FREE FESTIVAL GUIDE Borderlines Book Festival 2015 in association with cumbrialife THURSDAY 3 TO SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

James Rebanks � Owen Jones � Terry Waite Charlotte Green � Kate Williams � Gervase Phinn Salley Vickers � Jenny Uglow � Juliet Barker Simon Yates and many more...

Borderlines 2015 Partners: Bookends, Carlisle Cathedral, Cumbria County Council Library Service, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk President’s welcome

city strolling Rigby Phil Photography The Lanes Carlisle ell done to everyone at The growth in literary festivals in the last image courtesy of BHS Borderlines for making it decade has partly been because the such a resounding reading public, in fact the general public, success, for creating a do like to hear and see real live people for Wliterary festival and making it well and a change, instead of staring at some sort truly a part of the local community, nay, of inanimate box or computer contrap- part of national literary life. It is now so tion. The thing about Borderlines is that well established and embedded that it it is totally locally created and run, a feels as if it has been going for ever, not- for- profit event, from which no one though in fact it only began last year… gets paid. There is a committee of nine yes, only one year ago, so not much to who include representatives from boast about really, but existing- that is an Cumbria County Council, Bookends, achievement in itself. There are now Tullie House and the Cathedral. around 500 annual literary festivals in So keep up the great work. And let’s the UK. Some are titchy, hardly more hope, for the good of Carlisle and than two speakers in a village hall, and Cumbria, authors and readers, that some are enormous, like the Edinburgh Borderlines is here for many more years Book Festival, where at one time I used to to come. 75 Stores under one roof be on the board. It now has hundreds of 600 secured car parking spaces events and hundreds of famous authors Hunter Davies OBE www.thelanesshopping.co.uk from around the world. Honorary President ® Borderlines Carlisle

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SUNDAY SEPT 6 Carlisle Cathedral Talks and events Crown and Mitre 10am-11.30am John Sadler, From Forthcoming THURSDAY SEPT 3 11.30am Kate Williams, The Storms Military Research to Historical Novels £5 Events Tullie House of War £7 12pm-1.30pm Crichton Writers, Flash Fiction Forum £5 MONDAY SEPT 7 7pm Murder Mystery Evening with 1.30pm Gervase Phinn, Life & Loves 12pm-1.30pm Marian Veevers, Crime Highly Suspect £32 in the little village school £7 Tickets via www.tulliehouse.co.uk 3pm Juliet Barker, England Arise, The writing from archive sources £5 David Crystal (not Borderlines) Peasants’ Revolt £7 2pm-3.30pm Janet Queen, Writing the presents an entertaining talk on his 5pm Owen Jones, The Politics of Hope £9 Landscape £5 latest book The Disappearing FRIDAY SEPT 4 2pm-3.30pm Josephine Dickinson, Dictionary. Crown and Mitre Tullie House Poetry Workshop £5 Bookcase Carlisle, 7.30pm £5 8pm Simon Yates, My Mountain Life £9 11.30am Vivienne Crow & Mark Richards, 7pm Celebration Event with David David has collected a Fells and Frontiers £6 Gaffney and competition winners FREE medley of older dialect SATURDAY SEPT 5 1.30pm Kim Moore & Jacob Polley, words,and has dusted Crown and Mitre Poetry Reading £6 SUNDAY SEPT 6 them down to 11.30am Jenny Uglow & Steve 3pm Esme Whittaker Arts & Crafts Tullie House reintroduce them to a Matthews, Sarah Losh & The Pinecone £7 Houses of the £6 10.30am-12pm Kim Moore, new generation. Discover 1.30pm Charlotte Green & Roger Bolton, Encounters & Visitations in Poetry £5 rich and joyous words such as dabberlick The News is Read £7 Carlisle Library 10am-1pm David Kinsella, (Scots insult for a tall and skinny person) 3pm Sue Allan, Folk Music of Cumbria £7 11.30am Taffy Thomas, Taffy’s Coat Self- Publishing Online £10 and fubsy (Lancs for ‘plump in a nice 4.30pm Salley Vickers, The Boy who Tales £6 way’) and discuss your favourite Cumbrian could see Death £7 12.30pm-1.30pm Martyn Halsall, 1.30pm Amanda Brooke, The Missing Poetry in the Cathedral £5 dialect gems with David! 6pm Terry Waite, Voyage of Golden Tickets £5, from Bookends T 01228 Handshake £9 Husband £6 2pm-3.30pm Carlisle Writers Group, 529067 Email [email protected] 8pm James Rebanks, The Shepherd’s 3pm Paula Daly, The Mistake I Made £6 Short Stories £5 Life £9 2pm-3.30pm Vivien Jones, THURSDAY OCT 22 The Writers’ Memoir Writing £5 Tullie House Melvyn Bragg 10am-11.30am Poetry Breakfast Quarter Malcolm Carson & John Lucas £6 This talk will be one of his first upon 11.30am Fiona Armstrong, Fiona on SATURDAY SEPT 5 Day Passes publication of his new novel. Fishing £6 Crown and Mitre You can buy tickets for individual events Crown and Mitre Hotel, 7.30pm £8 1.30pm Cate Haste, Craigie Aitchison £6 or you can treat yourself to our Festival 9.30am-12.30pm Tom Harper, Thriller Melvyn Bragg will 3pm Jenny Uglow, In These Times £6 day passes which allow you to enjoy a Writing Workshop £25 day of talks at a specific venue, whilst introduce his new novel, Now is the Time, which is Carlisle Library making savings! set during the Peasants’ 11.30am Karen Campbell, Rise £6 Tullie House Saturday 5th September 3pm Tom Harper & Simon Toyne, 10am-11.30am Sue Fox & Irene Revolt of 1381, a pivotal Carlisle Library Day Pass: 2 events for £10 Conspiracy Theories £6 Sanderson, Book Building £5 moment in England’s Crown & Mitre Day Pass: 6 events for £36 2pm-5pm Ruth Sutton, Successful history, and one of several revolts in late Waterstones Self- Publishing £10 Tullie House Day Pass: 3 events for £14 medieval Europe. Now is the Time depicts 12.30pm John Lucas, The Awkward 2pm-5pm Marilyn Messenger, Sunday 6th September the events of the Peasants’ Revolt on Squad £6 Writing from Antique Letters FREE Carlisle Library Day Pass: 3 events for £14 both a grand and intimate scale. 4pm Katharine Norbury, The Fish (but admission charges to Border Crown & Mitre Day Pass: 4 events for £24 Tickets £8, from Bookends T 01228 Ladder £6 Galleries may apply) Tullie House Day Pass: 3 events for £14 529067 Email [email protected]

