Festival of Words offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 7–​ 28 October 2017​ Contents Welcome to Some of our guests 6 How to book 8 Festival information 9 Off the Shelf Festival map 10 Festival events 12–60 Festival of Events for young people 62 Workshops 64 Words 2017 Festival Fringe 68–70

offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 3 The Off the Shelf team (left to right): Welcome to this year’s Su Walker, Maria de Souza, Professor festival. We hope Vanessa Toulmin, Terri Gibson and you enjoy our new Lesley Webster curatorial approach covering themes such as radicalism, crime and India, and a new community focus starting with Somali culture. Date, time Date, time Date, time Book name Book name Book name Our exciting crime strand, curated by Professor Chris Wigginton from Sheffield Hallam Author name Author name Author name University, starts with bestselling University of Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor Sheffield graduate Lee Child talking about his sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur latest Jack Reacher title. There are lots of other adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco events too, including a full day of major names sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor from the crime-writing world. incididunt ut labore et incididunt ut labore et incididunt ut labore et Professor Mike Braddick from the University dolore magna aliqua. Ut dolore magna aliqua. Ut dolore magna aliqua. Ut of Sheffield has guest-curated the enim ad minim veniam, enim ad minim veniam, enim ad minim veniam, radicalism strand with thought-provoking quis nostrud exercitation quis nostrud exercitation quis nostrud exercitation talks on everything from the Peasants’ ullamco laboris nisi ut ullamco laboris nisi ut ullamco laboris nisi ut Revolt to the Russian Revolution. aliquip ex ea commodo aliquip ex ea commodo aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure consequat. Duis aute irure consequat. Duis aute irure Sheffield as an internationally diverse city is dolor in reprehenderit in dolor in reprehenderit in dolor in reprehenderit in reflected in our new community showcase, voluptate velit esse cillum voluptate velit esse cillum voluptate velit esse cillum with a series of events celebrating the dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla spoken word and oral tradition from our pariatur. Excepteur sint pariatur. Excepteur sint pariatur. Excepteur sint Somalian community. occaecat cupidatat non occaecat cupidatat non occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa proident, sunt in culpa proident, sunt in culpa Our vibrant India strand features film, food, qui officia deserunt mollit qui officia deserunt mollit qui officia deserunt mollit history and literature and is part of the Year anim id est laborum. anim id est laborum. anim id est laborum. of India celebrations nationally. In collaboration with... In collaboration with... In collaboration with... For information about the UK-wide #WeAreInternational campaign founded by the , see ______weareinternational.org.uk Tickets + Tickets + Tickets + Look out for the symbols for each theme Address Address Address to enjoy some amazing events, as well as a wealth of fiction and poetry, history, arts and science events, sports-related talks and more.

offtheshelf.org.uk Book at offtheshelf.org.uk + 5 © Axel Dupeux Some of our guests... Off the Shelf welcomes all kinds of fantastic writers to its 2017 festival. Here are some of the faces behind the words. Stephen McGann, p60 Laurie Penny, p35

© Amy Gwatkin

Lee Child, p25

Harriet Harman, p52

© Vicki Sharp © Paul Marc Mitchell

Robert Webb, p18 Hollie McNish, p38

© Nina Subin © Joanna Betts

Peggy Seeger, p43 Tariq Ali, p24 Brian Blessed, p60 Philip Kerr, p29

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e St Duk The Sheffield College 2017 is the India-UK These Hindu Samaj events Sat 7 Oct, 6pm Year of Culture are part of the Tagore and Rabindranath Tagore: celebrating the deep Freedom programme: Great Sentinel of cultural ties between Sat 7 Oct, 10am–12 noon Freedom the two countries. Poetry Workshop Professor Bashabi Fraser, Director of the Scottish Our India strand Professor Bashabi Fraser Centre for Tagore Studies, and Debjani Chatterjee celebrates India will talk about Rabindranath lead a very special poetry through fiction, Tagore, his views on workshop inspired by the poetry, film and food. freedom, education and poems and art of one of the internationalism, and the Enjoy a blend of the world’s greatest creative continued relevance of diverse and dynamic geniuses, Rabindranath this much-loved writer- Tagore. They will also creativity of this philosopher and Nobel introduce the Tagore- ancient, complex and Laureate. Followed by inspired international fabled land. a discussion and brief e-journal Gitanjali and readings from Tagore’s work. Beyond, which participants may contribute to. No ______writing experience required. ______Look out for this symbol for Tickets: Free, no need to book other India-themed events: ______Humanities Research Justice for Women and Girls in Institute, Upper Hanover India – Dr Sunita Toor (page 15) Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in Street, S3 7QY advance or £6/£5 (concs) on Year Zero: Black Country – the door + India Film Screening (page 16) Quaker Meeting House Sun 8 Oct, 3–5.30pm Billy Dosanjh in Conversation (see map on page 10) with Sunjeev Sahota (page 17) Gurudev Rabindranath Chai, Chaat and Chutney – Thakur: A Multi-Faceted ‘In the UK-India Year of Chetna Makan (page 33) Sat 7 Oct, 1–2.30pm Genius Entanglement – Professor Dance Workshop Emma Tarlo (page 35) This community event, Culture, Sheffield Hindu for Seniors featuring poem recitations Coromandel – Charles Allen (page 58) Bisakha Sarker, artistic by children, dance and Samaj is proud to director of Chaturangan songs, celebrates the present a celebration of Indian Dance, will lead multi-talented genius of a dance and movement Rabindranath Tagore, the Rabindranath Tagore’s workshop for older people, national poet of India. inspired by Rabindranath In collaboration with Bengali Tagore’s work. Women’s Support Group and international legacy.’ the University of Sheffield In collaboration with Aastha Dr Debjani Chatterjee, author and poet and Bengali Women’s Support Group ______Tickets: Free, no need to book ______Hindu Samaj Centre, 21 Tickets: Free, booking required Buckenham Street, S4 7JQ Hindu Samaj Centre, 21 Buckenham Street, S4 7JQ Booking: 0114 272 3906 India – a cultural celebration

12 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 13 Sat 7 Oct, 2pm Sun 8 Oct, 2–3.30pm Sun 8 Oct, 2pm Street Names – Radical Sheffield Justice for Women Central Sheffield with History Walk – and Girls in India – David Templeman Ron Clayton Dr Sunita Toor Take a fascinating look Take a trip back in time Sunita Toor, Principal Sat 7 Oct, 1–4pm Come dressed as your favourite magical into the origins of central with Sheffield historian Lecturer in Criminology character or creature and join the fancy Sheffield’s street names Ron Clayton on a guided at Sheffield Hallam Magical books dress parade at 3pm. in this illustrated talk, walk around Sheffield University, has been Suitable for all ages, children must be with maps, images and city centre. Ron will tell working with the Helena Calling witches, fairies, wizards, nifflers, accompanied by an adult text. Join historian David you where Sheffield’s Kennedy Centre for fairy godmothers, elves, magicians and Templeman to journey Bastille was and about the International Justice on a magical creatures of all ages! Sponsored by Moor Sheffield back through Tudor and Sheffield Corresponding project with Indian police Hop on your broomsticks, flying carpets With the generous support of Sheffield BID medieval times and Society. Find out about officers. The aim is to see uncover the legacy of Mary Anne Rawson of how to improve access or dragons and join us on The Moor for a Thanks to Grimm & Co for in-kind support spellbinding afternoon celebrating the city’s rural roots. Wincobank Hall, Beef- to justice, rights and ______magical books of all kinds. Discover street names Headed Bob, Old Niddly protection for women and Tickets: Free, no need to book that remember the city’s Nodly and other characters girl victims of violence. This From Room on the Broom to The Wizard The Moor, S1 4PF lost buildings and original of a bygone, sometimes talk raises the importance of Oz, and from The Worst Witch to Lord infrastructure and even riotous but always of empowering officers to of the Rings – we all love magical fiction. some streets dating back radically-minded Sheffield. combat this crucial issue. And 2017 marks 20 years of the boy To continue the fun, a very magical to the middle ages. As George III allegedly wizard Harry Potter! In collaboration with the film will be screening at 4pm at ______said: ‘Damned bad place, Department of Humanities, Visit Grimm & Co’s mysterious dark den, The Light Cinema. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Sheffield.’ Sheffield Hallam University jam-packed with magical things to see advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Visit sheffield.lightcinemas.co.uk the door + Assistance dogs only. and do. There will be lots of fun arts and for details. crafts activities including storytelling, Central United Reformed ______Church (see map on page 10) takeaway spells and potion-making. You Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) in Tickets: Free advance or £9/£7 (concs) on can make a dragon puppet to take home + The Void, Floor 1, Owen the door Building (see map on page 10) and train, play an enchanted glass harp, Meet at the main entrance of write your own mini-book, create a potion, To book via Eventbrite, visit Sheffield Cathedral (see map event page at offtheshelf.org.uk make your own wand with a certificate of on page 10) authenticity and much more. Watch out for wizards, witches and real magicians – you might even spot Hagrid…

