JOANNA KAVENNA AND PHILIP MARSDEN IN CONVERSATION
A special evening talk with two authors.
Friday 20 February
CAST Café supper from 6pm
Tickets from £15, booking essential
This special evening will involve two authors talking about two recently published books (one a novel, one non-fiction) that involve travelogues through Europe, exploring ideas and historical traces.
In Joanna Kavenna's novel Seven, a young philosopher travels through Europe on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isn't lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space, from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI. Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.
Philip Marsden's Under A Metal Sky begins and ends in his homeland of Cornwall, one of the world’s great geological hotspots. Travelling eastwards into Europe, he follows precious seams of ideas, from science to alchemy, mysticism to ecology. Rich in revelations, Under A Metal Sky presents a fascinating new perspective on European history and on our troubled relationship with the natural world.
The evening will include readings from both Seven and Under a Metal Sky.
The Bookshop in Helston will be at CAST with copies of Seven and of Under a Metal Sky (about to be published in paperback) available for purchase.
Portrait of Joanna Kavenna, courtesy the author.
