2021

3—26 OCTOBER Guildford Book Festival

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As restrictions lift and we begin a cautious return to normal life we are excited PROGRAMME to be moving forward with plans for the 32nd Guildford Book Festival this October. GuildfordWith more than 30 speakers taking part in live events at venues across the town, we are once again looking forward to lively debates and entertaining talks provided by some of this country’s finest writers and best-known Bookpersonalities. Festival Among the highlights this year are Hollywood actress, Hayley Mills, speaking about her life as a celebrated child actress; award-winning writer, Sebastian Faulks; TV chef and family favourite, Nadiya Hussain; and former politician, 3-24VinceOCTOBER Cable, discussing the West’s relationship with China. Historians Max Hastings, Alison Weir and Marc Morris make welcome returns to Guildford, while broadcasters Mel Giedroyc and Jeremy Vine, both Surrey-born, will be at the festival to talk about their debut novels. Mental health campaigner, Jake Tyler, will leading a walking talk through the town, while Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, will dare us to imagine a world beyond capitalism. We are delighted that two of our most popular events, Readers’ Day and the Literary Lunch, can return this year. Also returning is our School’s Programme. It’s truly wonderful to see the excitement among pupils as we take authors back into schools to inspire the next generation of young writers and readers. And, finally a heartfelt thank you to all our sponsors, especially our headline sponsor, SIMBA. Without their support, and the support of individuals who sign up to be a Friend, the Festival cannot exist and we are grateful to each and every one of you. TURN OVER A NEW LEAF See you in October. Make every morning feel like a new chapter, with Simba’s bestselling sleep range. Featuring Jane and Alex, Co-Directors pressure relieving mattresses, temperature Guildford Book Festival regulating duvets and adjustable fi rmness pillows.

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Mike Langman Bird Spotting Hatchlands Park 2 sessions 9 Creative Writing Day 4 | How to Plot ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10 PROGRAMME PROGRAMME Ambra Edwards The Plant Hunter’s Atlas Guildhall 12:30 – 13:30 30 MONDAY 4 OCTOBER Charlie Porter What Artists Wear ZOOM 18:30 – 19:30 31 Creative Writing Day 1 | Getting Started ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10 Shaw, Henry & Kiernan Crime Panel Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 32 Kate Mosse and Philip Serrell Literary Lunch Harbour Hotel 12:30 – 15:00 11 Guildford Guildford Mel Giedroyc The Best Things Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 35 Sebastian Faulks Snow Country Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 13 Alwyn Marriage Pandora’s Pandemic Guildford Institute 19:00 – 20:00 14 FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER Simon Heffer Henry ‘Chips’ Channon – The Diaries Electric Theatre Festival 20:15 – 21:15 15 Book Book Festival Creative Writing Day 5 | Editing/Getting Published ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10 TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER Padel & Cerasi Beethoven in Poetry & Music Hatchlands Park 16:00 – 17:00 19:30 – 20:30 36 Creative Writing Day 2 | Character Development ZOOM 10:00 OCTOBER – 12:00 10 3-24 3-24OCTOBER Judith Mackrell Going with the Boys Guildhall 12:30 – 13:30 16 SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER The Countess of Carnarvon Seasons at Highclere Guildhall 14:15 – 15:15 17 Various Readers' Day Harbour Hotel 10:00 – 16:00 38 Graeme Hall All Dogs Great and Small Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 18 Ian Sanjay Patel Amnesty Event St Nicolas’ Church 19:30 – 20:30 19 SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

Vince Cable The Chinese Conundrum Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 20 Workshop Self Publishing ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 42 Flatman & Durden Smith Flats and Durders Offload Broadwater Pavilion 20:00 – 21:00 21 Jake Tyler A Walk from the Wild Edge River Wey 11:00 – 12:00 43 Hayley Mills Forever Young Yvonne Arnaud 14:30 – 15:30 45 WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER Creative Writing Day 3 | Writing Dialogue ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10 THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER Andrew Lownie Traitor King Guildhall 12:30 – 13:30 22 Alison Weir Katharine Parr – The Sixth Wife Guildhall 18:30 – 19:30 46 Jeremy Vine The Diver and the Lover Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 23 Marc Morris The Anglo-Saxons Guildhall 20:15 – 21:15 47 Nanton and Burton Black London Guildford Institute 19:00 – 20:00 24 Prof Tim Jackson Post Growth The Zero Hub 19:00 – 20:00 25 SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER Oliver Craske Indian Sun Cricket Club 19:30 – 22:00 26 Nadiya Hussain Nadiya’s Fast Flavours Yvonne Arnaud 19:00 – 20:00 48 with music : Nic Meiers World Group Max Hastings Operation Pedestal Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 28 TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER Phil Tufnell How Not To Be a Cricketer Yvonne Arnaud 19:30 – 20:30 51

