Mark BillinghamMark Ross Collins

Kerry Brown Maura Dooley

Matt Haig

Darren Henley

Emma Healey

Patrick Gale Literary Erin Kelly Huw Lewis-Jones Adam Kay

Kiran Hargrave Millwood Festival Purves Libby 2019

Lionel Shriver Philip Norman Philip 01 TO 06 MAY Terry Waite

Chrissie Wellington Piers Torday Lucy Siegle Lemn Sissay MBE Jessica Hepworth Jessica Benjamin Zephaniah ANA LEAF FOUNDATION MOONPIG APPLEBY OSA RECRUITMENT BROWNS ADVOCATES PRAXISIFM BUTTERFIELD RANDALLS DOREY FINANCIAL MODELLING RAWLINSON & HUNTER GUERNSEY ARTS COMMISSION ROTHSCHILD & CO GUERNSEY POST SPECSAVERS JULIUS BAER THE FORT GROUP

Sophy Henn

Kindly sponsored by sponsored Kindly THE INTERNATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE THE GUERNSEY SOCIETY Turning the Tide on Plastic: How St James: £10/£5 Lucy Siegle Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Welcome to the Globe Clean Again seventh Guernsey Presenter on BBC’s The One Show and columnist for the Observer and the Guardian, Lucy Siegle offers a unique and beguiling perspective on environmental issues and ethical consumerism. Turning the Tide on Literary Festival Plastic provides a powerful call to arms to end the plastic pandemic along with the tools we need to make decisive change. It is a clear- eyed, authoritative and accessible guide to help us to take decisive and 13:00 to 14:00 effective personal action. Thursday 2 May Message from Sponsored by PraxisIFM Message from Claire Allen,

Terry Waite CBE OGH Hotel: £25 Festival Director This is Going to Hurt Business Breakfast As Honorary I am very proud to welcome Professor Kerry you to the seventh Guernsey Chairman of the Literary Festival! With over Kay Adam Thursday 2 May Brown: The World Guernsey Literary 19:30 to 20:30 60 events for all interests According to Xi Festival it is once and ages, the festival is a Kerry Brown is Professor of again my pleasure unique opportunity to be inspired by writers. Chinese Studies and Director to welcome you to of the Lau China Institute at this lovely island. As a registered charity, we are committed to offering a schools and community programme as well as a series King’s College, London, and Although I don’t live on Guernsey I look forward of workshops for local writers, an international poetry Associate Fellow on the Asia Kerry Brown to returning each year and meeting old friends competition and a writing competition for schoolchildren. Pacific Programme at Chatham and making new ones. St James: £10/£5 Friday 3 May It’s an absolute privilege to work with the Festival team, House, London. He previously 2 worked at the British Foreign 3 We owe a special word of thanks to all who sponsors, partners, volunteers and you, our valued audience This is Going to Hurt is the hilarious, at times horrifying 08:00 to 09:30 Office and at the University of help make this Festival possible each year and who make the Festival a hugely enjoyable experience. Many and occasionally heart-breaking diary of a former junior thanks also to this year’s guest curators Huw Lewis- Jones, Sydney. He has written 15 books on modern China, the latest we are especially grateful to those who sponsor doctor turned comedian. After working 97-hour weeks Sally Johnson and Steve Foote. being The World According to Xi, an up-to-date account of us. It is expensive to stage such a festival as making life-or-death decisions in the man The Economist called `the most powerful individual many of the speakers and others have to travel We hope you enjoy the Festival as much as we enjoy a hospital, Adam Kay decided to in the world’. President and leader of the Chinese Communist from across the water and that is not cheap. organising it! hang up his stethoscope and share Party since 2012/3, Xi has overseen the emergence of China So, thank you all. his collection of scribbled diaries. To book tickets for Festival events, simply go to our website as one of the greatest forces in the contemporary world, and book online at: www.guernseyliteraryfestival.com, call Adam’s book was an instant Sunday I would like to meet as many of you as possible but also one whose power and influence have created 07781 143545 or email [email protected]. Times number one bestseller and was during the Festival so if you see me in the confusion and consternation regionally and across the recently awarded Book of the Year at streets of Guernsey be sure to say ‘hello’. Have world. Who is Xi, what does he represent, and what is the Specsavers National Book Awards. a great week. he likely to do with the power he is believed to hold? Sponsored by OSA Recruitment Continental breakfast and a copy of The World According Terry Waite CBE to Xi are included in the ticket price. Honorary Chairman, Guernsey Literary Festival Sponsored by Butterfield Garden Journeys

Jackie Bennett The Guernsey Literary Festival Steering Group. Left to right, Nick Le Messurier, Nikki Cleal, Author Jackie Bennett began her career working behind the scenes in Catriona Stares, Claire Allen, Rachel Wyatt, Rachel theatre and television before becoming a writer and magazine editor. She Cumberland-Dodd, Livia Blücher and Mandi Rutter. has spent the last six years travelling the British Isles in search of unusual Members not pictured include Stefanie Haigh, Graham and out-of-the-way gardens. She shares her stories from remote islands Daldry, Suzanne Daldry, Debbie Bruschini, Paul and inland sanctuaries, drawing on The Writer’s Garden, Shakespeare’s Chambers, Lesley Hunt, Gillie Revill. Gardens and her latest book, Island Gardens. Her books have been

Friday 3 May 10:00 to 11:00 Festival Hub: £6/£4 described as ‘part-biography, part-travel, part-garden guide.’ The Race to Save the Romanovs - A Wrinkle in the Skin The Inheritance Creativity: Why It Matters

The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Guille-Allès Library: Free* Rescue the Russian Imperial Family Anne Allen Festival Hub: £6/£4

