Memoir
Bryony Gordon – Mad Woman
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomTelegraph journalist, pioneering author, podcaster and activist Bryony Gordon has long been open about her mental health, lifting the lid on a subject that was taboo for many years. Mad Woman is her phenomenal follow-up – a decade later – to the brilliant number-one bestseller Mad Girl. Join her as she talks to BBC Radio...
Jessica Hepburn – Save me from the Waves: an adventure from sea to summit
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomWe welcome author and adventure activist Jessica Hepburn to Fowey to talk about her third book, Save Me from the Waves. This remarkable and alternative adventure story, charts Jessica becoming the first and only woman (currently) to have completed the ‘Sea, Street, Summit Challenge’, which is to swim the English Channel, run the London Marathon and...
Tiffany Murray – My Family and Other Rock Stars
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomIn conversation with bestselling author Patrick Gale, Tiffany Murray will talk about her recently published memoir My Family and Other Rock Stars. It is about food, family and what happens when Freddie Mercury comes to stay! Her novels Diamond Star Halo, Happy Accidents and Sugar Hall, have variously been shortlisted for the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize and received the Roger Deakin Award...
Lesley-Ann Jones – Fly Away Paul
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomIn this definitive account of Paul McCartney's time in Wings, published on the 50th anniversary of the bestselling album, Band on the Run, music biographer, Lesley-Ann Jones, tells the extraordinary story of how Paul survived the Beatles and found his Wings. No comprehensive biography of the time he spent with Wings has ever been published....
Jenny Eclair – In Conversation
Fowey Parish ChurchStand-up comedian Jenny Éclair was the first woman to win the coveted Perrier Award, the UK’s top comedy award, in 1995. Since then, she has taken multiple shows on tour around the country. She is well known for her starring role on BBC1’s Grumpy Old Women, being a co-host for the podcast Older and Wider,...
