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Find us on Facebook At The Collection | Danes Terrace | Lincoln LINCOLN BOOK FESTIVAL 29th September – 4th October 2014 Plus a Pre-Festival Event on 26th September

Featuring: • DANIEL E SUTHERLAND • SARAH DRY • CHRIS BRYANT MP • PROFESSOR DESMOND MACHALE • CHARLES SPENCER • MARGARET WILLES • HANNAH GRIEG • JENNIFER POTTER • SIMON HEFFER • CLIVE ASLET • ANDY KERSHAW

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LINCOLN Monday 29th September 2014 BOOK 6.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening FESTIVAL Lincolnshire Lads All events, with the exception Who Changed The World Bailgate Eastgate of The Adventures of Andy Lincoln Carline Castle Lincoln Kershaw, will take place at Road Cathedral Kindly sponsored by Drury Lane Minster Yard SARAH DRY ON THE LEGACY OF The Collection | Danes Yarborough Road Spring Hill Steep ISAAC NEWTON Terrace | Lincoln | LN2 1LP Hill West Danesgate at 6.15pm. Parade Danes Terrace The Lindum Tickets can be purchased online at Road Avenue The hen Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left a wealth Strait Monks Road visitlincoln.com/bookfestival Clasketgate Newland of papers that gave his followers and his family a deep or in person from the: High Silver St sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly Street Visitor Information Centre heretical and alchemically obsessed; deemed ‘unfit to be printed’, EMMTEC Wigford 9 Castle Hill | Lincoln | LN1 3AA Way Broadgate they remained largely hidden for more than seven generations. Brayford Over time Newton has been made and re-made but in her book Telephone: 01522 545458 Way University of Lincoln THE NEWTON PAPERS Sarah helps uncover the truth about this Stokes Café at the Collection will be open extraordinary man. late throughout the festival week Ropewalk Sarah is a former research fellow at the LSE and author of a biography of Marie Curie and THE NEWTON PAPERS: THE STRANGE AND TRUE ODYSSEY OF ISAAC NEWTON’S Photo David Myers MANUSCRIPTS. Friday 26th September 2014 Pre-Festival Event / 6.15pm / Tickets £10

Kindly Kindly sponsored by sponsored by PROFESSOR DESMOND MACHALE ON THE ADVENTURES OF ANDY KERSHAW THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE BOOLE

ndy is a passionate music enthusiast and a fearless eorge Boole (1815-64) has been variously described as adventurer: over a 25 year career he has worked with the founder of pure mathematics, father of computer , shared an office with and science and discoverer of symbolic logic but he was visited 97 countries, many as a rock & roll war correspondent! much more than a mathematical genius. A child prodigy In his terrific one man show he talks about his life, his music, his and 19th century polymath, he was a practical scientist and travels and his book NO OFF SWITCH. self-taught linguist, turbulent academic and devoted teacher, social reformer and poet, philosopher and family man. ‘A gloriously cheeky bastard’ Pete Townshend ‘Passionate and furiously funny’ Dame Anne Leslie VENUE Des MacHale is the author of over 60 books (including humour and ‘An amazing read … an amazing man’ : film) and Emeritus Professor Mathematics at University College EMMTEC Cork, where Boole was the first professor of mathematics. A revised University of edition of GEORGE BOOLE: HIS LIFE AND WORK will be Lincoln Photo Tomas Tyner Campus published soon. 4th October 2014 September 29th

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4th October 2014Tuesday 30th September 2014 Wednesday 1st October 2014 6.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening 6.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening Susan Rhodes MBE Claire Brainerd is an is a horticultural art historian, author, historian, involved in hotelier and American THE POWER of garden restoration living in Lincolnshire! P an s &Gar ens CONNECTION CHAIREDl BYt SUSAN RHODES d CHAIRED BY CLAIRE BRAINERD Kindly Kindly sponsored by sponsored by MARGARET WILLES ON THE COTTAGE CLIVE ASLET AND THE AMERICAN GARDEN – FACT AND FICTION INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE

argaret unearths lush gardens outside workers’ cottages othing seems more British than a house like Cliveden and horticultural miracles in blackened yards, she reveals or Castle but what became known as the ‘country the ingenious, often devious, methods used by determined, house look’ was in fact codified by an American; the obsessive and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings greatest of early 20th century gardens, Hidcote, was created by an bloom. From the fashionable rich stealing gardening ideas from the American; and it was an American romance that caused Edward poor to the competitive alehouse syndicates, she discusses the ways VIII to abdicate. Clive Aslet discusses the varied destinies by which in which the cultivation of plants plays an integral role in everyday stupendously wealthy Americans ended up owning great houses British life. and the transformations they brought upon them. Margaret studied architectural history and has a background in Clive is Editor at Large of Country Life and author of many books publishing (setting up the National Trust’s own book imprint); including THE EXUBERANT CATALOGUE OF DREAMS and a she is author of several books, most recently THE GARDENS OF novel THE BIRDCAGE. THE BRITISH WORKING CLASSES. Photo Dylan Thomas

Kindly Kindly JENNIFER POTTER ON THE EXTRAORDINARY sponsored by DANIEL E SUTHERLAND IN CONVERSATION sponsored by INFLUENCE OF PLANTS WITH CLAIRE BRAINERD

ennifer’s latest book SEVEN FLOWERS reads like a ames McNeill Whistler was one of the most influential detective story. As she tracks her septet across the globe, artists of his generation but the popular perception we discover where and when they originated, what power of him is of a combative, eccentric and unrelenting or influence they have exerted over the affairs of man and how they publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with acquired it, revealing some astonishing truths! Here are the flowers Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his of healing, delirium and death; of purity and passion; of greed, envy mother. Sutherland dispels this notion, uncovering an intense, and virtue; of hope and consolation; of beauty that drives introspective and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted men wild … by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing.

