1 — 9 June 2018
Bringing Books to Life
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You can book tickets for all events* online through the Derby Book Festival website: www.derbybookfestival.co.uk
Tickets are also available for events, other We’re delighted to be working with than the ones listed below, from the Communication Unlimited to present BSL Festival Box Office at QUAD. Visit or phone: integrated events. For every event where an 01332 290606. interpreter will be provided, you’ll find this logo: If there is an event you would like to attend but an interpreter is not listed, please do email us For events to be held at QUAD only, there is at [email protected] or contact a special offer for 16-25 year olds: you can Communication Unlimited directly. We will buy tickets for £3.50 if bought 45 mins or less attempt to provide an interpreter if possible. before the start of the Festival event. Derby Book Festival takes place in several For events at the following venues, in addition venues across the city, each with different to booking online, you can visit or phone on facilities and access provisions. We make every the numbers below: effort to ensure that our events are accessible. You can find further information on our partner Déda: 01332 370911 venues’ websites or directly through their box Derby Theatre: 01332 593939 offices. Derby LIVE (Guildhall Theatre): 01332 255800 The Smallprint Company: 07806 782109 *Except for the Festival Lunch on Wednesday 6 June and two Afternoon Tea events - call QUAD on 01332 290606 and An Audience with Rob Andrew For events at Derby Museum & Art Gallery, MBE on Monday 4 June - call Reception at The 3aaa please book online only - your ticket will be County Ground on 01332 388101 emailed to you to print off. For other events, you will be able to collect Most Festival events last approximately your tickets from the venue that you have one hour, with a 45 minute author talk/ bought them from, or some venues will offer a interview and reading, followed by a 15 postal service if you prefer. minute Q&A with the audience. At most events we have a book stall plus author signing after the event. Please Note: Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable, unless an event is cancelled. Derby Book Festival is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation registered with the Charity Commission for Please arrive in good time for the event. England & Wales Number 1159763 Seating in the majority of venues is first come, Designed by www.wda-marketing.com first served. We reserve the right to deny entry to any latecomers. Our Top Picks Jo Jakeman’s event will be very special: she has been a vital part of the Festival since its start. We have followed her progress at every step from Festival volunteer to published author. The I have always been fascinated by the rich social whole team feels a very personal connection with history of late 19th and early 20th England so it is her first novel and are delighted - and proud - to with great anticipation that I look forward to Anne welcome her as our debut author. de Courcy’s talk on the The Husband Hunters, Sian, Executive Director & Co-Founder those American heiresses who made such a contribution to the English Aristocracy. Liz, Festival Chair
A friend introduced me to Literary Friction’s searing interviews last year and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’m thrilled we’re hosting their first Festival podcast with one of my favourite authors, Jon McGregor. It’s sure I’m really keen to hear Sathnam Sanghera, having to be a great discussion and one of our most recently watched the TV adaptation of The Boy unique events! with the Topknot, which I found fascinating. Theresa, Festival Director Roxanne, Festival Administrator
I’m looking forward to hearing Emma Jane Kirby talking about The Optician of Lampedusa - a simple, but very powerful, story of one man’s Louis de Bernières with The Bookshop Band was response to the migrant crisis. Working with some a stand out event of 2016 so I’m really looking of the young people who have been so deeply forward to the extended version - adding Joanne affected by the crisis has reminded me how easy it Harris and Emma Hooper to the mix. Great music, is to become numbed to such events. great authors - all in one event! Jenny, Co-Founder Andrew, Vice Chair
As a sponsor again in 2018 we continue to be impressed by the quality and breadth of this year’s As both a cookery lover and a book lover, contributors. I personally look forward to listening to I don’t want to miss Kate Young talking about her such an informed commentator as Sarah Churchwell book of literary inspired recipes - and sampling who will be taking an insightful look at the state of some of them cooked by Derby College catering America today, which has such a profound impact on us students. Whether it is Peter Rabbit’s currant buns globally. Geldards are also proud to sponsor this event. or bread and butter pudding from Ian McEwan’s David Williams, Sponsor, Atonement, they all sound delicious. Geldards Law Firm Helen, Lead Volunteer Welcome to the fourth Derby Book Festival
At the University of Derby we want people of all ages to be inspired by reading, learn new things and discover new possibilities. It’s my hope that this year’s Festival will help us all to re-discover a love of reading and lifelong learning. But most of all, I hope that we can inspire young minds to discover the magic of books for themselves. Reading helps broaden our horizons and therefore plays an important role in raising aspirations among young people and encouraging them to fulfil their potential. Looking at this year’s exciting programme, I am 2018 is a landmark year of political and social confident that Derby Book Festival 2018 will be an change, of debates and campaigns, of inclusion and inspiration to many people. It is, therefore, a pleasure challenging the status quo. Our programme reflects to offer the enthusiastic support of the University of the multitude of voices we’re hearing this year. Derby once again. At the heart of our programme lies the very best Professor Kathryn Mitchell, Vice-Chancellor of the in contemporary literature. From the international University of Derby bestsellers: Kate Mosse, Lionel Shriver and Louis de With special thanks … Bernières to some of the most lauded new debut authors. Each year Derby Book Festival is made possible through the generous and unwavering support of Opening with two political heavyweights, Ken Clarke so many individuals and organisations. We would and Alan Johnson, our political strand is more timely like to thank our extraordinary group of volunteers than ever. Ranging from Sarah Churchwell discussing whose dedication and commitment makes the the state of America to Christine Burns on the history Festival so special. of the Trans movement in Britain. We also present our ‘Feminist Friday’, which hosts a spectrum of We would like to thank all of our partner dynamic and often oppositional voices, from Helen organisations for their on-going support, advice, Pankhurst to a panel of some of the key young venues and much, much more. feminist writers of today. A huge thanks to the business sponsors and A key element of our Festival is developing individuals who support the Festival: our events readers and writers across the region. You’ll find would not happen without them. You can find a full this throughout our programme with our seed list of our sponsors and partners on pages 46-7. commissioned poets, artist masterclasses and events Finally, we would like to thank Arts Council England for school children. Not to mention our Spellbinding and the University of Derby for their continued Family Day … with a smattering of Harry Potter magic! investment and guidance. Our aim as a Festival has always been to offer something for everyone: from cows to cycling, dance to DJs and mermaids to music. In our most jam-packed year yet, there are so many gems to discover. We hope you find your own favourites and some new delights to enjoy! Liz Fothergill CBE and Chair of Derby Book Festival
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The Secret Life of Cows 4 Debut Author: Jo Jakeman 3 Rosamund Young Sticks and Stones 2 - 3pm | £6 | QUAD 6 - 7pm | £6 | Déda A Sunday Times bestseller We’re delighted that Derby’s own Jo Jakeman will championed by Alan Bennett, join us to talk about her deliciously dark debut, Sticks this charming, gorgeously and Stones. illustrated book shows the A Derby Book Festival volunteer, Jo was inspired domestic cow in an entirely by one of our authors Joanna Cannon, winning the different light. same prestigious Friday Night Live Award at the York Cows are as varied as people. Festival of Writing, which led to a publishing deal. They can be highly intelligent Sticks and Stones is a dark and twisting or slow to understand, vain, psychological thriller. Imogen’s manipulative ex has considerate, proud, shy or given her an ultimatum: get out of the family home inventive. Although much of a cow’s day is spent in the next fortnight or I’ll fight you for custody of eating, they always find time for extra-curricular our son. In a moment of madness, Imogen does activities, such as babysitting, playing hide and something unthinkable ... something that puts her in seek, blackberry-picking or fighting a tree. control. But how far will she go to protect her son and This is an affectionate record of a hitherto secret punish her husband? world by Rosamund Young, who runs Kite’s Nest Farm with her family, where the cows roam free and decide where they graze and shelter.
Joanna Cannon 4 Three Things about Elsie 4 - 5pm | £5 | QUAD Joanna Cannon’s debut novel, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, was the best-selling debut novel in paperback in 2017. Her second, Three Things About Elsie, tells the story of lifelong friends Florence and Elsie and explores memory, old age and the echo we leave in the world. It has been longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize. Credit: Ollie Grove
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Sponsored by: Ken Clarke 1 in conversation with Alan Johnson 7.45 - 9pm | £15 Derby Theatre
Brexit, the NHS, Donald Trump: 2018 promises to be School to high political office and the upper eche- a year defined by political change. Join us for a lons of both his party and of government. discussion between two of the political heavyweights of our time as Ken Clarke is joined by Alan Johnson visited the Festival in 2017 to talk Alan Johnson to discuss his life and work. about his third memoir, The Long and Winding Road. He publishes his first novel in 2019. Having served as the MP for Rushcliffe for 46 years - and the MP with the longest continuous service The evening will be interspersed with some of Ken’s - Ken Clarke is the current Father of the House. favourite jazz numbers, played by Derby Jazz’s In 2017 he published his biography, A Kind of finest. Blue, which charts his remarkable progress from working-class scholarship boy at Nottingham High 3 Saturday 2 June
Criminal Constructions with 4 Stephen Booth, Roz Watkins & Stuart Gibbon 11am - 12noon | £6 | QUAD Three experts in crime writing share their secrets about how they devise their plots, find their locations and make sure they understand - and follow - the law! Best-selling, award winning crime writer Stephen Booth, whose Cooper and Fry novels are based in the Peak District, will chair a lively discussion which will fascinate both crime novel readers and budding crime writers. The panel includes debut novelist Roz Watkins, whose first book in a series set in the Peak District, The Devil’s Dice, was published in March, and former senior police detective Stuart Gibbon, who has recently co-authored The Crime Writers’ Casebook, an essential reference guide to police and criminal procedures. Gainsborough: A Portrait 10 James Hamilton 12noon - 1pm | £8.50 Museum & Art Gallery To book, visit www.derbymuseums.eventbrite.co.uk
Thomas Gainsborough lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his finger ends. James Hamilton reveals Gainsborough in his many contexts: the easy-going Suffolk lad, transported to the heights of fashion by a natural talent; a gentle and empathetic family man whose volatility could lead him to slash his paintings; the rake-on-the- make in London; the charming and amusing friend of royalty; the top society-portrait painter in Bath and London who earned huge sums by bringing the right people into his studio. James Hamilton’s Gainsborough: A Portrait transforms our understanding of this fascinating man and the century that bore him.
