FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2018

Nadiya Hussain Dan Snow Susan Calman Mary Portas Moeen Ali Jacqueline Wilson Carol Ann Duffy Kate Mosse Fiona Mozley John Simpson Alan Bennett Michael Rosen ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.ukwww.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2018 @ilkleylitfest

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Join us for 17 days of fantastic events with speakers ranging from England cricket star Headline Events 4–12 Moeen Ali to Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Workshops and Masterclasses 14–16 As ever we are welcoming exciting names in literary fiction including Kate Mosse, Fiona Exhibition: Poet Among the Painters 18–19 Mozley and Nikesh Shukla, while poets reading their work include Imtiaz Dharker, Main Programme 20–74 Gillian Clarke and Andrew Macmillan. We are welcoming back Jacqueline Wilson Children’s Festival Programme 76–79 to headline our children’s festival along with Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary and Young People’s Events 80–81 there’s a feast of workshops and masterclasses with leading writers. With events on everything Booking and Access Information 82 from Frankenstein to climate change, not to Getting to the Festival and Map 83 mention the Festival Fringe, there really is something for everyone! Diary at a Glance 84–91 We look forward to seeing you at the Festival. Author Index 92–93 Rachel Feldberg Festival Director Sponsors and Acknowledgments 94 FESTIVAL STRANDS After Mary 1918 and Windrush: Shelley, For all the latest Festival updates and Beyond Identity and Nature and information go to: Belongings the Gothic ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Getting to facebook.com/ilkleylitfest the Heart of Poet among Identity and Emily Brontë the Painters Belongings @ilkleylitfest #ilf18

Cover photos: From main clockwise: Nadiya Hussain, Spying and Dan Snow ©Mark Edger, Susan Calman © Steve Ullathorne, Democracy Mary Portas, Moeen Ali © David Sillitoe, Jacqueline Wilson.

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ILKLEY PLAYHOUSE Ilkley Playhouse is your local community theatre based on the banks of the river Wharfe. Each season we perform modern dramas, comedies, musicals and classics of British and world theatre. Sandi Toksvig’s hilarious new comedy, Silver Lining, launches our new season in September. It tells the tale of five extraordinary yet forgotten women, who come together one treacherous night to recreate The Great Escape – senior citizen style! November brings ChumbawADVERTamba singer turned playwright Alice Nutter’s play, Barnbow Canaries. This gripping story of Leeds munition factory workers is full of verve. Set around a catastrophic explosion at a huge factory, it remains the worst loss of life in a single incident in Leeds’ history. Look out for the family classic A Christmas Carol in December followed by Amanda Whittington’s The Thrill of Love which draws us into the world of Ruth Ellis – the last woman to be hanged for murder in Britain. And this is just the start of our exciting new season. Come and join us, we’ve saved you a seat!

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Nadiya Hussain Barry Cryer 1. Nadiya Hussain: Bake 36. J.B. Priestley at Me a Celebration Story Kissing Tree House with

Kings Hall Nick Hewer Barry Cryer and Sophie 6.30–7.30pm £20/16 concessions* Fyson including a copy of the Kings Hall book (£14.99 RRP) or £10/6 FESTIVAL 2–3pm £14/10 concessions* concessions* without the book Family event In 1968 Rosalie Batten became J.B. Whether it’s Halloween, Valentine’s OPENING Priestley’s personal secretary at Day, Holi, Thanksgiving, Eid or 9. Nick Hewer: A Life Kissing Tree House in Warwickshire, International Friendship Day, what from A to Z a role she retained until his death better way to celebrate than to Kings Hall in 1984. Priestley suggested she make delicious food together and 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* write a book about him, and in 1986 share stories while it cooks! Nick Hewer came late to public she did. 32 years later, this unique, Join chef and TV personality Nadiya attention when he was recruited honest and moving memoir has Hussain for this family event. The to work with Lord Sugar on The finally been published. Barry Cryer, hugely popular winner of 2015’s Apprentice. Now, he takes us a personal friend of Priestley and Great British Bake Off, her first through his life from A for Apprentice regular visitor at Kissing Tree, is children’s book, Nadiya’s Bake Me (of course) to Z for Zed list. Along joined by Rosalie’s daughter Sophie a Story, hit the bestseller charts the way, he discusses determination Fyson to discuss this remarkable in 2016 and was shortlisted for a and how to get it, offers insights on memoir, their time with Priestley British Book Award. Nadiya has being old and reveals his greatest and his enduring appeal. The event published adult cookbooks, novels regrets. The host of Countdown, is chaired by Lee Hanson, Chair of and has four television series to her he’s also made guest appearances the Priestley Society. name, Adventure, The Big Family on numerous other TV shows, from Sponsored by Bradford Grammar School Cooking Showdown and Nadiya’s Question Time and Who Do You Family Favourites. Think You Are? to Have I Got News To celebrate Nadiya’s visit to the For You. Festival we’re running a ‘Bake a Cake Inspired by a Book’ competition for adults and children, judged by the Chair of the Festival and our own fabulous cake baker Chloe. Cakes HEADLINE will be on display before the event. Details of how to enter at www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk EVENTS *Plus a £2 booking fee per transaction 4 ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 01943 816714

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Moeen Ali © David Sillitoe John Simpson © Simon Weller Jacqueline Wilson 44. Moeen Ali 57. John Simpson: 74. Jacqueline Wilson: The Grammar School at Leeds Moscow, Midnight My Mum Tracy Beaker LS17 9NA Kings Hall Kings Hall 6–7pm 4.30–5.30pm £14/10 concessions* 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* £10/6 concessions* Age 8+ When Moeen Ali bowled a hat-trick John Simpson has been the BBC’s Tracy Beaker is back, and she’s a at The Oval in his man-of-the-series World Affairs Editor for more than mum now… performance against South Africa 25 years, reporting on major events Jess thinks Tracy is the best mum in 2017, he became the toast of across the world. Twice Royal ever – their flat might be a bit English cricket. A new kind of Television Society’s Journalist of mouldy but it’s their happy home. superstar, Ali is an elite athlete with the Year, winner of three BAFTAs But when Sean Godfrey, Tracy’s a social conscience and a powerful, and an Emmy, tonight he discusses rich new boyfriend, comes onto sometimes controversial, voice in his life and work and introduces his the scene, Jess is worried things are world sport. This afternoon for revelatory first thriller, featuring going to change. the first time he tells his side of the journalist Jon Swift who takes story, from his upbringing in the matters into his own hands when a Join us for a very special evening tough Sparkhill neighbourhood of politician is found dead. with the much-loved Jacqueline Birmingham to his international Sponsored by Hebridean River Cruises Wilson to hear about her brand- debut. new book. Sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds Please note there will be no book signing after this event, but printed bookplates with Jacqueline’s signature on will be available from the bookshop.

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Alan Johnson Alan Bennett © Maria Spadafora 79. Alan Johnson – My 229. Alan Bennett Festival Friends and Patrons: Life: A Music Memoir Kings Hall Tickets for Alan Bennett’s event will go on sale in advance of the 2.30–3.30pm £20/15 concessions* Kings Hall standard Friends Priority Booking 8–9pm £14/10 concessions* Engaging, humane, sharp, funny and period, and will only be available to Since retiring from politics in unforgettable, Alan Bennett is back! book online and by phone. 2017, former Home Secretary Alan reads from his work as only Booking for Alan Bennett tickets and Shadow Chancellor Alan he can and talks about his life and will open to Friends from 10am on Johnson has become a celebrated, writing. Friday 17 August*. award-winning author. His fourth A very special event with the nation’s Tickets will be limited to x2 memoir transports us to a world of favourite author. per Single Friend membership Dansettes and jukeboxes, telling the IMPORTANT BOOKING and x4 per Joint Friend/Patron story of how a small child living in INFORMATION: membership. condemned housing in ungentrified In anticipation of exceptionally Tickets will be available on a first- West London in the 1950s forged a high demand for tickets for Alan come, first-served basis. passion for music that would shape Bennett’s event the following special his life and his career in the public Please note: Tickets cannot be booking arrangements will apply: eye. booked via postal form for Alan Tickets for Alan Bennett’s event Bennett’s event. will be limited to x2 per customer, *Friends Priority Booking for all subject to availability, and available other festival events will open from on a first-come, first-served basis. 10am on Mon 20 August. Please note: Tickets for Alan Bennett’s event will not be available to purchase from The Grove Bookshop.

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Jenni Murray David Crystal Jack Monroe 85. Jenni Murray: 98. David Crystal – 108. Jack Monroe and A History of the World Sounds Appealing: The Ruby Tandoh in 21 Women Passionate Story of Kings Hall Kings Hall English Pronunciation 4.30–5.30pm £14/10 concessions* 7.30–9.15pm £14/10 concessions* Kings Hall Two dynamic cooks discuss new The inimitable Jenni Murray 2–3pm £14/10 concessions* ways of approaching food. has been at the helm of BBC There have long been debates about Campaigner, food writer and activist Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour for over ‘correct’ English pronunciation. Jack Monroe is known for making twenty years. Tonight in Ilkley, Britain’s most distinguished linguistic budget food fun and delicious. she celebrates great women from expert David Crystal, Honorary With her trademark humour and around the world – rescuing some Professor of Linguistics at the wit, she talks about how affordable, from obscurity and shining a new University of Wales, is here to set authentic and creative recipes aren’t light on familiar names, many of the record straight. With examples just for cooks with fancy gadgets or whom she has met and interviewed. ranging from Eliza Doolittle to premium ingredients. After the interval, she owns up Winston Churchill, David Crystal Great British Bake Off finalist Ruby about her most engaging and explores the origins of regional Tandoh is now a food writer (The most terrifying Woman’s Hour accents, how they are influenced by Guardian, The Observer, Elle, Vice) interviewees from Barbara Castle class and education and how their and author of three books, including to Kaffe Fasset, Jack Nicholson to peculiarities have changed over The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller Margaret Thatcher. time. Eat Up!, her critically acclaimed Please note this event lasts 1 hour celebration of the pleasure of eating 45 minutes with an interval. and a manifesto for taking the guilt In association with Clive Conway Productions out of food culture.

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John Suchet © Classic FM John Suchet © Classic FM Michael Rosen © Laurence Cendrowicz 115. John Suchet: 126. Geoffrey Robertson 148. Michael Rosen and Tchaikovsky QC: In Court with Kim Reynolds: Kings Hall Tyrants Reading and Rebellion 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* Kings Hall Kings Hall John Suchet, host of Classic FM’s 2–3pm £14/10 concessions* 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* flagship morning show, returns to In the 1960s Geoffrey Robertson From 1900 to 1960, children’s Ilkley to draw back the curtain on led students demanding an end books were a central part of the long misunderstood life of Pyotr to racism and censorship. Now radical activity, as large sections Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Despite coming he’s a top human rights advocate of the British population tried to to composing late, Tchaikovsky and founder of Doughty Street maintain peace and create a less became one of the world’s best- Chambers, the UK’s leading human class riven, more enjoyable society. loved composers, but the death of rights practice. He’s saved the From alphabets to picture books to his mother, a disastrous marriage lives of death-row inmates, freed novels, children’s literature leaned and his repressed homosexuality dissidents and taken on tyrants. left. It’s a fascinating story that’s lain took their toll. Breaking away from Today he recalls battles on behalf unnoticed for decades. sanitised portrayals, Suchet reveals of the likes of George Harrison, Former Children’s Laureate and the complexity of Tchaikovsky’s Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie, much loved poet Michael Rosen, emotional life, how it played out in Václav Havel and the Sex Pistols, host of BBC Radio 4’s Word of his music and how he came to take courtroom tussles with General Mouth and Professor of Children’s his rightful place among the world’s Pinochet and Mrs Thatcher and Literature at Goldsmiths, looks back greatest composers. reveals the true story of Spycatcher on the kind of material progressive Supported by the Friends of Ilkley Literature for the first time. parents would have wanted their Festival children to read with Kim Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature at Newcastle University.

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Simon Armitage © Peter James Millson Paddy Ashdown Joanna Trollope 150. Simon Armitage: 155. Paddy Ashdown: 165. Joanna Trollope In Sir Gawain and the Nein! Standing Up to Conversation Green Knight by Hitler Kings Hall candlelight Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* St John’s Church Ben Rhydding 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* Well known for her enormously LS29 8PT From the bestselling, prize-winning successful contemporary fiction, 8–9pm £14/10 concessions* author and former leader of Joanna Trollope has been writing for over 30 years. Author of over Award-winning poet Simon the Liberal Democrats, Paddy 20 highly acclaimed and bestselling Armitage gives an atmospheric, Ashdown, comes a revelatory new novels, including The Rector’s candlelit reading of a marvellous, history of German opposition to Wife, Marrying the Mistress and newly revised and illustrated edition Hitler from 1935–1944. City of Friends, she has been of his acclaimed modern translation Paddy Ashdown tells for the first described as one of the most of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, time the story of those at the very insightful chroniclers and social alongside projections of the book’s top of Hitler’s Germany who first commentators writing fiction today. richly textured screen-prints by tried to prevent the Second World She comes to Ilkley to discuss her artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Simon War and then to deny Hitler victory. life and work and her latest novel, Armitage was elected Professor of Based on newly released files, he An Unsuitable Match, published to Poetry at the University of Oxford reveals the plotters’ attempts to great acclaim in February 2018. in 2015 and is currently Professor stop Hitler and how they set out to of Poetry at the University of Leeds pass on military secrets. In association with Clive Conway Productions and was elected Professor of Poetry Sponsored by: Dale Eddison at the University of Oxford in 2015. Sponsored by Stowe Family Law

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Susan Calman © Steve Ullathorne Terry Deary Tim Bentinck 176. Susan Calman: 210. Terry Deary: 216. Tim Bentinck: Sunny Side Up Horrible Histories Being David Archer Kings Hall Kings Hall Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* 5.30–6.30pm £10/6 concessions* 8–9pm £14/10 concessions* Comedian and broadcaster Susan Age 8+ Timothy Bentinck, the actor Calman danced her way across The gorgeous Georgians may behind David Archer on the world’s our screens and into our hearts have loved preening in mirrors longest running drama series, BBC on Strictly Come Dancing 2017, and prancing about in powdered Radio 4’s The Archers, is a British but how did this ability to find joy wigs and pantaloons, but don’t be institution. He’s been entertaining change her life? fooled – they were really rotten five million regular listeners for 36 Cheer Up Love, Susan’s first book, underneath! years and has lived an enormously had a clear aim: to help people Celebrate the 25th Anniversary varied career as a truck driver, understand depression. Sunny of Horrible Histories with author inventor, farm worker and Side Up has a similarly clear path: Terry Deary and the musicians of crossbencher in the House of Lords. to persuade people to be kinder to Eboracum Baroque. They’ll take Tonight, he reveals the secrets of each other and spread more joy. you on a journey through Georgian his life behind the scenes as David So the mission is simple. To get England – expect a gruesome tale or Archer and talks about his funny, the nation to join her in not being two along the way! thoughtful memoir of life in an negative. To bring back joy, kindness insecure profession. and community, to find that joy in the little things in life and defeat the hate and fear. Susan is a one–woman army of hope and joy, and she’s ready to lead the nation in a different direction. In association with Newstead & Walker HEADLINE EVENTS *Plus a £2 booking fee per transaction 10 ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 01943 816714

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Carol Ann Duffy Mary Portas 237. Carol Ann Duffy and 240. Mary Portas In Imtiaz Dharker: Conversation Luck is the Hook Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* Kings Hall 223. Steve Bell – Corbyn: 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* Mary Portas is one of the UK’s most The Resurrection high profile businesswomen. She “If there were to be a World transformed Harvey Nichols, runs Kings Hall Laureate, then for me the role could her own consultancy, made a career 2–3pm £14/10 concessions* only be filled by Imtiaz Dharker.” – in TV (Mary Queen of Shops) and Steve Bell is Britain’s best-loved, Carol Ann Duffy advised the Government on the most celebrated political cartoonist, Carol Ann Duffy is one of future of High Streets. Today she bringing politics to life with Britain’s best known and most talks candidly about her life and surrealist humour every week in The admired poets, her poems are “… work and about how, after years Guardian. As Jeremy Corbyn has at once accessible and brilliantly of playing the business game, she risen from ‘unelectable’ to ‘Prime idiosyncratic and subtle”. (The rebuilt her business on the values Minister-in-waiting’, Steve Bell has Observer) The current Poet that mattered to her. Don’t miss her been with him every step of the way. Laureate, she has won the Forward, advice on how to make the way we In Corbyn: The Resurrection, he Whitbread and T.S. Eliot prizes. work better. reveals an unmissable selection of Imtiaz Dharker is ILF Poet in his most caustic and witty cartoons. Residence. Brought up a Muslim From his long-running Star Wars Calvinist in a Lahori household in pastiche depicting Jez-Bi-Wan Glasgow, her themes are rooted in Conorbyn’s leadership saga to last a life of transitions. An acclaimed year’s shock snap election result and poet, artist and documentary film- beyond, the result is an endlessly marker she holds the Queen’s Gold entertaining account of one of Medal for Poetry. the most turbulent periods in the The evening begins with a short history of UK politics. reading by Lizzi Hawkins, former member of Ilkley Young Writers, winner of The Ted Hughes Young Poets Award and the Poetry Business New Poets Prize. Sponsored by the University of Leeds

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Dan Snow © Mark Edger 241. Dan Snow: On This Day in History Bradford Grammar School BD9 4JP 7.30–8.30pm £14/10 concessions* Britain’s favourite historian Dan © Maria Spadafora Snow tells the story of an important event that happened on each day Friends of the Festival provide long-term support for of the year. From the signing of the the Festival and our outreach work including Ilkley Armistice treaty on 11 November and Bradford Young Writers, the Young Writers 1918 to Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat on 1 December Summer School and our work in schools. 1955, from the Ides of March Friends of the Festival enjoy: to D-Day and the day Napoleon • was attacked by hundreds of wild Priority mailing of ticket information rabbits, Dan Snow offers a vivid, • A special priority booking period before the personal history of the world, Box Office opens to the public showing how our past is full of fascinating turning points. • Invitations to two Friends Receptions during Historian Dan Snow is a BAFTA- the year winning broadcaster and television • Two issues of the Friends newsletter. presenter. His hugely popular History Hit podcast is downloaded Cost: £25 (single) and one million times a month and he has a regular slot on BBC One’s The £35 (joint – two people at one address) One Show. Please note: We have limited tickets for all our events, with our largest venue holding only 500 people. For a small number of headline events the demand for tickets can considerably exceed availability. It is our policy to ensure that some tickets will always be available for members of the general public. The percentage of tickets available to Friends during the Priority Booking Period is therefore limited and tickets to all events are subject to availability.