Helen Rappaport Festival Hub: £6/£4 Friday 3 May 13:00 to 14:00 Darren Henley OBE Friday 3 May Friday 3 May 11:30 to 12:30 Friday 3 May Sam Youd wrote more than half of his 57 published novels St James: £10/£5 18:00 to 19:00 while living in Guernsey. Under the pen-name ‘John 16:00 to 17:00 Christopher’ he became particularly renowned as a writer Bestselling historian and expert on the Russians and Chief Executive of Arts Council England Darren Henley of dystopian fiction, not least for his books for younger Victorians, Dr Helen Rappaport has drawn on extensive Anne Allen is the author of the Guernsey Novels and argues that in the 21st century, creativity is the single readers, such as The Tripods series (later filmed by the lost and overlooked material to uncover the story behind the seventh book, The Inheritance, is the latest. This most important catalyst for change in our lives, our BBC). Introduced by Keith Pengelley of Guernsey Walking why the Romanovs’ European royal relatives and the dual-time story focuses in part on Victor Hugo during communities, our economy and our education system. Tours, Nick and Rose Youd launch The SYLE Press’s Allied governments all failed to rescue Russia’s imperial his exile in Guernsey, introducing both real and fictional Far from being the sole preserve of arts-based subjects, new edition of A Wrinkle in the Skin … in which a seismic family. Helen is the author of 14 books, including Sunday characters. Anne, a retired psychotherapist, lived and creativity also is at the heart of medical, scientific, cataclysm hits the island! Times bestseller Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the worked in Guernsey for many years, and has drawn on engineering and entrepreneurial progress, and it should Romanov Grand Duchesses, as well as being historical her professional, as well as personal, experiences to be nurtured from childhood. Find out how in Darren’s consultant on the ITV drama series Victoria. Dr Matthias Strohn: 1918: Winning write her novels. enlightening talk. 4 the War, Losing the War Sponsored by the Guernsey Arts Commission 5 The Personality Brokers Friday 3 May After You Alex Matt Haig: Notes on a Nervous Planet

14:30 to 15:30 Dyas Mikal

Festival Hub: £6/£4 HaigMatt St James: £10/£5

Dr Matthias Strohn

The British Army chose Friday 3 May 1918 as core reading for ‘Operation Reflect’, 16:00 to 17:00 its contribution to the centenary commemoration Guille-Allès Library: Free* 13:00 to 14:00 3 May Friday of the First World War. Dr Friday 3 May Matthias Strohn is Head of 19:30 to 20:30 Merve Emre Festival Hub: £6/£4 Historical Analysis at the British Army’s internal think Mikal Dyas juggles two careers, one being freelance Author of the bestseller Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt What’s Your Type? tells the strange story of the most tank CHACR. Prior to this he illustrator and designer. In 2017, he and several Haig’s latest book tackles the questions that often plague popular personality test in the world and the mother- was Senior Lecturer in War Guernsey-based illustrators, designers and writers us: how can we stay sane on a planet that makes us daughter team who conceived it. How did the Myers- Studies at the Royal Military established ZONE: The Guernsey Comic Book mad? How can we stay human in a technological world? Briggs test insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships Academy Sandhurst. He is Anthology. His latest project is After You Alex: in 1960 Rates of stress and anxiety are rising, and we are more and our lives? Merve Emre is Associate Professor of also a Reader in Modern War Mikal’s father and three friends took an overland trip to connected, yet feel more alone. Matt will talk about how American Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. She Studies at the University India by Land Rover, following the route of Alexander to be happy, human and whole in the 21st century. has written for The New York Times Magazine, The of Buckingham, and has the Great wherever possible. Mikal will give a talk, Sponsored by The International Stock Exchange & New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper’s authored and edited seven following the journey they took, and showing how the supported by Guernsey Mind Magazine, The Atlantic, and many other publications. books and numerous articles. text inspired the illustrations. Stone Mothers Take Nothing With You The Traveller Comes Home Travels with a Primate

Award-winning travel writer Saturday 4 May 14:30 to 15:30 and memoirist Horatio Clare’s Saturday 4 May 10:00 to 11:00 10:00 Saturday 4 May latest book The Light in the Dark – A Winter Journal 11:30 to 12:30 has been described as ‘magical, moving and deeply atmospheric’. Horatio will also talk about Down to the Sea Festival Hub: £6/£4 in Ships, an account Horatio Clare of two voyages on Terry Waite CBE Patrick Gale container ships, for which he was awarded St James: £10/£5 Erin Kelly Festival Hub: £6/£4 Patrick Gale is the author of 16 novels, including Notes Saturday 4 May the prestigious 2015 From an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man, and the Stanford Dolman Terry Waite CBE has attracted a capacity audience to Stone Mothers is the gripping new novel from Erin Kelly, Emmy-winning BBC show Man in an Orange Shirt. He’ll 13:00 to 14:00 Book of the Year for his serious and compelling talks, but he also has a great whose book He Said/She Said was longlisted for the be talking about his latest novel, Take Nothing With You, travel writing. sense of humour, which is important when dealing with Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award and his fourth on the Sunday Times bestseller list, an intense Festival Hub: £6/£4 life’s darkest issues. For many years Terry travelled the selected for both the Simon Mayo Radio 2 and Richard & Judy sad-funny comedy about adolescence, betrayal and world with the late Archbishop of Canterbury and he has book clubs. Stone Mothers tells the story of Marianne, who music suffused with memories of the 1970s. was 17 when she fled her home, her family, her boyfriend and lots of tales to tell about the many unusual and amusing the body they buried. Now, forced to return, she can feel the events that occurred during these trips, including an alarming visit to Nigeria. past closing in on her. An Audience with Lemn Sissay MBE : Son of Sark Sponsored by Appleby James Roberts: Words and Pictures: 6 How Comics Work (And Why) 7