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Thursday September 3 & Friday September 4

Thursday September 3 7.00pm Friday September 4 8.00pm Murder Mystery Simon Yates Evening My Mountain Life Crown & Mitre Hotel Ballroom £9 The Borderlines Butcher presented by Highly Suspect Sponsored by Tullie House Museum and Gallery £32 Virgin Trains Simon’s mountaineering career started in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. After cutting- edge first ascents in the Pakistani Karakoram, he was in the first wave of western climbers allowed to climb peaks in the Tien Shan during the dying days of the Soviet Union. He then climbed huge rock walls in mountain settings, producing notable new routes in Chilean Patagonia. C Most recently Simon has been drawn to

M remote mountain wilderness and has made first ascents in Tierra del Fuego, Alaska and Y The Borderlines Book Club is delighted to Eastern Greenland. be launching its second successful year CM with an exclusive opportunity to enjoy a Internationally acclaimed mountaineer MY fine three-course meal and meet four of Simon Yates is one of Britain’s most the most talented authors of our time: CY prolific and accomplished exploratory Jackie Rolling, creator of Pigblisters School mountaineers, best known for his role in Joe CMY of Magic and Mystery; Millicent Boone, Simpson’s book and the subsequent film, romantic fiction writer extraordinaire; K Touching the Void. In a 30 year career, Flitpak Furniture, the leading name in Simon’s climbing and travelling has taken Nordic thrillers and Ima Scamartist, self- him around the world from Alaska to help guide guru to the stars. However, Australia and from Greenland to the when book critic and Borderlines blogger Turner Paige is found dead, it seems one of our writers did not believe that the pen was mightier after all! Discover life really can be stranger than fiction and help catch a killer in a brand new murder mystery created especially for the Borderlines Festival by Highly Suspect. The event includes a three-course meal so if you have any dietary requirements or seating arrangements please e-mail these to [email protected]. To book, contact Tullie House Museum and Gallery or book online at: https://tulliehouse.booking-form.com/ booking/new/packageId/656 Photography Phil Rigby Phil Photography

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9.30am – 12.30pm (inc 20 minute interval) 10.00am – 11.30am 11.30am 12.30pm Tom Harper Poetry Breakfast Karen Campbell John Lucas Creating Worlds of Mystery and with Malcolm Carson and John Lucas ‘Rise’: What - and where - is home? The Awkward Squad: Rebels in

