2013 PROGRAMME 3–9 JUNE

Year four of this ECLECTIC AMUSING INSPIRING sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area’s radical thinking and literary heritage Hello and welcome to the fourth Stoke Newington Literary Festival!

We’re delighted to be bringing some amazing headline acts to Stoke Newington again this year, many of whom sold out before we’d even had a chance to print the programme. However we hope you’ll be just as in- spired by names you’ve never heard of, ideas you’ve never bumped into and books you’ve never seen before – every single event is one we’d love to see ourselves if we had time.

It’s this sense of discovery that fuels our passion for the programming every year. We’ve got a whole weekend of whales, bombs, vegetables, pickling, dogs, bridges, historical crackpots, mythical creatures, cartoons, genetics, rabble-rousing, music, beer, comedy, food & much more. With ticket prices as low as we can keep them, and a number of free events, we hope you take a punt on something new.

We’re delighted to be working closely with the Turkish and Kurdish com- munity this year. Our New Writing Anthology aims to capture a whole new generation of storytelling from within the community and we’re looking forward to seeing the project grow.

!anks again to Hackney Library Services for their ongoing support, particularly the Community Library Service which provides books, DVDs, jigsaws and a telephone reading group to over 700 housebound people.

As ever, our "nal thanks go to our amazing team of volunteers, without whom the festival really couldn’t happen. You can’t miss them: we’ve dressed them in bright pink, so feel free to ask them for advice, directions or just a hug.

We hope you have a great time!

Liz Vater, Festival Director

Twitter: @stokeylitfest Tickets now on sale via Facebook: Stokeylitfest ticketweb.co.uk. Also available stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com from Stoke Newington Bookshop and from our box o#ce in Stoke Newington Library from 03 June. MON 7.30PM FRI 7-10PM FROM 8PM FRI

MONDAY 3RD JUNE 7.30PM FRIDAY 7TH JUNE Reads Like a Seven £4 Irvine Welsh in conversation Elif Shafak £7 Babble Jar, 8pm with John Niven £10 Stoke Newington Town Hall, 7pm Stoke Newington Town Hall, 7.30pm After a sell-out "rst performance, ‘Reads Elif Shafak is Turkey’s bestselling female Like a Seven’ comes to the Stoke It’s 20 years since Trainspotting exploded author, translated into over 30 languages. Newington Literary Festival to showcase into our colle$ive consciousness (or uncon- Her TED Talk on the politics of "ction some of the most brilliant writing about sciousness, depending on where you were received over 600,000 hits, establishing video games since the "rst appearance of and who you were with). Since then, former her as an important voice in the debate on the words, ‘Avoid missing ball for high Stoke Newington property developer Irvine belonging, identity and gender, as played score’. Curated and presented by newly Welsh has maintained his reputation as lit- out in her novels !e Bastard of Istanbul, appointed New Yorker games correspond- erary bad boy by becoming a "lm dire$or, Honour and !e Forty Rules of Love. Always ent Simon Parkin, it features prize-winning playwright and self-appointed Twitter ten- enigmatic and engaging, Shafak will discuss poets, the Guardian’s Steven Poole, New nis commentator – a role he shares with his storytelling and its power to build bridges be- Statesman’s Helen Lewis, award-winning mate John Niven. Niven, in turn, packed in tween communities, families and individuals. broadcaster/game developer and ‘best games a career in the music industry (he famously writer of his generation’ Ste Curran, as well passed up the chance to sign Coldplay and a host of other wonderful authors. A night Muse) to become a bestselling novelist of readings that are funny, a%e$ing, sad Positive Drinking Irvine Welsh © Je%rey Dalannoy (Kill Your Friends, !e Amateurs and !e with Cleo Rocos £6, and exciting, with every piece o%ering a Second Coming). We’ve no idea what they’ll price includes free cocktail di%erent view of video game culture, it’s talk about. !ere may be quite a lot of an event which once and for all dispels Library Gallery, 7pm swearing. It will de"nitely be brilliant. any doubts that video games deserve to be considered alongside other art forms, In association with Hay Festivals. Comedy a$ress, Celebrity Big Brother sur- either for their breadth of invention or the !is event has a "rst half featuring the vivor, broadcaster, former host of !e Kenny passions they provoke. wonderful Salena Godden & Jan Noble. Everett Video Show and President of the Tequila Society, Rocos is turning her hand to beverage-lit – whilst the other hand Clandestino: "rmly clutches a margarita. Rocos’ !e In Search of Manu Chao £5 Power of Positive Drinking is the ‘how-to’ Stoke Newington Bookshop, 8pm THUR 7.30PM guide for successful qua#ng, with some fail-safe recipes and basic alco-pra$ical- ity. Expe$ laugh-out-loud stories, anecdotes Described by Malcom McLaren as ‘the THURSDAY 6TH JUNE 7.30PM and solid drinking advice from the woman Indiana Jones of world music’, Culshaw’s Thurston Moore and friends £10 who used to take Princess Di out boozing work has taken him from Africa to the Babble Jar, 7.30pm with Freddie Mercury. Amazon, from broadcasting to recording with Buena Vista Social Club. Now he has !e singer and guitarist with legendary written an astonishing biography of the alt-rock band Sonic Youth plays an intimate elusive Manu Chao and with his musical local gig with special guests. ear and incandescent narrative, you’ll "nd yourself transported into the life of a re- Elif Shafak vered, yet mysterious, musician. FRI FROM 8.30PM SAT FROM 11AM

