BOOKING RICHMOND UPON THAMES LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2013

For a full list of festival venues, see inside the back cover of this programme. I am delighted to welcome you to the Visit www.richmondliterature.com Unless otherwise stated in the programme, all events can be booked 22nd annual Richmond upon Thames for updates and to book your tickets. as follows: Literature Festival. Follow the festival news and share your thoughts on Twitter @richmondlitfest. ONLINE The festival runs throughout the whole We look forward to seeing you at the Book online at www.richmondliterature.com from 30 September. month of November and features an festival soon. exciting line up of authors, commenta- PHONE tors and leading figures from the world Rachel Tranter Call 020 8831 6494 with your credit/debit card ready. The box office is open from of journalism, television, food, history Head of Arts 30 September, Monday–Friday 10am to 4.30pm, with a message service at other times. and politics in a range of interesting and unique venues across the borough. IN PERSON Tickets are available from 30 September by cash, cheque or credit card from: Highlights from this year's main programme include Charles Moore, Gallery author of the authorized Margaret Riverside, tw1 3dj Thatcher biography speaking at Tuesday–Saturday 1pm to 4.30pm Richmond ; Sir Max Hastings; Sunday 2pm to 4.30pm novelist and journalist Daisy Waugh and the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow’s ON THE DOOR Marc Allum sharing his expertise at artsrichmond is an independent charity Tickets will be on sale 30 minutes prior to the start of the events . supporting over 100 cultural organisations at the venue concerned, subject to availability. Cash sales only. across the Borough of Richmond There will also be events on cocktails upon Thames. Throughout the year CONCESSIONS and beer, food and gardening, panel societies affiliated to artsrichmond Concessionary prices are for over-60s, those in receipt of unemployment discussions, poetry and spoken word. operate right across the cultural spectrum benefit or income support, registered disabled and under-16s, full-time Additionally, this year's programme offers in the world of music, fine arts and students and Leisure Card holders. Escorts of registered disabled go free. the opportunity to visit local publishing photography, theatre and of course Please show appropriate proof when purchasing or collecting tickets. house Harlequin UK and participate in a literature. Our community excels in the workshop with their Editorial Director. great arts events it creates and the literary OTHER BOX OFFICE NUMBERS events on offer here add to a rich local 020 8940 3633 | www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk Our exciting programme for children tapestry. 0844 871 7651 | www.atgtickets.com/richmond and young people includes an event with acclaimed author and illustrator We are delighted to be a partner in the GETTING TO RICHMOND of the Alfie series, Shirley Hughes and 2013 Literature Festival which presents Richmond is easily reached by public transport with trains departing regularly her daughter Clara Vullimay; a workshop such a diverse literary menu for you to to all stations in the borough from Waterloo and Clapham Junction. for families on contemporary art with feast on. Richmond is served by the District Line and the London Overground Train service. Jacky and Suzy Klein; and Damian Dibben, Richmond is in zone 4. author of the popular series The History David Ward Keepers, speaking at Strawberry Hill artsrichmond Chairman Journey time from central London is approximately 30 minutes. House.

www.richmondliterature.com 3 MAIN Read Right Hear: A Celebration Simon Garfield of Poetry and Spoken Word To the Letter: A Journey through Friday 1 November – 6pm a Vanishing World Whittaker Ellis Suite, Old Town Hall Sunday 3 November – 2.30pm Free (Booking advisable) Riverside Room, Old Town Hall PROGRAMME £8 / £6.50 A celebration of poetry and spoken Special £5 ticket price for Richmond word created by local young people Library Card holders through the Read Right Here project, joined by members of the Keats Letter-writing is one of the things that House Poets. makes us human, but the activity may be about to come to an end. In this The Read Right Hear project is richly illustrated talk, the bestselling developing a new online resource author of Just My Type and On the Map created by young people from the offers a delightful ode to a dwindling borough as a platform to explore the art, stretching from Roman wood chips vibrant literary heritage of Richmond discovered near Hadrian’s Wall to the upon Thames. Funded by the Clore wonders and terrors of email. To the Duffield Foundation, young people have Letter shows how correspondence has been working with poet and spoken illuminated our history and expressed word artist Stephanie ‘Sonority’ Turner our emotions, and explains why digital to map the borough’s literary locations communication is such a poor substi- and to create their own responses to tute. With examples from Jane Austen, authors who lived and worked here Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes and Charlie through the decades. Brown this event will provide foolproof instruction into how to write the The Keats House Poets Forum has perfect letter. eight core members who meet regularly to share work and support Simon Garfield is an award-winning each other's developing careers in feature writer on and poetry. They run a free poetry event author of two previous books of oral at the Keats House Museum, as well as history, both highly acclaimed. His workshops for the public. The forum is study of Aids in Britain, The End of supported by ‘Stories of the World’ and Innocence, was awarded the Somerset the Heritage Lottery fund. Maugham Prize, and the bestselling Mauve was described by as ‘a book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art’.

www.richmondliterature.com 5 artsrichmond Books for our time event Max Hastings: Catastrophe Wednesday 6 November – 7.30pm Duke Street Church £10 / £8.50

Sir Max Hastings discusses his magiste- Peter Conradi Andrew McConnell Stott rial chronicle Catastrophe, exploring the Hotdogs and Cocktails: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy calamity that befell Europe a hundred When FDR met King George VI and The Curse of Byron years ago as the continent shifted from at Hyde Park on Hudson Monday 4 November – 7pm the glamour of the Edwardian era to Sunday 3 November – 7pm the tragedy of total war. Orange Tree Theatre £8 / £6.50 £10 / £8.50 Max Hastings is the author of 25 books, Tickets from: Orange Tree Theatre In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was many of which are about war and box office 020 8940 3633 or the greatest poet of his generation for which he has won many awards, www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk and the most famous man in Britain, including the Somerset Maugham Prize but his personal life was about to erupt. and the Pritzher Military Library Between 9 and 12 June 1939, King Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and Award. George VI and Queen Elizabeth debts he sought refuge in Europe, were the guests of President Franklin taking his young doctor with him. As a journalist, he reported for the D. Roosevelt at his country estate in As an inexperienced medic with BBC and multiple newspapers from Hyde Park, New York State, during literary aspirations of his own, 64 countries and 11 conflicts, most what was the first ever visit by a Dr Polidori could not believe his luck. famously the Falklands war. He has reigning British monarch to the been both Editor in Chief of the Daily United States. At a time when Britain That summer another literary star also Telegraph and Editor of the Evening desperately needed America’s help in arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Standard and was knighted for his a conflict that now seemed inevitable, Shelley came his lover, Mary and her services to the profession in 2002. the meeting was front page news on step-sister Claire Clairmont. For the both sides of the Atlantic and imbued next three months, this party of young Sir Max will be introduced by with huge political significance. bohemians shared their lives, charged Anne Sebba, this year’s President with sexual and artistic tensions. of artsrichmond and biographer In this book Peter Conradi – who has of the Duchess of Windsor and already introduced us to the gentle, Join Andrew McConnell Stott, author Jenny Churchill, and was herself a shy figure of George VI in his bestseller of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi former foreign correspondent. The King’s Speech – recreates the and Professor of English at the backdrop to the royal visit, analysing University of Buffalo as he delves into the political background, the media’s the lives of these well know writers and reaction and telling the back stories explores this period of extraordinary both of the King and of FDR; whose creativity from which would emerge colourful personal life became the gothic masterpiece of Romantic entwined with the visit. fiction,Frankenstein ; Byron’s Childe Harold, Shelley’s Mont Blanc, and The Vampyre by John Polidori; the first great vampire novel.