14 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 15 The Sikhs of Smethwick Sun 8 Oct, 3pm Sun 8 Oct, 4pm Sun 8 Oct, 6pm Sun 8 Oct, 7.30pm Sun 8 Oct, 8pm Mon 9 Oct, 7pm Edgelands – Emilie Year Zero: Black The Nix – Nathan Hill Reaching New Heights Stan Skinny As Billy Dosanjh in Taylor and Frances Country – India Film and American War – – Andy Cave Butcher Reality and Conversation with Byrnes Screening (12A) Omar El Akkad Andy Cave’s journey to Mark Hibbett – Sunjeev Sahota Emilie Taylor’s beautiful Billy Dosanjh’s documentary Contemporary fiction Himalayan summits Storm House Award-winning director and evocative pots from looks at the thousands of from two outstanding first began 3000 feet Captain Butcher Reality and cinematographer Billy her Edgelands series tell economic migrants from American authors. The Nix underground in the is a world heavyweight Dosanjh is a keen explorer stories about her own the former colonies who was chosen as a Notable Yorkshire coalfields as a champion and poetry fan. of stories of immigrant past life. Closely observed came to the railway town of Book by the New York miner. Andy’s since gone Got a problem with that? family life. Born in the and personal, this is art Smethwick in the industrial Times and the Washington on to lead expeditions to Step into the square circle Black Country and trained exploring dreams and heartlands of England, in Post. This acclaimed novel scale some of the world’s and see what he’s got in at The National Film and search of a promised land. expectations in clay. Emilie explores mother and most difficult mountain store for you. The first Television School, Billy has will be in conversation with Using testimonies collected son relationships, love, climbs. His award-winning won praise for productions from residents in Smethwick day in a new job usually Frances Byrnes who makes betrayal, politics and pop books, Thin White Line The Sikhs of Smethwick, and Oldbury, woven with involves meeting new and Learning to Breathe, documentaries and writes archive newsreel and culture. American War is a people, health and safety Year Zero: Black Country tell his inspiring story. drama for BBC Radio 3 and documentary footage, the powerful debut novel about and not being able to log in and A Miracle in West BBC Radio 4. They both film captures the sensations a second American Civil Hear Andy talk about his – not so in Mark Hibbett’s Brom. Billy discusses live in Sheffield and the of this epic upheaval. War, plague, devastating adventures in Patagonia, sci-fi adventure. An out- his work with celebrated talk will include images of policies and one family Alaska, the Himalayas and of-this-world night of novelist Sunjeev Sahota, Hear Billy talk about his beyond. Emilie’s stunning pots. work at a related event on caught deep in the middle. surreal humour that packs author of Ours Are The ______9 October at Showroom ______Sponsored by Daybell & Choo a punch. Streets and The Year of the Runaways. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Cinema (see page 17). Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in the door + In collaboration with the the door + Tickets: £9/£7.50 (concs) in Department of Humanities, advance or £10/£8.50 (concs) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______Creative Lounge, Creative Lounge, on the door + the door + Sheffield Hallam University Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in The Workstation (see map The Workstation (see map DINA (see map on page 10) on page 10) on page 10) Octagon Centre, University of advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Sheffield (see map on page 10) on the door + ______Showroom Cinema (see map Tickets: Free on page 10) The Void, Floor 1, Owen Building (see map on page 10) To book via Eventbrite, visit event page at offtheshelf.org.uk

16 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 17 Mon 9 Oct, 7pm Mon 9 Oct, 7.30pm Mon 9 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 10 Oct, 7pm Tues 10 Oct, 7pm Tues 10 Oct, 7.30pm Charlotte Brontë’s How Not to Be a Boy – Pevsner Guide In Person: World Poets The Leveller Religion and Atheism: Face – Dr Amber Regis Robert Webb Yorkshire West Riding: Following on from Revolution – Beyond the Divide When Charlotte Brontë Star of TV, radio and stage Sheffield and the In Person: 30 Poets – the Dr John Rees Launch of Religion and died in 1855, most of her Robert Webb takes a South – Ruth Harman world’s first poetry DVD- The Levellers are central Atheism: Beyond the readers had no idea of laugh-out-loud look at and Charles O’Brien anthology – comes to the history of British Divide, as part of the God what she looked like or the absurd expectations Since its launch in 1951, In Person: World Poets, democracy. This thrilling and the Good series at even her name. In 1857, thrust upon boys and Pevsner has become the a film featuring poems new narrative brings to life Sheffield Cathedral. A Elizabeth Gaskell’s men. From schoolboy go-to source for information from all over the world, the people who struggled panel discussion exploring The Life of Charlotte crushes to discovering the on the architecture of from Italy to India. Award- for their rights in the the clash between the Brontë made her name power of making people the British Isles. Former winning filmmaker Pamela 1640s. From the raucous religious and the secular and face public. It included laugh. And from losing Sheffield archivist Ruth Robertson-Pearce and streets of London and and how to move beyond it the only professional his beloved mother to Harman presents her Bloodaxe Books editor Neil the clattering printers’ with Dr Anthony Carroll, portrait of Charlotte taken becoming a husband and new companion volume, Astley will introduce this workshops that stoked the Dr Julian Baggini, Professor from life – a sketch by father, Robert deftly and exploring South and West warm and intimate film. It’s uprising, to the rank and Angie Hobbs and Professor George Richmond. This hilariously examines a Yorkshire’s landscape and as if you were sat in a room file of the New Model Army, Richard Norman. Followed illustrated talk looks at world of fighting, pointless architecture including with the poets listening to this story reasserts the role by an audience debate. a personal reading. how the face of Charlotte posturing – and the medieval chapels, palatial of ordinary people in this Part of Ideas Alive – In Brontë has been adapted insistence that he stop mansions and Sheffield’s ______pivotal moment in history. collaboration with University across its 167-year crying. Park Hill flats. Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in of Sheffield history and explores our ______advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) ______In collaboration with fascination with her life In collaboration with on the door + Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in Blackwell’s Bookshop at Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in University of Sheffield’s and work. advance or £11/£9 (concs) on University of Sheffield Showroom Cinema (see map advance or £8/£6 (concs) on Department of Philosophy the door + on page 10) the door + ______Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in Octagon Centre, University of Cadman Room, Millennium Tickets: Free, no need to book Sheffield (see map on page 10) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Gallery (see map on page 10) advance or £8/£6 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Sheffield Cathedral (see map the door + the door + on page 10) Cadman Room, Millennium Creative Lounge, Gallery (see map on page 10) The Workstation (see map on page 10)

18 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 19 Mon 16 Oct strange world of football Explaining the statues and the clubs and Medically Unexplained fans who build them. Professor Christopher Mon 23 Oct Ideas Burton – Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care Making an Animal-Like alive This talk addresses the Robot Make Animal- problem of persistent Like Sounds at 5.45 physical symptoms where Professor Roger K Moore – medical tests show no Department of Computer disease. Are they coming Science from the mind, the body or A talk on how animals both? And what happens vocalise sounds and when doctors try to explain how this process can be them? modelled in a computer. Learn how a voice was Tues 17 Oct created for MiRo – a How Young biomimetic animal-like Tues 10 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 11 Oct, 7pm Wed 11 Oct, 7.30pm A series of talks by robot. academics from the Children Learn City of Masks – Out of the Wreckage – Anthony Powell: A Professor Cathy Nutbrown Tues 24 Oct S D Sykes and The George Monbiot Dance to the Music of University of Sheffield – School of Education A fascinating look at how The Need for Utopian Zealot’s Bones – What does the good life Time – Hilary Spurling Wed 11 Oct children learn through Thinking Now D M Mark – and good society – look The long-awaited portrait Sex, Intimacy and movement and exploring Dr Darren Webb – School of An evening of historical like right now? George of a literary genius from Older Adults the world around them. Education crime fiction, with two Monbiot explains how one of our greatest communities can be rebuilt Dr Sharron Hinchliff – What is utopian thinking acclaimed authors. D M biographers. A Dance Wed 18 Oct and economies recharged School of Nursing and and how can it unite and Mark has written six novels to the Music of Time is – without destroying the Midwifery The Unaccountable mobilise grassroots action in the McAvoy series, a classic, spanning 12 living planet – and how What do we know about the State of Surveillance for systemic change? including a Sunday Times volumes, written over politics can once more place and meaning of sex Dr Xavier L’Hoiry and bestseller. His latest, The 25 years and brilliantly Wed 25 Oct inspire. George writes for th and intimacy in the lives Professor Clive Norris – Zealot’s Bones, is set in capturing 20 century The Guardian and is the of older adults? This talk Department of Sociological Seeing Nature Through Hull, 1849 – a city in the Britain. Drawing on Powell’s author of many books explores the​ secrets that Studies Spectroscopy grip of a cholera outbreak. letters, journals and addressing social and are beginning to be revealed What happens to all the Dr Adrien Chauvet – S D Sykes has been the memories of those ecological justice. through research. information that is collected Department of Chemistry described as ‘the medieval who knew him, Hilary about you? What is the law? What is ultrafast C J Sansom’ and her ______Spurling explores his life, Thurs 12 Oct And can you control how spectroscopy and how can it previous novels are the Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in relationships and the Sowing Beauty: this information is used? be used to see some of the The Butcher Bird and advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) comical and tragic events on the door + Meadows from Seed fastest chemical reactions Plague Land. Her latest, that inspired one of the Thurs 19 Oct in nature? City of Masks, is set in Pennine Theatre, Owen greatest fictions of the age. Professor James Building (see map on page 10) Hitchmough – Department Around the World in Venice in 1358. ______Eight Football Statues Sponsored by University of Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in of Landscape Sheffield Public Engagement A beautifully illustrated Dr Chris Stride – Institute ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Team – Regional Engagement the door + look at creating meadows of Work Psychology and Partnerships Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in in cities, including how the Pelé has eleven. Sheffield advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Creative Lounge, the door + The Workstation (see map London Olympic Park was United three, Wednesday on page 10) inspired by some of the none. China’s 2002 World Creative Lounge, The Workstation (see map world’s most extraordinary Cup players have got one on page 10) wild vegetation. each. Welcome to the

All talks start at 5.45pm / DINA (see map on page 10) All events are free and open to all, no need to book 20 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 21 Wed 11 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 12 Oct, 6pm Thurs 12 Oct, 7pm Thurs 12 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 12 Oct, 8pm Fri 13 Oct, 6pm The Walworth Beauty The Wonderful Mr Into the Woods – So They Call You One for the Road – Lighting the Furnace – – Michèle Roberts Willughby – Professor Clinton Woods Pisher! – Michael Stuart Maconie and Sir Hugh Sykes From the Booker Prize- Tim Birkhead In Conversation with Rosen Helen Mort In Conversation with shortlisted author of Francis Willughby lived in Professor Vanessa The memoir of the poet Acclaimed Sheffield poet Paul Allen Daughters of the House the midst of the scientific Toulmin and political campaigner, Helen Mort and BBC Radio In 1972, Sir Hugh Sykes comes an evocative novel, revolution of the 17th exploring his first 23 6 Music presenter and A first-hand account bought his first company – exploring prostitution century, travelling with years. Michael Rosen’s author Stuart Maconie from a Sheffield sporting a near-bankrupt Sheffield and poverty in Victorian his Cambridge tutor, parents met as teenage have compiled an legend. Former world light furnace. By the mid-1980s, London. The Walworth John Ray. Before their communists in the 1930s anthology of contemporary heavyweight champion his portfolio was valued Beauty is a haunting tale first book,Ornithology , Jewish East End. Party poems creating everyone’s Clinton Woods tells his at millions. As Chair of the of desire and exploitation, could be completed, meetings were in their ideal pub crawl. Whether gripping life story, laying Sheffield Development as the ghosts of the city’s Willughby died and his front room, summers were it’s glass half-full, early bare the culture that Corporation, he oversaw past erupt in the present. legacy was obscured for communist camping doors, last orders, your surrounds his sport. This the major regeneration of Venture into exhilarating by his collaborator’s holidays. Later Michael round next or beer mat fast-paced book covers the city’s East End, which territory and savour colour, growing reputation. In this followed a journey of scribbles, the poems are his early Sheffield days, was left decimated by sound, taste and touch beautifully illustrated talk, radical self-discovery – celebrations of Britain’s to a professional journey the decline in the steel as never before. This is fellow expert Tim Birkhead marching at Aldermaston, favourite pastime – the that eventually saw him industry. Knighted for Michèle Roberts at her celebrates Willughby’s life performing in experimental pub. So sup up and enjoy a trade blows with some of this, and his extensive intoxicating best. and work, which set a new political theatre and true literary bar-hop. the most famous boxers charity work, hear Sir Hugh standard for the way birds getting arrested in 1968. ______of his era. He is joined by Suitable for ages 16+ talk candidly about his and natural history should Hear Michael tell his story Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in biographer Mark Turley in inspirational journey. be studied. as no one else can. In association with the Poetry advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Business the door + conversation with boxing ______fan Professor Vanessa Sponsored by University of Quaker Meeting House, ______Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10) Toulmin. Tickets: £8.50/£7 (concs) in advance or £8/£6 (concs) on advance or £8/£6 (concs) on ______the door + the door + ______advance or £9.50/£8 (concs) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in on the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Cadman Room, Millennium Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) The Leadmill (see map on Gallery (see map on page 10) Gallery (see map on page 10) advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) + on the door + on the door page 10) Pennine Theatre, Owen Auditorium, University of Building (see map on page 10) Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10)

