CREDITON’S community-owned bookshop is continuing its program of free afternoon author events in May.

Award-winning local author Hugh Meller will be speaking about his most recent book Devon Dead and Buried at 3.30pm on Tuesday, May 6.

He will give an audio-visual presentation featuring some of Devon’s 700 burial sites, all of which he visited over the decade he spent researching the book.

Attendees will have the chance to hear stories from the 2,000 memorials and graves of the “notable and notorious” people buried or commemorated in the county, including aristocrats and artists, paupers and politicians, merchants and missionaries, sailors and suicides.

On Tuesday, May 13, at 3.30pm South West-based author Ronnie Turner will be talking about and reading passages from her new book Small Fires, which is described as a “mesmerising modern gothic masterpiece” and “like Stephen King on crack”.

The final event will take place on Wednesday, May 28 at 3.30pm. Dr Todd Gray MBE will be giving an audio-visual presentation and speak about writing “challenging history” in Devon.

“Dr Todd Gray MBE has written more widely on Devon than any other historian,” a spokesperson said.

“He has introduced a number of challenging topics into local studies including enslavement, the rise of fascism in the 1930s and looting in the Second World War, and for this afternoon’s subject Todd will be investigating a well-known but poorly understood figure which divides contemporary society and has an unusual local dimension.”

The free events are open to all and will be held in the community link room at The Bookery. Tea and biscuits will be provided. No registration is necessary.

The Bookery has been community-owned since 2013. It has nearly 500 individual shareholders following a recent community share offer.