CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL MAKE A LONG WEEKEND OF IT 14-18 SEPTEMBER 2017

St Michael and All Angels Church and Parish Hall, Bath Road, London, W4 1TX, by Turnham Green tube station Other venues include Chiswick House, Chiswick Library, The Tabard Theatre (and pub), Ginger Whisk and the Andrew Clare Balding David Baddiel Cathy Rentzenbrink Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre at the Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd)

John O’Farrell Jo Malone Nicholas Crane

Director: Torin Douglas Author Programme Director: Jo James Production Manager: Vicky Taylor Festival Co-ordinator: Victoria Morley

St Michael & Angels Jeremy Vine Hunter Davies Parish Office, W4 1TX www.chiswickbookfestival.net [email protected] Jeremy Vine Maggie O’Farrell Hunter Davies

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th The 9 Chiswick Book Festival brings together top authors and their readers for an inspiring and entertaining Tuesday 12 September, long weekend of fiction, history, politics, memoir, crime, gardening, music, food, wine, the environment, 11am, The Happy Birth workshops, children’s books & more. Book - Beverley Turner Since 2009, the Chiswick Book Festival has raised more than £60,000 for charities which support reading Join LBC’s Beverley and literacy and for St Michael & All Angels Church, which hosts the Festival. This year the Festival will Turner (seen here continue to support: with husband James Cracknell at the launch RNIB Talking Books Service and Books for Children, supporting blind and partially sighted people. The of The Happy Birth Book) Festival has sponsored the recording of many Talking Books, including The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, and a panel of experts Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford and Keeping On, Keeping On by Alan Bennett. as they offer facts, tips Read more at www.RNIB.org.uk/books. and friendly, useful InterAct Stroke Support, which commissions actors to read to stroke patients. The Festival helps to fund advice about birth, its work at Charing Cross Hospital, contributing some two months of reading each year. Read more at babies & beyond. www.interactstrokesupport.org. Waterstones, 220-226 Chiswick High Road. Free admission. Doorstep Library, which brings books and the magic of reading to the homes of children in some of London’s most disadvantaged areas. Its work improves not just reading skills, but confidence, social integration, Tuesday 12 academic performance and employment prospects. Read more at www.doorsteplibrary.org.uk. September, 7-9:30pm, HOW TO BUY TICKETS Lucy’s Food: An Evening with is proud to ONLINE from: www.chiswickbookfestival.net Lucy Cufflin Join Lucy Cufflin BY POST for those unable to book online. Use the Advance Booking Form available from Waterstones, of Chiswick’s new support the 9th 220-226 Chiswick High Road, London W4 1PD, or St Michael & All Angels Church, Bath Road, London W4 Ginger Whisk 1TX. Tickets for most events will be available on the door, unless already sold out. Cooking School, author of Lucy’s TICKET PRICES Admission to most sessions is by a Saturday or Sunday Day Pass (£15 per day or £25 for Food and Lucy’s both days) excluding: Chiswick Bakes, for canapés Lucy’s Food: Cookery demo & supper £20 (Tuesday 12 September - Ginger Whisk Studios) and a cookery demonstration followed by a light supper, in aid of our charities. Raffle and bar. Ginger An Evening With Jane Austen £10 (Thursday 14 – Chiswick House) Whisk Studios, 14 Turnham Green Terrace Mews Book Clare Balding £4 (Friday 15 – Church) (behind Snapdragon). £20 (incl first glass of Hunter Davies & Roger Bolton £10 (Friday 15– Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, ArtsEd) wine). To book a table, see website David Baddiel £4 (Saturday 16 – Church) Festival Jeremy Vine £10 (Saturday 16 – Church) Wednesday 13 September, 7pm-9pm, Waterstones Local Authors Party Not So Perfect Parents’ Evening £10 (includes glass of bubbles, Saturday 16 - Parish Hall) On the eve of the Festival, we showcase the wealth Nowhere Like London £3 or £1.50 for Library members of local talent that Chiswick has to offer. Each (Monday 18 – Chiswick Library) author has just two minutes to speak about their Waterstones, book, making this a fast-paced, fun and fascinating WORKSHOPS evening. See Festival website for more details. 