22 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 23 Fri 13 Oct, 7pm Fri 13 Oct, 7pm Fri 13 Oct, 7pm Fri 13 Oct, 7.30pm Sat 14 Oct, 1–3pm Sat 14 Oct, 2pm The Dilemmas of Is Monogamy Dead? – Renaissance One Lee Child Stories of Activism A Clarion Call: Lenin – Tariq Ali Rosie Wilby Presents: The Venus Lee Child is one of the – Dr Gary Rivett and Sheffield’s Access On the centenary of the Rosie Wilby’s book, Papers – Arrivals, world’s leading thriller Louisa Briggs Pioneers – Terry Russian Revolution, Tariq Is Monogamy Dead? Departures and writers, whose books The Stories of Activism Howard Ali paints an illuminating is a hilarious mix of Journeys regularly feature at team invites you to an Celebrating Sheffield’s portrait of Vladimir Ilyich memoir, heartache and Venus, the Roman Goddess the number one slot informal drop-in session. place in the fight to Lenin, leader of the 1917 science, putting modern of love, has washed up on worldwide. It’s said that Learn about Sheffield’s access the Peak District uprising. Tariq explores relationships under the British shores to witness one of his novels featuring rich and diverse history of moors, A Clarion Call major influences on microscope. The award- the aftermath of the 2017 hero Jack Reacher sells activism and how you can features previously unseen Lenin’s thought – the winning comedian and general election. Through somewhere in the world contribute to the project’s photographs of the early turbulent history of Tsarist Radio 4 regular presents the eyes of an immigration every nine seconds. He growing archive. Whether days of the Sheffield Russia and the birth of her book-based show, officer, the media and the has won many awards, you are a seasoned activist Clarion Ramblers. Images the international labour using breakup emails and public, Venus experiences including the Crime Writers’ or new to protest, tell us show people rambling in movement, whilst also Richard Hawley music what it means to be a 21st Association’s Diamond your stories and bring any long dresses and Sunday confronting dilemmas still to examine separation century immigrant woman. Dagger for a writer of an campaign items you’d like suits and even records pertinent today – including in a post-Gwyneth Written and performed outstanding body of crime to share. early skinny-dipping. the use of terrorism as a world. Her show The by Lydia Towsey, with live fiction. Lee will talk about Linking the photographs his creative process and strategy. Conscious Uncoupling, was music and vocals by Ola ______with actual walks, walking shortlisted for Best Show bestsellers. Szmidt and Dave Dhonau. Tickets: Free, no need to book expert Terry Howard brings 2016 in the Funny Women ______Use your ticket for With thanks to University of Winter Garden (see map on to life the fight for the right Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Awards. Sheffield Alumni Office and page 10) to roam. discounted on the door University of Sheffield in advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) ______on the door + entry to The Wordlife Off America Tickets: £7/£6 (concs) in the Shelf Party at 8.30pm – Tickets: £6.50/£5.50 (concs) Pennine Theatre, Owen advance or £8/£7 (concs) on see page 69. in advance or £7.50/£6.50 Building (see map on page 10) the door + ______(concs) on the door + Studio, University of Sheffield ______Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in Central United Reformed Students’ Union (see map on Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £11/£9 (concs) on Church (see map on page 10) page 10) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on the door + the door + Oval Hall, Sheffield City Hall DINA (see map on page 10) (see map on page 10)

24 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 25 The ISRAAC Somali A celebration Community Association is pleased to present a of Somali celebration of Somali culture through poetry, culture and stories, language, food and music. Events are in the oral Somali and English and tradition feature internationally known poets, storytellers, writers and translators.

Sat 14 Oct, 2.30–4.30pm festival. This event includes Thurs 26 Oct, 7–8.30pm Somali Language and traditional Somali music Asha Lul Mohamud Poetry Workshop – and food. Yusuf and Clare Pollard: Featuring Said Jama ______The Sea-Migrations Sun 15 Oct, 11am Sun 15 Oct, 1pm Sun 15 Oct, 2pm Hussein Tickets: £2.50 Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf is Windblown – Tamsin Oak and Ash and Unbroken – Martine A workshop led by Said No need to book, but places fast emerging as one of the limited Treverton-Jones Thorn – Peter Fiennes Wright Jama Hussein, a noted most outstanding Somali It’s 30 years to the day Peter Fiennes celebrates In Conversation with scholar, short-story writer poets with poems well- Thurs 26 Oct, 2–4pm since the Great Storm of the beauty and mystery of Sue Mott and essayist, as well as known among Somalis at 1987 battered the UK – an Britain’s woods, examining Martine Wright’s life an important translator Poetry Workshop – home and abroad. She is a event that lives on in the issues of conservation, changed forever when she of Somali poetry and Asha Lul Mohamud master of the major Somali collective memory. Tamsin’s power and property. He lost both legs in the London promoter of the Somali Yusuf and Clare Pollard poetic forms, including book was sparked by a visits Norwegian spruces in bombings of 7/7. Not only language. Open to Somali the prestigious gabay. Her discovery that her father the Welsh/English borders, Asha Lul and Clare have did she survive her horrific and English speakers. poems engage passionately had created a mural at Kew wildflowers in a haunted recently collaborated on injuries, but she went on ______with the themes of war and Gardens of fallen storm Norfolk wood, the trees in a new collection of poems to take up sitting volleyball displacement that have trees. She discovered more his childhood garden and Tickets: £1.50 in English translation. and represented GB at touched the lives of an entire about the storm – how it everything in between, Booking required Join them for an informal the 2012 Paralympics. generation of Somalis. altered lives as well as the on his enchanted journey workshop to explore the art Since then she has Asha Lul reads alongside landscape. This illustrated around Britain. This Sat 14 Oct, 7–9pm of writing and translating become a national figure: the leading English poet talk is a perfect nature beautifully illustrated talk poetry. Open to Somali and a formidable heroine who Somali Poetry and English speakers. Clare Pollard, who shares narrative. reveals our relationship Storytelling: her English translations of has overcome incredible ______to forests and our duty to In Performance – Said Yusuf’s poems. This bilingual challenges. Unbroken is Tickets: £1.50 Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in protect them. Jama Hussein and reading celebrates a long- her inspiring tale of tragedy Booking required advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) ______turned to hope. standing friendship and + Guests on the door Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in ______Said Jama is a regular collaboration and marks the Showroom Cinema (see map advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) The three events listed publication of new collection on page 10) on the door + Tickets: £7.50/£6 (concs) in contributor to the annual advance or £8.50/£7 (concs) above take place at: The Sea-Migrations. Auditorium, University of London Somali Week on the door + Sheffield Students’ Union Festival. His collections of ISRAAC Somali Thanks to the Poetry Translation (see map on page 10) Foundry, University of short stories are Shufbeel Community Centre, Centre and Bloodaxe Books Sheffield Students’ Union and Safar Aan Jaho 54 Cemetery Road, ______(see map on page 10) Lahayn (A Flight into the S11 8FP Tickets: £2.50 Unknown). He will be joined Booking: Burngreave Library, Sorby House, 42 Spital Hill, S4 7LG by UK-based Somali poets, 0114 278 7662 or regulars at the annual [email protected] 0114 203 9002 London Somali Week No need to book, but places limited

