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Director: Caroline Knox Operations: Daphne Parlour WELCOME Marketing and PR: Carol Carr How James Boswell, who delighted in the theatre, would have approved of the Volunteers: Ghislaine Kennerley presence of the fabulous Dame Judi Dench to open the festival celebrating Children’s: Vivian French MBE, Dr Karen Alexander his life and achievements as a writer. Dame Judi’s Opening Night appearance Schools Day: Sheila McIlwraith launches a treasure trove of talks and activities for every age over the Festival Dumfries House: Louis MacCallum weekend.

Huge thanks to the many friends who volunteer Now in our eighth year, this is the most ambitious programme yet, spilling their time to make the Festival possible. Also over with riches and diversity from poets, cartoonists, intrepid reporters and thanks to the Dumfries House Education team, courageous women to obsessive monarchs, war veterans and professional TV CONTENTS Dumfries House staff and the Army Cadet Force watchers - and with speakers and audience rubbing shoulders, I predict that for their invaluable help. creative sparks will fly as the power of the written word is let loose in one of Who’s Who 2 Scotland’s great Enlightenment houses. Trustees: James Knox (Chairman), Margaret WELCOME 3 Boswell Eliott, Peter Kennerley, Caroline Knox, So this leaves the all-important thank you to our invaluable sponsors without FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE 4/5 Gillian Watson, Dr William Zachs whom I wouldn’t be writing this welcome - most particularly, Creative Scotland, The Great Steward of Scotland Dumfries House Trust, East Council and THE BOSWELL PROJECT 5 The Boswell Book Festival is an event inaugurated Baillie Gifford. And of course, thank you all who come to hear the talks. Please and staged by The Boswell Trust, a charity help spread the word and bring your friends. FRIDAY’S CURTAIN UP! 6 registered in Scotland number SC041655 and SCHOOLS’ DAY 7 a company limited by guarantee registered in Caroline Knox Scotland SC380815 SATURDAY’S PROGRAMME 8 -19 Festival Director SUNDAY’S PROGRAMME 20 - 31 Registered office: Auchendrane, By Ayr, KA7 4TW. The Trust is established for the advancement of 32 heritage, literary arts and education, specifically BECOME A FESTIVAL FRIEND 33 the restoration of James Boswell’s Mausoleum in Churchyard and the creation of a CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 34 - 37 visitor attraction in the adjoining Boswell Aisle. LOTS TO DO 38 The Boswell Trust has done its best to ensure the accuracy of all statements mentioned in this BOOKING INFORMATION 44 programme. Any errors are inadvertent.