The Night I Died £5 Craft Workshop with Library Gallery, 8.30pm Clare Beaton Free Library Gallery, 11am Don’t fear the HECKLES, For ages 4 and above fear the SILENCE. Cut and colour collages with craft expert (and local author/illustrator) Clare Beaton. BBC Radio 4’s Viv Groskop presents a cel- Exercise your creative muscles with a selec- ebration of the joys and horrors of live per- tion of simple but impressive paper pattern formance. !is chat show-slash-therapy and colouring proje$s. Perfe$ for the lit- session features our best comedians and tle readers. raconteurs talking about the worst experi- ences of their lives: stage deaths, hecklers from hell, the moments when the mouth Story-time with goes dry and the mind goes blank, the Paddington Bear Free times they drank more than they should Library, 11am, Family event have (or worse), the times they really lost it, the "ght that broke out in that basement Join everyone’s favourite bear from deep- dungeon in Croydon… it’s all here. est darkest Peru for story-time at the Stoke Newington Children’s Library. Featuring Joel Dommett and more to be announced.

Capitalism Kills Love: The Morning Star Free Mascara Bar, 8.30pm

Ian Bone (Class War) + Helen Mort + Niall O’Sullivan + Simon Barraclough + Tim Wells + Graham Bendel + Amy Blake- more + Rowena Knight + DJs Sean Bright + Graham Bendel + John the Revelator

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Radical Stokey Walking Tour The Science of Doctor Who £4 Spitalfields Life £5 Library Gallery, 12.30pm, Family event Babble Jar, 12.30pm 450 pence: please pay Simon, Maureen Johnson £5 your tour guide Stoke Newington Town Hall, 2pm Abney Park Cemetery, Join Mark Brake and Jon Chase as they !e Gentle Author’s mission statement is Suitable for teenagers Church St entrance, 11am explain everything you really need to not one for the faint-hearted: to write a know about !e Do$or – split into Space, story a day based on his experiences around Dive o% Church Street for a quick dip into Time, Machine, and Monster themes, Spital"elds until he reaches 10,000 sto- Last year the festival took place on the same the unique cemetery that is Abney Park, for and partly using raps, the show draws on, ries– which will apparently take around weekend as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. a whistle-stop tour of radical and literary among others: Hieronymus Bosch, HG 27 years and four months. !e result so far !is year we’re going one better: we’ve got Stoke Newington. Discover the radical and Wells, Salvador Dali, Nicholas Copernicus, is a barrage of articulated occurrences, all the Queen doing an event! Please welcome rebellious past of the ‘village that changed Albert Einstein, the Charleses Babbage seen through our author’s anonymous eyes. Maureen Johnson, the o#cial Queen of the world’. We’ll hear about the famous and Darwin, the overlooked Alfred Russel Moving, funny, sexy, informative – at times Teen and one of TIME magazine’s top 140 writers and philosophers who made this Wallace, and Edvard Munch to help make philosophical – there’s nothing gentle about people to follow online, which she classes as part of Hackney a hotbed of a$ivism, abo- sense of TARDISes and sonic screwdrivers. the journey you take in these everyday East ‘both awesome and deeply sad’. But that’s litionism and anti-authoritarianism. From End incidences. not all!! Maureen will be joined by the bril- the Salvation Army to the Angry Brigade, liant Sarah Rees Brennan, author of the from Daniel Defoe to Baader-Meinhof, The Breakfast Bible, Demon’s Lexicon trilogy – they will talk, Stokey’s seen it all. And Hackney Tours with Seb Emina £4 Stokey Local Free Maureen may stare… wants to share it with you! !e White Hart, 12.30pm Abney Public Hall, 1pm

Do Grow Free Does bacon really reign as Breakfast King? Hackney, rejoice? !e recent reje$ion Emina, creator and editor of the ‘London of the Stoke Newington Sainsbury’s plan St Paul’s Church Hall, 12.30pm Review of Breakfasts’ blog, tackles the marked jubilation for local campaigners – tricky issues of an international break- but what next? Andrew Simms, author Ever wanted to grow your own but don’t faster – to fry or not to fry; sweet or savoury, of Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out have the time, the space, or even know Yiddish latkes or breakfast burrito? Prepare on Top and Why It Matters, is joined by where to start? Alice Holden, pioneer of to be taken on an existential breakfast ad- Harry Wallop, Daily Telegraph journalist the edible garden, has spent her life out- venture with some cookery musings from and doors working on small and large scales – a serious eggspert. After all, what would author of Consumed: How Shopping Fed from plant pots to commercial farms. In Freud say about baking the perfe$ beans? the Class Sy"em, to debate the issues that this event she’ll help optimise the space face our area today. How sustainable is our and time available to you – even if it’s local economy? Can we really "ght pro- a window box and a quick conservation gress? Does gentri"cation inevitably bring while the kettle boils. Holden’s book corporate brands? Would big brands a$u- Do Grow includes garden know-how (plus ally be good for Stoke Newington? !is is a few delicious recipes from Hugh Fearnley- your chance to voice opinions on what hap- Whittingstall) which Alice will be putting pens next. into a$ion for all the aspiring horticultur- ists out there. Get growing!

