Pollard’s Cornwall – Roseland’s Forgotten Hero
In 1891 the game keeper at Place House at St. Anthony in Roseland was 32 year old Thomas Curtis. Thomas had just moved into Cellars Cottage with his wife Catherine and their...
Pollard’s Cornwall – Hubba Hubba
Hubba Hubba, a call that must have echoed around our coast for hundreds of years and one that brought employment and prosperity to our villages. Mevagissey, Gorran Haven, Portloe, Portscatho and St....
Pollard’s Cornwall – The Cornish Cowboy
Buffalo Bill, Jessie James, Wild Bill Hickock, Deadwood Dick and Billy the Kid, all famous figures from the American Wild West of the mid to late 1800s, and all featured in numerous...
Pollard’s Cornwall – Turn Out That light!
On one of my regular visits to southern Germany a couple of years ago, I was handed a small piece of yellowing paper. I looked at it blankly for a moment –...
Pollard’s Cornwall – Superstition
During some building work in Portscatho recently my son and I uncovered an old fireplace which had been blocked up for well over a hundred years. We were working in what is...
James Fearnle, writer and musician
James was born in Manchester and played guitar in various band before becoming the accordion player with The Pogues. His book ‘Here Comes Everybody’ was reviewed on Roseland online last month. He...
Jasper Fforde
It’s very difficult to get an interview with Jasper Fforde, but I met up with him briefly at the launch of his latest book ‘The Woman Who Died A Lot’ The good...
Tony Parsons, popular novellist
Novelist and newspaper columnist Tony Parsons has already achieved success as a multi-million selling author of novels including Man and Boy (1999), One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife(2003), The Family...
Patrick Gale, Penzance based author
As well as writing fiction, Patrick has written for television and published a biography of Armistead Maupin. On Twitter, he describes himself as a “gardener, cellist, cook, whippet-walker and, when time allows,...
Jutta Profijt, German author
Jutta was born between Düsseldorf, which she describes as “a town nobody outside Germany knows” and Cologne, “a town people from Düsseldorf hate – not only because it’s more famous”. She has...