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2 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 3 Open Morning TICKETS & EVENTS The Boswell Project All tickets £9/£7c except where indicated. Events are one hour long. and Graveyard Trail Sunday 6 May 2018: 11:00 - 13:00 Free Mausoleum and Graveyard, Auchinleck • Project display Friday 4 May Pop-up Studio in The Rothesay Room • Experts on hand to answer questions Suitable for all abilities. Age 8+ OPENING EVENING • Ancestry Advice Tickets £9, £7c, Children 8-16 £5 Dame Judi Dench 19:30 • Graveyard Tours Limited to 2 tickets per person. Drinks available from Pick up a pencil and draw with the Royal Drawing Boswell authority Dr Gordon Turnbull of Yale the Bar 18:00 until 19:15. Guests must be seated by 19:30. School! Sessions will be led by practising artists University will be talking about James Boswell, his and tutors, supported by a model and technician. family and the graveyard from 11:15 to 11:30 Saturday 5 May All materials are provided free of charge. Dame Judi Dench Screening 10:00 Plans and funding are in place to transform Andrew O’Hagan , Candia McWilliam & Alan Taylor 10:30 Saturday 5 May & Sunday 6 May Auchinleck graveyard into an all-year-round Alexander McCall Smith 12:00 visitor attraction. An application for planning Drawing the Body Clothed 10:30 - 11:50 Angus Roxburgh 12:00 Engineering Centre, Dumfries House Estate permission has been submitted, and it is hoped that Drawing the Head 13:30 - 14:50 Mary Killen & Gordon Turnbull 12:00 All tickets £2 and events are one hour long except where the restoration and enhancement of the historic Drawing Out and About 15:30 - 16:50 Jayne-Anne Gadhia 13:30 indicated. No unaccompanied children. Under 2s who do and atmospheric graveyard with its rich array of Neal Ascherson, Allan Little & Matthew Parris 13:30 not need a seat are free. Ages in listings are for guidance only. handsome tombstones, many dating back to the early Cardinal Vincent Nichols 14:00 eighteenth century, will commence later this year. Julian Glover 15:15 Saturday 5 May Shaun Bythell 15:15 Nicola Davies 10:00 Venues for 2018 Jackie Kay 15:30 Vivian French 10:00 Michael Heath 16:45 Eilidh Muldoon 10:00 Neal Ascherson 16:45 Our events over the weekend will take Christopher Lloyd 11:30 place in 5 venues: Matthew Parris 17:00 Gary Northfield 11:30 Michael Hall 18:15 Anthony Horowitz 13:30 • Pavilion Robin Yassin-Kassab 18:15 Nicola Davies 13:30 • Baillie Gifford Marquee Andrew O’Hagan 18:30 Eilidh Muldoon 13:30 • Tapestry Room Judy Murray 20:00 Vivian French 15:00 • Rothesay Room (Royal Drawing School) Naval Heroes 15:00 • Engineering Centre (Children’s Festival) Sunday 6 May Entrance to ALL Main Festival events will be Over the past few years, The Boswell Trust, which Finlay Wilson 10:30 Sunday 6 May through the Box Office at Reception. The venue runs the book festival, has been working towards Chai with Tony Singh 10:30 Gary Northfield 10:00 for each individual talk will be clearly marked the creation of a tourist attraction, to celebrate Christopher Lloyd 10:30 Chae Strathie 10:00 on the website on the evening of Friday 4 May. James Boswell’s life and work. Open Morning, Auchinleck Graveyard 11:00 Nicola Davies 11:30 Information Boards will display venues as you ‘The James Boswell Graveyard Trail’ will apply the David Craig & John Patterson 12:00 Vivian French 11:30 approach Reception. latest digital technology to the exploration of the Helen Pankhurst 12:00 Eilidh Muldoon 11:30 graveyard providing a biographical trail allowing David Clark 12:00 CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL AND CHILDREN’S BOX Christopher Lloyd 13:30 visitors to identify the headstones of the notable Joseph Farrell & Belinda Thomson 13:30 OFFICE WILL BE AT THE ENGINEERING CENTRE. Gary Northfield 13:30 people of Auchinleck through history as well as Struan Stevenson & Tony Singh 13:30 Vivian French, Eilidh Muldoon & Chae Strathie 15:00 their own ancestors. Users will be able to upload Maggie O’Farrell 14:00 their own images and descriptions. Darren McGarvey 15:15 Interactive Activities Gordon Turnbull 15:15 New seating, sweeps of seasonal bulbs and an Janette Benaddi & Helen Butters 15:30 SAT 5 & SUN 6 May avenue of yew trees will transform the graveyard Chris Mullin 16:45 into a place of contemplation and enjoyment. Average time 15 minutes Stuart Kelly 16:45 A contemporary orientation point has been Mary Killen & Giles Wood 17:00 STONE MASON’S YARD commissioned to celebrate the literary brilliance of ’s DNA 18:15 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 James Boswell and his legacy – the first anywhere. Anthony Horowitz 18:30 HARMONY PLAYPARK Substantial funding from Ayrshire LEADER has been granted Sally Magnusson 20:00 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 for phase one. “The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas”