220-226 Chiswick High Rd, Researching Your Novel (Jill Dawson) £25 pp, max 16 participants (ArtsEd) Waterstones, 220-226 Chiswick High Road. Quick Pitch: The First Five Pages (Louise Lamont) £18 pp, max 12 participants Free admission. London W4 1PD (The Snug, Tabard pub, 10 mins each) T. 020 8995 3559 Time, Place, Action (Emma Henderson) £20 pp, max 20 participants (ArtsEd) Writing the Self (Cathy Rentzenbrink & Francesca Main) £20 pp, max 20 participants (ArtsEd) PLEASE NOTE Admission to Day Pass and Weekend Pass events is subject to venue capacity. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. THURSDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2017 Festival Supporters Many thanks to the FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2017 local firms who have sponsored events or given their services free, particularly to our Diamond partners: Savills; Waterstones Chiswick, who sell the authors’ books; and Chiswick Auctions, who offer book valuations. We are also very grateful to Hubbard Pegman & Whitney, Killik & Co, University of West London and other organisations who sponsor individual sessions; to Fosters Bookshop, who sponsor the quiz and Alan Connor, who writes it; to ArtsEd, Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, Chiswick Library, St Michael & All Angels Church, the Tabard Theatre & pub and Ginger Whisk CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 7:30pm-8:30pm A Life in the Day Studios for hosting events without charge; 5pm-6pm Clare Balding Author and journalist Hunter Davies talks about to Chiswickbuzz.com, ChiswickW4.com, Clare Balding launches The Racehorse Who his new memoir, which covers living in London in Chiswick Herald and TheChiswickCalendar. Disappeared, her second brilliant adventure the 1960s, becoming editor of Britain’s first ‘colour co.uk for their coverage of the Festival; and story about young heroine Charlie Bass and supp’, Magazine; befriending Jenny Yen of westeastdesign.co.uk, who her hilarious family of humans and animals. The Beatles; and interviewing the biggest names designed this leaflet. It’s an aspirational story about overcoming in television, film and theatre. Hunter also reflects adversity and following your dreams, subjects on his years spent with the love of his life – the Special thanks to all our participating close to Clare’s heart. Clare will share tales bestselling writer Margaret Forster - and life authors, their publishers, the chairs, and of growing up surrounded by animals and without her. This memoir follows The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! which was about his childhood. Chaired 6pm for 7pm An Evening with Jane Austen the many hardworking volunteers, whose stories from the Olympians and Paralympians by Roger Bolton of Radio 4’s Feedback. On the day Jane Austen graces the £10 note for the support helps us raise money for our she has met during her remarkable career. Supported by the University of West London first time, we hold a special event in the Burlington reading-related charities and without Expect lots of audience interaction and lots of Bar open from 6:45pm Pavilion, celebrating 200 years of her life and whom Chiswick Book Festival would not time for questions. Supported by Young Veterinary Practice The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, work in the splendid Neo-Palladian surroundings be half as enjoyable or successful! ArtsEd, 14 Bath Road, W4 1LY, £10 of Chiswick House & Gardens. Authors Paula St Michael & All Angels Church, £4 Byrne (The Genius of Jane Austen) and Helena Watch for updates to this list at Kelly (Jane Austen The Secret Radical) are joined by www.chiswickbookfestival.net Esmé Whittaker from English Heritage, curator of Chiswick House, who will highlight the links PLANNING YOUR VISIT between the author, Chiswick and its sister estate, Chatsworth, widely thought to be the model for Pemberley in Pride & Prejudice. Chaired by Festival BUYING BOOKS Director Torin Douglas. A team from Waterstones will be selling books and authors will be available for signings after their sessions. Supported by Hubbard, Pegman & Whitney VENUES, TRAVEL & TIMING Bar open and books on sale from 6pm Sessions are usually an hour long, with a 30-minute change-over time. More details on