“Derby Museum and Art Gallery changed my life in the 1950s. It was there, aged 8 or 9, that I first experienced a room full of great paintings, the works of Joseph Wright. They opened my eyes, and set me on my way as an art historian, curator and writer. It is a blessing for Derby and the region that they remain on display in the Art Gallery, where they continue to 4 enthral and inspire.” James Hamilton Saturday 2 June
Stephen McGann Sponsored by: 4 Flesh and Blood 11.30am - 12.30pm | £10/£8 | QUAD shapes us. A truly fascinating study exploring what motivates human beings to do the things they do. The acclaimed actor and brilliant storyteller Stephen McGann currently stars in the hugely successful “I dug my ancestors out of the ground. I resurrected BBC series, Call the Midwife. them. The McGanns were lost in those public records, and now they’re not.” Stephen McGann Fascinated by medicine, Stephen undertook a Master of Science degree. This event pairs his love of medicine, his passion for genealogy and his wonderfully engaging storytelling as he discusses his first book, Flesh and Blood.
Telling the story of the McGann family through seven sicknesses - diseases, wounds or ailments that have afflicted Stephen’s relatives over the last century and a half - he uncovers how our past
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wealth. At a lavish party he meets Angelica Neal, The Mermaid and the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on … and London’s most celebrated courtesan. Their Mrs Hancock meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course, on which they will learn that priceless 1.30 - 2.30pm | £8/£6 | QUAD things come at the greatest cost.
Picked as a ‘Most Anticipated Book Of 2018’ by The Observer, The Sunday Times and Vogue, Imogen Hermes Gowar’s spellbinding debut novel was bought for six figures in a 10 publisher bidding war. It combines curiosity, love and obsession in Georgian London. It has been longlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize.
September 1785. The merchant Jonah Hancock learns that his captain has sold Jonah’s ship and goods for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads, everyone wants to see Jonah’s marvel. Suddenly, this very ordinary merchant finds himself catapulted into a glittering world of opulence and
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5 - 6pm | £18 (includes a free copy of her new book, Property, RRP. £14.99) QUAD
One of the most acclaimed authors of our age, the ever provocative Lionel Shriver will join us to discuss her extraordinary short story collection. Comprising ten short stories and two novellas they explore the idea of property in every meaning of the word: the homes we live in and the ‘stuff’ we acquire.
Her new collection intermingles settings in America and Britain illustrating how our possessions act as proxies for ourselves, and how tussles over ownership articulate the power dynamics of our relationships. In Lionel Shriver’s world, we may possess people and objects and places, but in turn they possess us. 7 Saturday 2 June
Andy Kershaw 9 7.30 - 9.15pm (inc. interval) | £12.75/£10.75 Guildhall Theatre (An additional £1.25 is payable for bookings by phone or in person)
Join us for a fascinating and hilarious evening with DJ and journalist Andy Kershaw. Based on his autobiography, No Off Switch, Andy’s one-man show takes us on a fast-paced journey through his life from his days at BBC Radio 1 and the forefront of Rock & Roll to the front lines of some of the world’s most extreme and dangerous countries.
“Sensational. Wildly hilarious” Stephen Fry
Sathnam Sanghera 4 The Boy With The Topknot Credit: Jay Brooks 3.30 - 4.30pm | £8 | QUAD Sathnam Sanghera is an author who refuses to fit the mould: an award-winning journalist, a celebrated memoir writer and an acclaimed novelist. Growing up in Wolverhampton, his novels explore the multicultural Midlands with great style, warmth and humour. He’ll be discussing his life and literary work and giving us an insight into his unique perspective. Sathnam’s first book, the beautiful memoir, The Boy With The Topknot, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and named Mind Book of the Year. In 2017 it was adapted for BBC2, airing to huge success and critical acclaim. His novel, Marriage Material, was shortlisted for a South Follow our latest news Bank Sky Arts Award and the Costa Book Award. @DerbyBookFest “I absolutely loved it. Heartbreaking and wonderful. He writes beautifully.” Maggie O’Farrell on The Boy With The Topknot
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Po etry with Salena Godden 4 and guests In partnership with Derby Po etry Festival 8.30 - 9.30pm | Pay what you decide QUAD Café An exhilarating evening of performance poetry, headlined by the phenomenal Salena Godden. Local lad and Derby Poetry Festival co-founder Jamie Thravisoulou compères this night of raucous spoken word and live music. It opens with brand new commissions from three of the East Midlands’ finest up-and-coming poets, Leanne Moden, Saraa Rain and Chris McLoughlin. Salena Godden is one of the UK’s foremost poets, regularly anthologised and headlining festivals nationally and internationally. A BBC regular, Salena Godden has written and presented several arts and music programmes. Her essay Shade was published in 2016’s literary sensation, The Good Immigrant, which won the Reader’s Choice Book Of The Year Award. Literary Friction 4 with Jon McGregor 7 - 8pm | £6 | QUAD We’re delighted to host the first ever episode of the internationally acclaimed podcast, Literary Friction, to be recorded at a Festival. Hosts and friends, Octavia and Carrie, discuss books and ideas with some of the hottest authors on the literary scene. Tonight they’ll be joined by the acclaimed writer Jon McGregor to discuss his novel, Reservoir 13, the 2017 Costa Novel Award winner. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 centres on the disappearance of a teenage girl: it explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside.
“A rare and dazzling feat of art.” George Saunders, 2017 Booker Prize winner 9 Sunday 3 June Sunday Takeover at Déda 10am - 8pm | Déda Join us for a Sunday of lively debate, author talks and arts events as Derby Book Festival takes over Déda. Kicking off with the Sunday Papers, the day culminates with the annual Festival Book Quiz in CUBE café. We’ve also teamed up with Unbound, the ground- breaking, crowd-funding publisher to introduce their innovative approach to publishing - and also some of their finest authors. Be prepared to take a chance on this one – it will open your eyes and mind! There’ll be a broad range of interesting discussions on issues ranging from disability to the environment. Come and join us for the day at Déda with our special Sunday Takeover Ticket Offer, including On Death Row and Churchill and the Bomb events. Book two tickets and get 5% discount, book three tickets and Masterclass: Katy Guest on How 3 get 10% discount, or book four or more tickets to get to Crowdfund your Book 15% off any of our Sunday Takeover events at Déda! 12noon - 1pm Please note that the Festival Book Quiz is not included in this discount offer. Plus One-to-one Writer’s Surgery 1 - 2pm (10 mins sessions) Sunday Papers 3 £5 | Déda Meeting Room 10am for 10.15 - 11am | £3 (inc. coffee & croissant) | CUBE Café, Déda See page 45 for details. Kick off your Sunday with a relaxed look at the Sunday news as national journalists Ian Woods First in The World Somewhere 3 (Senior Correspondent at Sky News) and Katy Penny Pepper Guest (former Literary Editor at The Independent 12.30 - 1.30pm | £6 | Déda Studio on Sunday) discuss the headlines. We’ll mull over the hot topics with coffee - the perfect start to your A genre-defying and versatile writer, Penny Sunday of events. Pepper’s work is a mixture of the quirky and the lewd, with a focus on examination of difference Dance4 Sunday Supplement 3 and identity. Her memoir, First in The World 11am - 12noon | £3 (inc. coffee & croissant) Somewhere, charts her early years in London as a young, passionate, punky poet, singer and Déda Studio disability activist. We’re teaming up with Dance4 to present a special Penny regularly appears on Newsnight, Sky News, edition of their celebrated Sunday Supplement. A and the BBC as well as writing for columns for The leading dancer will present an informal sharing of a Guardian. brand new piece exploring the Sunday Papers and their favourite book. 10 Sunday 3 June
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Lev Parikian 3 Tom Cox 1 - 2pm | £6 | Déda Theatre 3.30 - 4.30pm | £8 | Déda Theatre Meet the very funny Lev The Sunday Times’ best- Parikian, a lapsed and selling author, Tom Cox has hopeless birdwatcher who written a deeply engaging attempted to see 200 birds and hilarious nature memoir in a year: “As a 12-year-old, about being a 21st century I was an avid birdwatcher. yokel. Described as ‘a nature I was also a fraud, a liar book, but not quite like any and a cheat. Those lists of you will have read before’, it birds seen, ticked off like was crowdfunded in a record- Don Juan’s conquests? breaking seven hours! Born A tissue of lies. Early this in Nottingham, he describes year, I decided to right my Derbyshire as “the landscape childhood wrongs, even though they were born of of his childhood.” good intentions. I would go birdwatching again. I would keep track of the birds I saw. I would not lie.”
Joseph Gray’s Camouflage 3 Mary Horlock 2.30 - 3.30pm | £6 | Déda Studio A memoir of the artist and camouflage pioneer spanning two world wars. Joseph Gray’s Camouflage is a book about love and war, and the deceptions they inspire: ‘Joseph Gray was my great grandfather. He was an artist and a soldier, but I’ve Festival Book Quiz come to wonder if his greatest 3 accomplishment was what, 6 - 8pm | £36 for a team of 6 | and how, he hid. During the Second World War he CUBE Café, Déda found a new creative outlet, the art of camouflage. (includes finger food platters of veggie and Not only did my great grandfather use his art to find meat dishes) fresh purpose in wartime, but it allowed him to lead a double life. He disappeared from the family he’d The Festival Book Quiz returns … but in a new already created when he fell in love with another venue and at a new time! This year we will be in woman. He wrote at the time: “I cannot camouflage the inspiring, creative space of CUBE Café in Déda. what I feel”, and yet he did, constantly.’ Hopefully the questions will keep you on your toes. A former Curator at Tate Britain, Mary Horlock’s Quiz Maestros Andy and Stuart return with more first novel, The Book of Lies, was longlisted for The mind boggling questions – and of course the coveted Guardian First Book Award. Winner’s Trophy will be presented! Please enter as a team of 6. Team fee includes refreshments and the bar will be open!