6 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 7 © Tricia de Courcy Ling Courcy de © Tricia Dance in Libraries Frauke Requardt: What we Love Thursday 7 – Saturday 16 November Times – see below Richmond Lending Library FREE

As part of Richmond’s Dance in Libraries season, Richmond Lending Library will be host to a brand new site-specific dance performance by choreographer Frauke Requardt. Working in collaboration with writer Sonia Hughes and sound artist Dave Price, Frauke has conducted a series of interviews with library users to explore favourite books, memories and stories of the local area. She then interviewed her performers about what they love about dancing. The performances are inspired by these personal tales of reading; reasons to dance; the imagination and memory. A chance Performance times to re-discover the library, audiences Thursday 7 November 1.30pm and 4pm will be led through by the Friday 8 November 1.30pm and 4pm voices of its inhabitants, unlocking Saturday 9 November 11.30am and 2pm imaginations along the way. Friday 15 November 1.30pm and 4pm Saturday 16 November 11.30am and 2pm Frauke is a German director and choreographer based in London. She is Audience numbers are limited due to the currently a Work Place artist and was nature of the performance. We therefore Associate Artist at until 2006. advise booking in advance in order to She is also an artist in residence at avoid disappointment. Greenwich Dance Agency. For more information on the Dance Frauke specialises in creating work in Libraries project, please visit in unusual locations including a www.richmond.gov.uk/dance pizza restaurant in Bogota, a cafe in Richmond and the auditorium of Sadler’s Wells.

Frauke would like to acknowledge the support of Lea Anderson, Graeme Miller, Greenwich Dance Agency and The Place in the creation of this work.

8 www.richmondliterature.com Sunday The Graham Farmelo Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics Thursday 7 November – 7.30pm Richmond Lending Library £7.50 / £6 Special £5 ticket price for Richmond Library card holders

The author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man offers us a strikingly fresh view of Winston Churchill’s long political career and explores his crucial role in the develop- ment of the atom bomb during World War II.

Churchill’s Bomb reveals a new aspect of the great Prime Minister’s life that has so far been completely neglected by historians: his relations with his Daisy Waugh An invitation to a legendary weekend nuclear scientists and his management Melting the Snow on Hester Street house party at Hearst Castle offers of Britain’s policy on atomic weapons. Friday 8 November – 7.30pm them one last shot of making it in Kitson Hall the film industry. Will they sacrifice Farmelo argues that Churchill was far £10 / £8.50 everything for fame and fortune or can more interested in science than he Eleanor and Maximilian learn to love appeared and made brave attempts Novelist, columnist and journalist each other again? to understand the exciting new world Daisy Waugh has distinguished herself opened up by quantum physics in the in many fields; publishing seven novels, Last Dance with Valentino introduces us 1920s and 30s when Britain was the working as an agony aunt and writing a to the Gatsby-esque elegance of 1916 world leader in nuclear research. general lifestyle column for the Sunday New York, where Jenny Doyle, set sail Times. In this exciting event she brings from war ravaged London, finds her However, when the possibility of us her latest two novels Last Dance with only escape in her friendship with building an atomic bomb became Valentino and Melting the Snow on Rodolfo. In 1926 when America is apparent, Farmelo suggests that Hester Street – both set in silent era booming Rodolfo has taken his place on Churchill made crucial errors that Hollywood. the silver screen as Rudolph Valentino. ensured Britain’s exclusion from the Will the world’s most desired film star American led project to build the bomb. Melting the Snow on Hester Street and his lost love have their Hollywood follows the charming Hollywood happy ending, or will the tragic echoes high-society couple, actor and actress from their past thwart them one last Maximilian and Eleanor Beecham who time? appear to have it all, but beneath the sophistication and glamour of their Join bestselling author Daisy as world their insecure and unhappy she discusses her writing and gives marriage is on the brink of divorce readings from Melting the Snow on and their finances are teetering on Hester Street. a knife’s edge.

10 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 11 James Russell Eric Ravilious was only 39 when he died Charles Moore Moore’s account, the first of two Eric Ravilious: A Life in Pictures on active service as a war artist in 1942, Margaret Thatcher: volumes, begins at the moment of Saturday 9 November – 3pm yet he had already achieved amazing The Authorized Biography her birth in October 1925 and ends Coach House, Orleans House Gallery things. A brilliant wood engraver and Sunday 10 November – 7.30pm with what was perhaps her finest £7.50 / £6 designer, he is best known today for Richmond Theatre hour – victory in the Falklands in his haunting watercolours in which £18 / £15 Tickets from Richmond Theatre 1982. It paints, for the first time, lighthouses, white horses, empty box office 0844 871 7651 or a fully-rounded picture of one of the rooms and downland paths become www.atgtickets.com/richmond towering political figures of the 20th marvels. (fees apply) century – but one who also had to fight hard to cling on to power in the early In his popular series Ravilious in In 1997, seven years after the end of her years of her premiership. Pictures, author James Russell has premiership, Margaret Thatcher chose explored many of these paintings the journalist and political commenta- Join Charles Moore for what is set to be in depth, teasing out stories and tor Charles Moore to write her author- a fascinating insight into the book and characters hidden in the wings. ized biography, on condition it would his relationship with the woman known not be published in her lifetime. as ‘The Iron Lady’. This entertaining illustrated talk illuminates the life and work of a Charles was given full access to all Lady ‘Charles Moore is the perfect biographer: playful, enigmatic artist. Thatcher’s personal and government thorough, empathetic, enquiring and papers and granted extensive inter- eloquent. This is the portrayal of a views with her family and those who life well-lived, explored in a book worked most closely with her, in the well-written.’ knowledge that Lady Thatcher would Neil Hamilton, Sunday Express never read the manuscript.

