Tag Archives: Book

A Good Read with Gorsedh Kernow

Imagine being in a room with some of the best new books about Cornwall just waiting for you to pick them up and start reading. A reader’s dream, especially if…

Review of Theatre in the Round — The Staging of Cornish Medieval Drama

Reviewer – Dr Lynette Olson, Sydney, Australia Review of Sydney Higgins new book,  ‘Theatre in the Round — The Staging of Cornish Medieval Drama’, (Charleston: Alldrama, 2013) 192 pp.    Over…

New book: Richard G Jenkin – a great son of Cornwall

Edited by Derek R. Williams   326 pages  ISBN 978 1 903427 85 9 From the 1950s through to the 1990s, Richard Jenkin was at the very centre of Cornish cultural…

[Maga] Colin a Saw Slippy – Lyther Noweth

Colin a Saw Slippy (Colin Rescues Slippy) – new book in Cornish, available free for download MAGA KERNOW, the Cornish Language Partnership, has joined forces with Kittiwake Productions to give…

New Book: Celtic Cornwall – Nation, Tradition, Invention

By Alan M Kent, with photography by Jan Beare Celtic Cornwall: Nation, Tradition, Invention ISBN: 9780857040787 Alan M. Kent (born 1967, St Austell, Cornwall) is a Cornish poet, novelist, dramatist, author and…

Book: Best Goon Bren – The Beast of Bodmin Moor

In Sowsnek (English) Alan M. Kent’s recent book, The Beast of Bodmin Moor, in English and with a Cornish translation by Neil Kennedy. Retail price £11.95. Available from Amazon.co.uk and…

New Book and Review – River Tamar Through Time

Cornwall24.net e-magazine has been kindly provided with a copy of a new book by publisher Amberley books, to review. The flyer that accompanied the request indicates it is the latest…

Memories: Charles Causley CBE

Tom Bowden reflects on meeting Cornish poet Charles Causley CBE, and one of his fans, actor and TV presenter Leslie Crowther