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19:30 / £15 Curtain Up with Nicola Davies Prize winning author, zoologist and former presenter Dame Judi Dench, CH, DBE of BBC’s The Really Wild Show, Nicola Davies explores the issues surrounding biodiversity, the health of the Limited to 2 tickets per person. Drinks available from the planet and our role in conservation, through the true Bar 18:00 until 19:15. Guests must be seated by 19:30 stories which inspired her books including those in which children find solutions to problems through A unique opportunity to hear one of our greatest actresses conservation rather than killing. talking about her life and career – from her early days in theatre Tales she will tell include The Lion who Stole my to Oscar-winning film stardom. Arm, based on a true story about man-eating lions in Mozambique, The Leopard’s Tail, a mountain Born in 1934 in Yorkshire, Judi Dench was brought up and educated as a Quaker and went on to study adventure with Caucasian leopards based on a real at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She made her professional debut as Ophelia in the Old Vic’s conservation project and The Variety of Life, a glorious 1957 production of Hamlet and over the next twenty years established herself as one of the greatest celebration of diversity within the animal kingdom. actresses of the post-war period, taking on all of Shakespeare’s leading female roles, from Cleopatra to Lady Macbeth, of which one critic wrote: “It will astonish me if the performance is matched by any in this Dumfries House actress’s generation”. Her landmark appearances in West End theatre included Sally Bowles in the original Dame Judi Dench Screening Pupils are invited to join a fun tour through the 1968 production of Cabaret; and her television work garnered equal applause including the ITV series A Fine Saturday 5 May 10:00 /£5 fabulous rooms of this great house built by Scottish Romance with her husband, Michael Williams. architect brothers John and for Ayrshireman the Earl of Dumfries, hearing tales of the Her first starring role in film was Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown opposite Billy Connolly’s John Brown and she A screening of the Friday night interview with Judi Dench. If you are not able to be there children who once lived there as well as stories of a went on to win an Oscar for playing Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. Her international fame took off with her particularly smelly ghost. role as James Bond’s spy master ‘M’ starring in seven Bond films culminating in Skyfall. on Friday, why not come and see the replay and then meet Dame Judi herself at the book signing below. Meet James Boswell Dench continues to delight on screen – from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to Victoria & Abdul to a cameo Bozzy will tell you about his many friends and in role with Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. And she has no plans to slow down: “Age is a number. It’s particular his friendship with Dr who something imposed on you ... It drives me absolutely spare when people say, ‘Are you going to retire?’” Book Signing, Festival Cafe created the first dictionary. Boswell was famous for Saturday 5 May 11:00 writing about his friends in his diaries and he will ask you to write about yours. There will be certificates for There will be no book signing after her Opening Night event due to lack of time but you may order signed A unique opportunity to meet Judi Dench the best accounts and publication on our website for copies of her best-selling memoir And Furthermore, and the delightful photo album Behind the Scenes, from and have her sign your book. the winners. Waterstones on Friday evening - available for collection during and after the Festival.

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Brought up in Rhodesia, (now ), Alexander McCall Smith, CBE, sent his first story to a publisher at the age of eight. For many years he was a professor of Medical Law, then after the publication of the No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which marks its twentieth anniversary since publication this year, selling over twenty million copies in English alone, he became a full-time writer. Apart from 44 Scotland Street, the Isobel Dalhousie novels, Von Igelfeld and Corduroy Mansions series, he has written short stories, academic works and over thirty books for children.

One of the world’s most popular Angus Roxburgh authors will talk with broadcaster, 12:00 / £9, £7c Sheena McDonald, about his life, including his fascination for WH Over the past 45 Auden, and in What WH Auden Can years, as foreign Do For You McCall Smith describes correspondent Andrew O’Hagan, Candia the poet’s influence on him and of in Moscow for Auden’s ability to influence you too. McWilliam and Alan Taylor and the BBC and 10:30 / £9, £7c as translator of Tolstoy, Angus Dame Muriel Spark Centenary Celebration Roxburgh has seen first-hand the The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is arguably the greatest Scottish crazy, exasperating novel of the twentieth century and what better way to celebrate beautiful world that is Russia. He was Dame Muriel Spark’s centenary year than with a conversation there for Glasnost and Perestroika, the between prize winning novelists Andrew O’Hagan and Candia Chechen War and other upheavals. He McWilliam who have written introductions to two of her met three successive Russian presidents, reissued novels, worked as a media consultant to Putin’s The Driver’s Seat Kremlin and was even jinxed by a Siberian and Robinson, shaman. He has been shot at in war zones, and Alan Taylor, arrested by Chechen thugs and wooed by whose colourful, the KGB, who decided he would make a indiscrete lousy spy and expelled him. and admiring memoir, Based on his compelling memoirs Moscow Appointment in Calling, he will talk about his Russia then Arezzo, charts and now in conversation with the BBC’s the course of her Scotland Special Correspondent Ken life. Macdonald.

