Baillie Gifford FULL PROGRAMME JULY - OCT Borders Festival Online 2020 Cover Image: Tom Morgan-Jones A different way of looking... Hallie Rubenhold, Winner of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Issue 40 Welcome to the (online) Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival This has been a year like no other. A Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival like no other, too. For all sorts of reasons, we hope never to have to repeat the experience. And yet.

This was the longest festival ever (three epic months), with more than 20,000 viewers under the digital marquee. Forty three authors brought words to life on every subject from the future of the planet and the meaning of life to high fashion and your choice of last supper. We laughed, we cried, we came back for more.

And still you can. Throughout November you can watch any of the shows you missed or re-visit an old favourite – they are all available for free this month. All of this has been made possible thanks to the creative genius of Paula, Alistair and the team. And the generous support of Baillie Gifford, McInroy & Wood, Scottish Borders Council, Creative Scotland and many others, including all who donated to keep the festival spirit alive.

Enjoy – and see you for our next chapter in 2021!

Our free and award-winning investment trust magazine brings you Michael Moore, Chairman writing on the ideas that shape our world. Read thought-provoking Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival articles from our investment managers, academics and global thinkers, alongside exclusive interviews with distinguished authors. For more information, download a free copy from the festival’s website or subscribe to the digital version online.

subscribe to Trust digital for your chance to win a luxury break in Edinburgh, which can be taken any time WIN during 2021. Visit the subscription page for full details. bailliegifford.com/subscribe www.bordersbookfestival.org 00 3 Sponsors Baillie Gifford We couldn’t do it without your help... We are delighted to remain Headline Sponsor and supporter of the new online events, where the whole family can enjoy an excellent range of authors from the comfort of home. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust continues to support a series of non-fiction events, covering anything from politics and history to memoir and adventure. We very much missed being able to attend the festival in Melrose, but we are looking forward to tuning into the digital events and we hope to see you all in person at Harmony Garden next year.

James Budden Director of Marketing, Baillie Gifford

McInroy & Wood The COVID pandemic has created great stresses, strains and misery across the globe. There is a danger in such circumstances that areas like the arts, which provide great pleasure to so many, are deprioritised. However, it is our belief that it is more important than ever that events like the Borders Book Festival remain well supported, acting as a focal point for the communities in which we all live and work. McInroy & Wood are therefore delighted to continue to be the Key Sponsor of the Borders Book Festival, and look forward to the series of online events in the coming weeks.

Tim Wood Chief Executive, McInroy & Wood Thanks also to: Johannes & Antonia de Gier, Francis & Catherine Hamilton, Sue & Rob Moffat, Michael & Alison Moore, Robert & Maxine Sloss and Ann & Maurice White.

4 5 All the fun of the (virtual) festival We’re sorry we couldn’t see you in glorious Harmony Garden and Orchard this year, but we can welcome you to our online bonanza of online author talks and events first broadcast across July to October, where entry to every event has been FREE!

How to View Family Fun All our Online Festival 2020 video events Our Saltire Roofing & Building Family A highly personalised investment management service are available to view FREE until Series offers a wonderful selection of for individuals, families, trusts and charities 30 November. Simply visit our website: online events and workshops with some www.bordersbookfestival.org of ’s best-loved authors for children. Our investment philosophy is directed primarily towards the preservation of the real value of our clients’ capital and its purchasing power over time. Clients can expect a personal service with a dedicated investment manager and first class administration. If you would like to discuss our services, please call Tim Wood or Guido Bicocchi on 01620 825 867.

Online Festival Donations Bookshop The Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020 has been free to view so Browse our online festival bookshop, that everyone can explore and enjoy where you can buy copies of all our great literature events from home. Easter Alderston 53 Davies Street Windsor House authors’ latest titles. Some signed copies Please support us if you can by making a Haddington Cornwall Road will be available, so check the product East Lothian W1K 5JH Harrogate donation. Your contribution will help us pages for details. The bookshop is open EH41 3SF HG1 2PW continue to bring authors and audiences Tel: 020 3709 7240 24 hours – plenty time for shopping! Tel: 01620 825 867 Tel: 01423 222 200 together again in 2021 and beyond.