Maureen Johnson SAT FROM 2PM FROM 3PM SAT

Alex Clark presents Rising Stars Why It’s Still Kicking Off Or, The Whale: Philip Hoare The New Libertines £4 Free Everywhere £5 & Mark Ashurst £5 White Rabbit, 4pm Babble Jar, 2pm Abney Public Hall, 3pm Library Gallery, 3pm Touring troubadours !e New Libertines Alex Clark, former editor of Granta and BBC Newsnight’s Economics Editor Paul In his new book, !e Sea Inside, Philip are back for a third year with NOTHING now literary critic for the Guardian and Mason talks to ‘Penny Red’ blogger and Hoare, author of Leviathan, winner of the TO SAY, launching colle$ions from the the BBC, brings together some of the ris- New Statesman writer Laurie Penny about 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-"$ion, UK’s most exciting poets and spoken word ing stars of the literary world. A veteran an issue that’s been debated in Stoke sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, artists. Blending of "n de siècle 'amboy- of the 2003 Granta Shortlist panel, Clark Newington since the 17th century: dissent. birds and beasts. He begins on the subur- ance, burlesque and Beat all delivered in helped to launch the careers of Zadie Smith, Mason’s updated bestseller Why It’s Still ban coast, with its childhood memories and the form of a beautifully-crafted album, Monica Ali and Adam !irlwell. Now she Kicking O# Everywhere: !e New Global the sense of escape o%ered by the sea, and this year’s show features Literary Death gives you a chance to get a head start on the Revolutions looks at the wave of revolt and proceeds, via the Isle of Wight and surpris- Match winner Dan Holloway, impresario next generation by glimpsing work from au- revolution sweeping the planet from Athens ing tales of whales in London, to the Indian of Manchester’s Stirred Poetry Anna Percy, thors at the very beginning of their dazzling and the Arab Spring to Quebec and the Ocean and "nally to the Paci"c. Along the London Poetry Systems’ Paul Askew, Polar careers. Featuring New York-based Gabriel UK. He and Penny discuss how social way we encounter modern scientists and ec- Research Institute poet Kiran Millwood Roth, Granta Best Young Writer-listed Evie networking, economic crisis and a new centric writers, miracle-working monks and Hargrave, 2012 bard of Stony Stratford Wyld, Stuart Evers and Lottie Moggach. political consciousness have come together tattooed warriors, gothic ravens and bizarre Danni Antagonist, darling of London’s to ignite a fresh generation of radicals, and creatures that may, or may not be extin$. spoken word scene Errol McGlashan, and provide insight and anecdotes into the Philip will be in conversation with Mark impresario of Lion Lounge Nikul Patel. Foraging and Local Food £4 future of global revolt. Ashurst, former BBC correspondent, jour- St Paul’s Church Hall, 2pm nalist, and publisher of the ground-break- ing digital narrative, 9 Lives. Together they Nicholas Royle & Alison Moore £5 Jojo Tulloh, food editor of !e Week maga- Who Needs the Sunshine? £4 will explore evocative and dramatic stories, Babble Jar, 4pm zine and allotment-junkie, divides her time White Hart, 3pm caught in the uncertain interzone of human between her family, her garden and writing and natural history. Man Booker-shortlisted Alison Moore about food. Taking inspiration from the Take shelter from the (probable) English- understands more than most the impor- self-su#cient life of cult cook Patience summer storm and join John Osborne tance of a novelist’s debut, as her "rst Gray, Tulloh adapts Gray’s Southern Italian (John Peel’s Shed and !e Newsagent’s Business Workshop attempt !e Lighthouse was catapulted acres to the window boxes of London in Window) and award-winning travel writer for Poets and Authors Free onto the Man Booker stage to huge critical her new book !e Modern Peasant. With Charlie Connelly (Attention All Shipping, Mascara Bar, 3pm acclaim. Her editor Nicholas Royle, cel- step-by-step methods for baking and Our Man in Hibernia) who’ve written two ebrated author of Counterparts, Saxophone pickling, fermenting and foraging, Tulloh of the most complementary books this Looking at how to make a living as a writer Dreams and Antwerp, recently created a presents fresh-tasting, achievable recipes year. Connolly’s Bring Me Sunshine charts and performer. We’ll be looking at survival meta-"$ive doorway into the world of for modern-day urban ‘peasants’ – from our obsession with the weather, whilst budgets, pro"le, social media, in-work ben- literary debut, entitled Fir" Novel. As sourdough pizzas with nettles and sausage Osborne’s Don’t Need the Sunshine fea- e"ts and marketing. creative writing le$urer at Manchester to revolutionary jam and pickles. She will tures the weather and its ‘special’ place in Metropolitan University, Royle is all too share some of her inspirational methods for holidays at the British seaside. Funny and !e workshop is free and run by Tim Wells familiar with the di#culties in producing fab cooking and fresh produce. charming, informative and wry, Osborne of MBS that "rst work. Royle and Moore talk daz- and Connolly talk seagulls, ice-cream, zling debuts, getting published, reaching lighthouses, the Isle of Wight’s Saucy the reader, and the di#cult nature of the Postcard Museum and the remarkably important "rst novel. Hosted by Lily Dunn. fascinating story of the humble umbrella. Weather subje$ to change… SAT FROM 4PM FROM 4PM SAT

Steve Jones: Jay Griffiths £5 The Serpent’s Promise £6 Abney Public Hall, 5pm Stoke Newington Town Hall, 4pm In a 2007 UNICEF study, the UK came Award-winning science writer and broad- bottom of a list ranking industrialised caster Professor Steve Jones tackles a nations in terms of child wellbeing. In Kith, rewrite of the Bible post-scienti"c illumina- Jay Gri#ths (author of Wild and Pip Pip) tion. !e Serpent’s Promise re-imagines the asks why. !rough her examination of the Testaments, from Adam and Eve to Noah’s very nature of childhood, she exposes how Ark, with contemporary scienti"c enlight- contemporary society is denying children enment. Taking you through sex, death the time and space to be children, with seri- and the apocalypse, Jones lends his wit ous consequences. Gri#ths poses questions and insight to answer some of humanity’s to us all about the importance of adventure big questions. and freedom. As Philip Pullman says: ‘She has the same visionary understand- ing of childhood that we "nd in Blake and Wordsworth. Her work isn’t just good – London’s Brewing £5 it’s necessary.’ St. Paul’s Church Hall, 4pm Pete Brown

