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Borderlines 2018 brochure.indd 1 30/07/2018 09:53:28 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE Events | Workshops | Poetry & Performance | Broader Lines Thursday 27th September Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls 2pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Mike Berners-Lee, Big People in a Small Sponsored by University of Cumbria, World: How Can Humans Survive in the Institute of the Arts Anthropocene? 7.30pm, Tullie House, £6 Amanda Brooke, Writing Fiction: Let Your The 2018 One World Talk Characters Guide You in partnership with Carlisle One World Centre 3.30 – 5.30pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £12 Sponsored by Grainger & Platt Friday 28th September Chris Mullin, Hinterland – a memoir Dave Tomlinson, Black Sheep and Prodigals 4pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 7.30pm, Tullie House, £5 Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Saturday 29th September Childhood Reading Robin Ince, I’m a Joke and So Are You 6pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 7.30pm, Tithe Barn, £8 Hunter Davies in conversation with Richard Sunday 30th September Eccles, Hunter’s Cumbria Life Borderlines Quiz 8pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 7.30pm, Cakes & Ale Café, £3 in association with Cumbria Life Monday 1st October Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Susan Calman, Sunny Side Up: A Story of Blade Runner Screening & Discussion Kindness and Joy 8pm, Tullie House, £5 7.30pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £12 Sponsored by Architects Plus Saturday 6th October Jim Crumley, Writing the Seasons Tuesday 2nd October 10am, Tullie House, £6 Struan Stevenson, The Course of History: Ten Caitlin Davies Masterclass, Bringing the Past Meals That Changed the World to Life: Starting to Write Non-Fiction 7.30pm, Cakes & Ale Café, £6 10am - 1pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £25 Richard III - A Night With a Notorious Villain? Sponsored by Quilter Film Screening & Discussion Poetry Breakfast with Malcolm Carson 7pm, Tullie House, £5 10.30am – 12pm, Tullie House Function Room, £5 Wednesday 3rd October MW Craven & Vaseem Khan, Stone Circles Lamanby with Jacob Polley and Elephants – Murder Most Foul from 7.30pm, Stanwix Arts Theatre, £8 Cumbria to Mumbai 11am, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Words and Image - Graphic Novel Workshop 7.00pm, Cakes & Ale Café, £5 Kathleen Jones, The Secret Life of Catherine Cookson Thursday 4th October 11am, Carlisle Library, £4 Michael Pennington, Sweet William 7.30pm, Stanwix Arts Theatre, £8 Gavin Francis, Shapeshifters: On Medicine and Human Change Friday 5th October 12pm, Tullie House, £6 Darren Harper, Philosophy: The Mystique of Existentialism Tom George, Mindful Writing 12.30 – 2.30pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12 11am – 1pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £12

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Helen Pankhurst, Deeds Not Words Andrew White, Pitching and Writing 1pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 for Magazines Sponsored by Grainger & Platt 11am – 1pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12 Sponsored by Dodd & Co. Accountants Matt Coyne, Dummy: The Comedy and Chaos of Real-Life Parenting Joanna Cannon, Three Things About Elsie 1pm, Carlisle Library, £4 12pm, Tullie House, £6 Professor Dame Sue Black, Emma McGordan, Performance Poetry All That Remains: A Life in Death 1.30 – 3.30pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £12 2pm, Tullie House, £6 Alan Johnson in conversation with Stuart Vaseem Khan Masterclass, How to Write Maconie, In My Life Best-Selling Crime Fiction 2pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 2 - 5pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £25 Sponsored by Quilter Sponsored by Quilter Shaun Bythell, Diary of a Bookseller Caitlin Davies, Bad Girls or Freedom Fighters? 2pm, Tullie House, £6 3pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 Sponsored by the Royal Literary Fund Andrew White, The Net: Writing and Promoting On the Web Ruth Sutton, Weaving Fact and Fiction into 2.30 – 4.30pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12 a Cumbrian Story 3pm, Carlisle Library, £4 Marie-Elsa Bragg, Jackie Kay & Suzanne Bonnar in conversation with words Jim Crumley, Writing About Nature and music 3 - 5pm, Tullie House Meeting Room, £12 3.15pm, St Cuthbert’s Church, £8 Sponsored by Architects Plus Sponsored by Dodd Accountants Fiona Sampson, In Search of Mary Shelley: Graham Robb, The Debatable Land The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein 4pm, Tullie House, £6 4pm, Tullie House, £6 Lost Art Theatre, Number 8 Luke Harding, Collusion 4.15pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £8 5pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 Jackie Kay, Reflections in Poetry and Prose Stuart Maconie, Long Road from Jarrow 6pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 8pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £10 Sponsored by University of Cumbria, in association with Cumbria Life Institute of the Arts Broader Lines - The Extra Chapter Peter Hart, The Last Battle: Endgame on the An evening of poetry, music and Western Front, 1918 entertainment 6pm, Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life, £6 9pm, Cakes & Ale Café, £3 Sunday 7th October Ticket information Andy Beck, The Wainwrights Online from our website. Just click straight through 10am, Tullie House, £6 to our safe and secure online booking system. www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk Katie Hale, Provoking the Creative Brain In person from Bookends, 19 Castle Street, 10.30am – 12.30pm, Crown & Mitre Boardroom, £12 Carlisle, CA3 8SY, 9.30am – 5pm Monday – Saturday, Sponsored by University of Cumbria, 11.30am – 4pm Sunday Institute of the Arts Please note that if tickets are posted out, there will Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cromwell be an administrative fee of £1. 11am, Crown & Mitre, £8 By phone For queries only call Bookends on 07412 Sponsored by Quilter 366152 or email [email protected]

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Borderlines 2018 brochure.indd 3 30/07/2018 09:53:29 Borderlines COMPETITION Poetry Competition WIN First Prize £250 £250 Book tokens and certificates of commendation will be awarded to three runners-up The competition will be judged by Cumbrian poet, Neil Curry

ONLINE ENTRY • Poems should not be identifiable, but name and at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk/competition email address, postal address, contact number, title • Original poem of no more than 40 lines on the of the poem and your nom-de-plume should be on a theme of Remembrance. separate document. • Entry fee £5.00 per poem entered, with a POSTAL ENTRY maximum of three entries. As above, but entries should be sent to Borderlines • No poem should have been previously published in Poetry Competition, c/o Bookends, 19, Castle Street, print or online, read on radio/television or stage or Carlisle CA3 8SY, enclosing a cheque to the value of have been awarded a prize in any other competition. the number of poems entered (maximum 3) x £5, made payable to Borderlines Book Festival. • Last date for entries is August 31st 2018 The winner will be given the opportunity to read the • Entries should be submitted online at poem at Broader Lines - The Extra Chapter event on www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk as an attached Saturday October 6th. document, single-spaced, with the title of the poem, a nom-de-plume and the poem itself only in the document.

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Borderlines 2018 brochure.indd 4 30/07/2018 09:53:29 Borderlines 2018 Carlisle Book Festival WELCOME

“Borderlines will be five years old this year…in excellent health and growing bigger and more vigorous every year.”

We have loads of anniversaries this year, all over

this year’s exciting line-up of literary offerings. Photograph: Phil Rigby the shop, which of course will be reflected in There is one event to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War; two events to mark 100 years since women’s suffrage and you can’t remember it. This year, ta-da, ta-da, it is 200 years since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein mywhich 100th later book got madewill be into published. a film - don’tI rather say

doing an event, so, in a way, he could be ‘book’, lumping in collections of journalism was first published. They’ve even got a doctor celebrating the National Health Service being andcheat interviews when it comes - just toas defininglong as the what book is a has seventy years old. my name on the title page and its own ISBN. That’s how I can boast about having had so just a baby really in anniversary terms, but in many published. Drinks all round. Yes, feel free excellentBorderlines health itself and will growing be five yearsbigger old and this more year, to buy me one, after my own event on October vigorous every year. 5th… hurry hurry …. and do enjoy the rest of the festival and all it has to offer. And oh yes, I personally will be celebrating a

was published in l965, a novel set in Carlisle Hunter Davies OBE calledmilestone Here in We my Go, long-legged Round the life.Mulberry My first Bush book Honorary President

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People MIKEPeople CRAVEN MIKE CRAVEN LifeLife of of crimecrime The Carlisle crime writer Mike Craven’s new book is out this month having been snappedThe Carlisle up bycrime a major writer publisher Mike Craven’s and a new TV production book is out company.this month The having been snapped up by a major publisher and a TV production company. The former probation officer, who beat the odds to recover from a serious former probation officer, who beat the odds to recover from a serious illness, has a life story that’s as dramatic as those he creates illness, has a life story that’s as dramatic as those he creates

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Mike Craven at Mike Craven at Castlerigg Stone Circle Castlerigg Stone Circle near Keswick near Keswick