Suspense - a workshop for would-be Tullie House Cafe £6 (including refreshments) Carlisle Library £6 English Cricket thriller writers Waterstones £6 Back by popular demand, Crown and Mitre Hotel Boardroom £25 Sponsored by Malcolm Carson hosts the Dodd Murray Rebels have Build your Poetry Breakfast again this Limited always been novel from year. He is joined by fellow part of the ground poet and founder of In a English up. Former Shoestring Press, John on the cusp cricket. There Crime Writers’ Lucas. Enjoy a coffee and of change, were Association croissant, or tea and toast Justine, a cricketing Chairman, (or whatever may be on the desperate rebels in the Tom Harper menu!) at the café in Tullie runaway, 18th century, shows how House, right in the historic flees the city and there are research and quarter of Carlisle. Mingle to wind up in still and planning can with other poets and share a village in always will be help you your love of poetry. This will Argyll. There, those who develop the be a relaxed and informal a shocking protest setting for opportunity for you to read accident against one your novel, populate it with plausible one or two of your own poems (or short causes her life to intertwine with local or other of characters – and then make it come alive. prose pieces). If you don’t write poetry councillor Michael and his estranged wife cricket’s laws. Some were born rebels, Through examples, illustrations and yourself, just read a favourite, well-loved Hannah. Forced together in a small others had rebelliousness thrust upon exercises, Tom helps you create a fully poem. Malcolm and John will join in and community in the run-up to the Scottish them; some were motivated by principle, immersive world for your story: a place read some of their poetry. There may be referendum – where old and new clash as others by sheer bloody-mindedness. In where danger and mystery lurk behind time to read more than one poem, so be an archaeological dig conflicts with a telling their stories, some comic, some every corner. prepared. planned wind farm, and tensions are tragic, The Awkward Squad also provides already high – they settle into an uneasy an account of the changing social scene Tom Harper has written thirteen John Lucas is a poet, critic, biographer equilibrium. But the past is coming out of which different acts of rebellion thrillers including The Orpheus Descent, and literary historian. He is Professor closer… came. Zodiac Station and the forthcoming Black Emeritus at the Universities of Originally from Glasgow, Karen Campbell John Lucas is a well-known poet, critic, River. Research for his novels has taken Loughborough and Nottingham Trent and now lives in Galloway, where she biographer and literary historian. He is him all over the world, from the Arctic is the author of many scholarly works as completed her sixth novel Rise, published Professor Emeritus at the Universities of circle to the Amazon jungle, via NATO well as several books of poetry. He has this spring by Bloomsbury. Karen’s first job Loughborough and bases and the inside of an active volcano. written for all the leading literary was as a police officer, and her initial four Nottingham Trent His books have been journals, and since 1994 he has been books were set in the and is the author of translated into over editor and publisher of Shoestring Press. world of the police, but many scholarly works twenty languages. she’s since gone on to as well as several Under the name Malcolm Carson is from Cleethorpes. He write This Is Where I books of poetry. John Edwin Thomas, he studied English at Nottingham University Am, a BBC Book at has also written a and taught at the University of Lucas has written for Bedtime about a series of historical Northumbria in Carlisle, where he now all the leading Somali refugee living in adventures set in the lives with his wife and three children. He literary journals, and Glasgow, and now Rise, Napoleonic Wars. In has published several collections of since 1994 he has a novel about love, 2016 he will chair poetry, has reviewed for Other Poetry and been editor and freedom & finding your the Harrogate Critical Survey, and was a founder of publisher of place in the world. History Festival. Border Poets. Shoestring Press.

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11.30am 1.30pm disposition. songs and songs in dialect, alongside fiddle tunes and dances bequeathed by 1.30pm Jenny Uglow and Charlotte Green in Lakeland’s travelling fiddlers and dancing Steve Matthews conversation with Fiona Armstrong masters, is revealed in Sue Allan’s lively talk, illustrated with both recorded and Sarah Losh and The Pinecone Fiona on Fishing Tullie House £6 Roger Bolton live music. Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £7 Crown & Mitre Ballroom £7 Sponsored by

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Fiona on Fishing... Like magazine. She began singing in folk clubs wild salmon, women at age 15, co-founded and performed anglers are few and far with Carlisle and Throstles Nest morris between… FIona teams and the Ellen Valley Band, and has Armstrong talks about been researching Cumbrian music for her time as a fly-fisher almost 40 years. on rivers at home and abroad. Some was for work, some for pleasure. All was

Photography Getty Photography 3pm St Mary’s Church in Wreay, near Carlisle, is memorable. Join Fiona for some riverbank An opportunity to hear two of national one of the most remarkable churches in tales, some taller than others... radio’s most familiar voices – and well- Tom Harper and England. Jenny Uglow and Steve Matthews known names - in conversation. talk about Sarah Losh, its architect, and Broadcaster and writer Fiona Simon Toyne Conspiracy Theories her unique work. Sarah was strong-willed Charlotte Green joined the BBC in 1978 Armstrong presents Border Life, a Carlisle Library £6 and passionate and her imaginative, and became one of the regular readers current affairs programme for ITV Border. visionary and poetic architecture speaks on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, as She is a former ITN and BBC News Sponsored by for itself. Her work is rich in symbolism and well as reading news items on The News presenter/reporter and her work has Cumbria Life cumbrialife taken her to Europe, Africa and the Far meaning. Its power and beauty derive Quiz. After leaving Radio 4 in 2013, she from her life and personality. joined Classic FM, where she now East. Her passion is fishing and she has presents an arts and culture programme, fronted a TV series, ‘Fiona on Fishing’, Jenny Uglow’s prize-winning books Charlotte Green’s Culture Club. She is also and Sky TV’s ‘Tight Lines’ programme. She include biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, the announcer of the Saturday football has also written two books on fishing. , and results on BBC Radio 5 Live - the first Charles II, as well as The Pinecone, which ever woman appointed to this role. She 3.00pm tells the story of Sarah Losh, romantic recently published her autobiography,