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Course with RACHEL MARSH PHILIP SERRELL in conversation with Katherine Higgins ONLINE VIA ZOOM | 10:00 – 12:00 | £45 FOR 5 SESSIONS Maximum 30 people HARBOUR HOTEL | 12:30 – 15:00 | £45

Monday Introduction/Getting Started (includes two course lunch) Tuesday Character Development Wednesday Writing Dialogue Bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse Thursday The Plot has written eight novels and short-story collections including the multimillion selling Friday Editing/Getting Published Languedoc Trilogy, and Gothic fiction including The Taxidermists’s Daughter. Her books If you have always wanted to write but are not sure where to have been translated into 39 languages and start, then join us on our creative writing course being held over published in more than 40 countries. The City five weekday mornings during the Festival. of Tears is the second book in Kate’s historical series which began with The Burning Chambers. Run by , a University of Surrey graduate, each Rachel Marsh Set in 16th century France it’s a thrilling story of lesson will focus on a different aspect of the writing process. love, loss, persecution and revenge. The classes will be held via Zoom but will be practical and interactive. Each class is a mixture of lecture, discussion, and Kate will also be talking about her non-fiction applied writing. The course is open to all levels, meaning that book, An Extra Pair of Hands – A Story of each session can be tailored to your own goals. Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love, in which she relates her own story of finding Please note that discounts are not available on any virtual herself a carer in middle age. events. Known to millions from his appearances on programmes such as Bargain Hunt, Flog It! and Rachel Marsh has a PhD in creative writing from the University Antiques Road Trip the gregarious antiques of Surrey, where she investigated satire as a form of socio- expert Philip Serrell talks about his life as political discourse. Her creative work mixes the surreal and an auctioneer and his dual passions of Royal the political. Rachel is an Associate Lecturer with the Open Worcester china and classic cars. With hilarious University and lives in Scotland where she teaches classes tales of dodgy cars, fakes in the saleroom, angry in creative writing, literature, and English language. She is livestock, and mangled heirlooms, Philip’s currently the writer-in-residence for the Braemar Creative Arts Kindly book, What Am I Bid? is an entertaining, and sponsored by Festival, and she is working on a first children’s novel. informative memoir of life under the hammer. Rachel is the Judge for the Staunch Short Fiction Prize. She Kate and Philip will be interviewed by vintage has also been published as an academic and as a journalist. expert and broadcaster, Katherine Higgins.

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SEBASTIAN FAULKS SNOW COUNTRY in conversation with Stephanie Merritt SOFA WORKSHOP

ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £32 (INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF SNOW COUNTRY RRP £20)

Sebastian Faulks is one of Britain’s most respected writers, best known for novels such as Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, and Human Traces. He returns to Austria, the country of Human Traces, for his latest novel, Snow Country, in which he looks back at the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the shadow that is starting to fall over Europe. It’s an intensely personal story, focussing on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing and Anton, a man of passion and self-doubt. With rich characters, and strong narrative, and themes of human frailty and longing, it’s a story that will stay with you long after the last page is read.

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ALWYN MARRIAGE SIMON HEFFER Pandora's Pandemic Henry ‘Chips’ Channon – The Diaries 1918-38 & The Diaries 1938-43

GUILDFORD INSTITUTE | 19:00 – 20:00 | £10 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

When Covid-19 swept across the world, it took everyone by 60 years after the death of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon historian and journalist surprise. Debilitating illness, unprecedented lockdowns and Simon Heffer brings us the uncensored edition of his sensational diaries. Born tragic deaths soon followed. Poet Alwyn Marriage caught in Chicago in 1897 Chips Channon settled in England after the Great War and the disease early on and this is where her moving collection married into the wealthy Guinness family, serving as an MP from 1935 to his death of poems begins. In real time she tracked the course of her in 1958. illness and recovery, the death of her brother and the gradual His career was unremarkable but his diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, dawning of new hope. Above all, she asks what we have learnt gossipy and bitchy, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went from this pandemic, and whether the world will ever be the everywhere, and knew everybody. He dined with Edward VIII and Wallis same again. This is poetry that grips you, may make you cry, Simpson in the lead up to the abdication, knew all the leading politicians and but will also warm your heart. aristocrats of the day, and observed at first hand the last days of appeasement. Alwyn Marriage, is an acclaimed poet, writer and lecturer, who

gives poetry readings all over Britain and abroad. She is also a 'The greatest british diarist of the 20th century. Research Fellow in the School of English and Languages of the University of Surrey. A feast of weapons-grade above-stairs gossip.' Ben Macintyre, The Times

