Tim Key in conversation

We’re delighted to welcome back a “weird polymathic genius” (the Independent), “one of the funniest, smartest comic minds in the country” (Stephen Merchant) and star and screenwriter of one of the greatest British Films of all time” (Richard Curtis) to the Book Festival. 

​When Tim Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the autumn of 2024 to work on a new sitcom project he stayed sane by writing poems and talking to his friend and (Falmouth-based) publisher Emily Juniper on the phone. When he delivered the poems that came out of the experience, she then did the honourable thing and lovingly filled and designed the pages of a beautifully-sized green book around them. Amongst the glitz and glamour of twenty-first century Hollywood, Key’s poems combine the craziest of his adventures with infinitesimal moments of loneliness and boredom. The result is a hymn to laundrettes and dive bars, a come-and-get-me plea to Audrey Hepburn… or frankly any of the greats.

This event is part of the Falmouth Book Festival. You can read more about the event here.

This is a seated show.