www.mcinroy-wood.co.uk [email protected] If you’ve missed or want to watch any of our past online events again, Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority they’re still all available to view in the past events area. Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020 Including The Saltire Roofing & Building Family Series Pages 24-30

The Batch Lady The Batch Alexandra Rory Bremner Lady Shulman Alexandra Shulman Suzanne Mulholland in conversation with James Naughtie Paul Murton Suzanne Mulholland does nothing by Kirsty Wark halves. More like quintuples or sextuples. When we hear that Kirsty enjoyed this book Mark Billingham Living and working on a Scottish Borders so much that she read it in one sitting, we Sally Magnusson farm, she has written two about Baillie Gifford know that we’re in for a treat when she how to cook – with a vengeance. She wrote David Baldacci Series discusses Clothes…and other things that The Batch Lady: Shop once. Cook once. Eat Rutger Bregman matter with its author, Alexandra Shulman. well all week which became an instant Sebastian Barry First shown 12 July, 2020 and has brought her tens of This new and beautifully made book offers Jonathon Porritt thousands of followers on social media. fascinating insights salted with a little Richard Holloway It has also caught the lockdown zeitgeist insider knowledge – Alexandra was, of perfectly. Now she has written a second Sara Pascoe Rory Bremner course, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue UK book The Batch Lady Meal Planner. Jeremiah Emmanuel in conversation with for 25 years. Val McDermid Follow the tips in this and you’ll never Alistair Moffat Camilla Thurlow again lose track of what’s lurking at the No-one in the Borders ever asks ‘Rory back of your freezer! Dr Amir Khan who?’. There’s only one Rory. And that’s our Jay Rayner Rory. Since 2006 and for virtually the whole Professor Sue Black life of the Borders Book Festival, Rory Dr Richard Shepherd Bremner has had the marquees rocking with laughter and delight, charming and Hamish de Bretton-Gordon informing audiences with his mastery of Douglas Stuart mimicry mixed with acute political and Martin Bell social analysis. Every year his show has Neil Oliver been the first to sell out and often he has Ken Follett opened the festival, set a wonderful tone and sent everyone into a joyful weekend Kate Humble with a smile on their face. Alistair Moffat For Borderers, Rory is one of us, an adopted First shown 19 July, 2020 Media Partner interview Kirsty Wark son who is much loved. with The Border Telegraph Janey Godley First shown 12 July, 2020 Media Partner interview with The Border Telegraph Johnny Herbert All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020 Damon Hill 8 9 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

Sally Magnusson Paul Murton The Ninth Child The Viking Isles After several excellent works of non-fiction, The presenter of BBC Television’s Grand including her memoir of her mother’s Tours has written a beautiful and very dementia Where Memories Go, Sally turned personal book. In The Viking Isles: Travels her hand to fiction. Her debut novel The in Orkney & Shetland, he explores not only Sealwoman’s Gift was a runaway success, Scottish Mortgage shortlisted for several awards and a Investment Trust Event these most Nordic parts of Scotland but also weaves in family connections with bestseller to boot. Norway and his own travels in Scandinavia First shown 19 July, 2020 as a child and young man. This year she brings out a triumphant second novel The Ninth Child. A completely unexpected tale told from several viewpoints, it moves from the world of 19th James First shown 26 July, 2020 Media Partner interview with The Border Telegraph century engineering through the realms of Celtic fantasy as it tells the story of the Naughtie creation of Glasgow’s clean water supply, a On The Road Mark pipeline from Loch Katrine to the cholera- infested city. One of the stalwarts of the Baillie Gifford Sponsored by Davidson Chalmers Stewart Borders Book Festival, appearing each year Billingham to offer his own unique insights into the in conversation with Chris political scene, Jim reflects on a key aspect Brookmyre First shown 2 Aug, 2020 of a glittering journalistic career. A double act that has delighted Borders Sponsored by In On The Road: American Adventures Book Festival audiences more than once, from Nixon to Trump, James Naughtie Mark and Chris have a particular reason explores the country he has known for fifty First shown 26 July, 2020 to reprise their amazing rapport in 2020. It years – its allure and its contradictions, its is a year of 20s when a milestone for Mark strengths and some painful legacies that will be passed. It is twenty years since the weigh so heavily on its people. publication of Sleepyhead, his first novel and the debut of Tom Thorne, his quirky, engaging detective. And his twentieth novel will be published in 2020. It is Cry Baby, a All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020 prequel to Sleepyhead.