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All events on this page sponsored by: Roy Hattersley The Catholics 2 - 3pm | £8 | QUAD 4 On Death Row 3 Ian Woods 11.30am - 12.30pm | £8/£6 | Déda Theatre Imagine being condemned to death for murder, when even the prosecutors admit that you didn’t actually kill anyone. This is what happened to Richard Glossip, a death-row inmate who was found guilty of murdering motel owner, Barry van Treese. Despite being convicted on the word of the actual self-confessed killer, the state of Oklahoma is still intent on executing him, raising Credit: Lucy Sewill Credit: Lucy international outcry and controversy. Roy Hattersley, former MP and Deputy Leader Ian Woods, a reporter for Sky News and former of the Labour Party, will be in conversation with BBC East Midlands presenter, has tirelessly Professor Kath Mitchell, Vice-Chancellor of the campaigned to bring the injustices Glossip has University of Derby. faced to the world’s attention. Surviving Execution is the gripping true story of the case, He will be in Roy’s father was a former Roman Catholic priest, conversation with Neil White, former editor of the who left the priesthood to marry Roy’s mother. He Derby Telegraph. died (in 1973) an atheist. Roy’s latest book, The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain Churchill and the Bomb 3 and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Kevin Ruane Day, takes us through the 300 years following the Act of Supremacy, making Henry VIII head of the Church and breaking with Rome. It focuses 5 - 6pm | £6 | Déda on individual Catholics who were prosecuted, Theatre persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. The national, and indeed international, appetite for ‘Churchilliana’ continues Terry Waite 4 unabated, not least with the success of the movie Solitude Darkest Hour and Gary 7 - 8pm | £8 | QUAD Oldman’s award-winning Terry Waite is an English humanitarian and author. portrayal of the iconic In Solitude, his multi-layered and fascinating new wartime leader. book, Waite travels around the world to explore Less well-known is Churchill’s fascination with what solitude means. science, nuclear war and his take as a statesman As a hostage in Beirut from 1987-1991, he spent on nuclear weapons – from the development 1,763 days in captivity, nearly four years of which of the ‘Bomb’ as a weapon of war against Nazi was in solitary confinement. Today, strangers still Germany to the potential use of nuclear arms as come up to ask him how he coped when living in weapons of communist containment in the early isolation for so long. Cold War. Solitude reflects on his experience and sees Terry Professor Kevin Ruane’s book, Churchill and the meet others who live in solitude – voluntarily or Bomb in War and Cold War, was named as one of involuntarily - to explore the challenges, riches, BBC History Magazine’s books of the year. joys and sorrows of the solitary life. 12 Sunday 3 June Credit: Ruth Crafer
Kate Mosse Sponsored by: 4 The Burning Chambers
4 - 5pm | £10 | QUAD
The international bestselling author, Kate Mosse, hundred years of Huguenot history, taking the reader refuses to be categorised, writing award-winning from France to Southern Africa. Bringing 16th century fiction, non-fiction and plays. Working across Languedoc vividly to life, The Burning Chambers is genres, from historic novels to the gothic thriller, a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and Kate is probably most famous for her extraordinary secrets, of war and adventure, conspiracies and Languedoc Trilogy: Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel. divided loyalties. A prominent commentator and campaigner, Kate co- founded and chairs the Board of the Women’s Prize for Fiction: the award has championed female-led writing over the last 20 years, changing the shape of publishing culture. Her latest book returns to the Languedoc and The Burning Chambers is the first in an epic historical fiction series set against the backdrop of three
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Suffragettes: An Exhibition 15 Monday 4 June – Friday 8 June 10am - 2pm | FREE | Furthest from the Sea, Strand Arcade, Off Sadlergate Trailblazing women who successfully fought for the right to vote are honoured in this life-size paper tribute, handcrafted to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage. In a time of #MeToo and Time’s Up, this installation explores the lengths suffragettes went to in order to be heard. Created by students from Birmingham City University’s Design for Performance course, the exhibition features key figures from the Suffragette movement.
Pandemic 1918 4 12noon - 1pm | £5 | QUAD Spanish Flu was the most devastating pandemic in world history, killing up to 100 million people worldwide. But despite these Behind the Lawrence Legend massive fatalities, 4 news of the danger 2 - 3pm | £5 | QUAD was suppressed in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is undoubtedly one of the most Britain for fear of beguiling and iconic characters of the 20th century. damaging war-time T E Lawrence became world-famous after helping morale. Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from Pandemic 1918 Turkey during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. However, traces the course of his vital achievements would have been impossible the deadly virus, its without the unsung efforts of a forgotten band of origins and progress across the globe through the fellow officers and spies. personal testimonies of many remarkable people, from the famous to the obscure. Drawing upon In Behind the Lawrence Legend, Philip Walker previously unpublished records, memoirs, diaries interweaves the compelling stories of Colonel Cyril and government publications, Catharine Arnold Wilson and a colourful supporting cast with the uncovers the human story of 1918. narrative of Lawrence and the desert campaign. Wilson and his comrades saved the revolt from collapse on a number of occasions: without them there would have been no ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.
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An Audience with 19 Rob Andrew 4 - 5.30pm | £10 including light refreshments The 3aaa County Ground For tickets, contact Reception at The 3aaa County Ground on: 01332 388101.
As a Rugby Union player with England and the British Lions, Rob Andrew MBE was assured in his kicking and defensive skills off both feet. He also had a brief career in first class cricket whilst at University and played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club’s Second XI.
He was formerly the Director of Rugby at Newcastle Falcons, where he is credited with discovering Jonny Wilkinson. He was the Professional Rugby Director at the Rugby Football Union until April 2016 and is currently the Chief Executive of Sussex County Cricket Club. He will join us to discuss his 17 autobiography, Rugby - The Game of My Life. Debut Author: Mahsuda Snaith 6 - 7pm | £5 | Artcore, Charnwood Street Mahsuda Snaith, named by Stylist as ‘the voice of the next generation’, joins us to discuss her affecting debut novel, The Things We Thought We Knew. Ravine Roy has been stuck in her mother’s council estate flat for 10 years with chronic pain syndrome. What led to her being here and how can she get out? Exploring an ever-changing Britain over the span of two decades, The Things We Thought We Knew is a funny and moving coming-of-age novel about the people who make us and the secrets that can change our lives forever. Winner of the prestigious SI Leeds Literary Prize, the Bristol Short Story Prize and named by The Observer as one of the New Faces of Fiction 2017, Mahsuda is one of our extraordinary debut authors.
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The Fight Against Alzheimer’s 4 The Spying Game 4 Joseph Jebelli Charles Cumming 6 - 7pm | £6 | QUAD & Martin Pearce In 2016, Alzheimer’s overtook heart disease as the 8 - 9pm | £8/£6 | QUAD number one cause of death in England and Wales. Neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli’s grandfather suffered Described as ‘the one true heir to John Le Carré from the condition and, determined to save other and Ian Fleming’, Charles Cumming has written nine families from the experiences that had rocked his, spy thrillers, including three bestselling Thomas Kell he set out to write the book that explained what novels. His latest, The Man Between, features a happened to his grandfather. thriller writer, Kit Carradine, who is approached by MI6 to work for them whilst attending a literary In Pursuit of Memory Joseph Jebelli zooms inside festival in Marrakech. Indeed, it was his own the human brain to see how Alzheimer’s works and experiences of being approached for recruitment out again to reveal, entwined with the history and by MI6 that set him on his career as a novelist. science, a thrilling hunt for answers. His compelling and accessible insider’s account shows vividly why he feels Spymaster, Martin Pearce’s biography of his great so hopeful about a cure, but also why our best defence uncle, Sir Maurice Oldfield, gave him unique access in the meantime is to understand the disease. to contacts and papers to explore the extraordinary life of the most highly decorated British spymaster of the Cold War.
Together they will uncover some of the mysteries of the Secret Intelligence Service from their first hand experiences and research.
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Kinder Scout - The People’s 4 Mountain Ed Douglas 12noon - 1pm | £5 | QUAD
Kinder Scout - The People’s Mountain is a celebration of Britain’s most popular ‘mountain’ and our role in its creation. Located in the Peak District, the UK’s first national park, its slopes bore witness in 1932 to a movement of feet which helped shape modern access legislation: the Kinder Mass Trespass.
But Kinder Scout’s story is about much more than the working class taking on the elite. Writer Ed Douglas and photographer John Beatty’s book reveals the social, political, cultural and ecological developments John Timpson 7 that have shaped the physical and human landscape Marketing Derby Bondholders’ Event of this enigmatic and treasured hill. 8 - 9.30am | £8 | University of Derby If you are a Marketing Derby Bondholder, 4 please book through Lindsey Hatfield. Other A Sense of Place bookings through the Festival Box Office at QUAD Garry John Martin 2 - 3pm | £5 | QUAD Sir John Timpson CBE is the chairman and owner of Timpson, which has over 2000 UK outlets specialising Garry John Martin is a British novelist who explores in shoe repairs, key cutting and engraving, as well as stories through place. This session will focus on the dry cleaning and photo processing. importance of place as a character and the settings of his novels: London, Paris, India, Iraqi Kurdistan, the John Timpson’s philosophy is: “If you treat people Inner Hebrides and medieval Orkney. Accompanied well, it is blindingly obvious that they will do a by the sketches from his illustrious journeys, discover good job.” how place shapes the way we see the world.
The business has won countless awards and been in the top 10 of The Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies FORMAT PhotoForum event 4 to Work For’ every time it has entered. The company Mark Neville has a policy of employing ex-prisoners and runs pre- release training in several prisons. Battle Against Stigma 6.30 - 8.30pm | £5/£4 for Forum members | John has a weekly management column in The QUAD Daily Telegraph and has written several books about his management style, including Upside Down ‘Mark Neville has re-imagined what documentary Management and High Street Heroes. photography could be, should be. Instead of the bland ‘deconstructions’ that pass so lazily as ‘critical’ Handling History 10 in contemporary art, he makes extraordinary pictures Bookish objects and finds extraordinary ways to get them back to those he has photographed.’ David Campany. 10.30 - 11am | FREE - donations welcome. Drop in session | Museum & Art Gallery Screening rarely seen films and images, Neville will talk about the QUAD exhibition and his book, Battle Come and explore some of the special books and Against Stigma, his other projects and the book-related items from their collection. relationship between the audiences he targets and his unique practice. 17 Tuesday 5 June
Robert Winston 9 Improve Your Learning 7 - 8.15pm | £15.75/£13.75 | Guildhall Theatre (An additional £1.25 is payable for bookings by phone or in person)
Professor Robert Winston, one of the most instantly recognisable scientists in the country, brings learning to life in this fascinating illustrated talk. We learn fastest when young, but we can continue effective learning into old age. If we keep learning we are likely to be healthier, happier and have a useful, longer life. With his infectious enthusiasm and energy, Professor Robert Winston highlights how valuable learning is, what we all can do to improve our learning and how to reap the rewards long afterwards. The Little Library Cookbook 11 There will not be a Q&A at this event. Kate Young 6.30 - 8pm | £10 (includes food tastings) Engine Shed Restaurant, The Roundhouse Be transported back to your childhood with food writer and cook Kate Young, who took the inspiration for her food blog, The Little Library Café, from her own childhood: “Growing up, my memories of books and of food are intertwined - dreaming of rich treacle tart by the Gryffindor fire, drinking gallons of ginger beer and lemonade on Kirrin Island with the Famous Five, and sharing a pot of creamy honey with Winnie the Pooh.” She’s now turned these memories into The Little Library Cookbook, with 100 recipes from favourite stories.
