A few months ago, back in the spring of 2025, I was honoured to be asked to be involved in an incredible project that aimed to bring the work of a little known local artist to print and hopefully to the attention of a wider audience. As soon as I saw the amazing images that […]

For the past couple of years I have been a bit of a guinea pig for the iWalk Cornwall team! I have been helping them to test their amazing new range of MYSTERY WALKS. These brilliant interactive walks bring together so many things I love – they get you out and about, they are fun […]

Last year I was very fortunate to hear Dr MacKenzie speak at the NMMC as part of their autumn lecture series. The topic that night was a well known Cornish character, Mary Bryant, and her extraordinary life, a story I thought I knew reasonably well. But the insight and detail that Dr MacKenzie presented really […]

“From the very first day I stumbled upon this subject, the stories on the fringes of the mining world have interested me the most – not the stories of the mines themselves but the stories of those who stomped beneath the earth each morning, their tales of danger and debauchery, the myths, legends and folklore […]

The historian Charlotte MacKenzie’s latest book brings together a collection of mysterious tales from Cornish history. From folklore and the supernatural to early healthcare and unexplained disappearances – this book is filled with meticulously researched stories from Cornwall’s often peculiar past. ‘Cornish Mysteries’ complements her previous work, which includes Cornish Legends, Women Writers & Georgian […]

Author Jonathan Cox I have a lot in common, we were both born in Cornwall, we have both lived abroad for extended periods of time (though my time was perhaps less constructively spent), we both returned to education at, shall we say, a mature stage in our lives, and we both love where we are […]

“Cornish author Tim Hannigan gives a fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain’s westernmost and most mysterious region . . . Combining landscape and nature writing with deep cultural inquiry The Granite Kingdom is a probing but highly accessible and personal tour of one of Britain’s most popular regions, justaposing history, myth, folklore […]

The historian Charlotte Mackenzie’s latest book is a deep dive into the real history behind some of Cornwall’s most legendary characters. These are names that you will recognise, people that you will think you know about but Cornish Legends explores the truth, the facts, behind these well-known stories and confirms that real life is just […]

“Cornwall, summer 1976: eleven year old Sally Martins and her new friends – Tracy Pender, Victor Jordan and Kerenza Nankervis – are in retreat from the adult world, spending days and nights at an abandoned house on the subtropical landslip known as the Fall. When they discover the body of a young girl, for various […]