10 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 11 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020 Sebastian Barry David Baldacci A Thousand Moons A Minute to Midnight Current holder of the Laureateship for Irish In a Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Fiction and twice winner of the Walter Scott first, we bring you our first transatlantic Prize for historical fiction with On Canaan’s session. David will talk to us from his home Side and Days Without End, Sebastian in the USA about his new novel and its Barry has written a stunning new novel. A fascinating protagonist, Special Agent Atlee Thousand Moons, a sequel to Days Without Pine. This is an intensely personal story. End, is told by Winona, a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas It began with the novel, Long Road to McNulty and John Cole. Mercy. Atlee’s twin sister was abducted Jonathon from their bedroom more than thirty years Rutger Told in Sebastian Barry’s rare and masterly before, and she has spent all that long time prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful, Porritt wondering where she is. This incident is moving study of one woman’s journey, of Hope in Hell: A Decade to what propelled Atlee into dedicating her Bregman her determination to write her own future, life to catching criminals. Humankind: A Hopeful History and of the enduring human capacity for Confront the Climate Emergency love. At the 2019 World Economic Summit Sponsored by Set aside Brexit, Covid, Trump and all of at Davos, historian Rutger Bregman Davidson Chalmers Stewart the daily diet of news stories. In his new book, Jonathon Porritt persuasively argues First shown 2 Aug, 2020 made headlines across the world when he attacked tax evasion undertaken First shown 9 Aug, 2020 that there is only one political issue that as a matter of policy by many large really matters. Unless we change our corporations. Now with Humankind, he attitudes and engage comprehensively upends the conventional wisdom, arguing with the Climate Emergency, our world will that humans are by nature co-operative become unsustainable and begin to die. As and decent. We are not instinctively President Emmanuel Macron of France said adversarial, selfish and constantly acting to the American Congress in April, 2018, out of self-interest, he writes, but much ‘There is no Planet B’. more likely to trust each other and to be altruistic. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Event First shown 16 Aug, 2020 Media Partner interview with The Border Telegraph

Sponsored by First shown 9 Aug, 2020

12 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 13 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020 Sara Pascoe Sex Power Money Val McDermid After the great success ofAnimal: The Still Life Autobiography of a Female Body, Sara returns to the Baillie Gifford Borders Book The Queen of Crime returns to the Baillie Festival with a hilarious confrontation – Gifford Borders Book Festival. Surely one with the male libido. With characteristic of the most versatile and fertile creative directness, spiced with a riotous, minds in Britain, Val has created a string of completely irreverent sense of humour, detectives and investigators around whom Sara wonders about modern masculinity in she weaves startling stories that keep some detail, some of it eye-watering. When readers on the edge of their seats. they masturbate, why is the well-being of Richard the people they look at while doing it of no Cold case investigator, Karen Pirie, finds concern to them? Why are sex workers the that her name is associated with the Holloway perennial subject of such stigma? These Jeremiah finding of a body at sea and a mysterious and other conundra prompt responses disappearance ten years before that. Stories We Tell Ourselves: from Sara that will make the reader laugh Emmanuel Making Meaning in a out loud. Dreaming in a Nightmare: Still Life is vintage McDermid, one for the Meaningless Universe connoisseurs, but it is also wonderfully Finding a Way Forward in a well-written – as ever – and many surprises With his Waiting for the Last Bus, Richard World That’s Holding You Back and reverses wait along the way. Holloway meditated on what has become First shown 20 Aug, 2020 close to a taboo subject. Now in his ninth This is an extraordinary account of what is decade, he used his own impending death, possible. Jeremiah is twenty-one, a former youth mayor of Lambeth and a member the last bus, as a brilliantly effective context First shown 23 Aug, 2020 Media Partner interview for a superbly written, highly readable of the UK Youth Parliament. He is also an with The Border Telegraph and even funny book. And mercifully, he entrepreneur and a young man with vision. has survived to produce another piece of excellent non-fiction! Raised in South London in a tough environment dominated by poverty and Baillie Gifford Series crime, he slowly realised that his life did not have to follow the familiar pattern of First shown 16 Aug, 2020 law-breaking followed by spells in prison. Instead he broke out into the world of possibility and grasped it with both hands.