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SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 10. Writing on the Map: 34. Poetry Business Place and Creative Workshop with Writing OCA Workshop Peter Sansom with Suzannah Evans Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House Courtyard Courtyard 2–4pm £15/10 concessions* 11am–1pm £15/10 concessions* A chance to work with ‘the most The places we know and the places astute and effective writing tutor we choose to travel shape our lives in the UK’ (Simon Armitage). This and our understanding of ourselves. hugely enjoyable writing session for In this workshop Suzannah Evans, all levels draws on classic poems. creative writing tutor for Open Bidisha Winner of a Cholmondeley Award College of the Arts, will explore for Careful What You Wish For, these places and the way we can 32. Inspired by St Ives: Peter Sansom is co-director of The re-write the map to include the true Workshop with Bidisha Poetry Business and former Fellow richness of their history, their stories Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester and the way we inhabit them. Courtyard Universities. For all levels. 10.30am–12.30pm £15/10 For all levels. In association with Open College of the Arts concessions* In association with the Poetry Business An immersive session with journalist, broadcaster, film-maker and Chair of judges for the 2018 Forward Prizes Bidisha, drawing inspiration from the St Ives artists to unlock creativity 16. Lemons to Lemonade: and get your writing to the next 38. From Inspiration level. We will steep ourselves in the to Publication, How to Writing Workshop with atmosphere of the old Manor House Crystal Jeans Turn Ideas into Books: and develop our observations into Workshop with Bidisha Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House totally original creative work, which Courtyard we will share around the group for Church House 2–4pm £15/10 concessions* celebration and discussion. If you’ve 2.45–4.45pm £15/10 concessions* ever been stuck for inspiration, you Award-winning, Cardiff-born novelist won’t be here. For writers of all levels and inclinations, a workshop giving Crystal Jeans shows you how to For all levels. turn lemons into lemonade, using pointers on structure, ideas, plot, In association with Wasafiri real-life experiences, building on dialogue and genre – and how to them and turning them into fresh go from a great idea to a brilliant writing. Find out how to turn non- book, whether fiction or non-fiction, fiction into fiction with a special poetry or short stories. With a combination of writing exercises, emphasis on using old resentments, Poet among bitterness and pain in new ways. the Painters critical discussion and insider tips, we will demystify the publishing For all levels. In association with Wales Literature industry and ease the writing Exchange, HonnoPress and Parthian Books, process. If you’re stuck, prepare to and with support from Arts Council Wales become wonderfully unstuck. For all levels.

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER 105. Gone in 60 Seconds: One Minute Plays Workshop with Steve Ansell Clarke Foley Centre 4–5pm workshop £10/5 concessions* (followed by performance 5.15–6.15pm FREE) Can you really write a play that lasts only a minute? Join Steve Ansell – co-author of Colin Grant Karen Tobias-Green One Minute Plays, a practical guide 90. Writing a Life Story 94. Tactile Writing to tiny theatre, and founder of ‘Gi60’: the world’s only international Workshop: Colin Grant Workshop with one minute theatre festival – for St Margaret’s Hall Karen Tobias-Green a fun interactive workshop and 10am–12pm £15/10 concessions* Clarke Foley Centre performance that lets you explore the infinite possibilities of 60 How do you find the centre of the 1–3pm £15/10 concessions* seconds. You might even see your life-writing story you’re trying to An exciting and inspiring workshop play performed to an audience! tell? How do you sift through friends with a range of intriguing and This workshop is followed by a and family to select your cast and unusual stimuli which will appeal further open session where you will establish the tone and direction of to all your senses. Join Karen have the opportunity to see some your story? And how do you weigh Tobias-Green, Senior Lecturer in one minute plays performed and the accuracy of anecdotes and Language Development at Leeds even taken part, sharing one you vignettes against the larger purpose Arts University, and release your have written, so invite your friends! and truth of your writing? Writer creativity to discover fun new and broadcaster Colin Grant guides ways into writing and how to make you through the process. surprising links between words and For all levels. materials. 106. Gone in 60 Seconds For all levels, beginners encouraged. One Minute Plays After Windrush: In association with Leeds Arts University Performance Identity and Belongings Clarke Foley Centre 5.15–6.15pm All welcome. FREE Opportunity to watch 30 one minute plays, including five created at this afternoon’s workshop In association with the University of Leeds

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SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 122. Writing a Novel 189. Imtiaz Dharker Workshop with Masterclass Richard Skinner Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House Art House, Manor House Courtyard Courtyard 11am–1pm £15/10 concessions* 11am–1pm £15/10 concessions* Take the rare opportunity of a After all the success Faber Academy master class with Imtiaz Dharker – has achieved over the past few this year’s Festival Poet in Residence, years, people always ask Richard holder of the Queen’s Gold Medal Skinner (poet, novelist and top for poetry and one of Britain most creative writing tutor): ‘What advice inspirational poets. do you give your students?’ Now For intermediate and experienced Imtiaz Dharker © Ayesha Dharker he’s put together a list of his top writers. 5 #writingtips. Come along to his workshop to see what they are as he shares his hints and takes you SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER through his strategies. 218. Tracery: A Digital For all levels. Poetry Workshop with Maya Chowdhry 130. Invertebrate Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House Exposé: A Promenade Courtyard Poetry Workshop 11am–1pm £15/10 concessions* Vicky MacKenzie Art House, Manor House What is digital poetry? It’s where 224. Cooking Up Fresh Courtyard lines and stanzas transform into 2–4pm £8* Words! OCA Workshop layered voices in multidimensional with Vickie Mackenzie Join Apprentice Poet in Residence spaces. We will interlace words in a Ian Walker for a poetry workshop filigree of forms using simple digital Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House with a difference. Taking a tools for creating sound, image and Courtyard stroll along the river, and using language. A unique workshop with 2–4pm £15/10 concessions* collected ephemera, this workshop poet, digital artist and Transmedia writer Maya Chowdhry. Cooking is an emotive topic: the encourages the writer to consider kitchen can be a place of stress or a the voices of our smallest Please note: You will need to bring respite from the rest of the world. neighbours, creating poems from a phone, tablet or laptop – and a Food preparation can prompt the perspective of the lives that willingness to go beyond the page! intense memories (both good and buzz, fly and crawl. For all levels. bad) and it can be an act of love – or In association with Inscribe and revenge! Whatever your feelings Peepal Tree Press about it, in this workshop with Open College of the Arts tutor Vicky MacKenzie, you’ll use cooking as inspiration for creating some short pieces of fiction and non-fiction. For all levels. In association with OCA WORKSHOPS *Plus a £2 booking fee per transaction 16 HOTDESK SPACE | MEETING ROOM | VIRTUAL OFFICE IN THE HEART OF ILKLEY

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Alfred Wallis, Green Boat. (1855-1942). W.S. Graham © the Estate of Michael Seward Snow, 2018 W.S. Graham © the Estate of Michael Seward Snow, 2018 Ronnie Duncan Collection 2. Exhibition: 20. W.S. Graham – 37. Drop in Workshops W.S. Graham, Poet Memories and Poems: – Inspired by Paintings among the Painters Ruth Rosen and Poetry Manor House Manor House Manor House Opening Times: Mon–Fri 1–4pm, 5–6pm £7/5 concessions* 2–4pm All ages FREE Sat– Sun 10am–4pm FREE “One of England’s leading poetry Free fun drop in sessions for all ages, A unique exhibition bringing and prose performers.” from children to adults. together poems and letters by the Ruth Rosen knew W.S. Graham and Be inspired by W.S. Graham and Scottish poet W.S. Graham and his wife Nessie through readings the exhibition of work from the St paintings by the St Ives School she gave with Harold Pinter. She Ives school artists and transform a artists who inspired him. Living in recalls those times in discussion scrappy piece of paper or the back abject poverty in 1950s Cornwall, with Festival Director Rachel of a cereal packet into a beautiful, Graham became friends with Bryan Feldberg and reads her favourite intriguing artwork, with or without Wynter, Roger Hilton and Peter Graham poems. Since leaving words, in this fun session led by Lanyon. His poems are set alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company, artist Sandra Flitcroft. their paintings and those of Alfred Ruth Rosen has established a All materials provided. Wallis, surrounded by 30 years of unique international reputation for playful (and sometimes scurrilous her highly individualised literary correspondence) with his friend portraits. Ronnie Duncan in Yorkshire. We regret that the exhibition is not accessible (one flight of stairs) due to the historic nature of the building. Images and text from the exhibition will be available in an accessible room on the ground floor. Supported by the Ronnie Duncan Art Foundation With grateful thanks to Ronnie Duncan and the National Gallery of Scotland EXHIBITION: POET AMONG THE PAINTERS *Plus a £2 booking fee per transaction 18 ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 01943 816714

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112. W.S. Graham Remembered: Ronnie Duncan and Phil Bowen Manor House 5.45–6.45pm £7/5 concessions* Art collector Ronnie Duncan first met the poet W.S. Graham in the early 1950s and they became firm friends, keeping up a lively correspondence over three decades. This evening Ronnie Roger Hilton, Blue Newlyn (1958). Ronnie Duncan Collection remembers W.S. Graham, the man and the writer, in conversation with 101. Terrible Times another of Graham’s friends, poet, Together: W.S. Graham performer and playwright Phil Performance by Bowen in an event chaired by Sylvia Thompson. Phil Bowen Supported by the Ronnie Duncan Art Manor House Foundation 3.15–.45pm FREE Courtesy of Carcanet A recording of this event will be available in an accessible room on Poet Phil Bowen gives a special 104. Poet Among the the ground floor. performance adapted from W.S. Painters: Festival Graham’s letters to the artist Roger Hilton, letters so vivid you Private View FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER can taste ‘the bloaters under the Manor House grill’. Performed in the unique 4–5pm FREE 170. Poet Among the surroundings of the exhibition with Painters: Guided Tour of Hilton’s work on the walls. Join Festival-goers for a glass of wine and the private view of ‘Poet the Exhibition Taken from The Nightfisherman among the Painters’, the Festival’s Manor House – Selected Letters of W.S.Graham unique exhibition of work by W.S. 2.30–3.30pm FREE edited by Michael and Margaret Graham and the St Ives school Snow. (Carcanet 1999). artists – including Alfred Wallis and Join Ronnie Duncan for a very Supported by the Ronnie Duncan Art Roger Hilton – who inspired him. personal guided tour of the Foundation We regret that the exhibition is not exhibition. accessible (one flight of stairs) due to the historic nature of the building. Images and text from the exhibition will be available in an accessible room on the ground floor. Supported by the Ronnie Duncan Art Foundation EXHIBITION: POET AMONG THE PAINTERS *Plus a £2 booking fee per transaction 19 FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2018 #ilf18

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Ilkley at War exhibition In Search of Frankenstein, Chloe Dewe Mathews #foundfiction 3. Exhibition: 4. Exhibition: 6. #foundfiction Ilkley at War 2014–18 Chloe Dewe Mathews, In Across Ilkley and Festival Venues Manor House Search of Frankenstein FREE Opening times during the Impressions Gallery, Look out for the READ ME Festival: Mon–Fri 1–4pm, Sat–Sun Bradford BD1 1SD envelopes in public spaces and 10am–4pm (Aug and Sep, Sat and Opening times: 5 Oct 2018–17 venues across Ilkley during the Sun only) FREE January 2019 Tue–Thu 10am– Festival. As part of the #foundfiction An exhibition of life in Ilkley to mark 6pm, Fri and Sat 10am–5pm FREE project, writers from across the the WWI Centenary. world have contributed short From melting glaciers to nuclear stories which are waiting for you In association with the Friends of the Manor bunkers, Dewe Mathews’ House to find. If you stumble on one, photographs reveal the present- share it on social media under the day Alpine landscape that once hashtag #foundfiction. Or join in by 1918 and inspired Mary Shelley’s ground- contributing a line to the Festival Beyond breaking novel, in this acclaimed story desk at Ilkley Playhouse any exhibition first shown at the British time over the Festival. Library. “Two hundred years on, Dewe Mathews demonstrates See also events 7,27. that Frankenstein is still being An Ilkley literature Festival Microcommission SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER – reinterpreted in ways the 18-year- SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER old author could never have imagined – even in her wildest 5. Children’s Book Trail – dreams.” – Sean O’Hagan, The Mr Men and Little Miss Guardian. Across Ilkley FREE Age 3–103 See also events 92, 164. In association with Impressions Gallery Help us find the Mr Men and Little Misses hiding in shop windows across Ilkley. Look out for the Trail window stickers to help you. All Mary correct entries will be entered into a Shelley, Nature and Prize Draw after the Festival. (Prize the Gothic draw for under 12s only!) Collect your instructions, map and entry form at Festival venues and The Grove bookshop.

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#foundfiction Competition Press Pack – Write a Review 7. #foundfiction 11. Press Pack: Competition Write a Review Across Ilkley Church House FREE 12–4pm £5* includes ‘press’ ticket Want to be published globally? for afternoon events Age 12–18 Submissions are open for the Learn how to write great reviews 13. Journeys in Desert #foundfiction short story and blogs, then review a Festival Places: Will Atkins competition. The winning entry will event in our newsroom and we’ll Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside be published and distributed across post it online. 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* the world in envelopes marked Bring a packed lunch. READ ME. To enter the competition, “Remarkable” —John Carey. send your short story (max. 500 Will Atkins revives the great British words) on the theme of ‘serendipity’ 12. The Food of Love tradition of travel writing: journeying to [email protected]. Closing Bandstand on The Grove to the Earth’s most desolate places. date midnight Sunday 14 October. 1–1.30pm FREE From the monasteries of Egypt See also events 6,27. to America’s Black Rock Desert An Ilkley Literature Festival Microcommission Music has power – within us we via Oman, Asia and Australia he carry symphonies and songs. explores the way the desert has a Jacqueline Saville, Rosalind York been perceived and exploited. Join MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER and Emily Devane present flash him to discover third century Desert fiction and poetry with live music, Fathers, nuclear scientists and the 8. Ilkley Young Writers that explores the way music speaks hedonists of Nevada’s Burning Man Group – taster session for us and how we speak with it. Festival. Christchurch on The Grove 6.30–8.30pm FREE Age 12–18 Fringe event Try tonight’s free session for young people who love writing and see if you’d like to join our weekly young writers group. No experience needed. FREE with refreshments.

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15. Handel in London: 17. Lost and Found: 14. The Truth Game: A Genius and His Craft – Memory and Identity – Vanessa Nicolson Jane Glover Jules Montague St Margaret’s Hall Ilkley Playhouse Wildman St Margaret’s Hall 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* 1.45–2.45pm £7/5 concessions* 3.30–4.30pm £7/5 concessions* Art historian and journalist Vanessa In 1712, a young German composer Why do some memories endure Nicolson, granddaughter of Vita followed the nascent George while others fade? Why do we Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, II to England. For the next four sometimes forget why we’ve walked discusses her breathtakingly honest decades Handel was at the heart of into a room? memoir of the friends, lovers and London’s musical life. Jane Glover, family who have played a vital role renowned conductor in opera If our personalities change through in her life. She reveals the love, loss, houses and concert halls across illness, are we still the same people? grief and discontent at the heart of the world and Visiting Professor Leading consultant neurologist Dr one of Britain’s most iconic families of Opera at Oxford, draws on her Jules Montague draws on her work – a stunning sequel to her highly profound understanding of music and the latest thinking about the acclaimed Have You Been Good? and musicians to tell Handel’s story. mind to discuss the ways we lose A world of music-making, courts, ourselves and how we can be found cabals and theatrical rivalry. again.

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21. Tales of Independence and Belonging: New Writing from Wales Church House 5.30–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* 18. Napoleon: The Spirit 19. The Making of an Don’t miss three distinctive, of the Age – Michael Immigration Judge: vigorous new voices from Wales: Broers James Hanratty Crystal Jeans, winner of the Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 2018 Wales Book of the Year for 3.30–4.30pm £7/5 concessions* 3.45–4.45pm £7/5 concessions* English fiction for Light Switches are my Kryptonite, and Lloyd In 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte European immigration remains a Markham, winner of the Betty Trask found himself at war with Britain, burning issue. James Hanratty, Award for Bad Ideas/Chemicals, Russia and Austria. He unleashed one of the UK’s most experienced in conversation with Glen James a magnificent force, delivering a judges, knows the realities of the Brown, author of the remarkable whirlwind of spectacular triumphs, crisis inside out. As the western debut Ironopolis. but Britain remained unbowed and world struggles to cope with Their work mines similar themes: his family began to tear asunder. migrants fleeing tyranny and war, dystopian and futuristic, it Michael Broers, Professor of Hanratty cuts through the hysteria foregrounds working class lives. Western European History at of the headlines to offer a definitive Post-Brexit and post-industrial but Oxford University and one of the account of the problems facing it’s more than ‘dirty urban’ fiction world’s leading authorities on Europe today and how we might from South Wales, this work is Napoleon, explores a crucial period solve them. “funny, fiery, and imagines a world in Bonaparte’s life. After where no holds are barred.” Windrush: In association with Wales Literature Identity and Exchange, Honno Press and Parthian Books, Belongings and with support from Arts Council Wales

Identity and Belongings

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Santau Das 24. India, Empire and First World War Culture: Santanu Das Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 5.45–6.45pm £7/5 concessions* 22. Operation Chaos: 23. York Minster’s Great The Vietnam Deserters 1.7 million Indian men were involved East Window: in WWI. How did they feel as they Who Fought the CIA – Sarah Brown encountered Europe and the war Matthew Sweet Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside for the first time? How do they feature in literature and film? Using St Margaret’s Hall 5.30–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* trench objects, cooking utensils, 5.30–6.30 £7/5 concessions* The Archbishop of York, John shell-cases, diaries, memoirs, When BBC writer and broadcaster Sentamu, called the Great East photographs, paintings, film clips Matthew Sweet began investigating Window of York Minster “a truly and original sound-recordings from the story of how the CIA tried to timeless masterpiece”. In this richly POW camps in Germany, award- infiltrate a radical group of U.S. illustrated talk, Sarah Brown brings winning author Santanu Das, military deserters, he became the the largest piece of medieval stained Professor of English at King’s College confidant of an eccentric group of glass in Britain to life. A national London, brings the everyday history traumatised survivors. He reveals expert on ecclesiastical architecture, of the sepoys to life. how each had their own theory Sarah exposes the window’s about the traitors in their midst – complex narratives and reveals new 1918 and and explores where reality ended insights into a window described as Beyond and delusion began. England’s Sistine Chapel.

Spying and Democracy

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Paola Diana #foundfiction 26. Can Gender Equality 27. #foundfiction – Change the World: Paola Guerrilla Publishing 25. Sweet William: Diana and Sally Hines Connecting Readers Michael Pennington St Margaret’s Hall and Writers across the 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* World Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £8/6 concessions* In this exciting debate, Italian Church House women’s rights expert Paola Diana 7.30–8.30pm FREE A brilliant one-man show from and Sally Hines, Professor of The best stories are the ones that RSC actor and English Shakespeare Sociology and Gender Identities find you. That’s the premise of Company founder Michael at Leeds University, throw open #foundfiction – a guerrilla publishing Pennington. Pennington guides you some of the crucial questions project in which an army of literary through Shakespeare’s life and plays, around gender and equality. distributors leave anonymous short mixing performances of well-known They’ll be asking: do we need more stories in envelopes marked READ and less familiar speeches with women at the top of politics and ME around public spaces. Founder intriguing insights into Shakespeare’s economics? Are traditional binary Steve Clarkson discusses how the life and work. Applauded worldwide male and female gender roles still #foundfiction community connects for its warmth, humour and relevant in an increasingly fluid readers and writers worldwide and deep knowledge of its subject, and flexible world? How is it that what the future holds. the evening perfectly combines countries where women have Pennington’s performance and achieved political and social rights See also events 6,7. textual scholarship. seem indifferent to nations where An Ilkley literature Festival Microcommission women’s status is in question? Come and throw your questions into the mix! In association with the University of Leeds

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David Lindo 31. Urban Bird Watching 28. Evocations, Painting Walk: David Lindo in Words and Music by Meet outside the Manor House Writing on the Wharfe 8–9.30am £10/5 concessions* Adults and children 8+ welcome. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 29. The Human Planet: Join urban birder David Lindo for 7.45–8.45pm £5* Simon Lewis and an early morning bird walk across A highly original performance Mark Maslin Ilkley. He’ll be helping you discover marrying three creative mediums: and identify birds as you go, pointing photography, literature and music. Clarke Foley Centre out the best apps to help you and Distinguished flamenco guitarist 8–9pm £8/6 concessions* giving advice on the places to look Samuel Moore, photographer Human action has driven the and listen. Robert Hamilton and members of planet into a new geological age: Ends with coffee/tea/hot chocolate Writing on the Wharfe take you The Anthropocene. The Human and pastries available at the Manor on a unique journey through the Planet is a compelling exploration House. Please bring waterproofs landscapes of Ilkley. by leading British scientists Mark and suitable shoes. An Ilkley Literature Festival Microcommission Maslin (Professor of Climatology See also event 41. at University College London) and Simon Lewis (Professor of Global 30. Gold-Silver-Bronze- Change Science at both University Steel-Me of Leeds and UCL) into how Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside humans became a force of nature 9.15–10pm FREE and ushered in this new chapter. Made in Manchester, berthed in Bringing together the history of the Bradford, 10th Century King of planet and humanity, they argue that Dublin – give me my peppercorn understanding the Anthropocene rents. Three cities three blue can shine a light on our current plaques. Certavi Et Vici – I have environmental crisis. fought and conquered. Enjoy an In association with the University of Leeds evening of Kevin Byrne’s poetry.

