Book signing tour of Cornwall by Cornish author Michael J Darracott

The author of Proper Cornish Childhood
Michael J Darracott will be doing a Book signing tour of Cornwall
2009
Starting from liskeard library 9th February 9.30 am to 6 pm
27th February Penryn Library 10 am - 11 am
27th February Falmouth library 1 pm - 5 pm
3rd March Fowey library 9.30 am - 12.30 pm
3rd March Par library 2 pm - 5 pm
16th March St Austell library 10 am - 1 pm
27th March Launceston library 9 am - 1 pm
30th March Bude library 9.30 am - 6 pm
13th April Maritime museum Falmouth 11 am - 3 pm
17th April Bodmin library 9.30 am - 5 pm
23rd April Newquay library 9 am - 12.30 pm
23rd April Wadebridge library 2 pm - 5.30 pm

Newlyn Harbour

Newlyn back in the sixties was much the same as today, of course there were more fishing boats back then, and its steeped in history with wonderful people everywhere you go, I grew up there and loved every moment of it. As a young man I played for hours around the harbour, I watched many boats come and go from Newlyn.

Jelperts icecream wow, what a great tasting icecream that was and indeed still is to this day.

Cornish pasty, my mum like all mums in cornwall made the best, and saffron cake was the most amazing smell ever to come out of the kitchen. I so loved those days long ago growing up in cornwall in the sixties. I recall amazing Christmas times with huyge family get togethers.

Cornwall in the sixties

Proper Cornish Childhood

ISBN NUMBER
978-1-906645-41-0

A true story of a young 10 year old Cornish boy called Michael, who back in the late sixties watched from the Cornish cliff tops, while the huge Torrey Canyon oil tanker was being bombed. The tanker had become snagged on rocks on the Seven Stones Reef, and Michael saw the wreck being bombed. This was an amazing sight to Michaels eyes, it was like having an epic blockbuster movie being made right in front of him.