Huw Lewis-Jones in conversation with Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Piers Torday Saturday 4 May Steve Foote St James: £10/£5 13:00 to 14:00 Guille-Allès Library: Free* The Writer’s Map Award-winning comic book writer James Roberts lifts Lemn Sissay MBE is renowned for the lid on how comics are made, tracing the evolution his strong, lyrical poems on social Steve Foote founded Blue Ormer to publish books about of a story from pitch to publication. Best known for his It’s one of the first things we discover as children: maps and family themes. Lemn was the Channel Islands. In his latest publication, he explores Transformers work, James’s first series, More Than have a unique power to transport us to distant lands on official poet of the 2012 London Mervyn Peake’s connections with the island of Sark. Meets the Eye, was described by the Guardian as ‘the wondrous travels. Displaying this truth with beautiful Olympics and the 2015 FA Cup Best known for the trilogy, Peake is widely buzziest of cult favourites’. Its successor, Lost Light – full-colour illustrations, The Writer’s Map is an atlas of the and is Chancellor of the University considered to be one of the 20th century’s most original ‘one of the most LGBTQ-inclusive series in mainstream journeys that our most creative storytellers have made of Manchester. His appearance and innovative novelists, poets and artists. He lived in Sark comics’, according to Comixology- was named Best throughout their lives. Join authors Huw Lewis-Jones, on Desert Island Discs, speaking during the 1930s and 40s where he drew inspiration from Comic Series of 2018. Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Piers Torday to learn more about his experiences of emotional Lemn Sissay MBE Saturday 4 May 13:00 14:00 to the island’s tranquillity and unique charms. Mervyn Peake: about the maps that have inspired them. and racial abuse in the UK Saturday 4 May Son of Sark is intended as a guide to Sark for those familiar care system and his search for Sponsored by Rawlinson & Hunter with the work of Mervyn Peake, and an introduction to James Roberts 11:30 to 12:30 his Ethiopian birth mother, is 14:30 to 15:30 Peake’s work for those familiar with the island. one of the most moving in the Saturday 4 May St James: £10/£5 Guille-Allès Library: Free* programme’s history. In association with Blue Ormer Publishing Confessions of a Rock Biographer AGE Slam Poetry To the Finish Line 18+ Philip Norman’s bestselling Beatles biography Shout! has (and a little Shakespeare) sold more than a million copies and he has also written Saturday 4 May at the Golden Lion definitive biographies of the Rolling Stones, Elton John, St James: £10/£5 Buddy Holly, Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton – Slowhand 16:00 to 17:00 Joelle Taylor Andrew Hislop Lawrence Stubbings Golden Lion: £5 is his latest work. Philip joined the Sunday Times at the age of 22 and has written fiction, plays and two stage musicals. Join Philip as he shares tales of his adventures and misadventures in pursuit of his famous subjects.

Philip Norman St James: £10/£5 Saturday 4 May 19:00 to 20:00

Chrissie Wellington Whistle in the Dark Property Saturday 4 May 18:00 to 20:00 Chrissie took a unique pathway to professional sport. She travelled the world, gained a masters degree, worked

Saturday 4 May 16:00 to 17:00 Festival Hub: £6/£4 as an advisor on international development policy for

Lionel Shriver Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, writer and editor St James: £10/£5 the UK government, worked in Nepal and only became a who has recently returned from touring Europe, Australia professional triathlete at 30, having discovered a talent and South-East Asia with her latest collection Songs My she never knew she had. Five years later Chrissie was Enemy Taught Me. She is currently completing her debut four-time World Ironman Champion. Join Chrissie as she book of short stories The Night Alphabet and working on a brings triathlon to life, with guidance for newbies and spoken word theatre show. She has featured on radio and experienced athletes. television, is the host and co-curator of premier London poetry and music club Out-Spoken, and a Fellow of the Sponsored by The Fort Group and supported by Emma Healey RSA. Joelle’s performance will be preceded by an extract the Guernsey Triathlon Club from Othello performed by Andrew Hislop and Lawrence 8 Saturday 4 May 17:30 to 18:30 Stubbings. 9 Former bookseller Emma Healey won the Costa First Crime Time Conversation with Mark Novel Award 2014 for Elizabeth is Missing, which was also In her first ever short story collection, Lionel Shriver Billingham and Erin Kelly shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction illuminates one of the modern age’s most enduring Book of the Year. Whistle in the Dark is a compelling, The Mummy Lessons obsessions: property. We may possess people and objects St James £10/£5 modern family drama about Jen and her 15-year-old and places, but in turn they may also possess us. This daughter Lana, who has been found after four days lost masterful collection showcases the biting insight that has and alone. With her daughter increasingly becoming a made Lionel one of the most acclaimed authors of our 12:00-13:00 Sunday 5 May

stranger, Jen is sure the answer lies in those missing time. A widely published journalist, Lionel is the author of Helen Wallen days. But will Lana ever reveal what happened? 12 novels, including We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Sunday 5 May Biography of Victor Hugo: A Monumental Life 11:30 to 12:30 Victor Hugo expert Bradley Stephens talks about his biography, Festival Hub: £6/£4 published in 2019, on one of the Mark Billingham Erin Kelly world’s great writers, Victor Hugo, who took refuge in Guernsey Saturday 4 May Their Little Secret is the brand new thriller from five- for 15 years and completed Les Helen Wallen is a blogger, funny lady and mother of two, million-copy bestseller Mark Billingham which sees Tom Misérables here. Bradley argues 18:00 to 19:00 whose award-winning blog ‘Just a Normal Mummy’ has Thorne and Nicola Tanner on the hunt for a couple whose that Hugo’s creative intellectual inspired her to write two novels: Baby Boom! and now The mutual chemistry boils over into murder. Mark will be vigour suggests he was too restless Mummy Lessons. Helen’s latest novel is a hilariously warm in conversation with Erin Kelly, bestselling author of He to sit comfortably on the pedestal and frank story about the first 12 months of motherhood, Said/She Said and the stunning new psychological thriller, Hauteville House of literary greatness, and that his celebrating female friendship, the highs and lows of Stone Mothers. mind was as revolutionary as the motherhood, and the lifesaving power of a baby bouncer.