visionary and architect. The News is Read. Sue Allan Echoes of Old Cumbria: Traditional Madden Toby Photography Steve Matthews is the author of Sarah Charlotte will be in conversation with Songs, Music & Dance of the Lake Enter the dangerous world of ancient Losh and Wreay Church and editor of The Roger Bolton, who presents Feedback for Counties mysteries, hidden cults and lost artefacts. Sarah Losh Journal. His other books Radio 4, for whom he also presented the Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £7 Simon Toyne and Tom Harper take you include A Lazy Tour of Cumberland. His Sunday programme for 13 years as well as The literary legacy of the behind the scenes of their bestselling most recent work is Josiah Relph: Channel 4’s Right to Reply. Educated at Lake Poets has largely conspiracy thrillers, and share their England’s First Dialect Poet. Robert Ferguson School and Carlisle overshadowed Cumbria’s secrets. The truth is out there! Grammar School, he is a former The Open Day at Wreay Church on musical heritage, yet independent producer, BBC and ITV Saturday 12th September will centre on there is a rich store of Tom Harper has written thirteen executive, and editor of tv current affairs the unveiling of the rediscovered David traditional music in the thrillers including The Orpheus Descent, series including Panorama and This Week. Dunbar sculpture of Sarah Losh. Tickets county. A unique Zodiac Station and the forthcoming Black He wishes he had Charlotte Green’s sunny are on sale at Bookends, Carlisle. repertoire of hunting River. Research for his novels has taken

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him all over the world, from the Arctic - how did the war touch their lives? to the door of the woman Salley Vickers is one of circle to the Amazon jungle, via NATO The home front comes to who abandoned her. Part our most unusual bases and the inside of an active volcano. life through their diaries and letters– travelogue, part memoir, writers, whose work His books have been translated into over from the first stirrings to the final, Katharine’s moving story touches on art, loss, twenty languages. In 2010-11 he was terrible end at the battle of Waterloo. of self-discovery is memory and Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, nature-writing at its otherworldly dimensions. and in 2016 he will Chair the Harrogate Jenny Uglow grew up in finest. She is the author of the History Festival. West Cumbria, and now word-of-mouth divides her time between Katharine Norbury international bestseller, Hooked on thrillers ever Canterbury and Borrowdale. trained as a film editor Miss Garnet’s Angel and since he picked up his Her prize-winning books with the BBC and has worked extensively six other highly dad’s dog-eared copy of include biographies of in film and television drama. She is a acclaimed novels, including her latest, Alistair MacLean’s The Elizabeth Gaskell, William graduate of the Creative Writing MA The Cleaner of Chartres. Satan Bug and Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and programme at UEA and a doctoral discovered there was Charles II, as well as The Lunar Men and candidate at Goldsmiths. 6.00pm more to life than A Little History of British Gardening. A named Katharine as one of their Rising Paddington Bear and recent book, The Pinecone, tells the Stars of 2015. She lives in London with Terry Waite Roald Dahl, Simon story of Romantic visionary and architect, her family. The Voyage of the Golden Toyne is the Sarah Losh of Wreay, Carlisle Handshake international bestselling Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £9 author of the Sanctus trilogy - Sanctus, 4.00pm 4.30pm The Key and The Tower. Sanctus was the Sponsored by

biggest selling debut thriller of 2011 in Katharine Norbury Salley Vickers Dodd Murray The Boy Who Could See Death Limited the UK. His books have been translated The Fish Ladder Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £7 into 27 languages and published in over Waterstones £6 50 countries. Sponsored by Sponsored by Virgin Dodd & Co Trains 3.00pm Accountants

Jenny Uglow Salley In These Times: Living in Britain Vickers will Katharine during Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815 talk about Norbury was Tullie House £6 her latest abandoned as a collection As the Napoleonic baby in a of stories, wars raged, what Liverpool The Boy was life really like convent and Who Could for those left at was raised by See Death. Coles Jenny Photography home? In her loving adoptive Just as in illustrated talk parents. One Terry Waite has spent a lifetime working her Jenny Uglow tells Farquhar-Thomson Robin Photography summer, in extreme situations. He has successfully previous collection, Aphrodite’s Hat, love how people lived in following the miscarriage of a much- negotiated with Revolutionary Guards in and Eros was a common thread, in these one of the most longed-for child, Katharine sets out, Iran, Colonel Ghadaffi in Libya and stories death features as a running momentous periods in history. We know accompanied by her nine-year-old Hezbollah in Lebanon. It was in Beirut theme, often playfully, sometimes the thrilling stories of the battles of the daughter, Evie, with the idea of following that he was captured in 1987 and spent through the medium of ghosts, but Napoleonic wars - but what of those left a river from the sea to its source. A almost five years in total solitary always throwing fresh light on the living behind? The aristocrats and paupers, old diversion from grief soon evolves into a confinement. He has a remarkable sense and the ways that human beings deal and young, butchers and bakers and journey to the source of life itself, when of humour which has enabled him to with their inevitable mortality. candlestick makers, wives and daughters a chance circumstance forces Katharine endure some of the difficulties he has

