A Cornish Bestiary
Tue 24 Nov
|The Bookshop in Helston
Luke Thompson reads from A Cornish Bestiary, celebrating Cornwall's curious creatures through folklore, ballads and natural history.
Time & Location
24 Nov 2026, 19:00
The Bookshop in Helston, 77 Meneage St, Helston TR13 8RB, UK
About the event
Liz Fenwick
This event is part of Wordplay for Winter
Free - booking required. Booking is through The Bookshop in Helston.
Luke Thompson, Cornish author and academic at Falmouth University, has gathered a compendium of Cornwall’s most curious creatures, with stories from natural history and folklore, ballads and news reports, celebrating the wonderful history we share with the animals around us.
Did you hear about the Redruth girl who vomited snails?
Or how the saint of Gunwalloe saved his sister’s eye from a goose?