Penzance Literary Festival 2019

3rd July to 6th July 2019 Welcome Literary Festival 2019

Poet and memoirist Kate Clanchy, whose Patrick Gale poetry tweets have made her a social media sensation, will not only be teaching It’s a terrific achievement that Penzance a workshop at lucky Humphry Davy School LitFest, the country’s first and last book but talking to me about her funny, uplifting festival, is still with us a decade on from when memoir of 30 years in British classrooms. And Peter Levin started it. It’s a testament to the fittingly, for a festival’s tenth birthday, Booker hard work and vision of a gang of tireless Prize-winning novelist, Alan Hollinghurst will volunteers, to the appetite of West ’s be looking back over a magnificent career in readers for stories, and to the warm welcome fiction from his trailblazing The Swimming- both groups give to the writers prepared to Pool Library to his recent triumph, The make the journey. Book festivals are enriching Sparsholt Affair. to the mind but they’re also well proven as being fantastic for local economies, drawing And then there’s the new friend, the visionary in audiences who then linger and spend Anna Pincus, who’ll be talking about her money not just on books but in hotels, shops Refugee Tales project in support of the and restaurants. Penzance may not have Gatwick Detainees Group. a beach, or the Tate, but it has a thriving, world-class book festival of which it can be Do join us and do, please, bring along your justly proud! book group or your best friends; reading and writing may be solitary pursuits but festivals This year I’m especially excited that we’re are best in company. welcoming four old friends of mine. Audiences who laughed at Damian Barr’s memoir of his Finally, the weekend before the festival, Glasgow childhood, Maggie and Me, will need I’ll once again be welcoming visitors to our no encouragement to catch me grilling him garden at Trevilley in aid of Penzance LitFest about his shocking debut novel. Superb travel and North Book Festival. There will writer Horatio Clare will be reading from his be Pimms and plants and, yes, books! account of recreating Bach’s legendary walk to LÜbeck as well as talking about his voyage Patrick Gale on a Finnish icebreaker. Penzance LitFest Patron pzlitfest.co.uk LITFEST LITBITS

FESTIVAL BOOKSHOP We are delighted to welcome Waterstones as our partner bookshop for this year’s LitFest. Andrew Forster and Libby Shaw from the branch – the only Waterstones in Cornwall – will be setting up shop in the Acorn during the LitFest. This will give you ample opportunity to buy the latest offerings from our authors and there will be also be opportunities for book signings. Form an orderly queue, please! FESTIVAL FOOD The Honey Pot café, opposite the Acorn, is a firm favourite of the LitFest and this year we’re teaming up with them to offer food at a couple of our events: canapés at the ‘LitFest at 10’ Launch Party on Wednesday 3rd July and Cornish tapas at Rebellion, the final event of the LitFest on Saturday 6th July. We hope that you’ll be able to join us at one or both.

In adition, the Honey Pot will open throughout the LitFest, supplying hot and cold food and drinks with a generous 15% discount for all of you who present a LitFest event ticket when paying your bill.

FESTIVAL FUN Make sure you catch Sally Crabtree’s Sweetshop of Words installation in the Acorn Bar. Remember that agonising choice – lots of little sweets or one big thing? “Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless…” This collaborative Russian and Cornish installation has the feel of a fairground stall and everyone gets a ‘prize’ – with its own FESTIVAL FRINGE quirky, inner layer of meaning. It also raises a And don’t forget the flourishing Fringe question – what, ultimately, are our choices? Festival of supporting music and arts events. WEDNESDAY 3rd July

WRITING WORKSHOP WITH BRIDGET HOLDING: WILD WORDS: BRING YOUR WRITING TO LIFE 10am to 4pm In this digital media age, when words are everywhere, how do we make our words count? How do we craft words to match the strength of our emotional and imaginative worlds? Exeter University tutor, writer, and psychotherapist Bridget Holding is ‘revitalising creative writing teaching’. In this one-day, creative writing workshop, she offers techniques for accessing our ‘natural storyteller’, getting past blocks to creativity SOMETHING OF HIS ART, and unleashing passion, power and vitality on WITH HORATIO CLARE AND the page. THE HEINICHEN ENSEMBLE £38.00 (ML11) 1.15pm to 2.15pm ST MARY’S CHURCH Something of his Art recounts Horatio Clare’s thought-provoking recreation of Bach’s 1705 walk along the 250 miles from Arnstadt to Lübeck to hear his hero Buxtehude play the organ. It proved a ‘slow radio’ hit when broadcast on Radio 3. Horatio’s readings from the book will be interspersed with music by other composers on period instruments by the Heinichen Ensemble. Entry is free. There will be a retiring collection. FREE (OS11) ADVANCE BOOKING NOT NECESSARY

Bridget Holding STUDIO VOICES: ART AND LIFE IN 20TH-CENTURY BRITAIN, WITH LINE BREAKS: THE 9TH POETRY MICHAEL BIRD OPEN, WITH DIANA DIXON 2.30pm to 4pm THE ACORN 1pm to 2.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Writer, art historian and broadcaster Michael West Penwith poet Diana Dixon returns to Bird explores the extraordinary Artists’ Lives lead the 9th Poetry Open at the Penzance archive, the subject of his latest book. He LitFest. Open to all local poets who want samples highlights from this vast and still to share their spoken work whether it little-known collection of life-story interviews explores perimeters, pentameters – or even to create a fascinating audio-visual narrative parameters. The slots are six minutes long. of artists’ experiences in 20th-century Britain. Spaces are limited and fill up quickly; to We hear from Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Paul reserve a slot please contact Diana in person Feiler, Eileen Agar, Tess Jaray, David Nash and on 07743 461895. other leading British artists. £4.00 (PCH11) £4.00 (ACT11) Book online at crbo.co.uk WEDNESDAY 3rd July