26 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 27 Date, time Date, time Date, time 2.30–3.30pm 4–5pm 6–7pm Book name Book name Book1–2pm name The Golden Age of Elly Griffiths and Philip Kerr Author name Author name AuthorThe Wicked name Boy – Detective Fiction Simon Beckett Acclaimed author Philip – Professor Lisa Kerr is the creator of twelve Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor LoremKate ipsumSummerscale dolor Elly Griffiths and Simon Hopkins Hitler-era thrillers starting sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur sitThe amet, multi-award-winning consectetur Beckett have one important in 1936 Berlin. His latest adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscingauthor of The elit, Suspicionsullamco of Detective fiction often thing in common – novel Prussian Blue sees sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor sedMr doWhicher eiusmod discusses tempor her refers to earlier literature forensics is a crucial part the much anticipated incididunt ut labore et Sunincididunt 15 Oct ut labore et incididuntlatest book ut – labore the gripping, et including Shakespeare. of their crime novels. return of Bernie Gunther dolore magna aliqua. Ut Joindolore us magna for a literary aliqua. crime Ut dolorefascinating magna account aliqua. of Ut From Christie to Sayers, Elly’s bestselling series – a gumshoe in the seamy enim ad minim veniam, spreeenim ad as minimfive of veniam, the UK’s enima shocking ad minim murder veniam, case McDermid to Atkinson, features Dr Ruth Galloway, tradition of Philip Marlowe quis nostrud exercitation finestquis nostrud crime exercitationfiction writers quisthat nostrud sent late exercitation Victorian there are significant a forensic archaeologist. and Sam Spade, and one ullamco laboris nisi ut andullamco experts laboris investigate nisi ut ullamcoBritain into laboris a frenzy. nisi ut This borrowings from dark Her latest book is The of the most original private aliquip ex ea commodo sleuths,aliquip ex clues ea commodo and master aliquiptrue-crime ex ea account commodo is a Jacobean tragedies such Chalk Pit. Simon’s popular eyes in thriller fiction. Enjoy consequat. Duis aute irure villainsconsequat. in an Duis afternoon aute irure of consequat.riveting masterpiece Duis aute ofirure as The Duchess of Malfi, crime thrillers star forensic a rare event with one of the dolor in reprehenderit in deception,dolor in reprehenderit detection and in dolordocumentary in reprehenderit writing by in a ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore and anthropologist hero Dr greatest master storytellers voluptate velit esse cillum deduction.voluptate velit esse cillum voluptatewriter at thevelit top esse of her cillum game. The Revenger’s Tragedy. David Hunter, most recently in English. dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla This talk explores how featuring in The Restless The crime theme has been Dead. Hear these two pariatur. Excepteur sint curatedpariatur. by Excepteur Professor sint Chris pariatur.______Excepteur sint such allusions add to the occaecat cupidatat non occaecat cupidatat non occaecat cupidatat non richness of the crime genre. brilliant writers discuss ______Wigginton, Faculty of Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in how they create their proident, sunt in culpa Developmentproident, sunt andin culpa Society, proident,advance orsunt £7/£6 in culpa(concs) on Lisa Hopkins is a Professor Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in the door + intelligent, gripping work. advance or £8/£6 (concs) on qui officia deserunt mollit Sheffieldqui officia Hallamdeserunt mollit qui officia deserunt mollit of English at Sheffield the door + anim id est laborum. University:anim id est laborum. anim id est laborum. Hallam University ______In collaboration with... ‘IIn collaboration with... am a huge fan of crime In collaboration with... Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in fiction and delighted that ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) on we can showcase the Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in the door + ______diversity______of the crime ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) on + Tickets + genreTickets as + part of the Tickets + the door Buy four tickets for Address festival.’Address Address £20/£16 (concs) All events are in the Cadman Room, ______Millennium Gallery Look out for this symbol for (see map on page 10) other crime events on pages 21, 25, 37, 39, 44 and 53. Crime afternoon

28 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 29 Sun 15 Oct, 3pm Sun 15 Oct, 4pm Mon 16 Oct, 1–2pm Mon 16 Oct, 6pm Mon 16 Oct, 7pm Mon 16 Oct, 7.30pm Britain’s 100 Best Reds – Radicalism The Star – A Now Is the Time – Safe – Chris Ryan Black Tudors – Dr Railway Stations – Film Screening (15) Celebration of Melvyn Bragg SAS veteran Chris Ryan Miranda Kaufmann Simon Jenkins Warren Beatty’s film 130 years In May 1381, King Richard compiles a lifetime of Until now, the story of Simon Jenkins has (based on John Reed’s As The Star prepares felt secure in his God-given security expertise – from Africans in Tudor England travelled the length and book Ten Days That to move offices for the right to reign. But then experiences in Northern has remained untold. breadth of Great Britain Shook The World) sets first time, Editor Nancy a vast force of common Ireland, central Africa Historian Miranda in search of the hundred the romance between Fielder looks back at the people invaded London and the Middle East – Kaufmann’s new book best railway stations. journalists Louise Bryant newspaper’s 130-year demanding freedom and addressing issues from Black Tudors explores In this illustrated talk, and John Reed against history. She will chart equality. In his gripping cyber-attacks to terrorist their lives and reveals he reveals the history, the backdrop of radical the changes that local novel, Lord Bragg depicts threats and explaining new research. We hear the geography, design and politics during the early journalists have faced the Peasants’ Revolt, techniques civilians should stories of John Blanke – significance of these very 20th century, culminating over the decades and look vividly portraying its use to keep themselves Henry VIII’s black trumpeter British creations that in the 1917 October forward to the future of central figures and the safe. Revealing fascinating – along with a sailor, a link our nation, including Revolution. The film’s scale journalism in Sheffield. epic struggle between insights into life in the prostitute, a silk weaver, a Sheffield’s own station. and ambition are epic and This talk will also look the powerful and the SAS, Chris looks frankly porter and a prince. Black This voyage of discovery it’s won numerous awards. back at some of the most apparently powerless. at the ever-changing Tudors reassesses our shows the station’s role in This rare example of memorable front pages dangers of our world and national story and what it our national imagination Hollywood socialist cinema and stories to hit the city ______empowers readers to take means to be British today. responsibility for their and champions the is screened 100 years after since the first edition was Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in ______security. engineers, architects and those ten shocking days. printed. advance or £8/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in the door + rival companies that made In collaboration with the ______advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Cadman Room, Millennium on the door + them possible. Department of Humanities, Tickets: Free Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Sheffield Hallam University Gallery (see map on page 10) advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Auditorium, University of Sponsored by Hospitality Carpenter Room, Central on the door + Sheffield Students’ Union Sheffield Library (see map on page 10) (see map on page 10) ______Showroom Cinema (see map ______To book via Eventbrite, visit on page 10) event page at offtheshelf.org.uk Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Tickets: Free advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) The Void, Floor 1, Owen on the door + Building (see map on page 10) Pennine Theatre, Owen To book via Eventbrite, visit Building (see map on page 10) event page at offtheshelf.org.uk

30 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 31 Mon 16 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 17 Oct, 7pm Tues 17 Oct, 7pm Tues 17 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 17 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 18 Oct, 6pm (demo) Forty Nine Degrees – Radical Happiness: Two Stories – Dad, You Suck – Thirteen Acres: John and 7pm (dinner) Chinese Translation Moments of Collective Mark Haddon Tim Dowling Ruskin and the Totley Chai, Chaat and Slam Joy – Professor Lynne To celebrate the centenary Much-loved journalist Tim Communists – Sally Chutney – Chetna In the heat of a traffic Segal of the first publication by Dowling’s popular weekly Goldsmith Makan jam, a man and woman In an age of increasing Hogarth Press of The Mark Guardian column charts Totley was the site of a Chetna Makan (semi- get stuck in a taxi on their individualism, we have on the Wall by Virginia the ups and downs of utopian scheme funded finalist in Bake Off 2014) way to visit the woman’s never been more alone Woolf, Mark Haddon has family life. And his largely by art critic and social has travelled to the four parents. She’s a graduate and miserable. What if the written a new story, unsuccessful attempts reformer John Ruskin corners of India sampling with few prospects; he’s true nature of happiness St Bride’s Bay. Mark is to be recognised as a 140 years ago. Ruskin the street food on offer. She the man her parents can only be found in the multi-award-winning competent father and bought a farm so Sheffield will demo a delicious dish desperately want her to others? Feminist thinker author of bestseller The husband. A book about working men and their from her exciting new book marry. Will they make the Lynne Segal believes Curious Incident of the fatherhood and being families could work the inspired by her journey. You train? Nicky Harman and that we have lost the art Dog in the Night-Time. He a modern man, Dad, land and make boots. will then enjoy an exquisite Michelle Deeter compare of collective joy. Radical will talk about his work and You Suck examines the Sally Goldsmith tells three-course meal based alternative translations of Happiness is a passionate his admiration for Virginia banalities and challenges an engaging story from on her recipes. Enjoy this story by one of China’s call for the rediscovery of Woolf. of family life with Tim’s Sheffield’s history with a a fresh take on Indian brightest women writers, the political and emotional ______usual self-deprecating quirky cast of characters cuisine. Tickets include Aman Song. With host joy that emerges when we Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in humour and dry wit. including Ruskin himself, food demo, three-course Deborah Smith from Tilted learn to share our lives advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) ______vegetarian artist and meal and coffee (drinks not + Axis Press. together. on the door Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in cyclist Henry Swan and included). Pennine Theatre, Owen ______advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) argumentative early In collaboration with Sheffield Building (see map on page 10) on the door + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in communard Mrs Maloy. College Auditorium, University of advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) ______the door + on the door + Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______Studio, University of Sheffield Showroom Cinema (see map advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £25 Students’ Union (see map on on page 10) the door + page 10) Silver Plate Restaurant, The Creative Lounge, Sheffield College (see map on The Workstation (see map on page 10) page 10)

32 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 33 Wed 18 Oct, 6.30pm Wed 18 Oct, 7pm Wed 18 Oct, 7pm Wed 18 Oct, 7pm Wed 18 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 18 Oct, 8.30pm Democracy and Its Cousins – Owls: Sheffield Entanglement – Home Front – Bitch Doctrine – Crisis – Professor Salley Vickers Wednesday Through Professor Emma Tarlo Bryony Doran and Laurie Penny A C Grayling This spellbinding novel the Modern Era – Emma Tarlo, Professor Isabel Palmer Smart, provocative and Celebrated philosopher by bestselling author Tom Whitworth of Anthropology at Poets Bryony Doran and uncompromising, Laurie A C Grayling examines the Salley Vickers centres on In Conversation with Goldsmiths, talks about Isabel Palmer read from Penny writes at the raw contemporary problems of a family in trauma after Dom Howson her book Entanglement: their collections. Bryony edge of the zeitgeist and democracy and presents teenager Will Tye suffers The Secret Lives of Hair. Doran’s Bulletproof tells is one of the most urgent his case for how to fix a life-changing accident. Owls is the story of a She looks at Indian themes of her son’s unexpected feminist voices of our time. them. As authoritarian The terrible event ripples club struggling to find its including the gathering decision to join the army From Trump’s election and leaders and populism through generations of way in an ever-changing of hair at Hindu temples, through his tour in and victories of the far right, rise in Europe and the the Tye family, bringing game. Covering boardroom hair auctions, untangling return from Afghanistan. to online harassment and USA, Grayling argues for to light old tragedies unrest, financial turmoil workshops and ritual- Isabel Palmer’s the transgender rights a civilised society that and dangerous secrets. and long-suffering fans, artistic uses of hair. Think Atmospherics describes movement, these are looks after all its people, Told through the eyes the book has revealing you know hair? You’ll never her only son going to war darkly humorous essays drawing on five key historic of women close to Will, interviews, offers new see it in the same way again. in Afghanistan aged just for dissenting adults. examples to explore how Cousins weaves a dark insights and pieces 21. Home Front presents a Laurie’s writing provokes together a compelling Part of the Sheffield Hallam similar challenges were tale exploring the nature University masterclass series compelling account of the challenging conversations resolved in the past, and of transgression and the account of Wednesday’s fear and longing felt by all about the definitive social recent history. Sheffield- the consequences when limits of morality and love. ______those left behind in war. issues of today and gives based author Tom is joined readers hope and tools for they were not. ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______by Dom Howson, The Star’s change. Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in Sheffield Wednesday advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______advance or £8/£6 (concs) on the door + advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______the door + correspondent. + Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Quaker Meeting House the door Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Cadman Room, Millennium ______(see map on page 10) Creative Lounge, advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) on the door + Gallery (see map on page 10) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in The Workstation (see map on the door + Auditorium, University of advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) on page 10) Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union on the door + Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on page 10) Showroom Cinema (see map (see map on page 10) on page 10)