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WILL SMITH BOOK REVIEWS OF SAM READ BOOKSELLER ARTS & CULTURE LifeGuide WILL SMITH BOOK REVIEWS OF SAM READ BOOKSELLER ARTS & CULTURE LifeGuide Book of the month Lake District Fell Farming: Book of the month HistoricalLake andDistrict Literary Perspectives, Fell Farming: 1750-2017 The hunter-gatherer: how Wordsworth’s Historical and Literary Perspectives,societies which 1750-2017 solidify the The hunter-gatherer: how Wordsworth’s fellsocieties farm. We which hear solidify of floods, the bitingfell farm. winters We andhear bouts of floods, of gardening casts fresh light on his poems sheepbiting rot winters but also and the bouts region’s of gardening casts fresh light on his poems responsesheep rot to but enclosure. also the region’s Secondly,response Terry to enclosure. surveys culturalSecondly, texts Terry to see surveys where thecultural fell farm texts was to represented, see where misrepresentedthe fell farm was or omitted.represented, William Wordsworth is set misrepresented or omitted. TERRY MCCORMICK alongside popular novelist William Wordsworth is set (Bookcase, £12) Mary Ward, and Alfred TERRY MCCORMICK alongside popular novelist Wainwright’s perception of (Bookcase, £12) Mary Ward, and Alfred Here is a bold social and the landscape is compared to Wainwright’s perception of literary history of the region, William Heaton Cooper’s Here is a bold social and the landscape is compared to Over the Hill at 60 Something? seen via the ‘sturdy “de-peopled Lake District literary history of the region, William Heaton Cooper’s An Illustrated Log of Running the Lakeland Summits community’ formed from fell lunar landscapes” as Terry WORDSWORTH’S Over the Hill at 60 Something? farming.seen via theFirst, ‘sturdy Terry’s social is“de-peopled unafraid to takeLake on District big GARDENS AND FLOWERS: An Illustrated Log of RunningBarry the Lakeland artistically Summits records his historycommunity’ unpacks formed regional from fell nameslunar inlandscapes” a complex andas Terry WORDSWORTH’STHE SPIRIT OF PARADISE tumbles and triumphs as, at gatherings,farming. First, guides Terry’s and social well-writtenis unafraid tobook. take on big GARDENSPETER AND DALE FLOWERS: AND Barrythe age artistically of 60, he attempts records histo history unpacks regional names in a complex and THE BRANDONSPIRIT OF PARADISEC YEN contradictions in his poetic tumblesfell run alland the triumphs Wainwrights. as, at gatherings, guides and well-written book. PETER(ACC DALE Art Books,AND £30) works. theOver age the of course 60, he ofattempts six years, to BRANDON C YEN contradictionsPeter and inBrandon his poetic suggest fellBarry’s run alljourney the Wainwrights. is rendered in The Autobiography (ACC Art Books,here are £30) challenges to works.that William often connected Overhand-lettered the course text, of six meticu- years, The Autobiography writing books about flowersPeter and or Brandonplants with suggest key Barry’slous hand-drawn journey is mapsrendered and in of Arthur Ransome here arefigures challenges we see asto well thatmoments William of often his lifeconnected within his hand-letteredlavish glimpses text, of scenery meticu- of Arthur Ransomeand the late Roger Wardale, Twritingknown, books and about 248 years flowerspoetry. or Ofplants the many with keyflowers lous- all hand-drawnillustrating the maps and have helped this new edition afterfigures his birth we see in Cockermouthas well momentsdealt with of his here, life the within hare-bell his lavishadventure. glimpses Deer, of ravens scenery and intoand print. the late Maps, Roger archival Wardale, TWilliamknown, Wordsworth and 248 years still poetry.or (Scottish) Of the many bluebell flowers is BARRY HOLMES -fieldfares all illustrating sit alongside the photographshave helped and this Rupert new edition after hislooms birth large in Cockermouthin the nation’s dealthighlighted with here, as the a flower hare-bell which (Inspired by Lakeland, adventure.wayfinding Deer, signage ravens and anda Hart-Davis’sinto print. Maps, original archival Williamliterary Wordsworth landscape. still or (Scottish)reflected some bluebell of William’s is BARRY£14.90) HOLMES fieldfareslocked honesty sit alongside box at prologuephotographs and epilogue and Rupert feature looms largeIn their in the new nation’s book, Peter highlightedrestless, unaffiliated as a flower wildwhich spirit (Inspired by Lakeland, wayfindingHartsop. Jelly signage babies and are a butHart-Davis’s the star of theoriginal book is literaryDale landscape. and Brandon C Yen reflectedwhile insome France of William’s but would also £14.90)This charming large format lockedeaten before honesty Lord’s box Seat,at Arthur’sprologue life and story. epilogue feature In theirrecognise new thatbook, William’s Peter restless,come unaffiliatedto reflect Dorothy’s wild spirit book is the culmination of Hartsop.paths are Jelly retraced babies and are butMemories the star of of Lakeland the book is Dale andpoetry Brandon might Cfeel Yen like a whilecalming in France influence but would on his also ThisBarry charming Holmes’s large experiences format eatengradients before recorded Lord’s asSeat, warm holidaysArthur’s speak life story. of Winder- recognise‘well-ploughed’ that William’s field but here comemind. to reflect Dorothy’s bookrunning is the the culmination lengths and of the pathshumour are permeates retraced and Barry’s ARTHUR RANSOME mereMemories entirely frozen,of Lakeland of John poetrythey might shed feel fresh like light a on the calmingThe influence poetry of on William’s his Barryheights Holmes’s of the Lake experiences District. gradientsepic project. recorded as warm (Arthur Ransome Trust, £12) Ruskinholidays hiding speak in ofBrantwood’s Winder- ‘well-ploughed’poems by way field of but the here poet’s mind.son-in-law Edward Quillinan running the lengths and the humour permeates Barry’s ARTHUR RANSOME hedges,mere entirely the Collingwood frozen, of John they shedrelationship fresh light to his on manythe isThe cited poetry to explain of William’s how flowers, heights of the Lake District. epic project. First(Arthur published Ransome in 1976 Trust, but £12) familyRuskin and hiding the shipping in Brantwood’s of poemsgardens by way and of the their poet’s flowers. son-in-lawwhen pressed Edward in books,Quillinan as unavailable for many years, copper-orehedges, the from Collingwood Coniston’s relationshipReading to his in many this sense does Illustrations from the book: hare-bell and a plan for Dove Cottage is citedwith tothe explain recollected how flower,flowers, Burning Secrets ArthurFirst published Ransome’s in autobiog-1976 but mines.family Great and theliterary shipping friend- of gardensnot and mean their a domestication flowers. of whenallows pressed the reader in books, to “return as in raphyunavailable is a treat. for Geraintmany years, ships,copper-ore sailing fromexcursions Coniston’s and Readingthe poems; in this instead sense Peterdoes and Illustrationsdesigned. from We thelearn book: the hare-bellhistory andfrom a plan many for sources, Dove Cottage ranging withtheir the imagination”. recollected flower, This book Burning Secretsof Ruth Sutton’s new Lewis’sArthur prefaceRansome’s makes autobiog- clear a mines.life lived Great in London, literary Paris friend- not meanBrandon’s a domestication early discussions of of plants the Wordsworths across William’s poetry but allowsmoves the between reader to the “return Words- in Cumbrian crime drama set thatraphy numerous is a treat. hands, Geraint andships, Moscow sailing offer excursions a and unpick how gardening would gather from the local also touching on his famous worths’ world and our own, during the foot and mouth notably Christina Hardyment rewarding read. the poems; instead Peter and designed. We learn the history from many sources, ranging their imagination”. This book of Ruth Sutton’s new Lewis’s preface makes clear a life lived in London, Paris makes meaning and how the area or receive as gifts from Guide to the Lakes and his turning our eyes to writing outbreak of 2001. Ruth’s sixth Brandon’s early discussions of plants the Wordsworths across William’s poetry but moves between the Words- Cumbrian crime drama set that numerous hands, and Moscow offer a Wordsworths’ various gardens nurseries. Visions emerge of correspondence with the and human engagement with novel, Burning Secrets, draws unpick how gardening would gather from the local also touching on his famous worths’ world and our own, during the foot and mouth notably Christina Hardyment rewarding read. would always have been in the family scattered among the Beaumont family in 1806. nature. on interviews with investiga- Prolific writer, researcher and makes meaning and how the area or receive as gifts from Guide to the Lakes and his turning our eyes to writing outbreak of 2001. Ruth’s sixth Also out now... dialogue with place and fells, woods and hedgerows, The Guide provides much tors working in the county at Carnforth bookseller Billy FK Wordsworths’ various gardens nurseries. Visions emerge of correspondence with the and human engagement with novel, Burning Secrets, draws landscape. scavenging for cuttings and entertainment in Peter and Suffolk-born writer, bookseller the time to recreate the Howorth has written the fact- would always have been in the family scattered among the Beaumont family in 1806. nature. on interviews with investiga- Prolific writer, researcher and The crucial example of this seeds. However, the purpose- Brandon’s hands, drawing on and academic Will Smith has feeling of a countryside under Also out now... packed, pocket-sized Carlisle dialogue with place and fells, woods and hedgerows, The Guide provides much tors working in the county at Carnforth bookseller Billy FK is Dove Cottage in Grasmere, ful planting undertaken is William’s objections to the lived in Grasmere since 2010. siege and the problems the History Tour (Amberley, landscape. scavenging for cuttings and entertainment in Peter and the time to recreate the Howorth has written the fact- where ‘variety and density’ of emphasised, as with the mass planting of larches and Suffolk-bornHe is a bookseller writer, booksellerat Grasmere’s restrictions on movement £7.99). Edward St Aubyn’s The crucial example of this seeds. However, the purpose- Brandon’s hands, drawing on feeling of a countryside under packed, pocket-sized Carlisle planting expressed a vision practical utility of the scented his scepticism about those andSam academic Read’s Willand Smitha post-doctoral has RUTH SUTTON caused for Cumbria’s farming Dunbar (Vintage, £8.99) is nowHistory out in Tour paperback, (Amberley, is Dovewhile Cottage accommodating in Grasmere, the ful plantingsweet-pea undertaken grown near is to the William’swho would objections make to‘improve- the livedresearcher in Grasmere at the since University 2010. of (Hoad Press, £9.99) siegefamilies. and DSthe Anna problems Penrose the is a reworking£7.99). Edward Shakespeare’s St Aubyn’s wherefellside ‘variety location, and density’ alive toof the emphasised,privy, or asthe with ‘necessary’ the as the massments’ planting to the of landscape.larches and He Stirling.is a bookseller All books at reviewed Grasmere’s are restrictionslively focal characteron movement among a planting expressed a vision practical utility of the scented his scepticism about those Sam Read’s and a post-doctoral RUTH SUTTON caused for Cumbria’s farming KingDunbar Lear in(Vintage, a novel set£8.99) amidst is blurred distinctions between Wordsworths called it. Similarly, William’s love-hate available from Sam Read A missing girl, a detective well-developed group, the now out in paperback, while accommodating the sweet-pea grown near to the who would make ‘improve- researcher at the University of (Hoad Press, £9.99) families. DS Anna Penrose is a the lakes and fells of the natural and the artificial, The heavily illustrated book relationship with weeds Bookseller, Grasmere, new to the area and a family dialogue is pacy and the reworking Shakespeare’s fellside location, alive to the privy, or the ‘necessary’ as the ments’ to the landscape. Stirling. All books reviewed are lively focal character among a contemporary Cumbria. the spontaneous and the draws on in-depth research begins to tease out the many www.samreadbooks.co.uk with secrets are at the centre setting informs the story. King Lear in a novel set amidst blurred distinctions between Wordsworths called it. Similarly, William’s love-hate available from Sam Read A missing girl, a detective well-developed group, the the lakes and fells of the natural and the artificial, The heavily illustrated book relationship with weeds Bookseller, Grasmere, new to the area and a family dialogue is pacy and the 156 / AUGUST 2018 / CUMBRIA LIFE contemporaryCUMBRIA LIFE / Cumbria.AUGUST 2018 / 157 the spontaneous and the draws on in-depth research begins to tease out the many www.samreadbooks.co.uk with secrets are at the centre setting informs the story.

