FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS Friday in association with Carlow Arts Festival June 10th - 12th, 2016. Ballroom Chapel Stage in Granary Bookshop Exhibition

3.30 – 4.30 FRIGHTFUL BULLY, WAYWARD GWEN WILKINSON GENIUS, SPOILT SUPERBRAT Photographer SIMON CALLOW’S three-volume biography of Orson HELEN ROBBINS Welles summarised by the author in one delightful hour, Artist with LOUGHLIN DEEGAN. THE OLD LAUNDRY (beside Granary) • ALL DAY

5.00 – 6.00 ISRAEL – 1975 – ON TOUR WITH 4.30pm SIMON CALLOW signs copies of his Orson A LOSS OF MORAL COMPASS? THE ROLLING STONES Welles biography. (The Zone of Interest, Time’s Arrow, CHRISTOPHER SYKES, official photographer on their House of Meetings) and AYELET WALDMAN (who is infamous Tour of the Americas, tells us the hilarious editing a forthcoming collection of essays on the Israeli inside story through images and anecdote. occupation) grapple with the contentious situation in Palestine.

6.15 – 7.00 SEAMUS HEANEY’S I CAN ONLY TELL YOU WHAT I SEE 6pm MARTIN AMIS book signing 6pm AYELET WALDMAN book signing AENEID BOOK VI United Nations Refugee Agency photographer Read by SIMON CALLOW, introduced by GILES DULEY gives an illustrated talk about his CATHERINE HEANEY, and accompanied by uilleann ongoing photo-documentary, Legacy of War. piper DAVID POWER, who previously performed with Heaney.

7.20 – 8.15 CHRISSIE HYNDE MEETS INDIA OF THE IMAGINATION 7pm GILES DULEY book signing 7pm SIMON CALLOW signing Heaney’s Aeneid Book VI MICHAEL CHABON WILLIAM DALRYMPLE (The Age of Kali, City of Djinns) CHRISSIE HYNDE, founder of The Pretenders, in and Pakistani novelist KAMILA SHAMSIE (A God in conversation with MICHAEL CHABON, Pulitzer prize- Every Stone) discuss their preconceptions and their winning writer and lyric collaborator with Mark Ronson. experiences of this divided region.

8.30 8.20pm WILLIAM DALRYMPLE signing The Step House Hotel 8.20pm KAMILA SHAMSIE signing FIDDLE + PIPES MARTIN HAYES, The Gloaming’s powerhouse fiddle- player and DAVID POWER, one of Ireland’s most accomplished uilleann pipers, go to work.

9.30 Joyce’s Pub A NIGHT OF NOTIONS Presented by the Common Ground Collective and curated by LAURA QUIRKE – a programme of roots music, songwriting, poetry and storytelling.

10.15 O’Sheas Pub

IT COULD GO ANY DIRECTION Titans of traditional music DAVE SHERIDAN, ERIC BUTLER, MICHELLE POWDERLY, and CIARAN SOMERS lean into the night. And some KEEP AN EYE ON THE BOOKSHOP FOR READING ANNOUNCEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY friends might drop by. FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS Saturday in association with Carlow Arts Festival June 10th - 12th, 2016. Ballroom Chapel Stage in Granary Bookshop Exhibition