This very special event will include sampling some of Kate’s recipes, prepared by catering students at Derby College in a Derby Bake Off competition, which will judged by Kate. Credit: Lean Timms Credit: Lean
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19 Festival Lunch Sponsored by: with the Countess of Burlington House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth
12noon for 12.30 - 3pm | £45 | individuals from the Cavendish family, including Bess The 3aaa County Ground of Hardwick, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and Tables of 10. Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on Adele Astaire, the sister and dance partner of Fred arrival, a two-course lunch (vegetarian option) with wine, Astaire. Deborah Devonshire, Nancy Mitford, model tea /coffee. Please note: Booking is by phone only at Stella Tennant and John F Kennedy’s sister, ‘Kick’ QUAD on 01332 290606. Booking deadline is 21 May. Kennedy were also central to the show. The Countess of Burlington’s book, House Style: Chatsworth is renowned as much for its fashion Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth, celebrates history as its unrivalled collection of art, palatial this heritage in all its splendid glory with new gardens and celebrated family dynasty. In 2017 images of the rare surviving garments, gorgeous it hosted a magnificent and ambitious exhibition contemporary photographs and essays by leading exploring the history of fashion and adornment historians and fashion critics. at Chatsworth. It brought to life the captivating
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Hansons’ Valuation Day: Science, Art, & Gender: 10 Books and printed treasures Challenging the Barriers! 10am - 12noon | FREE - donations welcome. In partnership with Lunar21 Pickford’s House, Friargate 6 - 7.30pm | £7/£5 | Museum & Art Gallery To book, visit www.derbymuseums.eventbrite.co.uk Our special version of the Antiques Roadshow Café open until 6pm for pre-event refreshments returns to Derby! Come along and meet a member of the Hanson’s Valuation team. If you have any antique The original Lunar Society brought together sparky books, magazines, posters or old documents lurking individuals who used their enquiring minds and in the back of a drawer, bring them along and find out knowledge across different disciplines to challenge more about their history and today’s value. accepted thinking. Lunar21 is described as Derby’s non-political ‘think-tank’, asking questions that have no obvious answers - and that we must ask if we are to The Curious World of Samuel shed light on the 21st century and Derby’s place in it. Pepys & John Evelyn Patricia Fara is an author and historian of science at 2 - 3pm | £7 the University of Cambridge. Her areas of particular Museum & Art Gallery academic interest include the role of portraiture and To book, visit www.derbymuseums.eventbrite.co.uk art in the history of science, science in 18th century England during the Enlightenment and the role of Pepys and Evelyn are two pivotal Restoration figures women in science. and the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends with Taking themes from her work she will lead a discussion shared interests: diary-keeping, science, travel and around some of today’s challenging issues, which have a a love of books. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, strong resonance for the future of Derby’s economic and Evelyn a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to educational institutions and for local employment. intellectual pursuits.
Margaret Willes revisits the history of London Mick Herron 6 and England at a time of regicide, revolution, fire 6.30 - 7.30pm | £5 and plague. Waterstones Derby Mick Herron’s latest novel, London Rules, is the fifth in his acclaimed Jackson Lamb series, featuring a bunch of messed-up MI5 agents based in Slough House. His books are darkly humorous, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue.
The first book in the series, the Steel Dagger- nominated Slow Horses, was hailed by the Daily Telegraph as one of the ‘the twenty greatest spy novels of all time’. His subsequent novels have won innumerable nominations and awards and London Rules looks likely to continue to grow his reputation.
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Jane Seymour: The Sponsored by: Haunted Queen
6.30 - 7.30pm | £10/£8 | QUAD
Only 11 days after the bloody death of the Queen, Alison’s meticulous research casts fresh light on both a young woman is dressing for her wedding to the traditional and modern perceptions of Jane Seymour. King. She knows she must bear a son - or face ruin. A young woman of courage and compassion, from She is haunted by the fate of her predecessor. a family tainted by scandal, she was driven by the strength of her faith and a belief that she might do We welcome back acclaimed author and historian, some good in a wicked world. All will be well if she Alison Weir, who continues her epic Six Tudor Queens can give the King what he wants. series with this captivating novel, which brings to life Jane Seymour, King Henry VIII’s third wife.
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Sponsored by: Behold America 4 Sarah Churchwell
8.30 - 9.30pm | £8 | QUAD
What does America stand for in the 21st century? ‘America First’ and the ‘American Dream’ were born nearly a century ago and instantly tangled over Behold America confronts this urgent question capitalism, democracy and race. Invoked most by looking at the story behind two of the most recently in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, contentious phrases in the American political they came to embody opposing views in the battle playbook: the ‘American Dream’ and ‘America First’. to define the soul of the nation. What do these phrases tell us about America’s idea of itself? What does it mean to put America Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American first, and what exactly are Americans supposed to Literature at the University of London. She be dreaming of – personal wealth, political power, regularly writes for The Guardian, New Statesman racial equality, political refuge, individual freedoms? and New York Times Book Review and comments What happens when these values collide? on arts, culture and politics for television. Her appearances include Question Time, Newsnight and The Review Show. 22 Thursday 7 June
Afternoon Tea with Sponsored by: Anne de Courcy 13 The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
3 - 5pm | £20 | Cathedral Quarter Hotel From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first Tables of 10. Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on known ‘Dollar Princess’, married Randolph Churchill arrival and Afternoon Tea with a selection of cakes, - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses cream scones and sandwiches. Please note: Booking for this event is by phone only at QUAD on 01332 290606. married into the British peerage, bringing with them Booking deadline is 25 May. all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. Towards the end of the 19th century and for the first few years of the 20th century, a strange invasion The Husband Hunters sets the stories of these took place in Britain. The incomers were a group of young women and their families in the context of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have their times. been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. 23 At a Glance BSL Signed events Children’s and Family events Fri 25 May - 10 June Waterstones Children’s Book Trail Sadlergate Sadlergate - 37 Friday 1 - 9 June World Cultures Creative Writing Drop In Sesssions MAG All Week BC Friday 1 June Family Friday: The King of Rome MAG 10 - 11:30am 37 Friday 1 June The Secret Life of Cows: Rosamund Young QUAD SJH 2 - 3pm 2 Friday 1 June Joanna Cannon: Three Things about Elsie QUAD SJH 4 - 5pm 2 Friday 1 June Debut Author: Jo Jakeman Sticks and Stones Déda Theatre 6 - 7pm 2 Friday 1 June Ken Clarke in conversation with Alan Johnson Derby Theatre 7.45 - 9pm 2
Saturday 2 June - 30 June Pickford Detectives Pickford’s House 10am - 5pm 37 Saturday 2 June A Day of Magic and Spells Guildhall 10am - 4pm 38 Saturday 2 June Storytelling with Zog Waterstones 10.30, 11.30am & 12.30 37 Saturday 2 June CBeebies Magic Hands with Donna Mullings Guildhall 12.15 - 12.45pm 38 Saturday 2 June CBeebies Magic Hands with Donna Mullings Guildhall 3.15 - 3.45pm 38 Saturday 2 June Storytelling at intu intu Derby 11 - 4pm 39 Saturday 2 June Celebrating the Harry Potter Books Guildhall Theatre 11 - 12noon 37 Saturday 2 June Celebrating the Harry Potter Books Guildhall Theatre 2 - 3pm 37 Saturday 2 June Family Day at The Smallprint Company Smallprint Co. 11 - 4pm 39 Saturday 2 June Storytelling & Face painting WHSmith, intu Derby 11 - 4pm 39 Saturday 2 June Agatha Christie Exhibition (until 3 Nov) Pickford’s House 10 - 5pm BC Saturday 2 June Criminal Constructions QUAD - The Box 11 - 12noon 4 Saturday 2 June Stephen McGann: Flesh and Blood QUAD - SJH 11.30 - 12.30pm 5 Saturday 2 June Gainsborough: A Portrait: James Hamilton MAG 12noon - 1pm 4 Saturday 2 June Dan Walker: Sky Thieves Waterstones 1 - 2pm 39 Saturday 2 June The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock QUAD - SJH 1.30 - 2.30pm 6 Saturday 2 June Salena Godden on Poetry & Performance QUAD 3 - 5pm 45 Saturday 2 June Sathnam Sanghera: The Boy with the Topknot QUAD - SJH 3.30 - 4.30pm 8 Saturday 2 June Lionel Shriver QUAD - SJH 5 - 6pm 7 Saturday 2 June Paddington’s Adventure: Museum Sleepover MAG 7pm - 8am (Sunday) 39 Saturday 2 June Literary Friction with Jon McGregor QUAD - SJH 7 - 8pm 9 Saturday 2 June Andy Kershaw Guildhall 7.30 - 9.15pm 8 Saturday 2 June Poetry with Salena Godden and guests QUAD Cafe 8.30 - 9.30pm 9