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Borderlines 2018 brochure.indd 6 30/07/2018 09:53:31 ABOUT BORDERLINES Borderlines 2018 Carlisle Book Festival

Thank you to our festival And our supporters cumbriacumbrialife partners, committee Proud supporter of the members, volunteers and Proud supporter of the chairpersons 20182018 Borderlines Borderlines Carlisle Carlisle BookBook Festival andand of of Cumbrian Cumbrian arts arts and and cultureculture every month

People MIKEPeople CRAVEN MIKE CRAVEN LifeLife of of crimecrime The Carlisle crime writer Mike Craven’s new book is out this month having been snappedThe Carlisle up bycrime a major writer publisher Mike Craven’s and a new TV production book is out company.this month The having been snapped up by a major publisher and a TV production company. The former probation officer, who beat the odds to recover from a serious former probation officer, who beat the odds to recover from a serious illness, has a life story that’s as dramatic as those he creates illness, has a life story that’s as dramatic as those he creates

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Mike Craven at Special thankyou to Mike Craven at Castlerigg Stone Circle Castlerigg Stone Circle near Keswick near Keswick

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WILL SMITH BOOK REVIEWS OF SAM READ BOOKSELLER ARTS & CULTURE LifeGuide WILL SMITH BOOK REVIEWS OF SAM READ BOOKSELLER ARTS & CULTURE LifeGuide Book of the month Lake District Fell Farming: Book of the month HistoricalLake andDistrict Literary Perspectives, Fell Farming: 1750-2017 The hunter-gatherer: how Wordsworth’s Historical and Literary Perspectives,societies which 1750-2017 solidify the The hunter-gatherer: how Wordsworth’s fellsocieties farm. We which hear solidify of floods, the bitingfell farm. winters We andhear bouts of floods, of gardening casts fresh light on his poems sheepbiting rot winters but also and the bouts region’s of gardening casts fresh light on his poems responsesheep rot to but enclosure. also the region’s Secondly,response Terry to enclosure. surveys culturalSecondly, texts Terry to see surveys where thecultural fell farm texts was to represented, see where misrepresentedthe fell farm was or omitted.represented, William Wordsworth is set misrepresented or omitted. TERRY MCCORMICK alongside popular novelist William Wordsworth is set (Bookcase, £12) Mary Ward, and Alfred TERRY MCCORMICK alongside popular novelist Wainwright’s perception of (Bookcase, £12) Mary Ward, and Alfred Here is a bold social and the landscape is compared to Wainwright’s perception of literary history of the region, William Heaton Cooper’s Here is a bold social and the landscape is compared to Over the Hill at 60 Something? seen via the ‘sturdy “de-peopled Lake District literary history of the region, William Heaton Cooper’s An Illustrated Log of Running the Lakeland Summits community’ formed from fell lunar landscapes” as Terry WORDSWORTH’S Over the Hill at 60 Something? farming.seen via theFirst, ‘sturdy Terry’s social is“de-peopled unafraid to takeLake on District big GARDENS AND FLOWERS: An Illustrated Log of RunningBarry the Lakeland artistically Summits records his historycommunity’ unpacks formed regional from fell nameslunar inlandscapes” a complex andas Terry WORDSWORTH’STHE SPIRIT OF PARADISE tumbles and triumphs as, at gatherings,farming. First, guides Terry’s and social well-writtenis unafraid tobook. take on big GARDENSPETER AND DALE FLOWERS: AND Barrythe age artistically of 60, he attempts records histo history unpacks regional names in a complex and THE BRANDONSPIRIT OF PARADISEC YEN contradictions in his poetic tumblesfell run alland the triumphs Wainwrights. as, at gatherings, guides and well-written book. PETER(ACC DALE Art Books,AND £30) works. theOver age the of course 60, he ofattempts six years, to BRANDON C YEN contradictionsPeter and inBrandon his poetic suggest fellBarry’s run alljourney the Wainwrights. is rendered in The Autobiography (ACC Art Books,here are £30) challenges to works.that William often connected Overhand-lettered the course text, of six meticu- years, The Autobiography writing books about flowersPeter and or Brandonplants with suggest key Barry’slous hand-drawn journey is mapsrendered and in of Arthur Ransome here arefigures challenges we see asto well thatmoments William of often his lifeconnected within his hand-letteredlavish glimpses text, of scenery meticu- of Arthur Ransomeand the late Roger Wardale, Twritingknown, books and about 248 years flowerspoetry. or Ofplants the many with keyflowers lous- all hand-drawnillustrating the maps and have helped this new edition afterfigures his birth we see in Cockermouthas well momentsdealt with of his here, life the within hare-bell his lavishadventure. glimpses Deer, of ravens scenery and intoand print. the late Maps, Roger archival Wardale, TWilliamknown, Wordsworth and 248 years still poetry.or (Scottish) Of the many bluebell flowers is BARRY HOLMES -fieldfares all illustrating sit alongside the photographshave helped and this Rupert new edition after hislooms birth large in Cockermouthin the nation’s dealthighlighted with here, as the a flower hare-bell which (Inspired by Lakeland, adventure.wayfinding Deer, signage ravens and anda Hart-Davis’sinto print. Maps, original archival Williamliterary Wordsworth landscape. still or (Scottish)reflected some bluebell of William’s is BARRY£14.90) HOLMES fieldfareslocked honesty sit alongside box at prologuephotographs and epilogue and Rupert feature looms largeIn their in the new nation’s book, Peter highlightedrestless, unaffiliated as a flower wildwhich spirit (Inspired by Lakeland, wayfindingHartsop. Jelly signage babies and are a butHart-Davis’s the star of theoriginal book is literaryDale landscape. and Brandon C Yen reflectedwhile insome France of William’s but would also £14.90)This charming large format lockedeaten before honesty Lord’s box Seat,at Arthur’sprologue life and story. epilogue feature In theirrecognise new thatbook, William’s Peter restless,come unaffiliatedto reflect Dorothy’s wild spirit book is the culmination of Hartsop.paths are Jelly retraced babies and are butMemories the star of of Lakeland the book is Dale andpoetry Brandon might Cfeel Yen like a whilecalming in France influence but would on his also ThisBarry charming Holmes’s large experiences format eatengradients before recorded Lord’s asSeat, warm holidaysArthur’s speak life story. of Winder- recognise‘well-ploughed’ that William’s field but here comemind. to reflect Dorothy’s bookrunning is the the culmination lengths and of the pathshumour are permeates retraced and Barry’s ARTHUR RANSOME mereMemories entirely frozen,of Lakeland of John poetrythey might shed feel fresh like light a on the calmingThe influence poetry of on William’s his Barryheights Holmes’s of the Lake experiences District. gradientsepic project. recorded as warm (Arthur Ransome Trust, £12) Ruskinholidays hiding speak in ofBrantwood’s Winder- ‘well-ploughed’poems by way field of but the here poet’s mind.son-in-law Edward Quillinan running the lengths and the humour permeates Barry’s ARTHUR RANSOME hedges,mere entirely the Collingwood frozen, of John they shedrelationship fresh light to his on manythe isThe cited poetry to explain of William’s how flowers, heights of the Lake District. epic project. 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Thursday 27th September Saturday 29th September 7.30pm | Tullie House | £6 7.30pm | Tithe Barn | £8 Mike Berners-Lee Robin Ince Big People in a Small World: I’m a Joke And So Are You How Can Humans Thrive in the Why do we make the Anthropocene? choices we do in life? Where does anxiety come from? Where does imagination come from? Why Borderlines 2018 sees are we like we are? the inaugural One World As a connoisseur Talk, held in partnership of comedy, Robin with Carlisle One World Ince has spent Centre, this year to decades mining our be delivered by Mike eccentricities to Berners Lee create gags - and watching other This talk will explore strange individuals how mankind can thrive do the same. And for in an era which has years on The Infinite seen such significant Monkey Cage he has human impact on the Earth’s geology and sought - sometimes in ecosystems, as well as climate change. vain - to understand Mike Berners-Lee thinks, writes, researches the world around us. and consults on sustainability and responses In this book, he unites to 21st century challenges. He is a professor these pursuits to at Lancaster University’s Institute for Social examine the human Futures, where he develops practical tools for condition through the thinking about the future and researches the prism of humour. global food system. He is the founder of Small Robin Ince is co- World Consulting (SWC), an associate company presenter of the of Lancaster University, which works with award-winning BBC Radio 4 show, The Infinite organisations from tech giants to supermarkets. Monkey Cage. He has won the Time Out His books How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, was Footprint Of Everything, and The Burning nominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Question, explore the topics of consumerism, Live show and has won three Chortle Awards. global dynamics and climate change as well as He has toured his stand-up across the world the solutions required to deal with the problem. from Oslo to LA to Sydney, both solo and with his radio double-act partner, Professor Brian Carlisle One World Centre is a local charity Cox. addressing global issues. It seeks to raise awareness of the interconnectedness of local and global issues, and how our actions – as individuals, as communities and as a nation – affect the world.