12 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 13 Gworkshop ET Getting published…

Getting Published: Donna Condon joined Harlequin at the Richmond Poets: Allegra McEvedy You have written the next beginning of 2013 and is responsible for Anne-Marie Fyfe & Robyn Bolam Big Table, Busy Kitchen: bestseller… now what? a busy editorial department, focusing Tuesday 12 November – 7pm 200 Recipes for Life Monday 11 November particularly on author acquisition and Garrick’s Temple Wednesday 13 November – 7pm 6.30pm for drinks, 7.30pm for workshop key author development. £6 / £5 The Bingham Harlequin UK Offices, £15 / £13.50 Paradise Road, Richmond This workshop is a must for aspiring Two award-winning poets with (includes a glass of wine) £8 / £6.50 writers looking to get their work long-standing local connections; published or indeed for anyone who has Anne-Marie Fyfe and Robyn Bolam, A love letter through food, both to Do you see yourself as the next ever been interested in the publishing read from their latest poetry collec- her beloved mother (who died when EL James, or even JK Rowling? Join industry. tions in the enthralling surroundings of Allegra was 17) and her young daughter, Donna Condon, Editorial Director of Garrick’s Temple on Hampton Riverside. Delilah, Big Table, Busy Kitchen is the Harlequin UK, as she talks you through Maximum 20 participants. much anticipated, sumptuous new the process of manuscript to printed Anne-Marie Fyfe has run Coffee-House cookbook from renowned TV chef, book. She will offer tips and sugges- There will be pre-event drinks and Poetry’s readings and workshops at founder of Leon, and best selling food tions on how to get your story in front nibbles from 6.30pm followed by London’s Troubadour since 1997 and writer, Allegra McEvedy. of a commissioning editor and out into the workshop at 7.30pm to 9pm. has published four collections of the marketplace for the world to see! poetry, including Understudies: New Inspired by her mother’s handed-down and Selected Poems. She also taught recipe collection, Allegra lovingly Harlequin are the leading publishers in at Richmond upon Thames College created this extraordinary cookbook women’s fiction and are most famous for many years. not only for her own family, but for for the Mills & Boon brand. Reaching families everywhere. Join Allegra for over 3 million readers every year, they Robyn Bolam, who taught at a lively talk and recipe demonstration account for nearly three-quarters of St Mary’s University College, has as she discusses the heartfelt story the British romantic fiction market published three Bloodaxe collections behind the book and shares her wry alone. including New Wings and edited Eliza’s and witty observations about food, Babes, a Bloodaxe anthology of four home, love and life. centuries of women’s poetry.

14 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 15 Ben McFarland: Boutique Beer Lucy Moore – Nijinsky: A Life Thursday 14 November – 7.30pm Friday 15 November Real Ale Shop, East Twickenham White Lodge Museum £10 / £8.50 2pm for guided tour, 3pm for talk (Includes sample beer tasting) £12 / £10 (Includes entrance and guided tour of White Lodge Museum) From the author of the award winning books, Good Beer Guide West Coast USA Nijinksy. His name alone conjures up and World’s Best Beers; Boutique Beer: romance, exoticism, scandal and 500 of the World’s Finest Craft Brews tragedy. Arguably the greatest dancer is the must-have book that every of the twentieth century, Vaslav beer connoisseur should own. Nijinsky (1889–1950) transformed the world of ballet. On stage he blazed a Ben McFarland’s in-depth knowledge trail as the first male star of the modern and extensive travels means his beer era, with critics and audiences hailing hunter’s antennae is perfectly primed him the ‘God of the Dance’. In his brief to seek out the brews, the brewers and career as choreographer, his astonish- the insider knowledge that inform the ing modernist compositions – most world’s finest premium ales. This book controversially, Le Sacre du Printemps includes everything you will ever need – had the same dramatic impact on to know about beer: from an introduc- ballet as the work of Picasso had on tion to evaluating and tasting beers; painting. His turbulent relationship a study of the craft in cans; the acute with the powerful impresario, Sergei importance of glassware; to types Diaghilev propelled him to stardom, of ales including bottom-fermented but when Nijinsky escaped Diaghilev’s brews, old school classics, wild yeast control by eloping with a star struck ales, premium pilsners and left-field young follower of the Ballets Russes, lagers, hop monsters, beer cocktails, their personal and professional curiosities (unusual ingredients) and association was shattered. Unable to collaboration brews. work, Nijinsky’s world fell apart.

Triple crowned ‘British Beer In the first full-length biography of Writer of the Year’, and founder Nijinsky for over forty years acclaimed of www.thinkingdrinkers.com, Ben is historian Lucy Moore, drawing on his well known for his authoritative and diaries for the first time, introduces this entertaining style, so fill your glass, troubled genius and the world around and prepare to be amused, delighted him to a new generation, providing and well-versed as Ben takes us on an extraordinary insights into the creative irreverent and informative tour of craft processes and personal relationships of beer culture, accompanied by tastings. one of the great cultural figures of the twentieth century. Please note this will be a standing event. A guided tour of White Lodge Museum and grounds will start at 2pm and is included in the ticket price. Please contact in advance if you require disabled access. Limited parking available at White Lodge.

16 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 17 Philippa Langley & Michael Jones Funny Women presents The King’s Grave: The Search for Viv Groskop in I Laughed, I Cried Richard III – with special guests Friday 15 November – 7pm Friday 15 November – 8pm Weston Room, Riverside Room, Old Town Hall £10 / £8.50 £10

On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed 2012 Funny Women Awards finalist at Bosworth Field – the last king of Viv Groskop recounts how she took on to die in battle. The Tudor stand up and (almost) ruined her life in dynasty that supplanted him progres- her book about comedy, love and what sively denigrated his reputation – happens when you realise you have a tradition that reached its zenith wasted most of your life. Viv attempted with William Shakespeare’s caricature 100 gigs in 100 nights in a bid to work of an evil villain. out if she could hack it as a stand up. Now she reprises her five-star debut For ten years Philippa Langley and show from this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Michael Jones have shared a vision to find the real Richard – the lost king ‘…undeniably funny, lovable and buried underneath a mound inspirational. She moves with ease from of hostile propaganda. amicable chatter with her audience to amusing readings from her book’. The King’s Grave is a unique collabora- www.broadwaybaby.com tion. Philippa’s intuition and study led to the remarkable discovery of the late ‘the working mum’s version of Eddie king’s grave in the exact place she said Izzard’s 50 marathons in 50 days.’ it would be; Michael’s historical Sally Phillips, comedian and actress expertise underpinned Philippa’s screenplay and contributed to her ‘Viv Groskop tackles her mission with journey to the car park in 2004. wit, honesty and a devotion that borders on total insanity.’ This extraordinary new work puts Mark Watson, comedian Richard firmly back into the context of his times and what emerges is every Join Viv and some special guests for bit as compelling as Shakespeare’s play: this performance and raise funds for the story of the real man behind the Richmond based charity, The Victoria Tudor myth. The show is presented by Funny Foundation, that exists to provide life Women, the UK’s leading community enhancing medical assistance with the for female comedy, helping women to overall aim of improving lives where perform, write and do business with there is an opportunity to do so. humour. For more information please visit www.funnywomen.com Bar open at 7.30pm, drinks provided by Alberts Deli.