34 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 35 Thurs 19 Oct, 7pm Thurs 19 Oct, 7pm Thurs 19 Oct, 7pm Thurs 19 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 19 Oct, 9pm Fri 20 Oct, 1–2pm Things Can Only Get Radicalism in the Staging a City – Joanna Walsh in And Other Stories The Star – Worse – John O’Farrell English Revolution Chris Bush Conversation with Party and Launch of Crime Reporting In the long-awaited – Professor Mike Representing real people Dr Rachel Genn the Northern Book The Star team look back at follow-up to his classic Braddick on stage is a responsibility, Joanna Walsh is one of the Prize some of the most shocking memoir Things Can Only The civil war that ripped but so is representing real most exciting writers in Toast the arrival to crimes to hit Sheffield and Get Better, John O’Farrell England apart in the 17th places. What does it take contemporary fiction today. Sheffield of one of the how they were reported embarks on a hilarious, century was one of the to capture the character Hot on the heels of 2016’s UK’s most exciting new by the local journalists of heartbreaking rollercoaster most devastating conflicts of a city, especially one so Vertigo, shortlisted for the literary presses with a the day. This talk examines ride from the highs of that in its history. It cost familiar and beloved by a 2017 Edge Hill Short Story reputation for publishing differences in how crimes Labour victory in 1997 thousands of lives, shook local audience? Chris Bush Prize, comes a wonderfully great authors from Britain have been reported to the lows of austerity, religious and political (The Sheffield Mysteries, playful, funny collection, and beyond, including Yuri historically, ranging from Brexit and Donald Trump. beliefs to the core, and A Dream, What We Wished Worlds from the Word’s Herrera and Deborah Levy. the newspaper’s first As a comedy writer, gave rise to a revolution. For) talks about her End. Joanna is also the You’ll get the chance to reports 130 years ago, to parliamentary candidate This talk explores what it experiences writing for the creator of #readwomen on mingle with other people in recent incidents. It also and one-time recipient was like to live through a Sheffield People’s Theatre Twitter. She is published Sheffield’s book scene and looks at the importance of Tony Blair’s Christmas time of terrifying violence, at the Crucible and the by And Other Stories, celebrate literary Sheffield. of justice being seen to be cards, John offers a unique religious fervour and importance of place and whose Sheffield launch There’s a raffle to win a done in the era of modern and insightful vision into radical politics. community in new theatre party follows this event – six-book subscription plus journalism. modern-day politics. writing. everyone is welcome. the unveiling of a new prize ______See an extract from poem ______for unpublished northern ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in I Made This by Chris Bush Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in fiction. Tickets: Free advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) advance or £8/£6 (concs) on on page 66. advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______Carpenter Room, Central on the door + the door + the door + ______Tickets: Free, no need to book Library (see map on page 10) Pennine Theatre, Owen Cadman Room, Millennium DINA (see map on page 10) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in DINA (see map on page 10) To book via Eventbrite, visit Building (see map on page 10) Gallery (see map on page 10) event page at offtheshelf.org.uk advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Cash bar on the night on the door + Showroom Cinema (see map on page 10)

36 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 37 Fri 20 Oct, 6pm Fri 20 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 20 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 20 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 20 Oct, 9pm Sat 21 Oct, 11am Ravilious & Co: The Sarah Winman and Hollie McNish Flying Over an Olive My Life in the Mosh of Charlie Peace – Pattern of Friendship Tessa Hadley Hollie McNish is a Grove – The Biography Ghosts – Roger Quail Michael Eaton – Andy Friend Sarah Winman is the sensational poetry of Fred Spiksley Plus Live Music Charlie Peace – His Eric Ravilious is recognised author of bestsellers performance star. She will Sheffield Wednesday Roger Quail’s music blog Amazing Life and as one of the most including When God Was perform poems from new legend Fred Spiksley details every concert he’s Astounding Legend important British artists A Rabbit. Her latest, Tin collection Plum about achieved every major attended – ‘thirty odd charts the evolution of a of the 20th century and his Man, is a tender, beautiful her childhood, attempted honour for club and years of thud, sweat and Sheffield-born Victorian captivating watercolours book with characters who adulthood, guilt, sex, fruit country. He scored the beers.’ Former drummer master burglar and and wood engravings get under your skin and and politics. She will also winning goals in the with Clock DVA and The murderer from truth to capture the spirit of break your heart. Tessa read from her acclaimed 1896 FA Cup Final and Box, his writing explores legend, using rare sources mid-century England. Hadley’s collection of memoir of parenthood the first ever hat-trick Sheffield’s music scene and illustrations. From how What is less appreciated short stories Bad Dreams Nobody Told Me. Expect against Scotland, toured 1978–81. We’re not just his crimes were reported is that he did not work in show small acts have strong language, honest music halls with Charlie talking The Human League in The Illustrated Police isolation, but in a much large consequences. In chat and brilliant poetry. Chaplin and escaped from and Cabaret Voltaire, but News to the growth of the wider network of artists. In these tales from a master Also performing is Matt a German prison in 1914. the should’ve beens ​too. legend and folk hero in this illustrated talk, Andy storyteller, it’s the ordinary Abbott, leading political Mark Metcalf and Clive This event reunites him Penny Dreadfuls, popular Friend tells the story of the things that turn out to be poet and rising star of the Nicholson will bring this with ex-bandmate Charlie theatre, waxworks and group from their student most extraordinary. UK’s spoken word scene. colourful character to life. Collins, who with Derek early cinema, this is a days through to the second ______Suitable for ages 16+ A perfect celebration of Saw and Beatrix Ward- fascinating blend of true crime and 19th-century world war. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in ______Sheffield Wednesday’s Fernandez perform a set of mind-melting free jazz history. See the exhibition Ravilious advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £9/£7 (concs) in 150-year anniversary. the door + grooves. & Co: The Pattern of advance or £10/£8 (concs) on ______Creative Lounge, the door + ______Friendship, 7 Oct 2017 – Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Suitable for ages 16+ The Workstation (see map Firth Hall, Firth Court 7 Jan 2018 at Millennium on page 10) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Gallery (see map on page 10) the door + advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in the door + ______Showroom 5, Showroom advance or £8/£6 (concs) on Cinema (see map on page 10) the door + Creative Lounge, Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in The Workstation (see map advance or £8/£6 (concs) on DINA (see map on page 10) on page 10) the door + Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 10)

38 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 39 Sat 21 Oct Buy three events and 1–2pm 5–6pm one guided walk for Matt Black and Sheffield General Words of Worth: Spoken £18/£16 (concs) Julie Mellor Cemetery Guided Walk Word Events at Samuel Julie Mellor’s Out of the – Janet Ridler Weather is full of restless As dusk falls, discover the 10–11am Worth Chapel curiosity. Her poems examine history of the cemetery Sheffield General life from unexpected angles – and its residents in this We are delighted to be using this beautifully restored Cemetery Guided Walk from the inside of a fly’s head atmospheric guided tour by venue for the first time with an afternoon of poetry, – Janet Ridler to the Sheffield skyline. Matt torchlight. monologue, verse drama and guided tours. Discover the history of the Black’s Spoon Rebellion Assistance dogs only. cemetery from its opening includes poems The Cooling ______All events take place in the Samuel Worth Chapel, Towers’ Farewell and On Sheffield General Cemetery, Cemetery Avenue, S11 8NT in 1836 to the present day. Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Learn about its famous and Shakespeare Receiving the advance or £7/£6 (concs) on not so famous residents and Evaluation Forms After the the door + discover some spectacular First Performance of King Meet at The Gatehouse, monuments. Lear – wonderful and surreal Cemetery Avenue, S11 8NT work that illuminates the Booking required Assistance dogs only. times we live in. ______In association with The Poetry Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Business advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______the door + Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in Meet at The Gatehouse, advance or £6/£5 (concs) on Cemetery Avenue, S11 8NT the door + Booking essential 2.30–4pm 11.30am–12.30pm Artemis: The People’s Risk the Pier – Shelley Priestess – Cora Roche-Jacques Greenhill Shelley Roche-Jacques This captivating verse- performs dramatic drama, written and monologues from her debut performed by Cora Greenhill collection Risk the Pier with and guests, imagines the subjects including anger sibling rivalry of mythical management, neighbour twins, Artemis and Apollo. vengeance fantasies and Greek Goddess Artemis was Anton Chekhov. Steven an arch outsider, feminist Earnshaw will also read and environmentalist. This a short story from his poetic myth-interpretation collection Memory Clinic deals with a heady brew of and there will be poetry jealousy, rites of passage from Suzannah Evans, and same-sex passions with who was a winner of the humour and originality. Poetry Business book and ______pamphlet competition for Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in advance or £6/£5 (concs) on Confusion Species. the door + ______Tickets: £5/£4 (concs) in advance or £6/£5 (concs) on the door +