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Mushiara © Paul Floyd Blake 33. Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 35. Outsiders: Five 39. Secret Service 1–4.30pm FREE with banquet Women Writers who Brainteasers with provided by Panache Changed the World – Sinclair McKay Enjoy Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and Lyndall Gordon and Clarke Foley Centre Gujarati poetry readings – with Ruth Rosen 2–4pm with tea and cake £10/8 English translation. We’ll be Ilkley Playhouse Wildman concessions* Adults and 12+ welcoming some of the most prominent South Asian poets in the 2–3pm £7/5 concessions* Do YOU have what it takes to be a spy? The secret services have cast North. Lyndall Gordon, acclaimed their nets wider and it’s your chance In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb biographer and Senior Research to join the ranks. Whether you Fellow at Oxford, discusses her new have linguistic flair, an instinct for book Outsiders, alongside readings technology or good old common by renowned actor Ruth Rosen. sense, pit your wits against some Highlighting five iconic novelists – of the greatest minds of our Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George time with ingenious brainteasers, Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia secret languages and hidden Woolf – each known individually for codes administered by Sinclair their genius; Gordon asks can each McKay, author of The Sunday also be considered an outsider. Times bestseller The Bletchley Park All five were motherless and, with no Brainteasers. female role model, they learnt from books and had to imagine what a woman could be to invent a voice of Spying and their own. Democracy

Getting to the Heart of Emily Brontë

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40. Blood of Rome: 41. How to Be an Urban 42. What Would Simon Scarrow Birder: David Lindo Boudicca Do? Elizabeth Clarke Foley Centre Foley and Beth Coates St Margaret’s Hall 2.30–3.30pm £8/6 concessions* 3.15–4.15pm £7/5 concessions* Ilkley Playhouse Wildman The wily Parthian Empire has 4–5pm £7/5 concessions* Whether or not you know your invaded Roman-ruled Armenia. The best selling authors of It’s a dangerous game to restore wrens from your robins or your hen harriers from your Harris’s hawks, Homework for Grown-Ups present a deposed king. But new arrivals their fantastically witty and Cato and Macro are experienced David Lindo believes everyone can be an urban birder. Learn how to irreverent What Would Boudicca soldiers who know how to knock an Do? This afternoon, they reveal how undermanned unit into shape… The see your urban environment as a bird would and get tips on attracting to channel the spirits of outstanding Sunday Times bestselling historical historical women and conquer novelist Simon Scarrow introduces different species to your yard, garden or bird box from the man the messy modern world. From his gripping new Cato and Macro Mary Wollstonecraft to Cleopatra, adventure set in AD 54 – just who’s been featured on Countryfile and The One Show. Frida Kahlo to Agatha Christie, two decades before the Romans get inspired by a diverse range of occupied Ilkley. See also event 31. pioneering sisters to beat today’s system.

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Patrick Gale © Markus Bidaux Paul Scraton 43. Take Nothing With 46. Ghosts on the Shore: You: Patrick Gale Paul Scraton Clarke Foley Centre St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm £8/6 concessions* 4.45–5.45pm £7/5 concessions* Bestselling, Costa Award nominated Germany’s Baltic coastline is a place author Patrick Gale makes a of breath-taking beauty, the former 47. Among Bohemian welcome return to the Festival Cold War dividing line between East Women: Georgia de to talk about his latest novel, a and West and the setting of some Chamberet on Lesley sad-funny comedy of resilience and of the darkest moments in 20th survival. Fifty-something Eustace, Century German history. Lancashire- Blanch a gay Londoner of leisure, realises born, Berlin-based travel writer Paul Clarke Foley Centre that he has fallen hopelessly in love Scraton blends travelogue, history, 5–6pm £7/5 concessions* with a man he has yet to meet in family memory and fiction in an Savvy, self-possessed, talented and the flesh and – in the same week – unsettling, moving mythology of this successful, Lesley Blanch was a bold, he discovers he has cancer of the place and its people. daring writer, travelling alone to thyroid. Russia, Afghanistan, Africa and the Middle East at a time when women 45. What I Know were expected to stay at home. Georgia de Chamberet, Blanch’s Manor House god-daughter and founding editor of 4.30–5.30pm FREE BookBlast, shares her memories of Folly, a local singer-songwriter, the one of the last grand travellers regales her audience with songs and introduces her vivid new about her life experiences and the collection of Blanch’s travel writing. lessons she has learnt. An evening of musical soul-searching encouraging us all to write and share our own lyrics, poetry or short prose.

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Joe Kriss Razwan Ul-Haq 48. Moving Pictures and 49. Phobiastan: Words – Poetry and Film Razwan Ul-Haq Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Church House 5.15–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* 5.30–6.30pm £5* Includes showing of short films Artist and author Razwan Ul-Haq’s Poetry and film have long been prime vehicle is Arabic Calligraphy, natural partners, but recently particularly the Nastaliq script. In 50. Good As You – 30 poem films have seen a huge this work in progress showcase, Years of Gay Britain: growth in interest, reaching millions he talks about his new art book Paul Flynn online. Joe Kriss, the director of Phobiastan, a poetic art response Ilkley Playhouse Wildman literature organisation Wordlife, to world conflict, including introduces the UK premiere of six Islamophobia. A difficult mirror, it 6–7pm £7/5 concessions* new commissions funded by the encourages us to look into ourselves Longstanding journalist Paul Flynn International Literature Showcase, and contains the Yin and Yang of tells the story of how the power of featuring award winning poets and breaking anger and wholesome pop culture has put real pressure on filmmakers such as Kayo Chingonyi, healing. government and the media to make followed by a panel discussion tangible steps towards change and alongside BAFTA nominated short acceptance for the gay community. film director, Annie Watson. Currently Senior Contributing Editor at Love and columnist for Attitude and Grazia, Flynn has previously written for i-D, The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Express and The Sunday Times.

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Andrew McMillan © Maria Spadafora 53. Playtime: Poetry with Andrew McMillan, Inua Ellams, Zaffar Kunial and Ian Walker Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 51. A Lab of One’s Own 52. The Killing Habit: 7.30–9.00pm £7/5 concessions* – Science and Suffrage Mark Billingham and Four poets who aren’t afraid to address emotion, masculinity and in the First World War: A.A. Dhand how it feels to be a child. Patricia Fara St Margaret’s Hall Former Festival Poet in Residence Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Andrew McMillan’s raw and tender 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* DI Tom Thorne is trying to catch a debut collection physical was the killer who is yet to kill while Harry first poetry collection ever to win Female scientists, doctors and The Guardian First Book Award. engineers tasted independence Virdee is on the hunt for a killer who has painstakingly positioned their Tonight he’ll be reading from his and responsibility for the first new collection playtime; intimate, time during WWI. Patricia Fara, victim to leave a message. Multi- million selling Mark Billingham sometimes painfully frank poems Cambridge historian and President that takes us back to childhood and of the British Society for the History comes to Ilkley to talk about his latest thriller The Killing Habit, the early adolescence. He is joined by of Science, tells the stories of Inua Ellams, writer of the critically extraordinary women like mental 15th to feature Tom Thorne. Mark will be in conversation with Bradford acclaimed Barber Shop Chronicles, health pioneer Isabel Emslie, who puts black masculinity under chemist Martha Whiteley and based crime writer A.A. Dhand, whose latest book, City of Sinners, the microscope through his riveting botanist Helen Gwynne Vaughan. poetry and performances. Women who helped the country to will have you gripped from the first victory, but then faced the prospect page. Zaffar Kunial, 2015 ILF Poet in of what would happen when the Residence, reads from his eloquent men returned. debut collection Us – which explores his upbringing by an English mother and Kashmiri father with tender 1918 and toughness. 2018 Apprentice Poet in Beyond Residence Ian Walker writes about the complexity of relationships and how children can, unwittingly, overstep the rules.

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Mary Shelley Melvin Burgess 55. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Guided Reading Group Manor House Shaun Usher 6–7pm Mon 1, Wed 3, Mon 8 54. Shaun Usher: and Wed 10 October £15/10 56. Melvin Burgess: concessions* includes all four The Lost Witch Speeches of Note sessions Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Clarke Foley Centre Following hugely popular reading 6.30–7.15pm £5* 7.30–8.30pm £8/6 concessions* groups in previous years, Carl McKeating from the University Groups welcome Age 12+ , author of Shaun Usher of Leeds offers an expert guide to Bea has started to hear and see international bestseller Letters of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. things that no one else can. Note and custodian of the popular First published in 1818, Shelley Carnegie Medal winning, acclaimed blog listsofnote.com, introduces started work on it two years earlier a collection of speeches across young adult author Melvin Burgess when she was only 18. The text introduces his powerful new fantasy the ages, read by actors. Discover encompasses elements of the speeches that altered the course about magic, myth and following Romantic movement, the Gothic your instincts. of history, like Nelson Mandela’s on and early science fiction which these the day he became South Africa’s sessions will help you tease out. first black President and the spine- Sessions are timed to ensure you chilling secret draft prepared for don’t miss other events. Details of Elizabeth II during a military exercise which chapters to read will be sent for World War III. to participants. In association with the University of Leeds

Mary Shelley, Nature and the Gothic

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Terence Kee Terence Kee Illustration from The Real Boat by Virginia Semykina 59. What Isn’t Life? 61. The Real Boat – Terence Kee Virginia Semykina: Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Children’s Bookshow 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* Kings Hall Adults and young people 12+ 1.30–2.30pm SOLD OUT 58. King Edward VIII – Can everything in the universe be Special event for Primary An American Life: considered to be ‘living’? University Schools. Ted Powell of Leeds chemist Terence Kee, Russian illustrator Virginia who researches the origin of human Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Semykina will be drawing live on existence, explores the question 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* stage and showing the children how of ‘what isn’t life?’ Join him in a no she creates pictures to go with the Even before he fell in love with Wallis holds barred session that takes on words for her ravishing book The Simpson, Edward VIII had fallen in the big philosophical, spiritual and Real Boat, while actor Samuel John love with America; captivated by the existential questions – like how we all brings the story to life energy, confidence, and raw power came to be. In association with The Children’s Bookshow of the USA. America was equally In association with the University of Leeds fascinated by the Prince, especially his love life, and he became an international media celebrity. Ted Powell, former Fellow and Director of Studies in History at 60. No Cold Callers Downing College Cambridge, offers Ilkley Playhouse Wildman a radical new interpretation of this controversial figure. 9.15–10.15pm FREE When cold callers press your bell Do they mean well? Who can tell? Otley Courthouse Writers plus James Nash and Matthew Hedley Stoppard invite you to open the door in this strange and surprising evening of poetry, short fiction and flash and micro-drama.

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Emily Brontë Susheila Nasta 62. 200 Years of 63. Writing after Emily Brontë: Sally Windrush: Shuttleworth 7th Susheila Nasta and Annual British Academy/ Jeremy Poynting LAHRI Lecture Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside University of Leeds Conference 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* 64. Frankenstein After Dark: Public Reading Auditorium 2, LS29 9JT If Windrush hadn’t happened, which 6–7pm FREE but places must be exciting authors and much loved Manor House booked at: books would be missing from the 7.30–8.30pm FREE 200yearsofbronte.eventbrite. literary world? How did Windrush Frankenstein was written as a horror co.uk and the following 70 years shape story – part of a challenge dreamt up Marking the 200th anniversary of writing in the UK and the Caribbean? on a rainy holiday afternoon. Come Emily Brontë’s birth, Professor Susheila Nasta, founding Editor and read extracts from this scary Sally Shuttleworth FBA (University of Wasafiri – the Magazine of favourite aloud by candlelight in the of Oxford), discusses the brief life International Contemporary atmospheric setting of the Manor and work of the writer who gave Writing – and Emeritus Professor House – if you dare! us Wuthering Heights, her place in of Modern Literature at the Open University, and Jeremy Poynting, Readers and non-reading audience the literary canon and the enduring members welcome, just turn up on legacy of the Brontë sisters. founder and managing editor of Peepal Tree Press, discuss the the night. In association with the University of Leeds impact of Windrush and migration Mary on literature since 1948. The event Shelley, is chaired by journalist, broadcaster Nature and and 2018 chair of the Forward the Gothic Poetry Prizes, Bidisha. In association with Peepal Tree Press and Wasafiri Getting to the Heart of Emily Brontë TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER After Windrush: Identity and Belongings 1

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TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER

Silent Poetry Disco 66. Silent Poetry Disco Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–10pm FREE Join Apprentice Poet in Residence 65. Harlem 69: Ian Walker for a silent poetry disco (complete with mirror ball and 68. Crime and Curry: Stuart Cosgrove soothing low light). We’ll provide David Mark – Scorched headphones so you can listen to Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Earth 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* whatever poetry mix Ian has cooked up for you. Feel free to sit, twirl or The Wheatley Arms In 1969 Harlem was stigmatised wander! as an area ravaged by crime and 7 for 7.30–9.30pm £25 includes gripped by a heroin pandemic. But a two course curry supper (with beneath the national headlines a 67. Leeds Trinity vegetarian option) and coffee social and cultural revolution was University 2018 An enemy from the past is back to taking place, led by soon-to-be test Detective McAvoy to breaking household names like Nina Simone, Anthology: Mythologies point. Stevie Wonder and Jimi Hendrix. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Join journalist turned bestselling BAFTA-winning journalist Stuart 9.15–10.15pm FREE crime writer David Mark for a Cosgrove lays bare a story of delicious curry as he talks about Rabelaisian rebellion with a timeless Select readings by authors from this year’s collection of short stories and Scorched Earth, the 7th book soundtrack and introduces the third featuring Detective Aector McAvoy. book of his soul music trilogy. poems. Produced by students, staff and alumni, along with WordSpace His first novel, Dark Winter was writers and poets; this anthology has recently adapted for stage and had a a mythic tale for everyone. sell out run at Hull Truck Theatre as part of City of Culture.

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Bidisha 69. SI Leeds Prize Awards Ceremony Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Alan Johnson 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* 71. The Oldie Literary 70. Dream of a Low Join tonight’s speaker – author, Lunch with Alan Carbon Future with journalist and broadcaster Bidisha Johnson, Austin Mitchell – and six shortlisted writers for James McKay the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018 and Tessa Boase Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Awards ceremony. Prize Patron Craiglands Hotel 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* Bidisha will be reflecting on the £55 includes three course lunch possibilities for change and diversity Ever wondered what the future Drinks 12–1pm. Lunch 1pm. in publishing and each finalist will will look like? Concerned about All details and booking: give a brief taste of their work humanity’s impact on the planet? www.theoldie.co.uk before the announcement of this Climate scientists, engineers, national, Yorkshire-based Prize for children, writers and artists The Oldie Literary Lunches have unpublished fiction by Black and visualised their ideas for a become a venerable institution on Asian women. Acclaimed alumni sustainable zero carbon world as a the London literary scene since they include Mahsuda Snaith (Things We graphic novel. Meet the scientists were first launched in 1996. Held Thought We Knew), Kit de Waal and engineers who participated monthly at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, (The Trick to Time, Women’s Prize in the creation of A Dream of a we also partner with regional literary for Fiction 2018 longlist) and 2016 Low Carbon Future for a ‘Climate festivals. This will be our first visit winner Amita Murray, whose Finding Solutions Chat’ and help imagine to Ilkley Literature Festival and we Rose is published by HarperCollins a positive, zero carbon future for look forward to a three-course in 2019. Yorkshire. lunch in the Moorside Ballroom SI Leeds Literary Prize is a collaboration In association with the University of Leeds of the Craiglands Hotel, followed between SI Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, Press, by three 10 minute talks. They will Aspire iGen and and Ilkley Literature Festival. include: the former MP for Hull, Alan Johnson, who will talk about his new musical memoir; Austin Mitchell, another ex-MP, who will speak about Confessions of a Political Maverick; and Tessa Boase talking about her new book Mrs Pankhurst’s Feather.

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THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER

Jewell Parker Rhodes 73. Ghost Boys: Jewell Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings Parker Rhodes and – printed and published by Lund Humphries 1944 Muhammad Khan 75. Henry Moore’s 72. Poetry Alive! Open Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Bradford Printers: Mic and Networking 6–6.45pm £5* Groups welcome Charles Lubelski with Ilkley Moor Vaults Age 12+ and adults Tom Steele 2–4.30pm FREE with Meet Fifteen-year-old Muzna, so Ilkley Playhouse Wildman refreshments used to being invisible she can’t 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Celebrate National Poetry Day believe the hottest boy in school is at our annual networking event interested, and 12-year-old Jerome, Charles Lubelski discusses his for poets from across Yorkshire. shot by police who mistook his toy fascinating insider’s account of Catch up with other writers, share gun for the real thing. Bradford publishers and printers, your pamphlets and chapbooks. Don’t miss two of the best writers Lund Humphries, with noted Hosted by Poet in Residence for young adults: New York Times cultural historian Tom Steele. One of the most significant publishers Imtiaz Dharker and Apprentice bestseller Jewell Parker Rhodes, of 20th century modernist British Ian Walker. Poets wanting to read on a rare visit from the USA, and UK should arrive at 1.45pm to put their author Muhammad Khan – as they and European art, who championed names down. explore how young people cope in Henry Moore and Barbara today’s world. Hepworth, Lund Humphries were Everyone, including non-performing at the cutting edge of photographic listeners, welcome. and printing developments in Britain. Charles, now in his 80s, is himself a skilled printer, and this is history very much from the inside of the business.

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THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER

Andrew Bibby Austin Mitchell © Dave Moss 76. The Making of the 78. Confessions of a English Landscape: Political Maverick: Andrew Bibby Austin Mitchell in Manor House Conversation with 7.30–8.30pm £5* Harry Gration 77. Blake Morrison: The Friends of the Manor House Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside hosts an event with journalist and The Executor 8–9pm £8/6 concessions* writer Andrew Bibby, who delves St Margaret’s Hall Bradford-born firebrand Austin deep into the landscapes of ‘middle 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Mitchell rattled the cage of British England’. Journeying from west politics for 38 years, fighting for his Dorset to north Lincolnshire, he What matters most: marriage or constituents in Great Grimsby while turns to social history, economics friendship? Fidelity or art? The a proud fishing community battled and literature to explain why the wishes of the living or the talents of through some of its toughest times. countryside looks as it does. the dead? In conversation with BBC Look Harnessing Edward Thomas and Novelist and poet Blake Morrison, North’s Harry Gration, the former John Clare, he visits Juniper Hill, winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Labour MP exposes the chaotic inspiration for Flora Thompson’s Autobiography for his bestselling heart of parliamentary life through Lark Rise and Steeple Barton where memoir And When Did You Last See gripping revelations and hilarious WG Hoskins wrote his classic The Your Father?, returns to Ilkley with anecdotes. A troublemaker, a Making of the English Landscape. his latest novel, a biting portrait of rabble-rouser, a dissident; Mitchell is In association with the Friends of the Manor competitive of male friendship. House a true original.