A FASCINATION WITH FRONTIERS: HORATIO CLARE IN CONVERSATION WITH PHILIP MARSDEN 4pm to 5.30pm THE ACORN “I have a love-hate relationship with borders: the romance of them, the fear, the triumph of getting through, and the obscenity of the prevention of the free movement of most people.” The prolific travel and nature writer, memoirist and children’s author, Horatio Clare, discusses his work and his enduring fascination with ‘the edges of things’ with Laurence Green fellow nature writer Philip Marsden, author of Rising Ground and The Levelling Sea. ‘MY ROOM IS A BRIGHT GLASS £4.00 (ACT12) CABIN’: THE LIFE AND POETRY OF CHARLES CAUSLEY, WITH LAURENCE GREEN 3pm to 4.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE In 2014, Laurence Green won a prestigious Holyer an Gof Award (set up to promote books about Cornwall, set in Cornwall or in Cornish) for his book, All Cornwall Thunders at my Door – A Biography of Charles Causley. Laurence will talk about the poet’s life in Launceston and in the wartime Royal Navy with reference to his diaries, autobiographical writings and, above all, his poems. He will also give an insight into the process of writing the biography, some of the wonderful people he interviewed and how he found a publisher. £4.00 (PCH12)

Horatio Clare WEDNESDAY 3rd July

CAN POETRY BE BOTH FUNNY AND SERIOUS? WITH GRAY LIGHTFOOT 4pm to 5.30pm ACORN BAR With a USP as the ‘bus driver poet’ and a first volume of poetry, A View from the Cab: the poetry and musings of a bus driver in Cornwall, which quickly sold out and had to be reprinted, Gray Lightfoot has broken down perceptions of what a poet can be. But what kind of poet is he now? In this show, Gray uses his own work to explore the borderlines Ben Cox between ‘serious’ poetry and entertainment, showing that poetry can be funny but still AT THE EDGE OF OUR LANGUAGE: carry a serious message...hopefully! WHY SPEECH SHOULD BE A RIVER, £4.00 (ACB11) WITH BEN COX 6pm to 7.30pm ACORN BAR Ben Cox is a student of myth and story whose work tracks along boundaries in search of nourishment for our times. There are many ways to speak using the same language. Forms can be changed. Borders may be moved. Ben imagines other ways in which we can work with the words we already possess, giving birth to new ways of speech to inform the listener differently – exploring the dynamism between image and meaning, and taking us to the very edge of speaking. £4.00 (ACB12) Gray Lightfoot ©Anthony Matthews A LITERARY WALK, WITH REFUGEE TALES, WITH ANNA MCCLARY ANNA PINCUS AND PATRICK GALE 6.30pm MEET AT THE ACORN 6pm to 7.30pm THE ACORN Join Anna McClary, who specialises in tours The experiences of people trapped in of Penzance and Mousehole. Walk with her indefinite immigration detention moved through the town and parks of Penzance, Anna Pincus to want to raise awareness of learning about the authors who stayed or their plight and share their stories. Patrick lived here – including some you may never Gale reads ‘The Embroiderer’s Tale’, his have heard of – and what inspired them. contribution to the latest volume of Refugee Penzance may be at the end of the railway Tales. He also talks to Anna about her line, but it has never been the end of the involvement with the Gatwick Detainees line for its cultural and literary community. Group and the Refugee Tales Walk and the Authors came, some stayed, and the area still hope offered by this inspiring project. inspires writers to write books. £4.00 (ACT13) £6.00 (OS12) Book by phone on 01726 879500 WEDNESDAY 3rd July

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WRITING WORKSHOP WITH ANGELA STONER: WRITING BETWEEN THE TIDES 10am to 1pm MORRAB LIBRARY Not all borders are fixed. That between sea and land is fluid, as is the liminal space that inspires so many artists and writers. This workshop will provide writing exercises to explore such spaces, and bring back treasures to enrich your work. Borders can be barriers and sources of conflict – or they can be valuable places of exchange. Angela Stoner John Harvey is a poet and storyteller who has lived and worked in Cornwall for 20 years. BODY AND SOUL: CORNWALL £18.00 (ML21) DETECTIVE FRANK ELDER'S LAST CASE, WITH JOHN HARVEY 11am to 12.30pm THE ACORN For many years, award-winning crime writer John Harvey lived in Zennor and remains a frequent visitor to the Cornish coast. In Body and Soul – the final novel of his career and the last case for his Cornwall detective Frank Elder – John explores the beautifully drawn borderlines between father and daughter, city and country lives, and the experience of passing over from work into retirement. Jak Stringer Fellow writer Mark Billingham described this as: 'A masterpiece from a master of the genre'. BORDERLINES: ALMOST WHAT IS £4.00 (ACT21) EXPECTED, WITH JAK STRINGER 11am to 12.30pm ACORN BAR Bordering 60, the writer Wilkie Collins was struggling with the battle of life. His readership had dwindled, reviews mocked him and he was in poor health – fearing blindness. But Collins never gave up. Jak Stringer has lived in west Cornwall for 37 years. “If you cut me open,” she says, “I would have Penzance printed inside me, like a stick of rock.” Also bordering 60, Jak has been asked to edit a new edition of Collin's Cornish Rambles Beyond Railways. Can his struggles inspire her to finish her task by 4th July? £4.00 (ACB21) pzlitfest.co.uk THURSDAY 4th July