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experienced over the Inspired partly by W. H. years. Hudson’s classic account of rural life, A Since his release from Shepherd’s Life, this captivity, Terry Waite has memoir is a moving, lectured on cruise ships to evocative narrative of finance his varied his everyday life . charitable work. He has now published a humorous James Rebanks is the novel, The Voyage of the Golden Herdwick Shepherd, Handshake, widely acclaimed as being in whose account of the genre of classic British comedy. He shepherding has will talk about his experiences and the almost 70,000 followers on Twitter. He role that humour played in some of the has a column in Cumbria Life and is also darkest and most difficult times he has an advisor for UNESCO. The Shepherd’s endured. Life spent several weeks at the top of Bestsellers list earlier this year. 8.00pm James Rebanks The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Sponsors Lake District Borderlines is indebted to the following Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £9 sponsors: Architects Plus; Atkinson Building Contractors Limited; Bookends Carlisle; Carlisle Sponsored by Cathedral; Carlisle City Council; Coffee Direct; Dodd & Co Cranstons; Crown and Mitre Hotel; Cumberland Accountants Building Society; Cumbria County Council; Cumbria Life; Dodd & Co Chartered Accountants; Dodd Murray Financial Services ; Tullie House Museum & Gallery; Virgin Trains; Waterstones.

Photography Phil Rigby Phil Photography A great read cumbrialife James Rebanks and his family have lived and worked in Matterdale for over 600 years. The Shepherd’s Life tells of a deep- every month rooted attachment to a place and a way of life which has profoundly shaped Cumbrian history. It is a story of the Lake Cumbria Life is proud to be media partner for the second District and of working lives, and of his Borderlines 2015 Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival. To subscribe to Cumbria Life own childhood and family life today. for just £10 for the first 6 issues call 01228 612760 Buy tickets online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk or at Bookends Carlisle in person or on 01228 529067 Talks Sunday September 6 Talks Sunday September 6

11.30am 11.30am 1.30pm Meeting in his early Kate Williams Vivienne Crow and twenties changed the life of Mark Amanda Brooke The Storms of War Mark Richards Richards and crafting guidebooks for The Missing Husband and walkers became an overarching passion. other stories The Crown & Mitre Ballroom £7 From the Highest Fells to the Mark has written the bestselling eight- Carlisle Library £6 Furthest Frontier Sponsored by volume Lakeland Fellranger guidebooks Cumbria Life cumbrialife Tullie House £6 Amanda Brooke’s published by Cicerone. The Missing Husband is a 1.30pm novel which looks Gervase Phinn at the secrets within marriages Life and Loves in the Little and the way one Village School white lie can Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £7 change a life Photography Mark McNulty Mark Photography forever. Amanda Sponsored by Cumberland will be talking about this, her fourth and latest book, and how she came to write From the windswept summits of Building Society stories with such a strong emotional pull. England’s craggiest mountains to the She will be chatting about her publishing sparkling lakes in its most dramatic of journey and, in particular, how writing valleys, Vivienne knows just where to go Be prepared for helped her through her own personal to experience the best of Cumbria and a feast of tragedy. the Lake District. And it’s not just about observational Join TV historian and author, Kate the highest, the deepest, the longest... humour and Williams as she talks about her latest the UK’s premier walking destination still laughter as A single mum who lives in Liverpool with novel The Storms of War, which explores has its secret nooks and crannies. Mark, Gervase Phinn her teenage daughter Jessica, Amanda the lives of a half meanwhile, borne on the prevailing tells his tales became a published author when she English, half German breeze, will hop, skip and jump from and anecdotes was in her forties. Her first novel, family during World War Maryport to South Shields, revealing the centred on a Yesterday’s Sun, was published in January I. In this, the first title of scenic magic of the greatest surviving small village school in the Yorkshire Dales. 2012 and was selected for the Richard a planned trilogy, she monument to the classical age… on our Amusing, perceptive, sometimes and Judy Spring Book Club List. looks at the home front very doorstep. Hadrian’s frontier has poignant, Gervase is a born raconteur and - and the lives of found its place on the bucket list of a his talk is guaranteed to be laugh-out- Germans who turned huge number of active visitors and loud funny, touching and entertaining. 1.30pm into enemies overnight. deserves to be appreciated fully, coast to Cate Haste coast. Gervase Phinn is a Kate Williams is an freelance lecturer, Craigie Aitchison: A Life in Colour author, social historian, Tullie House £6 Vivienne Crow is an award-winning broadcaster, writer, poet, constitutional and royal freelance writer and educational consultant Edinburgh-born expert, broadcaster and photographer specialising and a visiting professor Scottish figurative novelist. She has an MA in the outdoors. She has of education. For painter, Craigie from Queen Mary, written more than a dozen fourteen years he taught Aitchison’s poetic University of London, guidebooks, and is well- in a range of schools in vision and and a DPhil from the known for her popular Yorkshire, and spent a sophisticated use of . weekly walking columns, further ten years as a colour gave eloquent She appears regularly which appear in several school inspector - time meaning to his on the BBC and Channel newspapers in north that has provided much source material deceptively simple 4. She lives in London. Cumbria. for his books. subjects. His

