The Overtones
Fowey Parish ChurchWe are thrilled to welcome highly acclaimed The Overtones to the Festival. During the last fourteen years, The Overtones have released seven studio albums, enjoyed many sold out tours, appeared...
Rupert Tower – Between Two Worlds: Inside Daphne du Maurier’s House on the Strand
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomDaphne du Maurier’s grandson, Jungian analyst, Rupert Tower, will explore Daphne du Maurier’s novel in the context of her inner life preoccupations, including dreaming in time, identity, and loss, together...
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...
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...
Dr Helen Doe – One Crew: 200 Years of Saving Lives at Sea
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomIn the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives and is one of the most respected organisations in the UK and Ireland. It...
Movie Night – Don’t Look Now
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomNicolas Roeg's classic thriller, based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier, follows a married couple as they attempt to recover from the death of their young daughter. John Baxter...
Tiffany Murray – Writing Workshop – From Life to Fiction
Fowey Parish Hall Browns Hill, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomIf you have the urge to write but don’t know where to begin, or have made a start but need a fresh impetus to push on through to the end...
Sarah Harkness – Literature for the People
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomFrom an impoverished childhood in the Scottish Highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, who created a publishing empire. Daniel and Alexander Macmillan,...
Meet the Team – A Friends of the Festival Event
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin the team that organises the Festival, for a drink and cocktail Cornish pasty. The work we do throughout the year makes it all worthwhile when we meet our audience....
Madeleine Olivia – Make it Vegan: Simple Plant-Based Recipes for Everyone
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin Hayle based YouTuber, Madeleine Olivia, to celebrate the release of her debut cookbook, Make It Vegan. Madeleine, a self-taught home cook, has spent the last eight years sharing her life online,...
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...
Louis de Bernières – Light Over Liskeard
Fowey Parish ChurchLouis de Bernières is one of the UK’s leading novelists. His fourth novel, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, a love story set in World War II, has now sold over 4 million...
Richard Trethewey Trio
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomRichard Trethewey is a singer, fiddle and cittern player, delivering his distinct take on Cornish music. Passionate about unearthing near-forgotten gems of Cornish history, Richard breathes life into what might...
Dr Ella Westland – Reading Group Don’t Look Now and Not After Midnight
Fowey Parish Hall Browns Hill, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin Dr Ella Westland for an informal reading group discussion of two stories by Daphne du Maurier, Don't Look Now and Not After Midnight. The reading group will be a relaxed and...
Helen Hanson – ‘Do’ Look Now: Viewpoints on the Adaptable Daphne du Maurier
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomDaphne du Maurier’s brilliant control of suspense, and her vivid creation of character viewpoint are qualities which have enduring appeal to readers, and have made her stories eminently adaptable beyond...
Caroline Quentin – Drawn to the Garden
Fowey Parish ChurchJoin us for a fun and enjoyable event with this renowned figure in British comedy. Caroline Quentin is well known for her lead roles in the award-winning British sitcom Men...
Annie Price – ‘The past is still close to us’: An exploration of the Daphne du Maurier archives at the University of Exeter Special Collections
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThe University of Exeter looks after more than 50 boxes of archival materials relating to Daphne du Maurier, including several recent acquisitions. In this illustrative presentation, archivist Annie Price will...
Daphne du Maurier’s Fowey – Guided Walk
Main Car Park, Hanson Drive, PL23 1ETThis is your opportunity to learn about Daphne, her life, her novels and Fowey. You will be led by Dawn, who has been leading walks linked to Daphne du Maurier...
David Gibbins – A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomDrawing on decades of experience excavating shipwrecks around the world, renowned maritime archaeologist, David Gibbins, reveals the riches beneath the waves and shows us how the treasures found there can...
Alan Johnson – Death on the Thames
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomFollowing his series of successful memoirs – This Boy, In My Life, The Long and Winding Road and Please, Mr Postman, former Labour MP Alan Johnson joins us to discuss...
Festival Jazz Evening – An Oscar for Ella with Joanna Eden and Craig Milverton
Fowey Parish ChurchCelebrating the pairing of two of jazz’s most iconic artists, Ella Fitzgerald, the first lady of song, and Oscar Peterson, a Jazz piano legend. When Oscar and Ella first met...
Megan Stallworthy – Handmade Book Workshop
Fowey Parish Hall Browns Hill, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin us for a day-long bookbinding workshop with Megan Stallworthy of Celandine Books. Make two contemporary book structures, Flag Books and Fold-out Books, with beautiful sculptural forms, perfect to use...
Galen Bartholomew – The SS Suevic and the night the RNLI saved 611 lives
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin family historian Galen Bartholomew, for a remarkable account of shipwreck and survival. The SS Suevic, one of five White Star Line ‘Jubilee Class’ liners, ran aground in a storm...
Truro Senior School Musicians – Lunchtime Recital
Fowey Parish ChurchTruro School’s talented senior chamber musicians present a short recital of music. Truro School’s busy and active Music Department puts on nearly sixty concerts each year, both at the school...
Nicola Upson – Shot with Crimson
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin crime novelist Nicola Upson for the latest instalment in the Josephine Tey mystery series, Shot with Crimson. September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a...
Dr Helen Doe – From the Battle of Britain to the Great Escape
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThe first full reappraisal of one of Britain’s great fighter aces, this bestselling book examines the truth behind Stanford Tuck’s 1956 biography to reveal the real person rather than a...
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...
Comedy Evening with Johnny Cowling
Fowey Parish ChurchBack by popular demand, the wonderfully talented Johnny Cowling returns to the Festival for another hilarious evening of entertainment. Famous for his Cornish charm and quick wit, Johnny has performed...
