THE VIEW FROM FEZ: A House in Fez

Saturday, November 10, 2007

A House in Fez - book launch

A section of the more than 250 people at the launch

The much anticipated launch of Suzanna Clarke's new book - A House in Fez - took place in Brisbane Australia in front of a remarkable number of guests. There was a wide range of people from Government Senators to Judges, architects, doctors, hippies and folk singers! Members of the Islamic community were well represented as well as several Moroccans who seemed amazed at the attention their beloved Fez was getting.

Suzanna spent more than an hour signing books!

The gallery also displayed a selection of Suzanna's extraordinary photographs in limited editions printed on fine art paper. Like her books these sold extremely well.

The book will now be launched in New Zealand, Korea, England, France, India and the USA with other editions to follow. The collectors' hardback version with all 64 pages of full colour photographs will only be available from Australia.

Suzanna Clarke

His Excellency Dr Badre Eddine Allali, the Moroccan Ambassador phoned through his regret that he could not be in attendance as he had returned to Canberra too late to organise a flight, but he will be presented with a signed copy of A House in Fez in the next few days.

Suzanna with Hassan ( from Nador in Morocco)

Judge Ian Dearden took off his judge's wig and performed some beautiful music.

Suzanna at the post launch dinner hosted by Penguin Books.

See the FACEBOOK PHOTO ALBUM OF THE LAUNCH

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Congratulations. What a great thing for Fez and Morocco - well done. I have just ordered a copy of the collectors edition from the link in your post. Thank you

D.; Sunday, November 11, 2007
Suzanna Clarke said...: Thanks for that David. Hopefully A House in Fez inspires more people to realise how beautiful and precious Fez is.; Sunday, November 11, 2007
Anonymous said...: Well done. I just read the first half... stunning and not what I expected. I was thinking uh oh, another "My Year in Provence" type thing. But your take on history, culture, music and sufis is superb. Thank you.

Wendy

Ps... the photographs are amazing.; Sunday, November 11, 2007
Laurel Papworth said...: I really enjoyed the book and mentioned it on a debate (media) panel here in Sydney. Someone from the audience asked me about it again later. So hopefully I have been spreading the word.

As an ex- fez, ex- ALIF student, it made me almost cry reading and seeing the pictures. I miss Morocco. Great book! :); Monday, November 26, 2007