RITUAL, HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE: A CORNISH YEAR IN POEMS AND PAINTINGS, WITH FRANK PICKERING AND WENDY PARKYN 11am to 12.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL Poet and musician Frank Pickering and artist Wendy Parkyn present their new, stunning volume of paintings and poems, A Cornish Year. With original words, images and music, this multi-talented duo will take you on a seasonal and cultural journey exploring the meaning of place and belonging. £4.00 (SJH21)

WOMEN CROSSING CULTURAL BORDERS IN 19TH CENTURY INDIA, WITH BARBARA EATON 1pm to 2.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Fanny Parks (1794–1874) rejected the accepted role of the conventional memsahib. Instead she led an adventurous life travelling Beautiful Books independently through India on horseback In a Unique Shop and by boat on the dangerous, hair-raising Ganges. She spoke fluent Hindi and Urdu, New and Secondhand became a close friend of a former Maratha warrior queen, stayed in luxurious rajahs’ 45 Causewayhead palaces and harems, and attended sumptuous Penzance bejewelled Hindu weddings. Barbara Eaton, a TR18 2SS lover of travel who claims that “sleeping on a 01736 363300 mud floor on a mud yurt is no hardship”, talks www.bartonbooks.co.uk about and reads from her biography, Fanny Parks – Intrepid Memsahib. barton_books £4.00 (PCH21) THURSDAY 4th July

BEHIND THE LINES, WITH AMANDA HARRIS 1pm to 2.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL Behind the Lines is the first full-length novel by Amanda Harris, a director of Kernow Education Arts Partnership and co-creator of The Story Republic and The Writers' Block. The novel draws on the experiences of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACs), formed in 1917 to free men from backroom duties. Amanda’s grandmother Mabel Coole was among those who signed up. Amanda believes that the life-changing experiences of Mabel and many others played a major role in women getting the vote, and she uses a mix of history, personal anecdotes and pictures from her grandmother's scrapbook to tell these women’s stories. £4.00 (SJH22)

KING OF DUST: ADVENTURES IN FORGOTTEN SCULPTURE, WITH ALEX WOODCOCK 1.30pm to 3pm THE ACORN In King of Dust, Alex Woodcock explores the Romanesque sculpture of the South West that inspired him to become a cathedral stonemason. Weaving together his own story of learning to work stone with the potency of the stone carvings and stories of their medieval carvers, his book is a meditation on craft, the importance of the handmade and the transformative power of art in our lives. £4.00 (ACT22)

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WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JOHN LUGO-TREBBLE AND BARBARA ARMSTRONG: BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL – STEPPING INSIDE A SCENE 2pm to 3.30pm MORRAB LIBRARY Do you enjoy reading but you’re not sure that you can write? John Lugo-Trebble and Barbara Armstrong are about to break down that wall and bring you into the fold. Using a love of reading and working with images to create individual scenes, their wish is for every participant to leave with words on paper, a foundation for a first draft or simply to get the creativity flowing. This workshop is a safe space and open to all levels of ability so, if you’ve never been to a writing workshop before, why not give it a try? £10.00 (ML22)

CROSSING BORDERS BETWEEN WORLDS, WITH DL BAYLIS AND VICTORIA OSBORNE-BROAD EATDRINKSLEEP Restaurants with rooms in Britain’s most beautiful places 3pm to 4.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE DL Baylis and Victoria Osborne-Broad talk about their work, including how a writer gets a first novel ‘out there’. DL shares the pitfalls and joys of writing about the ghost of Daphne du Maurier in her novel, Daphne’s Ghost. Victoria reflects on the challenges of bringing magic and time travel convincingly into contemporary west Cornwall in Guardian of the Stones, the second book in her Jewels of the Rainbow trilogy. £4.00 (PCH22)

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BORDERS OF LIFE AND DEATH: THE TALE OF ELIZABETH SIDDALL, WITH SERENA TROWBRIDGE 3pm to 4.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL Everybody enjoys hearing the story of Elizabeth Siddall, wife and muse of Pre- Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti: her fascinating and often sad life, early death and the exhumation of her body. But Elizabeth also painted, and wrote poetry. Serena Trowbridge’s talk covers her life and work, particularly her haunting and rather melancholy poems, which are the subject of Serena’s book My Lady’s Soul. £4.00 (SJH23)

Jenny Kane

ACCIDENTAL EROTICA AND CORNISH ROMANCE, WITH JENNY KANE 3.30pm to 5pm ACORN BAR Tim Pears ©Rory Carnegie In 2007 Jenny Kane accidentally wrote a short erotic story. She had no intention of THE REDEEMED, WITH doing anything with it and certainly wasn’t TIM PEARS intending to become a writer, but suddenly 3.30pm to 5pm THE ACORN she found herself one of the UK’s bestselling The acclaimed novelist Tim Pears makes a erotica writers. A former archaeologist and welcome return to discuss The Redeemed, medieval historian, Jenny traces her route the final instalment in his spellbinding West from accidental erotica to coffee shop novels, Country trilogy chronicling love, exile and Cornish romance and medieval murder belonging. Leo Sercombe’s journey began mysteries. in The Horseman in 1911 and continued in £4.00 (ACB22) The Wanderer. It is now 1916. In a world torn asunder by war, how can the future be imagined in the face of such unimaginable change? How can Leo, lost and wandering in the strange and brave new world, ever hope to find his way home? £6.00 (ACT23) Book by phone on 01726 879500 THE FAMOUS FIVE © 2018, Hodder & Stoughton Limited. All rights reserved.