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Monday 1st October Tuesday 2nd October 7.30pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £12 7.30pm | Cakes & Ale Café| £6 Susan Calman Struan Stevenson Sunny Side Up: A Story of Kindness The Course of History: Ten Meals and Joy That Changed the World Sponsored by Many decisions Architects Plus which have had enormous Comedian and historical broadcaster Susan consequences Calman danced her way have been across our screens and made over the into our hearts for 10 dinner table, weeks on Strictly Come and have been Dancing 2017, but how accompanied (and perhaps influenced) by did this ability to find copious amounts of food and wine. In The joy change her life? Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the Cheer Up Love, Susan’s World Struan Stevenson brings to life ten such first book, had a clear moments, exploring the personalities, the issues aim: to help people and of course the food which helped shape the understand depression. Sunny Side Up has a course of history. similarly clear path: to persuade people to be kinder to each other and spread more joy. For this event, he will tell the stories of the Susan is a one-woman army of hope and joy, dining diplomacy behind three world events and she’s ready to lead the nation in a different in particular: the Battle of Culloden, the direction. assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the Austrian Anschluss. Born in Glasgow, Susan Calman escaped Struan corporate law to become Stevenson served a stand-up comedian. three terms as She’s a regular on radio a Member of and television panel the European shows like QI, The News Parliament Quiz and I’m Sorry I for Scotland Haven’t A Clue and has from 1999 to presented quiz shows 2014. He is an The Boss, Armchair award-winning Detectives and Top Class. author, lecturer, She recently appeared newspaper on Strictly Come Dancing feature writer and where she made it all the way to Week Ten. broadcaster. Even more excitingly she won the Glitterball on the Strictly Live tour. An advocate for LGBTQ and *Ticket price includes samples of two of the mental health issues, she lives with her wife and desserts that were served at these historic cats in Glasgow. dinners.

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Wednesday 3rd October Thursday 4th October 7.30pm | Stanwix Arts Theatre | £8 7.30pm | Stanwix Arts Theatre | £8 Lamanby Michael Pennington Sweet William Eminent Shakespearean actor, Lamanby is a Michael Pennington performs live literature his one-man show Sweet performance by William – a journey through award-winning the life and work of William poet Jacob Shakespeare. Acclaimed Polley, with worldwide as a unique blend of music by John showmanship and scholarship, Alder, and film Photograph: it is full of illuminating insights Nadine Alex by Ian Fenton. Inspired by Polley’s acclaimed into the plays that he has collection Jackself, and with the poet himself worked on for over 20,000 hours, as an actor reading his work live, the performance takes and director with the RSC, the National Theatre the audience on a multi-media journey through and the English Shakespeare Company. Michael an imagined childhood house that is the site of will regale us with wonderfully detailed and an alternative personal history, and a reflection entertaining interpretations of characters and and ‘dream vision’ of childhood. scenes, from Shakespeare’s theatre. He will perform excerpts from some of The Bard’s The performance resonates with voices, film, greatest work. With an informal atmosphere and monsters and music, telling a story charged plenty of humour, this show offers something for with strangeness and poetry. Lamanby everyone. movingly explores how we might hold on to what matters. “In his brilliant one-man show, Michael Pennington combines his performance skills with textual Directed by Tess Denman Cleaver. scholarship to give us as well rounded a portrait of Produced by Durham Book Festival Shakespeare as you could hope for” The Guardian and supported by Arts Council England. Michael Pennington is a Jacob Polley is regarded as leading Shakespearian actor, a one of the leading talents of noted Shakespearian scholar the new generation of British and author of many books on poets. His fourth book of the theatre. He is an Honorary poems, Jackself, won the 2016 Associate Artist of the Royal T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, Shakespeare Company and the judges describing it as ‘a a founding Artistic Director firework of a book; inventive, of the English Shakespeare exciting and outstanding in its imaginative Company. He has played many range and depth of feeling.’ His three previous of the great classical roles- Hamlet, Timon of collections are The Brink, Little Gods and The Athens, Coriolanus, Macbeth, Richard II, Antony Havocs (Picador). Both The Brink and The Havocs and Henry V as well as leading parts in non- were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and The Shakespearian plays. TV and film credits include Havocs won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, State of Play, Waking His first novel,Talk of the Town, won the 2010 the Dead, The Iron Lady and Oedipus. Somerset Maugham Award.

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Friday 5th October Friday 5th October 2pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 4pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 Pat Barker Chris Mullin The Silence of the Girls Hinterland – a memoir Sponsored by University of All serious politicians should Cumbria, Institute of the Arts possess a hinterland, but Pat Barker reimagines unlike Chris Mullin, not all the legendary Trojan do. By the time he entered War, commonly parliament, he had reported regarded as a man’s from the wars in Vietnam, story: a quarrel Laos and Cambodia. He led the successful between men over a campaign to free the innocent people convicted woman, stolen from of the Birmingham bombings. In parliament her home and spirited he was a fearless inquisitor, and went on to across the sea. But become a minister in three departments. He has what of the other also written three widely acclaimed volumes women in this story, of diaries. Hinterland is his silenced by history? autobiography. Chris Mullin

Photograph: Justine Stoddard Justine Photograph: What did they speak will be introduced by Eric when alone with each other? In this magnificent Martlew, former Labour MP historical novel, Pat Barker charts one woman’s for Carlisle. journey through the chaos of the most famous Author, journalist and former war in history, as she struggles to free herself Labour minister, Chris and to become the author of her own story. Mullin has also written three Pat Barker is one novels, the best known of of our greatest which, A Very British Coup a contemporary classic political thriller, and said to be the novel writers and the that foretold the rise of Corbyn, was made into acclaimed author a successful television series. He was the MP of The Regeneration for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010. Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Friday 5th October Door and The Ghost 6pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 Road), and the Life Lucy Mangan Class Trilogy (Life Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Class, Toby’s Reading Room and Noonday). She won the Booker When Lucy Mangan Prize for Ghost was little, stories were Road in 1995. She chooses to explore, with an everything. They opened unflinching eye, controversial subjects, including up new worlds and cast the brutality of war, to which she has so often light on all the complexities returned in her writing. Pat Barker lives in she encountered in this Durham. one. No wonder she only left the house for her Photograph: Stylist

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weekly trip to the library or to spend her pocket Richard Eccles has been money on amassing her own at home. In the editor of Cumbria Bookworm, Lucy revisits her childhood reading Life, the flagship monthly with wit, love and gratitude. She relives our lifestyle magazine covering best-loved books, their extraordinary creators, life and landscape in and looks at the thousand subtle ways they Cumbria, since 2007. He shape our lives. She also reminds us of a lives with his family in few forgotten treasures to inspire the next Caldbeck. generation of bookworms. Saturday 6th October Lucy Mangan is a columnist 10am | Tullie House | £6 for Stylist, a writer for The Guardian, and the author Jim Crumley of My Family and Other Writing the Seasons Disasters, The Reluctant Jim Crumley will talk Bride: One Woman’s Journey about nature writing, with (Kicking and Screaming) particular emphasis on his Down the Aisle and new book, The Nature of Hopscotch and Handbags: Winter and its predecessor, The Truth about Being a Girl. The Nature of Autumn, the first two volumes in Friday 5th October a quartet of the seasons. 8pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 The result of thousands of Hunter Davies hours of fieldwork covering Hunter’s Cumbria Life encounters with golden eagles, red deer, swans, in association with ravens, foxes and more, Jim will take you into Cumbria Life the heart of each season, giving a glimpse of what For thirty years, Hunter challenges and opportunities Davies and his wife, present themselves. Margaret Forster, lived half of each year in Loweswater Jim Crumley is a nature and half in London. They writer, journalist and always said it was like living poet with more than 30 twice - a rural life and an books to his name, mostly urban life. For the past ten on the landscape and years, in his entertaining and popular columns wildlife of Scotland. As a in Cumbria Life, he has written about that highly knowledgeable and Loweswater life and so much more. My Cumbria inspiring wildlife expert, he is in high demand Life has 100 of Hunter’s columns from the as a contributor for TV and radio, as well as magazine and will be his 100th published book. publications such as the Scotsman and BBC Is this a record? Hunter will be interviewed by Wildlife. He has won, and been shortlisted Richard Eccles, editor of Cumbria Life. for, a variety of awards for his journalism, and shortlisted for the Saltire Society and Hunter Davies, author and journalist, still writes Wainwright prizes for his books. a column on money in the Sunday Times, on football in the New Statesman and on any old thing in Cumbria Life.

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Saturday 6th October Vaseem Khan is the author of the bestselling 10.30am - 12pm | Tullie House Function Room | Baby Ganesh Detective Agency crime series £5 (includes a cuppa and a croissant) Poetry Breakfast with Malcolm Carson An opportunity to listen to poets reading from their own work, or for non-poets to read their favourites. Usually, around five minutes is allowed per reader and the atmosphere is Photograph: Nirupama Khan relaxed and supportive. This is the fifth year featuring Indian detective Ashwin Chopra of this very enjoyable and his baby elephant sidekick. The first book event, and of Malcolm being on hand to look in the series, The Unexpected Inheritance of after the comestibles and the proceedings. Inspector Chopra was a Times bestseller, and a Waterstones Paperback of the Year. Vaseem was Malcolm Carson was born in Cleethorpes, born in London, but spent a decade working in Lincolnshire. He studied English at Nottingham India. His latest novel is Murder at the Grand Raj University, and then taught in colleges and Palace. universities. He has had three full collections, Breccia in 2006, Rangi Changi and other poems in 2011, Route Choice, in 2016 and a pamphlet, Cleethorpes Comes to Paris in 2014, published by Shoestring Press.

