Gareth Howell-Jones in conversation with Owen Sheers

What if we could see the world afresh? if we could relate to it directly without our cultural filters? Hay Festival Bookseller Gareth Howell-Jones explores this new/old way of looking in Do Not Call the Tortoise.

Its essays encounter Goethe looking at limpets, Coleridge looking at leaves, cats, chapels, the uses of ignorance and, rather daringly, the meaning of life.

They gradually build to a perspective which is quietly but radically different from our contemporary social norms. But you mustn't take his word for it - we each need to look for ourselves!

In conversation with the novelist, poet and playwright Owen Sheers.

Please click here to buy a copy of Do Not Call the Tortoise from the Hay Festival Bookshop