Bradley Stephens £25 Sponsored by Appleby time in which he lived. Some Truths about Prison: The Will of the People The Salt Path An Evening with Ebenezer Le Page A Comprehensive Examination of What Prison Means in the UK Sunday 5 May to14:30 15:30 Albert Weale CBE Festival Hub: £6/£4 Born out of extraordinary Sunday 5 May 19:30 to 21:30 (includes interval) circumstances, this deeply moving memoir gives insight into one woman’s remarkable St James: £10/£5 journey along the 630-mile South West Coast Path describing how she learned to survive, not only with hunger and blisters, but also 13:00 14:00 to Festival Hub: £6/£4 Erwin James Sunday 5 May Albert Weale CBE is Emeritus Professor of Political homelessness and facing the Theory and Public Policy at University College London. prospect of a future without Erwin James is Editor in Chief of Inside Time, the national He has authored some 12 books on subjects ranging from her husband who had been newspaper for people in prison, and has been a Guardian diagnosed with a terminal democratic theory to environmental policy and the European Join us for an evening celebrating Guernsey’s great novel. columnist and contributor since 1998. He became a writer illness. This is a chance to listen to Raynor as she shares Union. In his talk he will present some key themes from his David Le Page and Viv McLean will perform their suite in prison where he served 20 years of a mandatory life her discovery of the redemptive qualities of walking, latest book The Will of the People: A Modern Myth. of music inspired by The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, sentence. Erwin is the author of three books, a trustee of nature and the true meaning of home. The Salt Path is her with Rodney Collenette reading passages from the book. the Prison Reform Trust, a patron of the charities Create, first book and is a Sunday Times bestseller. Human Writes and the Prison Phoenix Trust, a fellow of Victor Hugo Explores Guernsey Afterwards, they will be joined by Edward Chaney for the RSA and an Honorary Master of the Open University. a discussion/Q&A chaired by Steve Foote. A pre-show Raynor Winn Sunday 5th May

Sunday 5 May Sunday 16:00 to 17:00 Festival Hub: £6/£4 dinner is available at St James by calling 01481 711361. Sponsored by Rothschild & Co 17:30 to 18:30 Sponsored by the Guernsey Society On and Off the Air Festival Hub: £6/£4

15:00 to 16:00 St James £10/£5 James St Sunday 5 May Libby Purves OBE 10 21 Miles: Swimming in Search of the 11 Nightmares, Nerves, Meaning of Motherhood

Gregory Stevens Cox Neuroses and Nazis: PTSD among Jessica Hepburn Jessica In the 1860s Victor Hugo, following five well-established survivors of Nazism in to13:30 14:30 Monday 6 May St James £10/£5 tourist routes, made more than 200 carriage drives the Channel Islands Libby Purves OBE is a writer, theatre critic and exploring Guernsey’s country parishes. His early broadcaster. She presented BBC Radio 4’s Midweek for explorations informed his essay L’Archipel de la Manche Gilly Carr 33 years and is a Times columnist as well as the author – intended as an introduction to The Toilers of the Sea. of 12 novels and books on subjects as diverse as sailing, Victor Hugo Explores Guernsey, extensively illustrated with Monday 6 May childcare and family life. In On and Off the Air, Libby will images of the period, follows the routes that Hugo took, the talk about her long career in radio as well as her writing. diversions he made, and relates them to his writings. 12:00 to 13:00 Sponsored by Browns Advocates In association with Blue Ormer Publishing Dr Gilly Carr is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the Jessica Hepburn is an author, arts producer and University of Cambridge, a Fellow and Director of Studies adventure activist inspiring people to live big and bravely. St James: £6/£4 Backlisted Podcast: in Archaeology at St Catharine’s College and a member She has published two books; founded Fertility Fest – the The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G.B. Edwards of the UK delegation of the International Holocaust first arts festival exploring modern family-making; and Remembrance Alliance. She is the author of over 60 has taken on some of the world’s most iconic endurance The literary podcast that gives new life to old books comes to publications. Gilly will be speaking about victims of challenges. 21 Miles is the story of how she met and ate Guernsey for a special episode dedicated to The Book of Ebenezer Le Nazism in the Channel Islands and why post traumatic with 21 inspirational women and then swam 21 miles in Page by G.B. Edwards. Hosts John Mitchinson and Andy Miller will be stress disorder contributed to their narrative of the search of the answer to the question: ‘Does motherhood joined by Emmy award-winning writer Will Smith for a discussion of Occupation being buried for generations. make you happy?’ G.B. Edwards’ critically acclaimed novel of this fictional Guernseyman. This event will be recorded live for future broadcast. Candie Museum: £6/£4 Sunday 5 May 17:00 to 18:00 Sponsored by the Guernsey Society Family Events The Irresistible Appeal of the St James £10/£5 Sophy Henn Sophy Henn Occupation for Novelists

St James £6/£4

15:00 to 16:00 Madeleine Bunting

Monday 6 May 19:30-21:30 (includes interval) Ted Time: Where Will His Imagination Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser Traditional Music & Songs of the Take Him Today? Thursday 2 May | 16:30 to 17:30