40 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 41 Sat 21 Oct, 2pm Sat 21 Oct, 2pm Sat 21 Oct, 5pm Sat 21 Oct, 7.30pm Sun 22 Oct, 1pm Sun 22 Oct, 3pm Mouse’s Big Day – The Button Box – No More Love on the First Time Ever: A History of Britain Nelson Mandela – Lydia Monks Lynn Knight Dole – Professor A Memoir – Peggy in 21 Women – Jenni Professor Elleke It’s a big day for Mouse Join us for the compelling Chris Hopkins Seeger Murray Boehmer – her first day at school. story of women in the 20th Walter Greenwood’s 1933 Peggy Seeger, one of The history of Britain Elleke Boehmer’s book But she doesn’t want to century, told through the novel Love on the Dole folk’s most influential and is presented through explores Nelson Mandela’s go. Luckily there is a class clothes they wore. It’s little- sold 46,290 copies and by respected artists, has a 21 women whose lives inspirational story and its full of new friends and known that most corsets 1939, the stage version life steeped in music and intrigue and inspire. importance today. Over his Mouse is about to learn and trousseau items had been seen by millions. politics. She spearheaded This unique personal lifetime Mandela was a city how brilliant school can be. used to be made by nuns, The British Board of Film the 60s folk revival choice by journalist and slicker, dashing guerrilla Lydia Monks will tell you that Amy Johnson was Censors objected so alongside collaborator Woman’s Hour presenter and millennial saviour. By all about Mouse’s big day dressed by Schiaparelli strongly to its portrayal of Ewan MacColl and their Jenni Murray includes examining these roles, and help you to draw your on her record-breaking working-class life that a work on BBC Radio Ballads Boadicea, Nancy Astor, the book presents a own school picture to take 1936 flight to Cape Town film version was rejected redefined documentary Emmeline Pankhurst, fascinating portrait of the home. and that mass-produced until 1941. This illustrated broadcasting. As Ewan’s Elizabeth Garrett Anderson shape-shifting life of one Suitable for ages clothes were at first talk explores the neglected muse, Peggy was the and Mary Quant. Britain of the most influential men 4–5, children must be disapproved of on moral 1944 sequel novel, casts inspiration for The First has traditionally been of the 20th century. accompanied by an adult grounds. Lynn Knight takes new light on the book’s Time Ever I Saw Your defined by its conflicts, its us on an ingenious tour censorship and looks at Face. With her generous conquests, its men and its ______of domestic and social how Greenwood supported spirit, expect a beautifully monarchs. It’s high time Ticket: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £3 for adults and £3 history. for children the People’s War and the realised account of her life. that it was defined by its advance or £7/£6 (concs) on welfare state. women. the door + Showroom 5, Showroom ______Cinema (see map on page 10) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £9/£7 (concs) in Studio, University of Sheffield Students’ Union (see map on advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______advance or £10/£8 (concs) on ______the door + + page 10) Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in the door Tickets: £9/£7 (concs) in Creative Lounge, advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Firth Hall, Firth Court advance or £10/£8 (concs) on The Workstation (see map the door + (see map on page 10) the door + on page 10) Creative Lounge, Firth Hall, Firth Court The Workstation (see map (see map on page 10) on page 10)

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44 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 45 Mon 23 Oct, 7pm Mon 23 Oct, 7pm Mon 23 Oct, 7pm Mon 23 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 24 Oct, 7pm Tues 24 Oct, 7pm Anne Boleyn: A King’s Remain/Leave – A Manual for Done: The Secret Over and Out: The Book of Forgotten Obsession – Alison Jeremy Abrahams Heartache – Cathy Deals That Are My Innings of a Authors, Christopher Weir Having come to live Rentzenbrink Changing Our World – Lifetime with Test Fowler Fresh from the palaces and work here, many As a teenager, Cathy Jacques Peretti Match Special – Henry Whether flash in the pan, of France, Anne Boleyn Europeans have found Rentzenbrink’s family was What if the way we Blofeld prolific, bestseller or drew the attention of partners who are UK torn apart by unthinkable understand our world Henry Blofeld’s voice is prizewinner – no author Henry VIII at the English citizens. The UK’s decision tragedy. In A Manual for is wrong and it isn’t the sound of summer to is immune from being court. Seeking a crown, to leave the EU creates a Heartache she describes politicians and events thousands of cricket lovers. forgotten. Christopher she embarked on a dilemma for these couples. learning to live with grief that shape our lives, but This autobiographical Fowler lifts the lid on the perilous course, plunging Jeremy Abrahams, the and explores how to secret deals? Done tells book is a celebration of lives of forgotten authors the kingdom into turmoil. photographer behind cope with life at its most the story of 12 such deals his career commentating and why they disappeared Alison Weir weaves Arrivals: Making Sheffield difficult, emerging from that changed everything, on the sport he loves. from the public eye. He new research into the Home, has photographed suffering forever changed, including our money and Henry has been a regular explores their stories and dark, powerful tale of a and interviewed 20 such but ultimately filled with the food we eat. These on Test Match Special for exclusively for Off the woman ahead of her time, couples. Hear him talk hope. This moving, uplifting deals never make the over 40 years. In this book, Shelf, highlights forgotten who dared to question about this pertinent book offers solidarity and news, but they shifted the he relives his favourite northern authors. As he traditional concepts of project and show his comfort to anyone going power balance between moments in the sport and puts it, ‘Absence doesn’t femininity and whose thought-provoking images. through a painful time. business and government. shares behind the scenes make the heart grow ambition drove her to Plus an audience Q&A with Cathy is the author of Investigative journalist anecdotes and stories told fonder. It makes people gamble with the fickle Jeremy and two couples bestseller The Last Act of Jacques Peretti lets you in his unique style. think you’re dead.’ nature of a dangerous king. from the project. Love. into the secret. ______In collaboration with ______Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Tickets £7/£5 (concs) in Blackwell’s Bookshop at Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) advance or £8/£6 (concs) on University of Sheffield advance or £8/£6 (concs) on advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) on the door + the door + + ______the door on the door + on the door + Pennine Theatre, Owen Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 10) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Cadman Room, Millennium Showroom Cinema (see map Auditorium, University of Building (see map on page 10) advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Gallery (see map on page 10) on page 10) Sheffield Students’ Union on the door + (see map on page 10) Pennine Theatre, Owen Building (see map on page 10)

46 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 47 The radicalism theme has been curated by Professor Radicalism is a Mike Braddick, Department of History, University of description of how Sheffield: ‘If all the radicals got someone stands in together in a very big room, they would not agree among relation to the themselves. That’s not just because radicals are often argumentative, but because mainstream, the the word radical doesn’t describe a single body of conventional and the ideas.’ taken-for-granted. Date, time Date, time Date, time ______Book name Book name Book name You can be radical in Look out for this symbol for Author name Author name Author name radical-themed events: The Leveller Revolution – Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor your views about Dr John Rees (page 19) sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur The Dilemmas of Lenin – adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco Tariq Ali (page 24) sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor jazz, sexuality, Stories of Activism – Dr Gary incididunt ut labore et incididunt ut labore et incididunt ut labore et Rivett and Louisa Briggs dolore magna aliqua. Ut dolore magna aliqua. Ut dolore magna aliqua. Ut human rights or the (page 25) enim ad minim veniam, enim ad minim veniam, enim ad minim veniam, Reds – Radicalism Film quis nostrud exercitation quis nostrud exercitation quis nostrud exercitation Screening (page 30) ullamco laboris nisi ut ullamco laboris nisi ut ullamco laboris nisi ut physics of the sun. Now Is the Time – Melvyn Bragg (page 31) aliquip ex ea commodo aliquip ex ea commodo aliquip ex ea commodo Democracy and Its Crisis – consequat. Duis aute irure consequat. Duis aute irure consequat. Duis aute irure But being radical Professor A C Grayling (page 34) dolor in reprehenderit in dolor in reprehenderit in dolor in reprehenderit in Radicalism in the English voluptate velit esse cillum voluptate velit esse cillum voluptate velit esse cillum Revolution – Professor Mike dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla about any one of Braddick (page 36) pariatur. Excepteur sint pariatur. Excepteur sint pariatur. Excepteur sint No More Love on the Dole – occaecat cupidatat non occaecat cupidatat non occaecat cupidatat non these things does Professor Chris Hopkins proident, sunt in culpa proident, sunt in culpa proident, sunt in culpa (page 42) qui officia deserunt mollit qui officia deserunt mollit qui officia deserunt mollit A History of Britain in 21 Women anim id est laborum. anim id est laborum. anim id est laborum. not mean that you – Jenni Murray (page 43) Nelson Mandela – Professor In collaboration with... In collaboration with... In collaboration with... will agree with Elleke Boehmer (page 43) ______radical ideas about Tickets + Tickets + Tickets + Address Address Address all of them. Radicalism

48 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 49 Tues 24 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 24 Oct, 7.30pm Tues 24 Oct, 8pm Wed 25 Oct, 7pm Wed 25 Oct, 7pm Wed 25 Oct, 7pm The New Poverty – The Children of Sex and Love and Robert Graves and Sheffield Hallam Outskirts: Living Life Stephen Armstrong Jocasta – Natalie Rock and Roll – the Road to War – University Creative on the Edge of the Today 13 million people live Haynes Tony Walsh ‘Longfella’ Dr Charles Mundye Writing Showcase – Green Belt – in poverty in the UK – one Natalie Haynes stands up Poet Tony Walsh, AKA Robert Graves is one of the Julianne Pachico John Grindrod of the richest countries for the classics. She is a Longfella, stunned us most revered poets of the Julianne Pachico, new Outskirts tells the story in the world. Investigative brilliant stand-up comic all with his electrifying 20th century, but his early lecturer at Sheffield of the creation of these journalist Stephen and a passionate believer performance of This is the life was nearly ended by Hallam University talks mysterious tracts of land Armstrong tells the story that we should continue Place after the Manchester injuries sustained on the about her debut The Lucky – exploring their history of an unreported Britain, to read and enjoy classical bombings. The poem went Somme in 1916. This talk Ones. Set in Colombia from the time of Elizabeth abandoned by politicians literature. In The Children viral and we are honoured by the editor of Graves’ between 1993 and I to National Trust founder and betrayed by austerity of Jocasta, Haynes to welcome Tony to read War Poems traces 2013 – the peak years Octavia Hill. This deeply policies. As benefit cuts reimagines the Oedipus from his eagerly awaited the terrible road from of violence during the personal book is the first continue and in-work and Antigone stories from first collection. It takes schoolboy to soldier-poet. Colombian conflict – this to tell the story of Britain’s poverty soars, he asks the perspectives of two us on an extraordinary Poems will be read by unforgettable whirlwind green belts through social what long-term impact this often overlooked women: journey through ordinary actor and singer Natalia of a novel centres on history and a stirring has on post-Brexit Britain Jocasta and Ismene. This lives with poems brimming Farrán Graves, Robert’s a group of wealthy evocation of the natural and what we can do to new novel breathes new with northern warmth and granddaughter. daughters of expats and world. stop the destruction of the life into an ancient story humour. Sex and Love and ______the guerrilla fighters who ______welfare state. through vivid storytelling. Rock and Roll is a book to Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in surround them. Followed Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in ______unite and inspire. advance or £8/£6 (concs) on by a chance to hear advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Suitable for ages 16+ the door about creative writing at on the door + advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Cadman Room, Millennium Sheffield Hallam. Pennine Theatre, Owen ______the door + on the door + Gallery (see map on page 10) Building (see map on page 10) ______Creative Lounge, Tickets: £8.50/£7 (concs) in Auditorium, University of advance or £9.50/£8 (concs) The Workstation (see map Sheffield Students’ Union Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in on the door + on page 10) (see map on page 10) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on The Leadmill (see map on the door + page 10) Quaker Meeting House (see map on page 10)