Six years ago London had just two brew- ers. Now the city is home to over 40. Beer Martin Rowson £6 Writer of the Year and local author Pete Library Gallery, 5pm Brown talks to Will Hawkes, fellow beer writer and author of Craft Beer London, Once appointed ‘Cartoonist Laureate’ and a sele$ion of London’s hottest new of London (with a salary of one pint of brewers who will be bringing along some London Pride a year) and regular contribu- of their beers to share with the audience. tor to the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, Ticket price includes beer samples. !e Times and the Spe$ator, Rowson knows how many volumes a pi$ure really speaks. Following the success of his graphic adapta- tions of !e Wa"e Land, Gulliver’s Travels and Tri"ram Shandy, his energetic perfor- mance-style scathing images, articulate rants and constant scribbling make for an entertaining illumination on politics, art and the power of an image. Expe$ a hilar- ious and possibly foul-mouthed guide to 37,000 years of visual satire.

Jay Gri#ths Martin Rowson – Self-Portrait

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Dramas and Dissent £4 London Noir £6 Robin Ince & John Hegley £10 Capitalism Kills Love: !e White Hart, 5pm Library Gallery, 7pm Stoke Newington Town Hall, 8pm The Morning Star Free

Stoke Newington’s alternative parish paper, Two festival favourites return to end Mascara Bar, 8.30pm Skulk beside the murky waters of the N16 Magazine, has chronicled the changing Saturday night with a bang, Hegley and Handy Meinke (Freedom Bookshop) + Ian !ames, or steal through maze-like back- face of the area from Daniel Defoe to Ince are two of Britain’s bookiest – and Parks + In'ux Press + Tim Wells + Chip streets of the East End as this event explores Church Street 'at whites. Drama and funniest – comedians. John, who was Grim + Kayo Chingonyi + Amy Acre + London as a crime-"$ion capital. !e Dissent looks at the people who live and born on Newington Green, is loved for his Abi Palmer + Matthew Hedley Stoppard + city that once housed Jack the Ripper work in this proud, dissident and histori- exploration of such diverse topics as dog hair, Emlyn Hugill + Rachael Allen + Chimene and the Kray Twins makes the perfe$ cally important part of Hackney. Charting potatoes, handkerchiefs and the misery of Suleyman + DJs Dave Bryant + Kayo gritty setting for the archetypal thriller. A its rise from an unremarkable inner city par- human existence. Robin performed his Bad Chingonyi + John the Revelator. Plus sur- conversation with the "nest modern noir ish to the trendy urban ‘paradise’ of today – Book Club to such an ecstatic audience last prise a$s TBA on the night. writers, Mark Billingham, Stav Sherez, su%used, however, by pockets of deprivation, year that we had to up the ante. He returns Cathi Unsworth and Russ Litten, will crime and injustice – writers and contribu- with his Dirty Book Club, featuring more take us through the criminal possibilities tors will discuss the highlights, lowlights of salacious broken spines from the nation’s Literary Death Match London, of London, from Hackney to Hyde Park. Stoke Newington and its environs. charity shops. Includes odd observations Hosted by Max Décharné. Ep.34 £6 from Aristotle to 70s pulp "lth from the Library Gallery, 9pm, (doors open 8.30pm) Paul Morley – The North £6 cult New English Library and the Daily Stoke Newington Town Hall, 6pm Mail’s furious outrage at Jenny Lives With Sponsored by the ever-wonderful Picador, Eric and Martin. Literary Death Match brings literary !e cultural commentator, broadcaster, and chaos to Stoke Newington! NME stalwart explores what it means to be northern and why many who are take it so !e night will feature four writers reading seriously. Morley breaks up his own story their own wonderful tales for seven minutes with fragments of his region’s social and or less, judged by three all-star judges. Two cultural background. !e story of his Dad "nalists will be chosen to compete in the spreading margarine on Weetabix stands Literary Death Match "nale, a vaguely- alongside the history of the north’s "rst literary game that will steal your a%e$ion chippie, and rising out of these lyrical mem- and make your heart pound. ories come the disconne$ed voices of the north: Wordsworth’s poetry, Larkin’s re'ec- !e pen is mightier than the sword, and ink tions and Formby’s guitar. Morley maps the will be spilt! entire history of northern England to show northernness goes deeper than an accent. www.literarydeathmatch.com Southerners welcome.

Porky The Poet and Tim Wells with Special Guest Rachael Allen Free Budvar Marquee, 6pm Free but we’ll be collecting for Freedom, the Anarchist Bookshop in Whitechapel that was recently !rebombed. Paul Morley Robin Ince Stoke Newington Literary Festival Venues 2013

1. CLISSOLD HOUSE 6. WHITE RABBIT Clissold Park, N16 125 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0UH Access – Clissold House is a fully accessible building, Access – No step-free access. with a lift to all 'oors and an accessible toilet. Induction loop available. Limited disabled parking 7. ABNEY PUBLIC HALL with prior notice. 73a Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0AS Access – Abney Public Hall has step-free access 2. TOWN HALL and an accessible toilet. Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0JR Access – !e Town Hall is "tted with an induction 8. ABNEY PARK CEMETERY loop hearing-aid system. !e venue is fully Stoke Newington Church Street entrance accessible, with the exception of the gallery areas. Access – General level access but some uneven surfaces and some narrow paths, steps and ramps. 3. THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, TOWN HALL Disabled toilet on site. Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0JR Access – !e Town Hall is "tted with an induction 9. MASCARA BAR loop hearing-aid system. !e venue is fully 72 Stamford Hill N16 6XS accessible, with the exception of the gallery areas. Access – Mascara Bar is wheelchair-accessible.