‘Wickedly entertaining…’ Andrew Marr, New Statesman

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JUDITH MACKRELL THE COUNTESS OF CARNARVON in conversation with Katherine Higgins Going with the Boys – Six Extraordinary Women Seasons at Highclere: Writing from the Front Line Gardening, Growing, and Cooking Through the Year at The Real Downton Abbey

GUILDHALL | 12:30 – 13:30 | £10 GUILDHALL | 14:15 – 15:15 | £10

Journalist and writer Judith Mackrell returns to Guildford to tell Join Lady Carnarvon for a behind-the-scenes look at daily life at High- the story of how six bold and resolute women, including Martha clere Castle, also known as the ‘real Downton Abbey’, as it changes Gellhorn, Lee Miller and Britain’s Clare Hollingworth, became through the seasons. With recipes from Highclere’s kitchens and Lady front-line war correspondents during WWII. Their motives varied Carnarvon’s own family recipes, gardening tips, and fascinating stories from wanting to save the world to wanting to see the world, and secrets from the castle's archives, her latest book shines fresh light and even wanting to save themselves, but they remained on the beloved historical house, and how it celebrates and prepares for determined to uncover the truth. Barred from official briefings each new season. they set up their own informal contacts with soldiers and presented articles with human interest giving a different colour, Lady Carnarvon is the wife of Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, whose and heartbeat, to their stories. Their writings changed the face family seat is Highclere. The castle was the setting for the much-loved of war reporting for ever. TV series, Downton Abbey, as well as the first film released in autumn 2019. A second film will be released at the end of the year.

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In Association with Amnesty International:

‘THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY AND IMPORTANT BOOK’ GRAEME HALL IAN SANJAY PATEL Philippe Sands, author of East West All Dogs Great and Small – We’re Here Because You Were There – Street Immigration and the End of Empire Lessons I’ve Learnt Training Dogs

ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15 ST NICOLAS' COMMUNITY CENTRE | 19:30 – 20:30 | £10

Have you ever wished you could get the dogs in your What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain today? life to behave better? Graeme Hall ‘The Dogfather’, star Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly, imparts his Dr Ian Sanjay Patel looks at the changes in post-war immigration laws that wisdom on how to build the best relationship with your saw British citizenship redefined along racial lines, fatally compromising the dog, sharing heart-warming, and sometimes hilarious, Commonwealth, and exposing the limits of Britain’s influence in world politics. stories of some of the special dogs he’s loved and trained Combining voices of so-called immigrants trying to make a home in Britain, and throughout his career. the politicians, diplomats and commentators who were rethinking the nation, Having worked with more than 5,000 dogs he has seen Dr Ian Sanjay Patel excavates the reasons why Britain failed to create a post- every behavioural issue going and whether it’s house- imperial national identity. destruction, fear and anxiety or aggression, he’s fixed it. Dr Ian Sanjay Patel is currently LSE Fellow in Human Rights at the London Backed up by scientific research,Graeme has established School of Economics. his golden rules for dog training that he follows every time he works with dogs and their people. His simple, practical and effective rules will help you to understand your dog and help drive better behaviours and bring much-needed harmony to your home. Happy dog, happy owner!

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VINCE CABLE DAVID FLATMAN AND MARK DURDEN-SMITH The Chinese Conundrum – Flats and Durders Offload – Rugby Laid Bare Engagement or Conflict

ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15 BROADWATER PAVILION | 20:00 – 21:00 | £15

According to many experts, China is the largest economy on Join former Bath prop forward, David Flatman, and broadcaster, Mark the planet – yet its relations with the rest of the world have Durden-Smith, for an entertaining evening of rugby talk. Once described deteriorated in recent years, and are now at an all-time low. as rugby’s answer to Ant & Dec the hugely popular broadcasting double act Is this a passing phase caused by the shockwaves of the are known for their acute observations and witty one-liners. Tonight they Covid pandemic and the personalities of leaders in China and discuss every aspect of the sport from how to survive the front row, to what in the USA, or are the current divergences going to become makes a good leader, from referees (good and bad), to mind games with the wider and more entrenched, as China grows economically opposition, and with teammates. They speak frankly about what can happen and develops technological leadership? Can the West learn on tour, and reveal who are rugby’s hardest players. from its past mistakes and engage successfully with China on common interests, or are we on the verge of a new Cold War? What are the possible repercussions of the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States? Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/guildfordbookfestival In his powerful new book the former leader of the Liberal Democrats and MP for Twickenham Vince Cable examines Like us on Instagram: guildfordbookfestival the long history of relationships between China and the West, and provides answers to many of these questions. Gripping, Follow us on Twitter: @gfordbookfest insightful and accessible this investigation into the intricacies of today’s economic and geopolitical situation is a must for anyone who cares about politics, and our economic future.