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distinctive and north and draws on her experience as a rebels torched archives and buildings, thriller writers. Hear Paula powerfully peripatetic brass teacher, but it also attacked officials, opened prisons and in conversation, talking evocative style, the explores the many different ways we can compelled the king to abolish serfdom. about her writing process distillation of each fall throughout our lives. Jake will read Who were the rebels? And why were they and her latest novel, The image - still-lifes, from The Havocs, his third poetry revolting? Juliet Barker, author of the Mistake I Made. crucifixions, collection, published in 2013 and best-selling Agincourt, tells all. landscapes, nominated for a T.S Eliot award. His work Paula Daly was born in portraits - to their displays great virtuosity of form, drawing Juliet Barker is Lancashire. She was a very essence of on the folkloric and mythic traditions of an internationally self-employed beauty and spiritual north Britain. recognised physiotherapist before beginning her first power earned him widespread critical authority on novel Just What Kind of Mother are You? acclaim and popularity. Kim Moore lives and medieval history. Her second novel Keep Your Friends Close Cate Haste explores the life and the work works in south Cumbria. Her most recent was shortlisted for the 2014 Gold Dagger of this idiosyncratic and original artist Her first full poetry book is England, Crime Novel of the Year Award and her through original documents, family collection, The Art of Arise: The work has been translated into fourteen archives, letters and interviews, just five Falling, was published by People,The King languages. Her latest title, The Mistake I years after his death. Seren this year. She was and the Great Made is published on 27th August. She runner-up in Lakeland Revolt of 1381. A lives in the Lake District with her Cate Haste is a biographer, historian and Book of the Year 2013 with new expanded edition of her best-selling husband, three children and whippet film-maker. Her last biography was a If we Could Speak Like Agincourt is published this year to mark Skippy. comprehensive study of the life and work Wolves. She won a New the 600th anniversary of the battle. She of Cumbrian artist , A Passion Writing North Award in 2014. She works has also written biographies of the 3.00pm for Paint, which won the Lakeland Book part-time as a peripatetic brass teacher. Brontes and Wordsworth. of the Year Award in 2011. She has also Taffy Thomas Jacob Polley was born in Carlisle, and written on political and historical Taffy’s Coat Tales now lives and works in subjects. 3pm Carlisle Library £6 Newcastle. He has three Paula Daly poetry collections, The In this magical 1.30pm Brink, Little Gods and, The Mistake I Made and other presentation, Taffy Jacob Polley and most recently, The Havocs, revelations. will tell some of his as well as a novel, Talk of Carlisle Library £6 favourite tales from Kim Moore the Town, set in Carlisle. “What could be better than sitting by the the Tale Coat, Holding Place – a poetry reading Twice shortlisted for the fire on a cold wet February afternoon everything from Tullie House £6 T.S. Eliot Prize, he has being paid to make up stories?” Paula myths and legends received the Geoffrey Daly once thought. She says that at the rooted in the valleys Faber Memorial Prize and the Somerset start of her writing career she had no and fells of the Lake Maugham Award. District to world idea how to write, what to say or how to creation myths and say it. But then African and native American animal tales. she read Stephen 3.00pm The Tale Coat is a unique piece of textile King’s book On art, a kind of story jukebox from which Writing, and after Juliet Barker audiences of any age can select an image that she just England, Arise to hear one of the tales told by a couldn’t stop. She Crown and Mitre Hotel Ballroom £7 storyteller who is as unique as his is now one of exquisite attire. Jacob Polley and Kim Moore read from The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 was ‘a contemporary their latest poetry collections. Kim reads pivotal and thrilling moment in England’s fiction’s most With the breadth of his work and his from The Art of Falling, published earlier history, characterised by murders and masterful constant drive it is not surprising that this year. Her poetry is firmly set in the mayhem, beheadings and betrayals’. The psychological Taffy Thomas, who lives in Grasmere

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was made First Laureate for Storytelling, 5.00pm and has received an MBE. He has performed in Norway, USA, Japan, Owen Jones Australia, Egypt, and Israel. In 2001 Taffy The Politics of Hope