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THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER

Jim Coulson Mary Wollstonecraft 80. The Bewildered 82. The Girl who Wrote Family Guide to Frankenstein – Mary Yorkshire Shelley and Mary Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Wollstonecraft with 9–10pm FREE Fiona Sampson and 81. Emma Carroll: Wendy Louise Bardsley Ilkley blogger Jim Coulson and his Secrets of a Sun King kids regularly explore Yorkshire, St Margaret’s Hall uncovering the weird and wonderful Special Event for Y4–7 school 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* stuff families can get up to. In this groups only engaging multimedia celebration, Kings Hall Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical Jim is both stand-up comedian and 10.30–11.30am £5 per child, thinkers. At 16 she eloped with tour guide. Expect plenty of laughs teachers FREE and fantastic prizes! Percy Bysshe Shelley. Coping with The Leeds Book Award winning debt, infidelity and the death of author of Sky Chasers and Letters three children, whilst still a teenager Fringe event from the Lighthouse offers a special she composed her canonical novel event for school groups – a tale of Frankenstein. Fiona Sampson, mystery and adventure that will literary critic and Professor of transport you to a long-lost world Poetry at Roehampton, reveals how of Egyptian pharaohs and ancient she sifted through letters and diaries curses. to find the real woman behind the Call 01943 601210 to book. story in conversation with Wendy Louise Bardsley. Novelist, poet and educationist, Bardsley’s latest novel is a study of Mary Shelley’s mother, pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft whose seminal work on feminist philosophy, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), speaks to us still.

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FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER

86. Sorrel and Black Cake: Khadijah Ibrahiim and Christella Litras Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 83. The Mind is Flat: 7.15–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Nick Chater 84. Owen Sheers: On 22nd June 2018, people across the country came together to Clarke Foley Centre To Provide All People – celebrate the 70th anniversary 7.30–8.30pm £8/6 concessions* A Poem in the Voice of of the arrival of the SS Empire For more than a century the NHS Windrush. The community of psychiatrists and neuroscientists Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Chapeltown, Leeds marked this have struggled to discover what lies historic event with Sorrel & Black 7.30–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* below the surface of our minds. In Cake: A Windrush Story, a well- a radical reappraisal, pre-eminent Award-winning poet, novelist and spiced helping of music, movement behavioural scientist Nick Chater, playwright Owen Sheers marks and oral history. Professor of Behavioural Science the 70th anniversary of NHS with a Join the production’s visionary at Warwick Business School and virtuosic ‘film-poem’ first shown on creatives, poet and theatre-maker scientist-in-residence on BBC Radio BBC Two. It charts the emotional Khadijah Ibrahiim and composer/ 4’s The Human Zoo, reveals the and philosophical map of the musician Christella Litras, as they answer – we have no mental depths NHS from its origins in a miners’ discuss their inspiration, perform to plumb. Drawing on startling scheme in Tredegar to the personal extracts and present never-before- new research he argues we simply experiences at its heart, from seen footage of interviews which improvise our behaviour as we go patients to surgeons based on over inspired the production. along, but could that give us power 70 hours of interviews. In association with the Geraldine Connor to change? Tonight he reads from the poem Foundation and discusses its making and context with local NHS workers.

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FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

Festival Quiz © Paul Floyd Blake In Search of Frankenstein, Chloe Dewe Mathews 87. Festival Quiz 92. Brunch with Artist Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Chloe Dewe Mathews 9.15–10.45pm £5* Impressions Gallery BD1 1SD Do you know your Purple Hibiscus 89. Ilkley Arts Weekend 12–1pm FREE with coffee and from your White Teeth? Your Exhibitions pastries. Just turn up Eleanor Oliphant from your Award-winning photographer Elizabeth Bennet? Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House Courtyard and Nell Bank Centre Chloe Dewe Mathews shares her A popular, fun, pub-style quiz that LS29 0DE visual and literary inspirations for In tests your literary and not so literary Search of Frankenstein (the current 10am–4pm FREE knowledge. Come with a team of exhibition at Impressions) at this three or four or come on your own This year’s Ilkley Arts weekend informal event. and we’ll link you up with fellow focuses on two locations. The Nell See also events 4, 164. Bank Centre just outside Ilkley is Festival-goers. In association with Impressions Gallery Pens, paper and prizes supplied. hosting an outdoor sculpture trail with around 20 artists exhibiting work, plus demonstrations and 88. Cruel Britannia? workshops. The new Ilkley Arts Mary Shelley, Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside studio in the courtyard of the Manor Nature and House has an exhibition and sale of 9.15–10.15pm FREE the Gothic local and regional artists’ work. For Acapella choir Free Range bring you details go to www.ilkleyarts.org a witty and thought-provoking show In association Ilkley Arts exploring British history – the good bits and the bad. Many still sing ‘Rule Britannia’ with gusto – this collection 91. Breaking News: Make of songs and scenes asks to what A Newspaper in a Day extent that’s still appropriate. Art House, Manor House Courtyard Fringe event 11am–4.30pm £5* Age 12–18 Become a real-life journalist for the day! Interview famous Festival authors and create a special edition Festival newspaper. Bring a packed lunch.

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

Robin Ince Simon Warner 93. Robin Ince: Book 96. Joined at that Hip – Shambles Jack Kerouac, Jazz and Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Rock: Simon Warner 1–2pm £8/6 concessions* and Heath Common Hot off the publication of his new St Margaret’s Hall book, I’m a Joke and So Are You, 95. Lovers and Strangers 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* join award-winning comedian – An Immigrant History American author Jack Kerouac and bibliophile Robin Ince as he of Post-War Britain: (On the Road) was at the heart presents a special live version of of the Beat Generation. Popular his acclaimed Book Shambles Clair Wills music specialist Simon Warner podcast. The show uses books as a Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside talks to poet and spoken word springboard into shambolic, often 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* performer Heath Common about ludicrous and always passionate When a battered, exhausted 1940s a remarkable literary movement conversations about literature, Britain was desperate for workers, which became entangled with jazz science, philosophy, comedy, thousands of people across the and rock. It left a deep imprint on politics and, well, everything and world took the plunge. Drawing on transatlantic culture, with Allen anything. Expect high standards of surprising sources, cultural historian Ginsberg and Charlie Parker, William wisdom and nonsense plus special Clair Wills brings to life the Burroughs and The Beatles, Neal guests to be announced. incredible diversity and strangeness Cassady and Bob Dylan, Tom Waits of the migrant experience as people and Patti Smith all along for the ride. battled to fit into an often shocked In association with the University of Leeds Britain and found themselves making permanent homes. The “perfect post-Brexit book”, shortlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize.

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

Story Sacks © Paul Floyd Blake Ian Duhig 97. Fabulous Story Sacks 102. The Dark Road: Ian Family Event Duhig, Christopher Fox 99. Behind the Throne Ilkley Library and Anton Lukoszevieze – Domestic Life in the 2–2.15pm, 2.45–3pm, 3.30– Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.45pm, 4.15–4.30pm FREE Family 3.15–4.15pm £7/5 concessions* Royal Household: event for all ages Adrian Tinniswood Christopher Fox, Professor Ilkley Library bring stories to life of Music at Brunel University, Ilkley Playhouse Wildman using puppets and props in these is an internationally-celebrated 2.45–3.45pm £7/5 concessions* drop-in storytelling sessions. composer and Ian Duhig is a multi- They might have been royalty, In association with Bradford Libraries award-winning poet. On the 25th but they still had to get up in the anniversary of their first commission morning. Charles I had 2,000 from the Ilkley Literature Festival, household staff, Queen Victoria the pair return with new music had 30 doctors, three dentists and 100. Swimhiking in the and poems from Seven Leaves a chiropodist, while William IV had in the Shape of a Rose, a cycle of an Assistant Table Decker! From Wharfe migrant songs. Duhig will also read the practicalities of cooking dinners Riverside Hotel, LS29 9EU his work ‘Róisín Bán’, accompanied by Fox’s cello piece The Dark for thousands to ensuring the 3–4pm FREE King always won at tennis, Adrian Road – played by renowned cellist Tinniswood uncovers the reality Join Peter Hayes as he makes a and interdisciplinary artist, Anton of life in the English court from one swimsac from scratch, tests it out Lukoszevieze – over the collaged Queen Elizabeth to another. Adrian in the River Wharfe and talks about voices of the Leeds Irish diaspora is the author of 14 books including ‘The Frog Graham Round’ – an elite which inspired them. critically acclaimed bestseller The swimhiking challenge that covers An Ilkley Literature Festival Microcommission Long Weekend. four lakes and 18 months in the Lake District. Identity and Belongings

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

Oliver Bullough 103. Moneyland: Oliver Bullough St Margaret’s Hall The Unforgettable Tongue 3.30–4.30pm £7/5 concessions* 107. The Last Hour: 109. The Unforgettable From the ruins of Kiev to the Bond- Harry Sidebottom Tongue: Family villain lairs of Knightsbridge and Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Storytelling Central Park, the world’s financial 4.15–5.15pm £7/5 concessions* system has gone awry. Join Orwell Performance Prize shortlisted journalist Oliver A lone figure stands silhouetted atop Presented by Mimesis as he investigates the the Mausoleum of Hadrian. He is Bullough Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside lawless, stateless super rich who unarmed, without money or friends, rub shoulders with terror financiers, trapped in a deadly conspiracy at 5.30–6.15pm £5* For families and captains of industry and western the heart of the Empire. He must children aged 8+ heads of state. This is the story run, bluff, hide and fight his way A Bradfordian folktale about a of wealth and power in the 21st across the Seven Hills to save the cunning huntsman, a menacing boar century – but heroic activists around Emperor and everyone he loves. and of course the famous tongue! the world are fighting back. Join The Sunday Times bestseller A magical multi-disciplinary, and Oxford University lecturer storytelling performance combining Harry Sidebottom on a gripping rhythms, sounds and languages adventure through ancient Rome. from Africa, India and Britain, featuring four wonderful artists: 106. Gone in 60 Seconds David Alred, Lulia Togara, Ozzy Mosey and Shrikant One Minute Plays Subramaniam. Performance Clarke Foley Centre Identity and 5.15–6.15pm All welcome FREE Belongings Opportunity to watch 30 one minute plays, including five created 3 at this afternoon’s workshop See also event 105. In association with the University of Leeds

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

113. An Evening of Young People’s Work Clarke Foley Centre FREE Come to either part or both Part 1 7–8pm 110. If I Chance to Talk a 111. The First True Cool Voices Little Wild: Jane Haynes Ornithologist: Talented young writers and poets St Margaret’s Hall Tim Birkhead – the winners of this year’s Young 5.30–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* Ilkley Playhouse Wildman People’s Poetry and Short Story Competition – perform their own Jane Haynes comes to Ilkley to talk 5.45–6.45pm £7/5 concessions* work. Come and see the stars of about the impact of literature on her Francis Willughby thrived in the tomorrow! work. Originally trained as a Jungian seventeenth century scientific Details of how to enter the psychoanalyst Jane now privileges revolution. Determined to overhaul competitions from: dialogue, language and relationship natural history and impose order www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk as the healing ingredients of therapy. on its complexity, he finessed the Her current memoir If I chance Competition prizes kindly provided by Ilkley differentiation of birds and asked Book Club to talk a little wild is about the questions centuries ahead of Part 2 8.15–9pm philosophical landscapes she and their time. With a fellow expert’s her ‘patients’ inhabit and explore. understanding and passion, Tim Word Blend Members of the Festival’s It has been described as quirky, Birkhead, Professor of Animal Ilkley and passionate and haunting. Behaviour at the University of Bradford Young Writers Groups Sheffield, celebrates how Willughby (all aged 12–18) with inspiring set a standard for the way birds and performances of their award- natural history should be studied. winning poetry and prose. Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

Simon Armitage Stanza Stone poem Rain World War I trenches 114. Voices of Light and 116. The Old Battalion Dark: John Whale Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £8/6 concessions* 7.15–8.15pm £7/5 concessions* A collection of poems and songs If you’d like expert insight into from the First World War, compiled contemporary poetry and how to by the late Willis Hall. It is a 117. Island People – The approach it, join Professor John celebratory work in recognition Caribbean and the Whale, Director of the University of the wealth of poetry and poets World: Joshua Jelly- of Leeds Poetry Centre. He’ll be spawned out of that grim and ‘annotating’ and explaining poems seemingly ceaseless conflict. The Shapiro and Colin Grant focussed on light and its close familiar and the rare, the irreverent St Margaret’s Hall relation darkness, including work and the poignant form a deeply 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* by Simon Armitage, Vahni Capildeo, nostalgic, sometimes humorous, but America journalist and writer and Ian Duhig, all poets with a always moving reflection. Performed Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, a regular strong connection to Leeds and the by members of Ilkley Players. contributor to The New York Review University. In association with Ilkley Playhouse of Books and The New Yorker, talks In association with the University of Leeds to writer and broadcaster Colin Grant about his much lauded book Island People, a travelogue of love 1918 and and scholarship, taking us from Beyond Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad. Together they explore the impact of independence and the gulf between the reality and the image of these sun‑kissed islands in popular imagination.

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SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER

Audrey Chin David Kidman 119. Writers from 120. Yearbook 365: 360 Singapore Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–10.15pm FREE 8.30–9.30pm £7/5 concessions* Join us for an exuberant evening of song, poetry and prose 118. ‘Empower a Girl’ and Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to hear from four of Singapore’s performance by folk performer ‘Goats for Christmas’: leading writers making a welcome David Kidman, who takes Challenging the Myths visit to the Festival. us through the four seasons, offering personal observations Recipient of the prestigious S.E. Asia of Development Aid and emotional responses to the Write Award, Suchen Christine Clarke Foley Centre fluctuations of the year. Lim’s celebrated novels include 8–9pm £8/6 concessions* Fistful of Colours (winner of the Panel: Dr. Lata Narayanaswamy, inaugural Singapore Literature Prize) Fringe event Dr. Polly Wilding and Dr. Anna and her latest The River’s Song. Mdee, Global Development Team, Currently Writer-in-Residence in School of Politics and International The National Gallery of Singapore, Studies (POLIS), University of Leeds Madeleine Lee’s work often With recent scandals in the news explores the fraught relationship about aid and how it is being used between nature and man. Her nine and, in some cases, abused, this volumes of poetry include square panel discussion brings together root of time. global development expertise from Inaugural winner of the Asian the University of Leeds to reflect on Woman Writers Short Story the challenges of development aid. If Competition, Audrey Chin’s we want a more equal or sustainable collection of short stories has been world, is ‘development’ the answer? described as ‘hunting for stories in Drawing partly on reflections from dark places’. Dr. Narayanaswamy’s recent book Euginia Tan writes poetry, Gender, Power and Knowledge for creative non-fiction and plays and Development, the panel considers enjoys cross-pollinating art into the power relations that shape how multidisciplinary platforms. we ‘know’ the world. In association with the University of Leeds In association with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre

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SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER

Nick Barratt 124. The Restless Kings: Nick Barratt Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.45–2.45pm £7/5 concessions* Nick Barratt is a familiar face 123. Salley Vickers: from TV’s Who Do You Think You 125. WordsFest with The Librarian Are?, Hidden House Histories and Kevin Brooks Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Secrets from the Attic. He’s also Otley Courthouse Honorary Associate Professor of 1.30–2.30pm £8/6 concessions* 2–6pm (sign up from 1.40pm) £5* Public History at the University of Age 12–18 Salley Vickers returns to Ilkley with Nottingham and today in a riveting her latest subtle, witty observation event he traces the root causes of An afternoon of laid-back of human nature: The Librarian. Brexit to an 800 year old struggle workshops, cake, writing and fun for Sylvia Blackwell takes a job as a between King Henry II and his arch young people aged 12–18. children’s librarian in a quaint market rival, the King of France. 1.40pm Choose your sessions… town, but her relationship with an 2pm Spoken Word and Poetry with older man, his precocious daughter Kirsty Taylor and her neighbours’ son put the Enjoy graffiti art with Ged Walker library and her new life under threat. Are the library and the books she Perfect your songwriting skills with suggests altering children’s lives? Michelle Scally Clarke Find your voice and write fiction with Clare Fisher 121. Ilkley Arts Weekend 3.10pm Exhibitions Meet Kevin Brooks, Carnegie Medal Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House winning author of nine gripping Courtyard and Nell Bank Centre teenage novels with a thrilling LS29 0DE detective twist. He’ll be talking about 10am–4pm FREE Dogchild and lead character Jeet, raised by a pack of wild dogs and Exhibition, demonstrations and living in the Deadlands. workshops by local and regional 4pm Do a second workshop artists. 5.10pm Fast and furious ‘slam’ share For details see Event 89 your work from the day to win In association with Ilkley Arts fantastic prizes! Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club.

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SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER

129. Walk with Alex Cockshott: Ilkley 1918 – 132. Writing A Novel: 127. Vanity Fair – Book As the War ends Richard Skinner to Screen: Gwyneth Meet outside the Manor House Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Hughes 2–4pm £7* 3.15–4.15pm £7/5 concessions* Clarke Foley Centre Join local historian Alex Cockshott If writing a novel is on your bucket 2–3pm £8/6 concessions* for a guided walk round Ilkley, list, Faber Academy’s Richard looking at the town as it would Skinner, one of the UK’s leading Acclaimed BAFTA and Golden creative writing teachers, is the Globes nominated script writer have been at the end of WWI. She’ll be talking about the role of local catalyst you need. A poet and Gwyneth Hughes talks about her novelist, he offers up frameworks, stunning adaptation of Vanity Fair women as war came to an end and linking into the exhibition, Ilkley at strategies and stimuli to help you, (ITV/Amazon) and the challenges of drawing on his deep experience. But bringing classic novels like Charles War, and Festival events exploring that time. his approach involves much more Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin than a set of instructions: it is a way Please bring waterproofs and Drood (BBC) to our television of thinking, a relationship in itself. screens. She’ll be talking to Ruth Pitt suitable shoes. about the skills of adaptation and her writing life, from episodes of 1918 and 131. Our Family and IT The Bill to her new Agatha Christie Beyond Church House script. 3–3.45pm FREE Dr Rachel Fearnley reads from her debut novel Our Family and IT, which considers the impact of a parent’s debilitating illness on family life.

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Richard Tomlinson 135. France’s Deadliest Serial-Killer: Richard Tomlinson St Margaret’s Hall Farrah Storr 4.30–5.30pm £7/5 concessions* 134. Speaking of 133. The Discomfort Henri Desire Landru: the most Universities: notorious and enigmatic serial killer Zone: Farrah Storr Stefan Collini in French criminal history. The Ilkley Playhouse Wildman official version of his lethal rampage Clarke Foley Centre 4–5pm £7/5 concessions* was so shocking it defied belief 4–5pm £8/6 concessions* and, in an extraordinary twist, no Cosmopolitan’s Editor-in-chief As young people acquire mountains bodies were ever found. Richard Farrah Storr believes modern of debt and quality teaching Tomlinson has been exploring society is too concerned with dwindles, Stefan Collini, one l’affaire Landru for 30 years. This being comfortable. Drawing on of the most respected voices in afternoon he reveals the true story, her extensive experience in the public debate on higher education uncovering a riddle at the heart of magazine industry, she argues that and Professor of Intellectual this unsolved murder puzzle. discomfort is the real secret to History at Cambridge University, success. Armed with advice and offers a spirited argument for her unique “Brief Moments of completely rethinking the way we 136. Ask an Author Discomfort” method, as seen in her see universities and why we need popular TED Talk, Storr lays out her Manor House them. With universities behaving highly effective formula for breaking 4.30–5pm FREE more like commercial business than out of your comfort zone. centres of learning, is marketisation From divorce lawyer to threatening to destroy what we HarperCollins published author! value most? Caroline England, author of Beneath the Skin and My Husband’s Lies, will be talking about her writing journey and answering your questions about her novels, her road to publication and all things writerly!