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For centuries men and women have sought advice on the niceties of modern manners and etiquette. in collaboration with the Tryst Way back in 1711, magazine My Life in Finance advised readers on how to behave ‘at the tea-tables and coffee houses’, Building a Business, while today’s resident correspondent Breaking Glass Ceilings at the magazine, Mary Killen, star of and Dealing with Dinosaurs Cardinal Vincent Nichols Gogglebox, continues the tradition with INTRODUCTION BY her renowned ‘Dear Mary’ column. Her SIR RICHARD BRANSON and Sir James MacMillan book How the Queen Can Make You Happy, 14:00 / £9, £7c mixes wit and polemic to make the case for civilised conduct - based on the Jayne-Anne Gadhia ‘A book about practical hope, hope for every day, everywhere ultimate role model, HM the Queen. 13:30 / £9, £7c and every person.’ Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

Joining Mary Killen on a journey The straight-talking CEO of Virgin Money reveals the events that When Cardinal Nichols was installed as the Archbishop of through the highs and lows of etiquette have influenced, shaped and inspired her to become one of the Westminster in 2009 the two antiphon texts, traditionally sung will be millennial, Constance Knox, most powerful and charismatic women in banking. at the Installation, were composed by Cumnock’s internationally features writer on the Sunday Express, acclaimed composer, Sir James MacMillan. Elevated to Cardinal and Dr Gordon Turnbull, head of the The Virgin Banker is not a conventional biography, nor a ‘how in 2014 by Pope Francis, Vincent Nichols will be in conversation great Boswell editorial project at Yale, to do it’ business book. With anecdotes from her early life, with MacMillan about his life and his passion for sacred music, tracing the curious historical origins including beating the bullies and experiencing racism as part with recorded excerpts. and development of the concept, which of a mixed-race marriage, through to building a business from owed much to the writers of the Scottish scratch, working at RBS under Fred Goodwin just before the No stranger to difficult areas, he accused politicians and media Enlightenment - and noting how often crash, and steering Virgin Money to become a listed business, for ‘almost trading in fear’ about the migrant crisis and at Pope our wayward hero, James Boswell, found Jayne-Anne Gadhia talks about the boundaries broken along the Francis’s behest, he heads up the Santa Marta Group, an alliance ways to be in breach of it! way, professionally and personally. In doing so a light is shone of international police chiefs and bishops, which works across on issues surrounding the role of women in banking and the the world to eradicate human trafficking and modern-day slavery. alpha-male dinosaurs that dominate the industry. She draws His book Hope in Action sets out a clear vision of what needs to on the relationships and deals that have shaped her career, be done in response to these and other challenges while also including her personal experience with mental health issues, giving grounds for hope. At a time of political and social upheaval, giving fascinating insight into how these helped her attitude his is a clear, calm and convincing reminder of the essential values and approach to both her business and personal life. that we all need to guide us into a better future.

PHONE: Box Office: 01563 554 900 Online: www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk In person: Waterstones, High Street, Ayr Image: Robin Mitchell Robin Image:

Tickets will also be available from the Festival Box Office at Reception during the weekend. Pre-book to guarantee your place!

