Gareth Howell-Jones talks to Owen Sheers

Our own Festival bookseller and author of Do Not Call the Tortoise returns to the stage to discuss his new book, which offers a quietly revolutionary perspective on our surroundings with the help of poets, trees, cats (of course), John Lennon and, most of all, an openness to wonder. It raises many questions, and even answers some of them. How can a cat be a portal to the universe? Why did our ancestors make cave paintings? Who is Mr Bun? And, above all, what is it that your lowly hedgehog knows? Howell-Jones speaks to poet and author Owen Sheers.

“Stunning – full of revelatory beauty” – Katherine May.