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ANDREW LOWNIE JEREMY VINE Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the The Diver and the Lover Duke and Duchess of Windsor

GUILDHALL | 12:30 – 13:30 | £10 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15

Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, examines The popular broadcaster returns to Guildford to discuss his first novel, the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the The Diver and the Lover, inspired by true events. former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status It is 1951 and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and denied any real job. to Catalonia in search of distraction and respite. While there they Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives discover the artist Salvador Dali is staying nearby and they long to and Freedom of Information requests, it makes the case that meet the famous surrealist. When a young American who Meredith has the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the naïve dupes befriended is chosen as Dali’s latest model, the lives of the characters of the Germans but actively intrigued against Britain in both war become entangled as family secrets, ego and the dangerous politics and peace. It also shines light on the relationship between the of Franco's Spain threaten to undo the fragile bonds that have been Duke and Wallis, revealing it to be far from the love story it is forged. A powerful story of love, sacrifice and the lengths we will go to often assumed to be. for whom - or what - we love.

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“A masterpiece of measured rage and love” JONATHAN PORRITT, AUTHOR OF HOPE IN HELL

AVRIL NANTON AND JODY BURTON PROFESSOR TIM JACKSON Black London – History, Arts and Culture in conversation with Molly Scott Cato Post Growth – Life after Capitalism

GUILDFORD INSTITUTE | 19:00 – 20:00 | £10 THE ZERO HUB | 19:00 – 20:00 | £15

London is a city justly proud o f its cultural diversity, yet for too Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate long the focus has been on mainstream history. Black London catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill- allows us to see this familiar city anew, revealing events and prepared for life in a global pandemic. Professor Tim Jackson of the places that tell the story of its black inhabitants. From the University of Surrey dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a Royal ‘blacke trumpeter’ of Tudor times, John Blanke, and 18th place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and century writer and composer, Ignatius Sancho, to the arrival of power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation the Windrush generations, and the Black Live Matters mural in to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition. Woolwich, join authors and to discover the work of Avril Jody Tim Jackson is Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable some remarkable individuals who have helped make London Prosperity (CUSP), and Professor of Sustainable Development at the a truly global modern city. The event is run as part of Black University of Surrey, where he explores the moral, economic and social History Month. dimensions of prosperity on a finite planet. He was formerly Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission. Molly Scott Cato is an economist, writer and campaigner for green politics. Between 2014 and 2020 she represented South West England in the European Parliament where she worked on sustainable finance and Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/guildfordbookfestival regenerative agriculture. She joined the Green Party in 1988 and is their spokesperson on economics, finance and Brexit. Like us on Instagram: guildfordbookfestival In partnership with Zero Carbon Guildford Follow us on Twitter: @gfordbookfest

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World Music Night In conversation with Tony Haynes,

“Technically dazzling and genuinely exciting” – JAZZMAN REVIEW OF LIVE, JUNE 2020 In association with Guildford Jazz Jazz

The Indian sitar virtuso and composer Ravi Shankar was the world's best-known exponent of Indian classical music, who influenced many other musicians around World Music Night the world. Oliver Craske first met Shankar in 1994 and worked with him on his autobiography. Shankar encouraged him to write his full story after his death. The in conversation with Tony Haynes result is a fascinating biography that paints a vivid picture of the public and private co-founder of the Grand Union Orchestra faces of a captivating, restless workaholic who lived an extraordinary life. Nicolas Meier World Group featuring: Richard Jones violin, Kevin Glasgow bass, Demi Garcia percussion, Nicolas Meier fretted & fretless nylon string guitars and TALK: OLIVER CRASKE: glissentar. Indian Sun – The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar Nicolas Meier is unquestionably one of today’s most well-rounded and masterful talents on guitar. In just a few short years, he has acquired reputation as one of the UK’s most original and uniquely talented guitarists. Drawing from a love of Turkish, MUSIC: NIC MEIER’S WORLD GROUP Eastern and Middle Eastern music, flamenco, tango and more, all mixed with jazz, his versatility and musical fluency extends well beyond that. His considerable talents drew the attention of rock guitar legend, Jeff Beck, who has since made Nicolas a mainstay in the Jeff Beck Group, taking him on two world tours over the past several years. CRICKET CLUB | 19:30 – 22:00 Nicolas Meier World Group’s new album Peaceful features the talented Demi £20 (£18 for Guildford Jazz Members) Garcia on percussion, Richard Jones on violin and Kevin Glasgow on bass. Together they capture the beautiful colours of the different folk sounds they TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA incorporate in the world compositions written by Nicolas. They will make you dream GUILDFORD JAZZ BOX OFFICE ONLY of travel. www.guildfordjazz.org.uk/product/nicolas-meier/

