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Wed 14th May 25 10:00
Fear of the blank page? Put your pen to paper with a host of invaluable tips and tricks from songwriter Gary McCausland, as he walks you through a host of techniques to unlock your lyric writing potential.
Wed 14th May 25 13:30
Emotion lies at the heart of fiction and memoir, but naming an emotion isn?t enough to bring it to life. How, then, do we make the reader feel anything? What gives our writing emotional punch? Come explore the possibilities?and bring something to write with.
Ellen Hawley is the author of five novels, including 'A Decent World' and 'Other People Ma...
Wed 14th May 25 15:00
Cara Hunter is a Sunday Times and NY Times bestseller, with nearly 2m books sold. Her latest, 'Making a Killing', is the 7th in the DI Adam Fawley series, and her standalone, 'Murder in the Family', was the 10th most Googled book in the world in 2023.
Cara will be in conversation with national print journalist, Natasha Harding.
This 60 minute eve...
Thu 15th May 25 10:00
Join Poppy Wonnacott for an exploratory talk on Jean Rhys, who wrote 'Wide Sargasso Sea', the postcolonial prequel to 'Jane Eyre', whilst living in Bude. We'll delve into Jean's life, her connection to Bude and the themes of madness and belonging in her short masterpiece.
Thu 15th May 25 11:30
Throughout the twentieth century picture postcards were an important form of communication. The social media of their day. Each card and every message a snapshot of its moment; a brief slice of social history, frozen in time.
Greetings From Bude takes a selection of postcards, all sent out from Bude; from early hand tinted and black and white photo...
Thu 15th May 25 13:30
An unputdownable page turner about old friends and new betrayals
They predicted Ivo would become a tycoon. They predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyer. They didn?t predict that Lily would be dead. Twenty years ago, nine university friends made a series of predictions about what would happen to each of them after college. Now they?ve...
Fri 16th May 25 10:00
2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the death of the famous priest, poet, antiquarian and eccentric, R.S.Hawker of Morwenstow.
Richard Welby, who lived with his wife Jill for many years at Hawker's Vicarage, will talk about Hawker's second wife Pauline, 40 years his junior. The event will include a Q&A with the audience and an opportunity to i...