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Musical Arc 137. Between Water and Air Church House 4.30–5.15pm FREE All ages Melissa Benn © Mary Dunkin Join Musical Arc on an enchanting journey as our young hero attempts 138. Nine Pints – Money, 139. Melissa Benn: The to outwit the magical waterhorse Medicine and the Case for a National and save the family farm. A story full Mysteries of Blood: of mystery and suspense, including Education Service music and song, suitable for all ages. Rose George Clarke Foley Centre Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 6–7pm, £8/6 concessions* 5.15–6.15pm £7/5 concessions* Fringe event It’s time for a radical shakeup of our Journalist Rose George, author education system! of The Big Necessity, is renowned Melissa Benn, journalist, novelist for her intrepid work on invisible and one of the most clear-sighted 140. Running on Empty – but vitally important topics. She and vocal campaigners for takes us from ancient bloodletting improving our schools, lays out her How to Refuel practices to Janet Vaughan – who proposal for a National Education Church House set up the world’s first mass blood Service. It’s a radical agenda which 5.45–6.45pm FREE donations during the Blitz – and envisions free education for all probes the lucrative business of ages as she argues the purpose of Linda Sage discusses the plasma transfusions and scientific learning isn’t solely to pass exams importance of putting yourself first breakthroughs. Spanning science, but to prepare for living in the world. – explaining how self-care is not a politics and global epidemics, she guilty pleasure, but a necessity. In reveals our life’s blood in an entirely her combined talk and workshop, new light. expect advice on how to recognise and prevent ‘Compassion Fatigue’, which is characterised by emotional and physical burnout.

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141. Anything Prose: 142. Dear Mrs Bird: 143. Sidelined – Women Mark Connors and A.J. Pearce and Sport: Philippa Friends Velija and David Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Pendleton Manor House 6–7pm £7/5 concessions* 6–7pm FREE St Margaret’s Hall “The literary tonic of the year” – 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Come and listen to critically The Observer acclaimed novelist Mark Connors London, 1940. Emmeline finds As global audiences for sport and read from his second novel, Tom herself typing letters for the particularly football, rugby and Tit and the Maniacs. Mark will be formidable Henrietta Bird, cricket continue to grow, it is clear joined by local writers Rosalind renowned agony aunt of Woman’s that women have been sidelined on York, Terry Simpson and Sarah Friend and letters containing any the pitch and in the stands. Join Dr McMahon who are all following Unpleasantness must go straight Philippa Velijah (Solent University) their own paths towards publication. into the bin… Irresistibly funny and and Dr David Pendleton as they enormously moving, A.J. Pearce explore the thorny issue of how and why women have been excluded Fringe event talks about her first novel Dear Mrs Bird, a love letter to female from sport as both participants friendship, Blitz spirit, the kindness and spectators. Are women being of strangers and the art of letter- held back? Or are they simply writing itself. less interested? And how does the history of industrial cities like Bradford play a part? Philippa Velijah, Head of Sport Education and Development at Solent University, researches gender relations in sport and women’s early participation in cricket. David Pendleton studies sport in Victorian Bradford.

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SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER MONDAY 8 OCTOBER

Anthony Joseph Katie Thistleton 144. Windrush Stories: From Trinidad to the UK: Roger Robinson and Anthony Joseph Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 145. Principled Spying: 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* 146. Katie Thistleton: David Omand In 1948 Trinidad’s iconic calypsonian Dear Katie Clarke Foley Centre Lord Kitchener stepped off the SS Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8–9pm £8/6 concessions* Windrush at Tilbury docks. He went 6.30–7.15pm £5* Age 12+ on to tell the stories of British and How far should secret intelligence Much loved CBBC and BBC Radio 1 Caribbean life through his songs for be allowed to go in a democratic presenter Katie Thistleton is here the next four decades. society? Sir David Omand, former to help solve your problems. Real 70 years later, writers Anthony Director of GCHQ and now Visiting answers to real problems! With Joseph (Kitchener’s biographer) Professor in the War Studies advice on life’s tough issues, Katie and Roger Robinson, one of 50 Department, King’s College London, talks about questions from real kids writers who has influenced the Black spent seven years on the UK Joint and teens. From falling outs with British writing canon, continue that Intelligence Committee. No-one friends to disagreements with family tradition, telling enthralling island is better placed to consider the and trouble at school, find out how stories in poetry and prose. Join knotty question of how to resolve you might be able to make things them for a rare in-conversation with the tension between security and better and what other young people fellow Trinidadian writer Monique privacy, whether it’s domestic and have done. Roffey. Expect magical moments, international terrorism, serious and probably a poem or two. crime in cyberspace or everyday Produced in partnership with Speaking online security. Volumes

Spying and Democracy

After Windrush: Identity and Belongings 1

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MONDAY 8 OCTOBER

Marina Warner Oz Clarke Clint Wastling 147. Marina Warner: 149. Oz Clarke: 151. Poetry & Geology: Forms of Enchantment An Unquenchable Thirst Words and Pictures – Writing on Art and for Wine Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Artists Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–9.45pm FREE Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.45–8.45pm £12/10 concessions* Join novelist and poet Clint 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* includes 2 glasses of wine per Wastling on a trip through person Yorkshire. Using poetry and Celebrated writer and critic Dame photographs to piece together Marina Warner, President of the One of the world’s leading wine history, geology and culture, this Royal Society of Literature and Chair experts, the acclaimed wine critic unique blend of scientific discussion, of the Man Booker International and TV presenter, Oz Clarke pops creative performance and comedy is Prize, comes to Ilkley to argue the cork on his life-long love affair guaranteed to make you think. that art writing at its most useful with wine. should share the dynamism, fluidity From how, why and where he fell in and passions of the objects of its love with wine to the impact climate Fringe event enquiry. She examines the visual change is having on the industry, Oz culture of today’s world with a brings his fast-paced, witty memoir focus on the inner lives of women; and passionately opinionated uniting readers with work by Louise guide to life. A former actor who Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Joan once toured with the RSC, he’s the 152. Poems Inspired by Jonas and more as she uses words perfect companion to take you, Music and Milestones to recreate the pleasure of looking with glass in hand, on an adventure Ilkley Playhouse Wildman at art. through the world of wine. 9.15–10.15pm FREE Sponsored by Brenda McLoughlin, Book Wine provided by Martinez Club Host Composed by the famed Wharfedale Poets, Music and Milestones is the groups fourth MARTINEZ anthology. Tonight they perform a WINES selection of personal milestones and poems about music – from Aretha Franklin to Shostakovich to the Sex Pistols.

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TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER

Emma Decent Mount Tambora 153. I Don’t Know What 156. Frankenstein and We’re Supposed to be Climate Change: Doing: Theatre with David Higgins Emma Decent Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Ilkley Library 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* 2–3pm FREE 154. Nikesh Shukla: The eruption of the Indonesian “Completely absorbing, entertaining Run, Riot volcano Mount Tambora in 1815 and poignant.” Ilkley Playhouse Wildman had a defining impact: on the climate, and on Romantic literature. “I don’t know what I’m supposed 6.30–7.15pm £5* Groups welcome The following “year without a to be doing”, Emma’s mum said Age 12+ summer” was exceptionally cold and repeatedly in the early days of her When Taran and her brother Hari wet with famine, political unrest and dementia. 10 years later, Emma finds are suddenly caught up in a tragedy, disease across the globe. It also saw herself asking the same question. they are forced to go on the run. the conception of Mary Shelley’s Emma’s mum was a librarian, Emma Soon they realise it’s up to them to Frankenstein. a library assistant. Especially created uncover the sinister truth behind for libraries, this new show goes on Dr David Higgins, Associate what’s going on before it blows their Professor of English Literature at a journey through time, mother- world apart. daughter love and life re-evaluation. the University of Leeds, unravels the A funny, moving, inspiring tale using Award-winning author Nikesh relationship between Frankenstein poetry, theatre and library books. Shukla introduces his adrenaline- and climate change. fuelled young people’s thriller: Run, In association with Bradford Libraries In association with the University of Leeds Riot.

Mary Shelley, Nature and the Gothic

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TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER

Hafsah Aneela Bashir Maria Stephenson 157. New Writing 159. Poetry for the Showcase Hosted by Newly Single 40 Imtiaz Dharker Something Manor House Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm £5* 9.15–10.15pm FREE Poet in Residence Imtiaz Dharker 158. Red Birds: Writer and Creative Writing teacher introduces inspiring new writing Maria Stephenson is joined by a from poets in the region. Mohammed Hanif variety of voices to present a poetry Rachel Bower is co-editor of the Ilkley Playhouse Wildman performance exploring ‘newly single’ anthology Verse Matters with Helen 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* and ‘40 something’. Expect to be both counselled and entertained! Mort. Rachel’s debut collection “Pakistan’s brightest voice” – The Moon Milk explores pregnancy, birth Guardian and early childhood. Her work has Fringe event been shortlisted for The London After crash landing in the camp he Magazine Poetry Prize. was supposed to bomb, American pilot Major Ellie is hallucinating Jade Cuttle is a former Festival palm trees and worrying about Apprentice Poet in Residence. She’s dehydration, while teenage camp a winner of the BBC Proms Poetry resident Momo is dealing with a Competition and an Emerging Poetry missing brother, a sad dog and an Critic at Ledbury Poetry Festival. aid worker who wants him to be Karl O’Hanlon’s poetry pamphlet, voice of the Teenage Muslim Mind. And Now They Range, was published Prize-winning author Mohammed in 2016 and his poems have Hanif discusses his work and how appeared in Poetry, PN Review, he uses his trademark wit and eye Agenda, and Stand. for absurdity to tell important truths Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a about the world today. TOAST2016 poet, passionate about platforming voices absent from the Identity and mainstream. Her work has been Belongings published by Crocus Books (When Saira Met Sarah, Elevator Fiction) and in Stand. 3 In association with the University of Leeds

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WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER

Nikesh Shukla Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker and Vahni Capildeo 161. Nikesh Shukla: The 162. Songs of Windrush: One Who Wrote Destiny Vahni Capildeo Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Khadijah Ibrahiim and 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Malika Booker Mukesh has moved from Kenya to Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 160. Tea with Tracy a drizzly, grey Keighley. He’s hoping 7–8pm £7/5 concessions* for fame, fortune, The Rolling Borman: Join three celebrated poets of Stones and a nice girl… The King’s Witch Caribbean heritage – Forward The Guardian columnist Nikesh Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Poetry Prize winner Vahni Capildeo, Shukla introduces his latest Malika Booker, shortlisted for the 2–3pm £8/6 concessions* powerful, funny story of families Seamus Heaney Centre prize and includes tea and cake and love. His novels exploring the Khadijah Ibrahiim – as they share When her ambitious uncle forces lives of British Asians capture the their work bringing Windrush stories Frances George to court, she’s cultural moment and transcend to life in brand new poetry made trapped in a world of intrigue and assumptions. Shukla’s debut novel, with Leeds audiences. Coconut Unlimited, was shortlisted betrayal – a ready target for the Part of Collections in Verse, Poet for the Costa First Novel Award twisted scheming of the new King in the City’s exciting new project and he is the editor of The Good James’ first minister. with the British Library using poetry Immigrant, the acclaimed collection Enjoy tea and cake as Tracy events and commissions to bring of essays by British writers of colour Borman, joint Chief Curator of British Library exhibitions to life in about race and immigration. Historic Royal Palaces, regular five cities across the UK. This event broadcaster and author of highly This event begins with the results marks 70 years since the arrival of acclaimed books, including Thomas of the 2018 Ilkley Literature Festival the Empire Windrush with poetry Cromwell: The Untold Story, Short Story Competition. inspired by the British Library’s introduces her thrilling debut exhibition Windrush: Songs in a historical novel. Strange Land. Identity and Belongings In association with Poet in the City, the British Library and Leeds Central Library 3 After Windrush: Identity and Belongings 1 *Plus a £2 booking fee per transaction 59 FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2018 @ilkleylitfest

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER

In Search of Frankenstein, Chloe Dewe Mathews 164. In Search of Frankenstein: Festival Guided Tour with Pippa Oldfield Impressions Gallery, Bradford 163. Pretend You Don’t BD1 1SD 166. The Fashion Know Me: 2–3pm FREE with tea and biscuits. Forecasters: Finuala Dowling and No booking needed, just turn up Regina Lee Blaszczyk Gillian Clarke Join Dr Pippa Oldfield, curator at Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Poetry Reading Impressions Gallery, for a special 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Festival goers guided tour of Chloe Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Dewe Mathews’ inspiring exhibition, The fashion business has been 8.30–9.30pm £7/5 concessions* In Search of Frankenstein. collecting and analysing information about colours, fabrics, silhouettes A reading by two poets at the height All welcome. and styles since the 18th century of their power. Finuala Dowling is See also events 4, 92. – activities shrouded in mystery. one of South Africa’s leading poets, In association with Impressions Gallery Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Professor of known for her funny, poignant and Business History at the University idiosyncratic work. Pretend You of Leeds, reveals the hidden history Don’t Know Me brings together of colour and trend forecasting and work from her four previous prize- Mary Shelley, explains its relevance to the fashion winning collections, along with new Nature and business. Find out about trend poems to introduce Dowling to a UK the Gothic studios and colour experts as she audience. probes the inner workings of the Gillian Clarke was National Poet global fashion system. of Wales from 2008–2016. Her In association with the University of Leeds poems are studied at GCSE and A Level and she has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her most recent collection, Zoology, offers glimpses of a hare whose “heartbeat halts at the edge of the lawn”, the specimens staring back from their cases in a museum and the Alpine flowers of Hafod Y Llan in Snowdonia.

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THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER

Mimi Khalvati Sue Prideaux Cheyenne Brown 167. Very Selected Poets: 168. I am Dynamite: 171. Harp Music and Mimi Khalvati, Michael Sue Prideaux on Stories: Lasky and Michael Friedrich Nietzsche Cheyenne Brown and Schmidt Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Christine McMahon St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Concert presented by Friends 7.30–9pm £7/5 concessions* Award-winning biographer Sue of the Manor House Manor House Three essential poets choose just Prideaux takes one of the most a pamphlet’s worth of work each complex figures in contemporary 7.30–9.30pm £12 from to represent them in a brilliant new thought, Friedrich Nietzsche, and [email protected] series. illuminates his ideas in her vital 01943 609393 portrait of the German philosopher. Mimi Khalvati is “one of the most Alaskan born Cheyenne Brown She’ll be shedding light on poignant and graceful poets writing lives in Scotland where she studied Nietzsche’s relationships with mental in England today.” – George Szirtes. Scottish harp. Her free and creative illness, family, music and women playing style makes much use of Michael Laskey was for many with a fluency and transparency that years Director of the celebrated improvisation and contrasting makes the work of this great thinker textures. Christine McMahon loves Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and accessible to all. co-editor of Smiths Knoll magazine. to tell traditional tales, especially Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, he those with links to her northern is much admired for his wonderfully 169. Sleepless roots. Northern grit hard tales from warm and insightful poetry. hard times, from mills, mines and Ilkley Playhouse Wildman northern characters. Her ready wit Michael Schmidt is a central figure 9–10.30pm FREE and warm manner will keep you in contemporary poetry as editor of listening! Carcanet Press and PN Review, as a See off insomnia in style as acclaimed Yorkshire poet Julia In association with the Friends of the Manor Professor of Poetry and as author of House Lives of the Poets. Deakin premieres her mesmeric In association with the Poetry Business new collection, Sleepless, with scintillating blues guitar from Richard Townend. An outstanding 90 minute programme from two superb practitioners. This event begins with the results of the 2018 Ilkley Literature Festival Walter Swan Poetry Competition. Fringe event In association with the Walter Swan Trust.

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FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER

Ilkley Young Writers © Paul Floyd Blake Sai-Murray © Ashley-Karrel 172. The Abnormal 173. Words on Skin Writers of Christchurch: Ilkley Playhouse Wildman llkley Young Writers 7.30–8.30pm £5* Ilkley Playhouse Wildman In the skins they wear, seven poets in 6–6.45pm FREE their 40s walk the less travelled path 174. The Imperial Tea to explore “the things that can’t be As developers move in, their Party: Frances Welch said” (Kei Miller). meeting place is about to close its Ilkley Rugby Club In the wake of the Windrush doors and the young people are 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* desperate. scandal, Brexit, the refugee crisis and the hostile environment, The Festival’s Ilkley Young Writers The British and Russian royal Michelle Scally Clarke, Sai Murray, group showcase their new poetry families met three times before Becky Cherriman, Richard play with songs. the Romanovs’ tragic end in 1918. Bostock, Cherie Taylor Batiste, Frances Welch draws back the Ricky Venel Stone and Julie Easley curtain on those pivotal encounters speak truths about intersectionality between these two great dynasties; and the effect of racism and the encounters that had far-reaching repercussions of colonialism on consequences for 20th century their lives. Europe and beyond. This show is a calling to reflect Welch has written for The Sunday on the things that stain our Telegraph, Granta and The skin. Through spoken word, Spectator as well as multiple books contemporary thought, song, jazz, on the Russian court, including movement and percussion. 2014’s Rasputin. An Ilkley Literature Festival Microcommission

After 1918 and Windrush: Beyond Identity and Belongings

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FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER

Rosemary Shrager Clare Muireann Murphy and Daniel Morden Brontë Parsonage Museum 175. Become a Better 177. The Remarkable 178. Emily Brontë: Cook with Rosemary Story of Robert Desnos Ann Dinsdale and Shrager Presented by Adverse Camber Jane Sellars Clarke Foley Centre Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £8/6 concessions* 7.30–9pm £10/8 concessions* 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* Celebrity chef and cookery school Funny, tragic, uplifting and moving. Ann Dinsdale, Principal Curator of doyenne Rosemary Shrager has Held captive in a concentration the Brontë Parsonage Museum at worked with some of the world’s top camp, prisoners tell fantastical tales Haworth, and Jane Sellars MBE, chefs. Her popular TV shows include to lift their spirits. Their clandestine art historian and former director The Real Marigold Hotel, School for gatherings allow them briefly to of Harrogate’s Mercer Art Gallery Cooks and judging The Big Family forget the terrible reality of the and of the Brontë Parsonage Cooking Showdown. She has a camp and use the power of language Museum, team up to reflect on passion for sharing delicious food and imagination to simply change their combined 60 years experience anyone can learn to make and enjoy. reality. of working with the Museum’s This evening she’ll be talking about collection. In the year of Emily Drawn from the real life experiences her life and work and how, starting Brontë’s bicentenary, they discuss of the French surrealist poet, Robert with classic principles and skills, you Emily’s manuscripts, drawings and Desnos, the stories are told with wit too can develop as a cook. the everyday objects that relate to and dynamic physicality by Clare her life and writing, reveal what it is Muireann Murphy and Daniel like to be in charge of some of the Morden, who is renowned for his nation’s greatest literary treasures. passionate, masterful performances. The performance is in two halves Getting to with an interval. the Heart of Adverse Camber Emily Brontë

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FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER

Laura Potts Bobby Seagull 179. North and 194. Bobby Seagull: Mourning The Magic of Numbers Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9.15–9.45pm FREE 187. Picture a Zero 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* From moorlands to quarries and Carbon Future Adults and young people 12+ from motherhood to loss, join Bandstand on the Grove Bobby Seagull is more than a award-winning poet Laura Potts as 10am–4pm All ages FREE maths teacher; he’s a cult hero. she reads work specially written for His unforgettable appearances on Artist James McKay will paint a Ilkley. Accompanied by composer University Challenge catapulted his vision of a zero carbon future Ilkley and cellist Keely Hodgson, North brilliant mind and geeky charms – live. and Mourning charts the peaks and into the public eye and he has since valleys of life in the industrial north. Talk to climate and renewable presented his own BBC Radio 4 energy researchers while your programme and published a quiz portrait is painted into the picture! book. Now he is sharing his lifelong Fringe event In association with the University of Leeds love of numbers with personal stories that illuminate the magic of maths.