website. The Burlington Pavilion, Chiswick House, £10 DISABLED ACCESS The Burlington Pavilion at Chiswick House, St Michael & All Angels Church and Parish Hall, ArtsEd and Chiswick Library have full disabled access. However The Tabard Theatre is reached up a staircase and unfortunately does not have a lift. FOOD AND DRINK Coffee and home-made cakes will be sold in the Festival Marquee outside the Parish Hall. Drinks will be on Information is correct at time of going to press on 28th July 2017. Programme and other details subject to change. sale before the evening sessions at Chiswick House, ArtsEd and in the Church. There are many restaurants, More events may be added - see Festival website, posters and notice boards for updates. cafes, wine bars and pubs within a few minutes’ walk. 2:30-3:30pm SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017 CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL The Holocaust: 12:30-1pm Poetry Competition Prize Giving 1:30-2:30pm Giraffe and Frog Activity Party A New History Lucy Hawking (the George Greenby science Join award-winning author illustrator Zehra Celebrated historian Chiswick Auctions: As Chiswick Auctions adventure books) will present the prizes for Hicks for exciting readings, a comic-strip and filmmaker opens its new showroom in South Kensington, the Chiswick Book Festival Young People’s drawing workshop and puppet making! Zehra Laurence Rees its print experts will again give free evaluations Poetry Competition. Now in its 7th year, the is the creator of Flying Lemurs, All Mine! and showcases his of your books in the Parish Hall. competition attracts entries from many local the brand new Giraffe and Frog, a hilarious authoritative new For times, see posters and Festival website. schools and is supported by ChiswickW4.com adventure following two friends on their hunt work, which draws on and Trotters. for a beach. (Ages up to 7) interviews with victims, Marquee, free Marquee, free killers and bystanders alike, debunks many myths and presents the 12:45-1:45pm An Agent Expects… facts with authority and poignancy. WORKSHOP Adored by his many illustrious clients, Luigi Bonomi St Michael & All Angels Church, co-founded LBA Literary Agents and has built an 2-4pm Saturday Day Pass enviable career representing extraordinary talent. Researching Your Novel, Here he explains what an agent does and how to be Jill Dawson a smart author in an ever-competitive industry. Poet and best-selling CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, novelist Jill Dawson 3-4pm Invincible Voices Storytime Saturday Day Pass (The Crime Writer), offers Inspired by teacher and author Zoe advice and tips on how to Antoniades, children are encouraged to come 1-2pm Unbroken: From conduct effective research up with their own story ideas and helped to 7/7 to the Paralympics for fiction writing and shape, structure, organise and develop them. Martine Wright was explains how to avoid common pitfalls. Join Zoe as she brings to life this creative 11:15am-12:15pm The Affair the last person to be ArtsEd (please go to main reception), collection of stories for children by children. The Thorpe Affair rocked the political world in the brought out alive from 14 Bath Road, W4 1LY, £25, (Ages 6-10) mid-1970s and saw the first British politician to the 7/7 bombings. She limited to 16 participants Marquee, free stand trial for conspiracy to murder. John Preston, lost 80% of her blood, author of A Very English Scandal looks back at an was in a coma for seven extraordinary case with journalist, broadcaster and days and underwent 2:15-3:15pm Client Earth: Protecting the Planet by Law 3:45-4:45pm author of Is Anything Happening? Robin Lustig. ten months of surgery. Environmental lawyer and writer James Thornton The Political Power St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, Having never played is the founding CEO of ClientEarth and was named of Music - from Saturday Day Pass sport, as part of her by The New Statesman as one of the ten people who Glastonbury to the rehabilitation she took could change the world. Martin Goodman is professor Arab Spring up sitting volleyball and went on to represent CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL of Creative Writing at the University of Hull. Here Musician and author Great Britain at the Paralympics in London 