike' unfold in over a hundred fascinating photos. If you enjoyed 'The Thorn Birds', you'll enjoy 'The Boy on a Bike' a hundred times more.