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Great Torrington
RHS Garden Rosemoor in winter provides the perfect backdrop for the annual Winter Sculpture Exhibition.
Each year, at a time when winter colours and scents delight and low bright sunlight creates long shadows and glistening frost, we select a…
Exeter
Exeter’s poetry platform presented by Alasdair Paterson and Liz Adams.
Each month we host a new headlining poet.
Haven Road, Exeter
Cost: Free to attend (bring your own book!)
Location: Upstairs Bar, Topsham Brewery, EX2 8GR
Silent Book Club at Topsham Brewery, every first Wednesday of the month
You asked and we listened, so buckle up for double the (quiet) fun with TWO…
Exeter
Are you a writer for performance based in or around Exeter? Join us on the first Thursday (7-9om) of each month for the Exeter Playwrights Cafe.
These informal sessions are a space where you can share extracts of your work, receive feedback,…
Exeter
Double Elephant Print Workshop will be showcasing the fascinating discoveries made during Paper and Print – a year-long community research project into Exeter's paper mills. The exhibition is the culmination of the project which has been run by…
Exeter
Sean Conway set out to achieve something no-one else on the planet had ever managed; ultra-endurance records for first, longest, fastest and most 105 Iron Man competitions in 105 days, the first to swim the length of Britain, the fastest unsupported…
Exmouth
Exmouth Pavilion indoor Market. Over 40 stalls. 10am - 4pm. Tables available at £15.00
Exeter
Cost: Free to attend (bring your own book!)
Location: The Hour Glass Inn, 21 Melbourne St, Exeter EX2 4AU
Silent Book Club at The Hour Glass Inn, every third Tuesday of the month
You asked and we listened, so buckle up for double the (quiet) fun…
Exeter
This intensive one day course is designed for those new to scriptwriting looking to push their work to a professional level.
Run by locally based script editor Lucy V Hay, this session will draw on the importance of scriptwriting as the starting…
Exeter
Come and celebrate Kalevala Day with us! We will be sharing stories from the great epic poem of Finland in the atmospheric setting of St Nicholas Priory Great Hall. These stories from the far north are full of magic and mystery, deeply connected to…
Torquay
Award-winning wildlife photographer and filmmaker Gordon Buchanan will hit the road in 2025 with his biggest-ever live tour Lions and Tigers and Bears with Gordon Buchanan.
Hailed as Scotland’s own David Attenborough, Gordon Buchanan has dedicated…
Budleigh Salterton
Today, we are living longer lives, and have choices now as never before about how we will age. What will make us happy? What are we frightened of, and what might allay those fears? What changes, made right now, will help us to flourish as we…
Budleigh Salterton
Professor Sarah Churchwell is one of our leading writers on American politics and society and we’re thrilled to welcome her for a special festival event that considers what lies ahead for the US and what that might mean for the UK and Europe.
Her…
Budleigh Salterton
The Kingmaker of the Conservatives joins us with an explosive, insider’s account of the last fourteen years.
From coalition to Brexit, Covid to Partygate, Trussonomics to this year’s election, our government has never felt so fractured. And as Prime…
Budleigh Salterton
Former Classic FM presenter, journalist and newscaster John Suchet is a lifelong fan of Beethoven as well as an expert on the composer’s life.
A very personal quest – part travelogue, part memoir - this is the story of how Beethoven’s music has…
Budleigh Salterton
Writer, reviewer and broadcaster Lucy Mangan has used books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world throughout her life.
From finding her feet as a bookseller-turned-journalist, falling for a fellow bookworm in an independent…
Budleigh Salterton
Sunday Times bestselling author and literary critic Sinclair McKay delves beyond Churchill’s well-known political moments, examining controversial aspects of his legacy and challenging preconceived notions.
Published to mark the 150th anniversary of…
Budleigh Salterton
Could we ever see Putin in the dock for his crimes? What about a Western ally like Netanyahu. Prosecuting the Powerful - a blend of powerful eyewitness reporting and gripping history - shows us how it is more likely than we might think.
Steve…
Exeter
This March we are delighted to welcome back Anthony Joseph to the Exeter Custom House, for a reading from his new selected poems Precious and Impossible.
Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades…
Exeter
Hollie McNish / The Lobster Paperback Tour With Michael Pedersen's Muckle Flugga Novel Launch
The Show:
Hollie McNish is a poet whose live shows are not to be missed. After a run of sold out gigs up and down the UK, she is back with the paperback…
Exeter
Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime providing hilarious and profound insights into the delights and tribulations of everyday life.
She returns to the Mercury to talk about her latest book, DOGGEDLY ONWARD - A LIFE IN POEMS, 1970 to 2020s, published in…
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