2012. they discuss their collaboration and the pressing of Sound System: The She talks to sports journalist Sue Mott about her 11:15am-12:15pm environmental issues of our time with journalist and Political Power of Music incredible story. David Baddiel BBC Political Correspondent Jo Coburn. “This book is Dave Randall discusses St Michael & All Angels Church, The ever-fascinating an inspiration” - Caroline Lucas. his book of raves, Saturday Day Pass comedian, TV presenter, St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, riots and revolution storyteller and LOLLIE Saturday Day Pass with entertainment 1-2pm Get Plucky with the Ukulele winner talks to writer and broadcaster Nicolette Jones about for Beginners 2:30-3:30pm Living with Grief and Heartache Caroline Frost (Blue: All Rise: Our Story). his unputdownable books, Bring your ukulele (if you have one) and join The Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of A Last Act of The Tabard Theatre, Saturday Day Pass from the internationally Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain’s Will Grove- Love about the life and death of her brother bestselling The Parent Agency to the laugh-out- White for a jam session like nothing you’ve ever and A Manual for Heartache, here pairs with loud AniMalcolm and his new book Birthday Boy. heard - or seen – before. Plus he will chat about all psychotherapist and author of Grief Works, Julia (Age 9+) St Michael & All Angels Church, £4 things ukulele. Uke know it makes sense! Samuel for a sensitive and comprehensive look at The Tabard Theatre, Saturday Day Pass the nature of grief, loss and coping. The Tabard Theatre, Saturday Day Pass 3:45-4:45pm Prize Writing 5:30-6:30pm Oz Rachel Joyce (The Music Shop) has been Clarke: A Life in Wine SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2017 shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize, Wine writer and long-listed for the Booker Prize for The Unlikely broadcaster Oz Clarke 12-1pm The Splash of Words Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and won a SpecSavers (World of Wine) tells Reverend Canon Mark Oakley (Chancellor of National Book Award. Sarah Winman (Tinman) food writer Jo Pratt St Paul’s Cathedral) reads from his new book of won the Galaxy National Book ‘New Writer of The (The Flexible Vegetarian) poetry, A Splash of Words, chaired by the vicar Year’ award for her debut novel, When God was tales of grands crus and of St Michael & All Angels, Father Kevin Morris. a Rabbit. Here the authors discuss the nature of cheeky first growths as Mark will take Sunday Mass in church from 10am writing and of winning accolades with journalist he reminisces on his to 11.15am. Secularists and the spiritually minded and author Hannah Beckerman. career as the nation’s equally welcome! St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, favourite oenophile. St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, Saturday Day Pass St Michael & All Angels Church, Sunday Day Pass Saturday Day Pass 4-5pm Brexit: The State of the Nation 12:15-1:15pm Authors and journalists Craig Oliver (Unleashing 6:15-7:30pm Festival Drinks in the Gabriel Room CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Reflections: The Art of the Political Interview Demons), Harry Mount (Summer Madness) and Join us and some of the Festival authors for a Historian, journalist and peer Peter Hennessy John O’Farrell (Things Can Only Get Worse) discuss celebratory drink in aid of our three reading (Reflections) shed new light on politics in his Radio the fallout, the shocks and the future of our United charities, whose representatives will be on hand 4 interviews with figures such as John Major, Clare Kingdom outside the European Union in what to tell you about their work: RNIB Talking Books, Short, Nigel Lawson, David Owen, Neil Kinnock, promises to be a feisty exchange of views. Chaired InterAct Stroke Support and Doorstep Library. Norman Tebbit, and Shirley Williams. by Die Welt’s UK Correspondent, Stefanie Bolzen. St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, pay-bar Robin Lustig (Is Anything Happening?) interviewed St Michael & All Angels Church, a succession of world leaders for Radio 4 and Saturday Day Pass 7-8:15pm The Not So Perfect Parents’ Evening the BBC World Service, from to Hugo A light-hearted evening looking at parenthood for Shavez and Nelson Mandela. They reflect on the parents who aren’t perfect (so all of us then). With art of the interview. the Scummy Mummies, Ellie Gibson and Helen 12-1pm The Really Big Pants St Michael & All Angels Church, Sunday Day Pass Thorn, and Matt Coyne (Dummy, The Comedy & Theatre Company: PLUNDERED! 