Brett Stuart Smith was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and lived through an ever-changing landscape. He attended various schools but spent his high school years at Glenwood...view moreBrett Stuart Smith was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and lived through an ever-changing landscape. He attended various schools but spent his high school years at Glenwood Boys High in Durban where he majored in English, biology, geography and art and won the art and art history prize. He matriculated with academic honors and went on to study English, speech and drama at university.
After his military service he traveled Europe for two years and dabbled in theatre, landing a role in two indie plays in South Africa. He worked in sales and hospitality in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Spain and Greece through the early '90s. He co-owned a popular restaurant and night club in Durban during the late '90s and joined the travel industry with Flight Centre in 1999. Today, he is a qualified corporate trainer, facilitator and assessor working for the Flight Centre Group in Australia. This is his first novel.view less