Sunday 3 June Sunday Papers CUBE Cafe, Deda 10 for 10.15 - 11am 10 Sunday 3 June Dance4 Sunday Supplement Déda Studio 11 - 12noon 10 Sunday 3 June On Death Row: Ian Woods Déda Theatre 11.30 - 12.30pm 12 Sunday 3 June Katy Guest on How to Crowdfund your Book Déda Meeting Room 12noon - 2pm 45 Sunday 3 June First in The World Somewhere: Penny Pepper Déda Studio 12.30 - 1.30pm 10 Sunday 3 June Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear: Lev Parikian Déda Theatre 1 - 2pm 11 Sunday 3 June There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly Guildhall 2 - 3pm 40 Sunday 3 June Roy Hattersley: The Catholics QUAD - SJH 2 - 3pm 12 Sunday 3 June Joseph Gray’s Camouflage: Mary Horlock Déda Studio 2.30 - 3.30pm 11 Sunday 3 June 21st century Yokel: Tom Cox Déda Theatre 3.30 - 4.30pm 11 Sunday 3 June Kate Mosse: The Burning Chambers QUAD - SJH 4 - 5pm 13 Sunday 3 June Churchill and the Bomb: Kevin Ruane Déda Theatre 5 - 6pm 12 Sunday 3 June Festival Book Quiz CUBE Cafe, Deda 6 - 8pm 11 Sunday 3 June Terry Waite: Solitude QUAD - SJH 7 - 8pm 12
Monday 4 - Friday 8 June Suffragettes: An Exhibition Sadlergate 10am - 2pm 14 Monday 4 June Pandemic 1918 QUAD - The Box 12noon - 1pm 14 Monday 4 June Behind the Lawrence Legend QUAD - The Box 2 - 3pm 14 Monday 4 June An Audience with Rob Andrew 3aaa County Ground 4 -5.30pm 15 Monday 4 June Debut Author: Mahsuda Snaith Artcore 6 - 7pm 15 Monday 4 June The Fight against Alzheimer’s: Joseph Jebelli QUAD - Cinema 2 6 - 7pm 16 Monday 4 June The Spying Game: Charles Cumming & Martin Pearce QUAD - Cinema 2 8 - 9pm 16 24 Tuesday 5 June John Timpson: Marketing Derby Bondholders’ Event University of Derby 8 - 9.30am 17 Tuesday 5 June Handling History: Bookish objects MAG 10.30 - 11am 17 Tuesday 5 June Kinder Scout - The People’s Mountain QUAD - The Box 12noon - 1pm 17 Tuesday 5 June A Sense of Place: Garry John Martin QUAD - The Box 2 - 3pm 15 Tuesday 5 June The Little Library Cookbook: Kate Young The Roundhouse 6.30 - 8pm 18 Tuesday 5 June Mark Neville: Battle Against Stigma QUAD - The Box 6.30 - 8.30pm 17 Tuesday 5 June Robert Winston: Improve Your Learning Guildhall Theatre 7 - 8.15pm 18
Wednesday 6 June Hansons’ Valuation Day: Books and Printed Treasures Pickford’s House 10am - 12noon 20 Wednesday 6 June Festival Lunch with the Countess of Burlington 3aaa County Ground 12 for 12.30pm - 3pm 19 Wednesday 6 June The Curious World of Samuel Pepys & John Evelyn MAG 2 - 3pm 20 Wednesday 6 June Derby on Board Games Carnero Lounge 4 - 10pm 40 Wednesday 6 June Science, Art & Gender: Challenging the Barriers! MAG 6 - 7.30pm 20 Wednesday 6 June Mick Herron Waterstones Derby 6.30 - 7.30pm 20 Wednesday 6 June Alison Weir Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen QUAD - SJH 6.30 - 7.30pm 21 Wednesday 6 June Behold America: Sarah Churchwell QUAD - SJH 8.30 - 9.30pm 21
Thursday 7 June Louis de Bernières - Fiction Surgery Déda Meeting Room 2 - 4pm 45 Thursday 7 June Afternoon Tea with Anne de Courcy CQ Hotel 3 - 5pm 23
Rolls-Royce Learning & Thursday 7 June A Galaxy of Her Own: Women in Space Development Centre 6 - 7pm 40 Thursday 7 June Letterpress Bookplate Workshop Smallprint Co. 6 - 9pm 27 Thursday 7 June Silk Road presented by Agudo Dance Company Déda Theatre 7.30 - 9pm 27 Thursday 7 June Mark Beaumont Guildhall 7.30 - 9pm 27 Thursday 7 June The Bookshop Band Derby Theatre 7.30 - 10pm 26
Friday 8 June Tots Make and Do: The Tiger Who Came to Tea MAG 10 - 11.30am 41 Friday 8 June Laura Wall: Happy Birthday Goose Déda Theatre 11.30 - 12.30pm 41 Friday 8 June Books that Made Me QUAD 12.30 - 1.30pm 28 Friday 8 June Christine Burns: Trans Britain QUAD The Box 2 - 3pm 29 Friday 8 June The Party Somewhere Else: Open Party Sadlergate 3 - 4pm 29 Friday 8 June Afternoon Tea with Persephone Books CQ Hotel 3 - 5pm 29 Friday 8 June Emma Jane Kirby: The Optician of Lampedusa QUAD - SJH 4 - 5.15pm 30 Friday 8 June PlayShuffle: Feminist Friday Derby Theatre 5.30 - 7.30pm 30 Friday 8 June Helen Pankhurst: Deeds not Words QUAD - SJH 6 - 7pm 31 Friday 8 June Germaine Greer: Women for Life on Earth Guildhall Theatre 7.30 - 9pm 30 Friday 8 June Eddie Mair: A Good Face for Radio QUAD - SJH 8 - 9pm 32 Saturday 9 June Festival Book Fair St Peter’s Church 10.30 - 3.30pm 33 Saturday 9 June Meet Goose and Read together with Laura Wall Waterstones 10.30 - 11.30am 41 Saturday 9 June Meet Goose and Read together with Laura Wall Waterstones 11.30 - 12noon 41 Saturday 9 June Mischief & Mystery in Moominvalley Déda Theatre 11 - 12noon 41 Saturday 9 June Mischief & Mystery in Moominvalley Déda Theatre 1 - 2pm 41 Saturday 9 June Mischief & Mystery in Moominvalley Déda Theatre 3 - 4pm 41 Saturday 9 June Beginners’ Bookbinding Workshop Smallprint Co. 10 - 12.30pm 33 Saturday 9 June Beginners’ Bookbinding Workshop Smallprint Co. 2 - 4.30pm 33 Saturday 9 June Michael Stewart: Ill Will QUAD - SJH 11 - 12noon 33 Saturday 9 June Print a Poster: Mini Letterpress session Smallprint Co. 12noon - 4.15pm 41 Saturday 9 June Lucy Mangan: Bookworm QUAD SJH 1 - 2pm 33 Saturday 9 June Margaret Drabble QUAD SJH 3 - 4pm 34 Saturday 9 June Jhalak Prize Panel QUAD - The Box 4.30 - 5.30pm 35 Saturday 9 June Jessica Fellowes: The Mitford Murders QUAD - SJH 6 - 7pm 35 Saturday 9 June Being David Archer: Tim Bentinck QUAD - SJH 8 - 9pm 36 Saturday 9 June Michael Morpurgo: The Mozart Question Derby Theatre 7.30 - 8.45pm 36
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The Bookshop Band 1 Sponsored by: with Louis de Bernières, Joanne Harris and Emma Hooper
7.30 - 10pm | £12/£10 | Derby Theatre Our event with The Bookshop Band and Louis de Bernières was one of the high points of our 2016 An entertaining evening of books, music and lively Festival. We are delighted to welcome them back author talks. Sure to be one of the highlights of our for this special event which will see the authors 2018 Festival, the night pairs the fantastic Bookshop discuss their new work and famous novels as well Band with award-winning authors (and talented as play live with the band. The event also marks the musicians) Louis de Bernières (Captain Corelli’s launch of Emma’s latest book Our Homesick Songs. Mandolin), Joanne Harris (Chocolat) and Emma Truly unmissable! Hooper (Etta and Otto and Russell and James).
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5 Letterpress Bookplate Workshop 6 - 9pm | £69 | The Smallprint Company To book: http://smallprintcompany.com/events
Enjoy an absorbing evening creating bookplates in the traditional print method of letterpress at Smallprint HQ. Ideal for people of all letterpress abilities who are interested in its creative aspect.
Silk Road 3 presented by Agudo Dance Company 7.30 - 9pm | £12/£10 | Déda Theatre Silk Road is a universal and personal story of East meets West in the 21st century. In collaboration with the renowned classical Indian dancer Mavin Khoo, Jose Agudo weaves his Flamenco roots with a unique, contemporary style. Performed with an evocative live score, Silk Road is a fascinating and vibrant exploration of the rituals along nomadic routes. The journey conjures images of the pilgrims, monks, traders and urban dwellers that made their way from China to the Iberian Peninsula. It is a celebration of diverse cultures and dances, as strong and as delicate as silk itself.
Silk Road is co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells London, ŻfinMalta, Credit: MG Bikmo DanceEast, Dance4, Akademi. Supported by Arts Council England, Impulstanz Vienna, DanceXchange, Teatros del Canal, University of Roehampton, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, The Place, Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund, University of East London, Mark Beaumont 9 Swindon Dance. 7.30 – 9pm | £13.75/£11.75 Guildhall Theatre (An additional £1.25 is payable for bookings by phone or in person)
A household name through his thrilling documentaries about ultra-endurance and adventure, the daring cyclist and adventurer Mark Beaumont has smashed the circumnavigation cycling World Record twice in his career. He now holds this 18,000 mile title in a time of 78 days and 14 hours, averaging 240 miles a day. His epic documentaries have taken viewers to over 100 countries, into the Arctic, the high mountains and around the Commonwealth, as well as surviving capsize in the mid-Atlantic.
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Feminist Sponsored by: Friday
2018 marks 100 years since (some) women were given the vote. With the #MeToo movement, Times Up campaign and ‘The Year of Women in Publishing’, we’re delighted to present Feminist Friday. Kicking off with Books that Made Me, we’ll host some of the key young feminists of today and explore differing perspectives of modern feminism: you’ll find explorations of disability, race relations and gay culture - as well as the broader theme of Trans Britain. The day will include an array of talks and events. Credit: Ikram Ahmed Each year we try to represent the make-up of our Friday 8 June 4 city more and more. Throughout the Festival we’re hosting a range of powerful, outspoken and inspiring Books that Made Me women, offering an array of voices and opinions. 12.30 - 1.30pm | £5 | QUAD Feminist Friday is no exception. Spend a lively lunchtime with our very own Book Club. Our speakers and events will each offer a series of Joined by some of the most interesting young feminists unique perspectives. Whilst some of their views have writing today, we’ll look at their own work before courted controversy, nonetheless in a democracy, discussing some of their favourite books. Presenting they have the right to be heard. We welcome people an array of voices, we’ll journey from famous feminist of all genders and background. books to uncovering the hidden literary gems and voices rarely heard in the mainstream. The panel with include Rachael Curzons and Olumide Popoola. Monday 4 June - Friday 8 June 15 Rachael Curzons is the Chief Operating Officer of Suffragettes: An Exhibition Fearless Futures, a team of inspiring, passionate, 10am - 2pm | Furthest from the Sea, Strand innovative and creative people committed to a gender- Arcade, Off Sadlergate equal future with all young women fearlessly leading in our world. Don’t miss our exhibition which runs through the week - see page 14 for more details. Winner of the May Ayim Award, Olumide Popoola explores the ‘in-between’ of culture, language and public space where a (sometimes uncomfortable) look at complexity is needed. Her novel, When We Speak of Nothing, is an edgy, lyrical piece that explores difference.