Jennifer is a horticultural historian, Consultant Fellow of the Royal Daniel E Sutherland is Distinguished Professor of History, University Literary Fund and author of both fiction and non-fiction which of Arkansas, recipient of over fifty awards, honours and grants, and include a biography of the John Tradescants (father and son) and a Author of WHISTLER: A LIFE FOR ART’S SAKE. history of the rose. SEVEN FLOWERS AND HOW THEY SHAPED Photo Andrea Jones OUR WORLD is her latest book.

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September Kindly sponsored by 4th October 2014Thursday 2nd October 2014 6.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening Friday 3rd October 2014 6.15pm / Tickets £10 KING & Parliament

Kindly CHRIS BRYANT MP IN CONVERSATION sponsored by WITH LORD RADICE hey say if you remember the sixties you can’t have been there – so for those of you old through the lives of the myriad MPs, lords and who were and can’t remember and those bishops who sat on its benches, PARLIAMENT is of you who weren’t but wish they had been, we have a vivid, colourful biography of a cast of characters a trip down memory lane with books and music: in whose passions and obsessions, strengths and weaknesses 1964 mods and rockers were fighting on Brighton laid the foundations of modern democracy. ‘If you ever beach – 50 years on in his book MODS: THE NEW thought that modern MPs were more corrupt or worse RELIGION Paul Anderson has their stories, their behaved than their predecessors, then read on.’ (Mary Beard) suits, their scooters and their music … Jenny Boyd, ex-model, muse to Donovan and former wife of Mick Labour MP for Rhondda, Chris Bryant was one of two MPs Fleetwood, was in India with the Beatles and fought to expose the hacking scandal. PARLIAMENT: Maharishi (her sister Pattie was married to George THE BIOGRAPHY is his latest book. Giles Radice was a Harrison, then Eric Clapton) – in her book IT’S NOT Labour MP until 2001; his latest political biography Odd ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, 75 iconic musicians reveal their thoughts on creativity and much more … Photo Richard Maude Couples is due out next year.

Kindly sponsored by Saturday 4th October 2014 2pm-5pm / Tickets are Free Kindly CHARLES SPENCER ON THE REGICIDE sponsored by y kind invitation of The Collection, a free event with short talks on local history, harles I was sentenced to death by a tribunal of 135 including Lincolnshire’s WW1 Memorials men, 59 of whom signed the death warrant. But what LOCAL (SLHA), Magna Carta: the Lincoln Story (Lincoln happened at the Restoration when retribution was Cathedral Publications), The Correspondence of brought against those who condemned their king? From those HISTORY William Stukeley & Maurice Johnson (Lincoln who returned to the monarchist cause and betrayed their fellow Record Society), High Flight: The life and poetry regicides to those who fled the country to escape punishment, of Pilot Office John Gillespie Magee (Roger Cole) this is the story of the men who dared kill a king. Afternoon and Dave Start (former Director of Heritage Trust Lincolnshire) on how to get local history research Earl Spencer read Modern History at Oxford and spent 7 years as a written-up and published. Bookstalls and authors’ foreign news reporter for NBC. His book on the battle of Blenheim signing – a feast of local history! was shortlisted for the 2005 National Book Awards History Book of the Year. KILLERS OF THE KING is his new book. 29th

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4th October 2014Saturday 4th October 2014 6.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening

Evening of Extravagance and VIRTUE WITH THE GEORGIANS & VICTORIANS

Kindly HANNAH GREIG ON THE BEAU MONDE sponsored by

aricatured for extravagance, vanity, scandal and gossip, 18th century fashionable society had a reputation for frivolity. But to be ‘fashionable’ denoted membership of a new type of society: the beau monde, where status was no longer determined by coronets and countryseats alone. Conspicuous consumption and display were crucial and by the end of the century being fashionable had become nothing less than the key to power and exclusivity in a changed world.

As well as lecturing on the 18th century at the University of York, Hannah is a historical adviser for film, television and theatre (including The Duchess, Bath Theatre’s School for Scandal and BBC’s Jamaica Inn) and author of THE BEAU MONDE.

Kindly SIMON HEFFER IN CONVERSATION sponsored by WITH ROGER HUDSON

ritain in the 1840s was wracked by poverty, fear of riot and revolution and attempts to assassinate the Queen. By the 1880s it was a confident and prosperous nation, transformed by industrialisation and new attitudes to politics, education, women and the working class. Heffer tells the story of a group of dynamic and high- minded politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers who remade the country, its institutions and its mindset.

Simon Heffer needs no introduction as a columnist. He is the author of several books, most recently HIGH MINDS: THE VICTORIANS AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN BRITAIN. Roger Hudson is a historian, editor and author who has spent much time in the 19th Century!