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THE GREAT BIG LITFEST QUIZ SPENCER SMART 8pm THE ACORN The Great Big LitFest Quiz is back. Spencer Smart once again poses some devilishly difficult and equally easy questions designed to test the limits of your literary and loosely book-related knowledge. Win or lose you’re guaranteed plenty of fun and a friendly atmosphere. Come as a team of up to four or make up a team when you get here. £5.00 (ACT24)

BORDERLINES, WITH TELLTALES 8pm THE ADMIRAL BENBOW We welcome Falmouth-based Telltales back for their regular LitFest slot. Now 10 years old, the group presents eight readers of poetry, prose and short stories who have created work in response to the 2019 festival theme: Rob Barratt ©Colin Hill ‘Borderlines’. As usual, Telltales will entertain their LitFest audience in the wonderful EARWHACKS, WITH surroundings and world stage of the Admiral ROB BARRATT Benbow. (We regret that there is no stair-free 6.30pm THE ACORN BAR access to this venue.) Be entertained by Rob Barratt, a Dudley-born, £4.00 (OS21) brain-tickling, word-mangling comic poet, humourist and singer from North Cornwall who combines clever word play and song with satire, parody and audience participation. Rob deals with such important topics as squid, Neanderthal politics, the weather in Scotland, data-driven education, distressed furniture and his relationship with potatoes. But often, beneath the comedy, serious issues lurk. £6.00 (ACB23)

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WEDNESDAY 3rd JULY 10am to 4pm MORRAB LIBRARY Writing Workshop with Bridget Holding: Wild Words 1pm to 2.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Line Breaks: The 9th Poetry Open, with Diana Dixon 1.15pm to 2.15pm ST MARY’S CHURCH Something Of His Art, With Horatio Clare and The Heinichen Ensemble 2.30pm to 4pm THE ACORN Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-Century Britain, with Michael Bird 3pm to 4.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE The Life and Poetry of Charles Causley, with Laurence Green 4pm to 5.30pm THE ACORN A Fascination With Frontiers: Horatio Clare and Philip Marsden ACORN BAR Can Poetry Be Both Funny and Serious? With Gray Lightfoot 6pm to 7.30pm THE ACORN Refugee Tales, with Anna Pincus and Patrick Gale ACORN BAR At The Edge Of Our Language, with Ben Cox 6.30pm MEET AT THE ACORN A Literary Walk, with Anna McClary 8pm THE ACORN ‘LitFest at 10’ Launch Party Patrick Gale and JX Coudrille’s Gwelhellin

THURSDAY 4th JULY 10am to 1pm MORRAB LIBRARY Writing Workshop with Angela Stoner: Writing Between the Tides 11am to 12.30pm THE ACORN Body And Soul: Cornwall Detective Frank Elder’s Last Case, with John Harvey ACORN BAR Borderlines: Almost What is Expected, with Jak Stringer ST JOHN’S HALL Ritual, History and Landscape, with Frank Pickering and Wendy Parkyn 1pm to 2.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Women Crossing Cultural Borders, with Barbara Eaton ST JOHN’S HALL Behind the Lines, with Amanda Harris 1.30pm to 3pm THE ACORN King of Dust, with Alex Woodcock 2pm to 3.30pm MORRAB LIBRARY Writing Workshop with John Lugo-Trebble and Barbara Armstrong 3pm to 4.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Crossing Borders, with Victoria Osborne-Broad and DL Baylis ST JOHN’S HALL The Tale Of Elizabeth Siddall, with Serena Trowbridge 3.30pm to 5pm THE ACORN The Redeemed, with Tim Pears ACORN BAR Accidental Erotica and Cornish Romance, with Jenny Kane 6.30pm ACORN BAR Earwhacks, with Rob Barratt 8pm THE ACORN The Great Big Litfest Quiz 8pm THE ADMIRAL BENBOW Borderlines, with Telltales FRIDAY 5TH JULY 10am to 1pm MORRAB LIBRARY Writing Workshop with Jenny Kane: Location, Location, Location 11am to 12.30pm THE ACORN Crossroads, with Liz Fenwick PENLEE COACH HOUSE The Bad Bugs Bookclub, with Joanna Verran ST JOHN’S HALL Tales From The Long Deep of Cornwall, with Des Hannigan 1pm to 2.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE The Postman Poet, with Liz Shakespeare ST JOHN’S HALL Landscapes of Mind and Memory: Emma Timpany and Fiona Vigo Marshall 1.30pm to 3pm THE ACORN Have You Always Dreamed of Writing a Bestseller? With Jane Corry 2pm to 3.30pm MORRAB LIBRARY Writing Workshop with Penny Shutt: Borderlines of the Self 2.30pm to 4pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Borders, Boundaries and Big Ideas, with Penwith Local History Group ST JOHN’S HALL Everything You Can Think if is True, with Petrus Ursem 3.30pm to 5pm THE ACORN Adventures in an Epic Continent, with Nicholas Jubber 4pm to 5.30pm ACORN BAR Why I Live in a Shed, with Catrina Davies ST JOHN’S HALL The Museum of Broken Promises, with Elizabeth Buchan 6pm to 7.30pm THE ACORN Alan Hollinghurst In Conversation 6.30pm MEET AT THE ACORN A Literary Walk, with Anna McClary 7pm to 7.30pm ACORN BAR Dreamworlds: Everywhere at Once, with Adele Jarrett-Kerr 8pm ACORN BAR Life, Happiness and Everything, with Isabel Losada

SATURDAY 6TH JULY 10.10am to 4.45pm PUBLISHING DAY AT 10.10am Grace Vincent: How to Promote Yourself and Your Book ST JOHN’S HALL 12pm Louise Boland: Small Publishers Championing New Writers 1.45pm Chris Higgins: An Author’s Perspective 3.30pm Rose Tomaszewska: What’s Your Novel About? It’s All in The Pitch 11am to 12.30pm THE ACORN You Will Be Safe Here: Damian Barr in Conversation with Patrick Gale PENLEE COACH HOUSE Valles – Knowledge and Possibilities, with Dan James 1pm to 3pm MORRAB LIBRARY Lost Kingdoms, with Sara MacDonald and Jane Johnson 1.30pm to 3pm THE ACORN Risingtidefallingstar, with Philip Hoare ACORN BAR All Art is Political, with Hanna Jameson 3pm to 4.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Cornwall’s Paths to the Past, with Penwith Landscape Partnership 3.30pm to 5pm THE ACORN Some Kids and How They Taught Me: Kate Clanchy and Patrick Gale 5.30pm to 7pm THE ACORN Plen An Gwari: The Playing Places of Cornwall, with Will Coleman 6.30pm to 8pm ACORN BAR Brenda, Beyond Borders, with Sue Ellery-Hill and Mike Sagar-Fenton 8pm THE ACORN Rebellion, with Adrian Rodda, An Gof and Special Guests FRIDAY 5th July

WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JENNY KANE: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION 10am to 1pm MORRAB LIBRARY Jenny Kane’s romances owe a lot to their Cornish setting. Location matters just as much as character. It’s impossible to develop a location on paper without applying our emotions, perceptions and preconceptions. Jenny shows you how to create the perfect Des Hannigan location for your fiction – whether it’s a cupboard, town, city or planet. Use personal LONG TALES AND TALL FROM THE geographical experiences and your five senses LONG DEEP OF CORNWALL, to build a sense of place fitting your genre, era WITH DES HANNIGAN and plotline. 11am to 12.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL £18.00 (ML31) Travel writer and journalist Des Hannigan talks about his new book, The Long Deep, a CROSSROADS, WITH close-quarters look at the Cornish coast and LIZ FENWICK sea, illustrated with scenes that the selfie 11am to 12.30pm THE ACORN stick does not reach. Tales of shipwreck Have you ever been at a crossroads in your on Penzance seafront; international life? You could go one way, maybe the easy eavesdropping at Morwenstow; close way, you could take the uncharted one – or encounters with sharks' teeth; a bassoon- perhaps something pushes you off course to playing lighthouse-keeper and a Chinese junk land in a place you never imagined. Award- off the Isles of Scilly are all salted with fun, winning author Liz Fenwick looks at how this facts and furbelows. can play out in fiction through the lives of £4.00 (SJH31) three women in her latest novel, The Path to the Sea. THE BAD BUGS BOOKCLUB: USING £4.00 (ACT31) FICTION TO ENGAGE WITH SCIENCE, WITH JOANNA VERRAN 11am to 12.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE Don’t be put off by the fact that Joanna Verran is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has a passion for using arts and the humanities to help audiences engage with science. The Bad Bugs Bookclub gets scientists and non-scientists reading fiction that features infection and contagion – and that means vampires as well as viruses. Joanna plans to launch a local branch of the Bookclub, meeting several times a year. £4.00 (PCH31) Book online at crbo.co.uk FRIDAY 5th July

THE POSTMAN POET, WITH LIZ SHAKESPEARE 1pm to 2.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE The extraordinary story of a forgotten 19th- century Devon poet. Despite attending school A friendly welcome awaits you at for only four months, Edward Capern achieved our bed and breakfast in national renown for the poems he wrote while walking the Devon lanes on his postman’s round. Liz Shakespeare’s novel The Postman Poet draws on historical research and Capern’s own writing to tell his story, capturing the opportunities and inequalities of the Victorian age. £4.00 (PCH32) Spectacular views of Mount’s Bay and the Lizard 01736 360798 panoramaguesthouse.co.uk

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LANDSCAPES OF MIND AND MEMORY, WITH EMMA TIMPANY AND FIONA VIGO MARSHALL 1pm to 2.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL There are some interesting comparisons to be made between Fiona Vigo Marshall’s Find Me Falling and Emma Timpany’s Travelling in the Dark. Both novels portray natural environments that are almost characters in themselves, creating complex ‘psychogeographies’ that reflect emotional and psychological landscapes. In this session, the two authors investigate the unstable boundaries between past and present and explore those between reality and fantasy. £4.00 (SJH32) FRIDAY 5th July

