Joff Winterhart

Tickets

£4 — £6

Full £6 | Concessions (advance only) £4

Location

The Exchange, Penzance

Dates

Thu 9th July, 2026
1:00 pm |
Duration: up to 90 minutes

About this event

Penzance Literary Festival presents: 'Dear Historian' - in conversation with Patrick Gale

Venue: Engine Room at The Exchange

The Observer called Dear Historian, Joff Winterhart’s latest graphic novel, “an unmitigated delight” and named it Graphic Novel of the Month in March of this year. His first graphic novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2012 and adapted into a film; his second, Driving Short Distances, came out in 2017. This, his third, was worth waiting for

Dear Historian is a story of improbable friends, painting an irresistible portrait of two women navigating their age gap, loss, self-made-celebrity-historians – and bad knees. Septuagenarian Margaret is particular about the things she likes: looking out of train windows, graveyards in the rain, an afternoon sherry; but most of all, the obscure 17th-century polymath J.W Preece. Margaret doesn’t like: drawing attention to herself, extravagant behaviour and television. Then she meets a young history TV producer, Lucy – much younger, heartbroken and lacking in confidence – and they form a tentative bond

Best-selling author of 17 novels and many short stories, Patrick Gale is the Patron of the LitFest, the Charles Causley Trust and the children’s literature charity, Exploding Words Festival

Concessions strictly for: under-18s, full-time students, those in receipt of working-age benefits or Pension Credit

Contact

01736 363 545 | https://www.theacornpenzance.com/events/dear-historian-joff-winterhart-in-conversation-with-patrick-gale/