11.00 – 12.00 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS: “SUCCESSFUL WRITING IS A SLOW, LIFE-CHANGING ADVENTURES GWEN WILKINSON WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINE DAILY, METICULOUS FORM OF Round-the-world cyclist ROB PENN (author of The Man Photographer JANINE DI GIOVANNI (award-winning foreign MENTAL ILLNESS” Who Made Things Out of Trees) and maverick thinker HELEN ROBBINS correspondent and Middle East Editor of Newsweek) and JOSEPH O’NEILL (Netherland, The Dog) and ANDY MIDDLETON (founder of Adventurous Living Artist MARY FITZGERALD (journalist specializing in Libya) MICHAEL CHABON (Telegraph Road, The Amazing collective TYF) ‘play for the planet’. talk to KAMILA SHAMSIE. Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Wonder Boys) THE OLD LAUNDRY (beside Granary) • ALL DAY with SINEAD GLEESON. 12.30 – 1.30 VICTORIAN KILLERS LITERATURE IS MOSTLY ABOUT THE MEMORY OF WAR 12pm Signing: MICHAEL CHABON Step House 12pm Signing: JOSEPH O’NEILL KATE SUMMERSCALE (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, HAVING SEX AND NOT MUCH In GEORGINA HARDING’S novel, The Gun Room, a 12pm Signing: JANINE DI GIOVANNI The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child ABOUT HAVING CHILDREN. photographer captures a moment that is more than 12.45pm Reading/signing ROB PENN Murderer) and BRUCE ROBINSON (They All Love Jack: LIFE IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND he can bear. She talks with war photographers DON Busting the Ripper) talk with SOPHIE GORMAN about McCULLIN and GILES DULEY. Novelist and essayist AYELET WALDMAN discusses a time when the Illustrated Police News had the highest this vexed issue with writers DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN circulation of any publication in England. and CLAIRE KILROY. 2.00 – 3.00 PUNK LIFE A DAY IN THE LIFE UNPREDICTABILITY AND CAPRICE 1.35pm Signing: BRUCE ROBINSON AFGHANISTAN 1.35pm Reading/signing KATE SUMMERSCALE The Pogues’ CAIT O’RIORDAN talks music with OF A MIND OF A BOOK Journalist ANJAN SUNDARAM (Bad News: Last RORY STEWART, who walked across Afganistan and 2.15 Reading/signings: GEORGINA HARDING, LOYD GROSSMAN. Journalists in a Dictatorship) and author SULAIMAN founded The Turquoise Mountain Foundation, talks with DEBORAH LEVY (Hot Milk, Swimming Home) and AYELET WALDMAN, ADDONIA, who fled a refugee camp in Sudan before historian WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, author of Return of a CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT (Pond) share themes and CLARE KILROY, writing his novel The Consequences of Love, discuss the King: The Battle for Afghanistan. obsessions with ROB DOYLE (This is The Ritual). DANIELLE McLAUGHLIN dictatorships under which they have lived with JASON McCUE, an international lawyer who litigates against dictators ‘who seem above the law’. 3.30 – 4.30 GUN VIOLENCE BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS THE CALL TO ARMS 3.20pm Signing: ANJAN SUNDARAM IMAGES OF CONFLICT 3.20pm Signing: SULAIMAN ADDONIA Investigative journalist IAIN OVERTON (Gun Baby Gun) ALEXANDRA PRINGLE, Group Editor-in-Chief of Novelists LIA MILLS (Fallen) and HARRY PARKER The great photojournalist, DON McCULLIN, talks to 3.45pm Signings: DEBORAH LEVY, and novelist MARTIN AMIS discuss the all-pervasive Bloomsbury, introduces seven of their authors: KATE (Anatomy of a Soldier) explore the call to die for your journalist and presenter MARIELLA FROSTRUP about CLAIRE LOUISE BENNETT gun culture with FINTAN O’TOOLE. SUMMERSCALE, ANJAN SUNDARAM, KAMILA country, and its lasting consequences for those who his life’s work. SHAMSIE, GEORGINA HARDING, ROB DOYLE, survive, with SOPHIE GORMAN. JANINE DI GIOVANNI, WILLIAM DALYRMPLE and KATE TEMPEST. 5.00 – 6.00 THE BRICKS THAT SOLITUDE AS MUSE 4.30pm Signing: MARTIN AMIS, DON McCULLIN 5X15 and IAIN OVERTON BUILT THE HOUSES Foster child, poet and chancellor of Manchester 5 SPEAKERS, 15 MINUTES EACH 4.50pm Readings: LIA MILLS and HARRY PARKER University LEMN SISSAY talks to Eritrean refugee and KATE TEMPEST, award-winning poet, rapper and now followed by ANNA HOGAN (6th year student, Borris DEBORAH LEVY (on The Star Man – David Bowie), author SULAIMAN ADDONIA on displacement, and the novelist, talks about her debut novel, with Vocational School) will read her short story Death in AYELET WALDMAN (on LSD microdosing), art of being alone. EITHNE SHORTHALL. Ireland (shortlisted for the Hot Press Write Here Write Now HYEONSEO LEE (on defecting from North Korea) and award and inspired by Lia Mills). RIVKA GACHEN (on Difficult Neighbours) and surprise guest. 6.30 – 7.30 A MOTLEY RABBLE INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM LIVE THEATRE PERFORMANCE, STARTS 7PM 6.00pm Signing: KATE TEMPEST 6.20pm Reading and signing SULAIMAN ADDONIA In a sequence of readings, (‘Probably the Why the long game has gripped LUKE HARDING BEOWULF: THE BLOCKBUSTER and LEMN SISSAY best reader of literature on the planet now’ – Wall Street (WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy), Written and performed by BRYAN BURROUGHS. 6.45pm Signing: DEBORAH LEVY, Journal) brings to life the characters from his novels, IAIN OVERTON (Director of Investigations at Action On (The only production out of over 3,000 shows at the VIV ALBERTINE, AYELET WALDMAN, stories and monologues. And then he talks to MARIELLA Armed Violence) and ANJAN SUNDARAM (renowned 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to receive six five-star HYEONSEO LEE and RIVKA GACHEN FROSTRUP. for his ‘immersive’ journalism in Central Africa). reviews.) Chaired by FINTAN O’TOOLE. Joyce’s Pub