Monday 6 May Channel Islands with music by Lihou Thursday 2 May | 10:30 to 11:00 and 11:30 to 12:00 Guille-Allès Library: FREE* Guille-Allès Library: FREE* Age 5+ This concert brings to life the collections that feature in this Nearly 25 years after writing a widely acclaimed non-fiction Age 2+ Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize new book and CD. Hear from the authors behind this landmark history of the Occupation, Madeleine Bunting explains shortlisted author and illustrator Sophy publication, learn about the ‘song collectors’ who visited the Join Sophy for a Ted-packed storytime. Where will his why the stories have haunted her ever since, and inspired Henn brings you her vibrant and colourful islands and discover the rich heritage of language and culture. imagination take him today? Enjoy the Ted stories and join her to write Island Song, a novel about wartime secrets in book, Bad Nana. Seven and 3/4-year-old At the heart of the evening will be music and song from the in with some simple actions and noises, then make your occupied Guernsey and a family changed for ever. Madeleine Jeanie’s Nana is known as Bad Nana. She ensemble Lihou, which brings together musicians from very own Dotty the Kangaroo ears! was a columnist for the Guardian and her books have been loves lemon sherbets, pranks and quite Normandy, Brittany, England and the Channel Islands. Sponsored by Rothschild & Co shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, the Wainwright Beer Book often ends up in big trouble. Join Sophy for Prize and the Saltire Prize for Non Fiction. Sponsored by the Guernsey Arts Commission stories, draw-alongs and to find out what Ross Collins Ross Nana will do next in an event guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. Sponsored by Rothschild & Co 12 13 Sidney the Squirrel Maura Dooley Maura Saturday 4 May | 12:00 to 12:30 Poetry Guille-Allès Library: FREE* There’s a Bear on My Chair Age 3-7 Saturday 4 May | 10:30 to 11:30 Guille-Allès Library: FREE* Tracey Thomson Age 4-9 Ross Collins is the author and illustrator of 130 books We are delighted to welcome back local author Tracey for children, some of which have been put on stage or Thomson to read her new book, Sidney the Squirrel. given enormous glittering awards. Join Ross as he draws Sidney is hyperactive and struggles to concentrate, but and talks about how a picture book is created with his he needs to focus to gather food as winter approaches... worldwide bestselling book There’s a Bear on My Chair. will he prepare for the cold months ahead or are there just Guernsey’s International Poetry Reading: Poems of Light and Shade Warning – this talk contains a mouse in underpants. too many distractions? Come along to find out! Competition: Poems on the Move: Thursday 2 May | 10:00 to 11:00 Sponsored by Rothschild & Co Guille-Allès Library: FREE* Winners’ Reading Maura Dooley is Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, The Truth Pixie Since writing his bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, Wednesday 1 May | 18:00 to 19:00 University of London and has written and edited a number Matt Haig has been asked to write a mental health book for Saturday 4 May | 14:30 to 15:30 Elizabeth College: FREE* of poetry collections, including The Silvering and Negative children. Instead of writing a self-help book he wrote The Festival Hub: £6/£4 An evening for all lovers of poetry, showcasing a wide range of Group Photograph Life with Elhum Shakerifa, and English Truth Pixie, a hilarious and heart-warming story for younger Age 5+ of work by both local and visiting writers in the elegant language versions of poetry by exiled Iranian writer Azita readers, illustrated by Chris Mould. It’s an enchanting and surroundings of Elizabeth College Hall. Maura Dooley Ghahreman. Maura will read from her poems and, in a Q&A ultimately uplifting story about acceptance and learning to selected this year’s 33 new winning poems - this is your session, discuss different kinds of poetry, how to get started love yourself. opportunity to hear them read by the winning poets. and how to keep going as a writer. Matt Haig Sponsored by The International Stock Exchange Group & Sponsored by Guernsey Post Sponsored by Guernsey Post supported by Guernsey Mind Write Stuff Awards Group Workshops and Saturday 4 May 17:30 to 18:30 Events for Local Creatives Festival Hub: FREE* Age 5+ Children from schools in the Bailiwick took up the Charlie Buchanan Magnus Buchanan challenge to write a story of no more than 300 words on The Invasion of the Wavelets the theme of their Saturday 4 May | 16:00 to 17:00 Imagined World. Guille-Allès Library: FREE* We are delighted Age 7-11 to celebrate the Husband and wife author and illustrator team Magnus winning stories at a special prize-giving ceremony with Open Mic Night Shared Reading with Suzanne Daldry and Charlie Buchanan published their third illustrated awards to be handed out by judges Huw Lewis-Jones Wednesday 1 May | 19:30 to Late Thursday 2nd May | 10:30 to 11:30 book, The Invasion of the Wavelets, in December 2018. (Head Judge), Ross Collins (Primary Category), Piers Guille-Allès Library: FREE* Les Cotils: FREE* Join them to hear extracts from this original Guernsey folk Torday (Intermediate Category) and Kiran Millwood Our Festival believes in supporting local writers and this Shared Reading brings people together in small groups to tale, see original artwork and enjoy the tale retold by local Hargrave (Senior Category). year we and the Guille-Allès Library are hosting a creative read aloud short stories and poems in a safe welcoming children in an enchanting short film in collaboration with Sponsored by Julius Baer writing Open Mic Night for prose writers, who will be able space where individual thought and feeling is recognised Art for Guernsey and the Guernsey Youth Commission. A to read their own work in front of a friendly, supportive and valued. Group members can choose to read aloud, must for anyone who loves illustrated books and tales of audience - perhaps a short story or extract from a novel, or share personal reflections or simply listen. In this way, magic and the sea. whatever prose work might be in progress. This event gives individuals form real connections with the literature and 14 local writers the chance to meet and draw inspiration from with each other. Join Suzanne Daldry and members of the 15 each other. Please contact Adam at: [email protected] Cheshire Home Reading Group for an enriching session! Steven Lenton Steven Butler by Monday 29 April if you would like to read. Light refreshments available. In association with the Guille-Allès Library Sponsored by Moonpig Maura Dooley Maura

