Author talk - A Cornish Bestiary with Luke Thompson

Join us for a celebration of the animals of Cornwall with a talk from local author, Luke Thompson. Luke’s new book is a compendium of Cornwall’s most curious creatures from folklore, natural history, song, literature, hagiography and the news, featuring beasts real, imagined, suspected, rumoured, feared and hoaxed. 

Expect plagues of octopuses and ghost dogs, demonic chickens and devil birds, dragons and beavers, big cats and sasquatches, slug charms and owlmen and much, much more in this talk that takes a look at our close historic and creative relationship with the animals around us.

There will be time for questions, chat and book buying after the talk.

Tickets are free, but places are limited. Book your space now.

About the author

Luke Thompson was born and raised on Cornwall’s south coast in a miniature menagerie. His recent books include an exploration of the weird history of human-animal communication, 'Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals', the Macmillan anthology of Cornish classics, 'Treasures of Cornwall', and a poetry collection, 'Singing About Melon'. He runs the publishing company Guillemot Press and is a senior lecturer at Falmouth University. 'A Cornish Bestiary' is published by The History Press and has been illustrated by Ele Marr.