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Jackie Kay is the third modern Makar, the Scottish poet laureate. Her work constantly explores questions of personal, racial and sexual identity. An acclaimed poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, her bestselling memoir Red Dust Road describes the search for her birth parents – a young nurse from the Highlands and a Nigerian student at Aberdeen University who met in the early sixties. Adopted at birth by a white communist couple living in , she had a happy childhood, in spite of racial bullying at school, and remains close to her adoptive parents. As Kay has said: “All writers draw on their own experience and a lot of my experience has been heightened”. Her recent collection of poetry Bantam brings three generations of her family into focus to show how we embody past generations as well as our own times.

Chaired by broadcaster, Sheena McDonald.

Neal Ascherson, Allan Little and Julian Glover Matthew Parris 15:15 / £9, £7c 13:30 / £9, £7c Born in 1757 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland-Yugoslavia-: Thomas Telford, a stonemason Whither Nationalism? turned architect turned engineer,

built churches, harbours, canals Caroline Image: McQuistin Three writers assess one of the (including the Caledonian), docks Shaun Bythell greatest international challenges of and the famously vertiginous 15:15 / £9, £7c contemporary politics. Neal Ascherson Image: Ring Jonathan Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales. has chronicled Scottish identity from He also invented the modern type of road creating the Proud owner of Wigtown’s The Bookshop, Scotland’s largest the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata to the backbone of our road network. His bridges are some secondhand bookshop containing 100,000 books, spread over present day and has been a pioneering of the most dramatic and beautiful ever built, most of a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires – all supporter of Scottish independence. BBC all the Menai Bridge across to Anglesey. Astonishingly that breaks Bythell’s idyll is his customers, about whom he is correspondent, Allan Little, reported on - almost everything he ever built remains in use today. not always complimentary, especially if they spend nothing. the 1991-95 conflict in Yugoslavia which Julian Glover, journalist and speechwriter, has sailed Hilarious and honest, Diary of a Bookseller, is an un-put- resulted in the country’s break up into across Telford’s aqueducts, walked his downable read with stories of obnoxious clients, colourful its historic nation states; and Matthew towpaths and tracked down his most remote locals, occasional discoveries of rare literary gems and the Parris, whose parents lived in Catalonia Scottish bridges bringing back to life Britain’s extermination of a Kindle by shooting, and proudly mounting it and where he has a house, has written greatest civil engineer in his engrossing, as a trophy in the shop. A true believer, he makes a passionate extensively on the crisis triggered by the bestselling biography Man of Iron. case for the importance of books. Catalonian fight for independence. Chaired by Stuart Kelly.

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Michael Heath One of Britain’s finest 16:45 / £9, £7c writers, Ascherson fuses history, memoir, politics and Legendary cartoonist Michael Heath meditations on a sense of started drawing for Punch in its post-war place in his award-winning heyday, aged seventeen, before becoming titles, which range from one of the stars of Private Eye, acclaimed histories of twentieth century for long running strips such as Great Bores Poland to 1980’s Britain. His of Today. Resident cartoon editor at The magisterial description of the Spectator for over 30 years, his latest strip, Black Sea and its surrounding using montages from vintage magazines, lands, part travel book, part is The Battle for Britain which he deems history, won the 1995 Saltire prize for literature. ‘The best work I’ve ever done. Totally new Stone Voices, which marked Ascherson’s return to ground.’ Heath, whose father was a comic his native Scotland, was an exploration of Scottish strip illustrator, will be talking about his identity, weaving together a story of its deep past wartime childhood, his dysfunctional with a contemporary picture of Scotland and its Marxist parents, his education aged rebirth. He has long been vocal in his support for an twelve in the low life pubs of Brighton independent Scotland. The former Observer Foreign ‘straight out of Graham Green’ and the Correspondent will talk about his life, travels and great days of Fleet Street and bohemian beliefs and his compelling first novel, The Death of the Soho. Hailed by Barry Humphries for Fronsac, based on a real event in WWII Greenock. his ‘witty observational genius’, this is a rare opportunity to hear one of Britain’s greatest living satirists.

