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‘Turn up, tune in, turn on to our very own literary extravaganza…’

ince the last Borderlines festival, Carlisle and has lost of our best known and best loved locally born and bred literary figures- my dear wife, SMargaret Forster. She never went to literary events such as this

one, not for many years, as she never really RIGBY PHIL PHOTOGRAPHY: enjoyed them, despite being an excellent speaker. She just preferred to be at home, sitting quietly, Both of us, when growing up in Carlisle, writing or reading, conserving her energies. Margaret on the Raffles estate and me in St I, of course will go anywhere - Women’s Ann’s Hill, never met any real living breathing Institutes, schools and jumble sales. I always think authors. We thought all authors must be dead. my books need plugging and promoting, unlike Now of course with this rash, this avalanche of Margaret’s. She had built up an incredibly loyal literary events up and down the country, there following over the years. The joy for her in writing is no excuse not to manage a glimpse of a real, was the writing, not talking about her writing. She professional working author and discover that did not really care if the publisher did not publish they are pretty much like most other humans, her books. She had had her pleasure. really, coming in all conditions and sizes and What I usually found, when over the years I characters. have given my little talks at literary festivals, that Literary festivals are growing all the time. Most when the queue lined up afterwards, to buy a people spend so much time these days with their signed copy of my latest wonderful offering, half heads down, eyes down, minds elsewhere, looking the queue would always say to me “Is your wife at silly little screens on their silly little devices that here ?” When I said not, they would reply, “Oh, it they have a longing, a desire, a hunger even, to was your wife I really wanted to meet…” Then they see and hear people they have heard about or read would turn away, not buying a copy of my book, about in the actual flesh. So this is your chance the rotters. this week. Turn up, tune in, turn on to our very However, Margaret was pleased that at long last own literary extravaganza… Carlisle had acquired its own literary festival, and that in such a short time it had become such a OBE success. Honorary President

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journey around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay Talks and events 10am, Tullie House, £6 Ruth Sutton, Writing Fiction from Scratch: Thursday, September 29th getting beyond the blank page An evening with Alexander McCall Smith 10am - 1pm, Tullie House, £15 7.30pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 Poetry Breakfast, with Malcolm Carson 10 – 11.30am, Tullie House, £6 Saturday, October 1st Taffy Thomas, Lakeland Folktales for Children Janet Queen, Writing for Magazines 10am – 12pm, Prior’s Room, Carlisle Cathedral, £10 2pm, Carlisle Library, £4 Anna Pavord, Landskipping: Painters, Tuesday, October 4th Ploughmen and Places Steve Matthews, They nationalised our pubs 11am, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £7 7.30pm, Cakes & Ale Cafe, £6 Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep Wednesday, October 5th 11am, Carlisle Library, £4 Ian Ross, Historical Fiction and Historical Reality Graham Robb, Cols and Passes of the 7pm, Waterstones, £4 British Isles 12pm, Tullie House, £6 Thursday, October 6th David Ward, News Journalism The Bookshop Band 12.30 – 2.30pm, Prior’s Room, Carlisle Cathedral, £10 7.30pm, The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral, £10 Salley Vickers, Life,Death, Place and Art 1pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £7 Friday, October 7th Helen Weston, The Perils of Memoir Writing Paul Teague, Self-Publishing Fast Start 10.30am – 12.30pm, Carlisle Library, £10 1.30 – 4.30pm, Tullie House, £15

Angela Locke, The Art of Travel Writing Max Adams, Walking with Giants: Journeys 2 - 4pm, Carlisle Library, £10 Across the Borders of Time and Space 2pm, Tullie House, £7 Val McDermid, Killing People for Fun and Profit 6pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 Smith, Jane Austen’s Guide to Writing 2pm, Carlisle Library, £4 Hunter Davies, My Life with Margaret 8pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 Give the Devil the Best Tunes, Jimmy McGovern in Conversation with Isabelle Grey 3pm, Crown & Mitre Ballroom, £7 Saturday, October 8th Rebecca Smith Masterclass: Intricate Characters Geraldine Green, Stimulate Your Writing: Poetry Are The Most Amusing 3 - 5pm, Prior’s Room, Carlisle Cathedral, £10 9.30am - 12.30pm, Crown & Mitre Hotel, £25 Simon Bradley, Writing the Railways Karen Lloyd, The Gathering Tide – A personal 4pm, Tullie House, £6

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Mari Hannah & David Mark, From Facts to Fiction John Sadler & Co, From Archive to Novel 4pm, Carlisle Library, £4 2.45 - 4.45pm, Community Room, Tullie House, £10

David Crystal, How Eloquence Works - The Gift Stuart Cosgrove, Northern Soul: Young Soul of the Gab Rebels 5pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 3pm, Crown and Mitre, £7

Poetry Please! Will Smith, Mainlander – Comedian To Author 7.30 - 9.30pm, The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral, £5 3pm, Tullie House, £6

Alan Johnson, The Long and Winding Road Antonia Hodgson, Death at Fountains Abbey 8pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 3pm, Carlisle Library, £4 Susan Calman , Cheer Up Love Sunday, October 9th 5pm Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 Denis Perriam, Carlisle’s First Learning Centre: Alison Weir: Six Tudor Queens Tullie House 7pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 10am, Tullie House, £6

Colin Shelbourn, Cartooon Workshop 10am -12pm, Prior’s Room , Carlisle Cathedral, £10 Ticket information

Antonia Hodgson, Publishing and preparing to Online from our website Just click straight through submit your work to our safe and secure online booking system. 10am – 12.30pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £20 www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk. In person From Bookends, 19 Castle Street, Carlisle, Sarah Hall, Borders: Land, Laws and The Mind CA3 8SY, 9.30am-5.00pm Monday-Saturday; 11am, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £7 11.30am-4pm Sunday Sophie Franklin, Charlotte Brontë in the 21st By phone Call Bookends on 07412 366152. Century This number is for ticket purchases only. For any 11am, Carlisle Library, £4 other enquiries, please email us at [email protected] Poetry in the Cathedral with Martyn Halsall Please note that if tickets are posted out, there will 11am– 12pm, Tullie House, £6 be an administrative fee of £1. Ben Crystal, Shakespeare on Toast 12pm, Tullie House, £6 You can purchase tickets for individual events by any of these methods, or you can treat yourself to Bob Wilson, Writing for Children our Festival venue day passes which allow you to 12.30 - 2.30pm, Tullie House, £10 enjoy a day of talks at any of our venues, whilst Andy Rashleigh, Script Writing making savings! 12.30 - 2.30pm, Tullie House, £10 Carlisle Library Day Pass Three events for £10, or a Weekend Pass for £20 Juliet Barker, Charlotte Brontë: A Life in Letters Crown & Mitre Day Pass 1pm, Crown and Mitre Hotel, £7 Five events for £35 or a Weekend Pass for £65 Tullie House Day Pass: Jan-Philipp Sendker, Dragon Games Four events for £20 on Saturday, 3 events for £14 1pm, Carlisle Library, £4 on Sunday, or a Weekend Pass for £30