All day – dozens of children’s and young people’s events. See pages XX–XX for details.

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SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER

Autumn Colours of Ilkley © Memory Potifa 199. Family Fun Autumn Colours of Ilkley 196. Unaccompanied Manor House Minor: 2–4pm All ages FREE Alexander Newley Join the Friends of the Manor House 195. Emily Brontë and Ilkley Playhouse Wildman in one of their regular family fun the Animals: Stevie 1.45–2.45pm £7/5 concessions* afternoons. Create Autumn scenes and pine cone creatures. Davies As the child of two celebrated In association with the Friends of the Manor St Margaret’s Hall Hollywood stars, Alexander Newley House. 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* grew up surrounded by luxury. But amid the mansions, swimming pools “Nature is an inexplicable problem; it and rooms piled high with toys and 200. Chapbook Battle exists on a principle of destruction,” gifts, the son of Joan Collins and with Imtiaz Dharker wrote Emily Brontë in 1842. All Anthony Newley was faced with creatures “are built on one,” wrote infidelity, insecurity and emotional Church House Charles Darwin in 1838. Acclaimed trauma. Now a renowned artist and 2.30–4.30pm includes an interval. novelist and distinguished critic portrait painter, Alexander shares Pay what you decide, no ticket Stevie Davies, author of four books his memoir; reflecting on identity, needed just turn up. on Emily Brontë, considers the place privilege and the collateral damage Come and see emerging poets whose of animal life in Wuthering Heights of dysfunctional relationships. and Emily’s poetry; her reverence work has been published in pamphlets for and fellowship with the or ‘chapbooks’ read their work and instinctual life of the animals and the 198. Creepy Crawlies represent the independent presses beauty and suffering of the planet. who publish them as they battle for Drop in Writing the title of ‘Chapbook Champion’. Workshop Getting to A fun, dynamic contest hosted and the Heart of Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House judged by Festival Poet in Residence Emily Brontë Courtyard Imtiaz Dharker – and you, the 2–4pm Family event Age 7–12 audience! FREE Independent presses wanting to take part should email Join Apprentice Poet in Residence [email protected] Ian Walker to write poems and stories about creepy crawlies. Children must be accompanied at this event.

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SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER

205. 1968 – Radical Protest and its Legacy: 203. ‘Northern Gothic’: Richard Vinen and Ingo Fiona Mozley and Cornils 206. How to Break the Andrew Michael Hurley Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Power of the Banks: 3.30–4.30pm £7/5 concessions* Ann Pettifor St Margaret’s Hall Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1968 saw protests across much 3.30–4.30pm £7/5 concessions* 3.45–4.45pm £7/5 concessions* of the western world. Around 10 Fiona Mozley’s Booker shortlisted million French workers went on Can democracies reclaim control Elmet is an atmospheric and strike and the whole state teetered over money production? Can the unsettling lyrical commentary on the brink of collapse. Other finance sector work in the interests on contemporary society and an rebellions had profound long-term of society? exploration of how deep the bond implications – feminist collectives, In this unmissable and accessible between father and child can go. gay rights activists, terrorist groups, discussion, acclaimed economics She’ll be discussing both the book Bill Clinton and even Tony Blair are, analyst Ann Pettifor explains how and the new ‘Northern Gothic’ with in many ways, a product of that year. we can break the power of the banks , author of Andrew Michael Hurley Ever since, 1968 has been part of and link the money in our pockets the Costa First Novel Award winning our mythology. (or on our smartphones) to the The Loney. But where did the uprisings stem change we want to see in the world Hurley’s latest novel, Devil’s Day, from and why have they had such an around us. is a masterful tale of the lengths a impact on our cultural memory? Ann Pettifor is best known for community will go to hang onto the Richard Vinen, Professor of History correctly predicting the global rituals and stories that hold them at King’s College London, discusses financial crisis. She’s advised together in a modern world where 1968 and its legacy with Dr Ingo governments and organisations on we need monsters and devils to Cornils, Senior Lecturer in German debt restructuring, international measure our own goodness. at the University of Leeds, in an finance and sustainable event chaired by Professor Frank development and was a member Finlay. of Labour’s Economic Advisory In association with the University of Leeds Committee.

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SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER

Playful Being 209. Playful Being: Improvised Storytelling Workshop Church House Before and after illustrations from a Humphry Repton 5.30–6.30pm FREE Red Book 208. Negative of a Group Fire up your imagination and unleash Photograph: your creative powers with this 211. The Talented Azita Ghahreman fast-moving, interactive workshop. Mr Repton in Yorkshire: Taking a playful approach, and Patrick Eyres Poetry Reading with the help of some easy improv St Margaret’s Hall games, we’ll be making up stories Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5.30–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* together in the moment. Laughter’s 5.30–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* guaranteed, and you’ll be amazed at Join Farsi poet Azita Ghahreman Humphry Repton, who died in what you come up with! and her poet-translator Maura 1818, is regarded as the greatest Dooley for an event celebrating English landscape designer to follow her new collection Negative of a Fringe event ‘Capability’ Brown. He produced Group Photograph, published by finely illustrated ‘Red Books’, the Poetry Translation Centre and featuring hinged flaps with ‘before’ Bloodaxe Books. Born in Iran, Azita and ‘after’ watercolours to tempt his Ghahreman has lived in Sweden wealthy prospective clients. since 2006 and is a cherished voice Patrick Eyres, editor-publisher in contemporary Persian literature. of the New Arcadian Journal and Her deeply personal poems cover board member of the Garden a vast emotional territory, ranging History Society, gives a unique from the delicate and restrained to insight into Repton’s Yorkshire Red the shockingly direct. Books; discussing the artworks for In association with the Poetry Translation great houses such as Harewood Centre and Wentworth Woodhouse in this richly illustrated talk.

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Kate Mosse © Ruth Crafer 215. Kate Mosse: The Burning Chambers Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.45–8.45pm £7/5 concessions* Julian Baggini The bestselling author of Labyrinth 212. How the World 214. Nervous States and co-founder of the Women’s Thinks: Julian Baggini – the New Political Prize for Fiction brings the first novel in her new epic historical Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Landscape: series to Ilkley. Set in sixteenth 5.45–6.45pm £7/5 concessions* William Davies century Languedoc, it offers stories What we call ‘philosophy’ here in the St Margaret’s Hall of love, loss, adventure, a priceless West isn’t even half the story. 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* relic and two families: one Catholic, the other Protestant. Kate Mosse Popular philosopher Julian Baggini Why do we no longer trust experts, talks about what inspired her to argues we can’t begin to understand facts or statistics? Why has politics write a trilogy spanning three other cultures (or ourselves) until become so fractious and warlike? centuries and countless countries. we examine the software their In a bold exploration of our new minds work on. Exploring Buddha, political landscape, William Davies, the Upanishads and Confucius he political economist at Goldsmiths, 213. Granny Knot considers why importing democracy reveals how feelings have come Church House to totalitarian states rarely works, to reshape our world. Drawing on 7.30–8.30pm FREE what harmony means in China history, philosophy, psychology and and why an overemphasis on economics, he reveals the origins of Poet Christine Bousfield collaborates individualistic ideas exists in the this new political reality and offers with Nightdiver PoetryJazz – and West. an essential guide to the turbulent her five grandchildren – to launch Author of the bestselling The Pig times we are living through. her latest volume, Granny Knot that Wants to be Eaten, Baggini’s (Cinnamon). Expect poetry, quirky TV and radio appearances include musical improvisations and flash Newsnight, The Big Questions, mob dance in this vibrant and Today and Start the Week. carnivalesque evening.

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217. Open Mic Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8–10pm £5* 221. The Human Past: The chance for anyone to perform Chris Scarre their own work. Poetry, prose, stand 219. tutti frutti presents: up – it’s all fair game. But you’ve Snow Queen Ilkley Playhouse Wildman only got three minutes to convince Written by Mike Kenny 1.30–2.30pm £7/5 concessions* your audience and win £200 and the All Saints’ School Chris Scarre is Professor of coveted Open Mic title. There’s also Archaeology at Durham University, a 2nd prize of £75 and a 3rd prize of 1–2pm, 3–4pm £8/6 concessions* Age 3–7 editor of the leading UK archaeology £25 up for grabs. journal Antiquity and a specialist It’s not only performers who enjoy Kai and Gerda have been friends for in European prehistory. He this frenzied night out – come and as long as they can remember. Until introduces this authoritative survey along to watch and bring your splinters of a magical broken mirror of world prehistory, written by 24 friends. change everything! expert authors and spanning the Phone: 01943 816714 or Email: Embark on a special icy journey in past 3,000,000 years. It covers [email protected] this fantastical retelling of the classic everything from climate change and by midnight on 30 September to story by acclaimed children’s theatre domestication to migration, social put your name in the hat. The first company tutti frutti. inequality and urbanism. No-one is 16 drawn on 1 October will get the better placed to explain the ancient chance to perform. origins of our societies.

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Amina Alyal 225. Acting Out – 234. Women Talking, Women’s Voices and Women Writing the Spoken Word: Church House Workshop with 5.30–6.30pm £7/5 concessions* Amina Alyal Celebrate the launch of the Church House latest issue of Moving Worlds: A 222. Bookworm – 2.30–4.30pm £15/10 concessions* Journal of Transcultural Writings A Memoir of Childhood ‘Women Write Now: Reading the Reading: Lucy Mangan What is your voice like? How loud is Contemporary’. In this roundtable it in the face of current movements conversation, Leeds writers Amina Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside and trends, what does it say about Alyal and Becky Cherriman will 1.45–2.45pm £7/5 concessions* what women have seen and felt in discuss the intersections of writing, the century since suffrage? Bring When The Guardian writer and womanhood and the contemporary your drafts and ideas for spoken author was little, moment. How can women write Lucy Mangan word pieces, listen to examples stories were everything. She back to crucial local and global provided, get rewriting and was whisked away to Narnia and issues? Join us for an enriching performing and practice getting Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She engagement with contemporary yourself heard to the best advantage ventured into midnight gardens and women’s writing. at open mic and other events. chocolate factories, wandered the In association with Moving Worlds: A Journal countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy In association with Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings and the University of Transcultural Writings and the University of Leeds and played by the tracks with the of Leeds Railway Children. This afternoon Lucy revisits our best loved books; looking at the subtle ways they shape our lives and disinterring forgotten treasures to MOVING WORLDS inspire the next generation. CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S WRITING SHOWCASE

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Val Bloom Tom Whipple 226. Windrush Women: 227. X and WHY – Val Bloom and The Rules of Attraction: Hannah Lowe Tom Whipple St Margaret’s Hall Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3.15–4.15pm £7/5 concessions* 3.15–4.15pm £7/5 concessions* 228. Yorkshire – What was the impact of Windrush From a Home Counties swingers’ on women? How did it feel to travel party to a gay penguin sanctuary in A Lyrical History: to the UK or to be left behind? Germany, Tom Whipple, science Richard Morris Award winning poet Hannah editor of The Times, explores Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Lowe, short-listed for the Forward, where biology meets behaviour, 3.45–4.45pm £7/5 concessions* Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best investigating how and why the First Collection Prizes, explores the genders approach sex differently. Richard Morris brings the making legacy of Windrush in relation to Drawing on behavioural science of Yorkshire alive, from Viking women’s experience and writing and anthropology, he produces a trading routes to Wakes Week to with fellow poet Valerie Bloom. surprising tale of expectations and the Cold War, weaving together mismatches, showing gender is stories of real people and families Poet and novelist Valerie Bloom is a with travelogue and ecology. He recipient of The Voice Community more complicated than a simple binary and not solely constructed by looks at Yorkshire through the eyes award for literature, and a Smarties of artists and writers like J.M.W. Award Bronze prizewinner for her culture. Nowhere is this clearer than when it comes to sex and love. Turner, Thomas Girtin, Winifred children’s book, Fruits. Her writing is Holtby and J.B. Priestley and heavily influenced by her Jamaican embraces myth and legend, conflict background – she even begins most and faith, scientific advancement, performances with a crash course boom and bust. in Jamaican Patois, so non-speakers can enjoy the Patois poems in her Richard Morris is Emeritus Professor set. of Archaeology at the University of Huddersfield and former Director of After the Council for British Archaeology. Windrush: Identity and Belongings

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Lisa Holdsworth Maya Chowdhry 231. Are Writers Born or 232. Filigree: Made? Lisa Holdsworth Contemporary Black Walter Swan Trust Lecture British Poetry Ilkley Playhouse Wildman St Margaret’s Hall 230. The Biracial 4.45–5.45pm £7/5 concessions* 4.45–5.45pm £7/5 concessions* Butterfly For this year’s annual Walter Swan Filigree, the latest Inscribe/Peepal Manor House Memorial Lecture, acclaimed Tree anthology of contemporary 4.30–5.30pm Family event FREE television writer Lisa Holdsworth – Black British poetry, contains work Our young hero Skyler is a brave, whose credits include Ackley Bridge, that plays with the possibilities sensitive soul surfer. In musical Call the Midwife, Emmerdale, the word suggests – but it also rhymes, accompanied by colourful Midsomer Murders and New encourages you to discard your images, he assembles the pieces Tricks – will be discussing what initial thoughts as these are of his cultural jigsaw. Lennox makes a writer and how we should poets who love to play, tease and Benson shares his new children’s be encouraging a wide range of provoke with language, ideas and book celebrating the lives of voices, especially from working class stories. They have all responded in contemporary interracial families. backgrounds, because everyone has compelling ways to what ‘Filigree’ is a story to tell. or could be. In association with the Walter Swan Trust Four award-winning poets read Fringe event a selection of work in their own Filigraic style! Maya Chowdhry, Rishi Dastidar, Patricia Foster- McKenley and Nick Makoha. MC’d by the eclectic Peter Kalu, also a Filigree poet who writes in all genres. In association with Inscribe and Peepal Tree Press

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The command bunker at RAF Uxbridge 236. Secret Wartime Britain: Colin Philpott St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £7/5 concessions* Colin Philpott , author of Secret 235. Endgame on the Wartime Britain, uncovers the Western Front: stories of hidden places across Peter Hart the UK which played a key role in 233. Film Screening: WW2, From factories, intelligence Ilkley Playhouse Wildman bases and propaganda centres, to 84 Charing Cross Road - 6.15–7.15pm £7/5 concessions* resistance bunkers, art treasure The Grove Bookshop’s By August 1918, the outcome of stores and D-Day rehearsal sites, 40th Birthday the Great War wasn’t in doubt: the how secret were they really? And Celebration Allies would win. The question was how and why people did people keep quiet? He’ll be exploring the Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside when the end would come and how defeat would play out. Drawing on contrast between secrecy in 1940s 5.15–7pm £5* the experience of both generals Britain and our own 21st century When a feisty New York writer and soldiers, Peter Hart, author social media age. mails a letter to a small London of Gallipoli and The Great War and bookshop requesting some rare oral historian at the Imperial War Spying and English classics, it’s the beginning Museum, brings the dramatic final Democracy of an unlikely friendship. Enjoy this weeks of the war to life. touching story about love and the love of books released in 1978 – the 1918 and year The Grove first opened – Beyond featuring Academy Award winners Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins in stellar performances. Introduced by The Grove Bookshop’s manager, Mike Sansbury, and followed by birthday cake in the bar.

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Nadiya Hussain Jacqueline Wilson Terry Deary 1. Nadiya Hussain: Bake 74. Jacqueline Wilson: 210. Terry Deary: Me a Celebration Story My Mum Tracy Beaker Horrible Histories Kings Hall Kings Hall Kings Hall 6.30–7.30pm £20/16 6–7pm £10/6 concessions* 5.30–6.30pm £10/6 concessions* concessions* including a copy of Age 8+ Age 8+ the book (£14.99 RRP) or £10/6 Tracy Beaker is back, and she’s a The gorgeous Georgians may concessions* without the book mum now… have loved preening in mirrors Whether it’s Halloween, Valentine’s Jess thinks Tracy is the best mum and prancing about in powdered Day, Holi, Thanksgiving, Eid or ever – their flat might be a bit wigs and pantaloons, but don’t be International Friendship Day, what mouldy but it’s their happy home. fooled – they were really rotten better way to celebrate than to But when Sean Godfrey, Tracy’s underneath! make delicious food together and rich new boyfriend, comes onto the Celebrate the 25th Anniversary share stories while it cooks! scene, Jess is worried things are of Horrible Histories with author Join chef and TV personality going to change. Terry Deary and the musicians of Nadiya Hussain for this family Join us for a very special evening Eboracum Baroque. They’ll take event celebrating stories and with the much-loved Jacqueline you on a journey through Georgian baking! Wilson to hear about her brand- England – expect a gruesome tale To celebrate Nadiya’s visit to new book. or two along the way! the Festival we’re running a Please note there will be no book Children under 12 MUST BE ‘Bake a Cake Inspired by a Book’ signing after this event but printed ACCOMPANIED at all events except where competition for adults and book plates with Jacqueline’s indicated. children. Details of how to enter at signature on will be available from Accompanying adults NEED A TICKET at all events unless otherwise stated. www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk the bookshop. Please do not bring children younger than the age stipulated. CHILDREN’S HEADLINE EVENTS

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SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER – SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER Images: Tracy Beaker © Nick Sharrett, Witch Wars © Laura Ellen Anderson, Baby’s First Bank Heist © Stephan Collins, Mr Tickle SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 5. Children’s Book Trail: 183. Story Bees Mr Men and Little Miss 180. Make Your Own Storytelling: Across Ilkey Model Workshop Whatever Next! with Aardman FREE Age 3–103 All Saints’ School Help us find the Mr Men and Little Animation 10am, 11.30am, 1pm and 2.30pm Misses hiding in shop windows All Saints’ School story sessions. Drop in activities across Ilkley. Look out for the trail 10–11am, 11.30am–12.30pm, 10am–4pm FREE Age 3–6 window stickers to help you. All 1.15–2.15pm, £10/8 Join Story Bees for a journey into correct entries will be entered concessions* space with Jill Murphy’s classic tale into a prize draw after the Festival Family event for everyone of a little bear with a big imagination. (prize draw for under 12s only!) aged 6+ Drop in for creative and sensory Collect your instructions, map and Learn how to make your activities that bring the story to life entry form at Festival venues and very own Gromit, Shaun the or come to a fun story session! The Grove Bookshop. Sheep or Morph character at these hands-on clay modelling SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER workshops. Led by one of their 187. Picture a Zero expert model makers, you’ll Carbon Future 97. Story Sacks get to ask questions about the Bandstand on the Grove Ilkley Library tricks of the trade from the 10am–4pm FREE All ages 2–2.15pm, 2.45–3pm, Aardman Studio. Not to be missed! Artist James Mckay will paint a vision 3.30–3.45pm, 4.15–4.30pm of a zero carbon future Ilkley – live. 10–11am Gromit TM FREE All Ages Princess and Little Miss Talk to climate and renewable 11.30am–12.30pm Shaun the Ilkley Library bring stories to life energy researchers while your Sheep using puppets and props in these portrait is painted into the picture! drop in storytelling sessions. 1.15–2.15pm Morph T 184. Adam Clarke: © 2012 Thoip (a Sanrio Company), Gromit & Shaun the Sheep © Ardman Studios SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER Minecraft Workshops 109. The Unforgettable All Saints’ School Tongue: Family 10–11am, 11.30am–12.30pm, Storytelling 1.30–2.30pm, 3–4pm £5* Playhouse Wharfeside Age 8–12 Children may attend 5.30–6.15pm £5* unaccompanied For families and children aged 8+ Create your own Minecraft character using pens, paper and a A Bradfordian folktale about a little digital magic. Adam Clarke of cunning huntsman, a menacing boar hit YouTube series Wonder Quest and of course the famous tongue! shows you how to create Minecraft A magical performance combining Skins based on your favourite African rhythms, South Asian dance, characters from the books and the African language Shona, English Morph © Ardman Studios comics. and Sanskrit.