14 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 15 Robin Yassin-Kassab “A prince among 18:15 / £9, £7c In 2011, many journalists.” Syrians took to the Auberon Waugh streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a warzone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land. A Scottish-Syrian journalist, Robin Yassin-Kassab talks to veteran reporter Allan Little about his definitive book Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War, co-authored with Leila al-Shami and newly updated, exploring the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with exceptional detail, drawing on new first- hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists, among many others, and in so doing offers a ground-breaking account of Michael Hall the political and humanitarian disaster. 18:15 / £9, £7c

The story of the Royal Collection, shown recently on BBC4, offers a fascinating and revealing insight into the history of the British monarchy from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II, recording the tastes and Matthew Parris obsessions of kings and queens and 17:00 / £9, £7c exploring how royalty used the arts to strengthen their position as rulers by divine right. The last great collection The charismatic presenter of the hugely popular programme about formed by the European monarchies to have survived into biography, BBC Radio 4’s , Matthew Parris, in conversation the twenty-first century, it contains over a million artworks with BBC’s Scotland Correspondent James Shaw, will talk about what and objects, covering all aspects of the fine and decorative makes a ‘great’ life and will entertain with stories from behind the arts, from paintings by Rembrandt and Michelangelo scenes of the series, as well as snapshots from his own eventful life. to grand sculpture, Fabergé eggs and some of the most exquisite furniture ever made. The former conservative MP for West , chastised by for jumping into the Thames to save a dog, is With a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, author now recognised as one of the shrewdest observers of the political Michael Hall, editor of art-history periodical The Burlington scene writing columns for and The Spectator. Famously Magazine, and special adviser to the BBC4 programme, was entertaining, his most recent books include Scorn: The Wittiest and given unprecedented access to the royal residencies. His Wickedest Insults in Human History and The Spanish Ambassador’s book, Art, Passion and Power is the definitive statement on Suitcase, Stories from the Diplomatic Bag. the British monarchy’s treasures of the art world.

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Judy Murray 20:00 / £9, £7c

As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy, and as Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all- round can-do woman of wonder, Judy Murray is the ultimate role model for believing in yourself and reaching out to Andrew O’Hagan ambition. From the soggy community 18:30 / £9, £7c courts of Dunblane to the white heat of Centre Court at Wimbledon, as a parent, Commissioned to write the autobiography of Julian Assange, the coach and leader she is an inspiration who founder WikiLeaks, O’Hagan enters a world of hubris and paranoia; has revolutionised British tennis. attempting to track down Satoshi Nakamoto, the secretive inventor of Bitcoin, he sets out to discover whether Satoshi is a lone wolf or a Without her unstinting determination to collection of individuals; and in creating an identity for an unknown soldier on despite challenging finances man, Ronald Pinn, O’Hagan journeys to the darkest reaches of the web. and disappointment that only a family In The Secret Life these three stories of ‘outlaws’ from ‘the wild west of of champions can really appreciate, she the internet’ come together to create a book about identity, secrecy, comes through and delivers. Hers is an surveillance and the relationship between the state and technology inspirational story of ‘yes we can’. showing why Ayrshire’s O’Hagan, three times nominee for the Man Booker Prize, is one of his generation’s most brilliant chroniclers. Judy Murray will be in conversation with Marianne Taylor, feature writer for the He is now working on a non-fiction account of the , Herald and Times Group. “She’s inspirational, spending time with the community to find the real story behind the headlines. passionate and great fun.” Kirsty Wark Andrew O’Hagan will be in conversation with Alex Massie, columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times.

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Enjoy a cup of chai as the celebrity chef and restaurateur talks about his life. A fourth generation Scottish Sikh, Tony Singh, MBE, was born in Leith and learned the joys of cooking and sharing marvellous food in the langar, or Sikh community kitchen, as well as absorbing the culinary skills of his mum and aunties at home. As a result, his cooking is celebrated for its mix of Scottish produce and Asian flavours. Presenter of BBC 2’s The Incredible Spice Men, he has also featured on The Great British Menu and Saturday Kitchen.