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The Writers Quarter has returned brief and were with large publishing 2 – 5pm drop in workshop exploring how we can write about for 2015 and will be based at Tullie companies. Following this experience she encounters and visitations in poetry, looking House and Carlisle Cathedral. There decided to self publish children’s stories, Writing from at examples from contemporary poets of are limited places for these working through the process from initial idea what happens when something or someone workshops, so please don’t delay if to finished books. These books feature Antique Letters wanders in from outside and enters the you want to ensure your place. Carlisle together with some sneaky maths. with Marilyn Messenger poem. Come prepared to read poems and Border Galleries Free write your own. Irene Sanderson is a (Admission charges to the gallery apply) graphic designer, typographer Kim Moore lives and works in CROWN & and artist, and has worked Even in a world of emails and texts, there’s south Cumbria. Her first full something about a handwritten letter that freelance for large publishers, poetry collection, The Art of MITRE still appeals. Letters are tactile, you could be such as Chatto and Windus, Falling, was published by and small such as Joellen looking over the shoulder of the writer as Saturday they put pen to paper. In this drop-in session Seren this year. She was Publications. For book design runner-up in Lakeland Book of 9.30am – 12.30pm (inc 20 minute interval) and illustration she uses a we will be reading letters written over a the Year 2013 with If we Could Speak Tom Harper wide variety of media and she is an century ago, and creating stories from what enthusiast for social networks to seek out we find, or perhaps from what’s hidden Like Wolves. She won a New Writing Creating Worlds of Mystery and audiences. Irene is a publisher herself between the lines. Bring your imagination, North Award in 2014. She works part- Suspense - a workshop for would-be specialising in translations of Japanese find the story, and write it in whatever way time as a peripatetic brass teacher. thriller writers literature. you choose. Crown and Mitre Hotel Boardroom £25 Marilyn Messenger is a graduate 10am – 1pm 2 – 5pm of Cumbria University’s Creative Writing Course, a member of the Designing & creating Successful Self- Facets of Fiction writers’ your own ebook TULLIE HOUSE Publishing workshops. Her stories have been published in magazines and with David Kinsella with Ruth Sutton Saturday anthologies, read at events such as the Community Room £10 Community Room £10 & Galloway Arts Festival, and If you have ever wanted to publish your own 10 – 11.30am Educator and author Ruth Sutton will guide performed by Liar’s League in New York. An extract from her work, Man of Stars, based books online, this is the workshop for you. In you through the process of developing both a small group of not more than 15 you will Book Building print and digital formats for your work: the on the letters of a 19th century astronomer, was published in the Unbound Press learn about the different types of ebook, The Essential Steps with Sue Fox options, the costs, the work involved and the how to format your book correctly, how to possible pitfalls. Self-publishing involves Anthology, Loose Leaves. Recently in print is, and Irene Sanderson Ambiguous Encounters: ten short stories, add images to your book, how to make an promotion, marketing and possible appropriate cover for it and how to publish it Community Room £5 distribution of your own work and Ruth will written in collaboration with fellow Cumbrian author, Brindley Hallam Dennis. through Apple. There will be plenty of time Sue Fox, author and founder of Joellen give her expert advice in this area. to ask questions and learn how to avoid the Publications, and Irene Sanderson, book most common pitfalls of going it alone. designer and illustrator, are working together Ruth Sutton lives in to produce a series of children’s books. In this Waberthwaite, West Cumbria. TULLIE HOUSE David Kinsella is a member of workshop they will take you through the She has been an educator, the Carlisle Chamber of production of a book from first thoughts to presenter and non-fiction Sunday Commerce and runs courses on the launch of the printed edition, including writer for forty years and self-publishing with his tips on graphics and metadata. now spends most of her time 10.30am – 12pm colleague, Paul Teague, as well writing, self-publishing and as workshops on the use of Sue Fox was a primary school promoting her novels, which Encounters and Wordpress. He has his own are set in Cumbria in the twentieth century. head teacher before becoming Visitations in Poetry company Incorporate Digital and works with a maths lecturer at the Her trilogy Between the Mountains and the local businesses on digital media and University of Cumbria. During Sea was published between 2012 and 2014 with Kim Moore strategy but his teaching background makes this time she co-wrote two and her first foray into crime fiction with Meeting Room £5 him particularly interested in working with maths books for student Cruel Tide will be in the shops and online Acclaimed poet Kim Moore will lead a students to develop their skills in digital teachers. These had a specific later in 2015. design and content.

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12.30 – 1.30pm members have had stories and poems published and have won national writing Poetry in the competitions. Meetings are held on the first and third Mondays of each month, where

Cathedral well-established authors come and talk with Martyn Halsall about their work. Meeting Room £5 Martyn Halsall, the first Poet in Residence at 2 – 3.30pm Carlisle Cathedral, will read from his collection Sanctuary, and discuss his Memoir Writing experiences of the life, faith, history and with Vivien Jones personalities that shaped a 1,000 year old Community Room £5 holy place. Martyn will explore dragons and theologians, egg-box housing and a well of Our lives are full of memories, often rubbish, ancient and modern pilgrims, uncommunicated, but vivid and full of feeling wandering masons, a prophetic child and and meaning to us as individuals. In this much more! NB This is a talk and not a workshop Vivien Jones will work with workshop. participants to explore memories attached to sensual experience - the tastes, smells, Martyn Halsall a former staff sounds, and feeling under the fingers as well correspondent with The Guardian, as the way things look. Participants are lives and writes in West Cumbria. encouraged to bring an object that signifies a He holds postgraduate degrees in memory of childhood, plus a notepad and pen. creative writing, and creative literary studies from the Vivien Jones is a Poetry London Universities of Lancaster and Cumbria. He is Prize winner. Her first poetry currently writing a collection of poetry about collection, About Time, Too, was experiencing cancer. published in 2010, followed by her second, Short of Breath, in 2014. She has also turned her hand to prose, 2 – 3.30pm publishing White Poppies, a short fiction collection in 2012, and Malta Child, memoirs of Short Story four childhood years in Malta in the late 1950s, Workshop which was released as an ebook in 2014. with the Carlisle Writers Meeting Room £5 Write to any subject at a moment’s CARLISLE notice with this hands-on workshop led by the Carlisle CATHEDRAL Writers’ Group. Explore the talent Saturday you already have by choosing from a wide range of activities and games, all tried 10 – 11.30am and tested to good effect, and produce a great piece of writing in minutes. Then try Turning Military another! Research into Carlisle Writers is an enthusiastic group of Historical Novels writers who’ve been meeting together for over twenty years. As a group they have with John Sadler produced a series of successful anthologies Prior’s Room £5 and regularly give public readings. Some Lecturer and historical re-enactor John Sadler Buy tickets online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk or at Bookends Carlisle in person or on 01228 529067 The Writers’ Quarter Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 September The Writers’ Quarter Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 September