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Thursday, September 29th 7.30pm Saturday, October 1st 2pm An evening with Taffy Thomas Alexander McCall Smith Lakeland Folktales for Children - Crown and Mitre Hotel £9 storytelling event for families Sponsored by Carlisle Library £4 Architects Plus Did you know that if you look closely around Scafell Pike in the winter you might find a great dragon? Or that hidden in the forest around Egremont you might catch a glimpse of the fabled fairy folk? As Taffy launches his latest book, he will perform

PHOTOGRAPHY: ALEX HEWITT ALEX PHOTOGRAPHY: stories that children love to hear time and again. A An evening with Alexander McCall Smith is one of family event not to be missed! sheer delight. Join the worldwide best-selling author as he discusses little Bertie and the cast of 44 Taffy Thomas has performed his stories all over Street in The Bertie Project. Find out what the world. He is artistic director of Tales in Trust, the is new with Mma Ramotswe in the seventeenth No. Northern Centre for Storytelling, based at The 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novel, Precious & Grace, Storyteller’s Garden in Grasmere. Taffy is a patron and savour the taste of Tuscany in a new stand of the Society for Storytelling and became the first alone novel, My Italian Bulldozer. An evening not Laureate for Storytelling in 2010. In 2001 he was to be missed. awarded the MBE for services to storytelling and charity. Alexander McCall Smith is one www.taffythomas.co.uk of the world’s most prolific and most popular authors. His highly Tuesday, October 4th 7.30pm successful No 1 Ladies’ Detective Steve Matthews Agency series has sold over They nationalised our pubs twenty million copies, and his Cakes & Ale Cafe £6 various series of books have been In 1915, 30,000 men were translated into over forty-six employed to build a large languages and become bestsellers munitions factory at throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Gretna. In order to control Street novels, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von the excessive rise in Igelfeld series, and the Corduroy Mansions series, the drunkenness in Carlisle, School Ship Tobermory childrens’ series, and dozens Lloyd George’s of other childrens’ and stand alone titles. government nationalised www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk the public houses in Carlisle and sought to closely

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regulate the consumption of alcohol. It was a unique early 4th century AD, the era of the Roman emperor experiment in social engineering whereby the Constantine. His first novel, War at the Edge of the government attempted to change the leisure habits World, was published in the UK by Head of Zeus in of the area’s working class. The experiment lasted January 2015. The third instalment, Battle for Rome, for over fifty years. was published in January 2016 to great acclaim. Ian has been researching and writing about the later Steve Matthews curates the State Management Roman world and its army for over a decade. He Museum in Bookcase, which was once the spent a year in Italy, teaching English, but now lives headquarters of the scheme. He is also a bookseller, in Bath. publisher and author. His recent books have www.ianjamesross.com included Beauty in the Lap of Horror, a study of the writings of early tourists in Borrowdale and Life of Thursday, October 6th 7.30pm Josiah Relph, ’s First Dialect Poet. A detailed The Bookshop Band commentary on the journey which Charles Dickens The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral MUSIC £10 and Wilkie Collins made to Carlisle and , Beth Porter and Ben A Lazy Tour of Cumberland, won the Lakeland Book Please, the husband and of the Year in 2014. wife team of the Bookshop www.bookcasecarlisle.co.uk Band, write and perform www.bookscumbria.com songs inspired by books they have read. These have Wednesday, October 5th 7pm usually had their first airing Ian Ross at their local bookshop, Mr Historical Fiction B’s Emporium of Reading and Historical Reality Delights in Bath, and in the Waterstones £4 company of authors such as Ian Rankin, Ben Okri, Author Ian Ross David Mitchell, and Kate Mosse, who are just a few will be exploring of those for whom they have written songs. Their whether the performances are inextricably linked to the books contemporary themselves, as the band take it in turns to describe adventure novel where the inspiration for each song came from. can evoke the They have toured all over the UK, Ireland and of a Europe, and have appeared regularly on radio and distant age, and television. Nowadays they perform in bookshops, create a libraries and at literary and music festivals They are

PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID BRECKON DAVID PHOTOGRAPHY: coherent vision incredibly prolific songwriters and in 2016 will from the fragments of the past. Should novelists release about 10 new albums. We are very pleased remain true to the historical facts, or should they to welcome them to Borderlines. alter events to fit their stories? To what extent does “The Bookshop Band’s approach to song writing is Ian Ross combine research and imagination to build entirely original, and the results are both surprising a compelling picture of the tumultuous 4th century and beautiful.” AD? Join us for this fascinating evening to find out. Louis De Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Ian Ross is the author of the Twilight of Empire www.bookshopband.co.uk series, a sequence of historical novels set in the @theBookshopBand

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Friday, October 7th 6pm married for almost 60 years. Margaret wrote Val McDermid extensively, both fiction and non-fiction, drawing on Killing People for Fun and Profit her Cumbrian background. Hunter and Roger will no Crown and Mitre Hotel £9 doubt also talk about other matters Cumbrian, in their own inimitable way.

Hunter Davies, brought up in Carlisle, educated at , is one of our best known and most prolific writers and journalists. Even in this, his 80th year, he has excelled himself, with three books in the same year. His memoirs of growing up in the Fifties, The Co-op’s Got Bananas! came out to great acclaim in April. This was followed in June with Lakeland, a Personal Journey. Then finally, in the autumn, Book will be published.

Val McDermid talks about making crime her life’s work. From her early days haunting the local library to discovering the delights of murder, mystery and mayhem and her thirtieth novel (published this year), hers is a fascinating journey. Join her for an entertaining evening as she reveals the secrets of her success.