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Christine Burns 4 Trans Britain 2 - 3pm | £6 | QUAD Over the last five years, transgender people have seem to have burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a ‘trans tipping point’, while Vogue named 2015 ‘the year of trans visibility’. Trans Britain chronicles this journey in the words of those who were there to witness a marginalised Credit: Museum of London community grow into the visible phenomenon we recognise today. Afternoon Tea 13 Editor Christine Burns will be joined by a panel with Persephone Books of contributors to discuss everything you always 3 - 5pm | £20 | Cathedral Quarter Hotel wanted to know about the background of the trans Tables of 10. Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on arrival community, but never knew how to ask. and Afternoon Tea with a selection of cakes, cream scones and sandwiches. Please note: Booking for this event is by phone only at QUAD on 01332 290606. Booking deadline The Party Somewhere Else: 15 is 25 May. Open Party Following two sell-out events in 2015 and 2016, we welcome back Persephone founder and owner, Nicola 3 - 4pm | FREE | Furthest from the Sea, Beauman, to talk (generally) about Persephone Books, Strand Arcade, Off Sadlergate feminism and whether we should have women-only Meet, mingle, listen, talk and laugh while we publishing houses - and indeed businesses - and discuss and wrestle with some key questions (specifically) about two ‘Suffragette’ books: No about how to get diverse female stories heard, Surrender by Constance Maud and William an published and staged. Englishman by Cicely Hamilton, already published by Persephone. The Party Somewhere Else are an East Midlands collective who champion female-led theatre and Constance Maud and Cicely Hamilton were members writing. Their Open Parties are fun debates in of the 400-strong Women Writers Suffrage League; a supportive environment, discussing issues of No Surrender was published in November 1911 when the day. the struggle for the vote was at its height; William an Open to people of all genders who wish to Englishman (1919) was conceived by Cicely Hamilton support female and non-binary voices. Whether as a suffrage novel but then became a book about the you’re a writer, performer, creative or an audience First World War. member, come along for an afternoon of open discussion on female-led writing. A third ‘Suffragette’ novel, The Call by Edith Zangwill, is due to be published by Persephone Books in This is a perfect accompaniment to Derby October 2018. Theatre’s PlayShuffle - see page 30.
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Emma Jane Kirby 4 The Optician of Lampedusa 4 - 5.15pm | £6 | QUAD Emma Jane Kirby, BBC reporter and former Foreign Correspondent, wrote The Optician of Lampedusa following her prize-winning dispatch from the front line of the migrant crisis for BBC Radio 4’s PM. It tells the story of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission. Germaine Greer 9 “We have a duty to tell people what’s happening, Women for Life on Earth but I cried every single day writing this book.” 7.30 - 9pm | £13.75/£11.75 | As Waterstones’ Book of the Month in November Guildhall Theatre 2016, the book raised £56,000 for Oxfam. (An additional £1.25 is payable for bookings by phone or in person) Her event will start with readings by some of the Germaine Greer is one of the leading voices in the young refugees and asylum seekers at Derby Feminist Movement and an outspoken writer and College who have been participating in the academic. Her ideas have created controversy ever Festival’s Engagement Programme - see page 42. since her first book, The Female Eunuch, made her a household name. Delivered in her trademark PlayShuffle:Feminist Friday 1 combative and entertaining style, Germaine will explore the future of our planet. 5.30 - 7.30pm | FREE | Derby Theatre Rehearsal Room When Welsh women turned up at the RAF base at Greenham Common in 1981, they were carrying a PlayShuffle is an open mic night for new writing, banner that read ‘Women for Life on Earth’. Theirs was designed to lift plays off the page so they can direct action, born of gut reaction, virtually innocent of stand on their own two feet. We provide the Dutch theoretical framework. courage so actors can stretch their sight-reading muscles; producers and directors test their ability to Feminists can be found wherever the planet and sniff out potential - and playwrights hear their work our fellow earthlings are in trouble. If the planet is to for the first time. survive and human beings continue to inhabit it, this female energy must be unleashed. This particular Playshuffle will celebrate strong, There will not be a book signing at this event. female-identifying characters and/or female- identifying writers. So please bear this in mind when deciding what material to show. We welcome actors, writers and audience members of all genders.
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Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter Helen Pankhurst of Emmeline and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst - will start with a discussion about the Deeds Not Words suffragette campaign, then reflect on continuity 6 - 7pm | £8 | QUAD and change in women’s lives over the last century, looking at politics, money/work, identity, Helen Pankhurst will be leading a participatory violence, culture, social norms and power. discussion on women’s lives, reflecting on the changes in the UK since the right to a Quotes from those interviewed, both pioneers parliamentary vote was first granted to some and ordinary women - in all their diversity - are women in 1918. The session will be informed by woven into her book and will be brought into findings from her new book Deeds Not Words: the discussion. The session will end by looking The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now. at priorities for the future towards 2028, the centenary of equal franchise.
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Sponsored by: Eddie Mair 4 A Good Face for Radio
8 - 9pm | £10 | QUAD Eddie’s other work, as a humanitarian and tireless, secret worker for charity is not mentioned in his One of Britain’s most beloved broadcasters, and the diary … UK’s favourite radio voice, Eddie Mair has reached the peak of his profession. For nearly 20 years Eddie has been at the helm of BBC Radio 4’s PM: a nightly news round-up that means he works for just one hour a day, giving him plenty time to knock together his diaries in A Good Face for Radio.
Whether he’s interviewing politicians, getting people to share their personal experiences, or just imparting his favourite zesty chicken recipes, Eddie is never happier than when he is at the microphone, except when he is at the microphone with a large martini.
32 Saturday 9 June Lucy Mangan 4 Bookworm: A Memoir of Festival Book Fair 12 Childhood Reading 10.30am - 3.30pm | FREE | St Peter’s Church 1 - 2pm | £8 | QUAD Sponsored by: Our Book Fair returns in the new setting of St Peter’s Church in the heart of the city. Stalls will include authors, publishers, charities and bookshops. Come and discover stories new and old, or will you take a chance on one of our mystery books? When journalist and writer Lucy Mangan was little, Beginners’ Bookbinding Workshop stories were everything. 10am - 12.30pm & 2 - 4.30pm | £39 They opened up new 5 worlds and helped her The Smallprint Company understand her own, To book: http://smallprintcompany.com/event whisking her away to Experiment with the decorative technique of Japanese Narnia, Kirrin Island and Stab Binding to create a journal, sketchbook, Wonderland. She ventured scrapbook or album. Ideal for beginners who would down rabbit holes and like to spend a couple of creative hours in the studio. womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside Micha el Stewart 4 with Milly-Molly-Mandy, and played by the tracks Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff with The Railway Children. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library or to 11am - 12noon | £6 | QUAD spend her pocket money on amassing her own Sponsored by: at home.
In Bookworm, Lucy revisits her childhood reading with wit, love and gratitude. She relives Michael Stewart has our best loved books and also unearths a few worked for many forgotten treasures. years with the Brontë Parsonage and immersed himself in the history of Wuthering Heights. In his gothic novel, Ill Will, Michael tells Heathcliff’s story after he leaves Wuthering Heights. He travels across the moors to Liverpool in search of his past - and the fortune that will one day send Heathcliff back to Cathy. Michael Stewart is a multi-award winning writer. He has written several stage plays, one of which, Karry Owky, was joint winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing. His debut novel, King Crow, was published in January 2011 and won The Guardian’s Not-the-Booker Award.
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One of Britain’s most prolific and popular authors, She has also written biographies, screenplays and Dame Margaret Drabble, was born in Sheffield was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English and went on to read English at Newnham Literature. She was awarded the 2011 Golden College, Cambridge. In 1960 she joined the Royal PEN Award for services to literature, DBE in the Shakespeare Company, at one point serving as an 2008 Honours list and has been described by The understudy for Vanessa Redgrave. Independent as ‘the mistress of English Literary She has published 19 acclaimed novels including Letters’. The Millstone, A Summer Bird-Cage, The Pure Gold Baby, Jerusalem the Golden, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and The Dark Flood Rises.
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Jessica Fellowes 4 The Mitford Murders 6 - 7pm | £8 | QUAD Sponsored by:
Based on a real, unsolved crime, The Mitford Murders is set amidst the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters. It’s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London and, most of all, her oppressive and dangerous uncle. Louisa’s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially 16-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But when a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, god- daughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train Credit: Stephen Barker Credit: Stephen in broad daylight, Nancy and amateur sleuth Louisa find that in post-war England, everyone has something Jhalak Prize Panel 4 to hide … 4.30 - 5.30pm | £8 | QUAD Jessica Fellowes is the niece of Julian Fellowes and Sponsored by: the author of the bestselling novelisations of the TV series Downton Abbey. Credit: Ruth Corney
Awarded annually, the Jhalak Prize was set up in 2016 to find the best writers of colour in the UK. 2018’s line-up is astonishing in its scope. We’re delighted to be joined by three of their finest long- and short-listed authors: Meena Kandasamy, Xiaolu Guo and Leone Ross, who will be interviewed by Catherine Johnson, Jhalak Prize judge, to discuss their extraordinary work and the importance of the prize in today’s writing landscape. Meena Kandasamy’s second novel, When I Hit You, chronicles an abusive marriage and celebrates the invincible power of art: it is a smart, fierce and courageous take on wedlock in modern India. Xialou Guo’s memoir, Once upon a time in the East, charts Xiaolu’s journey from a run-down shack to film school in a rapidly changing China, to life in Britain. An extraordinary tale of East meets West. Leone Ross’ raucous collection of short stories, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, range from richly extended stories to intense pieces of flash fiction, set between Jamaica and Britain, in a world where anything can happen. 35 Saturday 9 June
Micha el Morpurgo 1 The Mozart Question 7.30 - 8.45pm | £23.50/£21.50 Derby Theatre For ages 8+
The Mozart Question tells the story of Paolo Levi, a world-famous performer who developed his passion for music as a young child with the help of his teacher, Benjamin. Alongside this story is that of his parents who were Being David Archer 4 both musicians too – Jewish prisoners surviving, Tim Bentinck playing music in a concentration camp during the 8 - 9pm | £8 | QUAD Second World War. Treated with utmost sensitivity for Sponsored by: a family audience, The Mozart Question is a story of friendship and family, truth and secrets, interwoven by the power of culture and music. This special performance of his novel The Mozart The Archers is the world’s longest running drama Question is narrated by Sir Michael Morpurgo and series with five million loyal listeners and a theme beautifully enhanced with extracts from music by tune that Billy Connolly wants to be the National Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Vivaldi. Featuring Daniel Pioro on violin and string quartet Anthem. Tim Bentinck landed the part of the son The Storyteller’s Ensemble. of the eponymous household 35 years ago and in Being David Archer he takes the reader behind the scenes of this British institution. Unlike many acting memoirs, this isn’t a succession of thespian tales of freezing digs, forgotten lines and name dropping. It is an articulate, funny and thoughtful book of how to survive an insecure life. But there’s more to him than that … he’s a successful actor in TV, film and theatre and the voice of ‘Mind the Gap’ on the Piccadilly Line!
