Actual face-2-facery! Tues 9 October

Yup – that’s next week. “I KEEP six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.” (Kipling) This and other conversations: We will have books available to buy.

‘Whales and Strange Stars’: review

Kathy Sharp is a novelist well known for her three charming fantasy books set on an historical, fictionalised Isle of Portland: the Larus trilogy. This, her latest novel, is also set in a simpler time than our own – but in a quite different place (although in it, too, water plays an important part). Whales