Lucy Mangan

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Duration: up to 90 minutes

Tickets

£8 — £10

Full £10 | Concessions (advance only) £8

Location

The Acorn, Penzance

Dates

Thu 9th July, 2026
8:00 pm |
Duration: up to 90 minutes

About this event

'Bookish: a Love Letter to Reading' - in conversation with Lin Rogers

Lucy Mangan is the TV critic for The Guardian, a columnist, features writer and reviewer for many publications. She is also a published author of a number of books, including My Family and Other Disasters and The Reluctant Bride, all of which include a constant theme – her love of reading. In Bookworm, she drilled into your memories of childhood and forgotten gems with a promise to yourself to reread those wonders that sparked your imagination.

Her latest, Bookish, will take you on further adventures and may ultimately lead to tsundoku, a Japanese term that Lucy defines as buying books at a rate that outstrips the speed at which you can read them – and keeping them all; she herself has 10,000. Lucy chronicles her years of buying, borrowing and hoarding everything from well-worn literary classics to steamy bonkbusters, gripping thrillers, young adult novels and other not-so-guilty pleasures. Many you will recognise, stirring up echoes of the past; others will undoubtedly be added to your reading list

Lin Rogers is a member of the LitFest organising team, has worked in the marketing communications industry and is freelance corporate copywriter

Presented by Penzance Literary 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/bookish-a-love-letter-to-reading/