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Friday 25 May - Celebrating the Harry Potter 9 Books with Fleurble Laffalot Sunday 10 June 11am - 12noon and 2 - 3pm Waterstones Children’s 15 £4.50 | Guildhall Theatre Book Trail For ages 6+ Are you a fantastically beastly fan of the Harry Potter FREE | Sadlergate books? Meet Fleurble Laffalot for a family friendly Suitable for under 12s journey through JK Rowling’s much loved Harry The Children’s Book Trail returns! Wander along Potter books. Discover fun facts about the books, the forest path of Sadlergate and see what you take part in some of the key elements of life at can find in the shop windows! Pick up your quiz Hogwarts – the Sorting Ceremony, Care of Magical sheet from participating shops and return your Creatures, spells, potions … and much more. A funny answers to the White Stuff shop. You could win a and silly event for anyone who has ever wanted to Waterstones book token in our Book Trail Prize explore the magical world of Harry Potter books! Draw. Friday 1 June 10 Supported by Bloomsbury Children’s Books Family Friday: The King of Rome 10 - 11.30am | FREE | Museum & Art Gallery For 2 - 5s and their grown-ups Derby’s King of Rome was a successful racing pigeon, winning a 1,001-mile race from Rome to England in 1913. Pop along to hear the story featured in Dave Sudbury’s beautifully illustrated book. You can even meet the actual King of Rome, on display in the Nature Gallery. Saturday 2 June 16 Pickford Detectives 10am - 5pm | FREE entry | 50p per trail sheet | Pickford’s House (Until 30 June) For 7 - 12s Just like the detectives in Agatha Christie’s famous books, you too could become a detective. Someone has stolen Mary Pickford’s pearl necklace, but who is the culprit? Can you help to solve this mystery?
Storytelling with Zog 6 10.30am, 11.30am & 12.30pm | FREE | Waterstones, Derby Meet Zog, the accident-prone dragon, who wants to be the best student in dragon school. Come along and hear Julia Donaldson’s stories. 37 A Day of Magic and Spells 9 10am – 4pm Guildhall Foyer, Club Rooms and Arches Sponsored by: FREE (except for Celebrating the Harry Potter Books event)
Join us for a spellbinding - and spell making - day of magical activities with a special Celebrating Harry Potter Books event, plus crafts, music and much more … and even some feathered friends! Come along dressed as your favourite magical book character.
10.15 - 10.45am Throughout the day we’ll have lots of Children’s Magic Workshop with Merlin the magical activities for you to enjoy: Magician - Club Rooms (for 5 - 8s) The Monstrously Big Book of Spells - Have fun 11am - 12 noon drawing and colouring, or collaging and gluing, to Celebrating the Harry Potter Books with Fleurble create your own magic spell! Bring along your own Laffalott £4.50 - Guildhall Theatre. See page 37 sketches and ideas ... or just come along and join in - Guildhall Foyer
12.15 - 12.45pm Platform Art - draw your favourite magical (for CBeebies Magic Hands with Donna Mullings character or scene ... as big as you like ... If you 3+) - Club Rooms want, bring along a sketch of your favourite and we will help you bring it to life ... Arches 12.30 - 1pm Children’s Magic Workshop with Merlin the Magical Crafts - have a go at making enchanting Magician - Club Rooms (for 5 - 8s) crafts - Guildhall Foyer
Meet our Fabulous Feathered Friends - with a 2 - 3pm variety of flying birds - Market Place Celebrating the Harry Potter Books with Fleurble Laffalott £4.50 - Guildhall Theatre. See page 37 You’ll be spoilt for choice with book stalls from Oxfam and Derby Libraries’ Reading Challenge - 3.15 - 3.45pm Club Rooms CBeebies Magic Hands with Donna Mullings (for 3+) - Club Rooms Magical music with Derby Saxophone Quartet and Trombone Group - Arches Children’s Magic Workshop - Merlin the Magician will mesmerise you with his magic - and teach you Big Books produced by schools - Club Rooms some tricks to amaze your friends. The Bard on the Bus - magic and mystery with CBeebies Magic Hands with Donna Mullings Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company. Donna performs some great poems with beautiful British Sign Language interpretations and accompanied with spoken-word. In association with the Deaf Culture Festival: bringing Deaf and hearing communities together.
Most art materials will be provided and Festival Volunteers will be there to help and advise. It is essential that Parents and Carers supervise their children at all times.
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Storytelling and Face Painting 18 Dan Walker 6 11am - 4pm Readings at 1.30pm, 2.30pm & Sky Thieves 3.30pm | FREE | WH Smith, intu Derby 1 - 2pm | FREE | Waterstones Derby For 8 - 12s Pop into WH Smith as they host an inspiring and engaging afternoon full of magical storytelling and Meet Zoya DeLarose and the Sky Thieves and be face-painting. Children are also invited to join in the transported to an imaginative world where thieves illustration competition with prizes to be won! sail the skies in flying galleons encountering meteorite storms, sword fights, midnight raids, floating islands and long lost treasure. Local author Storytelling at intu Derby 2 Dan Walker will be signing, and reading from, his 11am - 4pm | FREE | intu Derby, Level 1, books. outside Boots Readings will take place every hour on the hour Paddington’s Adventure: 10 Museum Sleepover 7pm – 8am (Sunday) | £26.50 per person (10% discount for Derby Museums Family Membership)
Children of all ages are invited to experience Museum & Art Gallery For 7 - 12s I All children must be accompanied by an adult. Max. interactive storytelling at intu Derby. Each story ratio of 2 children to 1 adult. is set to give budding readers a healthy dose of To book, visit: www.derbymuseums.eventbrite.co.uk giggles, a smidgen of surprise and lots of fun. Little shoppers will also have the chance to become their Spend the night at the Museum this time in the very own page masters at the bookmark creation company of Paddington Bear as he takes you on station with a whole host of colourful ways to his world tour. There’ll be a packed programme of personalise their next read. fun activities and games. At the end of the evening you can watch the new Paddington film before a bedtime story and lights out! Enjoy sunrise and a Paddington Breakfast before heading home.
Family Day at The Smallprint 5 Company with Print a Bookmark drop-in sessions 11am - 4pm | FREE entry | £1 bookmark and origami activities | The Smallprint Company Celebrate the art of the book in a fun-packed Family Day. Meet Peter Knight, whose exhibition, Prints and Bookarts is showing in The Gallery Space and enjoy creative drop-in sessions throughout the day; print a letterpress bookmark and create an origami pencil and pen holder with Matt Edwards. 39 Thursday 7 June A Galaxy of Her Own: Women in Space 14 6 - 7pm | £7/£5 | Rolls-Royce Learning and Development Centre For ages 8+
Sunday 3 June 9 People’s Theatre Company There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly 2 - 3pm | £12/£10 | Guildhall Theatre For 2 - 7s One of the world’s best loved nursery rhymes is brought to life in this magical show with a feast of sing-along songs, colourful animal characters and heart-warming family fun. The 45th Anniversary Production. Written by Steven Lee, directed by Nick Lane. Credit: Tom Griffiths Credit: Tom From small steps to giant leaps, Libby Jackson’s A Galaxy of Her Own features fifty amazing, inspirational female role models, many of them unsung heroes, heroes in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space. From Ada Lovelace in the 19th century to the women behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to those blazing the way in the race to get to Mars. Libby Jackson’s career in the space industry began when she applied for work experience at NASA aged 17. Weeks later she was sitting in Mission Control in Houston, where she returned to work 10 years later. She is one of Britain’s foremost space experts at the UK Space Agency and recently managed their hugely successful education and Wednesday 6 June outreach programmes that supported Tim Peake’s 8 mission. Derby on Board Games 4 - 10pm - drop-in | FREE | Carnero Lounge Derby on Board Games returns with a special board games evening - all the games have a book theme. Come and join in the fun! Derby on Board Games meets regularly on the last Wednesday of the month at the Carnero Lounge. It’s a family-friendly group - everyone is welcome regardless of age, gaming knowledge or skill level.
40 Friday 8 June Saturday 9 June Tots Make and Do: Meet Goose and Read Together The Tiger who Came to Tea with Laura Wall 6 10 - 11.30am | FREE - donations welcome 10.30 - 11am and 11.30am - 12noon Museum & Art Gallery FREE | Waterstones Derby Sponsored by: For 2 - 5s and their grown-ups 10 For under 6s Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Meet award-winning, worldwide published author Judith Kerr’s story: enjoy a reading of the classic and artist Laura Wall who will read one of her tale and join in the craft activities. wonderful Goose stories – bringing this lovable character’s adventures to life as he discovers the world around him. This is followed by colouring Laura Wall: activities and a book signing by Laura and the Happy Birthday Goose chance to meet Goose. www.gooseandfriends.com 11.30am - 12.30pm | £7 for each adult and child (includes signed book and 3 Print a Poster - goody bag) | Déda Theatre For under 6s Mini Letterpress sessions 12noon - 4.15pm | £10 | The Smallprint 5
Sponsored by: Company To book: smallprintcompany.com/events Print a poster or two in a fun-filled afternoon at Smallprint HQ! Pre-book a half hour session (max. two people per session) with friends, family and print fiends alike.