HAVE YOU ALWAYS DREAMED OF BORDERS, BOUNDARIES AND BIG WRITING A BESTSELLER? IDEAS, WITH PENWITH LOCAL JANE CORRY REVEALS HER HISTORY GROUP TOP TIPS 2.30pm to 4pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE 1.30pm to 3pm Penwith Local History Group recently THE ACORN celebrated its 30th anniversary. The Group’s Jane Corry tells the programme reflects its diverse and lively story behind her interests, ranging across Penwith. Join them gripping new thriller, to hear about the refugee artist Albert Reuss, I Looked Away. the stories hidden in maps, colourful myths from … and much more. bestselling author of £4.00 (PCH33) My Husband’s Wife and The Dead Ex EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF will also give her ten IS TRUE, WITH PETRUS URSEM top tips to help you 2.30pm to 4pm ST JOHN’S HALL succeed with writing The border between children's and grownups' your own bestselling novel. Jane's experience literature is fluid. A good story works for as writer in residence for a high-security all readers – children have as much need to male prison helped to inspire her books. explore themes of life and the meaning of the In complete contrast, she also writes the world as older readers. Petrus Ursem reveals amusing ‘Diary of a Modern Gran’ column for how the Cornish landscape released his love My Weekly magazine. of writing, weaving past mysteries into heart- £4.00 (ACT32) beating new adventures, as told in The Truth Teller, the second part of his Steven Honest WRITING WORKSHOP WITH trilogy. PENNY SHUTT: BORDERLINES £4.00 (SJH33) OF THE SELF 2pm to 3.30pm MORRAB LIBRARY ADVENTURES IN AN EPIC Where does personality end and illness begin? CONTINENT, WITH Where is the line between illness and who NICHOLAS JUBBER you are? Dr Penny Shutt leads this therapeutic 3.30pm to 5pm THE ACORN writing workshop using the ancient wisdom Journey from Turkey to Iceland, swim to the of the Enneagram, prompts and the poems of mouth of Hades, wade across Icelandic rivers, David Whyte and Lao Tzu to get you writing drink rakija with Balkan folk-singers and recite to any illnesses or diagnoses you may have medieval verse at a Basque demonstration in received as well as writing to your well-self the Pyrenees. These are just a selection from and your best-self in a playful but safe and Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories supportive environment. Penny is a poet and of Europe by award-winning travel writer psychiatrist working for adult mental health Nicholas Jubber. He explores how ancient services in Cornwall and also runs workshops stories sprang from their particular landscapes for Lapidus – a writing for wellbeing and cultures, connecting the continent and organisation. showing us the roots that made Europe. £10.00 (ML32) £4.00 (ACT33) Book by phone on 01726 879500 FRIDAY 5th July

THE MUSEUM OF BROKEN PROMISES, WITH ELIZABETH BUCHAN 4pm to 5.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL Be among the first to hear extracts from the latest novel by Elizabeth Buchan, which is due out in September, along with a discussion of her most recent book, The New Mrs Clifton. The Museum of Broken Promises is a beautiful, evocative love story and a heart- breaking journey into some of the darkest moments in European history. Elizabeth was a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full-time. Her novels include the prizewinning Consider the Lily and international bestsellers Revenge of the Alan Hollinghurst Middle-Aged Woman and I Can’t Begin To Tell You. ALAN HOLLINGHURST £4.00 (SJH34) IN CONVERSATION 6pm to 7.30pm THE ACORN The distinguished novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses his life and work with the LitFest’s Rachel Viney. Alan is the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Somerset Maugham Award (The Swimming-Pool Library), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (The Folding Star) and the Man Booker Prize (The Line of Beauty). His most recent novel, The Sparsholt Affair, which is set in Oxford, Catrina Davies London and Cornwall, was praised by the Independent as ‘a highlight of Hollinghurst’s WHY I LIVE IN A SHED, WITH career, and one of the best books of the year’. CATRINA DAVIES £4.00 (ACT34) 4pm to 5.30pm ACORN BAR Faced with a personal housing crisis – part of a country-wide system of inequality – Catrina Davies took the radical decision to make a dilapidated shed into a home of her own, as told in her latest book, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed. She talks – and sings – about how simplicity can be a tonic, not a sacrifice, about Britain’s broken housing and economic system, and about how wanting less can set you free. £4.00 (ACB31) FRIDAY 5th July

A LITERARY WALK, WITH ANNA MCCLARY 6.30pm MEET AT THE ACORN Join Anna McClary, who specialises in tours of Penzance and Mousehole. Walk with her through the town and parks of Penzance, learning about the authors who stayed or lived here – including some you may never have heard of – and what inspired them. Penzance may be at the end of the railway line, but it has never been the end of the line for its cultural and literary community. Authors came, some stayed, and the area still inspires writers to write books. £6.00 (OS31)

DREAMWORLDS: EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, WITH ADELE JARRETT-KERR 7pm to 7.30pm ACORN BAR Come along to support Adele Jarrett-Kerr’s debut performance as she reads from her collection of poems exploring the way migration disrupts and expands our sense of self as we learn to live in different places at once, constantly erecting dream worlds. Adele uses her experience of growing up Isabel Losada in Trinidad and Tobago and finding herself eventually displaced to Cornwall to consider LIFE, HAPPINESS AND EVERYTHING, how moving countries invites us to commit WITH ISABEL LOSADA and let go. 8pm ACORN BAR FREE (ACB32) Isabel Losada was named ‘the UK’s sassiest spiritual author’ by The Bookseller and is probably best known for her book The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, which obtained a surprise cult status. In this event with a difference – a mixture of stand-up comedy, vulnerable storytelling, inspirational talk and anonymous Q&A – Isabel may touch on relationships, creativity, activism, leadership, personal growth, meditation, forgiveness, writing, spirituality, politics, environmentalism, sex and love. In no particular order. Adele Jarrett-Kerr £6.00 (ACB33) pzlitfest.co.uk SATURDAY 6th July

PUBLISHING DAY Everything you ever wanted to know about publishing but were afraid to ask – and more! Publishing Day is back by popular demand, offering the perspectives of publishers, authors and editors. This was a sell-out in 2016 so make sure you book early as places are limited. Single sessions are £8 each or immerse yourself in a whole day of insights and advice about the world of publishing for just £28 for all four sessions (SJH45).