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Operation Pedestal – @ExperienceGford The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

A thrilling new account of a little-known naval battle that was a pivotal moment in WWII. In 1942, the Luftwaffe had a stranglehold on the island of Malta. British attempts to bring in supplies and reinforcements were failing, and the people of the island were starving. Operation Pedestal saw an armada of 50 British ships try to fight its way through. Despite heavy losses on all sides the British scrapped a victory and succeeded in reaching Malta. In his signature brilliant style, Max Hastings, gives an enthralling narrative of this crucial naval battle.

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VIRTUAL EVENT

AMBRA EDWARDS CHARLIE PORTER: The Plant Hunter’s Atlas – A World Tour of What Artists Wear Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries In association with Watts Gallery and Strange Specimens

GUILDHALL | 12:30 – 13:30 | £10 VIRTUAL EVENT VIA ZOOM | 18:30 – 19:30 | £10

Award-winning writer and garden historian Ambra Edwards, In What Artists Wear, fashion critic, curator and visiting lecturer in Fashion at will relate extraordinary stories of how plants have travelled the University of Westminster, Charlie Porter takes us on an intimate and the world. From Australia’s Botany Bay to the Tibetan plateau, illuminating journey through the wardrobes of modern and contemporary from the deserts of South Africa to the jungles of Brazil, she artists. Weaving together a new way of understanding the lives and work will introduce us to the dedicated scientists and reckless of artists, from Andy Warhol and Yves Klein to Cindy Sherman and Yayoi adventurers, men and women, who scoured the world to locate Kusama, Porter explores artist's clothing as tools of expression, storytelling, plants that have shaped empires, secured (and destroyed) power, resistance, and creativity. economies, revolutionized medicine, and advanced our understanding of science. The talk will be illustrated with botanical artworks from the Kew Gardens archives.

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The Murder Box by Olivia Kiernan is the fourth book in the acclaimed Frankie Sheehan series. When a series of grisly crimes are discovered across Dublin city Frankie and her team set out to investigate. CRIME PANEL SETTING THE SCENE WITH WILLIAM SHAW, JAMES HENRY AND OLIVIA KIERNAN Set in the garrison city of Colchester, James Henry’s Whitethroat, opens with the discovery of the body of a young Lance Corporal. The military police hope to keep ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15 the matter confined to ranks, but when events spill out into civilian life DI Nicholas Three leading crime writers discuss the importance of the Lowry and his team get involved. setting in creating the atmosphere and building suspense in crime writing. William Shaw, Olivia Kiernan and James Henry will discuss the theme in connection to their latest books. William Shaw’s The Trawlerman, is the fourth book in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series. The TICKETS FROM brooding waters of the Kent coastline offer www.guildford.gov.uk/visitguildford/touristinformationcentre an ominous backdrop for this lively page- turner of corruption, mental health and the complexities of human connection.

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Celebrating Vaughan Williams in the Surrey Hills

SATURDAYINVESTEC 19 MARCH 2022 Beethoven in Poetry & Music at Charterhouse School with Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin, Britten Sinfonia WITH RUTH PADEL (POET) & the Chapel Choir and string players of Charterhouse School & CAROLE CERASI (PIANO)

HATCHLANDS PARK | 16:00 – 17:00 | £15 plus concerts on | 19:30 – 20:30 | £15 THURSDAY 5 MAY - SATURDAY 7 MAY 2022 We are delighted to be able to reschedule this unique celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary originally THURSDAY 12 MAY - SATURDAY 14 MAY 2022 scheduled for the 2020 Festival. In association with INVESTEC, Hatchlands, and The Cobbe Collection the event will combine readings by Ruth Padel from her collection, Beethoven Visit www.iimf.co.uk for more details and to sign up Variations: Poems on a Life with a taste of the great composer’s to our mailing list and receive the latest festival news. music performed by historic instrument specialist Carole Cerasi on a piano once played by Beethoven himself.