SEAMUS, PAUL & KIWI SEAN KEEP AN EYE ON THE BOOKSHOP FOR READING ANNOUNCEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY 10pm A trio of local folk musician friends; a dark pub. FESTIVAL OF WRITING & IDEAS Sunday in association with Carlow Arts Festival June 10th - 12th, 2016. Ballroom Chapel Stage in Granary Bookshop Exhibition

11.00 – 12.00 DRIFTING INTO THE GRANTA MAGAZINE THE HOLY MOUNTAIN REVISITED GWEN WILKINSON ARENA OF THE UNWELL THE IRISH ISSUE WILLIAM DALRYMPLE travels in the Byzantine world Photographer One of cinema’s more enigmatic figures, director and Featuring SARA BAUME, , and from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of HELEN ROBBINS writer BRUCE ROBINSON (Withnail & I and The Killing DONAL RYAN, introduced by Granta deputy editor Egypt. Artist Fields) talks to DOMINIC WEST (The Wire, The Affair). LUKE BROWN. THE OLD LAUNDRY (beside Granary) • ALL DAY

12.30 – 1.30 BUILDING A REPUBLIC – JUSTICE AND CONFLICT TALKING ABOUT FILM: 12pm TOM MORRIS’S READING HOUR Step House 1916 IRELAND / 2016 AFGHANISTAN Human rights lawyer JASON McCUE and war FLORENCE 4 curated readings: CLAIRE-LOUISE BENNETT, UNLEASH THE MAVERICKS FINTAN O’TOOLE, columnist and literary editor, and correspondent JANINEDI GIOVANNI (The Morning STEPHEN FREARS (director of Philomena, The Queen, GAVIN CORBETT, LISA McINERNEY, DEBORAH RORY STEWART, author, diplomat and documentary they Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria) discuss the The Van, Dangerous Liaisons) discusses his craft and LEVY, RIVKA GACHEN ‘Work with purpose & find your own luck’, a workshop maker. inadequacies of legal action on global armed violence. introduces clips from his new film Florence Foster 12pm signing Granta Authors with ANDY MIDDLETON, who will explain why we need Jenkins. In conversation with SEÁN ROCKS, presenter to put our values at the heart of what we do. of Arena on RTÉ Radio. 1pm TWO POETS SIMON LEWIS, winner of the 2015 Hennessy Award for Emerging Poetry reads from his first collection Jewtown; and American poet RACHAEL MENNIES (The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards) responds.

2.00 – 3.00 RUSSIA... A WARMER COLD WAR BECOMING ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES 1.40pm signing: JANINE DI GIOVANNI LUKE HARDING (Guardian correspondent in Russia Booker-prize winner JOHN BANVILLE talks about what CHRISTOPHER SYKES on David Hockney (1937– ) 1.50pm THE LONG GAZE BACK until he was suddenly deported) talks Litvinenko and informs and inspires his writing with Pakistani novelist, and LOYD GROSSMAN on Benjamin West (1738– SINÉAD GLEESON (editor) introduces being ‘an enemy of Putin’ with CONOR O’CLERY KAMILA SHAMSIE. 1820), discuss their highly acclaimed if very different LUCY CALDWELL, LISA McINERNEY, LIA MILLS (former Irish Times Moscow correspondent). subjects. They’ll hardly draw breath. who each select a piece of music as context for their reading.

3.30 – 4.30 BLURRED LINES NEW YORK LOVE LETTER REFUGEES, THE HUMAN COST 3pm Signings: JOHN BANVILLE, CHRISTOPHER SYKES DONAL RYAN (The Spinning Heart, The Thing About JOSEPH O’NEILL (Neverland, The Dog) and Novelist SULAIMAN ADDONIA, who fled Sudan, talks 3.15pm Signings CONOR O’CLERY, LUKE HARDING December) talks to VINCENT WOODS about his craft, GAVIN CORBETT (This is the Way, Green Glowing Skull) with GILES DULEY, photo-documentary maker who his new novel, and the complex nature of the boundaries with SEÁN ROCKS, presenter of Arena on RTÉ Radio 1. recently covered the refugee crisis in Lesbos and Jordan. between Traveller and ‘mainstream’ society.

4:45 – 5.45 CREATIVE MIND SERIES / 4.30pm Readings and Signings: GAVIN CORBETT, DEFECTING FROM NORTH KOREA JOSEPH O’NEILL, DONAL RYAN, US EMBASSY Author of The Girl with Seven Names, HYEONSEO LEE, SULAIMAN ADDONIA, tells OLIVIA O’LEARY about the Orwellian nightmare Two friends, two great writers – MICHAEL CHABON GILES DULEY and MARTIN AMIS – sit down together and talk about that North Koreans face. sustaining curiosity and feeding the imagination.

5.45pm Signings: MARTIN AMIS, MICHAEL CHABON, HYEONSEO LEE

KEEP AN EYE ON THE BOOKSHOP FOR READING ANNOUNCEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY