Jonn Elledge & Tom Phillips: The New World Disorder

From shifting borders to looming apocalypses, the world feels more chaotic than ever. Join bestselling writers Jonn Elledge and Tom Phillips for a witty, insightful tour through the collapsing world order and more..

Jonathon Porritt with Tim Smit

As co-founder of Forum for the Future, and former Director of Friends of the Earth, Jonathon Porritt has helped shaped our environmental conscience like no-one else and in latest book he more...

Alexander McCall Smith  

As the author of over one hundred books, including the award-winning The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the Isabel Dalhousie novels and the world's longest-running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street more...

Pam Ayres - Doggedly Onward

Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime providing hilarious and profound insights into the delights and tribulations of everyday life. In her latest book, Doggedly Onward - A Life in Poems, 1970 to 2020, she more...

Philip Hoare on William Blake

William Blake fused poetry, art, and mysticism, to challenge authority and inspire radical thinking. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals how one visionary more..

Tim Key -
L.A. Baby!

When Tim Key jetted off to L.A. in 2024 to work on a new sitcom project he stayed sane by writing poems and talking to his friend and (Falmouth-based) publisher Emily Juniper more...

Damian Le Bas:
The Drowned Places

In his latest book, Damian Le Bas takes us on underwater odyssey and explores the meaning we find in sunken ruins around the world. As he explores wonders both man-made and natural, he comes to realise that more...

Rose George:
Every Last Fish

One of our most intrepid and entertaining non-fiction writers joins Hugo Tagholm for a fresh and fascinating take on fish, the fishing industry, and our shared future. In her latest book Every Last Fish she more...

Horatio Clare:
We Came by Sea

As the headlines rage about small boat crossings, Horatio Clare has been tracing the quieter, more human story unfolding along our coasts - including right here in Falmouth. His latest book We Came by Sea looks at more...

Miranda Sawyer: Uncommon People 

As one of the biggest music writers of the 1990s, Miranda Sawyer lived and breathed the Britpop era, those heady years in the 1990s when music suddenly meant everything more...

Irvine Welsh in conversation

When Irvine Welsh burst onto the literary scene in the 1990s, he didn't just arrive - he turned things on their head. His debut novel, Trainspotting, was instantly hailed as a classic, and Danny Boyle's 1996 film adaptation more...

Jay Griffiths:
How Animals Heal Us

One of our most acclaimed and respected nature writers joins us for a talk about her new book How Animals Heal Us. Pet-owners and animal-lovers more...

Lally MacBeth:
The Lost Folk

Folk culture is everywhere, sitting in our churches, swinging from our pubs and dancing through our streets, patiently waiting to be discovered. In The Lost Folk, Cornish writer Lally MacBeth is on a mission to more...

Prue Leith in conversation

Join us for an unforgettable event with national treasure, foodwriter and Bake Off host, Prue Leith who will be joining us to reflect on her remarkable life in food — from the pressures of running a Michelin-starred restaurant more...

Merlin Hanbury Tenison:

4pm Sunday 26th October

When Merlin Hanbury-Tenison and his wife left London for his childhood Cornish farm, they were trying to leave more...