Val McDermid is a No. 1 bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold over eleven million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and Outstanding Contribution by Theakston’s Crime Festival. Saturday, October 8th 10am www.valmcdermid.com Karen Lloyd @valmcdermid The Gathering Tide – A personal journey around the Edgelands of Morecambe Friday, October 7th 8pm Bay Hunter Davies Tullie House £6 My Life with Margaret Karen Lloyd will read from Crown and Mitre Hotel, £9 and talk about her Hunter Davies will be in conversation with Roger bestselling book The Bolton, who was also brought up in Carlisle, and Gathering Tide. The author presents on Radio 4. explores many of the bay’s Hunter talks about his late wife, , best loved landscapes and who died in February following a long and digs into its hidden and courageous battle against cancer. They were little-known corners. On the

8 Borderlines 2016 cumbrialife Borderlines 2016 Carlisle Book Festival TALKS journey she encounters iconic wildlife, discovers Malcolm Carson is from Cleethorpes. He studied islands that may not exist, walks across the sands English at Nottingham University and taught at the to Piel Island and explores the bay’s past through University of Northumbria, in Carlisle, where he now 400 year old sea-charts. This is also a very personal lives with his wife and three children. He has journey encountering memories of growing up close published several collections of poetry, has reviewed to the shifting sands. for Other Poetry and Critical Survey, and was a founder of Border Poets. His most recent collection, Karen Lloyd is a writer of creative Route Choice was published earlier this year. non-fiction and poetry, based in . She is a contributor to the Saturday, October 8th 11am Guardian Nature Diary and to the Anna Pavord Caught by the River blog and Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen writes for a number of literary and Places publications, including Scottish Crown and Mitre Hotel £7 Island Explorer and Scotland In this talk, Anna Pavord explores the Outdoor. Karen is a member of Kendal’s Brewery different ways in which we have, Poets and graduated in 2014 from the Creative through the ages, responded to the Writing M.Litt programme at Stirling University land. While painters painted it and where she gained a distinction. The Gathering Tide writers wrote about it, an entirely is her first book, and she is currently working on her different band of men, the second. agricultural improvers, published a www.karenlloyd-writer.co.uk series of remarkable commentaries on the land, @karenlloydwrite looking at its usefulness as well as its beauty. Moving from the hills of West Dorset to the Saturday, October 8th 10 – 11.30am Highlands of Scotland, this book also explores Poetry Breakfast personal responses to landscape, the meaning of with Malcolm Carson roots and examines what we mean by a sense of Tullie House POETRY £6 (including refreshments) place. Back by popular demand, Malcolm Carson hosts the Poetry Anna Pavord’s books include her bestseller, The Breakfast again this year. Enjoy a Tulip, The Naming of Names, and her most recent coffee and croissant, or tea and work, The Curious Gardener. She had a long-running toast (or whatever may be on the column in the Independent from the launch of the menu) in the Function Room of newspaper in 1986. She writes and presents Tullie House, (away from the programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for hustle and bustle of the café this ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National year). Mingle with other poets and share your love Trust, the last five as Chairman. For the last forty of poetry. This will be a relaxed and informal years she has lived in Dorset, England. opportunity for you to read one or two of your own poems (or short prose pieces). If you don’t write Saturday, October 8th 11am poetry yourself, just read a favourite poem. Malcolm Joanna Cannon will join in and read some of his poetry. There may The Trouble with Goats and Sheep be time to read more than one poem, so be Carlisle Library £4 prepared The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is one of this

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year’s most hotly talked about debut Literature and a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et novels. When neighbour Mrs Creasy des Lettres. He has won the Whitbread Biography goes missing during the heatwave of Prize and the Heinemann Award for Victor Hugo, as 1976, ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly well as the Ondaatje Prize and Duff Cooper Prize for turn amateur detective to find her. The Discovery of France. He lives on the English- The novel considers secrets, Scottish border (and within a day’s ride of one friendship and the challenges we hundred and seventy cols). can all face to find our fit in society. Saturday, October 8th 1pm Joanna Cannon’s The Trouble with Goats and Salley Vickers Sheep received rave reviews and charted at number Life, Death, Place and Art three in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list. A Crown and Mitre Hotel £7 psychiatric doctor, Joanna is fascinated by words, Salley Vickers’ novels visit stories and people, especially those dwelling in the places redolent with history, fringes of society. She lives in the Peak District with often the sites of strange her family and dog and is currently working on her or mysterious events. She second novel. weaves old stories into the www.joannacannon.com contemporary scene, @JoannaCannon bringing new insights and psychological perspectives Saturday, October 8th 12pm to time-honoured tales. Her former work as a Graham Robb psychotherapist dealing with trauma and traumatic Cols and Passes of the British Isles death infuses her fiction, as does her belief in the Tullie House £6 capacity of the human spirit to survive and find new The natural crossing point life and fresh perspectives. Her short stories in The for man and animal, cols Boy who could See Death touch on all these and passes, are steeped themes as does her new novel, Cousins, which in history and loved considers the effects of inherited family trauma and across Europe, but almost is set in Northumberland entirely ignored and unnamed on British maps. Salley Vickers is one of our most unusual writers, A nation of peak-baggers whose work touches on art, loss, memory and rather than col-walkers, the British have traditionally otherworldly dimensions. She is the author of the overlooked these magical places. A keen cyclist, word-of-mouth international bestseller, Miss Robb has personally crossed most of the cols Garnet’s Angel and six other highly acclaimed novels. described in the book, bringing to light a realm of www.salleyvickers.com trials and adventures for which every fold of the @salleyvickers landscape contains an untold tale and reveals a new way of looking at our history. Graham’s talk will Saturday, October 8th 2pm enthral keen cyclists, walkers and climbers, and fans Max Adams of unusual maps and topography. Walking with Giants: Journeys Across the Borders of Time and Space Graham Robb is an acclaimed historian and Tullie House £7 biographer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Borders are a rich source of inspiration: landscape,

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history, time and Saturday, October 8th 2pm space stretch the Rebecca Smith imagination, as they Jane Austen’s Guide to Writing have done for Carlisle Library £4 travellers time out of Two hundred years after the mind. Max shares his publication of Emma, Jane Austen’s experiences and advice to writers and observations thoughts on how on her craft are as pertinent as ever. landscapes at the Rebecca Smith, who is Jane Austen’s edge can at the great great great great great niece, same time be central and is a former Writer in Residence to understanding identities - defined as much by at Jane Austen’s House Museum, will talk about what they are not, as what they are. Share with him Austen’s writing habits, methods and the some of his journey through the Dark Ages of Cumbria and the best-loved novels of all time. A light-hearted, the North practical session for readers and writers.