Baillie Gifford Series All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020 First shown 23 Aug, 2020

14 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 15 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020 Camilla Thurlow Not The Type: Finding my Jay Rayner place in the Real World My Last Supper: One Meal, a This could not be a more apt title. Camilla Lifetime in the Making competed in Love Island in 2017, coming A firm Borders Book Festival favourite, Jay second, and now she has set up home with pays us an online visit to talk about a book Jamie Jewitt, whom she met on the show. that asks an age-old question. You are about to die. What would your final meal Professor One of the last things one might associate be? with this lifestyle is an ability to find and Sue Black & blow up landmines in the conflict zones Unwilling to wait for his own moment of of the world. But that is exactly what First shown 30 Aug, 2020 expiry to answer this, Jay embarks on a Dr Richard Camilla has done – amongst much else foodie safari to discover the answer. From that goes against type. Her new book oysters in Louisiana to pastries in Tokyo, his Shepherd combines memoir and meditation, advice research is both exhaustive and onerous, and example on how to survive in a world Dr Amir Khan Forensic Stories: Written in The Doctor Will See You Now: but he does finally arrive at what would be where women are often categorised and an unforgettable meal. Blood and Bone marginalised. The Highs and Lows of My Life A forensic anthropologist and a forensic as an NHS GP pathologist – both eminent and highly When we all stood outside our front doors articulate – discuss their books. Author to clap for the NHS on lockdown Thursday of the bestseller All That Remains, Sue nights, our rounds of grateful applause Black, unpacks the secrets hidden in our were for the sort of selfless, grinding, day- skeletons in her new book Written in Bone. in, day-out work done in doctors’ surgeries We used to think that memory was stored as well as hospitals, care homes and the only in our brains, but it turns out that our ambulance service. bones have hidden stories to tell, many of them very surprising. Richard Shepherd’s Amir Khan’s fascinating, moving new book Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many tells us how he helped lead one of the Deaths of Britain’s Top Forensic Pathologist busiest GP surgeries in the country through recounts the gory details of dealing with the unprecedented trials of the Covid death for 25 years. He has remarkable tales to tell, some moving, some amusing, all of pandemic. First shown 6 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview Sponsored by with The Border Telegraph them fascinating. Davidson Chalmers Stewart Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Event First shown 30 Aug, 2020

First shown 6 Sept, 2020

16 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 17 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

Douglas Stuart Neil Oliver Shuggie Bain Wisdom of the Ancients: Life Set in 80s Glasgow, Booker Prize shortlisted Lessons from our Distant Past Shuggie Bain is the tender story of the love between a young boy and his alcoholic Neil possesses far too many talents than mother, of addiction, poverty and sexuality, is decent for one man; archaeologist, and in its telling, debut novelist Douglas historian, gifted speaker and television Stuart has created something of such presenter and a writer, all mixed with a power and authenticity that it knocks you self-deprecating sense of humour. But a sideways. THE MCINROY & WOOD LECTURE philosopher? Who knew? Neil obviously, because in this superb account, packed Hamish Join Douglas as he talks to Kirsty Wark with insights triggered by the likes of stone about what drove him to write his Martin Bell circles, cave paintings, rituals in Southern de Bretton- bestselling and deeply personal debut War and Peacekeeping India, the footprints of some of our earliest novel. ancestors found preserved in Tanzania Gordon In conversation with Allan Little and much else, he weaves a remarkable Martin Bell’s experience of war is peerless. narrative. Chemical Warrior: Saving Lives As a reporter, he has covered conflicts in no First shown 13 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview fewer than eighteen war zones. on the Frontline of Modern with The Border Telegraph Warfare First shown 20 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview In 1992 television viewers saw exactly with The Border Telegraph A former soldier and co-founder and how dangerous his work could be. While director of Doctors Under Fire with recording a piece to camera in Sarajevo, former festival guest, David Nott, Hamish Martin was seriously wounded by shrapnel, spent twenty-three years in the army. As some of which he still carries around. He is Commanding Officer of the Chemical, uniquely qualified to meditate on the cycle Biological, Radiological and Nuclear of war across the world as conflicts flare in Defence Regiment, he did all he could to an apparently ceaseless cycle. What can be help those suffering the impact of these done? How can this cycle be broken? This sorts of weapons – from civilians in Syria to book reflects on these questions. the citizens of Salisbury who were affected Sponsored by Sponsored by by the Novichok poisoning. Baillie Gifford Scottish Mortgage Series Investment Trust Event First shown 17 Sept, 2020