12:15-1:15pm Chaos of Real-Life Parenting), chaired by author and Back by popular demand. Set sail with two This is Going to Hurt: knackered mum Cathy Rentzenbrink. Parental girls, one trunk, and some really big pants on The Secret Diaries of a Advisory: there may be some light swearing, there a quest to battle a dastardly litterbug pirate! Junior Doctor may even be tears before bedtime. But hopefully And feel free to dress as a fearsome crew Adam Kay spent 6 they will be tears of laughter at the parental plight. member… arrrrrr! (Ages 5-11) years training as a St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, £10, Marquee, free includes glass of fizz on entry junior doctor, and kept a diary throughout. 5:15-6:15pm Victoria & Abdul - and a Game of Thrones 7:30-8:30pm Now a stand-up As the film Victoria & Abdul opens, starring Jeremy Vine: WORKSHOP comedian, he turned Dame Judi Dench, we look at two sides of What I Learnt his experiences into 12-1pm Quick Pitch: Queen Victoria’s life, with Shrabani Basu, the From Points of View to a sell-out Edinburgh The First Five Pages, Session 1 author of Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Panorama and his daily Festival show followed Louise Lamont gives tailored advice on how Queen’s Closest Confidant, and Deborah Cadbury, Radio 2 show, presenter by a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre, and now a to sharpen up your cover letter, synopsis whose new book Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking and author Jeremy Vine book. The audience spent the first 50 minutes and the opening 5 pages of your book. You describes the Royal marriages that shaped discusses interviewing, of the show in fits of laughter and the final 10 in will have ten minutes to receive invaluable Europe - seven of Victoria’s grandchildren would award-winning tears. In conversation with Cathy Rentzenbrink. 1-2-1 feedback! Please arrive on time, as occupy Europe’s thrones. broadcasting and Be prepared, bring tissues! latecomers will not be admitted. Supported by Killik & Co. listeners’ views. He may The Tabard Theatre, Sunday Day Pass Visit www.chiswickbookfestival.net for further St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, also mention Eggheads, details of how to book and what you need to Saturday Day Pass Strictly and why one do in advance of this session. should always wear a helmet when cycling. The Snug, The Tabard pub, Supported by Savills £18 per appointment, limited to 6 St Michael & All Angels Church, £10 appointments 4:30-5:30pm Kew Gardeners WORKSHOP CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Top gardeners and gardening writers Katherine Price 12:45-2:45pm Time, Place and Action, 1:45-2:45pm Inspire Little Minds Storytime (Get Plants), Tony Hall (Wild Plants of Southern Spain) Emma Henderson Join independent Usborne Organiser, Lola and Kew’s Director of Horticulture, Richard Barley, In this edition of our writing workshop series, House, for storytelling sessions at 1:45pm and come together to celebrate our favourite UNESCO Emma Henderson (The Valentine House) advises 2:15pm. In between she offers her experience, World Heritage Site and to talk about making plants, on how to develop plotlines, create mystery and knowledge and passion to help you choose gardens and gardening accessible and enjoyable for build drama while maintaining the relationship the perfect books to inspire, inform and excite everyone. With garden writer and presenter Gay Search. between setting, character and plot. young minds. (Ages: Families with 2-5 year St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, Sunday Day Pass ArtsEd (please go to main reception), 14 Bath olds for storytelling, books and activity packs Road, W4 1LY, £20, limited to 20 participants available for 0-14 years) Marquee, free