Max Adams is an Rebecca Smith teaches creative writing at the archaeologist, historian and University of Southampton, and is the author of traveller, the author of three novels: The Bluebird Café, Happy Birthday and several critically-acclaimed All That and A Bit of Earth, as well as a work of non-fiction works including non-fiction, Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s his best-selling The King in Dilemmas. Her first novel for children, Shadow Eyes, the North. Born in 1961 in was shortlisted for the 2012 Kelpies Prize. From , he now lives in the 2009–2010 she was the Writer in Residence at Jane North-east of England. He is Austen’s House Museum in Chawton. currently writing a history of Britain in the Viking Age, Saturday, October 8th 3pm while his debut novel, The Give the Devil the Best Tunes Ambulist, published this year, brings his trademark Jimmy McGovern in Conversation with poetic language, narrative power and Isabelle Grey thrilling evocation of landscape and journey into a Crown and Mitre Hotel £7 near-contemporary literary thriller. The Ambulist is Sponsored by the man who walks forever. Through the plains and Cumberland Building Society vales of Northumberland, across fell and river, mountain and moorland. www.theambulist.co.uk

This event, in association with the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August, is part of Both Sides of the Border, when Max Adams will talk about the Jimmy McGovern’s television dramas – among them, Scottish elements of the Dark Ages in Edinburgh Cracker, The Lakes, Hillsborough, Sunday, The and in Carlisle he will talk about the Cumbrian Street, Accused, Reg – have won multiple BAFTAs landscape. and International Emmys. Crime novelist Isabelle

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Grey is one of many screenwriters with whom he University Press, and author of has collaborated. She will be asking him about several books in that series. Born in storytelling, character, dramatising true events and Newcastle, Simon started his love of classic Westerns. trainspotting aged eleven, and his interest in railways has broadened Jimmy McGovern was born in postwar Liverpool. and endured. He also wrote St He left school at 16 and did lots of unskilled jobs Pancras Station, one of the until, in his twenties, he went back to education and landmark architectural buildings in trained to be a teacher. He started writing seriously railway history. Simon now lives in London, but in 1982 on Brookside, and has been writing comes back north when he can. television drama and films ever since. Saturday, October 8th 4pm Isabelle Grey, a former journalist, has contributed Mari Hannah & David Mark numerous episodes to long-running TV series, From Facts to Fiction including The Bill, Wycliffe, Midsomer Murders and, Carlisle Library £4 with Jimmy McGovern, Accused. Her crime novels, Good Girls Don’t Die and Shot Through The Heart, are set in Essex and feature DI Grace Fisher; the third in the series, The Special Girls, is out in April 2017.

Saturday, October 8th 4pm Simon Bradley Writing the Railways Tullie House £6 Britain’s railways have

a special fascination: ARTEAST PHOTOGRAPHY: the earliest system in This event offers readers the chance to hear two the world, with a rich internationally best-selling crime fiction writers in and intimate conversation. You will hear how Mari Hannah, a relationship with our former probation officer, and Carlisle-born, former national story. Simon journalist David Mark, have turned their raw, real-life Bradley’s talk explores experiences, combined with skilled plotting and a the social history of great eye for character, into best-selling novels. A this unique network, fantastic opportunity to hear two of the best and the changing experiences of its passengers and writers of their genre discussing their work. workers through nearly two centuries, drawing on his acclaimed recent book The Railways: Nation, Northumberland based scriptwriter Network and People. Simon will also show the role and author Mari Hannah won the Carlisle had to play in their development. Polari First Book Prize for her debut The Murder Wall; a Northern Writers’ Simon Bradley writes with equal enthusiasm on Award for her second novel Settled railways and on architectural history. He is joint Blood; and her work was shortlisted editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale for the CWA Dagger in the Library

12 Borderlines 2016 cumbrialife Borderlines 2016 Carlisle Book Festival TALKS award in 2014. She is currently reader-in-residence (such as wedding speeches and storytelling) to the for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. oratory of great public gatherings such as Barack Mari Hannah has written five titles featuring DCI Obama’s electrifying “Yes we can” speech of 2008. Kate Daniels and the series is in development with Be prepared for a very entertaining and thought- Stephen Fry’s production company, Sprout Pictures. provoking talk. Gallows Drop, (Kate Daniels 6) will be published in November. Her dark and tense thriller, The Silent David Crystal is honorary Room, a standalone title featuring Detective professor of linguistics at the Sergeant Matthew Ryan, is released in October in University of Bangor, North paperback . Wales, and works from his www.marihannah.com home in Holyhead as a writer, @mariwriter editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. The author of over 100 books David Mark spent more than 15 on the English language and years as a journalist, including linguistics, and a world- seven years as a crime reporter renowned expert on the history with The Yorkshire Post, walking and usage of language, he received an OBE for the Hull streets that would later services to the English language in 1995. become the setting for his www.davidcrystal.com Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy @davcr novels. He has written five novels in the series, Dark Winter, Original Skin, Sorrow Saturday, October 8th 7.30 - 9.30pm Bound, Taking Pity & Dead Pretty along with a Poetry Please! McAvoy novella available digitally called A Bad The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral POETRY £5 Death. (all ticket proceeds to Cumbria Community Foundation’s Flood Appeal) Dark Water, was selected for the Harrogate New Sponsored by Blood panel, as a Richard & Judy pick, and was a Austin Friars School Sunday Times bestseller. David was reader in An evening of Poetry in the atmospheric setting of residence for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime the medieval Fratry Writing Festival between 2013 and 2015. Originally from Carlisle, he now lives in Lincolnshire with his Part 1 Winners of the county final of the national partner, two children and an assortment of animals. Poetry By Heart competition will repeat their www.david-mark.com winning performances. Finalists of the Borderlines Poetry Competition for Saturday, October 8th 5pm Schools will read their winning poems. David Crystal Interval: wine and soft drinks will be on sale How Eloquence Works - The Gift of the Gab Part 2 The Watershed Poets will read from their Crown and Mitre Hotel £9 new collection, written in aid of the Cumbria We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what Community Foundation Flood Recovery Appeal exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for Poets include Geraldine Green, Nick Pemberton, ourselves? In this talk, based on his new book The Ann Wilson, Kim Moore, Annie Foster and many Gift of the Gab, David Crystal probes the intricate others. All proceeds, including sales of Watershed workings of eloquence from everyday situations (£5), will go to the Flood Appeal.