Recently he visited India tracing the story of his family in the violent Partition. His next expedition is a fund raiser to the Arctic Finlay Wilson for his local hospice in . 10:30 / £9, £7c

Dundee based Finlay Wilson’s video of a kilted yoga session in a Perthshire forest was viewed more than 50 million times but a decade ago he was unable to stand for long periods due to a condition which caused excruciating pain in his legs. After an operation, he struggled to walk without his legs buckling. He started yoga having been told it would be easy. It wasn’t. Unable to find the right type of yoga for his needs, 30 year old Wilson decided to become a yoga teacher and he now runs his own Christopher Lloyd studio in Dundee where he teaches Forrest yoga. He also leads 10:30 / £9, £7c classes all over the UK and features on his online yoga channel at Mat2Mat. The Story of the World in 100 Species is an epic biography that looks at Come and join him in basic poses to problem-solve common mankind’s place in nature, and our issues as he talks about the challenges in his life including his pivotal relationship with the Earth battle with mental health and his bestselling book Kilted Yoga. itself: past, present, and future. Taking us on an extraordinary journey explaining the phenomena that we call ‘life on earth’, Christopher Lloyd, historian and former science correspondent, identifies the hundred most influential species that have ever lived, with candidates as diverse as slime, sea scorpions, tulips and sheep, explaining that their story is just as important as ours.

Open Morning, Auchinleck Graveyard 11:00 – 13:00 Free / See page 5 for details

20 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 21 Two veterans of the Arctic Convoys David Clark 12:00 / £9, £7c tell their stories... To some Professor David Clark is known as ‘Professor Death’ and it is indeed true that his lifework is dedicated to the study David Craig of the end of life. It is for this that he came to know Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice and John Patterson movement, who is the subject of his with Dairmid Gunn latest book, about which he talks to Clara 12:00 / £9, £7c Weatherall. Born in 1918 and trained as a nurse, a medical social worker Between August 1941 and May 1945, the Arctic and finally as a physician, Dame Cicely became involved in 1948 Convoys delivered over 7000 aircraft and 5000 with terminally ill patients. Recognising the inadequacy of the tanks to Russia, sailing across some of the world’s care for the dying in hospital, she refused to accept that ‘there cruellest seas, from west coast and northern bases was nothing more that could be done’ as patients and families such as Loch Ewe, Oban and Kirkwall, heading were often told. In 1967 she founded St Christopher’s hospice, for Murmansk and Archangel. Merchant navy the first hospice linking expert pain and symptom control, ships were escorted by Royal Navy cruisers and compassionate care, teaching and clinical research. She went on destroyers as well as other allied warships. Two to pioneer taking care out into the community. It is her vision veterans who were part of the campaign will give a that fundamentally changed how we care for the dying today. unique account of this most hazardous of journeys in which over 2000 allied seamen were killed.

David Craig was a young radio officer in the John Patterson, a telegraphist, had served in Helen Pankhurst Merchant Marine, when he sailed in a coal-burning corvettes protecting two Atlantic convoys and 12:00 / £9, £7c freighter, the Dover Hill, bound for Murmansk. one to Gibraltar when he joined an American built After enduring horrendous weather conditions submarine chaser manned by a Russian crew for ‘Informative, enlightening and with and continual air attacks the Dover Hill had to the same hazardous voyage. In the lead ship that potential to change women’s lives.’ contend with the extraction of an unexploded the was only 110 feet long and 17 feet wide, John had Sandi Toksvig bomb lodged in her coal bunker – a hair-raising to endure the full gamut of hostile Arctic weather experience for the crew. On leaving the Navy, conditions and all that the Germans could throw at Great-granddaughter of suffragette leader David worked for a small -based him. After the safe arrival of his vessel he spent some company. Emmeline Pankhurst and herself a leading time at a Russian signals station before returning women’s rights campaigner, in Deeds Not Words to Britain. After the War, John, who now lives in Helen Pankhurst charts how women’s lives have Thornhill, continued to serve in the Royal Navy. changed over the past 100 years. Yet despite In 2016, the 75th anniversary of the first Arctic huge progress, women are still fighting for Convoy, veterans of the convoys were presented equality. Why at the present rate will they have with the Russian Ushakov medal for bravery at sea. to wait in Britain until 2069 for the gender pay The book Cold Seas and Warm Friendships written by gap to disappear and why globally have 1 in 3 Lt. Commander Dairmid Gunn, OBE, a former naval women experienced attaché in Helsinki and Moscow and fluent Russian physical or sexual speaker, draws on first-hand accounts to capture this violence? Drawing on story of bravery in the face of insurmountable odds. her family experience, the voices of pioneers All proceeds from the sale of his book will go to and ordinary women, the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum at Loch Ewe. Pankhurst combines historical insight with inspiring argument for a new way forward.