First shown 13 Sept, 2020

18 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 19 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

Ken Follett Alistair Moffat The Evening and the Morning In Search of Angels: Travels to The Pillars of the Earth, the story of the the Edge of the World building of a medieval cathedral, is simply a magnificent historical novel. Filled with In the summer of 2019, Alistair Moffat set fascinating detail but animated by brilliant off on a long journey back into the past. characters and a riveting plot, it is nothing less than a masterpiece. Once the marquees from the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival had come down in The Evening and the Morning is a prequel. Baillie Gifford the shadow of Melrose Abbey, he drove Set in 997, it prepares the ground for and Series across Scotland into a sacred landscape of ends when The Pillars of the Earth begins. a very different sort. It turned out to be a Kirsty Wark voyage of discovery in every sense. After the stunning success of her debutThe Only twenty-seven when he had his first First shown 22 Sept, 2020 bestseller, The Eye of the Needle, Ken is now Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, Kirsty Wark one of the world’s most successful novelists has pulled off one of the most difficult and has sold 170 million copies of his books challenges in literature; how to follow up worldwide. Kate Humble a terrific first novel with an even better A Year of Living Simply: My second.

Journey from Complexity to With The House by the Loch, she has Contentment succeeded brilliantly. It is a love story, a family story, a tale salted with an intense The achievement of happiness does not sense of place – but most of all, the novel lie in finding the latest thing, the newest is a page-turner. Desperate to know what gadget or what other people say is the best happens next, the reader is kept perched yet. As with her writing, simplicity is the key on the edge of their seat as a story of and in A Year of Living Simply, she relates mystery, loss and complexity unfolds, how she decluttered her life and found a Sponsored by twisting and turning in unexpected clear path to contentment. directions. First shown 27 Sept, 2020 Her days, much less crowded, are not about the ceaseless acquisition of stuff, but are about rediscovering a sense of First shown 27 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview with The Border Telegraph achievement, what makes a person happy and what gets you genuinely excited. First shown 20 Sept, 2020 All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020

20 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 21 Janey Godley in conversation with Val McDermid Please Baillie Gifford One of the UK’s most popular comedic Series Donate talents and voiceover genius (aka the unofficial voice of Nicola Sturgeon) comes together with the Queen of Crime for this As a charity, we need wickedly entertaining and very special Andrew Marr online festival finale. Johnny Herbert your help more than Elizabethans: How Modern Brace yourself for a night to remember! ever. Britain Was Forged & Damon Hill We rely heavily on ticket and book Taking the long span of the reign of Lights Out, Full Throttle: The sales and the cancellation of this year’s festival is having a huge Elizabeth II of England (and I of Scotland) First shown 4 Oct, 2020 Media Partner interview Good, the Bad and the Bernie as its time frame, Andrew’s new book tells with The Border Telegraph impact on us. Please support us if a spellbinding story. Making the familiar of Formula One you can by making a donation. appear novel, seeing the recent past in These two could not be better qualified fresh perspectives, he tells the tale of the to lift the lid on Formula One racing. Your contribution will help us nation through the people who animated Between them, they have competed all continue to bring authors and it, from David Attenborough to Dusty over the world in 261 Grands Prix – they’ve audiences together again in 2021 Springfield, Sylvia Plath to Elvis Costello, won a few, broken some bones and are and beyond. Frank Critchlow to Bob Geldof and Zaha now seasoned and highly knowledgeable Hadid to James Dyson. pundits and commentators. Thank you. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Event Their new book is essential for petrolheads everywhere, and it is a delight First shown 4 Oct, 2020 to welcome them, albeit virtually, to the land of Jim Clark. Damon and Johnny are interviewed by Alastair Stewart, formerly of ITN and a big fan of F1. All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020