Sea-ing is The Enormous Crocodile Tea Party David Charleston Believing! Monday 6 May | 14:00 to 15:15 and 16:00 to 17:15 Poetry Workshop: Through the Creative Writing Workshop: Found, Sunday 5 May Festival Hub: £9/£7 Window - Different Ways of Seeing Age 4+ 10:00 to 11:00 Thursday 2 May | 14:00 to 16:30 Foraged and Forged into Gold Festival Hub: £6/£4 Roll up! Roll up! Venture Quest Productions have Les Cotils: £15/£10 Friday 3 May | 14:00 to 16:00 secret plans for their new interactive family tea Age 6+ Whether you are just beginning to write poetry or are Les Cotils: £15/£10 party event, inspired by Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Author Steven Butler and illustrator Steven Lenton more experienced and feel like taking a new direction, this Age 16+ Crocodile. Storyteller John Kirk is thrilled to be returning welcome you to check into the Nothing to See Here Hotel. A workshop aims to suggest new perspectives and provide David Charleston is a teacher, poet and bookseller. He to the Festival to join VQP for a special performance of hotel for magical creatures, where weird is normal for a fresh start. Come along and join Maura Dooley, Reader will show you ways of appropriating a variety of materials the tale with kind permission of the Roald Dahl Company. Frankie Banister and his parents who run the hotel. Join in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. (adverts, signs, journals, letters, footnotes, errata slips So, who’s ready to snap up something yummy, to fill their the hilarious Steven Butler to find out more, and let Steven She has published a number of poetry collections, and overheard conversations) and transforming them into tummy? Remember to come dressed as your favourite Lenton draw you into the adventure as he sketches the including The Silvering and Negative of Group Photograph pieces of original writing. Come along and experiment. No character. characters right in front of your eyes. For all budding Life with Elhum Shakerifa, and English language versions experience necessary! authors, illustrators, bookworms and reluctant readers. Sponsored by Specsavers of poetry by exiled Iranian writer Azita Ghahreman. Sponsored by Guernsey Post Andrew Hislop Fringe

In Conversation with Adrian & Adrian and Bridget Plass: A View Bridget Plass from a Bouncy Castle Wednesday 1 May | 19:00 to Late Saturday 4 May | 19:30 to Late

Dr Lucy Christopher St Peter’s Church: £10 St Peter’s Church: £10 Adrian writes primarily Christian humour but also poetry, How do love, life and faith appear from the bouncy castle bible notes and more serious novels. As well as answering perspective? Join Adrian and Bridget Plass, Christian Macbeth Workshop: ‘It will have Writing Workshop: Writing for Young Adrian Datta’s in-depth questions, Adrian and Bridget will writers, speakers and performers, for an evening with lots blood they say. Blood will have Blood’ People be entertaining us in their usual style and chatting to local of laughter and perhaps a few tears. Saturday 4 May | 09:30 to 12:00 Saturday 4 May | 14:00 to 16:30 unsung heroes. and Sunday 5 May | 14:30 to 17:00 Les Cotils: £15/£10 The GYCT Little Theatre Company Les Cotils: £15/£10 Join Dr Lucy Christopher, internationally acclaimed Terry Waite CBE: Church William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an incredibly powerful academic, teacher and writer of YA fiction, to find out Service: Light out of Darkness Monday 6 May | 19:00 to Late piece of theatre. Audiences are given the opportunity more about developing an authentic teenage voice and Golden Lion: FREE* Sunday 5 May | 11:00 to 12:00 of witnessing the ambition of both Macbeth and Lady to indulge in some serious creative play! Lucy is the Since launching at last year’s Festival the GYCT Little Town Church: FREE Macbeth spiral fantastically out of control. Join Andrew bestselling, award-winning author of Stolen, Flyaway, The Theatre Company has gone from strength to strength, Hislop for an exciting and energetic actors’ workshop, as Killing Woods, Storm-Wake, and The Darkness. She is a There will be a Festival Service at the Town with monthly meetings in The Lion’s Den. This year’s he and Fiona Dove take Shakespeare’s text off the page. Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where Church by kind permission of the Rector and theme is Duologues: there will be a rehearsed reading Andrew is a professional actor and probably best known she gained her PhD. Lucy is working on her next YA book Churchwarden. The preacher at the service will of the one-act Victorian farce Box and Cox by John for presenting the Sunday Breakfast Programme on BBC as well as a novel for adults. be the Festival’s Honorary Chairman Terry Maddison Morton, followed by duologues from different Radio Guernsey. Waite CBE on the theme of Light Out of plays and genres. A warm welcome is extended to all. Darkness. The service will include readings and 16 poetry, with music from the Town Church choir. 17 Will Smith Will