4. PUBLIC LIBRARY 10. BABBLE JAR 184 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0JS 176 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 7JL Access – !e Library is wheelchair-accessible. Access – No step-free access.

5. THE LIBRARY GALLERY 11. ST. PAUL’S CHURCH HALL 184 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 0JS Stoke Newington Road N16 7UY Access – !e Library Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. Access – No step-free access.

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IRVINE WELSH ELIF TOWN HALL WITH SHAFAK JOHN NIVEN

LIBRARY CLEO ROCOS THE NIGHT POSITIVE I DIED GALLERY DRINKING

IN SEARCH BOOKSHOP OF MANU CHAO

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CRAFT SCIENCE OF OR, LITERARY DEATH LIBRARY THE WHALE: MARTIN LONDON WORKSHOP DOCTOR ROWSON NOIR MATCH EP.34 GALLERY WHO PHILIP HOARE (Doors Open 8.30pm)

STOKEY WHY IT’S STILL JAY ABNEY LOCAL KICKING OFF GRIFFITHS HALL EVERYWHERE JOHNSON THE AND REES PAUL MORLEY ROBIN INCE SERPENT’S THE NORTH JOHN HEGLEY TOWN HALL BRENNAN PROMISE

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THE WALKER THE LONDON BEN NEWMAN CORY LIBRARY PHOENIX BY BRIDGE, THINGS COMICS AARONOVITCH & DOCTOROW WE LIKE* GALLERY PANEL COMIC TUBE & PUB GEORGE MANN WARRINGTON

HOW TO MULTI- SALLY DAVE CULTURALISM ABNEY GARDNER READ A GIBBONS RISE OF THE HALL GRAVEYARD FAR RIGHT

TARIQ ALI MORAN JUKE BOX DANNY BAKER TOWN HALL OWEN JONES & FURY & MOORE DANNY KELLY

COUNCIL STIR TO LONDON BFI A LONDON PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) CHAMBERS ACTION FICTIONS LITERARY TRILOGY IAIN SINCLAIR DELIGHTS (Includes Film Screening) MOTHERS CLISSOLD HSE. IAN KELLY DAUGHTERS LUCY INGLIS DU MAURIER DRAWING RM SISTERS

DANGEROUS WRITING FANNY IN THE NUCLEAR POLARI BABBLE WOMEN FOLLY & JAR DIGITAL AGE STELLA INFLUX PRESS MASCARA INDEPENDENT BAR SHOWCASE *VENUE TBA SUN FROM 10AM FROM 12.30PM SUN

The Walker Comics Panel £3 The Phoenix Comic £3 Peter Stanford – How To London by Bridge, Library Gallery, 10am Library Gallery, 11.30am Read A Graveyard £5 Tube and Pub £5 Suitable for ages 8+ Suitable for ages 8 and above Abney Public Hall, 12.30pm Library Gallery, 1pm

Come along to our "rst comics event of !e Phoenix, the weekly story comic for One of the ‘Magni"cent Seven’ cemeteries !is great city has an inexhaustible fund the weekend to "nd out how comics are children, makes a spirited return to the and a Stoke Newington community staple, of stories with endless perspe$ives always made, and why. Two amazing creators from Stoke Newington Literary Festival. !e Abney Park o%ers a place of contemplation begging to be explored. Here are three writ- Walker Books – Viv Schwartz and Gary supremely talented Adam Murphy, exam- away from the whir of Church Street lattes. ers with three di%erent takes on the capital. North"eld – will talk about their latest iner of the expired, interrogator of the In his latest book How to Read a Graveyard Pete Brown is the author of Shakespeare’s graphic novels for kids. !ere may be cats… interred and creator of the marvellous Peter Stanford, former editor of the Catholic Local, which tells the story of Southwark, ‘Corpse Talk’, will be doing a comics work- Herald, wades into the business of European pubs in general and a people’s history of shop to inspire and delight kids! Every week burial rituals. He explores the strange London through one pub – the George Sally Gardner £4 in !e Phoenix, Adam trots down to the nature of humanity’s very public reminders Inn. Travis Elborough’s London Bridge in Abney Public Hall, 11am local cemetery to exhume a famous histori- of death, highlighting our strange avoid- America tells the often mis-quoted story Suitable for teens cal "gure for a good ol’ natter! Part non- ance of the inevitable contrasting with the of what happened when London’s famous "$ion, part ghoulish glee, all fantastic fun! presence of graveyards at every turn. In this Bridge was bought by an eccentric multi- Local author Sally Gardner talks about her And this time we’ll be drawing on the walls! engaging exploration of mortality, Stanford millionaire and shipped brick-by-brick to award winning novel, Maggot Moon. Set will be posing questions that will resonate Arizona, while Mark Mason recounts the in a reimagined 1950s world under the with the most nihilistic of readers, and tak- perspe$ive he gained by walking the entire ‘Motherland’s’ di$atorship, Maggot Moon Stir to Action – Ethical Fashion ing us through the nature of our cemeteries. length of the London Underground – over- is the heartbreaking but inspirational story ground – passing every station on the way. Free of the power of imagination and friendship Dangerous Women: Judith and has received great praise since publica- !e Council Chambers, Stoke Newington Town Hall, 12.30pm Mackrell & Clare Mulley £4 tion in August 2012, described as ‘the most Babble Jar, 12.30pm Story-time with Paddington Bear original publication for years’ by the Times Free and ‘an inspirational piece of writing’ by STIR magazine reveals its "rst printed issue !ere are periods of history where women Library, 2pm, Family event New Statesman. at this year’s Stoke Newington Literary live more dangerous lives. Two brilliant Festival, featuring community-oriented non-"$ion writers come together to look Join everyone’s favourite bear from deep- fashion alternatives. In the wake of the at women who smashed conventions. In est darkest Peru for story-time at the Stoke Feminist (or is it?) Walking Tour Bangladeshi fa$ory tragedy, the pressure for Flappers, Judith Mackrell looks at women Newington Children’s Library. 450 pence – please pay Simon, Western shoppers to demand fairer trade is who exempli"ed the daring of that genera- your tour guide stronger than ever, and STIR is on a mis- tion’s spirit, including Tallulah Bankhead, sion for change. Filmmaker Leah Borromeo Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Abney Park Cemetery, Church St entrance, 11am shows an excerpt of her documentary Dirty Tamara de Lempicka. In her compulsively White Gold, which juxtaposes the rails of readable and acclaimed biography !e Spy Take a 55-minute, female-friendly frolic ‘Beyond Retro’ in Dalston with the suicides Who Loved, Clare Mulley follows Christine through the history of Hackney’s heroic of India’s cotton "elds, locating the ethical Granville, one of Britain’s most daring women, with Hackney Tours on the complications right in the heart of Hackney. and highly-decorated secret agents, from ‘Feminist (Or Is It?)’ walking tour. From A fab, free event from an up-and-coming childhood in Poland to her death in a Wollstonecraft’s groundbreaking books to publication that will make you think twice Kensington Hotel at the hands of her obses- Barbauld’s controversial poems and Mary about picking up that new t-shirt. sive ex-lover. Talented, reckless and wilful, Lloyd’s saucy songs, "nd out how Hackney these women re-wrote their destinies in women shaped our modern world. remarkable and tragic ways. © Peggy Fortrum SUN FROM 2PM FROM 3PM SUN