Creative Writing Workshop – Creating Memorable Characters
Fowey Parish Hall Browns Hill, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomHow do you create characters who are interesting and authentic? What makes a character compelling? Join playwrights Kate Aspengren and Kyle John Schmidt for a lively exploration of character. This...
Daphne du Maurier’s Fowey – Guided Walk
Main Car Park, Hanson Drive, PL23 1ETThis is your opportunity to learn about Daphne, her life, her novels and Fowey. You will be led by Dawn, who has been leading walks linked to Daphne du Maurier...
Amanda Prowse – Swimming to Lundy
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomWe are delighted to welcome international bestselling author, radio and TV personality Amanda Prowse to the Festival. She has written thirty novels, two non-fiction titles and seven novellas, which have...
Jennie Godfrey – The List of Suspicious Things
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThe List of Suspicious Things is set to be one of the most talked about debut books of 2024, and after publication, swiftly became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller....
Dr Serena Trowbridge – Stories of the Stones
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomBritain’s landscape contains many stone circles, especially in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. Their original purpose remains mysterious despite extensive archaeological investigation, and perhaps it is their obscurity which makes them...
Harriet Evans and Veronica Henry – The Stargazers and The Secret Beach
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomBetween them, Harriet Evans and Veronica Henry have written over forty bestselling novels. They both started their writing careers as editors - Harriet in publishing and Veronica in television. They...
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...
Dr Serena Trowbridge – Reading Group – Frenchman’s Creek
Fowey Parish Hall Browns Hill, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin Dr Serena Trowbridge for an informal reading group discussion on du Maurier’s Frenchman's Creek.This classic novel is one which is often described as ‘romantic’, and yet is perplexingly both...
Georgina Moore and Becky Hunter in Conversation
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin us as we welcome bestselling author, Georgina Moore, to the festival to celebrate the paperback publication of her captivating debut novel, The Garnett Girls. This highly reviewed book became...
Dr Serena Trowbridge – Villainesses, Femmes Fatales, Matriarchs and Muses: Du Maurier’s Heroines
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomDu Maurier’s novels are filled with strong women, difficult women, interesting and dangerous women. None of her heroines are boring, but they are all very different, as though the author...
Lemn Sissay OBE – Let The Light Pour In
Fowey Parish ChurchFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the...
Kate Strasdin – The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThe hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life, told through her unique scrapbook. In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of...
Loveny Male Voice Choir
Fowey Parish ChurchThe inspiration for the formation of the Loveny Male Voice Choir came from Alan Pascoe, a Cornishman from St Neot. Over 50 years later, they perform to international audiences to...
Dr Serena Trowbridge – Reading Group: The King’s General
Fowey Parish Hall Browns Hill, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin Dr Serena Trowbridge for an informal reading group discussion on du Maurier’s The King’s General. Written at Menabilly and deeply rooted in Cornish history, this novel in the Gothic genre...
David Parker – For Those in Peril
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United Kingdom‘And that’s when things got a bit rough because I knew I was the one who was going to have to go into that hold to rescue the two men...
ARKangel – Lunchtime Recital – Cider with Rosie
Fowey Parish ChurchCapturing Laurie Lee’s richly descriptive language in a powerful narrative, coloured with a feast of music, ARKangel’s Cider with Rosie explores Laurie’s much-loved memoir of childhood in an age of...
Susan Smillie – The Half Bird
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThe Half Bird is a beautifully written piece of narrative nonfiction. Join Susan as she talks about her incredible story of one woman's solo journey, from Land's End to the...
Adam Sisman – The Secret Life of John Le Carré
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin John le Carré's biographer, Adam Sisman, as he reveals the tale of an extraordinary secret life of the great novelist, which he was unable to publish while le Carré...
Iain Dale and Friends – Kings and Queens: 1200 years of British and English Monarchs
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThe British monarchy is one of the oldest in the world – dating back so far that its very origins are the subject of debate: was William the Conqueror the...
John O’Farrell – Family Politics
Fowey Parish ChurchAll across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back into their old bedrooms and showing their gratitude by berating their parents for their out-of-date politics....
Strands of Time – Guided Walk
Par Beach Car Park, Par, PL24 2ASDaphne du Maurier wrote two of her later novels based solely on the area around Par and Tywardreath. Dawn will lead you on this walk which will take you to...
Wyl Menmuir – The Heart of The Woods
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomThroughout history, trees have determined the tools we use, the boats we build, the stories we tell about the world and ourselves, the songs we sing, and some of our...
Christie Watson – Moral Injuries
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomJoin bestselling author Christie Watson as she discusses her highly anticipated new thriller, Moral Injuries. This gripping page-turner follows the lives of three female medics whose unbreakable bond is tested...
Vernon Bogdanor – The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain: Politics and Power before the First World War
Fowey Town Hall Market Street, Fowey, Cornwall, United KingdomBritain’s best-known constitutional historian, Professor Vernon Bogdanor, says the 20 turbulent years before the outbreak of the First World War, heralded a new agenda that still dominates today. The years saw...
Robert Hardman – Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story
Fowey Parish ChurchFaced with family dramas, political crises and questions about the future of the monarchy in Britain and elsewhere, the new King had no shortage of challenges. During this talk, acclaimed...
For The Many Live with Iain Dale, Jacqui Smith and Johnny Mercer
Fowey Parish ChurchJoin us for what promises to be a hilarious evening of politics as you have never heard it before! We are thrilled to welcome acclaimed political broadcaster, Iain Dale, and...