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Saturday, October 8th 8pm campus and this and other Alan Johnson recent changes will be will be The Long and Winding Road covered in Denis Perriam’s talk, Crown and Mitre Hotel £9 which looks at all aspects of Sponsored by this diverse establishment, Dodd Murray Ltd and features some of those The third volume of people who made it a success. Alan Johnson’s Denis Perriam was born in bestselling memoirs Carlisle and began his working life at Tullie House, takes us to the becoming assistant keeper at Beamish Museum and Westminster of 1997 then historic buildings inspector for and lifts the lid on the . Since 1987 he has been a life of a hard-working freelance historian researching and writing his constituency MP. Alan books, on subjects ranging from fortified buildings took to the corridors of power with great ease with to railways. his passionately held principles and his loyalty to his constituents. This Boy won the Orwell Prize in 2014; Sunday, October 9th 11am Please Mr Postman won the National Book Award for Sarah Hall Autobiography of the Year 2014. Once again in this Borders: Land, Laws and The Mind memoir, Alan’s honesty and authenticity shines Crown and Mitre Hotel £7 through. Sponsored by University of Cumbria Alan Johnson is a Labour Party Institute of the Arts politician and has been the MP for Hull West and Hessle since 1997. He has filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments. Until 2011, he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and recently led the Remain campaign for the Labour party. www.alanjohnson.org

Sunday, October 9th 10am In her fifth novel, Wolf Border, Sarah investigates Denis Perriam the nature of wildness and control, both in the Carlisle’s First Learning Centre: landscape and the characters operating within it. Tullie House How do power structures and expectations govern Tullie House £6 us, politically, and emotionally, and when change Sponsored by comes are we unique in our human ability to adapt? Dodd Murray Ltd Sarah talks about her newest work, wolves, Britain, With no university in Carlisle, Tullie House filled that and the current climate of environmental and gap, providing a range of educational facilities as political unrest. well as containing a library and museum. When the university came, Tulle House buildings became the Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the

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prize-winning author of five novels Sunday, October 9th 11am– 12pm including the Booker shortlisted The Poetry in the Cathedral with Electric Michelangelo, and her most Martyn Halsall recent work, The Wolf Border, as well Tullie House POETRY £6 as The Beautiful Indifference, a much Sponsored by acclaimed collection of short stories. University of Cumbria The first story in the collection, ‘Butchers Perfume’, Institute of the Arts was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Martyn Halsall, the first Poet Award, a prize she won in 2013 with Mrs Fox. She in Residence at Carlisle tutors for the Faber Academy, , the Cathedral, will read from his Arvon Foundation. She has also written original collection Sanctuary, and drama for radio. Sarah currently lives in Norwich . reflect on his experiences of www.sarahhallauthor.com the life, faith, history and personalities that shaped a Sunday, October 9th 11am 1,000 year old holy place. Sophie Franklin His poems explore dragons and theologians, egg- Charlotte Brontë in the 21st Century box housing and a well of rubbish, holy socks, Carlisle Library £4 ancient and modern pilgrims, bell-ringers, wandering Charlotte Brontë is masons, a prophetic child and much more. He will undoubtedly one of also read some poems from his new collection, English literature’s Coronach. great writers and, 200 years after her Martyn Halsall , a former staff correspondent with birth, she’s still as The Guardian, lives and writes in West Cumbria. He relevant as she ever holds postgraduate degrees in creative writing, and was. Sophie creative literary studies from the Universities of Franklin, author of Lancaster and Cumbria, and is poetry editor of The Charlotte Brontë Third Way. His latest pamphlet collection, Coronach Revisited, takes an original and entertaining look at was published by Wayleave Press in June this year. Charlotte through 21st-century eyes: exploring her feminism, fascination with human rights, her Sunday, October 9th 12pm interest in the supernatural and her role as one of Ben Crystal the original nature writers. Discover the Shakespeare on Toast unknown Charlotte Brontë! Tullie House £6 Ben Crystal makes sense of Sophie Franklin is forging a successful academic Shakespeare by putting him career studying the lives of the Brontë sisters and back into context, taking us on their literary works. She has worked in an editorial an exploration of Elizabethan capacity for a small publishing house and in theatre and Original bookselling, and is currently at the University of Pronunciation (the accent Durham, where she is researching aspects of WISHART SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY: Shakespeare would have Charlotte Brontë’s writing. This is Sophie’s first book. spoken in), and what a trip to a Shakespeare play in @_sophiefranklin 1600 would be like. Relevant for all - younger people @sarabandbooks experiencing the Bard for the first time through to

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those who love Shakespeare and want to learn librarian of the Brontë Parsonage something new in this year of the 400th anniversary Museum at Haworth for six years and is of his death. This is less of a talk and more of a author of the seminal biography The performance, a master-class on the poetry style in Brontës. Her ability to combine ground- which Shakespeare wrote in. breaking scholarly research with a highly readable and accessible style has made Ben Crystal, actor and author, is her one of Britain’s most popular historians. the artistic director of Passion in www.julietbarker.co.uk/events.html Practice and its Shakespeare Ensemble who have performed This event, in association with the several plays in Original Edinburgh International Book Festival in Pronunciation at Shakespeare’s August, is part of Both Sides of the Globe Theatre. Ben gives Border, when Juliet Barker will talk about the workshops on performing Shakespeare around the Scottish connections of the Brontes in Edinburgh world, and some of this can be seen at www. and in Carlisle she will mainly talk about Charlotte passioninpractice.com Bronte. Ben’s first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast was shortlisted for the 2010 Educational Writer of the Sunday, October 9th 1pm Year Award, and in 2015 he co-wrote the highly Jan-Philipp Sendker praised Illustrated Dictionary of Shakespeare with Dragon Games his father, David Crystal. Carlisle Library £4 www.bencrystal.com When you hear the @bencrystal words ‘crime novel’ or ‘love story’, you might Sunday, October 9th 1pm think that you know Juliet Barker what to expect. Yet Charlotte Brontë: A Life in Letters Jan-Philipp Sendker’s Crown and Mitre Hotel £7 breath-taking novels Sponsored by blend the two to PHOTOGRAPHY: FRANK SUFFERT FRANK PHOTOGRAPHY: University of Cumbria create something Institute of the Arts completely new. Join the author of the world-wide To celebrate the two best-selling phenomenon, The Art of Hearing hundredth anniversary Heartbeats, on his first UK tour, as he discusses of the birth of Dragon Games, the latest title in his new series, set Charlotte Brontë, Juliet against the backdrop of contemporary China. Barker explores how and why the spinster Jan-Philipp Sendker has risen rapidly to become daughters of a one of the world’s best-loved writers. Formerly a Yorkshire parson came well-respected foreign correspondent for STERN to write some of the best-loved novels in the magazine, he now writes novels full time. His four English language. books have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold over 2.5 million copies Juliet Barker is an internationally recognised worldwide authority on the Brontës. She was curator and www.birlinn.co.uk/Jan-Philipp-Sendker

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Sunday, October 9th 3pm harboured novelistic Stuart Cosgrove ambitions, finally realised Northern Soul: Young Soul Rebels with the publication of Crown and Mitre Hotel £7 Mainlander, a thriller set in Jersey, where he spent his formative years. He will be talking about the switch from comedy to fiction, screen to page, and writing team member to author.