Mischief and Mystery in Moominvalley Presented by Lost and Found 11am, 1pm & 3pm | £7 for each adult and child | Déda Theatre For 3 - 7s 3
Join award-winning, worldwide published author and artist Laura Wall to celebrate popular pre- school book character Goose’s 5th birthday. The Goose & Friends series of books are enjoyed by families in over 40 different countries. He is a lovable, likeable bird. He is highly curious, slightly clumsy and very silly, but with a VERY big heart. Discover the world of the Moomins where anything Families will be met by the Goose character and is possible. Based on the much-loved novels by Tove then enjoy an interactive book reading by Laura Jansson, this heart-warming show tells the story of a of Happy Birthday Goose. Party games, Goose year in Moominvalley. Moomintroll wakes up in the cupcakes (gluten free) - and a party bag with a middle of winter with a ‘something-wrongfeeling’. signed book for every young book-loving guest to top off this fantastic event. www.gooseandfriends.com Magical puppetry, original music and interactive play will delight young audiences and encourage them to be part of a unique storytelling experience. Expect snow, surprises and plenty of Moomin mischief!
41 We have a vision of bringing Shared Reading to a diverse range of groups over the next few years and Engagement are always looking for new volunteers for what is an extremely rewarding volunteering opportunity. If you Programmes: love books and like talking to people, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Shared Reading and Contact: [email protected] Shared Writing Shared Writing Since 2016 we have been developing programmes to achieve this aim and broaden the reach of the Derby College Lexis Programme Festival. This programme offers a one-year course to students aged 16 to 19, who have recently arrived Shared Reading in the UK and need to learn English before going on to further study or work. Forty-five learners have We have been running a Shared Reading Group for written a piece on how they came to Derby and residents at Parklands View Extra Care Home for about their experiences of the city. The Festival has over a year. Our volunteers and the residents read organised writing workshops run by award-winning and share a selection of poems and short stories writer, Mahsuda Snaith - see also page 15. each week. The idea of reading as ‘bibliotherapy’ is evidenced in the comments of the residents The final stories will be illustrated by the College’s who attend: “I’ve really enjoyed it - it helps me.” Art Foundation students and the best of them will “I didn’t think I’d like it and so didn’t come to the be published in a book to be launched during the first sessions, but I really look forward to it now.” Festival. “There’s no pressure to read anything - you can if you want to or you can just listen.”
The volunteers who run the Shared Reading project have seen the enormous benefits it has brought to the participants in terms of improved mental health and wellbeing.
Following the success of the group, more volunteers have already been recruited to establish new groups in both similar and different settings across the city. These include a pilot of Shared Reading with young refugees and asylum seekers studying at Derby College and three new groups in extra care homes.
42 Bemrose School Pear Tree Junior School Over 50% of pupils at Bemrose School speak English Richard O’Neill, Roma author and storyteller, has as an additional language. This year, a group of been working with a group of ten 9 to 10 year eighteen 12-year olds have been working with local olds around the theme of ‘stories into song’. The performance poet Jess Green to develop a series of stories are based on the school and the local poems about their experiences of Derby. These will neighbourhood and the children will sing their be illustrated by Laura Perks and published in the songs at one of the Festival events. book with the Lexis learners’ stories.
The Festival is also working with Derby College to encourage and support a group of 55 learners to progress to further education and training by, amongst other things, getting them involved in a range of Festival events. For example, catering students will be working with cookery writer, Kate Young, at her event on 5 June to be held at the Roundhouse - see page 18 - and BBC reporter and journalist, Emma Jane Kirby, will talk to A level English students about her career before her event on 8 June - see page 30.
43 Education Programme This year’s programme of events for Derby schools aims to inspire the pupils in their reading and writing. These events are by invitation only and are not public events. Po etry Event at Arboretum Primary The poet Rachel Rooney will lead poetry workshops for the children of Arboretum Primary School. Parents and carers are invited to a poetry performance by Rachel and the children at the end of the day. Meet the Author event for Secondary Pupils with Patrice Meet the Author event Lawrence for Years 9/10 for Primary Schools with Patrice’s debut Young Adult novel, Orangeboy, won Christopher Edge for Years 5/6 the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017. Indigo Christopher Edge will also be holding an event Donut, her second novel, met with great reviews, for Years 5 and 6 pupils, who will no doubt be and was Book of the Week in The Times, The spellbound when he introduces them to his latest Observer and The Sunday Times. novel, The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day. Meet the Author event for Nursery School event Secondary Pupils with Family Reading Event – Goose & Christopher Edge for Year 7s Friends Christopher Edge returns to the Festival for Award-winning author and artist Laura Wall will visit a second year following his memorable and a Derby nursery school (with Goose himself) to talk captivating event in 2017. His combination of about her popular pre-school book character, Goose science and literature is one that engages even and read to the children. Every child will receive a the most reluctant reader and his live performance free signed copy of Wild Goose. includes interactive experiments with his audience. Meet the Author event for Big Books Project Primary Schools with Po et Last year, the University of Derby invited infant and primary schools to be involved in a Big Rachel Rooney for Years 2/3/4 Book Challenge: to create a ‘Big Book’ including individual and whole class stories about ‘Friendship’. RacheI Rooney’s poems often revisit familiar ideas and figures from fairy tales and myths, as well This year, the Big Book Challenge is to create a as from everyday life. In 2011 her collection, The book of stories on the theme of ‘Magical Creatures’. Language of Cat, won the CLPE Poetry Award and The winning KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2 books was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal and My Life will each receive book vouchers. All entries will also as a Goldfish was shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2015. be displayed at the Guildhall on Saturday 2 June at Her next collection will be called A Kid in My Class. our Day of Magic and Spells.
44 Masterclasses Sunday 3 June 3 Katy Guest on How to Crowdfund your Book 12noon - 1pm Plus One-to-one Writer’s Surgery 1 - 2pm (10 mins sessions) £5 | Déda Meeting Room Join Katy Guest, the Commissioning Editor at Unbound, for a Masterclass in ‘How to Crowdfund your Book’. The session will pair Katy with some of Unbound’s leading authors: giving you an insight into Unbound’s innovative process and the tools to crowdfund-publish your own work. The hour-long session will be followed by one-to-one sessions (10 minutes each) where Katy will discuss your work and give you tailored advice. Katy Guest is the former Literary Editor at The Saturday 2 June 4 Independent on Sunday. She also works as a freelance journalist, frequently contributing to national Salena Godden on Po etry newspapers, including The Guardian. and Performance 3 - 5pm I £8 I QUAD This masterclass will focus on writing with authenticity. Led by Salena Godden, you will learn how to be your own narrator and how to tell your stories with your own voice. The session will enable you to have the confidence to write about your life experiences, perform authentically and to kill the ‘poetry voice’. Salena Godden is one of Britain’s foremost spoken-word artists and poets, whose electrifying live performances and BBC radio broadcasts Thursday 7 June 3 have earned her a devoted following. She is the Louis de Bernières - author of several poetry collections and her live spoken-word album was shortlisted for the Ted Fiction Surgery Hughes Award. 2 - 3.30pm I £5 I Déda Meeting Room Spend 90 minutes with Louis de Bernières asking your most important fiction questions. Louis will be on hand to give tips, advice and an insight into his own process. Louis de Bernières is an internationally-acclaimed Follow and like us on Twitter author, having written bestselling novels, short stories and poetry. His tour-de-force novel Captain Corelli’s @DerbyBookFest Mandolin won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize and was adapted for film, theatre and radio.
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With thanks to: Derby Book Festival Team Amanda Penman, Artsbeat Theresa Keogh: Festival Director Andy Powell and Stuart Leslie, HMP Foston Hall Sian Hoyle: Executive Director & Co-Founder Sandeep Mahal, Director Nottingham City of Literature Roxanne Cooper: Festival Administrator U3A, University of Nottingham Jenny Denton: Co-Founder & Engagement Programme
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From Friday 1 June to Saturday 9 June Festival Bookmarks World Cultures - Creative Writing Every year we run a Fifty Word Flash Fiction Writing Drop-in Sessions Competition. This year’s theme was ‘If Only’ and the Museum opening times, Museum & Art winning stories have been printed on our bookmarks Gallery, FREE - donations welcome and illustrated by a student from the University of Derby. Pick up your bookmarks at Festival venues Come along to the World Cultures Gallery and around the city - there are four to collect! discover the words that have been offered by volunteers and visitors in response to the diverse Taster Events range of objects from around the world. In this drop- in session you are invited to play with these words to Each year we hold Taster events in different express your personal response to the gallery - and Derbyshire communities. We will be hosting two maybe add some new words of your own. events this year, in Repton and Normanton. The events are free, but ticketed. More details can be Saturday 2 June (until 3 November) found on our website: www.derbybookfestival.co.uk Exhibition: Agatha Christie: Mysteries, Murder, Marple Saturday 19 May – 16 June and more Peter Knight - Prints and Bookarts 10am - 5pm (closed Sundays and Mondays) The Smallprint Company, FREE Pickford’s House, DE1 1DA Explorations of printmaking, text and book structures FREE - donations welcome literally unfold, as views of landscape and narratives Drawn from a private collection of books, objects, develop in the work of Crich-based artist, Peter artwork and ephemera relating to the life and works Knight, at The Smallprint Co’s The Gallery Space. of the world’s best-selling crime author, this tribute to Agatha Christie explores the mysteries that she Saturday 16 June wrote and those relating to her own life. The Writer’s Den During your visit you can also solve your very own University of Derby, Kedleston Road mystery by finding clues hidden around the house. 10am – 5pm, Tickets: £18 (bursary places available) For ages 9 - 14 Shelf-Portrait If you love writing, take part in the Writer’s Den: from Artist Roo Waterhouse’s links with the Festival date writing about music with an award-winning rock back to 2015, when she painted our Little Library. journalist to performance poetry with a national slam This year we have commissioned her to produce a champion and the chance to write fabulous fiction ‘Shelf-Portrait’ oil painting depicting books featured with a famous children’s author, the Den is the place in our four Festivals to date. Keep an eye out for to be for aspiring young writers. To book – visit: the original on display at various venues, and find http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/young-writers/ limited edition prints and cards available to buy at writers-den/ Festival events.
More festivals coming up Edge-Lit 14 July Derby Film Festival 4 - 13 May Derby Festé 27 - 29 September BlokOUT Festival 13 - 15 July Derby Folk Festival 4 - 7 October