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SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 191. David Gibb: Song 193. David Gibb: Song Writing Workshop Writing Workshop All Saints’ School All Saints’ School 11.45am–12.45pm £5* Age 5–8 1.15–2.15pm £5* Age 8–12 Create your very own song with Create your very own song with David Gibb, exploring lyrics, melody, David Gibb, exploring lyrics, melody, rhythm and more. At the end of the rhythm and more. At the end of the session, perform the song and wow session, perform the song and wow your family and friends. your family and friends.

192. Sibéal Pounder – 198. Creepy Crawlies Witch Wars Drop in Writing 188. Jim Whalley and Workshop Stephen Collins: All Saints’ School 1–1.45pm £5* Age 5–8 Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House Baby’s First Bank Heist Courtyard Prepare to un-learn everything 2–4pm Family event FREE Age 8–12 All Saints’ School you thought you knew about 10.30–11.15am £5* Age 3–5 witches as we follow Tiga, her Join Apprentice Poet in Residence Baby Frank is desperate for a pet. friends, enemies and a rather Ian Walker to write poems and When his parents refuse to get him fabulous fairy called Fran as stories about creepy crawlies. one he takes matters into his own they compete in Witch Wars! Children must be accompanied at hands and robs a bank! Join Jim and this event. Stephen for storytelling, games and live drawing. 197. Amy Wilson: Snowglobe 190. Jion Sheibani: All Saints’ School Lily and the Polar Bears 2.15–3pm £5* Age 8–12 All Saints’ School If you had a magical superpower 11.30am–12.15pm £5* Age 3–5 what would it be? Would there be One day Lily was playing on the consequences? Join Amy Wilson beach with her Grandpa when she in a thought-provoking, workshop- spotted something in the distance… style event to explore magic, reality POLAR BEARS! and superpowers in writing. Find out what happens next in this interactive workshop and make a polar bear puppet-friend of your own.

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SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 201. Andy Craven 207. James Campbell: 230. The Biracial Griffiths: Children’s The Funny Life of Pets Butterfly Poetry Competition All Saints’ School Manor House All Saints’ School 4.15–5pm £5* Age 5–8 4.30–5.30pm FREE 3–3.45pm FREE Age 5–11 Hold onto your socks, take the Our young hero Skyler is a brave, Poet Andy Craven-Griffiths banana out of your ears and enjoy sensitive soul surfer. In musical announces the winners of this year’s the best comedy for kids from the rhymes, accompanied by colourful Children’s Poetry Competition and man who invented it. A show for images, he assembles the pieces invites the prizewinners to share children, their parents and anyone of his cultural jigsaw. Lennox their work. He’ll be entertaining the who likes comedy without the rude Benson shares his new children’s audience with a few fun poems and words. book celebrating the lives of a brand new one written especially “Has achieved almost holy status – contemporary interracial families. for the event! don’t miss” – The Sunday Times FRINGE Family Event.

202. Will Mabbitt: Embassy of the Dead All Saints’ School 3–3.45pm £5* Age 8–12 Hear all about this alarmingly amusing new series as you join Will Mabbitt for an event full of guffaws and ghosts … and perhaps a few James Campbell screams of terror. Leave your life at the door if you dare. SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 204. Jamila Gavin: 219. tutti frutti: The Wheel of Surya Snow Queen All Saints’ School Written by Mike Kenny 3.45–4.30pm £5* Age 8–12 All Saints’ School Meet legendary children’s author 1–2pm, 3–4pm and Whitbread Award winner £8/6 concessions* Age 3–7 Jamila Gavin. She’ll be telling you Kai and Gerda have been friends for all about Marvinder and Jaspal who as long as they can remember. Until escape across India and travel nearly splinters of a magical broken mirror halfway around the world to England change everything! to find a father they hardly know. Embark on a special icy journey in this fantastical retelling of the classic story by acclaimed children’s theatre company tutti frutti.

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MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 8. Ilkley Young Writers Events Group: taster session Christchurch on The Grove 6.30–8.30pm FREE Age 12–18 Try tonight’s free session for young for young people who love writing and see if you’d like to join our weekly young writers group. No experience needed. FREE with people refreshments. SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 11. Press Pack: Write a Review Church House 12–4pm £5* includes ‘press’ ticket 2018 for afternoon events Age 12–18 THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER Learn how to write great reviews and blogs, then review a Festival event in our newsroom and we’ll post it online. Bring a packed lunch.

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74. Jacqueline Wilson: 210. Terry Deary: My Mum Tracy Beaker Horrible Histories Kings Hall Kings Hall 6–7pm £10/6 concessions* 5.30–6.30pm £10/6 concessions* Age 8+ Age 8+ Tracy Beaker is back, and she’s a The gorgeous Georgians may have Melvin Burgess mum now… loved preening in mirrors and 56. Melvin Burgess: Join us for a very special evening prancing about in powdered wigs The Lost Witch with the much-loved Jacqueline and pantaloons. But don’t be fooled Wilson to hear about her brand- – they were really rotten underneath! Ilkley Playhouse Wildman new book. Celebrate the 25th Anniversary 6.30–7.15pm £5* Groups welcome Please note there will be no book of Horrible Histories with author Age 12+ signing after this event but printed Terry Deary and the musicians Bea has started to hear and see book plates with Jacqueline’s of Eboracum Baroque. Expect a things that no one else can. gruesome tale or two along the signature on will be available from Carnegie Medal winning acclaimed way! the bookshop. young people’s author Melvin Burgess introduces his powerful new fantasy about magic, myth and HEADLINE EVENTS following your instincts.

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THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 113. Cool Voices 146. Katie Thistleton: An Evening of Young Dear Katie People’s Work Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Clarke Foley Centre 6.30–7.15pm £ 5* Age 12+ Come to either part 1 or part 2 Much loved CBBC and Radio 1 (Word Blend) or both. presenter Katie Thistleton is here Part 1 7–8pm, FREE. to help solve your problems. Real Talented young writers and poets answers to real problems! With – the winners of this year’s Young advice on life’s tough issues, Katie People’s Poetry and Short Story talks through questions from real Competition – perform their own kids and teens. work. Come and see the stars of tomorrow! TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER Details of how to enter the competitions from: 154. Nikesh Shukla: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Run, Riot 73. Ghosts Boys: Jewell Competition prizes kindly provided by Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Ilkley Book Club Parker Rhodes and 6.30–7.15pm £5* Muhammad Khan Part 2 8.15–9pm, FREE Groups welcome Age 12+ Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Word Blend When Taran and her brother Hari are 6–6.45pm £5* Groups welcome Members of the Festival’s Ilkley suddenly caught up in a tragedy, they Age 12+ and adults and Bradford Young Writers are forced to go on the run. Soon they Groups (all aged 12–18) share realise it’s up to them to uncover the Meet 15-year-old Muzna, so used to their inspiring performances of their truth behind what’s going on before it being invisible she can’t believe the award winning poetry and prose. blows their world apart. hottest boy in school is interested, Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club Award-winning author Nikesh Shukla and 12-year-old Jerome, shot by introduces his adrenaline-fuelled police who mistook his toy gun for young people’s thriller, Run, Riot. the real thing. Don’t miss two of the best writers for young adults: Jewell Parker Rhodes and Muhammad SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER Khan, as they explore how young 125. WordsFest Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club people cope in today’s world. Otley Courthouse, 2–6pm (sign up from 1.40pm) £5* Age 12–18. An afternoon of laid-back 3.10pm Kevin Brooks, Carnegie SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER workshops, cake, writing and fun Medal winning author of nine for young people aged 12–18. gripping teenage novels with a 91. Breaking News: 1.40pm Choose your sessions... thrilling detective twist. He’ll be Make a Newspaper in a talking about Dogchild and lead 2pm Spoken Word and Poetry character Jeet, raised by a pack of Day with Kirsty Taylor wild dogs and living in the Art House Manor House Enjoy graffiti art with Deadlands. Courtyard Ged Walker 4pm Do a second 11am–4.30pm £5* Age 12–18 Perfect your songwriting skills with workshop. Become a real-life journalist for Michelle Scally Clarke 5.10pm Fast and furious the day! Interview famous Festival Find your voice and ‘slam’ – share your work authors and create a special edition from the day to win Festival newspaper. write fiction with Clare Fisher fantastic prizes! Bring a packed lunch. .

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Group Bookings Privacy policy Groups of 8 or more can enjoy a discount of £2 off We are committed to protecting your personal each full ticket price on most events (some exclusions information and being transparent about what apply). Call the Box Office on 01943 816714 for more information we hold about you. We use your information information in accordance with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information. School and Education Groups For full information on how we collect and process We warmly welcome bookings from schools and other personal data, please visit: ilkleyliteraturefestival.org. educational establishments. We offer discounted uk/privacy-policy student group tickets for most events, plus one free All details are correct at the time of going to press staff place for every ten student tickets booked. For (August 2018). more information on student group discounts, visit: ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/visit/box-office-ticket-info The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd is not liable for any subsequent changes. Keep up to date by visiting ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk GETTING TO THE FESTIVAL There are regular buses and trains from Ilkley to Leeds and Bradford. Ilkley lies on the A65 between Leeds and Skipton. For more information please visit our website.



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THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 1 6.30pm Nadiya Hussain: Bake Me A Celebration Story Kings Hall

SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER–SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2 Exhibition W.S. Graham: Poet Among the Painters Manor House 3 Exhibition Exhibition: Ilkley at War 1914–18 Manor House

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER – MONDAY 7 JANUARY 2019 4 Exhibition Chloe Dewe Mathews: In Search of Frankenstein Impressions Gallery Bradford

SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER–SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 5 Children's Book Trail – Mr Men and Little Miss Across Ilkley 6 #foundfiction Across Ilkley 7 Competition #foundfiction Competition Across Ilkley

MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 8 6.30–8.30pm Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session Christchurch on The Grove

FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 9 7.30pm Nick Hewer: A Life from A to Z Kings Hall

SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER Writing on the Map: Place and Creative Writing OCA Workshop Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 10 11–1pm with Suzannah Evans Courtyard 11 12–4pm Press Pack: Write a Review Church House 12 1–1.30pm FRINGE: The Food of Love Bandstand on The Grove 13 1.30pm Journeys in Desert Places: Will Atkins Ilkley Playhouse 14 1.30pm The Truth Game: Vanessa Nicolson St Margaret's Hall 15 1.45pm Handel in London: A Genius and His Craft – Jane Glover Ilkley Playhouse Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 16 2–4pm Lemons to Lemonade: Writing Workshop with Crystal Jeans Courtyard 17 3.30pm Lost and Found – Memory and Identity: Jules Montague St Margaret's Hall 18 3.30pm Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age – Michael Broers Ilkley Playhouse 19 3.45pm The Making of an Immigration Judge: James Hanratty Ilkley Playhouse 20 5pm W.S. Graham – Memories and Poems: Ruth Rosen Manor House Tales of Independence and Belonging: 21 5.30pm Church House Lloyd Markham and Crystal Jeans 22 5.30pm The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA: Matthew Sweet St Margaret's Hall

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23 5.30pm York Minster's Great East Window: Sarah Brown Ilkley Playhouse 24 5.45pm India, Empire and First World War Culture: Santanu Das Ilkley Playhouse 25 7.30pm Sweet William: Michael Pennington Ilkley Playhouse Can Gender Equality Change the World: Paola Diana and Sally 26 7.30pm St Margaret's Hall Hines #foundfiction – Guerrilla Publishing Connecting Readers and 27 7.30pm Church House Writers across the World Evocations, Painting in Words and Music by Writing on the 28 7.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfe 29 8pm The Human Planet: Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin Clarke Foley Centre 30 9.15–10pm FRINGE: Gold-Silver-Bronze-Steel-Me Ilkley Playhouse

SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 31 8–9.30am Urban Bird Watching Walk: David Lindo Meet at the Manor House Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 32 10.30am–12.30pm Inspired by St Ives: Workshop with Bidisha Courtyard 33 1–4.30pm Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets Ilkley Playhouse Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 34 2–4pm Poetry Business Workshop with Peter Sansom Courtyard Outsiders: Five Women Writers who Changed the World – 35 2pm Ilkley Playhouse Lyndall Gordon and Ruth Rosen J. B. Priestley at Kissing Tree House with Barry Cryer and 36 2pm Kings Hall Sophie Fyson 37 2–4pm Drop in Workshop – Inspired by Paintings and Poetry Manor House From Inspiration to Publication, How to Turn Ideas into Books: 38 2.45–4.45pm Church House Workshop with Bidisha 39 2–4 pm Secret Service Brainteasers with Sinclair McKay Clarke Foley Centre 40 2.30pm Blood of Rome: Simon Scarrow Clarke Foley Centre 41 3.15pm How to Be an Urban Birder: David Lindo St Margaret's Hall 42 4pm What Would Boudicca Do?: Elizabeth Foley and Beth Coates Ilkley Playhouse 43 4.30pm Take Nothing With You: Patrick Gale Clarke Foley Centre 44 4.30pm Moeen Ali The Grammar School at Leeds 45 4.30pm FRINGE: What I Know Manor House 46 4.45pm Ghosts on the Shore: Paul Scraton St Margaret's Hall Among Bohemian Women: Georgia de Chamberet on 47 5pm Clarke Foley Centre Lesley Blanch 48 5.15–6.30pm Moving Pictures and Words – Poetry and Film Ilkley Playhouse 49 5.30pm Phobiastan: Razwan Ul-Haq Church House 50 6pm Good as You: 30 Years of Gay Britain: Paul Flynn Ilkley Playhouse 51 7.30pm A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in WW1 – Patricia Fara Ilkley Playhouse 52 7.30pm The Killing Habit: Mark Billingham and A. A. Dhand St Margaret's Hall Playtime: Poetry with Andrew McMillan, Inua Ellams, 53 7.30–9pm Ilkley Playhouse Zaffar Kunial and Ian Walker 54 7.30pm Speeches of Note: Shaun Usher Clarke Foley Centre

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MONDAY 1, WEDNESDAY 3, MONDAY 8 & WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 55 6–7pm Guided Reading Group: Frankenstein Manor House

MONDAY 1 OCTOBER 56 6.30–7.15pm Melvin Burgess: The Lost Witch Ilkley Playhouse 57 7.30pm John Simpson: Moscow, Midnight Kings Hall 58 7.30pm King Edward VIII – An American Life: Ted Powell Ilkley Playhouse 59 7.45pm What Isn't Life? Terence Kee Ilkley Playhouse 60 9.15pm FRINGE: No Cold Callers Ilkley Playhouse

TUESDAY 2 OCTOBER 61 1.30pm The Real Boat – Victoria Semykina: Children's Bookshow Kings Hall 200 Years of Emily Brontë: Sally Shuttleworth 7th Annual University of Leeds Conference 62 6pm British Academy / LAHRI Lecture Auditorium 2 63 7.30pm Writing after Windrush: Susheila Nasta and Jeremy Poynting Ilkley Playhouse 64 7.30pm Frankenstein After Dark Public Reading Manor House 65 7.45pm Harlem 69: Stuart Cosgrove Ilkley Playhouse 66 9.15–10pm Silent Poetry Disco Ilkley Playhouse 67 9.15–10.15pm FRINGE: Leeds Trinity University 2018 Anthology: Mythologies Ilkley Playhouse

WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER 7pm for 68 Crime and Curry: David Mark The Wheatley Arms 7.30–9.30pm 69 7.30pm SI Leeds Prize Awards Ceremony Ilkley Playhouse 70 7.45pm Dream of a Low Carbon Future with James McKay Ilkley Playhouse

THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER 71 12pm Oldie Lunch with Austin Mitchell, Alan Johnson and Tessa Boase Craiglands Hotel 72 2–4.30pm Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event Ilkley Moor Vaults 73 6–6.45pm Ghost Boys: Muhamman Khan and Jewell Parker Rhodes Ilkley Playhouse 74 6–7pm Jacqueline Wilson: My Mum Tracy Beaker Kings Hall Henry Moore's Bradford Printers: 75 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Charles Lubelski with Tom Steele 76 7.30pm The Making of the English Landscape: Andrew Bibby Manor House 77 7.30pm Blake Morrison: The Executor St Margaret's Hall Confessions of a Political Maverick: 78 8pm Ilkley Playhouse Austin Mitchell with Harry Gration 79 8pm Alan Johnson: My Life a Music Memoir Kings Hall 80 9pm FRINGE: The Bewildered Family Guide to Yorkshire Ilkley Playhouse

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER 81 10.30–11.30am Emma Carroll: Secrets of a Sun King Kings Hall 229 2.30–3.30pm Alan Bennett Kings Hall

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The Girl who Wrote Frankenstein – Mary Shelley and Mary 82 7.30pm St Margaret's Hall Wollstonecraft: Fiona Sampson and Wendy Bardsley 83 7.30pm The Mind is Flat: Nick Chater Clarke Foley Centre To Provide All People: A Poem in the Voice of the NHS: 84 7.30–8.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Owen Sheers 85 7.30pm Jenni Murray : A History of the World in 21 Women Kings Hall 86 7.15–8.30pm Sorrel and Black Cake: Khadijah Ibrahiim and Christella Litras Ilkley Playhouse 87 9.15–10.45pm Festival Quiz Ilkley Playhouse 88 9.15pm FRINGE: Cruel Britannia? Ilkley Playhouse

SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 89 10am–4pm Ilkley Arts Weekend Exhibitions Courtyard and Nell Bank Centre 90 10am–12pm Writing a Life Story Workshop: Colin Grant St Margaret's Hall Art House Manor House 91 11am–4.30pm Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day Courtyard 92 12pm Brunch with Artist Chloe Dewe Mathews Impressions Gallery 93 1pm Robin Ince: Book Shambles Ilkley Playhouse 94 1–3pm Tactile Writing Workshop with Karen Tobias – Green Clarke Foley Centre Lovers and Strangers – An Immigrant History of Post Was Britain: 95 1.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Clair Wills Joined at that Hip – Jack Kerouac, Jazz and Rock: 96 1.30pm St Margaret's Hall Simon Warner and Heath Common 2–2.15pm, 2.45– 97 3pm, 3.30–3.45pm, Fabulous Story Sacks Ilkley Library 4.15–4.30pm David Crystal: Sounds Appealing: the Fabulous Story of English 98 2pm Kings Hall Pronounciation Behind the Throne – Domestic Life in the Royal Household: 99 2.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Adrian Tinniswood 100 3pm FRINGE: Swimhiking in the Wharfe Riverside Pub Terrible Times Together: W.S. Graham 101 3.15–3.45pm Manor House Performance by Phil Bowen 102 3.15pm The Dark Road: Ian Duhig, Christopher Fox, Anton Lukoszevieze Ilkley Playhouse 103 3.30pm Moneyland: Oliver Bullough St Margaret's Hall 104 4pm Poet Among the Painters: Festival Private View Manor House Gone in 60 Seconds: One Minute Plays Workshop with 105 4pm Clarke Foley Centre Steve Ansell 106 5.15pm Gone in 60 Seconds: One Minute Plays Performance Clarke Foley Centre 107 4.15pm The Last Hour: Harry Sidebottom Ilkley Playhouse 108 4.30pm Jack Monroe and Ruby Tandoh Kings Hall 109 5.30–6.15pm The Unforgettable Tongue: Family Storytelling Performance Ilkley Playhouse 110 5.30pm If I Chance to Talk a Little Wild: Jane Haynes St Margaret's Hall 111 5.45pm The First True Ornithologist: Tim Birkhead Ilkley Playhouse 112 5.45pm W.S. Graham Remembered: Ronnie Duncan and Phil Bowen Manor House