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Harbour Hotel | 10:00 – 16:00 SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER £48 including light lunch and refreshments

Six fiction speakers in one day DEBORAH MOGGACH The Black Dress From the bestselling author of 20 novels including Tulip Fever, at the Harbour Hotel The Carer and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes this delightful, funny and tender story about the unexpected twists STACEY HALLS, ELIZABETH MACNEAL, and pleasures of life. When Pru‘s husband walks out on her she’s PEACE ADZO MEDIE, DEBORAH MOGGACH, left to contemplate her future. She’s missing not so much him but the life they had together. In a daze she goes off to a friend’s TONY PARSONS AND HAFSA ZAYYAN funeral and finds herself at the wrong funeral. But, everyone has been so welcoming, and she thinks, why not go to another? So, she does. After all what harm can it do?

TONY PARSONS Your Neighbour’s Wife

‘Parsons at his very best.' Daily Mail What do you do when your perfect life spins out of control? Tana Carver seems to have it all. A loving mother and wife, a successful business woman, she’s the sort of person you’d want to live next door to, who might even be your best friend. But, on one night of madness, on a work trip from home, she puts all this at risk, and her life becomes a nightmare. There’s only one way out. And it involves murder. A gripping psychological thriller from the award- winning journalist and bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than 40 languages. His most-loved novel, Man and Boy, won the Book of the Year in 2000. Hosted by Fanny Blake HAFSA ZAYYAN We Are All Birds of Uganda Fanny was a publisher for many years before becoming a freelance journalist and writer. She Sameer is a high-flying lawyer in London but senses an emptiness has written various non-fiction titles, acted as in his life. When he returns to his family home after a tragedy ghost writer for a number of celebrities, and is a he is put under pressure to stay. But Sameer sees a different former books editor of Woman & Home magazine. future for himself. On a last-minute trip to Uganda, the land of She has been a judge of a number of literary his grandfather, he uncovers a past he knew nothing about, and finds a life for himself he could never have imagined. Moving prizes, including the Costa First Novel award between two continents over a troubled century, this is a moving and the British Book Awards. She is also the and poignant novel of generational love, loss, and what it means commissioning editor for Quick Reads and a book reviewer. She has written seven novels, including to find home. The book won the first #Merky Books New Writer’s Our Summer Together, An Italian Summer and her Prize supported by Stormzy. latest book, The Long Way Home. 38 Readers' Day

STACEY HALLS Mrs England FAMILY EVENTS X 3??? Ruby May is a newly graduated nurse when she arrives at the remote Yorkshire home of a wealthy couple, Charles and Lilian England, to look after their children. She hopes it will be the fresh start she needs but it soon becomes clear that something is not right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Set in the Edwardian era, and simmering with slow-burning menace, Stacey’s third novel is a compelling read, and follows on from the success of The Familiars and The Foundling, both Sunday Times bestsellers.

ELIZABETH MACNEAL Circus of Wonders Sold by her father to a circus as the ‘leopard girl’ due to the birthmarks on her skin Nell is torn from all that she knows. But as her fame grows, and she finds friendships among the other performers, she begins to think that maybe it was the best thing that could have happened to her. Moving from the pleasure gardens of Vauxhall to the battle- We'd love to hear from you. scarred plains of the Crimea it’s an astonishing story of power and ownership, fame, and one woman’s determination to tell her own Join us on social media. story. Another captivating story from the bestselling author of The Doll Factory.

PEACE ADZO MEDIE His Only Wife When Afi Tekple is persuaded to marry a wealthy man she barely knows she accepts, seeing him as a way into an exciting new life in Ghana’s capital. But it’s not quite the life-changing opportunity she imagined. For a start he sends a stand-in to his own wedding. And he loves another. Afimust use all of her courage to confront her situation and create an Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/guildfordbookfestival independent life for herself. Bursting with warmth and humour, this contemporary tale of a young woman making her way in a Like us on Instagram: guildfordbookfestival modern world is a stunning debut novel. Follow us on Twitter: @gfordbookfest SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

VIRTUAL MENTAL EVENT HEALTH ADVOCATE Workshop 'A tale told with courageous honesty. There's much to learn here about how reconnecting with nature and trusting others can rekindle the joy of being alive' SELF PUBLISHING: BBC COUNTRYFILE ‘An inspirational read’ From paper to print and beyond MATT HAIG WITH MADDY GLENN JAKE TYLER: & NATHAN JAMES from SWS Publishing A Walk from the Wild Edge