Will Smith is a hugely versatile Emmy award winning writer, actor and comedian, best known for his role as hapless Tory researcher Phil Smith in the acclaimed sitcom The Thick Of It, on which he also wrote. Will is currently a Co-Executive Producer and Stuart Cosgrove presents an intimate story of writer on the multi-award winning HBO series Veep. northern soul, Britain’s fascinating underground Will’s first novel, Mainlander was published by 4th musical scene. Explore the iconic clubs that made it Estate in February 2015. famous – The Twisted Wheel, Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca – not to mention Newton Aycliffe Sunday, October 9th 3pm Youth Centre. From the bootleggers and collectors Antonia Hodgson to the impact of amphetamines and the rise of Death at Fountains Abbey Thatcherism, Young Soul Rebels sweeps across fifty Carlisle Library £4 years of British life and places the northern soul scene in a social context with erudition and passion.

Stuart Cosgrove is a BAFTA award-winning television executive with Channel 4. He was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene and worked for the music paper Echoes before becoming media editor with the NME. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards. www.detroit67.com @detroit67book

Sunday, October 9th 3pm Inspired by real characters, and events from the Will Smith 1720s, A Death at Fountains Abbey is a gripping Mainlander – Comedian To Author standalone historical thriller, and continues with the Tullie House £6 adventures of Thomas Hawkins as depicted in her Will Smith has spent the last twenty years as a previous novels. Antonia’s historical research draws successful stand-up comedian, actor and heavily on William Hogarth’s depictions of life in screenwriter, but in tandem with this he also raucous Georgian times. Today, in conversation, she

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reveals how she puts the fiction into Sunday, October 9th 7pm historical fact in her novels. Alison Weir: Six Tudor Queens Antonia Hodgson is the award- Crown and Mitre Hotel £9 winning author of the historical thrillers, The Devil in the Marshalsea which won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award and its sequels, featuring Tom Hawkins. She has worked in publishing for over twenty years and is currently Editor-in-Chief at Little Brown Publishing House. www.antoniahodgson.com @antoniahodgson

Sunday, October 9th 5pm Susan Calman Cheer Up Love Crown and Mitre Hotel £9 Susan Calman has depression The lives of Henry VIII’s wives make for dramatic and she’s not alone in that. stories. In her forthcoming series of novels Alison Despite being one of the Weir will offer new insights into the real lives of funniest women in the UK, these six queens, based on extensive research and she has had her own black new theories. Alison Weir will evoke the world of a dog, the Crab of Hate, court dominated by the will of an egomaniacal, whispering in her ear since suggestible king, and the power politics and she can remember. And her ruthlessness that were the reality behind its answer? To talk about it. magnificent façade, and relate how Henry’s six Certain that the world needs queens lived a hair’s breadth away from disaster – people with a more cynical and how it frequently overtook them. outlook on life, the book is a celebration of what she, and if statistics are to be believed, one in four Alison Weir is the top-selling of us, go through daily. Cheer Up Love is a survivor’s female historian in the United guide to modern life on the dark side. Kingdom, and has sold over 2.7 million books worldwide. She has Glasgow-born ex-lawyer Susan Calman is a stand- published seventeen history books, up comedian, actor and writer. Susan is a regular on including Elizabeth the Queen, The BBC Radio 4 programmes such as Lady in the Tower and Elizabeth of and I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue as well as TV shows York, and five historical novels. Her like QI and Have I Got News for You. She’s written latest biography is The Lost Tudor Princess. three radio series including a sitcom. Her new tour, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, the first in a The Calman Before The Storm debuts at the 2016 series of novels about the wives of Henry VIII, was Edinburgh Fringe. published in May 2016. www.susancalman.com www.alisonweir.org.uk @susancalman @AlisonWeirBooks

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Friday, October 7th 10.30am – 12.30pm we are each other through the alchemy of travel Helen Weston writing. The Perils of Memoir Writing Please bring with you an ‘aide memoir’ of a Carlisle Library £10 personal journey - a postcard, souvenir or This workshop will artefact - and we will make the journey explore the perils and together. satisfactions of memoir writing, with Angela Locke is an author, travel writer, journalist illustrations from and poet. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and Helen’s own memoir, runs international Writing Retreats, as well as The Winter is Past. We tutoring Writers’ Groups in Cumbria. She is the will address such author of seven published books so far - novels, questions as ‘what non-fiction, one children’s book, and the travel book version of the truth On Juniper Mountain about a life-changing trek in do you tell?’, ‘how can the Himalayas. I best shape the narrative?‘ and ‘how truthful can www.angelalocke.co.uk you be?’ Participants will be encouraged to share www.lakelandwritingretreats.co.uk small pieces of their own writing. Saturday, October 8th 9.30am - 12.30pm Helen Weston has degrees in English Literature Rebecca Smith and Feminist Theology. She is a teacher, a writer, a Masterclass: Intricate Characters Are The couple therapist and the mother of two sons, but Most Amusing she was also an Anglican nun for five years. Her Crown & Mitre Hotel £25 recently updated memoir, The Winter is Past, This masterclass will help describes her decision to leave the convent and her you to develop controversial relationship with a Benedictine abbot convincing characters whom she subsequently married. and plots whatever genre you are working in. Friday, October 7th 2 - 4pm If you get your Angela Locke characters right, The Art of Travel Writing everything else will Carlisle Library £10 follow. Suitable for Sponsored by beginners as well as the more experienced, you’ll be University of Cumbria looking at Jane Austen’s methods and trying a series Institute of the Arts of writing exercises inspired by her work. As ‘Each landscape asks the same Elizabeth Bennet puts it, “intricate characters are question. I am watching myself in the most amusing.” The masterclass will be led by you; are you watching yourself in Rebecca Smith, novelist, and former Writer in me?’ Lawrence Durrell: Spirit of a Residence at Jane Austen’s House Museum. She is Place. Jane Austen’s five times great niece. The greatest travel writing pulls the reader into a personal relationship Rebecca Smith teaches creative writing at the with ‘place’. Each view is unique, because each University of Southampton, and is the author of writer is unique. This workshop will explore how three novels: The Bluebird Café, Happy Birthday and