First shown 15 Oct, 2020

22 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 23 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

The Saltire Roofing & Building Make Your Own Humanimal: Incredible Ways Family Series 2020 Rockpool Book with Animals are Just Like Us! Jill Calder Christopher Celebrating the rockpool pages in her popular children’s book The Sea, Lloyd illustrator Jill Calder will take you on Join world history author and storyteller a creative journey into the colourful, Christopher Lloyd on an amazing journey miniature world of the tidal rock pool. to discover the interconnections of the Grab your bucket and net and go for a human and animal worlds in ways you virtual guddle with Jill, who will inspire never imagined. . . how slime moulds can you to draw amazing creatures and tiny help navigate a maze, how rats tickle and predators, then teach you to illustrate and Suitable for Age 4+ laugh out loud, how bees vote in elections make your very own picture book! First shown 19 July, 2020 to decide where to put their nests, and lots more! Jill Calder Jill will read and show illustrations from The Sea. She’ll then demonstrate how Joseph Coelho For years scientists have assumed that to draw a rockpool scene and convert Joseph Coelho people are the pinnacle of evolution. Fiona Lumbers that into a unique folded picture book, After all, what other creatures could put using simple materials that viewers will Christopher Lloyd & Fiona Lumbers a person on the moon? But, increasingly, have on hand at home - A4 or A3 paper, evidence is showing how similar humans Alan Windram scissors, drawing materials and pencil This Luna Loves Art are to other creatures not just in terms workshop event is suitable for all ages Pamela Butchart of their biology but also in the ways and great fun for the whole family. Join Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers we behave – from working in teams to Eilidh Muldoon as they share their latest Luna adventure farming and from using tools to language. Gary Northfield Luna Loves Art. Luna goes on a school trip to a gallery and is amazed by the Kristina Stephenson incredible art on display but Finn, a boy in Luna’s class, is not having a lot of fun. Suitable for Age 7+ Media Partner interview Nicola Davies First shown 26 July, 2020 with The Border Telegraph Maybe Luna can help and perhaps the art Martin Brown in the gallery can help them both express Guy Parker -Rees what they are feeling. Join author Joseph Coelho and illustrator Fiona Lumbers for Libby Jackson this special event where you will not only Sir Chris Hoy get to hear the story but also get to join in with a special drawing activity.

No special materials are needed – just a sheet of A4 paper and a pen or pencil Suitable for all Ages to draw with. First shown 12 July, 2020 24 25 The Saltire Roofing & Building Family Series 2020 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

Pamela Butchart Eilidh Adventures with Izzy Muldoon Join Pamela Butchart for some laugh- Snooze – A Helpful Guide for out-loud fun. Hear all about Izzy and her Sleepy Owls Comic Drawing Fun with friends and their latest adventures in Icarus Was Ridiculous. Izzy loves the Greek Do you sometimes find it a little bit myths and she just can’t wait to tell them difficult to fall asleep? If the answer is Gary all about silly Icarus who flew too close to yes, then you’ll know how the little owl in the sun. Giggle at all of Blue Peter prize- this brand new picture book by illustrator Northfield Alan Windram winning author Pamela’s hilarious stories Eilidh Muldoon feels. All he wants is a and you might even get to help her create good sleep, but there are some very noisy Join master cartoonist Gary Northfield Benny’s Back! a brand new one on the day. animals keeping him awake! (The Beano, The Dandy) for some comic Join award-winning author, Alan capers! Packed with fun comic-drawing Windram, for this special online picture You will hear some helpful tips on how to tips and lots of great facts from his book launch event. There will be singing, get to sleep...and learn how to draw your hilarious Julius Zebra series, this event is a must for budding cartoonists, both young robot dancing, the first Benny story Suitable for Age 7 -11 own animal characters! Grab some pens AND the worldwide, exclusive, first ever First shown 9 Aug, 2020 and paper and tune into this interactive and old. reading of Benny’s brand new adventure, event. One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe. With robots, cats, cake, aliens and adventure, what’s not to like? Find out what happens when Benny has to press his big red button again. Lots of fun for three to six year-olds. This workshop event is suitable for all ages and great fun for the whole family.