GRACE VINCENT: HOW TO CHRIS HIGGINS: AN AUTHOR’S PROMOTE YOURSELF AND PERSPECTIVE YOUR BOOK 1.45pm to 3.15pm ST JOHN’S HALL 10.10am to 11.40am ST JOHN’S HALL Chris Higgins, a best-selling and award-winning The hard part is over. You’ve written a book. But author, has had 25 books published over the past how do you get anyone to know about it? Or 12 years in 13 different countries so can claim even read it? In this session, senior publicist Grace to be something of an expert in this area. Chris Vincent from the Little, Brown Book Group will shares her insights into the changing face of the run through the basics of how book publicity publishing industry. She also talks about how to works – within the publishing industry – and get an agent, expectations and reality, and things what you can do to help with promotion. she has learned on her journey. £8.00 (SJH41) £8.00 (SJH43)

LOUISE BOLAND: SMALL ROSE TOMASZEWSKA: IT’S ALL PUBLISHERS CHAMPIONING IN THE PITCH NEW WRITERS 3.30pm to 4.45pm ST JOHN’S HALL 12pm to 1.30pm ST JOHN’S HALL Have you ever been asked ‘What’s your book These days, it is often smaller publishing houses about?’ only to be self-deprecating, trip over who support and champion new authors. your tongue or waffle nonsensically? Rose Established in 2017 and already making its mark in Tomaszewska commissions fiction and non- the world of literary prizes, Fairlight Books aims fiction for the Quercus literary imprint riverrun. to publish and nurture new fiction writers. In this Learn how she pitches books to her team and the session, Fairlight’s CEO, Louise Boland looks at publishing industry, and how this can help you how small publishers differ from larger ones and get attention, summarise your work and present explores the pros and cons of being published by yourself confidently. There will be a voluntary one versus the other. option for interactive involvement. £8.00 (SJH42) £8.00 (SJH44)

Grace Vincent Louise Boland Chris Higgins Rose Tomaszewska SATURDAY 6th July

VALLES – KNOWLEDGE AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE DISCOVERIES, WITH DAN JAMES 11am to 12.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE What exactly is Valles Marineris? It’s a scar across the surface of Mars over 2,000 miles long, which some have called ‘the greatest abyss in the solar system’. First spotted by probes in the early 1970s, it has intrigued scientists ever since. Many theories have been put forward to explain its origin: water Damian Barr ©Jeff Spicer erosion, tectonic splits, a rift valley. Dan James’s fascination with Valles prompted YOU WILL BE SAFE HERE: him to investigate them in his first popular DAMIAN BARR IN CONVERSATION science book and to come up with some WITH PATRICK GALE enthralling answers. 11am to 12.30pm THE ACORN £4.00 (PCH41) You Will Be Safe Here is the powerful debut novel by Damian Barr, which The Guardian, LOST KINGDOMS, WITH SARA Observer and have included MACDONALD AND JANE JOHNSON in their Books to Watch 2019. Set in South 1pm to 3pm MORRAB LIBRARY Africa, it uncovers the hidden history of the Sara MacDonald British concentration camps of the Boer War and Jane Johnson and links it to a present-day secret. Damian both share a love talks to Patrick Gale about how this novel was of Cornwall, but partly inspired by the travels and travails of have crossed many brave Cornish woman Emily Hobhouse who borders while travelled to South Africa in 1900 and brought travelling and back the truth about the camps. researching their £4.00 (ACT41) books. Sara’s latest novel, In a Kingdom by the Sea, sweeps across generations from the stunning Cornish coast to the city of Karachi. It is a story of deception and betrayal but also of love and the powerful, unifying nature of friendship between women of different cultures that transcends physical and emotional borders. Jane fell in love with a Berber tribesman while researching a novel in Morocco. Her latest book, The Sea Gate, will be published in 2020. £4.00 (ML41) Book online at crbo.co.uk SATURDAY 6th July

ALL ART IS POLITICAL IN THE AGE OF TRUMP AND BORDER WALLS, WITH HANNA JAMESON 1.30pm to 3pm ACORN BAR Tipped as 'One to Watch in 2019' by and Stylist, Hanna Jameson’s thriller, The Last, is one we guarantee you won't be able to put down. She was inspired to write the book partly by the non-stop discussion of nuclear war since Trump’s election and was also influenced by growing up into 9/11 and the 2008 crash. Hanna’s wide-ranging themes, which include the premise that ‘dystopian fiction isn’t futuristic, but our lived present’, will keep you glued to your seat. £4.00 (ACB41)

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, WITH PHILIP HOARE 1.30pm to 3pm THE ACORN In his latest book, RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, the Samuel Johnson Prize winner Philip Hoare looks at the ways in which human beings have explored the elusive, sometimes fatal lure of the sea and its enigmatic creatures. Philip is also the author of Leviathan or, The Whale and The Sea Inside. His BBC films include the feature-length ‘The Hunt for Moby-Dick’, and he is co-curator, with artist Angela Cockayne, of the Moby-Dick Big Read (mobydickbigread. com), a free online recording of Melville’s book, read by Tilda Swinton, David Attenborough, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry and Fiona Shaw among others. £4.00 (ACT42)

Newlyn Filmhouse is screening 'The Hunt for Moby-Dick' on Sunday 7th July at 3.30pm Hanna Jameson – see Fringe Festival for more details. SATURDAY 6th July