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All That and A Bit of Earth, as well as a work of Saturday, October 8th 10am – 12pm non-fiction, Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Janet Queen Dilemmas. Her first novel for children, Shadow Eyes, Writing for Magazines was shortlisted for the 2012 Kelpies Prize. From Prior’s Room Carlisle Cathedral £10 2009–2010 she was the Writer in Residence at Jane Sponsored by Austen’s House Museum in Chawton. Architects Plus Creativity, Saturday, October 8th 10am - 1pm discipline and a Ruth Sutton love of words Writing Fiction from Scratch: can help you on getting beyond the blank page your way to Tullie House £15 becoming a Sponsored by freelance Dodd Murray Ltd magazine writer. We will consider Janet Queen will together the key describe her elements of own experiences in the world of magazine writing fiction writing by and will also help you to discover your own looking at specialist niche market. Participants will have the setting- both opportunity to prepare and then discuss a short time and place; piece of work during this session. characters such as those people Janet Queen is a gardener and writer living near in your story and Carlisle in Cumbria. For twenty years she has tended how they a six-acre garden at Rose Castle, the fortified Border connect; and residence of the bishops of Carlisle for around eight events which could happen to keep a reader turning centuries. Janet’s book, Diary of a Bishop’s Garden, pages. There will be plenty of ideas and ‘what if?’ was published in 2009. Presently, she writes questions, to refine your developing story and see gardening features for Cumbria Life magazine and the way ahead. the Cumberland News newspaper, and is researching for a future project - a historical fiction Ruth Sutton lives in Waberthwaite, West Cumbria. novel set in Cumbria and northern Tuscany. She has been an educator, presenter and non- www.janetqueen.com fiction writer for many years and now spends her time writing, self-publishing and promoting her Saturday, October 8th 12.30 – 2.30pm novels. Her trilogy Between the Mountains and the David Ward Sea was published between 2012 and 2014. In News Journalism November 2015 she produced her first crime novel The Prior’s Room, Carlisle Cathedral £10 Cruel Tide, and the sequel – working title Truth Will Sponsored by Out – is due out in November 2016. She talks about Scott Duff & Co her work to groups throughout the county, and The workshop will begin by exploring the nature of enjoys using her educator skills to design and lead news and trying to come up with a definition. The workshops on aspects of writing and self-publishing. group will then have a go at writing a news story www.ruthsutton.co.uk against the clock. The session will end with a

20 Borderlines 2016 cumbrialife Borderlines 2016 Carlisle Book Festival WORKSHOPSTALKS discussion about the future of newspapers (if there and seven non-fiction ‘how-to’ books. He has just is one...) It would be useful to bring a laptop if completed his first thriller, which is currently in possible. editing. Paul hosts a weekly self-publishing podcast called ‘The Self-Publishing Journeys Podcast’. David Ward worked for He is a former radio presenter and web journalist regional newspapers in with the BBC. Northumberland, Wiltshire and Newcastle before Saturday, October 8th 3 - 5pm joining the Guardian. He Geraldine Green spent 33 years on the Stimulate Your Writing: Poetry paper covering major news Prior’s Room, Carlisle Cathedral £10 stories and also wrote play This workshop is suitable reviews, features and travel for poets at all stages, pieces. Since 2008 he has been literary consultant especially those who may at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick. He was also have writer’s block and need commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company a gentle nudge to get their to write an account of the reconstruction of the creative juices flowing again. theatre in Stratford. Through a variety of writing prompts and stimuli the workshop is designed to Saturday, October 8th 1.30 – 4.30pm help you put pen to paper, chase the critic off your Paul Teague shoulder and have some fun with language. Self-Publishing Fast Start Tullie House £15 Geraldine Green is an experienced freelance Sponsored by creative writing tutor, mentor, poetry editor and Dodd Murray Ltd writer-in-residence at Brantwood, Coniston, Find out Cumbria. She has four poetry pamphlets and two everything you full collections, The Other Side of the Bridge and need to know Salt Road published by Indigo Dreams in 2012 and about getting 2013. She gained a PhD in Creative Writing Poetry started in self- from Lancaster University in 2011. publishing in this www.geraldinegreensaltroad.blogspot.co.uk 3-hour, beginner- friendly session Sunday, October 9th 10am -12pm with thirteen- Colin Shelbourn times Cartooon Workshop self-published Prior’s Room, Carlisle Cathedral £10 author, Paul Teague. Bypass the steep learning Colin has been running curve and find out exactly what you need to be cartoon workshops for doing, where you need to be listing your books and over 20 years in venues how to start making sales online (and in shops!) such as London’s Natural with the minimum delay. History Museum, Leeds City Art Gallery and Paul Teague is the self-published author of Blackpool Art Gallery. He thirteen books. He has written two fiction trilogies firmly believes that

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anyone can draw and that cartoons are one of the early Georgian England. She is easiest ways into art. This workshop will look at currently Editor-in-Chief at Little character, movement and how to get life into your Brown Publishing House and has drawings. No drawing experience is necessary, just edited both fiction and non- the willingness to draw a squiggly line and laugh. fiction, working with some of the publisher’s biggest authors Colin Shelbourn is a professional cartoonist and including Nora Roberts, Elizabeth author based in Windermere, Cumbria. He is The Kostova and Sharon and Ozzy Westmorland Gazette’s editorial cartoonist and his Osbourne. Her own debut novel, work has been published in The Times, Readers The Devil at Marshalsea was submitted to a Digest, Private Eye and in over 200 books. He is also different publisher (Hodder) as Antonia was so well the author of Drawing Cartoons: a complete guide known in the publishing world. Antonia will conduct to the art of cartooning. He was Britain’s first official the workshop with years of experience on both radio cartoonist for CityTalk Radio in Liverpool and sides to back up her advice. has occasionally been known to draw on TV. www.antoniahodgson.com @antoniahodgson Sunday, October 9th 10am – 12pm Antonia Hodgson Sunday, October 9th 12.30 - 2.30pm Publishing and preparing to submit Bob Wilson your work Writing for Children Boardroom, Crown and Mitre Hotel £20 Tullie House £10 One of the Sponsored by biggest steps Cumberland Building Society for any writer If you are is finding a interested or literary engaged in writing agent. It can and/or illustrating also be the books for children – most this is the daunting. workshop for you. How do you An interactive know when session covering you’re ready to submit your work? What are agents many aspects of looking for? What are the best ways of presenting writing for children, your book, and what are the common mistakes? you will learn useful tips, tricks and techniques and Antonia Hodgson has worked in the publishing then put them into practice individually or in a world for over twenty years and is also a published group. The workshop will be geared to you, and author. In this practical masterclass, she will guide your difficulties and ambitions - so come prepared you through the process, provide tips on creating a to tell Bob what they are and to ask questions right great introductory letter, and offer insights into the from the off. publishing industry as a whole. Bob Wilson has written plays for Radio 4 and the Antonia Hodgson is the award-winning author of London stage. He created the stories and wrote the the historical thrillers featuring Tom Hawkins in scripts for the TV children’s animation series Joshua

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Jones, and worked closely Sunday, October 9th 2.45 - 4.45pm with HRH the Prince of John Sadler & Co Wales as script advisor on From Archive to Novel the film The Legend of Tullie House £10 Lochnagar. He has written and illustrated 35 books for children and is best known as the creator of Stanley Bagshaw. The first book in this series was published 36 years ago. Most are still in print and have been described as “Simply the best kids book ever written”. www.stanleybagshaw.co.uk

