Sunday
Immerse yourself in the essence of Redruth Book Feast 2024, where nationally acclaimed writers with local roots take center stage. Don’t miss our separately ticketed Saturday dinner, followed by a captivating presentation from Keynote Speaker Bill Buckley. Sunday passes grant access to all writers’ talks and the grand finale panel discussion. Enjoy locally sourced refreshments available for purchase all weekend, including breakfast, lunch options, and hot drinks, alongside a fully stocked licensed bar.
Full festival passes are also available, as are individual event tickets.
Sophie Pierce is a writer with a passionate interest in our emotional connection to natural landscapes. In 2017, her life changed forever when her 20-year-old son Felix died suddenly and unexpectedly. Thrown into a new world of loss, she had to find a way to keep on living. Her memoir, The Green Hill: Letters to a Son is a series of letters to Felix – which she composed during walks and swims taken close to his grave on the Green Hill by the River Dart in Devon. The book celebrates the natural landscape and the role it plays in our lives and relationships, as well as looking at how we consider our own mortality. Sophie is also the co-author of four wild swimming guides with a fourth, Wild Swimming Walks Exmoor and North Devon, coming out in April. Until 2020 she was a radio and TV reporter for BBC Southwest, and had a varied career spanning over 20 years, covering stories on everything from natural disasters through to political scandals and skateboarding ducks. Sophie will be talking to Sarah Connors.
Tim Hubbard is well known in Cornwall as a familiar voice at BBC Radio Cornwall. He joined the station in 1983 after a career as an English and Drama teacher, and became a journalist, producer, editor and a popular presenter there for many years, winning several major national accolades including two Sony/Radio Academy Gold Awards. Tim went on to coach journalism and presentation skills for the BBC across the UK and in Europe and became an Associate Lecturer in Journalism and Media at Falmouth University. He has written features and articles for national newspapers and magazines including Country Living, Gardeners’ World, The Express on Sunday, Escape Routes and The Sunday Times. His first book A Year in Cornwall with Tim Hubbard was published in 2000. Tim will be talking about his latest book, Secret Gardens of Cornwall published last year, where he takes us to gardens in Cornwall, which are not regularly open to the public. He hopes to be in conversation with the Head Gardener of one the Secret Gardens featured in the book. We would like to tell you who but if we did, it would no longer be a secret!
This year, Redruth Book Festival is closing with a panel discussion exploring the impact of Cornwall’s unique identity and landscape on its past, present and future. This promises to be a lively debate/question and answer session, and is chaired by Julian German.