50 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 51 Wed 25 Oct, 7.30pm Wed 25 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 26 Oct, 7pm Thurs 26 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 26 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 26 Oct, 7.30pm My Life In and Out A A Woman’s Work – The Youth Word Up! Indian Crime – Abir This Is Going to Hurt – of Squeeze – Chris Football 1857–1889 – Harriet Harman A Spoken Word Mukherjee and Adam Kay Difford Martin Westby The gripping story of Performance by Young Vaseem Khan Get ready for the funniest Pop legend Chris Difford A feast of football, 30 years of progressive People and Toria Two writers of Indian- book ever written about discusses his book Some celebrating notable women’s politics told Garbutt set crime series discuss the NHS. Adam Kay was Fantastic Place, charting anniversaries (including through Harriet Harman’s Local young people perform their latest works. Abir a junior doctor from 2004 his rise to fame in Squeeze, 160 years of Sheffield lifelong campaign to pieces written during Mukherjee is the creator of until 2010 and kept a diary one of the best-loved FC – the world’s oldest bring women’s issues to workshops with Hive, the Captain Sam Wyndham of his experience. This is British bands of the 1970s football club), delving the heart of the Labour sharing their experiences and Sergeant Surrender- a first-hand account of and 1980s. As a lyricist into the lockers of the Party and Parliament. and hopes. Sharing the Not Banerjee series set in life as a junior doctor in and performer, Chris has 19th-century game and the Dedicated to fighting for stage with the young Calcutta in the early 1920s. all its joy, pain, hilarity, worked with Elvis Costello, formulation of regulations equality and respect for performers is Yorkshire poet In A Necessary Evil, the horror and maddening Jools Holland and Elton that now govern the sport women, Harman presents Toria Garbutt. Described pair unravel the mystery bureaucracy. Adam’s sell- John as well as long- worldwide. Martin presents a revealing insight into the as ‘the lyrical machine gun’, of the assassination out Edinburgh Festival time collaborator Glenn a review of Sheffield’s early workings of politics and the Toria performs at festivals of a Maharajah’s son. show had rave reviews and Tilbrook. Chris will be giving footballing scene and uses state, showing both how all over the UK and regularly Vaseem Khan presents left audiences feeling even a short performance at new research to analyse all far we’ve come and how supports Dr John Cooper the latest Baby Ganesh more impassioned about this event ahead of the 95 clubs in the days when much there is still to do. Clarke. Agency novel, The Strange the everyday heroism of Squeeze gig at City Hall on Sheffield led the world of Disappearance of a NHS staff. ______Suitable for ages 13+, Thursday 26 October. association football. Bollywood Star, in which Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in parental guidance applies ______advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Inspector Chopra and his Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in on the door + Supported by Hive South elephant sidekick are on advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Yorkshire, Sheffield City advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Pennine Theatre, Owen the case in Mumbai. on the door + Building (see map on page 10) Council Children, Young on the door + the door + People & Families, Sheffield Auditorium, University of Sheffield Students’ Union Auditorium, University of Creative Lounge, Community Youth Teams, ______Sheffield Students’ Union The Workstation (see map Sheffield Youth Justice and (see map on page 10) (see map on page 10) on page 10) Arts Council England Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______the door + Tickets: Free Creative Lounge, The HUBS (see map on page 10) The Workstation (see map on page 10) Booking: 0114 222 3895 Free anthology available at the event

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Thurs 26 Oct, 7.30pm Thurs 26 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 27 Oct, 7pm Fri 27 Oct, 7pm Fri 27 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 27 Oct, 7.30pm Trans Like Me: A Holy Terrors The Artistry of Frank Jo Peel – Under Miracle Brew: Hops, The World Cup of Journey for All of Us – Holy Terrors (2016) is a film Tory & Sons – Construction Barley, Water, Yeast Everything – Richard CN Lester set in Whitby, featuring four Dr Sylvia Dunkley Jo Peel’s exquisite work and the Nature of Beer Osman CN Lester busts some stories by the Victorian This illustrated talk is a documents her fascination – Pete Brown Richard Osman looks at mainstream myths and master of the macabre, fascinating insight into the with everyday scenes Beer is the most popular the most important issues honestly relays what it’s Arthur Machen. It includes Sheffield firm Frank Tory & in great detail. From alcoholic drink on the of today in the The World like to grow up transgender. his supernatural and Sons, a father and twin son abandoned East London planet, but few know Cup of Everything. From They share the liberation chilling story, The Bowmen, team of architectural and construction sites to much about how its four the World Cup of British of feeling at home in in which British forces monumental sculptors. the streets of Tokyo, ingredients miraculously sitcoms to Christmas one’s skin and ask how defeat the Germans at Their beautiful work can be Pittsburgh and Sheffield, combine. Pete Brown takes songs, British bands, we strive for authenticity Mons in 1914 with the help seen far and wide in Hull, all are captured in her us on a journey through chocolate and crisps, in a world that often of spectral archers from Leeds and Preston. Here well-observed and unique the nature and science of Richard will share funny limits us by labelling. the Battle of Agincourt. in Sheffield, it famously style. She is also the brewing to reveal the magic and quirky pieces of trivia Trans Like Me explores With an introduction by Dr adorns public buildings creator of this year’s Off of beer. Raise a glass to about all contenders. This pressing questions in David Clarke, author of the such as City Hall, Central the Shelf brochure cover. Jo the miracle brew as you is Richard at his best – the transgender debate book The Angel of Mons, Library, the University of discusses her work in this sample three half pints. super smart, quick-witted and co-director of the film beautifully illustrated talk. combined with a personal Sheffield and St Matthew’s Suitable for ages 18+ and writing about the narrative of what it means Dr Mark Goodall. on Carver Street. ______matters the British public to be a transgender person Suitable for ages 15+ In collaboration with Hop really care about. ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Hideout today. ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on ______the door + ______Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in + Sheffield Institute of Arts Tickets: £12/£10 (concs) in Tickets: £7.50/£6 (concs) in advance or £7/£6 (concs) on the door advance or £11/£9 (concs) on the door + Creative Lounge, (Old Post Office), Fitzalan advance or £13/£11 (concs) the door + advance or £8.50/£7 (concs) Square, S1 2AY on the door + on the door + The Void, Floor 1, Owen The Workstation (see map Ticket and book deal: Building (see map on page 10) on page 10) Hallam Hall, Owen Building £19.50/£17.50 (concs) in Foundry, University of (see map on page 10) Sheffield Students’ Union advance or £20.50/£18.50 (see map on page 10) (concs) on the door + Octagon Centre, University of Sheffield (see map on page 10)

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Fri 27 Oct, 7.30pm Fri 27 Oct, 8pm Sat 28 Oct, 11am Date, time Date, time Date, time New Responses to Dirty Stop Out’s Guide Searching for Lord Book name Book name Book name Jane Austen to Working Men’s Haw-Haw – Professor Author name Author name Author name To mark 200 years since Clubs – Club Night Colin Holmes Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor Lorem ipsum dolor Jane Austen’s death, Marti Caine and Bobby William Joyce became sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur sit amet, consectetur Off the Shelf – together Knutt went on to national notorious as a fascist, adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco adipiscing elit, ullamco with Beverley and Ilkley fame via the booming an anti-Semite and then sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor sed do eiusmod tempor Literature Festivals – has working men’s club circuit as a second world war incididunt ut labore et incididunt ut labore et incididunt ut labore et commissioned new work of the 1970s. Join us for traitor when, assuming dolore magna aliqua. Ut dolore magna aliqua. Ut dolore magna aliqua. Ut inspired by one of Britain’s the launch of Sheffield the persona of Lord enim ad minim veniam, enim ad minim veniam, enim ad minim veniam, greatest novelists. Taking author Neil Anderson’s Haw-Haw, he acted as a quisSat nostrud28 Oct, 1.30–4.30pm exercitation quis nostrud exercitation quis nostrud exercitation part are musicians and new Dirty Stop Out’s radio propagandist for the ullamcoIt’s All laborisa Fiction nisi ut– Readers’ullamco Afternoon laboris nisi ut ullamco laboris nisi ut writers Marina Lewycka, Guide to Working Men’s Nazis. Colin Holmes tells aliquipAn afternoon ex ea commodo of reading heavenaliquip for fiction ex ea lovers commodo in the beautifulaliquip ex ea commodo Jade Cuttle, Kate Fox and Clubs. Seventies-style this compelling story of consequat.Firth Hall. A Duis chance aute to irure meet sevenconsequat. wonderful Duis authors aute irureand people consequat. Duis aute irure actor Joe Williams. From entertainment will be simmering hope, intense dolorwho inlove reprehenderit books as much in as youdolor do. Authors in reprehenderit taking part in are dolor in reprehenderit in folk songs to a look at how provided by comedians frustration, renewed voluptateStephen Mayvelit withesse his cillum compelling voluptate love story velit Stronger esse cillum Than Skinvoluptate, velit esse cillum Jane might fare in Jimmy Carol and Bobby anticipation and ultimately dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla dolore eu fugiat nulla st Hannah Kohler with a remarkable family debut The Outside Lands, 21 -century Britain, see Knutt (star of BBC’s catastrophic failure. pariatur.Lesley Downer Excepteur with sint Japanese historicalpariatur. novelExcepteur The Shogun’s sint Queenpariatur., Excepteur sint Austen in a totally new light. Benidorm) and celebrated ______occaecatFelicia Yap cupidatat with psychological non occaecatdrama Yesterday cupidatat, Gregory non occaecat cupidatat non ______vocalists Stephanie King Tickets: £8/£6.50 (concs) in proident,Norminton sunt with in culpashort story collectionproident, The sunt Ghost in culpa Who Bled andproident, sunt in culpa Tickets: £8/£7 (concs) in and Gary Philips. In proper advance or £9/£7.50 (concs) quiFran officia Cooper’s deserunt stunning mollit debut quiset officiain Paris Thesedeserunt Dividing mollit Wallsqui, officia deserunt mollit advance or £9/£8 (concs) on club night fashion, bingo is on the door + animalongside id est award-winninglaborum. formeranim Sheffield-based id est laborum. author Lesleyanim id est laborum. the door + also included. Showroom Cinema (see map In collaboration with...Glaister with new novel The SqueezeIn collaboration with.... Plus free giveaways for In collaboration with... Upper Chapel (see map on Suitable for ages 18+ on page 10) everyone who attends. page 10) ______Thanks to Comma Press, Headline, Hodder & Stoughton, Salt Tickets: £10/£8 (concs) in ______Publishing, Sandstone Press, Penguin______Random House and Picador ______advance or £11/£9 (concs) on Tickets + Tickets + Tickets + the door + ______Address Address Address Walkley Working Men’s Club, Tickets: £8.50/£7.50 (concs) in advance or £9.50/£8.50 (concs) 207 Providence Road, S6 5BH on the door + Firth Hall, Firth Court (see map on page 10)