BORDERS WITH TIME: CORNWALL’S PATHS TO THE PAST, WITH PENWITH LANDSCAPE PARTNERSHIP 3pm to 4.30pm PENLEE COACH HOUSE The Tinners’ Way, an ancient track along the backbone of West Penwith, passes numerous ancient sites and previously linked rich mining areas, scattered settlements and harbours from where tin could be traded. Matt Watts, Access Officer for the Penwith Landscape Partnership, reveals the history and significance of this path and the work being done by the Penwith Landscape Partnership to restore it. Author and freelance journalist Sue Kittow and historian and novelist Steph Haxton explore the borders between 'now' Kate Clanchy ©Alexander James and 'then’, the facts and the fiction, as they metaphorically walk in the footsteps of some SOME KIDS AND HOW THEY of Cornwall's most famous authors including TAUGHT ME: KATE CLANCHY Rosamunde Pilcher, Daphne du Maurier and IN CONVERSATION WITH Winston Graham. PATRICK GALE £4.00 (PCH42) 3.30pm to 5pm THE ACORN An award-winning writer in several genres, a teacher and a journalist, Kate joins Patrick Gale to discuss England: Poems from a School – an anthology of poems by her students at Oxford Spires Academy – and her new book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, praised by Philip Pullman as “The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read”. £4.00 (ACT43)

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CORNISH EVENING

PLEN AN GWARI: THE PLAYING PLACES OF CORNWALL, WITH WILL COLEMAN 5.30pm to 7pm THE ACORN An illustrated lecture celebrating the extraordinary medieval theatre culture of Cornwall, explaining why the tradition flourished and died, and why it is so important for an understanding of Cornish history. Will Coleman, who calls himself a ‘cultural entrepreneur’, speculates about what attending such a spectacle would have been like and whether there are contemporary cultural lessons to be learned. His book, Plen an Gwari: The Playing Places of Cornwall, also An Gof ©John Stedman helps to locate local plen an gwari (playing place) sites. REBELLION: ADRIAN RODDA, £4.00 (ACT44) AN GOF AND SPECIAL GUESTS 8pm THE ACORN BRENDA, BEYOND BORDERS: When does a protest movement become SUE ELLERY-HILL IN a rebellion? How does it feel to leave your CONVERSATION WITH home for unknown territory? What happens MIKE SAGAR-FENTON when you have to rely on the kindness of 6.30pm to 8pm ACORN BAR strangers? This performance, featuring aptly- Author Sue Ellery- named musicians ‘An Gof’ (the term used Hill’s other claim to to describe a Cornish patriot), tells in verse fame is that she is the the story of the Cornish people’s march to daughter of Brenda London in 1497, to present grievances to the Wootton: the 'Voice King… and what happened next. of Cornwall'. She talks to Mike Sagar-Fenton We’ll be rounding off our 10th Penzance about how she came LitFest with a rebel-rousing Cornish Shout, tell to her mother’s continuing the living tradition of having bit of story in Brenda – For a ‘toot’, a ‘tuney’, an ‘after glow’ or a ‘shout’ the Love of Cornwall. down at the local. Led by guest singers Despite her large size, and musicians, we celebrate pub singing in her past-middle-age Cornwall and bring the LitFest to a close for and her quiet village upbringing in the far another year. west of Cornwall, this Cornish singer took her £15.00 INCLUDES CORNISH TAPAS AND ONE FREE love of her country, its culture, its language DRINK (ACT45) and its music onto the stages of the world. £4.00 (ACB42) FRINGE FESTIVAL EVENTS

MORRAB LIBRARY PENLEE HOUSE GALLERY & MUSEUM ON THE EDGE: THE LITERARY AND FOLKLORE LANDSCAPE OF ZENNOR Thursday 4th July 2pm to 3pm Join us for a guided walk with Adrian Rodda to share the experiences of writers and painters Booking for Fringe events is made directly who were influenced by liminal Zennor, living with the organisers – for details visit on the edge between the sea and sky and solid the Fringe Festival page on our website: rock. Meet at the Chapel Car Park Zennor at pzlitfest.co.uk. 2.00pm (or at Penlee House Gallery & Museum at 1.15pm). £4.00 Booking essential; please phone 01736 363625 or email [email protected]

BEYOND THE LINE: POETRY FROM PAINTINGS AT PENLEE Saturday 6th July 2.30pm to 3.30pm Join us to explore how the amazing paintings at Penlee House can be used to inspire words. Philip Hoare FREE Drop in any time Children must be accompanied by an adult NEWLYN FILMHOUSE THE HUNT FOR MOBY-DICK THE EXCHANGE, PENZANCE Sunday 7th July 3.30pm Friday 12th July 6.30pm to 9pm A special screening to mark the 200th SPEAK EASY anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth, Come and take part in a Speakeasy session, followed by a Q&A with Philip Hoare. organised jointly with The Writer’s Block. Acclaimed writer Philip Hoare confronts our Share your work, meet other writers and fascination with one of the most mysterious discover the new – a mix of story, poetry animals in the ocean, the whale. Travelling and song. To share your work please in the footsteps of Ishmael, the narrator of contact compere Betty Davies prior to the Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, he visits the event: [email protected]. whaling ports of New England. BBC Arena, 2009, 1 hour 15 mins Ticket sales: newlynfilmhouse.com

REDWING GALLERY From Friday 28th June to Thursday 11th July Inspired by our ‘Borderlines’ theme: readings, performances and music by Bridgette Cassese and Friends, an experiential workshop and talks by Jane Sand and Chris Cooper. THANK YOU!

Thank you to our venues: The Acorn, Admiral Benbow, Morrab Library, Penlee Coach House, St John's Hall and St Mary's Church.

We'd also like to thank our contributors, our Patron, Patrick Gale, and our volunteers and accommodation providers for the important part they play in making the festival a success.

Warm thanks too to our generous sponsors: GWR, the Literary Review, Penzance and District Tourism Association and Penzance Town Council. And special thanks to our accommodation sponsors: The Tremont, Keigwin House and Panorama Guest House.

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