London Fictions £4 Literary Platform: Ben Aaronovitch & George Mann Dave Gibbons £6 !e Council Chambers, Writing in the Digital Age £4 £5 Abney Public Hall, 3pm Stoke Newington Town Hall, 2pm Babble Jar, 2pm Library Gallery, 3pm Dave Gibbons is one of the legends of London Fi$ions is a book about London, Literary Platform magazine explores the Aaronovitch, author of London-based fan- comics and graphic novels. His imagery real and imagined. It’s about East End interse$ion of books and technology, and tasy series Rivers of London and George for Watchmen has become part of the fabric Boys and West End Girls, bedsit land and this event will look at the particular chal- Mann, author of the Newbury and Hobbes of the genre. Gibbons has sketched a host dockland, the homeless and the homesick, lenges – and enormous opportunities – of series, take to the stage to talk genre "c- of chara$ers from Darth Vader to Flash immigrants and emigrants. Ken Worpole, writing in the digital age. Emily Benet, tion. !ey discuss their urban fantasies that Gordon, establishing himself not only as one of the UK’s most in'uential writers author of the bestselling Shopgirl Diaries, immerse the reader into a world of second- one of our greatest living graphic artists but on archite$ure and landscape, is joined will tell her incredible blog-to-book-to-sit- guessing and mystique. Both writers have a gifted writer (lending his skill to co-write by Courttia Newland, literary a$ivist and com story, and will be joined by other lead- tackled the rejuvenation of archetypal "c- Green Lantern Corps: Recharge). He’ll be author of !e Scholar and other titles, and ing commentators who will inspire, advise tional chara$ers, with Aaronovitch writing talking about his career spanning Marvel, legendary situationist artist and writer and point out the pitfalls for those wanting episodes for Do$or Who (‘Remembrance 2000AD and DC Comics as well as his Stewart Home. !ey will re'e$ on some to write, engage with audiences and become of the Daleks’ and ‘Battle"eld’) and Mann current proje$, !e Secret Service. of the novels and novelists that have helped bestsellers. writing Do$or Who short stories and new de"ne the modern city, from Hangover Sherlock Holmes titles. !is is where fan- Square to Brick Lane, from George Gissing tasy, science "$ion and mystery converge. BFI Literary Delights £5 to Zadie Smith. Tariq Ali in conversation Hosted by crime "$ion a"cionado Barry !e Council Chambers, Stoke Newington with Owen Jones £5 Forshaw. Town Hall, 3.30pm Stoke Newington Town Hall, 2pm A colle$ion of rare short "lms and extra$s Tariq Ali is a writer and "lmmaker, Ian Kelly & Lucy Inglis £4 from the BFI’s Film Archive to showcase described by the Observer as ‘an outlier and !e Drawing Room, Clissold House, 3pm the love a%air of cinema and literature intelle$ual bomb-thrower’. He has written since the origin of "lm, presented by more than a dozen books on world his- Ian Kelly, award-winning biographer of Stoke Newington resident and BFI curator tory and politics, including Pirates of the Casanova, Beau Brummell, the world’s Bryony Dixon. Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, !e Clash of "rst celebrity chef Antonin Carème and Fundamentalisms and !e Obama Syndrome, now Georgian eccentric Samuel Foote joins as well as "ve novels in his ‘Islam Quintet’ forces with Lucy Inglis, author of Georgian series. He talks to Owen Jones, ex-trade London: Into the Streets, to talk beaver-fur union lobbyist and author of Chavs: !e and cross-dressing. !e rather ironically Demonization of the Working Class and named Foote has been unearthed and one of the de"ning young voices of the examined in Kelly’s Mr. Foote’s Other Leg: Left. Together, they discuss the reissue of Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian !e Stalini" Legacy and explore the state London, so who better to team up with than of current global politics. Georgian expert Inglis? Expe$ laughs, mis- fortunes, eccentric thespians, deaths, and In association with New Statesman. the odd amputation.