Post Festival Events

The King’s Singers: The Life and Rhymes The world-famous of Benjamin Zephaniah Writing Workshop: Splurge versus John Mitchinson Jessica Hepburn vocal sextet Friday 1 November Structure Monday 5th August 19:30 to 20:30 Monday 6 May | 09:30-11:00 Unbound: Crowdfunding to Publish 19:30 to 21:30 St James: £10/£5 Les Cotils: £15/£10 Your Book (includes interval) He befriended Nelson Mandela, fought in the 1980s race riots Will Smith has worked on sitcoms such as The Monday 6 May | 10:30 to 11:30 St James and recorded radical and relevant Thick Of It, Veep and Damned, and films such St James: £6/£4 The King’s Singers were founded in 1968 by six choral as Paddington and Paddington 2, as well as the - reggae music with Bob Marley’s Unbound is the world’s only book publisher to use scholars who had recently graduated from King’s College set novel Mainlander. He talks about what he learnt in former band. Benjamin Zephaniah was unable to read crowdfunding to raise funds for the publishing process. Cambridge. Their vocal line-up was (by chance) two the crossover from writing sitcoms and screenplays to and write at school but became one of Britain’s most Join its co-founder John Mitchinson and Unbound author , a , two and a bass, and the novels, whether to structure before you start writing, and notable poets. And now he’s brought out his remarkable Jessica Hepburn for a discussion on the crowdfunding group has never wavered from this formation. The King’s why not to feel guilty about staring into space. autobiography. Benjamin will explain how he fought platform. Singers have been celebrating their golden anniversary, which acknowledges their amazing musical heritage, as injustice and discrimination to lead an extraordinary life, Sponsored by The Guernsey Society well as the bright future of vocal music in all its forms as while sharing a selection of stories and poems. they move into the next 50 years. Wednesday 1st May 2019 16:00- Emma Healey: Whistle in the Dark GEN 1 £6/£4 17:00 Event Type Venue Price Time Charlie and Magnus Buchanan: The FAM 2 FREE* 16:00- Guernsey’s International Poetry 18:00- Invasion of the Wavelets 17:00 Schools & Community Festival Bookshop Competition: Poems on the Move: POE 3 FREE* 19:00 Winners’ Readings 17:30- Lionel Shriver: Property GEN 4 £10/£5 18:30 We will be running a Festival bookshop on the Market Terrace In Conversation with Adrian & Bridget FRN 8 £10 19:00- Plass Late 17:30- The Schools Programme takes events and visiting Write Stuff Awards FAM 1 FREE* 18:30 for the duration of the Festival in conjunction with Lexicon. 19:30- authors into schools across the island to support learning Open Mic Night WRK 2 FREE* Late Bradley Stephens: Biography of Victor GEN 10 £25 18:00- and inspire new ideas. Highlights for 2019 include: Hugo: A Monumental Life 19:00 Thursday 2nd May 2019 Joelle Taylor, Andrew Hislop and 18:00- Lawrence Stubbings: Slam Poetry (and a GEN 7 £5 20:00 Ross Collins Kiran Millwood Food and Drink Maura Dooley: Reading: Poems of Light 10:00- little Shakespeare) at the Golden Lion and Shade POE 2 FREE* 11:00 Hargrave Adrian & Bridget Plass: A View from a 19:30- Sophy Henn Bouncy Castle FRN 8 £10 Late St James Café will be open for food and refreshments Sophy Henn: Ted Time: Where Will His FAM 2 FREE* 10:30- Sophie Anderson Joelle Taylor Imagination Take Him Today 11:00 on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd May from 10-2pm and Chrissie Wellington: To the Finish Line GEN 4 £10/£5 19:00- Lucy Christopher 10:30- 20:00 Piers Torday on Saturday 4th May from 11am-4pm but not on Sunday Shared Reading with Suzanne Daldry WRK 5 FREE* 11:30 Sophy Henn: Ted Time: Where Will His 11:30- Sunday 5th May 2019 Community events organised this year include: 5th or Monday 6th May. A pre-event/interval bar will Imagination Take Him Today FAM 2 FREE* 12:00 Steven Lenton and Steven Butler: Sea-ing FAM 1 £6/£4 10:00- be available at all evening events at St James. For more Lucy Siegle: Turning the Tide on Plastic: is Believing! 11:00 Erwin James to host a talk at Les Nicolles Prison (closed How Humanity (And You) Can Make our GEN 4 £10/£5 13:00- event) Globe Clean Again 14:00 Terry Waite CBE: Church Service: Light 11:00- information, call St James on 01481 711361. out of Darkness FRN 9 FREE 12:00 Free talks for all ages at the Guille-Allès Library (open Maura Dooley: Through the Window- 14:00- Different Ways of Seeing: Poetry Writing WRK 5 £15/£10 Helen Wallen: The Mummy Lessons GEN 1 £6/£4 11:30- events but please book) Workshop 16:30 12:30 Children’s story teller John Kirk to entertain young patients 16:30- Crime Time Conversation with Mark 12:00- Thanks Sophy Henn: Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser FAM 2 FREE* Billingham and Erin Kelly GEN 4 £10/£5 13:00 at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital 17:30 Erwin James: Some Truths about Prison: The Guernsey Literary Festival receives invaluable Adam Kay: This is Going to Hurt GEN 4 £10/£5 19:30- 13:00- 20:30 A comprehensive examination of what GEN 1 £6/£4 14:00 The schools and community programme is kindly support and assistance from the following organisations: prison means in the UK 14:30- sponsored by Rothschild & Co. A further educational Friday 3rd May 2019 Albert Weale: The Will of the People GEN 1 £6/£4 15:30 talk by Chrissie Wellington is sponsored by the Ana Leaf Albecq Trust Company Ltd Guernsey Youth Business Breakfast: Professor Kerry GEN 6 £25 08:00- Andrew Hislop: ‘It will have blood they say. 14:30- Brown: The World According to Xi 09:30 Blood will have Blood’: Macbeth Workshop WRK 5 £15/£10 17:00 Foundation and supported by the Guernsey Triathlon Club. All Things Social Commission Jackie Bennett: Garden Journeys GEN 1 £6/£4 10:00- 15:00- Aurigny Guille-Allès Library 11:00 