18 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 19 Madge Gill – Untitled, c.1940 Ink on Card, Henry Boxer Gallery Boxer Henry Card, on Ink c.1940 – Untitled, Gill Madge This event explores Gill’s work, history Anne O’Brien and psychic / mediumistic context The Forbidden Queen in-depth in order to question the use Sunday 17 November – 2.30pm of such terms, whilst celebrating the Coach House, Orleans House Gallery benefits of creativity for wellbeing. £7.50 / £6

Working mainly on paper, card and Best selling author Anne O’Brien’s latest textiles, in a range of sizes, Gill’s work title, The Forbidden Queen, is a glorious immerses the eye in a dark world of story of political manipulation, intense mystery, beauty and obsession. Her passion and ultimate tragedy introduc- work has been included in previous ing Katherine de Valois, wife of Orleans House Gallery Outsider and England’s hero King Henry V, who Visionary art exhibitions, the Tate launched the most famous dynasty Gallery, and more recently at the of all time. Whitechapel Art Gallery, Museum of Everything and Nunnery Gallery. Born in the West Riding area of Yorkshire, Anne O’Brien spent many Join experts in the fields of art history, years as a teacher of history. Always a Madge Gill: Medium & Visionary psychology and medical history prolific reader, she enjoyed historical Panel discussion with including Roger Cardinal (author of fiction and was encouraged to try her Roger Cardinal, David O’Flynn, Outsider Art), Henry Boxer (Henry Boxer hand at writing. Leaving teaching – Henry Boxer, Vivienne Roberts, Gallery) and Paul Camic (Psychologist) but not her love of history – Anne Paul Camic, Mark De Novellis & to discuss this fascinating artist and the wrote her first historical romance, Rob Ellis. wider context of Outsider Art, creativ- which was published in 2005. Saturday 16 November – 2pm ity and wellbeing. Coach House, Orleans House Gallery Ten historical novels and a novella later, £6 / £5 This event accompanies the exhibition Anne decided to write about ‘history Madge Gill: Medium & Visionary on that actually happened’ and was With no training and no aspirations to show at Orleans House Gallery until particularly drawn to give a voice to fame Madge Gill produced thousands 26 January 2014. some of the dynamic but often silent of ink drawings during her lifetime. women of the Middle Ages. Her work remains an enigma: is it true Supported by the Wellcome Trust she was inspired by an ethereal spirit The Wellcome Trust is a global charita- ‘Anne O’Brien has joined the exclusive guide? Was she genuinely in touch with ble foundation dedicated to achieving club of excellent historical novelists.’ ‘the beyond’, or was art-making a form extraordinary improvements in human Sunday Express of self therapy? and animal health. It supports the brightest minds in biomedical research artsrichmond in association with Join a lively panel discussion to and the medical humanities. The Trust’s Harlequin Mills and Boon learn more about artist Madge Gill breadth of support includes public (1882–1961). Gill was championed engagement, education and the and collected by Jean Dubuffet, who application of research to improve coined the term ‘art brut’ (raw art), the health. It is independent of both precursor to the term ‘Outsider Art’. political and commercial interests. Gill is considered the most important, www.wellcome.ac.uk influential and recognised British ‘outsider artist.’

20 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 21 Madge Gill – Spirit Writing (detail) c.1940 Grosvenor Gallery Grosvenor c.1940 (detail) Writing – Spirit Gill Madge workshop

Desert Island Books Michael Smith: Unreal City Sunday 17 November – 7pm Tuesday 19 November – 7pm Orange Tree Theatre The Bingham £15 / £14 £15 / £13.50 Tickets from Orange Tree Theatre (includes a glass of wine) box office 020 8940 3633 or www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk From the nights in old Soho, to the days amid the shabby post-industrial If you were marooned on a desert elegance of Hackney’s canalside island, which books would you take warehouses, Unreal City is a nostalgic with you to keep you company among love song to the drifters, artists, Inspirational Writing Workshop This evening will introduce you to the coconuts and palms, as you awaited glamorous misfits and degenerate Wednesday 20 November – writing via inspiration – allowing the rescue? waifs of London’s backstreets and 6.30pm to 8.30pm words to flow without judgement shadowy corners. Coach House, Orleans House Gallery whilst understanding their origin and Successful author and writer £6/£5 purpose in a supportive and encourag- Lee Langley is back once again, by With a property portfolio consisting ing environment. Inspirational writing popular demand, with special guests. of a beach hut in Essex and a career To accompany the Madge Gill: Medium & is a technique suitable for beginners as evanescent as it is unprofitable, the Visionary exhibition, we are holding an interested in learning more about narrator of Unreal City is a flaneur fallen introductory workshop on inspirational automatic writing and this subject area. on hard times; a creative bewildered writing, which is a technique used in by the slick speed of the digital age, various forms of therapy and in writers’ Leading the workshop will be Sarah watching as the sculptors and painters workshops around the world. Tyler-Walters whom teaches at the slip away and advertising hipsters take College of Psychic Studies and works over old stomping grounds. At this Gill was known to use ‘automatic as a teacher, healer and coach. innovative event, Michael Smith will writing’ – claiming her practice was read from Unreal City, accompanied by guided by an inner spirit called Madge Gill: Medium & Visionary a bespoke soundtrack created by the ‘Myrninerest’. exhibition is on show at Orleans House legendary producer and DJ Andrew Gallery until 26 January 2014. Weatherall and backed by film from esteemed director Wojciech Duczmal.