Saturday 6th October 11am |Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 M. W. Craven & Vaseem Khan Stone Circles and Elephants - Murder Most Foul From Cumbria to Mumbai In this session, bestselling crime authors Carlisle-born took up a probation Vaseem Khan and M.W. Craven explore the M. W. Craven officer role in Whitehaven in 1999. Seventeen impact of location on a good murder plot. years later, at the rank of assistant chief officer, M.W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show, sets he became a full-time author. The Puppet Show, loose a serial killer amongst the Lake District’s the first in a two-book deal he signed with the prehistoric stone circles, whilst Vaseem Khan’s Little, Brown imprint, Constable in 2017, was Baby Ganesh Detective Agency series brings to released this June. It has sold in numerous life the heat and bustle of one of the world’s foreign territories and has been optioned for TV most colourful and overpopulated cities - by Studio Lambert. Mumbai. Together they will talk about their latest books, but also dissect the ways in which Vaseem Khan will also lead a crime-writing location has influenced the development of masterclass on Saturday, October 6th at 2pm their characters and plotlines. in the Crown & Mitre Hotel Boardroom

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Saturday 6th October Medicine now has 11am | Carlisle Library | £4 unprecedented power to Kathleen Jones alter our lives, but that The Secret Life of Catherine Cookson power has limitations. As he helps patients face Catherine Cookson transformations both was born in 1906, the temporary and sustained, illegitimate daughter of Francis draws on history, a domestic servant, and art, literature, myth and brought up in one of the magic to show how the very poorest communities of the essence of being human is western world. She became change. one of the most famous, Gavin Francis is a GP, and the author of True and wealthiest, writers North and Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & of the twentieth century. Emperor Penguins, which won the Scottish Book Kathleen Jones reveals the secrets Catherine of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the kept, including the identity of her father. Ondaatje Prize and Costa Prize. He also writes Kathleen Jones is a poet, for The Guardian, The Times, London Review of biographer and novelist, whose Books and Granta. He lives in Edinburgh with his subjects include Katherine wife and children. Mansfield, Norman Nicholson, TICKET OFFER: Buy a double ticket for Catherine Cookson, Christina Gavin Francis and Professor Dame Sue Black: Rossetti, and the women of All that Remains for £9 the Wordsworth and Coleridge families. Kathleen worked in Saturday 6th October broadcast journalism and is the 1pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 author of two novels and four collections of poetry. She was appointed as a Helen Pankhurst Royal Literary Fund Fellow in 2007. Deeds Not Words Sponsored by Saturday 6th October Grainger & Platt 12pm | Tullie House | £6 Gavin Francis On the 100th anniversary of Shapeshifters: On Medicine and women getting Human Change the vote, Helen Pankhurst, a leading To be alive is to be women’s rights in perpetual change: campaigner, the growing, healing, learning, great-granddaughter ageing. In Shapeshifters, of suffragette leader, award-winning writer Emmeline Pankhurst and doctor Gavin and grand-daughter Francis considers the Photograph: Virgine Naudillon of Sylvia Pankhurst, transformations in mind charts how women’s lives have changed over and body that continue the past century. Combining historical insight across the arc of human with inspiring argument, Deeds Not Words life.

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reveals how far women have come since the Matt Coyne lives in suffragettes, how far we still have to go, and Sheffield with his son how we might get there. Charlie, his partner Lyndsay and a Jack Russell terrier Dr Helen Pankhurst is a with “issues” called Eddie. senior adviser to CARE He was, variously, a toilet International, based in the UK roll packer, turnstile- and Ethiopia where her work operator, cardboard box is focused on programme folder and a sorter of and policy in urban and rural coat-hangers for Burton development, water hygiene Menswear, before gaining and women’s rights. Helen an English degree from Manchester University was an advisor and had a and ultimately setting up his own print and cameo role in the recent film, design company. As well as blogging and Suffragette. writing, Matt is a singer/songwriter with the TICKET OFFER: Buy a double ticket for band ‘Terry and Dead’ and has appeared on Helen Pankhurst and Caitlin Davies: Bad Girls compilation albums with Paul Heaton, Billy or Freedom Fighters? for £13 Bragg and Sleaford Mods.

Saturday 6th October Saturday 6th October 1pm | Carlisle Library | £4 2pm | Tullie House | £6 Matt Coyne Professor Dame Sue Black Dummy: the Comedy and Chaos of All That Remains: A Life in Death Real-Life Parenting Sue Black confronts death Matt Coyne is a hero every day. As Professor for thousands of of Anatomy and Forensic parents everywhere Anthropology, she focuses through his popular on mortal remains in her lab, Facebook blog, at burial sites, at scenes of Man vs Baby, violence, murder and criminal

which currently Aitken Janice Photograph: dismemberment, and when has over 200,000 investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident followers. Blogging or natural disaster. In the critically acclaimed success led to the All that Remains she reveals the many faces of publication of his death she has come to know, using key cases first book,Dummy to explore how forensic science has developed, - not your average and what her work has taught her. parenting tome. Packed with completely impractical advice for There is tragedy, but there is also humour in the bewildered new mum or dad, it contains stories as gripping as the best crime novel. stuff you won’t find anywhere else, and it is a Professor Dame Sue Black is one of the very funny and extremely honest look at the world’s leading anatomists and forensic mystery and madness of parenting. Matt will anthropologists. Her expertise has been crucial share his hilarious tales of becoming a first time to many high-profile criminal cases. She was Dad with BBC Radio Cumbria’s afternoon show the lead anthropologist for the British Forensic presenter, Caroline Robertson. Team’s work in the war crimes investigations in

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Kosovo and was one of the included Coleridge, Ivy Compton-Burnett, D first forensic scientists to H Lawrence and Dylan Thomas. Last year it travel to Thailand following helped 200 writers, though not all of them are the tsunami of 2004. quite so famous yet. As part of this event, poet, author and a former fellow of the RLF, Kathleen TICKET OFFER: Buy a double Jones, will describe the work carried out by the ticket for Professor Dame Fund. Sue Black and Gavin Francis: Shapeshifters for £9 TICKET OFFER: Buy a double ticket for Caitlin Davies and Helen Pankhurst: Deeds Not words, for £13 Saturday 6th October 3pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 Caitlin Davies will present a Masterclass on Caitlin Davies writing and researching historical non-fiction Bad Girls or Freedom Fighters? at 10am on Saturday October 6th in the Crown & Mitre Boardroom. Sponsored by the Royal Literary Fund Saturday 6th October In June 1906, a young 3pm | Carlisle Library | £4 woman from Lancashire Ruth Sutton became the first Weaving Fact and Fiction into a suffragette to be sent Cumbrian story to Holloway Prison, the most infamous female jail In her 2014 novel, Fallout, in Europe. Of the 1300 Ruth placed a fictional suffragettes arrested in character at the heart of the following years, most the crisis at the Windscale ended up in Holloway. What ‘crimes’ did they nuclear reactor fire in commit, why did they resist prison discipline, October 1957. Her new and how did imprisonment strengthen their book, Burning Secrets, is cause? set against the backdrop of the Foot and Mouth Caitlin Davies is the author catastrophe in Cumbria of six novels and six non- in 2001. Ruth will look fiction books, includingBad at how a novelist weaves Girls: A History of Rebels factual research and and Renegades, described fictional characters by the Sunday Times as together, and yet still do ‘an absorbing study’ and justice to both. by Jeremy Corbyn as ‘a ripping good read.’ She’s a Ruth Sutton’s family trained English teacher and roots are in West Cumbria, Royal Literary Fund Fellow, although she’s lived in and has taught writing in schools, prisons and Waberthwaite only since universities. 2007. After a lifetime working in education, she’s now retired from This talk is sponsored by the Royal Literary full-time work. When not writing and publishing, Fund, which was founded in 1790 to help Ruth spends her time fell walking and singing, professional authors. Past beneficiaries have but not necessarily both at once.

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Saturday 6th October MI6 dossier on Putin and Trump. He tells 4pm | Tullie House | £6 an astonishing story of offshore money, Fiona Sampson mobsters, money laundering, hacking and In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Kremlin espionage. This book gets to the heart of the biggest political scandal of the Who Wrote Frankenstein modern era. Russia is The life story is well reshaping the world order known. But who was to its advantage: is this the woman who lived something that should it? She’s left plenty of worry us? evidence, and in this Luke Harding is an fascinating dialogue with award-winning foreign the past, Fiona Sampson correspondent with sifts through letters, the Guardian. Between Photograph: Ekaterina Voskrese Ekaterina Photograph: diaries and records to find the real woman 2007 and 2011 he was behind the story. She uncovers a complex, the Guardian’s Moscow bureau chief and the generous character – friend, intellectual, lover Kremlin expelled him from the country in the and mother – trying to fulfil her own passionate first case of its kind since the Cold War. He is the commitment to writing at a time when to be a author of A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive woman writer was an extraordinary and costly Story of the Murder of Litvinenko ; The Snowden anomaly. Files and Mafia State, as well as the co-author Fiona Sampson is a prize- of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on winning poet and writer. Secrecy. Two of Harding’s books have been She has been published in made into films:TheFifth Estate and Snowden. more than thirty languages and has received an MBE for Saturday 6th October services to literature. A Fellow 8pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 of the Royal Society for Stuart Maconie Literature, and the recipient Long Road from Jarrow of a number of national and in association with international honours for her Cumbria Life poetry, she has worked as an editor, translator, and university professor as well as a violinist. In October 2016, writer and broadcaster Stuart Saturday 6th October Maconie walked 300 5pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 miles from Jarrow to Luke Harding London, retracing the Collusion famous Jarrow Crusade 80 years on, through Guardian journalist a divided, complex Luke Harding reveals country that echoes the true nature of 1936 in many ways. Trump’s decades- From choral evensong long relationship to curry house, from austerity to affluence, with Russia and from Wearside to Westminster, join him on an presents the gripping entertaining, impassioned, enlightening journey inside story of the through Britain then and now.