Libby Purves: On and Off the Air GEN 4 £10/£5 16:00 Bailiwick Estates Ltd Hauteville House Helen Rappaport: The Race to Save the GEN 1 £6/£4 11:30- Gregory Stevens Cox: Victor Hugo 16:00- Romanovs 12:30 Explores Guernsey GEN 1 £6/£4 17:00 Island Mums How to book BBC Radio Guernsey 13:00- 17:00- Merve Emre: The Personality Brokers GEN 1 £6/£4 14:00 Backlisted Podcast: The Book of Ebenezer GEN 4 £6/£4 Betley Whitehorne Image Joys Le Page by G.B. Edwards 18:00 Online: www.guernseyliteraryfestival.com Les Cotils A Wrinkle in the Skin GEN 2 FREE* 13:00- 17:30- Blue Ormer Publishing 14:00 Raynor Winn: The Salt Path GEN 1 £6/£4 18:30 By Phone: 07781 143545 Lexicon David Charleston: Found, Foraged and Candie Museum 14:00- GEN 4 £10/£5 19:30- Forged into Gold: Creative Writing WRK 5 £15/£10 16:00 An Evening with Ebenezer Le Page 21:30 18 Caxton Books Old Government House Workshop 19 A booking fee is charged by Ticket Source when booking Hotel Centre Stage Matthias Strohn: 1918: Winning the War, GEN 1 £6/£4 14:30- Monday 6th May 2019 online and all telephone bookings will incur a £1 booking Randalls Losing the War 15:30 Chris George Photography 16:00- Will Smith: Splurge versus Structure: WRK 5 £15/£10 09:30- fee. For the best prices, book online. Regency Events Anne Allen: The Inheritance GEN 1 £6/£4 17:00 Writing Workshop 11:00 Digital Greenhouse Ripple Marketing and 16:00- Unbound: Crowdfunding to Publish Your 10:30- Mikal Dyas: After You Alex GEN 2 FREE* Book WRK 4 £6/£4 11:30 During the Festival our Box Office is situated in the Ellingham Cottages Events 17:00 Gilly Carr: Nightmares, Nerves, Neuroses Grant Thornton Darren Henley OBE: Creativity: Why It GEN 4 £10/£5 18:00- 12:00- Market Square in St Peter Port. Tickets to events at other Ross Gower Group Matters 19:00 and Nazis: PTSD among survivors of GEN 11 £6/£4 13:00 Guernsey Arts Commission Nazism in the Channel Islands venues will be available on the door subject to availability. Schools Library Service Matt Haig: Notes on a Nervous Planet GEN 4 £10/£5 19:30- 20:30 Jessica Hepburn: 21 Miles: Swimming in GEN 4 £10/£5 13:30- Guernsey Mind Spike Productions Search of the Meaning of Motherhood 14:30 The GLF reserves the right to change any event without Guernsey Post 14:00- States of Guernsey Saturday 4th May 2019 The Enormous Crocodile Tea Party FAM 1 £9/£7 15:15 Guernsey Press prior notice. All ticket prices are listed for adults (18 and St James Concert and Andrew Hislop:” It will have Blood they 09:30- Madeleine Bunting: The Irresistible Appeal 15:00- say. Blood will have Blood “: Macbeth WRK 5 £15/£10 of the Occupation for Novelists GEN 4 £6/£4 16:00 over) and children (17 and under) unless otherwise stated. Guernsey Sports Assembly Hall Workshop 12:00 Commission The Enormous Crocodile Tea Party FAM 1 £9/£7 16:00- *Please still book for FREE events. Visit Guernsey Erin Kelly: Stone Mothers GEN 1 £6/£4 10:00- 17:15 Guernsey Triathlon Club 11:00 19:00- 10:30- The GYCT Little Theatre Company FRN 7 FREE Late The Guernsey Literary Festival has launched a free app Ross Collins: There’s A Bear on My Chair FAM 2 FREE* 11:30 The Guernsey Literary Festival team - both board and Traditional Music and Songs of the 19:30- which can be downloaded from the App Store (Apple) or The Writer’s Map: Huw Lewis-Jones Channel Islands with music by Lihou GEN 4 £10/£5 21:30 steering group members - would like to thank all the in conversation with Kiran Millwood GEN 4 £10/£5 11:30- Hargrave and Piers Torday 12:30 the Play Store (Android). The app gives instant access sponsors, partners, patrons, members and volunteers, 11:30- Monday 5th August 2019 when on the move to the programme of events, speaker Patrick Gale: Take Nothing With You GEN 1 £6/£4 12:30 including those who have given anonymously, for their The King’s Singers: The world famous 19:30- vocal sextet GEN 4 21:30 information and ticket booking. generosity and enthusiasm in supporting this year’s Tracey Thomson: Sidney the Squirrel FAM 2 FREE* 12:00- Festival. 12:30 Lemn Sissay: An Audience with Lemn 13:00- Friday 1st November 2019 Sissay GEN 4 £10/£5 14:00 Thank you to the following patrons: The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin 19:30- 13:00- Zephaniah GEN 4 £10/£5 20:30 Festival Membership Valerie Blows, Countess Blücher von Wahlstatt, Horatio Clare: The Traveller Comes Home GEN 1 £6/£4 14:00 Evelyne Burke, Huw Evans, Michael & Heather Fattorini, Steve Foote: Mervyn Peake: Son of Sark GEN 2 FREE* 13:00- Being a Member is one of the best ways to enjoy all that Tony & Susie Gallienne, Jacqui Golden, Jurat M Connie 14:00 Venue Guide Helyar-Wilkinson, Gillian Jackson, Pauline Moulton, Terry Waite CBE: Travels with a Primate GEN 4 £10/£5 14:30- the Festival has to offer. Be amongst the first to buy 15:30 1 Festival Hub 5 Les Cotils 9 Town Church tickets for your favourite speakers, and help support the Sharon and Andrew Parr, Nadine Stares, David Warr. 14:30- Matt Haig: The Truth Pixie FAM 1 £6/£4 15:30 2 Guille-Allès Library 6 OGH 10 Hauteville House Festival to fund vital educational and outreach work. Thanks to all the supporters who signed up after we went Lucy Christopher: Writing for Young 14:00- 3 Elizabeth College 7 The Golden Lion 11 Candie Museum People WRK 5 £15/£10 16:30 to print 4 St James 8 St Peter’s Church Find out more and join online today at James Roberts: Words and Pictures: How 14:30- Comics Work (And Why) GEN 2 FREE* 15:30 www.guernseyliteraryfestival.com General Family Workshop Poetry Fringe Guernsey Registered Charity CH455 | Company Limited by Guarantee 57768 Philip Norman: Confessions of a Rock 16:00- Biographer GEN 4 £10/£5 17:00 Thanks The Guernsey Literary Festival thanks its Sponsors: Betley Whitehorne Image Whitehorne Betley Designed by

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