Suitable for Age 3-6 Media Partner interview First shown 2 Aug, 2020 with The Border Telegraph Suitable for Age 3-6 First shown 16 Aug, 2020

Suitable for Age 7-11 First shown 23 Aug, 2020

26 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 27 The Saltire Roofing & Building Family Series 2020 Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020

Kristina Martin Brown Stephenson Lesser Spotted Animals Do you like animals? Do you like drawing? Sir Charlie Stinky Socks Then join mega-selling Horrible Histories Join bestselling author and illustrator illustrator Martin Brown for a fun-filled look Kristina Stephenson in her home as she at his book Lesser Spotted Animals. welcomes you to the wonderful world of Why is it always the famous animals that Sir Charlie Stinky Socks - the bold, brave, get all the attention? The lions and tigers, little knight with a heart of gold. pandas and polar bears. It’s time to hear about some of the other wow wildlife out Help Sir Charlie on his quest for not one there. but two pieces of hidden treasure as you follow the clues and see if you can solve Find out about the solenodon, a venomous the riddles on a mystical map in this mammal that isn’t immune from its own magical, musical retelling of The Tale of poison. Or the daggertoothed flower bat Suitable for Age 3-6First Two Treasures, complete with puppets, Suitable for Age 5-7 that’s not quite as tough as it sounds. Or shown 20 Sept, 2020 First shown 6 Sept, 2020 props, songs, action, adventure and all maybe the gaur or the numbat or the the silliness of a pair of stinky socks. southern right whale dolphin. Discover Then learn how to make an oldie-worldy more about some of the brilliant beasts you Guy Parker parchment treasure map, a pot of magical Nicola Davies never knew you needed to know about. green bean gloop and your very own Sir My Butterfly Bouquet Charlie Stinky Socks puppet theatre. Then - draw them! -Rees Oh, and don’t forget to join in with Sir Who isn’t cheered up at the sight of a Elephant Me Charlie’s famous Green Bean Soup song. butterfly? Join author Nicola Davies to hear how one little girl in need of a lot of A brand new picture book from the cheering up met a whole bouquet of creators of international bestseller and butterflies. much-loved classic Giraffes Can’t Dance. Elephant Me tells the empowering story of Nicola will explore all the stages of little elephant Num-Num, who discovers a butterfly’s life, tell you how very the importance of simply being YOU! important they are to our ecosystems and Join illustrator Guy Parker-Rees for this explain how easy it is to invite butterflies brilliant storytelling event and learn how into your garden or school. to draw Num-Num the Elephant. He’ll be revealing what it’s like to be an illustrator and what inspires his drawings.

Suitable for all Ages Media Partner interview Suitable for Age 7-11 First shown 30 Aug, 2020 with The Border Telegraph First shown 13 Sept, 2020

28 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 29 The Saltire Roofing & Building Family Series 2020

Sir Chris Hoy Be Amazing!

Join Great Britain’s most successful Olympian ever, the six-time gold medal winning Sir Chris Hoy, for an inspiring event about achieving your dreams. As a boy, Sir Chris never would have believed Space Explorers with that he could have achieved his dream of becoming an Olympic Champion cyclist but with positivity, confidence, resilience Libby Jackson and self-belief – anything is possible! Be inspired by his incredible personal Humans have always been fascinated by journey and learn to always DREAM BIG. the universe, but only a few have been daring enough to travel beyond the Earth. From venturing into space for the first time to building the International Space Suitable for Age 9+ Station in orbit, the history of space First shown 4 Oct, 2020 exploration is filled with peril, bravery and strokes of genius.