1:30-2:30pm Self and the Selfie: 3-4pm Wartime Women How we became self-obsessed 1:45-2:45pm Award-winning biographer, lecturer and former Novelist and broadcaster Marcel Theroux (The Honour Among Thebes Reuters foreign correspondent Anne Sebba (Les Secret Books) teams up with award-winning Natalie Haynes, writer, Parisiennes) discusses the (still) much overlooked journalist, photographer and novelist Will Storr Radio 4 broadcaster role of women in wartime with Sunday Times (Selfie) in this exploration of the role of the self in and comedian, takes on best-selling author Elizabeth Buchan whose new the life of the creative. Chaired by Julia Wheeler. Sophocles in her second novel The New Mrs Clifton is about a great taboo, a St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, Sunday Day Pass novel, The Children of German bride in post-war Britain. Jocasta. A new telling St. Michael & All Angels Parish Hall, Sunday Day Pass WORKSHOP of an ancient story, with women to the fore, CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 4:45-5:45pm Jo Malone & Sarah Outen: 1:30-2:30pm Quick Pitch: The Observer finds it Self-Motivation and Success The First Five Pages, Session 2 3:15-4:15pm ‘vivid and affecting’. To The Building Boy In the best-scented event of the festival, Louise Lamont gives tailored advice on how to accompany the book internationally successful fragrance designer sharpen up your cover letter, synopsis and the Activity Fun Natalie will present a humorous history of Ancient The Carnegie and entrepreneur Jo Malone (My Story) together opening 5 pages of your book. You will have ten Greece which she is calling Honour Among Thebes. with extraordinary athlete and super-adventurer minutes to receive invaluable 1-2-1 feedback! Prize nominated We love it already. author of weird and Sarah Outen (Dare To Do) discuss what it takes Please arrive on time, as latecomers will not be Tabard Theatre, Sunday Day Pass to keep going when things don’t quite go to plan. admitted. Visit www.chiswickbookfestival.net wonderful books for young children, Ross Chaired by Paul Blezard. for further details of how to book and what you St Michael & All Angels Church, Sunday Day Pass need to do in advance of this session. WORKSHOP Montgomery, takes you on an epic adventure about finding your The Snug, The Tabard pub, 3-5pm Writing the Self, Cathy Rentzenbrink place in the world. (Ages 4-8) Marquee, free MONDAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2017 £18 per appointment, limited to 6 appointments & Francesca Main A revealing workshop on writing about yourself, with advice on how to tell your own 3:15-4:15pm 7-8pm Nowhere Like London 1:45-2:45pm story and tips and tricks on writing something The Making of the Mick Herron, William Shaw and Lesley Thomson Maggie O’Farrell that’s too difficult to say. With the bestselling British Landscape have all set successful crime series in London. CWA Costa and Somerset author of The Last Act of Love and A Manual Nicholas Crane is the Gold Dagger-winning Mick Herron’s Jackson Lamb Maugham award- for Heartache and her editor, the Publishing geographer, explorer, series is based at the imaginary Slough House, a winner Maggie O’Farrell Director of Picador. presenter and writer dumping ground for failed MI5 agents located near discusses her electric and ArtsEd (please go to main reception), who delighted us with The Barbican. No 1 best-seller Lesley Thomson has shocking new memoir, I 14 Bath Road, W4 1LY, £20, his many wonderful a Chiswick-set series that began with The Detective’s Am, I Am, I Am, recounting limited to 20 participants series for BBC from Daughter. William Shaw’s Breen and Tozer series tales of the near death Coast to Great British revolves around 1960s Marylebone and the embers experiences that have Journeys. Part journey, of swinging London. Val McDermid welcomed the punctuated her life. With part history, his new latest, Sympathy for the Devil, as a ‘big treat for fans… former Waterstones book The Making of the and if you’re not a fan yet, why not?’ Chaired by bookseller and author of British Landscape brilliantly describes the evolution Festival Director Torin Douglas. A Manual for Heartache Cathy Rentzenbrink. of Britain’s countryside and cities. Chiswick Library, Duke’s Avenue, W4 2AB, £3, £1.50 St Michael & All Angels Church, Sunday Day Pass St Michael & All Angels Church, Sunday Day Pass for Library members, advance booking required. Savings | Planning | Investments

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