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Stuart Maconie is a Sunday 7th October bestselling author of travel, 11am | Crown & Mitre | £8 culture and social history Diarmaid MacCulloch books as well as one of Thomas Cromwell Britain’s best known radio presenters across many BBC Sponsored by Quilter networks. He also writes a Thomas Cromwell regular monthly column for is one of the most Cumbria Life. famous, even notorious, figures in English history. He Sunday 7th October rose from obscurity 10am | Tullie House | £6 to become Cardinal Andy Beck Wolsey’s ‘fixer’ in the 1520s. Within twenty The Wainwrights years of Wolsey’s Andy Beck gives a Photograph: Chris Gibbions fall, Cromwell was, in personal and emotional effect, running the insight into the trials country for Henry VIII. This persuasive and and tribulations of his definitive biography uncovers the channels of ten-year project to paint power in Tudor England and overturns many every single one of the received interpretations of Cromwell. Diarmaid 1500 views depicted MacCulloch will be in conversation with Roger by Alfred Wainwright Bolton, the presenter of Feedback on Radio 4. in his Pictorial Guides “This is the biography to the Lakeland Fells. we have been awaiting Andy will talk about his for 400 years.” Hilary self-published book, Mantel The Wainwrights in Colour which was voted The Great Outdoors Magazine’s Outdoor Book of Diarmaid MacCulloch the Year 2017 and was also the BBC Countryfile is Professor of the Magazine’s Book of the Year 2018. History of the Church in Oxford University Andy Beck is and has written a a self-taught number of award- professional winning titles: Thomas artist based Cranmer, Reformation in Teesdale and A History of in County Christianity, which was adapted into a six-part Durham. BBC television series. His new biography of He draws Thomas Cromwell is the result of six years inspiration for research in the vast Cromwell archive. his work from the landscape and wildlife which he observes on his travels and walks, mostly in Northern England and Scotland.

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Sunday 7th October Sunday 7th October 12pm | Tullie House | £6 2pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 Joanna Cannon Alan Johnson in conversation with Three Things About Elsie Stuart Maconie Joanna Cannon, In My Life the bestselling Sponsored by Quilter author of The In the same tradition as Trouble with This Boy, (Alan Johnson’s Goats and first award winning Sheep, returns memoir), In My Life vividly to Borderlines transports us to a world no to talk about longer with us - a world of her wonderful Dansettes and jukeboxes, second novel, of smoky coffee bars Three Things and dingy dance halls, of Photograph: Philippa Gedge Photograph: About Elsie, heart-felt love songs and a warm, wise, thoughtful and uplifting novel heartbroken ballads. Alan exploring the themes of ageing and long Johnson’s life has always buried secrets. The book was longlisted for had a musical soundtrack the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018. Joanna and who better than will be in conversation with teacher, writer and Stuart Maconie to talk with therapist, Helen Weston. Alan and find out how and Joanna Cannon left school at why music has been such fifteen with one O-level and an integral part of his life. worked her way through many Alan Johnson served different jobs – barmaid, kennel as Home, Health and maid, pizza delivery expert Education Secretaries – before returning to school in the Blair and Brown governments. He was in her thirties and qualifying Shadow Chancellor until 2011 and recently led as a doctor in her forties. the Remain campaign for the Labour Party. His Her work as a psychiatrist first book,This Boy, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and her interest in people on and the Orwell Prize in 2013. Please Mr Postman the fringes of society, continue to inspire her won the National Book Award for Autobiography writing. Joanna currently volunteers for Arts for of the Year 2014. Health, an organisation bringing creative arts to NHS staff and patients. She lives in the Peak Stuart Maconie is a writer and broadcaster District. familiar to millions from his books and the radio. He currently hosts the afternoon show on BBC STOP PRESS 6 music. He is the author of several best-selling Lost Art Theatre Company books, including the music- based Cider with Roadies and The People’s Songs. Number 8 4.15pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £8 Stuart Maconie also appears at Borderlines on Play based on the life of Carlisle born Saturday 6th October at 8pm in the Crown & Suffragette Maud Mary Brindley. Mitre Ballroom with a talk on his most recent book Long Road from Jarrow.

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Sunday 7th October Sunday 7th October 2pm | Tullie House | £6 3.15pm | St Cuthbert’s Church | £8 Shaun Bythell Marie Elsa-Bragg, Jackie Kay & Diary of a Bookseller Suzanne Bonnar in conversation Shaun Bythell with words and music owns The Three Northern Women Bookshop, Sponsored by Dodd & Co. Wigtown - Accountants Scotland’s largest second-hand Join Marie-Elsa Bragg, Jackie Kay and Suzanne bookshop. It Bonnar for an afternoon exploring where the contains 100,000 spirit and imagination meet through poetry and books, spread acappella song. These three women from the over a mile of north will read and sing from their own work shelving, with and the work of others twisting corridors Marie-Elsa Bragg is half and roaring Cumbrian and half French and fires, and all set was brought up in London in a beautiful, and Cumbria. She is a priest in rural town by London, an Ignatian spiritual the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? director, and a Duty Chaplain Well, almost ... In his wry and hilarious diaries, of Westminster Abbey. Her Shaun provides an inside look at the trials first novel,Towards Mellbreak , and tribulations of life in the book trade, from described as a hymn to the Cumbrian landscape, struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles was published in 2017. with his own staff, who include the ski-suit- wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with Jackie Kay was born in him on buying trips to old estates and auction Edinburgh to a Scottish mother houses, recommends books (both lost classics and a Nigerian father. She and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill was adopted as a baby and of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms brought up in Scotland by a and charms of small-town life, always with a white Scottish couple. She sharp and sympathetic eye. was made the Scottish Makar Photograph: Dennise Else Dennise Photograph: (Poet Laureate) in 2016. She Shaun Bythell is is Chancellor of the University of Salford and the owner of The Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle Bookshop in Wigtown, University. and also one of the organisers of Suzanne Bonnar, born in the Wigtown Festival. Dunoon, is a Scottish based jazz singer and actress. Amongst her acclaimed theatrical performances are the life story of Billie Holiday, I Cover the Waterfront and Every Bit of it, the life of Bessie Smith written by Jackie Kay. Robert Burns Photograph:

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Sunday 7th October Sunday 7th October 4pm | Tullie House | £6 6pm | Crown & Mitre Ballroom | £10 Graham Robb Jackie Kay The Debatable Land Reflections in Poetry The Debatable and Prose Land was an Sponsored by University of independent Cumbria, Institute of the Arts territory on the Anglo-Scottish Jackie Kay, Scotland’s border. At the much loved Makar height of its (Poet Laureate), will notoriety, it was give us an intimate the bloodiest glimpse into her region in Great own life through Britain, fought reading her poetry over by Henry VIII, and prose in her Elizabeth I and beautiful Scottish lilt.

Photograph: Philippe Matsas Flammari Photograph: James V. After Sit back and listen to the Union of the her words, ranging Crowns, most of its population was slaughtered from poems in her or deported and it became the last part of the Photograph: Dennise Else first collection,The country to be brought under the control of the Adoption Papers, where she explores identity, state. Graham Robb takes us to the present nationality, race and sexuality, to her most day, when contemporary nationalism and recent collection, Bantam where the poems ask political turmoil threaten to unsettle the cross- who we are and who we might want to be. border community once more. Jackie Kay was born in Graham Robb is an Edinburgh to a Scottish acclaimed historian mother and a Nigerian and biographer, a father. She was Fellow of the Royal adopted as a baby and Society of Literature brought up in Scotland and a Chevalier dans by a white Scottish Photograph: Dennise Else Dennise Photograph: l’Ordre des Arts et couple. The Adoption des Lettres. He has Papers won the won the Whitbread Forward Prize, a Saltire Biography Prize prize, and a Scottish and the Heinemann Arts Council Prize. Her Award for Victor novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award. Hugo, as well as the Red Dust Road, her memoir, won the Scottish Ondaatje Prize and Book of the Year Award. She was awarded an Duff Cooper Prize for MBE in 2006 and made a fellow of the Royal The Discovery of France. He lives on the Anglo- Society of Literature in 2002. She was made the Scottish border, in the Debatable Land. Scottish Makar in 2016. She is Chancellor of the University of Salford and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Photograph: Robert Burns Photograph:

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Sunday 7th October Friday 5th October 6pm | Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life | £6 11am – 1pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £12 Peter Hart Darren Harper The Last Battle: Endgame on the Philosophy: The Mystique of Western Front, 1918 Existentialism By August 1918, Existentialism the outcome of was one of the the Great War most influential was not in doubt: intellectual the Allies would movements of win. But what the 20th century, was unclear surging from its was how this 19th century defeat would Kierkegaardian play out. In The foundations Last Battle, Peter in reaction Hart, brings to against the experience of Nazi domination life the dramatic and occupation. In this workshop we will look final weeks of the war, as men fought to of some of its exponents, including Jean-Paul secure victory, with survival seemingly Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus, only days, or hours away. This is a powerful who have left a rich literary and philosophical and detailed account of history’s greatest legacy. endgame. Darren Harper has a first-class honours degree Peter Hart is the in English & Creative Writing, a PGCE, and is oral historian currently undertaking postgraduate study. He at the Imperial is the founder of the Philosophical & Literature War Museum Society, which offers a range of day and evening and has written classes in the humanities. He also teaches at several titles on various adult residential colleges throughout the First World the country. War. His latest books for Profile Friday 5th October are Gallipoli, The 3.30 – 5.30pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £12 Great War and Amanda Brooke Voices from the Writing Fiction: Let Your Front. Characters Guide You Sponsored by Anyone who purchases a ticket for this Grainger & Platt talk gets free entry to the Museum on the If you have a book in day of the event. Cumbria’s Museum of you but don’t know Military Life is run by the King’s Own Royal where to begin, why Border Regiment Trust, and is a registered not spend some charity, so donations are welcome. quality time with your characters? By the end

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of this two hour interactive There will be a 15 minute comfort break at workshop, you’ll know their 11.30am when tea and coffee will be served in greatest hopes and darkest the room. secrets, and we’ll all want to know what happens Caitlin Davies will talk about her most recent next. book, Bad Girls, at Borderlines at 3pm on Saturday October 6th in the Crown & Mitre Amanda Brooke didn’t Ballroom. start writing until she was in her mid-forties, but in Saturday 6th October the last six years she has 12.30 – 2.30pm| Tullie House Meeting Room published eight books and two novellas. Her £12 debut novel was a Richard and Judy Book Club Tom George pick and she continues to write commercial Mindful Writing fiction with an emotional pull.The Bad Mother was published in paperback in February this Mindfulness and year, and her latest title, Don’t Turn Around, is creativity are published on 1st September. combined in this unique workshop Saturday 6th October incorporating 10am - 1pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £25 meditation, Caitlin Davies Masterclass connecting with Bringing the Past to Life: Starting to the senses and finding inspiration in natural objects (rock, shells, driftwood etc.). Writing Write Non-fiction mindfully, we can reconnect with our playful Sponsored by Quilter selves and write without self-judgement. Includes fun, collaborate exercises as well as Writing narrative non- more reflective individual ones. fiction is not an easy task. You might have a Tom George is a Liverpool-based writer and great idea, but where do musician with a special interest in wellbeing you begin? How do you and mental health. As director of Mindful Arts, find the right sources to he runs workshops and retreats around the bring the past to life? Join country combining creativity with mindfulness. author Caitlin Davies in this For more information visit three-hour Masterclass, www.facebook.com/mindfularts1 which includes the chance to discuss your own non- Saturday 6th October fiction ideas. 2 - 5pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £25 Caitlin Davies is the author of six novels and six Vaseem Khan Masterclass non-fiction books, includingBad Girls: A History How to Write Bestselling Crime of Rebels and Renegades. Her non-fiction works Fiction also include Taking the Waters, a celebration of Sponsored by Quilter 200 years of outdoor bathing and Downstream: a history of swimming the River Thames. She has This three hour Masterclass will examine also written a memoir, Place of Reeds, about her the key ingredients in writing crime fiction 12 years as a journalist in Botswana. including opening scenes, characterisation, and using location. Subgenres such as cosy crime,

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psychological crime, and child, and why a healthy police procedurals will be body of nature writing briefly examined. Vaseem is essential for our own will give you the tools to country, for the world in write, finish or edit your the 21st century, and for novel, and advice on how literature. The second to make it stand out when section of the workshop submitting to today’s will involve a question-and-answer session, inundated agents and so do come with questions for Jim about the publishers. It will include a short exercise on the challenges and opportunities in writing about day. the natural world. There will be a 15 minute comfort break at Jim Crumley is a nature writer, journalist 3.30pm when tea and coffee will be served in the and poet with more than 30 books to his room. name, mostly on the landscape and wildlife of Scotland. As a highly knowledgeable and Vaseem Khan is the author inspiring wildlife expert, he is in high demand of the bestselling Baby as a contributor to TV and radio, as well as Ganesh Detective Agency publications such as the Scotsman and BBC crime series featuring Wildlife. He has won, and been shortlisted Indian detective Ashwin for, a variety of awards for his journalism, Chopra and his baby and shortlisted for the Saltire Society and elephant sidekick. The first Wainwright prizes for his books. book in the series, The Unexpected Inheritance Sunday 7th October of Inspector Chopra was 10.30am – 12.30pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom a Times bestseller, and a £12 Waterstones Paperback of the Year. Vaseem was born in London, but spent a decade working in Katie Hale India. His latest novel is Murder at the Grand Raj Provoking the Palace. Creative Brain Vaseem Khan will also be appearing at Sponsored by University of Borderlines in conversation with Carlisle crime Cumbria, Institute of the Arts writer M W Craven, on Saturday 6th October ‘Poetry is everywhere; at 11am in the Crown & Mitre Ballroom. it just needs editing.’

– James Tate. In this Saturday 6th October workshop, Katie will 3 - 5pm | Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 explore the big one: Jim Crumley inspiration. By looking Writing About the Natural World at subjects through Sponsored by an extreme zoom lens, you will find ways to Architects Plus prod yourselves out of Over two sections, with a short break between, creative lethargy – and renowned natural history writer Jim Crumley then to fan the flames will talk about nature writing, the particular of an idea once that initial match has been challenges it poses, why it is literature’s problem struck.

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Cumbrian-born Katie Hale’s debut poetry Sunday 7th October collection, Breaking the Surface (Flipped Eye), 1.30 – 3.30pm | Crown & Mitre Boardroom | £12 explores boundaries and transformation. A Emma McGordan winner of the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the Performance Poetry Ware Poetry Prize, she is currently working with Penguin Random House on her first novel,My This workshop will look name is Monster. Her poetry has been published at what makes a poem a in Poetry Review, The North and Interpreter’s spoken word piece rather House, among others. than page poetry. It will encourage participants Sunday 7th October to develop the skills they 11am – 1pm| Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 need to be confident and Andrew White engaging performers of their Pitching and Writing own work and create new work specifically for performance. for Magazines Sponsored by Emma McGordon is an award winning writer and Dodd & Co. Accountants spoken word artist. She was long-listed for Best UK Performer at the 2018 Saboteur Awards, and With a title out was the 2017 Julia Darling Fellow in association there to cover with New Writing North. She is published by Tall almost every Lighthouse and Penned in the Margins. interest, writing for magazines is Sunday 7th October actually the bread 2.30 – 4.30pm | Tullie House Meeting Room | £12 and butter work for Andrew White many writers. In this session, Andrew will The Net: Writing and outline his method Promoting On the Web of pitching ideas to The internet has opened magazine editors, up a raft of opportunities and give you hints and tips to write the feature for writers – from self- when you are commissioned. publishing to ghost blog Andrew White is one of the country’s most writing. In this session, prolific writers and broadcasters on topics as Andrew will be explaining varied as walking and railways; astronomy and how you can make money dogs, cycling and movie-making. In the last from writing on the web four years, he has written over 100 features – and how you can use for magazines such as BBC Countryfile, RAIL, social media to promote it. Coast, Your Dog, BBC Sky At Night, BRITAIN, With a long track record of features, films and Dogs Monthly, Camping, Writing, Discover Britain, contributions on the subjects of the great Outdoor Focus, Pro Moviemaker, Who Do You outdoors, railways and transport, travel, days Think You Are?, Lakeland Walker, Walk - the out, heritage, dogs, film-making, astronomy and magazine of The Ramblers and Yorkshire Walks technology, broadcaster and journalist, Andrew and Wildlife. White is in demand to tell compelling stories in whatever medium is required. His website www.andrew-white.co.uk says it all!

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Our quiz master Michael Spencer is well known BROADER LINES as a Murderer in Chief with Highly Suspect, Brand new for 2018, we are offering a diverse Cumbria’s Premiere Murder Mystery Event range of events outside the main programme, Company, whose performances guarantee aimed at introducing new audiences to the nights of fun, frivolity and fatalities. festival. Tuesday 2nd October Sponsored by 7pm | Tullie House | £5 Friday 29th September Film Screening & Discussion 7.30pm Tullie House £5 Richard III - a night with a Black Sheep and Prodigals Notorious Villain? Dave Tomlinson is a regular on the Pause for A screening of Sir Ian McKellen’s epic re- Thought slot in Chris Evans’ Radio 2 Breakfast imagining of this Shakespearian tragedy, set show. In this event he will talk about how he in an alternative 1930’s Fascist Britain. Expect sees spiritual communities as places where we exquisite period detail, fantastic locations and can explore issues of faith and spirit with open- jaw dropping set-pieces, only truly appreciated ness, imagination and creativity. His black sheep with a showing on a big screen. spirituality is one where doubts and questions are an essential part of faith; where difference The cast reads like a who’s who of cinema’s of opinion is a sign of a secure community; great and good: Sir Ian McKellen is joined by where divine revelation is embraced wherever it Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey is found, and that faith is something that is lived Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, and practised rather than embalmed in beliefs Maggie Smith, John Wood, and Dominic West. or ritual. The setting brings Shakespeare alive to modern audiences and raises very contemporary Dave Tomlinson has been a Church leader for questions about the nature of power. many years. He founded the legendary Holy Joe’s, a church in a pub in Clapham for dis- Dr Stephen Longstaffe, who formerly lectured affected people from main stream churches on film and Shakespeare at the University of and those searching for a spirituality that the Cumbria, will introduce the film and lead an regular church was not providing. He is now informal discussion in the Tullie House bar after Vicar of St Luke’s, Holloway, a thriving eclectic the screening. parish church in north London with the same open ethos. He is the author of the seminal The Film running time: 104 minutes, plus discussion. Post-Evangelical, and How to be a Bad Christian Certificate 15 and a Better Human Being. Wednesday 3rd October Sunday 30th September 7pm |Cakes & Ale | £5 7.30pm | Cakes & Ale Café | £3 Workshop Borderlines Quiz Words and Image - Graphic Novel Test your wits in our fun general knowledge Workshop quiz, with a book theme! Teams of up to six can Nick Dodds will lead you through the creative test their knowledge and compete for prizes. process for starting your own graphic novel. Cakes and Ale Quiz Nights are always a sell This will include practical exercises as well as out, so book early to avoid disappointment. A advice on a range of topics such as creating licensed bar will be available throughout the characters and scenes. Please bring your evening.