56 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 57 Sat 28 Oct, 1pm Sat 28 Oct, 2pm Sat 28 Oct, 3pm Sat 28 Oct, 3pm Sat 28 Oct, 5pm Sat 28 Oct, 6pm Coromandel – Crafted in Britain Every Third Thought: Route 57 111 Places in Interventions: Charles Allen – Rob Scott and On Life, Death and the Route 57 is the University Sheffield That You Rethinking the Coromandel was the name Anthony Burton Endgame – Robert of Sheffield’s creative Shouldn’t Miss Nineteenth Century given by European traders A celebration of traditional McCrum writing journal featuring Michael Glover, native – Dr Anna Barton and to India’s south-eastern crafts and industries Aged 42, Robert McCrum work from students, staff Sheffielder, critic and Professor Andrew seaboard – a corruption of surviving into the modern suffered a near-fatal and alumni. Exquisitely poet, introduces 111 Smith produced, this thing of the Tamil Cholamandalam. world, captured in stroke, the subject of his Places in Sheffield That Why does Victorian beauty features a choice In Coromandel, Charles Rob Scott’s dramatic acclaimed memoir My Year You Shouldn’t Miss, his literature so often describe selection of the most continues the investigation photographs and Anthony Off. Since then, he’s lived in forthcoming illustrated the act of reading? thoughtful, outrageous and into early Indian history Burton’s captivating the shadow of death. Every guide book to the city – This event will explore stirring writing in Sheffield that began in his descriptions. Marvel at a Third Thought takes us on from its bars, beauty spots the representation of and includes poetry, fiction acclaimed Ashoka. He distillery in the Spey Valley a journey towards death, and industrial heritage, the Victorian reader in and non-fiction. Hear explores the lesser known, and the studio of a pub populated by the voices to the room where the fiction and poetry. You some of the contributors to very different history and sign painter in Cornwall. of brain surgeons, cancer Arctic Monkeys cut their will discover how to read Edition 13 read their work. identity of the oldest India, Wonder at a silversmith patients, writers and poets. first album. This series of like a Victorian, why the Ticket price includes a copy uncovering extraordinary making spoons and a An enthralling exploration quirky guides, published Victorians believed that of the anthology. stories from the past. Allen traditional clockmaker of what it means to by Emons of Cologne, has you are what you read and is the author of bestselling using methods honed approach the endgame ______encompassed Paris and how learning to read and books about India, a over centuries. Delight and begin to recognise we Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in New York. Sheffield will be write could expand your traveller, historian and in the discovery of some are not immortal. advance or £7/£6 (concs) on on the world visitors’ map world – and even help you master storyteller. the door + magnificent craftspeople ______as never before. defeat vampires. and crafts. Raynor Lounge, University of Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Sheffield Students’ Union ______advance or £7/£6 (concs) on (see map on page 10) Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in + Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £6/£5 (concs) in Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in the door advance or £8/£6 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £7/£6 (concs) on advance or £8/£6 (concs) on Creative Lounge, the door + the door + the door + the door + The Workstation (see map Cadman Room, Millennium on page 10) Studio, University of Sheffield Creative Lounge, Cadman Room, Millennium Gallery (see map on page 10) Students’ Union (see map on The Workstation (see map Gallery (see map on page 10) page 10) on page 10)

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60 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 61 Sat 28 Oct, Sat 28 Oct, 6.30pm Mon 30 Oct, 7.30pm 10.30am–4.30pm SLAM BARz Young Writers Hive Young Writers’ Got BARz? SLAM BARz is a Open Mic Day – Performance supportive citywide event All welcome, but the stage Theatre with Khadijah for young emerging urban belongs to young people Ibrahiim lyricists and rappers to (14-25 year-olds) from Write for performance and come and show their skills across . improve your confidence, through an open mic, or If you write poems, tell stage presence and delivery by competing in a SLAM stories, compose lyrics, with poet and playwright BARz 2017 challenge. Hip spit bars, or have anything Khadijah Ibrahiim. Khadijah hop, grime, lyrical word to say out loud, this is combines art forms to play, all styles welcome. No an evening to celebrate reimagine poetry as discrimination. Positive, your words and talents performance theatre. Her supportive vibes. To book in a warm, supportive collections Rootz Runnin an open performance slot atmosphere. Open to all, and Another Crossing are for 14–21 year olds, visit: new and experienced young published by Peepal Tree hivesouthyorkshire.com writers aged 14–25 years. Press. Suitable for ages 14+ Reserve a slot at info@ hivesouthyorkshire.com Suitable for ages 14–25 Supported by Sheffield Hallam University’s Faculty of Suitable for ages 14+ Supported by Sheffield Development and Society Hallam University’s Faculty of Supported by Sheffield Development and Society ______Hallam University’s Faculty of ______Tickets: Free, no need to book Development and Society and Verse Matters Tickets £5/£3 (concs) The HUBS (see map on page 10) ______Sheffield Institute of Education, Charles Street, Tickets: Free, no need to book S1 2ND The HUBS (see map on page 10) Booking and info: hivesouthyorkshire.com

Hive: events for young people Hive South Yorkshire is a hub for young writers’ activity in the region. Whether you like to write as a hobby or are focused on a writing career, Hive will help you achieve your writing goals and connect you with a wider young writers’ community.

62 63 Whether you’re an Sat 7 Oct, 2–4pm Fri 13–Sun 15 Oct, Sat 21 Oct 12 noon–2pm Sun 22 Oct, 1–3pm Sat 28 Oct, 10.15am–4pm experienced writer wanting Writing Beginnings 10am–4 pm One-to-One Surgery Box Set Screenwriting Poetry Business to improve your skills, Reading on Screen – or brand new to writing, Workshop – Julianne with And Other Stories Workshop – Jon Bridle October Writing Day take a look at our range Pachico Digital Storytelling Are you a writer or thinking High-quality TV drama is Poetry Business Writing of workshops and see Putting a pen to paper Workshop about writing? Do you have enjoying a renaissance. Days are open to all, with what suits you. Places are or fingers to a keyboard This three-day workshop a novel in a drawer or a From Broken to writing exercises in the limited so please book in can be nerve-wracking – will help you turn your dozen ideas in your head? Broadchurch, Poldark morning and a critical advance. how can we get over this experience of reading into Stefan and Tara Tobler to Peaky Blinders, it is workshop in the afternoon. fear of the blank page? a story – and then give you of the award-winning compulsive viewing for Please bring a poem you’ve Sat 7 Oct, 2–3pm This workshop will give the skills to make your story publisher And Other Stories many. Jon Bridle is the written (and ten copies) for How to Get Published you practical tools for into a short digital film can help. In a ten-minute course leader for BA Film the afternoon workshop – Alysoun Owen overcoming uncertainty and that will be shown at an one-to-one session, one Studies and Screenwriting – or better still, write one How can you make your help you create beginnings exhibition later in the year. of them will read your at Sheffield Hallam up to discuss from the book stand out from that are compelling. Writing For further information opening page, listen to University and will help morning session. Please the crowd? What is the experience not necessary. about the project and to your 30-second pitch give you the skills needed note the different venues best route to becoming a Julianne Pachico studied view the stories produced and offer industry insight to write a successful for morning and afternoon published author? Alysoun creative writing at the at the Bournemouth and feedback to help you screenplay. Suitable for sessions. Owen, editor of the Writers’ University of East Anglia. workshop, please visit along the route towards writers of all levels of There is no disabled access & Artists’ Yearbook and Her debut novel The Lucky readingonscreen.com publication. experience. at these workshops. the Children’s Writers’ & Ones was published in 2017. A collaboration between ______Organised by The Poetry Artists’ Yearbook, offers There is also a talk by Bournemouth University and Tickets: £5 on the door (buy Tickets: £7/£5 (concs) in Business her top tips on how to get the University of Brighton, your own refreshments) advance or £8/£6 (concs) on Julianne on page 51. ______published, including expert funded by the AHRC and Tamper Sellers Wheel, 149 the door + advice on deciding which ______supported by Sheffield Hallam Arundel Street, Sheffield, Education Room, Millennium Tickets: £30/£25 (concs) Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) in University and The Reading S1 2NU Gallery (see map on page 10) Church House, 84 Queen publishing route to take Agency Street, S1 2DW (morning) and how to perfect your advance or £9/£7 (concs) on the door + ______Bank Street Arts, 32–40 Bank pitch to literary agents. Quaker Meeting House Tickets: Free Street, S1 2DS (afternoon) ______(see map on page 10) Room 5531, Howard Building, Book your ticket in advance, Tickets: £8/£6 (concs) in City Campus, Howard Street, pay on the day by cash or advance or £9/£7 on the door + S1 1WB (Friday) cheque Carpenter Room, Central Room 2301, Harmer Building, Booking: office@ Library (see map on page 10) City Campus, Howard Street, poetrybusiness.co.uk S1 1WB ( Saturday and Sunday) Booking: bthomas@ bournemouth.ac.uk

Workshops 64 offtheshelf.org.uk Book at sivtickets.com + Booking fee: 50p per ticket 65 In 2016, Sheffield celebrated a Year of Making I made this and the playwright Chris Bush was commissioned And this place made me to write a poem about the city and making. Part of And I could talk of forges the poem is featured here and you can read the whole A people wrought from some primordial fire piece at offtheshelf.org.uk/ news. Chris will be talking And happily embellish on Thursday 19 October On a population that’s equal parts about her experiences of writing for theatre (see Iron ore and Henderson’s Relish page 36). But maybe that’s all fantasy And now down in the valley You’ll find as much silicon as steel And that’s no bad thing Because we made this And just look at what we’re offering: A City of Makers – Taking over, shaping the conversation Claiming our stake in what comes next. So wherever you were made – Ordained for the terraces at Hillsborough Or If the Crucible set you ablaze Or the Showroom showed you the way If you found serenity in our green space Or gazing at some brand-new piece of art Each element combines to play its part It all starts here, and though we’re uninclined To blow our own horns, or make a fuss For now we’ll simply say Made in Sheffield: that’s us. I Made This Chris Bush by

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