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Caitlin Moran in conversation Multiculturalism A London Trilogy: with Suzanne Moore £8 & the Rise of the Far Right £5 the films of Saint Etienne £6 Stoke Newington Town Hall, 4pm Abney Public Hall, 5pm !e Council Chambers, Stoke Newington Town Hall, 5.30pm Moran describes herself as ‘like a shit David Goodhart, Dire$or of think Dickens or Orwell, but with tits’. By mak- tank Demos, has written the controver- From a beautifully conceived "lm-poem ing pubic hair a conversation piece and sial but thought-provoking !e British and an imaginative exploration of the sparking readers to examine the e#ciency Dream: Successes and Failures of Po"-war Lower Lea Valley to an uplifting docu- of their underwear, Moran’s refreshing take Immigration, in which he argues that immi- mentary of a London landmark, the col- on How To Be A Woman has inspired a gration can undermine national solidar- laborations between much-loved indie trio whole new generation to (re)discover femi- ity and be a threat to social democratic Saint Etienne and "lmmaker Paul Kelly nism. Moran talks to Guardian columnist ideals about a welfare state. He advocates (Lawrence of Belgravia) document London’s and social commentator Suzanne Moore. that immigration to the United Kingdom ever-changing environment and landscapes !ey’ll get stuck into modern feminism, should be reduced and more emphasis to music by the band. We preview excerpts class, sex, politics and lots, lots, lots more. put on integrating immigrants. He talks from the "lms, then dire$or Paul Kelly and Mary Wollstonecraft would be proud. to Daniel Trilling of New Statesman, and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley will talk about author of Bloody Na"y People: the Rise the voices, stories and place that inspired of Britain’s Far Right. Other guests to the proje$. Caitlin Moran © Gareth Iwan Jones be announced. Kim Newman In association with the BFI. & Freda Warrington £5 In association with New Statesman. Library Gallery, 5pm Influx Press presents: Nuclear Folly with Master of the horror novel and author Mothers, Daughters an Independent Publishing Rudolph Herzog £5 of the BFI Companion to Horror, Kim & the Du Maurier Sisters £4 Showcase Free Babble Jar, 4pm Newman is joined by fantasy, vampire and !e Drawing Room, Clissold House, 5pm Babble Jar, 5.30pm supernatural writer Freda Warrington, to Author of Dead Funny: Telling Jokes in discuss genre "$ion, silver bullets and Celebrated biographer Jane Dunn and her Hackney-based publisher In'ux Press have Hitler’s Germany, and dire$or of Channel stakes to the heart just around the cor- novelist daughter Lily discuss their latest invited three underground press icons, 4 reality crime series !e Hei" (not to men- ner from Edgar Allen Poe’s former home. books and their own writing relationship. 3:AM, Galley Beggar and Lonely Coot, to tion the son of a certain celebrated "lm- Newman’s latest book Jago is a gruesome Jane’s widely reviewed biography Daphne join them for a special event focused on the maker), Herzog chronicles mad scientists, tale of Glastonbury-gone-wrong and his du Maurier and her Si"ers is described as recent resurgence of independent publish- the Cold War and some seriously anti-social constant reinvention of the horror genre ‘perceptive and exuberant’ in !e Times, and ing. !e event features readings from their atomic behaviour. A meticulous narrator of remains stirring. He and Warrington Lily’s second novel, !e Growing Year (pub- respe$ive authors: Adam Biles, Eimar nuclear progress in the 21st century, Herzog (author of Dracula the Undead and Grail lished 2014) explores motherhood, identity McBride, Alex Preston, Daniel Kramb, and approaches the threat of catastrophe with of the Summer Stars) will take us on a ter- and misplaced love. Chimene Suleyman. Kit Caless and Gary a droll – if a little ‘doomsday’ – panache. rifying, inspiring, magical tour of the outer Budden from In'ux Press will then lead Expe$ absurd and compelling, with a reaches of fantasy and horror "$ion. a Q&A with Sam Jordison, Henry Layte heavy dollop of cynicism. and Eloise Millar (Galley Beggar) and Christiana Spens (3:AM) on the nature of independent publishing – positives, pitfalls, how to get started, and what lies in the future for the book industry. SUN FROM 4PM FROM 3PM SUN