Sunday, October 9th 12.30 - 2.30pm Andy Rashleigh Script Writing for Radio Tullie House £10 In this workshop Andy Rashleigh, experienced radio writer and formerly Come along to hear John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville part of ‘’ and Silvie Fisch explain how an obsession with an writing team, explores abandoned flat became their recently published Radio Drama. He will book, Redl, Spy of the Century. And learn how you cover the techniques too can transform complex archival material into of radio writing and gripping historical fiction. how to get one’s work shepherded through John Sadler is an author, lecturer, battlefield tour the BBC commissioning process to production. guide and historical interpreter. He has some thirty Part of the session will involve working together to published titles in print or preparation, a number of create a short piece of radio drama, and if you have them done in partnership with Rosie and Silvie. extracts of radio plays that you’ve written, please bring a few copies along, so that you get the chance Silvie Fisch grew up in Bavaria, where she studied to hear them. cultural anthropology, European ethnology, German literature and linguistics. She has published various Andy Rashleigh has been a playwright for the past academic as well as fictional titles in Germany. Her 35 years, writing mostly for theatre and radio. He biography The Spy of the Century will be published wrote seven plays for Contact Theatre in in November 2016. Manchester before joining ‘The Archers’ writing team in the 1980s. He has continued to write Rosie Serdiville is a social historian and re-enactor regularly for Radio 4 as well as the occasional circus with a particular interest in the wider impact of show and several opera libretti. His afternoon plays war on civilian populations. She has ‘escaped life as include Kind Hearts with Anton Lesser and a civil servant to pursue a love of history and Be Prepared with Ian McKellen as Baden Powell. dressing up’.

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Festival partners For any other enquiries, please email us at [email protected] Borderlines Book Festival has been developed through partnership working between public and Please note that if tickets are posted out, there will private enterprise: Bookends Carlisle; Cumbria be an administrative fee of £1 County Council’s Library Service; Tullie House Museum & Gallery and Carlisle Cathedral. Event information The festival is in association with Cumbria Life, which is our media partner. Timings Talks usually last one hour (unless otherwise stated), with an additional 20 minutes Borderlines is a not-for-profit organisation - every when the author will sign books. Seating is penny goes back into the festival – and has a fully unreserved and doors will open 20 minutes constituted steering group. before an event. Workshops are two hours unless The steering group members are: otherwise stated. Chair: Gwenda Matthews (Bookends Carlisle); Vice Chair: Helen Weston (Carlisle Cathedral); Treasurer: Refunds In the event of a talk or workshop being Carolyn White (Cumbria Library Service); Secretary: cancelled, refunds will be offered, but no other Helen Towers (Cumbria Library Service); Rhian exchanges or refunds are available. Davies; Barrie Day; Serena Field; Vicky Irving; Anna Smalley (Tullie House Museum & Gallery) The festival bookshops in the Crown and Mitre Hotel and at Tullie House are run by Bookends, Sponsors Carlisle’s independent bookshop. They will stock books by those authors appearing at the festival. Borderlines is indebted to the following sponsors: After each talk, there will be the opportunity to Architects Plus; Austin Friars School; meet the author and get books signed. Bookends Carlisle; Carlisle Cathedral; Carlisle City Council; Crown and Mitre Hotel; Borderlines online Cumberland Building Society; Cumbria County Council; Cumbria Life; Dodd Murray Website www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk Ltd ; Scott Duff & Co; Tullie House Museum & Email [email protected] Gallery; University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts; Virgin Trains; Waterstones. Borderlines Carlisle How to book tickets @borderlinesfest Online at www.borderlinescarlisle.co.uk Contact us

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24 Borderlines 2016 cumbrialife Borderlines 2016 Carlisle Book Festival ABOUT BORDERLINESTALKS Venues Getting around The Crown & Mitre Hotel Please visit www.discovercarlisle.co.uk for maps, 4 English Street, Carlisle, Cumbria transport and parking information or call the Carlisle CA3 8HZ Tourist Information Centre on 01228 598596. 01228 525491 www.peelhotels.co.uk Publishers Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust Thank you to the following publishers for their Castle Street, Carlisle, Cumbria support of the Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival: CA3 8TP Bantam Press; Birlinn Ltd; Bloomsbury; Bookcase; 01228 618718 The Borough Press; Ebury Press; Faber; Fourth www.tulliehouse.co.uk Estate; Head of Zeus; Headline Review; The History Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Icon Books; Little Carlisle Library Brown; Mulholland Books; OUP; P3 Publications; Pan 11 Globe Lane, Carlisle, Cumbria Macmillan; Particular Books; Polygon; Profile Books; CA3 8NX Saraband; Simon & Schuster; Sphere; Two Roads; 01228 227312 Viking; Yale University Press www.cumbria.gov.uk/libraries Borderlines and Carlisle Cathedral 7 Abbey Street, Carlisle, Cumbria other festivals CA3 8TZ This year Borderlines is working in association 01228 548151 with two other festivals: www.carlislecathedral.org.uk Edinburgh International Waterstones Book Festival 66 Scotch Street, Carlisle The Edinburgh International CA3 8PN Book Festival is the largest and 01228 542300 most dynamic festival of its kind in the world. In its www.waterstones.com first year the Book Festival played host to just 30 ‘Meet the Author’ events. Today, the Festival Cakes & Ale programmes over 700 events, which are enjoyed by 19 Castle Street, Carlisle, people of all ages. This year sees the establishment CA3 8SY of our links, with a collaborative project called Both 01228 529067 Sides of the Border. www.bookscumbria.com Elements Festival Accessiblity Elements is a brand new arrival on Cumbria’s festival scene, piloting in All our venues are accessible to people with October 2016. Celebrating age and diversity, it is an disabilities. Venues have different levels of facilities inclusive arts festival for a mature population, with – please contact the individual venues for more events happening across Cumbria. Find out more via information. their website: www.elementsfest.com

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CARLISLE EVENTS Carlisle Pageant 20 – 29 August – Carlisle city centre Carlisle Cycle Sunday 4 September – Carlisle city centre Tour of Britain 2016 5 September – Carlisle city centre Carlisle Foodies Fest cumbrialife 1 – 2 October – Carlisle city centre Fireshow Funday 5 November – Carlisle city centre Carlisle Fireshow 5 November – Bitts Park, Carlisle Stuart Walker Photography Images © Stuart Walker Christmas Lights Switch-On 20 November – Carlisle city centre www.discovercarlisle.co.uk

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