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own drawing materials. A licensed bar will be Saturday 6th October available throughout the evening. 9pm | Cakes & Ale Café | £3 Nick Dodds is an illustrator, researcher and Poetry, Music & Entertainment senior lecturer in visual culture with the Broader Lines – The Extra Chapter University of Cumbria. Nick has worked Michael Spencer presents a late evening of collaboratively on comic strip themed projects music, poets and maybe the odd panel game! with organisations such as Tullie House Gallery The event will including readings by a number in Carlisle, Copeland Arts in Whitehaven and the of Cumbrian poets whose work appears in a Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal. new anthology from Handstand Press, and He is the editor and prime mover behind the performances from Voces, the University of anthology Bagatelle, a magazine published bi- Cumbria’s acapella group. A licensed bar will be annually by the University. available throughout the evening. The ideal way to unwind after a hectic festival day. Friday 5th October 8pm | Tullie House | £5 Michael Spencer is a playwright, actor and Do Androids Dream of Electric Creative Director (Murderer in Chief!) with Highly Sheep? Blade Runner Film Screening Suspect. Philip K. Dick’s Dystopian novel, Do Android’s Handstand Press is a small publishing company Dream of Electric Sheep? was filmed by Ridley based in Dent and is run by Liz Nuttall. They Scott as Blade Runner, and has become an publish local history books and books by enduring Science Fiction classic. Cumbrian writers. Released in 1982, the film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies, and stars Harrison Ford, New for Borderlines 2018: a literary Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James themed art competition! Olmos. To enter ‘Read-Design’, use your artistic Jane Topping, will introduce the film and lead inspiration to re-interpret the cover of your an informal discussion on Blade Runner and our favourite work. Whether you have an idea for fascination for dystopian stories in literature To Kill a Mockingbird or are inspired by Catch and film after the screening. Jane is Programme 22, we would love to see your creativity and Leader of the BA (Hons) Fine Art at the imagination take flight for the festival. University of Cumbria. Blade Runner was central The winning entry will receive £50 and will have to her PhD thesis and so she brings both the their hard work showcased in the Crown & Mitre perspectives of a fan and an academic. She won Hotel Ballroom during the festival week. ‘best short film’ for her production Peter which was shown at the 5th Annual Philip K. Dick The compeititon will be judged by local artist, Science Fiction Film Festival in 2017. Graham Twyford. Film running time: 117 minutes, plus discussion. Entries cost £3 and entry is via the Certificate 12 Borderlines website. For full details visit www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk or email [email protected]

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Carlisle International Market Thursday 23 - Monday 27 August Carlisle city centre

As You Like It open-air theatre Thursday 23 August • Talkin Tarn

Carlisle Fringe Festival Friday 24 August - Sunday 2 September Various venues

Carlisle Pageant Puppet Parade Saturday 1 September • Carlisle city centre

Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival Monday 1 - Sunday 7 October • various venues

Fireshow Saturday 3 November • Bitts Park

Christmas Lights Switch-On Sunday 18 November • Carlisle city centre

Carlisle Christmas Market Wednesday 28 November - Sunday 2 December Carlisle city centre Images courtesy of www.discovercarlisle.co.uk Stuart Walker Photography Buy tickets online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk or in person at Bookends Carlisle

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How to book tickets Venues Online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk The Crown & Mitre Hotel 4 English Street, Carlisle, Cumbria In person From Bookends, 19 Castle Street, CA3 8HZ Carlisle, CA3 8SY, 9.30am-5.00pm 01228 525491 Monday-Saturday; 11.30am-4pm Sunday. www.peelhotels.co.uk Pirate Pearl and the Big Blue Monster Please note that if tickets are posted out, there will Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery be an administrative fee of £1 Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria open-air theatre For any other enquiries, please email us at CA3 8TP Thursday 9 August • Talkin Tarn [email protected] or call 07412 366152 01228 618718 Event information www.tulliehouse.co.uk Carlisle Library Carlisle International Market Timings Talks usually last one hour (unless 11 Globe Lane, Carlisle, Cumbria Thursday 23 - Monday 27 August otherwise stated), with an additional 20 minutes CA3 8NX when the author will sign books. Seating is 01228 227312 Carlisle city centre unreserved and doors will open 20 minutes www.cumbria.gov.uk/libraries before an event. St Cutbert’s Church Workshops are two hours unless otherwise stated. As You Like It open-air theatre Blackfriars Street, Carlisle Refunds In the event of a talk or workshop being CA3 8UF Thursday 23 August • Talkin Tarn cancelled, refunds will be offered, but no other 01228 521982 exchanges or refunds are available. www.stcuthbertscarlisle.org.uk Carlisle Fringe Festival The festival bookshops in the Crown and Mitre Cakes & Ale Hotel and at Tullie House are run by Bookends, 19 Castle Street, Carlisle, Friday 24 August - Sunday 2 September Carlisle’s independent bookshop. They will stock CA3 8SY Various venues books by those authors appearing at the festival. 01228 529067 After each talk, there will be the opportunity to www.bookscumbria.com meet the author and have books signed. Stanwix Arts Theatre Carlisle Pageant Puppet Parade Accessiblity Tarraby Lane, Carlisle, Cumbria Saturday 1 September • Carlisle city centre CA3 9AY Most of our venues are accessible to people with 01228 400356 disabilities. Venues have different levels of facilities www.cumbria.ac.uk/student-life/facilities/ Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival – please visit individual venue websites for more stanwix-theatre/ Monday 1 - Sunday 7 October • various venues information. Tithe Barn Publishers West Walls, Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8UF Fireshow Thank you to the following publishers for their 01228 810599 support of the Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival: Saturday 3 November • Bitts Park www.stcuthbertscarlisle.org.uk/tithebarn/ Allen Lane; Atlantic; Bantam; Birlinn; Book Mill; Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life Cumbria Life; Double Z Publishing; Doubleday; Ebury Alma Block, The Castle, Carlisle, Christmas Lights Switch-On Publishing; Faber; Flipped Eye Publishing; Hamish Cumbria Sunday 18 November • Carlisle city centre Hamilton; Handstand Press; Harper Collins; Hoad CA3 8UR Press; John Murray; Little, Brown; Mulholland Books; 01228 532774 Oberon Books; Penned In The Margins ; Picador; www.cumbriasmuseumofmilitarylife.org/ Carlisle Christmas Market Profile Books; Saraband; Sceptre; Shoestring Press; Tall Lighthouse; Two Roads; Vintage; Wellcome Wednesday 28 November - Sunday 2 December Collection; Wildfire Carlisle city centre Images courtesy of www.discovercarlisle.co.uk Stuart Walker Photography Buy tickets online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk or in person at Bookends Carlisle 29

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Libraries: visit books and cumbria.gov.uk/libraries a whole lot to fi nd out more more… We also provide… • A wide selection of titles in large print • A home delivery service for people who There’s lots to discover... have mobility problems or may have diffi culty getting to their local library • Borrow books, audiobooks, eBooks, eAudiobooks, • Health information digital magazines and newspapers; • Business information • Free computer use, and free Wifi ; • An on-going programme of events and activities for people of all ages; • Computer skills sessions for beginners; • Reading groups for young people and adults; • 24/7 online services at cumbria.gov.uk/libraries

ANNUAL ADMISSION FREE TICKET FOR CHILDREN (UNDER 18) See amazing collections of art, science and history, fantastic exhibitions and join in weekly ONLY lectures as many times as you like for a whole year £10.00 FOR THE WHOLE YEAR www.tulliehouse.co.uk Tel: 01228 618718

Borderlines 2018 brochure.indd 30 30/07/2018 09:54:06 is proud to be one of the partners of Borderlines Book Festival again this year. It’s a delight to welcome so many writers and readers to Carlisle and we wish you all a happy and stimulating festival. You’ll find us on Castle Street, just past the Cathedral and on the way to Tullie House Museum and the Castle. Whilst in Carlisle we hope you have the opportunity to visit our bookshop, one of the largest in the North, with over 30 rooms selling new and second-hand books, CDs and vinyl, and we also have a café and garden where you can relax in between those talks and discussions.

Open Mon - Sat 9.30am - 5pm, Sunday 11.30am - 4pm www.bookscumbria.com

15% discount off food in the Peace & Plenty Restaurant with this advert.

English Street • Carlisle • Cumbria • CA3 8HZ Tel: 01228 525491 www.crownandmitre-hotel-carlisle.com

Borderlines 2018 brochure.indd 31 30/07/2018 09:54:07 Pat Barker Andy Beck Mike Berners-Lee Professor Dame Sue Black Suzanne Bonnar Marie-Elsa Bragg Amanda Brooke Shaun Bythell Susan Calman Joanna Cannon Malcolm Carson Matt Coyne M.W. Craven Jim Crumley Caitlin Davies Hunter Davies Gavin Francis Tom George Katie Hale Luke Harding Darren Harper Peter Hart Robin Ince Alan Johnson Kathleen Jones Jackie Kay Vaseem Khan Diarmaid MacCulloch Stuart Maconie Lucy Mangan Emma McGordon Chris Mullin Helen Pankhurst Michael Pennington Jacob Polley Graham Robb Fiona Sampson Struan Stevenson Ruth Sutton Dave Tomlinson Andrew White

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