Join spaceflight expert Libby Jackson as she reveals the very best true stories of humankind’s thrilling journey to the stars. Grab your space suit and jump Proud sponsor of Supporting local children aboard - it’s time for an astronomical by investing in local adventure! the Borders Book communities. Festival Family Suitable for Age 9-12 We’re the team that gives back. First shown 27 Sept, 2020 Series 2020 www.saltireroofi ng.co.uk

30 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG 00 Festival Art Each year we commission an artist or illustrator to produce a series of works to interpret the book festival as they see it. This year, illustrator and satirist Tom Morgan- Jones produced five individual artworks under the theme Don’t forget of ‘a different way of looking’ which you will see across all our marketing and social media postings to promote our Festival Online 2020 programme. to visit our festival Tom Morgan Jones Tom Morgan-Jones is a dip-pen artist, dangerous weapon by the police. After bookshop! illustrator and satirist born in Sussex and testing, the Ministry of Defence said it now living by the sea in Edinburgh. He had no value as a terrorist training tool, All proceeds go directly back has been drawing since he could hold a but is ‘a damn fine game’. to the festival. felt-tip pen and studied illustration at Tom illustrates for books, magazines Cambridge School of Art. He has won and newspapers, working extensively an Association of Illustrators’ Medal CONTACT in children’s books where his 70+ and a British Design and Art Direction publications include his own picture Yellow Pencil. He is one third of satirical Borders Book Festival book The Red Dread. His work has boardgame company Terror Bull Games, appeared on the sides of buses, milk Harmony House, St Marys Road whose international cult hit War on cartons and projected 10 feet high as Melrose, Scottish Borders TD6 9LJ Terror: The Boardgame was exhibited in a backdrop for poets, bands and other the Berlin Academy of Arts and featured performers in ‘live-draw’ performances on TV’s The IT Crowd, and is held in [email protected] across Scotland and further afield. the collections of GOMA, the V&A, the www.bordersbookfestival.org Last year a notable outing was with the Nobel Peace Centre and the Imperial National Theatre of Scotland in their Dear War Museum. It was also classified as a Borders Book Festival is a Company Europe production. Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland No. SC296476. You can find out more about Tom here: www.inkymess.com /@tommorganjones Scottish Charity No. SC037347

© Borders Book Festival 2020

13/07/2020 13:00:08 BBF2020 Postcards.indd 4 13/07/2020 13:00:09 BBF2020 Postcards.indd 3

13/07/2020 13:00:06 BBF2020 Postcards.indd 5

BBF2020 Postcards.indd 1 13/07/2020 13:00:09

BBF2020 Postcards.indd 2 13/07/2020 13:00:07 Like all lawyers we have our own language.

We’ve been handling ‘allsorts’ of creative projects for over two decades. A small web and graphics studio with a passion for interesting projects, Ours is called we’re excited to be part of the Borders Book Festival team.

straight-talking. we put your business at the heart of ours

Clear, practical and commercial legal advice. Manufactured by Conservatory Outlet Ltd FOR ACCOUNTANCY, TAXATION AND BUSINESS ADVICE TWEEDSIDE PARK, TWEEDBANK GALASHIELS TD1 3TE

© CALL 01896 751050 OR VISIT NEW EXTREME www.gallrobertsonca.co.uk WINDOWS & DOORS Edinburgh STYLE, COMFORT AND SECURITY 0131 625 9191 Glasgow 0141 428 3258 Galashiels Currie Road Galashiels TD1 2BP 01896 550991 Open: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm & Sat 9am-12 noon Tel: 01896 752628 dcslegal.com www.mitchellglass.co.uk

105529.002 DCS Borders Book Festival advert A5 v2 AW.indd 1 24/07/2020 16:42 Artwork Client: DCS Doc: 105529.002 DCS borders Book Festival Advert A5 v2 AW Project: Book Festival Size: H (210)mm x W (148)mm A/C: Sallie AW: TH C M Y K Date: 24.07.20 Version: 2 TAILORED HOME INSURANCE RIGHT DOWN TO THE FINEST DETAIL

For high-value properties and contents, including valuables, fine art and collections, choose NFU Mutual Bespoke home insurance.

To discuss your high value home insurance, call the NFU Mutual Borders agency on Unfiltered malted barley vodka 01835 822 274 or 01361 882 291, – steamed through charcoal or search NFU Mutual Bespoke inside the still itself and never filtered as a liquid.

It is the only vodka in the world made this way, and the result is brimful of character with an incredible creamy mouthfeel.

Intrigued? You can order the vodka from Amazon, or direct

Our Agents are appointed representatives of The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited (No. 111982). Registered in England. Registered Office: Tiddington Road, from the Borders Distillery at Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 7BJ. Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. A member of the Association of British Insurers. D-5E3F7D34 thebordersdistillery.com