22 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 23 Naomi Schillinger Rhidian Brook: A Novel Concert Veg Street: Growing Dinner – Music from The Aftermath on your Doorstep Thursday 21 November – 7.30pm Thursday 21 November – 7pm St Mary’s Church, Barnes Stables Gallery, Orleans House Gallery £10 / £8.50 £7.50 / £6 Rhidian Brook’s The Aftermath was Crime Fiction Gordon Ferris is an ex-techy in the Veg Street celebrates the fact that published earlier this year to critical Panel discussion with Gordon Ferris, Ministry of Defence and an ex-partner anyone can ‘grow your own’ and that acclaim. Described as being ‘superb’ by Elly Griffiths & Sharon Bolton in one of the Big Four accountancy through vegetable growing you can ; ‘masterly’ by The Mail and Wednesday 20 November – 7.30pm firms – maybe that’s where he gets his meet your neighbours and grow your ‘beautiful’ by , it has Twickenham Library interest in spies and crooks. He is the own community too. been translated into more than 20 £7.50 / £6 author of the No. 1 bestselling eBook languages and is to be made into a Special £5 ticket price for The Hanging Shed and his latest crime A few years ago Naomi Schillinger and feature film. Richmond Library card holders novel, Pilgrim Soul was shortlisted for her neighbours started a community The CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger gardening scheme. In their street today Set in Hamburg, 1946, the novel tells Renowned crime fiction novelists Award 2013 and The Deanston Scottish no less than 100 residents have turned the story of two families; one German, Gordon Ferris, Elly Griffiths and Sharon Crime Book of the Year award. their gardens over to growing their own one British, living together in what has Bolton unite in this exciting event to fruit and veg: lettuces, leeks and become a British Occupied Zone. Music discuss the alluring genre of crime Elly Griffiths’ crime novels feature Dr beetroot; sweet peas, runner beans plays an important part in the story fiction. The evening will include a panel Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist. and rhubarb. and tonight’s event will feature discussion exploring the authors’ own The series has been shortlisted for The readings by the author together with a connections to this popular and CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2013 Naomi’s talk gives a blow by blow selection of the music featured in the versatile literary style. and is currently in development with account of how their project was book, performed by two outstanding the BBC. Elly’s latest novel in the series, started and how, over the last 5 years, musicians, concert pianist Renate Kemp Dying Fall, sees Ruth investigating the growing vegetables and front garden and rising opera singer Rhonda Browne. suspicious death of one of her old get-togethers has knitted a neighbour- friends and as she is drawn into the hood together in Finsbury Park, Rhidian Brook is an award-winning mystery, so too is her daughter, Kate. North London. writer of fiction, television drama and film. His first novel The Testimony of Sharon Bolton (previously S. J. Bolton) Whether you live in a flat with a Taliesin Jones won several prizes is the author of six critically acclaimed window box for a garden or have a including the Somerset Maugham novels. She has been shortlisted for the house with a small garden, Naomi will Award and his short stories have CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of give you plenty of ideas for fruit and appeared in numerous publications and the Year, the Theakstons Old Peculier veg that you can grow and will also have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA illustrate the power of tea and cakes in The Aftermath is currently being Dagger in the Library. Her most recent getting to know your neighbours. developed as a feature film by Ridley novel, Like This, Forever was released to Scott’s production company Scott Free popular acclaim in June this year. and BBC Films.

24 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 25 Sandra Hempel: Marc Allum: Antiques Magpie Edward Hollis Philip Ziegler: Olivier The Inheritor’s Powder Saturday 23 November – 3pm The Memory Palace: Sunday 24 November – 7pm Friday 22 November – 7.30pm Marble Hill House A Book of Lost Interiors Orange Tree Theatre Riverside Room, Old Town Hall £10 / £8.50 Sunday 24 November – 3pm £10 / £8.50 £8 / £6.50 Strawberry Hill House Tickets from Orange Tree Theatre Special £5 ticket price for BBC Antiques Roadshow’s Marc Allum £8 / £6.50 box office 020 8940 3633 or Richmond Library Card holders brings together a treasure-trove of www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk stories, anecdotes and facts from the In this dazzling new work of imagina- Local author Sandra Hempel talks wonderful world of antiques in his new tive re-construction, Edward Hollis, Hollywood superstar, Oscar-winning about her latest book The Inheritor’s book, The Antiques Magpie. Allum will author of the acclaimed The Secret Lives director and the founding Director Powder, which examines how a unveil closely-guarded insider tips on of Buildings, takes us to the sites of five of the National Theatre – this year, notorious murder case in 1833 for ever how to discover fakes and forgeries, great spaces now lost to history and celebrating its 50th Anniversary; changed the way that we investigate explore conundrums such as who pieces together fragments found there leading biographer, Philip Ziegler criminal poisoning. In the first half of invented glass, reveal the most to re-create their vanished chambers. reveals the man behind one of the the 19th century arsenic was a favourite expensive antiques ever sold, explain greatest stage actors of the twentieth murder weapon. So when an unknown the subtle differences between From Rome’s Palatine to the old Palace century, Laurence Olivier. chemist developed a science-based test collecting and hoarding and much, of Westminster; the sets of MGM to detect the poison in suspect food much more. studios in Hollywood to the pavilions of With access to more than fifty hours of and a victim’s body, everyone breathed the Crystal Palace and his own grand- candid, unpublished interviews and a sigh of relief. Now no one would dare This event is for anyone who’s ever mother’s sitting room, The Memory previously unseen letters and diaries to use arsenic again for fear of getting been fascinated by what relics of the Palace is a glittering treasure trove of Philip Ziegler will share with us all that caught – or so the thinking went. past tell us about history – and what forgotten places and the people who, he has learnt about Laurence Olivier. In fact, the reality turned out to be they are worth today. for a short time, made them their very different… home. He was as accomplished a director as he was a leading man and his affair Sandra Hempel is a journalist and Edward Hollis studied Architecture with Vivien Leigh led to a marriage author whom has written for a wide at the universities of Cambridge and as glamorous and as tragic as any in variety of popular newspapers and Edinburgh before joining a practice, Hollywood history. Offstage Olivier was magazines, including and working first on ruins and follies in the most extravagant of characters: The Sunday Times, as well as specialist Sri Lanka and then on villas, breweries generous, yet almost insanely jealous of publications. Her first book, The Medical and town halls in Scotland. He now those few contemporaries whom he Detective won the Medical Journalists’ teaches at Edinburgh College of Art deemed to be his rivals; charming but Association Book Award and The and his first book was The Secret Lives with a ferocious temper. Inheritor’s Powder has been chosen of Buildings. by BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. 'Philip has written the foreword to my book and his own book about my father is the best and truest I’ve ever read … Philip’s book is the Larry I knew' Tarquin Olivier (son of Laurence Olivier)