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An Evening of Young People's Work Pt 1:7–8pm 113 Part 1: Cool Voices Clarke Foley Centre Pt 2: 8.15–9pm Part 2: Word Blend 114 7.15pm Voices of Light and Dark: John Whale Ilkley Playhouse 115 7.30pm John Suchet: Tchaikovsky Kings Hall 116 7.30pm The Old Battalion Ilkley Playhouse Island People – the Caribbean and the World: Joshua Jelly- 117 7.30pm St Margaret's Hall Schapiro and Colin Grant ‘Empower a girl’ and ‘Goats for Christmas’: 118 8pm Clarke Foley Centre Challenging the Myths of Development Aid 119 8.30pm Writers from Singapore Ilkley Playhouse 120 9.15pm FRINGE: YEARBOOK 365:360 Ilkley Playhouse

SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER Ilkey Arts Studio, Manor House 121 10am–4pm Ilkley Arts Weekend Exhibitions Courtyard and Nell Bank Centre Art House, Manor House 122 11am–1pm Writing a Novel Workshop with Richard Skinner Courtyard 123 1.30pm Salley Vickers: The Librarian Ilkley Playhouse 124 1.45pm The Restless Kings: Nick Barratt Ilkley Playhouse 125 2–6pm WordsFest with Kevin Books Otley Courthouse 126 2pm Geoffrey Robertson QC: In Court with Tyrants Kings Hall 127 2pm Vanity Fair – Book to Screen: Gwyneth Hughes Clarke Foley Centre 128 2–4pm Drop In Workshop – Inspired by Paintings and Poetry Manor House 129 2–4pm Walk with Alex Cockshott: Ilkley 1918 – As the War Ends Meet outside the Manor House Art House Manor House 130 2–4pm Invertebrate Exposé: A Promenade Poetry Workshop Courtyard 131 3–3.45pm FRINGE: Our Family and IT Church House 132 3.15pm Writing a Novel: Richard Skinner Ilkley Playhouse 133 4pm The Discomfort Zone: Farrah Storr Ilkley Playhouse 134 4pm Speaking of Universities: Stefan Collini Clarke Foley Centre 135 4.30pm France's Deadliest Serial Killer: Richard Tomlinson St Margaret's Hall 136 4.30–5pm FRINGE: Ask an Author Manor House 137 4.30–5.15pm FRINGE: Between Water and Air Church House Nine Pints – Money, Medicine and the Mysteries of Blood: 138 5.15pm Ilkley Playhouse Rose George 139 6pm Melissa Benn: The Case for a National Education Service Clarke Foley Centre 140 5.45pm FRINGE: Running on Empty – How to Refuel Church House 141 6pm FRINGE: Anything Prose: Mark Connors and Friends Manor House 142 6pm Dear Mrs Bird: A.J.Pearce Ilkley Playhouse 143 7.30pm Sidelined – Women in Sport: Philippa Velija and David Pendleton St Margaret's Hall Windrush Stories: From Trinidad to the UK: 144 7.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Roger Robinson and Anthony Joseph

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145 8pm Principled Spying: David Omand Clarke Foley Centre

MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 146 6.30–7.15pm Katie Thistleton: Dear Katie Ilkley Playhouse Marina Warner: Forms of Enchantment – 147 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Writing on Art and Artists 148 7.30pm Michael Rosen and Kim Reynolds: Reading and Rebellion Kings Hall 149 7.45pm Oz Clarke: An Unquenchable Thirst for Wine Ilkley Playhouse 150 8pm Simon Armitage: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Candlelight St John's Ben Rhydding 151 9–9:45pm FRINGE: Poetry and Geology: Words and Pictures Ilkley Playhouse 152 9.15pm FRINGE: Poems Inspired by Music and Milestones Ilkley Playhouse

TUESDAY 9 OCTOBER I Don't Know What We're Supposed to be Doing: 153 2pm Ilkley Library Theatre with Emma Decent 154 6.30–7.15pm Nikesh Shukla: Run, Riot Ilkley Playhouse 155 7.30pm Paddy Ashdown: Nein! Standing Up to Hitler Kings Hall 156 7.30pm Frankenstein and Climate Change: David Higgins Ilkley Playhouse 157 7.30pm New Writing Showcase Hosted by Imtiaz Dharker Manor House 158 7.45pm Red Birds: Mohammed Hanif Ilkley Playhouse 159 9.15pm FRINGE: Poetry for the Newly Single 40 Something Ilkley Playhouse

WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 160 2pm Tea with Tracy Borman: The King's Witch Ilkley Playhouse 161 7.30pm Nikesh Shukla: The One Who Wrote Destiny Ilkley Playhouse Songs of Windrush: Vahni Capildeo, Khadijiah Ibrahiim, 162 7pm Ilkley Playhouse Malika Booker 163 8.30pm Pretend You Don't Know Me: Finuala Dowling and Gillian Clarke Ilkley Playhouse

THURSDAY 11 OCTOBER 164 2pm Impressions Gallery Festival Guided Tour with Pippa Oldfield Impressions Gallery 165 7.30pm Joanna Trollope In Conversation Kings Hall 166 7.30pm The Fashion Forecasters: Regina Lee Blaszczyk Ilkley Playhouse Very Selected Poets: Mimi Khalvati, Michael Lasky, 167 7.30–9pm St Margaret's Hall Michael Schmidt 168 7.30pm I am Dynamite: Sue Prideaux Ilkley Playhouse 169 9–10.30pm FRINGE: Sleepless Ilkley Playhouse

FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 170 2.30pm Poet Among the Painters: Guided Tour of the Exhibition Manor House Harp Music and Stories: 171 7.30–9.30pm Manor House Cheyenne Brown and Christine McMahon 172 6–6.45pm The Abnormal Writers of Christchurch: llkley Young Writers Ilkley Playhouse 173 7.30pm Words on Skin Ilkley Playhouse

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174 7.30pm The Imperial Tea Party: Frances Welch Ilkley Rugby Club 175 7.30pm Become a Better Cook with Rosemary Shrager Clarke Foley Centre 176 7.30pm Susan Calman: Sunny Side Up Kings Hall The Remarkable Story of Robert Desnos: 177 7.30–9pm Ilkley Playhouse Presented by Adverse Camber 178 7.45pm Emily Brontë: Ann Dinsdale and Jane Sellars St Margarets 179 9.15–9.45pm FRINGE: North and Mourning Ilkley Playhouse

SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 10–11am, 180 11.30am–12.30pm, Make Your Own Model Workshop with Aardman Animation All Saints' School 1.15–2.15pm 183 10am–4pm Story Bees Storytelling: Whatever Next! All Saints' School 10–11am, 11.30am–12.30pm, 184 Adam Clarke: Minecraft Workshops All Saints' School 1.30–2.30pm, 3–4pm 187 10am–4pm Picture a Zero Carbon Future Bandstand on the Grove 188 10.30–11.15am Jim Whalley and Stephen Collins: Baby's First Bank Heist All Saints' School Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 189 11am–1pm Imtiaz Dharker Masterclass Courtyard 190 11.30am–12.15pm Jion Sheibani: Lily and the Polar Bears All Saints' School 191 11.45am–12.15pm David Gibb: Song Writing Workshop (Ages 5–8) All Saints' School 192 1–1.45pm Sibéal Pounder: Witch Wars All Saints' School 193 1.15pm David Gibb: Song Writing Workshop (Ages 8–12) All Saints' School 194 1.30pm Bobby Seagull: The Magic of Numbers Ilkley Playhouse 195 1.30pm Emily Brontë and the Animals: Stevie Davies St Margaret's Hall 196 1.45pm Unaccompanied Minor: Alexander Newley Ilkley Playhouse 197 2.15–3pm Amy Wilson: Snowglobe All Saints' School Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 198 2–4pm Creepy Crawlies Drop in Writing Workshop Courtyard 199 2–4pm Family Fun Autumn Colours of Ilkley Manor House 2.30–4.30pm 200 Chapbook Battle: with Imtiaz Dharker Church House inc. interval 201 3–3.45pm Andy Craven-Griffiths: Children's Poetry Competition All Saints' School 202 3–3.45pm Will Mabbitt: Embassy of the Dead All Saints' School 203 3.30pm ‘Northern Gothic’: Fiona Mozley and Andrew Michael Hurley St Margaret's Hall 204 3.45–4.30pm Jamila Gavin: The Wheel of Surya All Saints' School 1968 – Radical Protest and its Legacy: 205 3.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Richard Vinen and Ingo Cornils 206 3.45pm How to Break the Power of the Banks: Ann Pettifor Ilkley Playhouse 207 4.15–5pm James Campbell: The Funny Life of Pets All Saints' School Negative of a Group Photograph: 208 5.30pm St Margaret's Hall Azita Ghahreman Poetry Reading

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209 5.30pm FRINGE: Playful Being Improvised Storytelling Workshop Church House 210 5.30pm Terry Deary: Horrible Histories Kings Hall 211 5.30pm The Talented Mr Repton in Yorkshire: Patrick Eyres Ilkley Playhouse 212 5.45pm How the World Thinks: Julian Baggini Ilkley Playhouse 213 7.30pm FRINGE: Granny Knot Church House 214 7.30pm Nervous States – the New Political Landscape: William Davies St Margaret's Hall 215 7.45pm Kate Mosse: The Burning Chambers Ilkley Playhouse 216 8pm Tim Bentinck: Being David Archer Kings Hall 217 8–10pm Open Mic Ilkley Playhouse

SUNDAY14 OCTOBER Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 218 11am–1pm Tracery: A Digital Poetry Workshop with Maya Chowdhry Courtyard 219 1–2pm, 3–4pm tutti frutti – Snow Queen Family Performance All Saints' School 221 1.30pm The Human Past: Chris Scarre Ilkley Playhouse 222 1.45pm Bookworm – A Memoir of Childhood Reading: Lucy Mangan Ilkley Playhouse 223 2pm Steve Bell: Corbyn – The Resurrection Kings Hall Ilkley Arts Studio, Manor House 224 2–4pm Cooking Up Fresh Words! OCA Workshop with Vicky MacKenzie Courtyard Acting Out – Women’s Voices and the Spoken Word: 225 2.30–4.30pm Church House Workshop with Amina Alyal 226 3.15pm Windrush Women: Val Bloom and Hannah Lowe St Margaret's Hall 227 3.15pm X and WHY – The Rules of Attraction: Tom Whipple Ilkley Playhouse 228 3.45pm Yorkshire – A Lyrical History: Richard Morris Ilkley Playhouse 230 4.30pm FRINGE: The Biracial Butterfly Manor House Are Writers Born or Made?: Lisa Holdsworth 231 4.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Walter Swan Trust Lecture 232 4.45pm Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry St Margaret's Hall Film Screening: 84 Charing Cross Road – 233 5.15–7pm Ilkley Playhouse The Grove Bookshop’s 40th Birthday Celebration 234 5.30pm Women Talking, Women Writing Church House 235 6.15pm Endgame on the Western Front: Peter Hart Ilkley Playhouse 236 7.30pm Secret Wartime Britain: Colin Philpott St Margaret's Hall 237 7.30pm Carol Ann Duffy and Imtiaz Dharker: Luck is the Hook Kings Hall 238 7.45pm Women Spies in the 1600s: Nadine Akkerman Ilkley Playhouse 239 7.45pm Unexplained: LIVE with Richard Maclean Smith Ilkley Playhouse

TUESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 240 7.30pm Mary Portas In Conversation Kings Hall

FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 241 7.30pm On this Day in History: Dan Snow Bradford Grammar School

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INDEX OF AUTHORS author event no. author event no. author event no. Aardman Animation 180 Carroll, Emma 81 Fara, Patricia 51 Adverse Camber 177 de Chamberet, Georgia 47 Fisher, Clare 125 Akkerman, Nadine 238 Chater, Nick 83 Flitcroft, Sanrda 37 Ali, Moeen 44 Cherriman, Becky 173, 234 Flynn, Paul 50 Alred, David 109 Chin, Audrey 119 Foley, Elizabeth 42 Aneela Bashir, Hafsah 157 Chowdhry, Maya 218, 232 Fox, Christopher 102 Alyal, Amina 225, 234 Clarke, Adam 184 Fyson, Sophie 36 Ansell, Steve 105, 106 Clarke, Gillian 163 Gale, Patrick 43 Armitage, Simon 150 Clarke, Michelle Scally 125,173 Gavin, Jamila 204 Ashdown, Paddy 155 Clarke, Oz 149 George, Rose 138 Atkins, Will 13 Clarkson, Steve 27 Gibb, David 191, 193 Baggini, Julian 212 Coates, Beth 42 Ghahreman, Azita 208 Bardsley, Wendy 82 Cockshott, Alex 129 Glover, Jane 15 Barratt, Nick 124 Collins, Stephen 188 Gordon, Lyndall 35 Batiste, Cherie Taylor 173 Collini, Stefan 134 Graham, W.S. 2, 20, 101, 104, Bell, Steve 223 Common, Heath 96 112, 170 Benn, Melissa 139 Cornils, Ingo 205 Grant, Colin 90, 117 Bennett, Alan 229 Cosgrove, Stuart 65 Gration, Harry 78 Bentinck, Tim 216 Craven-Griffiths, Andy 201 Hamilton, Robert 28 Bibby, Andrew 76 Cryer, Barry 36 Hanif, Mohammad 158 Bidisha 32, 38, 63, 69 Crystal, David 98 Hanratty, James 19 Billingham, Mark 52 Cuttle, Jade 157 Hanson, Lee 36 Birkhead, Tim 111 Das, Santanu 24 Hart, Peter 235 Blaszczyk, Regina Lee 166 Dastidar, Rishi 232 Haynes, Jane 110 Bloom, Val 226 Davies, Stevie 195 Hawkins, Lizzi 237 Boase, Tessa 71 Davies, William 214 Hewer, Nick 9 Booker, Malika 162 Deary, Terry 210 Higgins, David 156 Borman, Tracy 160 Decent, Emma 153 Hines, Sally 26 Bostock, Richard 173 Diana, Paola 26 Holdsworth, Lisa 231 Bowen, Phil 101, 112 Dinsdale, Ann 178 Hughes, Gwyneth 127 Bower, Rachel 157 Dharker, Imtiaz 72, 157, 189, 200, 237 Hurley, Andrew Michael 203 Bradford Young Writers 113 Dhand, A. A. 52 Hussain, Nadiya 1 Broers, Michael 18 Dooley, Maura 208 Ibrahiim, Khadijah 86, 162 Brooks, Kevin 125 Dowling, Finuala 163 Ilkley Arts 89, 121 Brown, Cheyenne 171 Duffy, Carol Ann 237 Ilkley Library 97 Brown, Glen James 21 Duhig, Ian 102 Ilkley Players 116 Brown, Sarah 23 Duncan, Ronnie 112, 170 Ilkley Young Writers 8, 113, 172 Bullough, Oliver 103 Eboracum Baroque 210 Ince, Robin 93 Burgess, Melvin 56 Easley, Julie 173 Jeans, Crystal 16, 21 Calman, Susan 176 Ellams, Inua 53 Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua 117 Campbell, James 207 Eyres, Patrick 211 Johnson, Alan 71, 79 Capildeo, Vahni 162 Evans, Suzannah 10 Joseph, Anthony 144 Kalu, Peter 232

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INDEX OF AUTHORS author event no. author event no. author event no. Kee, Terence 59 Murray, Sai 173 Sidebottom, Harry 107 Khalvati, Mimi 167 Nasta, Susheila 63 Simpson, John 57 Khan, Muhammad 73 Narayanaswamy, Lata 118 Skinner, Richard 122, 132 Kriss, Joe 48 Newley, Alexander 196 Snow, Dan 241 Kunial, Zaffar 53 Nicolson, Vanessa 14 Steele, Tom 75 Laskey, Michael 167 O’Hanlon, Karl 157 Stone, Ricky Venel 173 Lee, Madeliene 119 Oldfield, Pippa 164 Storr, Farrah 133 Lewis, Simon 29 Omand, David 145 Storybees Storytelling 183 Lim, Suchen Christine 119 Pendleton, David 143 Subramaniam, Shrikant 109 Lindo, David 31, 41 Pennington, Michael 25 Suchet, John 115 Litras, Christelle 86 Pearce, A.J. 142 Sweet, Matthew 22 Lowe, Hannah 226 Pettifor, Ann 206 Tan, Euginia 119 Lubelski, Charles 75 Philpott, Colin 236 Tandoh, Ruby 108 Lukoszevieze, Anton 102 Pitt, Ruth 127 Taylor, Kirsty 125 Mabbitt, Will 202 Portas, Mary 240 Tinniswood, Adrian 99 Mackenzie, Vickie 224 Pounder, Sibéal 192 Thistleton, Katie 146 Maclean Smith, Richard 239 Powell, Ted 58 Thompson, Sylvia 112 Makoha, Nick 232 Poynting, Jeremy 63 Tobias-Green, Karen 94 Mangan, Lucy 222 Prideaux, Sue 168 Togara, Lulia 109 Mark, David 68 Reynolds, Kim 148 Tomlinson, Richard 135 Markham, Lloyd 21 Rhodes, Jewell Parker 73 Trollope, Joanna 165 Maslin, Mark 29 Robertson, Geoffrey 126 tutti frutti 219 Mathews, Chloe Dewe 4, 92 Robinson, Roger 144 Ul-Haq, Razwan 49 MDee, Anna 118 Roffey, Monique 144 Usher, Shaun 54 McKay, James 70, 187 Rosen, Michael 148 Velija, Philippa 143 McKay, Sinclair 39 Rosen, Ruth 20, 35 Vickers, Salley 123 McKeating, Carl 55 Sampson, Fiona 82 Vinen, Richard 205 McKenley, Patricia Foster 232 Sansbury, Mike 233 Walker, Ged 125 McMahon, Christine 171 Sansom, Peter 34 Walker, Ian 53, 66, 72, 130, 198 McMillan, Andrew 53 Scarre, Chris 221 Warner, Marina 147 Mitchell, Austin 71, 78 Scarrow, Simon 40 Warner, Simon 96 Monroe, Jack 108 Sellars, Jane 178 Watson, Annie 48 Montague, Jules 17 Sheers, Owen 84 Welch, Frances 174 Moore, Samuel 28 Schmidt, Michael 167 Wilding, Polly 118 Mosey, Ozzy 109 Scraton, Paul 46 Wills, Clair 95 Morden, Daniel 177 Seagull, Bobby 194 Wilson, Amy 197 Morris, Richard 228 Semykina, Victoria 61 Wilson, Jacqueline 74 Morrison, Blake 77 Sheers, Owen 84 Whale, John 114 Mosse, Kate 215 Sheibani, Jion 190 Whalley, Jim 188 Mozley, Fiona 203 Shrager, Rosemary 175 Writing on the Wharfe 28 Murphy, Clare Muireann 177 Shukla, Nikesh 154, 161 Whipple, Tom 227 Murray, Jenni 85 Shuttleworth, Sally 62

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