Juke Box Fury £6 Patience (After Sebald) Danny Baker & Danny Kelly £8 Stoke Newington Town Hall, 6pm with Iain Sinclair £6 Stoke Newington Town Hall, 8pm !e Council Chambers, Now a festival institution, Juke Box Fury Stoke Newington Town Hall, 7pm Two of Britain’s most loved – and garrulous is back, hosted by !e World’s Coolest – broadcasters, the two Dannies will bring Librarian™ Richard Boon (formerly man- !e life and work of cult writer W. G. the festival to a hilarious and rambling ager of !e Buzzcocks). !is year, the Sebald has been brought to the screen by close with their inimitable banter, which Guardian’s music editor Alexis Petridis and Grammy-nominated "lmmaker Grant Gee. is likely to move between music, football its contributors Jude Rogers, Peter Paphides Gee’s previous work includes the Radiohead and indiscreet anecdotes about celebrities. and Dorian Lynskey come together to play documentary Meeting People is Easy, as But it might not. We have no idea. Danny the songs that inspired them to start writ- well as music videos for Gorillaz, Nick Baker was made an o#cial member of Led ing about music and which helped shape Cave, Suede and !e Kills. Patience is a Zeppelin in 1992, only to resign 25 minutes their careers. Guaranteed great tunes, plus haunting, hypnotic documentary based later citing musical di%erences. Danny more serious musings regarding the place on Sebald’s best-selling novel !e Rings of Kelly was editor of NME, Q and Total Sport. and future of music and its writing. We’ve Saturn, in which he describes at length a Between them, they’ve been "red from seen the playlist, and Europe’s second larg- journey along the East Anglian coast and many of Britain’s leading radio stations, est glitterball may be deployed. the artistic in'uences he encounters (Robert written the de"nitive book on football, Macfarlane, Rick Moody and Tacita Dean Classic Football Debates Settled Once and to name a few). Post-screening, there’s an Danny Baker & Danny Kelly © John Cassidy For All Together, and continue to look for Fanny & Stella in-depth analysis from Hackney writer Iain opportunities to chew the fat about pretty by Neil McKenna £5 Sinclair and "lm curator of Whitechapel much anything that comes into their heads. Babble Jar, 6pm Gallery Gareth Evans. Danny Baker’s autobiography Going To Sea in a Sieve "nally answers the question ‘Did !is event lasts approximately 2.5 hours Danny Baker Kill Bob Marley?’ and has Neil McKenna is an award-winning jour- been on the bestseller lists since it was pub- nalist and writer who has written for the lished last year. Independent, the Observer, the Guardian, Cory Doctorow £5 New Statesman and Channel 4 Television. Library Gallery, 7pm !is event has an interval and "nishes He is the author of groundbreaking books at 10pm (ish). that chart homosexuality, including his "rst biography !e Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. Blogger, journalist, and digital copyright Here he showcases his latest work: Fanny a$ivist (not to mention co-editor of the and Stella: the Young Men who Shocked hugely in'uential ‘Boing Boing’ blog), Vi$orian England. Not your usual biogra- Do$orow is a voice to be reckoned with. phy, McKenna engages with his cross-dress- With his latest book Rapture of the Nerds ing subje$s on an intensely personal level, (with Charles Stross) being hailed as ‘com- throwing the reader into a world of sodomy, edy-meets-dystopia’, the Neil Armstrong handkerchiefs and the theatre. A meticu- of sci-" takes another giant genre leap lous expert exploring a largely unknown for nerd-kind. He’s in conversation with story with humour and originality. Padraig Reidy, news editor of Index on Censorship, talking about free speech, cyber utopianism and much more. Cory Do$orow © jonathanworth.com SUN FROM 8PM

Polari £4 Babble Jar, 8pm

Described by the New York Times as ‘London’s most theatrical salon’ and by Stoke Newington is rightly famous for its Our new Budvar Marquee outside the the Independent on Sunday as ‘London’s brilliant range of independent shops, some Town Hall will be home to a cornucopia peerless gay literary salon’, Polari began of whom are contributing to this year’s of free events over the festival weekend, life in November 2007 in an upstairs festival. Look out for the Stoke Newington complete with its own bar. room of a pub in Soho. Polari is pro- Literary festival decal in shop windows grammed and hosted by author and – Askew, Nook, Cabbages & Kings and Check the blackboard outside for exa$ journalist Paul Burston. Tonight’s Pop-Up many more – as they’ll be o%ering a special times, but expe$ music, comedy, poetry, Polari is hosted by Burston and features discount o%er for anyone showing a festival author readings and other nonsense Sophia Blackwell, Peter Daniels, VG Lee programme or wristband. Check our web- throughout the day – and into the evening and Karen Mcleod. ‘Always fun, always site for a full list of participants and o%ers. if the weather’s nice. thought-provoking – a guaranteed good Bookshop Ti Pi Tin will be hosting experi- night out,’ says Sarah Waters. mental writing events. Please see www. Con"rmed a$s include Phill Jupitus & Tim tipitin.com for details. Wells, spinning the decks and doing some dad dancing, poetry from Fran Isherwood, Things We Like £4 Of Cabbages and Kings will be hosting Katy Evans-Bush, Anna Chen and !e Venue TBA, 10pm two events: Stokey Bard, local author Simon Mason whose long and dubious associations with At 4pm on !ursday June 6th, illustrator the Gallagher brothers make for interest- Returning for its third year, a laid-back Ed Boxall will be giving a lantern-lit ing reading, tail-wagging a$ion from !e night of great comedy, poetry and readings. storytelling of his magical children’s pop- Barking Blondes Jo Good & Anna Webb Including Sony-Award nominee Miriam up book Me and the Night Lion followed (with their canine companions), musical Elia, delightful and insightful poet Harry with a silhouette paper-cut workshop. interludes from Nigel Burch & the Fleapit Man, oil magnate in a tramp’s beard Bruno Orchestra, acoustic madness from the Vincent, and many brilliant others 'attered, Typewriter artist Keira Rathbone will be Bikini Beach Band, Joe Glenton, soldier- tricked, bait-and-switched, lured and cudg- in the shop on Saturday 8th June (1-6pm) turned-conscientious-obje$or and much, elled onto the stage, it’s a night of high and for a live art performance where she will much more. low entertainment to end your festival with be drawing intimate eye-portraits with her a shout of laughter, with perhaps the occa- typewriter. You can come along and watch sional grimace of genuine dismay thrown in. the artist at work or sign up for your very Variety is the spice of life. Only the best for own portrait. you, my friend! Chilli sauce garlic sauce? Babble Jar will be hosting a festival after- party on Fri, Sat and Sun with live music. Open till late.

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