26 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 27 The British Beat Explosion: Rock and Roll Island Monday 25 November – 7.30pm Coach House, Orleans House Gallery £7.50 / £6

Anyone with an interest in the history of UK rock 'n' roll is familiar with the Cavern Club in . But in a far Tom Sandham: Cocktails and Tom less celebrated but no less significant the History of Spirits The Explorer Gene: How Three place, over a small bridge on an island Tuesday 26 November – 7pm Generations of One Family Went in the middle of the Thames, another The Bingham Higher, Deeper and Further Than great 60s club night played host to acts £15 / £13.50 (Includes a specially blended Anyone Before that would later make a global name for cocktail as part of ticket price) Wednesday 27 November – 7.30pm themselves. The Rolling Stones, Long Richmond, The American International John Baldry, Rod Stewart and David Expert drinks writer Tom Sandham’s University in London Bowie are among the many acts who latest book World’s Best Cocktails: 500 £8 / £6.50 performed at the legendary Eel Pie Couture Cocktails from the World’s Best Hotel during its 50s and 60s heyday, Bars and Bartenders explores the The Piccard family are an entire clan of as did jazz greats such as Cyril Davies, history of the cocktail from first boundary pushers. Great uncle Jules Ken Colyer and Acker Bilk. attempts at distillation in BC China, helped build the first hydroelectric via its golden age in early 20th-century power plant in the world. Grandfather The British Beat Explosion traces the America, to the global cutting-edge Auguste went higher than any man origins of the UK rock ‘n’ roll scene Zoë Howe is a music author whose creations of today, as well as discussing before him, becoming the first human in a collection of essays from music books include the upcoming authorised the techniques needed in order to to entire the stratosphere, in a balloon journalist and author Zoë Howe, biography of The Jesus And Mary Chain; become a successful home mixologist. he designed himself. And when his twin Michele Whitby and current owner of the authorised Slits biography Typical Examining individual spirits such as brother Jean-Felix bettered his record, the Eel Pie Club, Gina Way, as well as Girls?; ‘How's Your Dad?’ Living In The vodka, gin, rum, whisky and American Auguste constructed his own submersi- the musicians themselves. This evening Shadow Of A Rock Star Parent; and whiskey, Tom provides fascinating ble and went deeper than any man Zoë Howe will discuss in more detail she co-authored and collated former information on their history and a before him. He held the deepest dive the thrilling events of in Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson's diverse range of innovative recipes record, posthumously, for decades. The the 60s. memoir Looking Back At Me. to utilise them. third generation, Bertrand wanted to escape the family name and became a Extracts will also be shown from a new Her writing has appeared in The Whether you are at the beginning of psychiatrist. He then became the first documentary film Rock n' Roll Island that Quietus, Company, Notion, BBC Music, your cocktail journey or looking to person to circumnavigate the world in a celebrates the extraordinary musical Holy Moly, Classic Rock and NME and expand your repertoire with more balloon. Now, like his grandfather, he’s talent that emerged from South West Zoë has also made music radio series advanced techniques and recipes, allow building his own vehicle: a solar-pow- London and the part that the Island for stations including the award-win- Tom Sandham to escort you through ered plane to fly across the globe played in the UK’s cultural change. ning Resonance FM. the history of spirits and the ways in non-stop in 2015. The film has been produced as part of which they can be enjoyed, with the a Heritage Lottery Funded project that opportunity to sample a cocktail as he In The Explorer Gene, Tom Cheshire asks has taken place over the Summer of does so. how three generations of one family 2013 in Twickenham, produced by achieved such extraordinary feats. Was Aurora Metro Arts & Media. it fate, a famous family name – or their explorer genes? Tom, Associate Editor of Wired Magazine, tells this remarka- ble story of the human impulse to go to extremes.

28 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 29 The English and the Exotic: Join authors and enthusiasts of Carole Seymour-Jones in Carole Seymour-Jones was longlisted Science, Trade and Empire the Victorian and Regency eras, conversation with Anne Sebba for the Samuel Johnson prize for her in historical fiction Essie Fox, Lloyd Shepherd and She Landed by Moonlight: The Story biography of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of Panel discussion with Essie Fox, D E Meredith, as they discuss these of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: TS Eliot. Her most recent biography of Lloyd Shepherd and D E Meredith elements in relation to fiction and 'the real Charlotte Gray' Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Thursday 28 November – 7.30pm literature. Friday 29 November – 7pm Sartre, A Dangerous Liaison, received Library The Salon, York House widespread acclaim. Carole is a Visiting £7.50 / £6 Essie Fox writes Gothic Victorian £8 / £6.50 Fellow at the University of Surrey, and £5 ticket price for Richmond Library novels in which many social issues former Deputy President and chair of Card holders are raised. She is also the author of On 22 September 1943, guided only the Writers in Prison Committee of The Virtual Victorian, a blog about by the light of the September moon, English PEN, the writers’ charity. Throughout the Victorian and Regency ‘Facts, Fancies and Fabrications’ Agent Pearl Witherington, a twenty- periods Britain transformed itself related to the Victorian era. nine-year-old secretary and agent of Anne Sebba is a biographer, lecturer, beyond all imagination, politically, Special Operations Executive (SOE), journalist and former Reuters foreign scientifically and culturally. Great docks Lloyd Shepherd is the author of was parachuted into Occupied France. correspondent and, since 2012, Chair were being built to transmit British the acclaimed historical mysteries Returning to the broken country that of Britain’s 9,000 strong Society of mercantile power to the other side of The English Monster and The Poisoned raised her, and to find the man that Authors. She has written nine critically the world, even as the white spaces on Island. Set in the Regency period of the she loved, Pearl was to become one acclaimed books of non-fiction, mostly British charts were being filled in by early 19th century the novels feature of World War Two’s bravest women, about iconic women such as Enid British explorers. British scientists the proto-detective Charles Horton a real life Charlotte Gray. Bagnold, Mother Teresa, Laura Ashley (or natural philosophers, as they called investigating mysteries that are far and Jennie Churchill. Her latest themselves) were seeking to unlock more peculiar than they appear. Carole Seymour-Jones brings to life the biography is That Woman: The Life of the meanings of life’s great questions young girl with a burning spirit, who Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor and – Who Are We? Where Do We Come D E Meredith is the author of the simply wanted to fight for the country, her next book will be a history of Paris From? How Do We Relate to Nature? historical crime novels Devoured and and the man, that she loved. Leading a from 1939 – 49 through women’s eyes, Are We Man or Beast? Beast or Man? The Devil’s Ribbon, featuring early battalion of almost 4,000 men, and including resisters and spies such as forensic scientists Professor Hatton ending up with a bounty of one million Pearl Witherington, the heroine of If any century should be associated and his doughty morgue assistant, francs on her head, Pearl stands out in Carole Seymour-Jones’ book. with an independent mind and spirit, Monsieur Albert Roumande. Set in the history as one of the few women to a new way of doing things, of trans- 1850s and 60s, the series is inspired by have fought on the front line. Drawing forming things, it surely must be the the big moral, political and scientific on extensive research, including access Regency and Victorian periods bridging themes of the day. to Pearl’s previously classified files at the Nineteenth Century. This was a the National Archives, Carole Seymour- time when Britain ruled the waves, Jones will tell the extraordinary and when it spoke about colonies and heart-stopping story of one woman’s Empire, when it sought not only to determination to overcome all obsta- transform itself but all the world in cles in her fight for love and country. the process.