VIA ZOOM | 10:00 – 12:00 | £10 TALK AND WALK ALONG RIVER WEY (MEET OUTSIDE THE MARCH HARE) 11:00 – 12:00 | £10 A two-hour interactive workshop on Zoom that explores the different options for writers who are considering self-publishing Join broadcaster and mental health advocate Jake Tyler on an inspirational their novels. walk along the riverside in Guildford. Now in his 30s Jake has struggled With the rapid rise in popularity and acceptance for self- with mental health problems all his life. After a bad period of depression, he published novels, writers are confronted with an increasing decided to take back control of his life, and with only a pair of walking boots number of options for their manuscript. This online event will and a backpack, he left his old life behind and began a 3000-mile walk explore the benefits of self-publishing and will discuss the around Britain. Jake will talk about his extraordinary journey, the places he creative and financial freedoms that a self-publishing journey visited, the people he met, the big, honest conversations he had, and how can enjoy. he finally started to see a more positive future. We’ll deconstruct the myths behind creative writing, give Jake’s show on BBC Surrey and Sussex, Open Up with Jake Tyler, advice for best practice when self-editing a manuscript, and launched in 2019. His TedX talk, I’m fine has received 3.1 million views. focus on important things you need to know about formatting, book design, and your options for printing. Kindly sponsored by Cressive DX The second half of the workshop will examine book marketing and give top tips on how to maximise your social media strategies. All participants will receive a PDF workbook complete with notes and graphics from the workshop, which also provides interactive tasks.

42 43 More great reads SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER on our stage! SUN 7 NOV TUE 5 & WED 6 OCT TUE 5 &

SIGNED BOOK HAYLEY MILLS AVAILABLE AN EVENING WITH in conversation with Elizabeth Buchan Lady Glenconner Forever Young - A Memoir

YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE | 14:30 – 15:30 £21, £38 INCLUDING SIGNED BOOK (RRP £20) WED 24 NOV Prices include all fees

FRI 26 & SAT 27 OCT FRI 26 & SAT TICKETS FROM www.yvonnearnaud.co.uk/whats-on/hayley-mills

Actress Hayley Mills was the most famous child stars of the ‘60s, acclaimed for her performances in a host of family classics. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister to Juliet Mills, she spent her early teens in Hollywood and made several films withWalt Disney including Pollyanna – for which she won an Oscar– The Parent Trap, and Whistle Down the Wind. Now, for the first time,Hayley tells the story of those years, and in her own words. Miriam Margolyes David Suchet Using records from the Disney archives she discovered for the first time all the THIS MUCH IS TRUE POIROT & ME: A RETROSPECTIVE machinations that had gone into shaping - and arguably arresting - her career. As one of the era’s great teen idols, she realised she had spent a decade not being allowed to grow up, with the world changing around her just as she was PLUS don’t miss our Guildford Book Festival events! changing herself. Hayley Mills - Forever Young: A Memoir | Sun 10 Oct An immensely nostalgic evocation of a bygone era, Forever Young is a frank telling Nadiya Hussain - Nadiya’s Fast Flavours | Sun 24 Oct of the reality behind the set dressing – and of Hayley’s survival. Hayley Mills will be in conversation with Elizabeth Buchan, Festival Patron and author of more than a dozen novels including her latest, Two Women in Rome. YVONNE-ARNAUD.CO.UK | 01483 44 00 00 Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX 45

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ALISON WEIR MARC MORRIS: Katharine Parr – The Sixth Wife The Anglo-Saxons – A History of the Beginnings of England

GUILDHALL | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15 GUILDHALL | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

Renowned, bestselling historian Alison Weir recounts the ‘An absolute masterpiece’ DAN SNOW story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who survived him, in the sixth of her series of acclaimed novels about the six wives. Renowned historian Marc Morris tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid. Covering six centuries he explores what A warm, clever woman of great fortitude who rose boldly happened when Britain left the Roman Empire and foreign invaders came to every turn her life took, she was torn between love and from across the sea into a violent and unstable world, and established duty. Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now themselves as its new masters. He describes how they fought relentlessly Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing King's for supremacy but then abandoned their gods for Christianity, establishing eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him... or betray that she churches and intricate works of art, reviving towns and trade, and creating wanted another. She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and shires, boroughs and bishoprics. A new society, a new culture, and a single a friend. Henry loves and trusts her. But Katharine is hiding unified nation emerged. Featuring characters such asKing Offa, Alfred the another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see Great and Edward the Confessor, and drawing on a vast range of original her burn... evidence, Morris brings to life this little understood period of our nation’s history.

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Since winning the Great British Bake Off in 2015 Nadiya Hussain has rarely been off our TV screens. Known for her easy- going style, and bold, fun approach to flavours, she has become a firm favourite with families throughout the nation, presenting popular series such as Nadiya Bakes and Nadiya’s Family Favourites. Nadiya has also written several books for children and is recognised as a commentator on mental health after opening up about her own struggles with anxiety. In 2019 Nadiya was awarded an MBE for services for broadcasting and the culinary arts. Nadiya will be talking about her passion for no-fuss cooking, the ups and downs SIGNED of her meteoric rise to fame, baking BOOK for The Queen, and her latest series, AVAILABLE Nadiya’s Fast Flavours, which airs this autumn on BBC2. Along with the NADIYA HUSSAIN companion book of the same name, it is filled with delicious everyday recipes in conversation with Seni Glaister offering new and innovation ways to pack your meals with flavour without spending Nadiya's Fast Flavours hours in the kitchen.

YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE | 19:00 – 20:00

£21, £15.00 under 18s £39 including signed book (RRP£22)

Prices include all fees

TICKETS FROM www.yvonnearnaud.co.uk/whats-on/nadiya-hussain Kindly sponsored by

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SIGNED BOOK AVAILABLE PHIL TUFNELL in conversation How Not to Be a Cricketer

YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE | 19:30 – 20:30 £21, £38 including a Signed Copy of How Not To Be a Cricketer (RRP £20) Prices include all fees A treasure trove of beautiful furniture, homeware TICKETS FROM www.yvonnearnaud.co.uk/whats-on and gifts located in a charming old farmhouse building Former England spin-bowler and much-loved broadcaster Phil Tufnell highlights in the heart of the village of West Horsley. the pitfalls of being a professional cricketer, providing hilarious insights into how to avoid them and what happens when you don’t. From dodgy haircuts and flying VISIT OUR SHOWROOM AT Pot Noodles, match day teas to soothsaying parrots Tuffers recounts tales from UNIT 1, OPEN VIEW FARM his cricketing career, both on and off the pitch. With chapters such as How to Keep Your Head Down, How Not to Impress Your Leader and How Not to Achieve EPSOM ROAD, WEST HORSLEY, KT24 6AP Physical Perfection his book can be considered a blueprint for life for anyone who never reads the rules and who likes to do things differently. TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS 10AM TILL 4 PM & SATURDAY MORNINGS 9.30AM TILL 12.30PM Follow us on Instagram @artichoke.interiors

51 Booking and Ticket Information 2021 Festival Venues & Box Offices

Festival Box Offices Ticket Prices Except where stated, tickets for all Festival events GROUP DISCOUNTS: 5+ tickets get 10% off, are available from the Tourist Information Centre 10+ tickets get 15% off 8 7 6 and www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk. CONCESSIONS: If you are registered disabled Please book in advance to avoid disappointment. you are entitled to a free ticket for your support 2 Most venues will sell tickets on the door subject to worker or personal assistant. To apply for this, availability. you would need to contact our Box Office directly. We also offer 10% discount to customers who Tickets can be purchased in the following ways: are registered unemployed and students. Please 10 ONLINE: You can book online via our website contact our Box Office when booking and have www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk. You will your proof of eligibility to hand when you collect receive your tickets as a PDF attachment on your your tickets. 9 1 3 confirmation email. These can be shown on arrival Returned Tickets via a mobile phone or tablet, or printed at home. 12 Once you have paid for your tickets, we regret You can book in person and pay in IN PERSON: that we are unable to make refunds except in the cash or by credit card at the Tourist Information case of a cancelled event. 5 Centre. Child Policy BY PHONE: You can book with a credit/debit/ switch card by calling the Tourist Information Please out of respect for other Festival-goers, no 8 4 Centre 01483 444334. babes in arms unless indicated. Everyone must 11 have a valid ticket and occupy a seat.

All details are correct at the time of going to press. We Disabled Access reserve the right to change programmes. If you require disabled access, please contact the 1. The Electric Theatre 8. Watts Gallery The views and opinions expressed in any of the Box Offices to see how we can assist you. Onslow St, Guildford, GU1 4SZ Down Ln, Compton, Guildford, GU3 1DQ books or at any of the Festival events are those of the 2. Guildford Harbour Hotel 9. Tourist Information Centre authors and do not reflect the official policy or position 3 Alexandra Terrace, Guildford, GU1 3DA 155 High St, Guildford, GU1 3AJ of the Guildford Book Festival. 3. Guildhall 10. Guildford Institute High St, Guildford, GU1 3AA Ward St, Guildford GU1 4LH 4. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 11. Broadwater Pavilion Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX Guildford Rd, Godalming GU7 3DH Covid Precautions 5. St Nicolas' Community Centre 12. The Zero Club Millmead Terrace, Guildford, GU2 4YT 14-16 Friary Street, Guildford, GU1 4EH Additional time has been left between events to allow for extra cleaning to take place. Face coverings 6. Hatchlands Park are optional. Hand sanitiser will be supplied at all venues. Please respect people’s space as you enter East Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7RT and leave the venues. 7. Guildford Cricket Club Woodbridge Road, GU1 4RP

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