will discuss the art and techniques of and acquired a consuming interest in Janet Queen is a gardener and An Open Mic event hosted by Speakeasy’s converting historical non-fiction into fiction. documents of the eighteenth and nineteenth writer living near Carlisle in Nick Pemberton. Special Guest David Gaffney This will include looking at how you approach centuries. At present she is working on a Cumbria. For twenty years she has will read a selection of his Flash Fiction, and the task of writing the novel and how you book that compares the lives of Jane Austen tended a six-acre garden at Rose will also announce the prizewinners for t’L’al consider your market, as well as how to flesh and Dorothy Wordsworth. Castle, the fortified Border Crack Flash Fiction Competition. out historical characters and construct residence of the bishops of Carlisle dialogue and descriptions of everyday life 12 – 1.30pm for around eight centuries. Janet’s book, Diary David Gaffney lives in and action. of a Bishop’s Garden, was published in 2009. Manchester. He is the author of Flash Fiction Presently, she writes gardening features for several books including Sawn- John Sadler BA (Hons) M.Phil, Cumbria Life magazine and the Cumberland Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo FRHistS, FSA (Scotl.) is an author, Forum News newspaper, and is researching for a (2007), Never Never (2008), lecturer, battlefield tour guide and with the Crichton Writers future project - a historical fiction novel set The Half-Life of Songs (2010) historical interpreter. He has been Fratry £5 in Cumbria and northern Tuscany. and More Sawn-Off Tales a visiting lecturer teaching war (2013). He has written articles for the studies at the North East Centre Sponsored by Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and for Lifelong Learning for fifteen years and Atkinson Building Prospect magazine. ‘One hundred and fifty has some thirty published titles in print or Contractors 2 – 3.30pm words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than preparation and works in partnership with novels by a good many others.’ The Guardian. Poetry Workshop his co-author Rosie Serdiville. As a historical An open mic style event, hosted by Crichton with Josephine Dickinson interpreter and partner in Time Bandits, he Writers from Dumfries & Galloway. Bring has appeared in a wide variety of guises in along a flash fiction (max 500 words – no Fratry £5 museums, galleries, schools, the community Sponsors minimum) to read and discuss. What is flash Borderlines is indebted to the following and heritage sites from Ramses II of Egypt to Poetry lovers will relish this chance fiction? How did it begin? How has as it sponsors: Architects Plus; Atkinson WWII Home Guard and Auxiliaries. to work with internationally developed? What are its strengths and renowned local poet Josephine Building Contractors Limited; Bookends weaknesses? Join in the debate, and the Dickinson, whose writing Carlisle; Carlisle Cathedral; Carlisle City 12 – 1.30pm practice. workshops are profound and Council; Coffee Direct; Cranstons; Crown thought-provoking. Her poetry is and Mitre Hotel; Cumberland Building Past Crimes: Crime Crichton Writers regularly generate new empowered not only by the words she uses, Society; Cumbria County Council; Writing from work over various genres in prose and but by the silences between them, and her Cumbria Life; Dodd & Co Chartered poetry. They perform readings across performance style concentrates and focuses Accountants; Dodd Murray Financial Archive Sources Dumfries and Galloway and work from time the listener on the poetry rather than the Services ; Tullie House Museum & with Marian Veevers to time in collaboration with artists, poet. In this workshop Josephine will take Gallery; Virgin Trains; Waterstones. musicians and other local writer groups. Prior’s Room £5 you through this process and style and how it can be used in your own work. There are a great many crimes to be found in 2 – 3.30pm your local record offices, from accusations Josephine Dickinson has published four made in Quarter Session courts to Writing the collections of poetry: Scarberry Hill (The newspaper accounts of robberies and Rialto, 2001), The Voice (Flambard, 2003), murders. Author Marian Veevers will explore Landscape Silence Fell (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) and ways in which these fascinating sources can with Janet Queen Night Journey (Flambard, 2008). She lives on be researched and used as a starting point Prior’s Room £5 a small hill farm in Cumbria. for fiction with an authentic flavour of the past. Landscape is a great source of inspiration – whether you are working outdoors, walking 7pm cumbrialife Marian Veevers writes under her the fells, or just enjoying the view. Join own name and the penname Anna author Janet Queen to explore writing around Celebration Event Dean. Her Dido Kent series of the natural world, bringing along a favourite with David Gaffney mysteries, set in Georgian times, is work that has impressed or influenced you. Fratry Free published in Britain and the US. Janet will also describe the process of writing She spent a year working as Writer and publishing her own book Diary of a in Residence for the Cumbria Archive Service Bishop’s Garden. Borderlines 2015

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