30 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 31 CHILDREN workshop & YOUNG Jennifer Gray & Amanda Swift WordBox:Beat Boxing and Guinea Pigs Online Spoken Word Workshop Saturday 2 November – 11am with Jason Singh Castelnau Library Saturday 2 November PEOPLE’S £3 per child 1.30–3pm: Age 8–11 4–5.30pm: Age 12–16 Join Jennifer and Amanda, creators of Whittaker Ellis Suite, Old Town Hall the hugely popular Guinea Pigs Online £5 series for a fun filled morning listening to the authors read from some of the Turn your words into sonic sound- FESTIVAL series and talk about what it’s like to scapes! You’ll work with Jason to build write stories together. There will also your own vocal soundscape, using live be the opportunity to make your own loops of your own recorded words and guinea pig characters and write your sounds. Hear your words transform to own story. become melodies, basslines, beats and backing tracks, weaving together to Jennifer Gray is a former lawyer and create an overall immersive sound. now writes children’s comedy. Her other work includes the Atticus Claw Jason Singh is a multi-disciplinary artist series. who creates and facilitates work through the mediums of sound, music, Amanda Swift is a former actress. She photography, poetry and moving image. has written for several children’s series Jason’s work is rooted in inspiring and has dramatised Jacqueline Wilson people to engage in exciting creative novels for Radio 4. She has also written experiences through performance and three novels for the 9+ age group. participation. As well as having a solo career as a Human Beatboxer/Vocal Suitable for ages 5 upwards Sculptor he also works with organisa- tions to further develop Beatboxing/ Vocal sculpting as an art form of free expressions.

32 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 33 workshop YOUNG WRITERS’ FESTIVAL 2013

artsrichmond’s Young Writers’ Festival RULES is open to all young people who either The entry rules are very simple: live or attend schools/clubs in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Entrants may write about any subject of their choice, in any form, not It is a chance to show off your writing exceeding 500 words, or 25 lines for skills in any form: stories, descriptive a poem, in a typed format. Extracts writing, poems, playlets, lyrics for from longer pieces will be accepted. songs, blogs – whatever your imagi- nation can devise. Entries will be judged in the following age categories: Jacky & Suzy Klein Literature Festival Tea Party Entries are judged in four age groups What is Contemporary Art? for under 5’s with prizes for all shortlisted entrants. • School Years 4 and under Workshop for Children and Families Saturday 16 November – 11am • School Years 5 and 6 Saturday 9 November – 10.30am Coach House, Orleans House Gallery In addition artsrichmond appoint a • School Years 7 to 10 Old Sorting Office, Barnes £4 per child Young Laureate with an award of £200 • School Years 11 and over £4 per ticket and a Junior Laureate awarded £100, Join us for a morning of literary fun at and provide opportunities during the Send your entry to: Why do some artists use elephant dung our charming festival tea party. Come following year to write about events artsrichmond and crushed cars to make their art? dressed as your favourite character, taking place in the borough, for 3 Phoenix Wharf, Eel Pie Island, Who was obsessed by the colour blue? bring a beloved book or special toy possible publication. Twickenham TW1 3DY And how can you make a painting using and enjoy making and creating with your eyelashes? Come along to this our literary themed arts and crafts The Laureate Awards are being or e-mail: interactive workshop led by Jacky and activities. generously supported this year by [email protected] Suzy Klein to find out the answers to the Barnes Literary Society to these – and many more – questions Light refreshments included celebrate their 10th Anniversary. Please give your full name, address, about contemporary art. in ticket price. telephone number, e-mail, date of All shortlisted entrants will be invited birth, school year and school/club Fun and informative, this event looks at to a gala awards event at the Orange you are attending in a covering letter/ some of the great artists of the last 50 Tree Theatre in early 2014. message (not on the entry itself). years, including Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst – encouraging children to explore and understand some of the most exciting art of our time.

Deadline for entries: 10 January 2014 Worksheets, pens and pencils provided. Suitable for children aged 7 upwards and artsrichmond is an independent charity supporting the arts and libraries in and their parents. around the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames. For further information: www.artsrichmond.org.uk www.richmondliterature.com 35 workshop Twickenham Poetry Competition!

Calling all young poets living or studying in the London Borough Sponsored by SRB and organised of Richmond. by the Church Street Association and Crusader Travel If you are a regular rhymer, an occasional poet or simply like the idea of sharing your thoughts about where you live or study, Stone Rowe Brewer Solicitors in why not take part in our ‘Twickenham Poetry Competition’ which Church Street are delighted to is brand new to this year’s Richmond Literature Festival. be sponsoring this year’s Twick- enham Poetry Competition and Say it with Type: Typography Shirley Hughes & Clara Vullimay If you are aged between 4-16 years we would love to hear from you. hope that every young person workshop with Sam Skinner Introducing Dixie O’Day All poems should be on the subject of ‘Twickenham’ and all styles who takes part enjoys writing Saturday 16 November Saturday 23 November – 11am of poetry are welcome. Embrace your inner poet and share your about living in, or coming from, 1.30–3pm: Age 12–16 Orange Tree Theatre voice with other young people in this exciting competition sponsored our special town on the bank of 4–6pm: Age 16+ £5 per ticket by the SRB and organised by the Church Street Association and the Thames. Whittaker Ellis Suite, Old Town Hall Tickets from Orange Tree Theatre Crusader Travel. £5 box office 020 8940 3633 or The competition, which is part of www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk All entries must be received by Saturday 23 November, with winners the Richmond Literature Festival, Typography can bring the written word invited to attend a prize giving ceremony on Saturday 30 November. allows 4-16 year-olds to express to life – from illuminated manuscripts Join acclaimed children’s author Shirley their creativity and imagination to book jacket designs, it plays an Hughes and her daughter, author RULES using the written word, and, as a important part in our relationship illustrator Clara Vullimay, as they company, Stone Rowe Brewer is with literature. Artist Sam Skinner will introduce their first collaboration, 1. Entrants may submit a poem of any length, as long proud to support and encourage lead a workshop that explores artists’ Dixie O’Day, and talk about the wonder- as the subject of the piece is ‘Twickenham’. talented, young, local writers. and designers’ use of language and ful japes and scrapes their characters, 2. All entrants must live or study in the borough of type, in which participants can try Dixie and Percy get up to in their shiny Richmond upon Thames. Good luck with your entries – but their hand at a variety of lettering red sports car. Whilst Shirley reads 3. Entries will be judged in the following age categories: most importantly – enjoy writing techniques, including: cut-and-paste about the pair’s adventures Clara will • 4–7yrs • 8–11 yrs • 12–16 yrs your poems! punk typography, stencilling, calligra- bring Dixie, Percy and their marvellous One winner and one runner up will be selected from phy and concrete poetry. Come motors to life, drawing them in front of each category John Andrews prepared with poems, texts and your the audience. 4. Entrants should give their full name, address, telephone Stone Rowe Brewer LLP favourite sayings and quotes ready to number, date of birth and email address with their entry. turn them into works of art! Shirley is best known for her much 4. Please send two copies of your submission to: loved characters Alfie and Dogger, Twickenham Poetry Competition Sam Skinner is a visual artist, archivist whilst Clara is the creator of several c/o Arts Events Coordinator and set-designer. He specialises in picture books. Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham TW1 3DJ collaborative visual work with festivals, Or E-mail [email protected] with the arts organisations and production Suitable for ages 5 – 7 subject line ‘Twickenham Poetry competition’ companies.

All entries must be received by Saturday 23 November www.richmondliterature.com 37 workshop

The Read Right Hear project is developing a new online Read Right Hear: Family Workshop Damian Dibben: resource created by young people from the borough as with Sonority Turner The History Keepers a platform to explore the vibrant literary heritage of Saturday 23 November – 1pm–2.30pm Saturday 30 November – 11am Richmond upon Thames. Whittaker Ellis Suite, Old Town Hall The Library, Strawberry Hill House Free (Booking advisable) £4 per child Funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation, young people This interactive workshop will use Damian will take you on a time travel- have been working with poet and spoken word artist inspiration from One Hundred and One ling adventure as he tells you all about Stephanie ‘Sonority’ Turner to map the borough’s Dalmatians by Dodie Smtih and the the world of The History Keepers. literary locations and to create their own responses one-line writings of Alexander Pope. to authors who lived and worked here through Join in letter writing to kidnapped He explains how his time as an actor the decades. puppies and create your own dog-tag influenced his writing, about his love one-line poems! of adventure stories and films and his travels across the globe for the purpose Taking inspiration from the likes of Dodie Smith, Stephanie ‘Sonority’ Turner is a writer of research. Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Judith Kerr, and educator. She is Artist in Residence Roger McGough, George Elliot, Alexander Pope, at SPACE, was a TakeTheStage Olympic Suitable for ages 7 upwards Walter de la Mare and Horace Walpole, Read Right Hear poet in 2012 and was previously Poet is a celebration of Richmond’s voices old and new. in Residence at The London Transport Museum. She is a member of several performance/writing collectives, Read Right Hear invites Richmond Literature Festival including The Keats House Poets and audiences to explore the Borough’s literary history and The Barbican Poets. current creativity, bringing us right up until present day, through online tours. Users can also contribute their The Read Right Hear Project, funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation, own creative writing responses. explores the vibrant literary heritage of Richmond upon Thames. Read Right Here can be accessed by going to the Richmond Literature Festival’s History Pin channel: Suitable for families www.historypin.com

www.richmondliterature.com 39 SPECIAL THANKS TO:

All our venues, authors, partners and Your Independent Bookseller publishers involved in the festival, Local Delivery including: Mail Order • artsrichmond Special Discounts for Schools and Book Groups • Alistair Hall at We Made This • Barnes Community Association THE OPEN BOOK 10 King Street, Richmond, • Church Street Association Surrey TW9 1ND • Twickenham Town 020 8940 1802 Business Association • Richardson at The Open Book • Isla Dawes at Barnes Bookshop • Orange Tree Theatre • Richmond Library Service • Richmond Theatre • The Bingham Keep an eye on the festival website for VENUES information on local literature community workshops, book clubs and quizzes: www.richmondliterature.com The Bingham Old Town Hall and Richmond upon Thames Arts Service 61–63 Petersham Rd Whittaker Ellis Suite Orleans House Gallery Richmond tw10 6ut Whittaker Ave, Richmond tw9 1tp Riverside Twickenham tw1 3dj Castelnau Library Orange Tree Theatre 75 Castelnau, London sw13 9rt 1 Clarence Street, Richmond tw9 2sa Telephone: 020 8831 6000 Orleans House Gallery Real Ale (Coach House and 371 Richmond Road Octagon Room) Twickenham tw1 2ef Please contact us if you need this in Braille, large print, Riverside, Twickenham tw1 3dj audio tape or another language on 020 8831 6000 or Richmond, the American International Duke Street Church University in London (RAIUL) Minicom 020 8831 6001. Duke Street, Richmond tw9 1dh Richmond Campus Queens Road If you have difficulty understanding this leaflet please visit East Sheen Library Richmond tw10 6jp Sheen Lane, Sheen sw14 8lp reception at the address below, where we can arrange a Richmond Lending Library telephone interpreting service. Garrick’s Temple Little Green, Richmond tw9 1ql Hampton Court Road London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Hampton tw12 2en Richmond Theatre The Green, Richmond tw9 1qj Civic Centre, 44 York Street, Twickenham, TW1 3BZ Hampton Court Palace East Molesey, Surrey kt8 9au St Mary’s Church Church Road, Barnes sw13 9hl Harlequin UK Offices Eton House The Salon 18–24 Paradise Road York House Richmond tw9 1sr Richmond Road Twickenham tw1 3aa Kitson Hall Kitson Road, Barnes sw13 9hj Strawberry Hill House 268 Waldegrave Road Marble Hill House Twickenham tw1 4st Richmond Road Twickenham tw1 2nl Twickenham Library Garfield Road Old Sorting Office Twickenham tw1 3jt Community Arts Centre 49 Station Road White Lodge Museum Barnes Green, Barnes sw13 0lf Richmond tw10 5hr