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Maggie O’Farrell 14:00 / £9, £7c

‘I have never read a book about death that has made me feel so alive’ Tracy Chevalier

A childhood illness she was not expected to survive; a teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster; a terrifying encounter on Joseph Farrell and Belinda Thomson a remote path and a mismanaged 13:30 / £9, £7c labour in an understaffed hospital. The bestselling I Am, I Am, I Am is Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. He died in Samoa in 1894. Paul the extraordinary memoir from Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. He died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903. A Scottish writer Costa Novel Award winner Maggie and a French artist whose lives coincided but who never met. Both, when at the height of O’Farrell in which with lack of their creative powers, took the enormous risk of travelling half way round the world, exiling sentimentality she reveals a whole life themselves from their homelands and setting themselves up in the South Seas. in tense snapshots of 17 of her own unforgettable brushes with death. Two world authorities, both from Scotland, Professor Belinda Thomson on Paul Gauguin, and Professor Joseph Farrell, author of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, Insightful and inspirational, hers discuss the connections between these two great artists: what drove them to the South is a story that will make you Seas and what common themes they shared along with the impact of the islands on newly conscious of life’s fragility, their lives and works. determined to make every heartbeat count and truly grow in understanding what it means to be Struan Stevenson a human.

and Tony Singh Maggie O’Farrell will be in 13:30 / £9, £7c conversation with broadcaster, Sheena McDonald. Former MEP Struan Stevenson takes ten meals that changed world history. Serving up the political and diplomatic backdrop behind the menus, he takes us on a unique gastronomic tour which stretches from Culloden and the American Revolution to the Congress of Vienna, Sarajevo, the great meeting between Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt and to Nixon’s banqueting in Beijing, as well as lesser known repasts such as at Achnacarry Castle when four industrialists decided on the rules that would govern the oil industry. It is clinically proven that ‘The Belly Rules The Mind’ and on every occasion the very best food and drink was offered.

Foremost chef Tony Singh has refashioned the menus into an accessible modern style so you can bring history to life in your own kitchen.

24 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 25 Janette Benaddi Gordon Turnbull 15:15 / £9, £7c and Helen Butters 15:30 / £9, £7c Head of The Boswell Editions at , where the Beinecke Janette, Frances, Helen and Niki were four very Library now houses a treasure different women from Yorkshire in their 40s and trove of Boswell family documents, 50s. Brought together by their love of rowing, they Dr Gordon Turnbull recounts the quickly became firm friends and despite children enthralling tale of loss, family and husbands, businesses and mortgages, decided censorship, scholarly sleuthing to cross 3,000 miles of treacherous ocean in the and often chance discovery that toughest row in the world, The Talisker Whisky led to the saving of the world Atlantic Challenge. In achieving the crossing in famous Boswell archive. Featuring a 67 days they picked up a world record: the oldest colourful cast ranging from nervous women to row any ocean - and raised thousands Boswell descendants to ferociously for charity in the process. Janette and Helen talk to competitive collectors and doggedly Olympic Sports Journalist Alison Walker about the dedicated editors, who collectively hilarious and best-selling story of their audacious recovered Bozzy’s private diaries and adventure Four Mums in a Boat. letters from neglect and disarray in three country houses, Auchinleck, Malahide and Fettercairn, and brought them to global recognition.

Image: Steven Reynolds As a result, The Journal 1762- 1763, published in 1950, became Darren McGarvey a worldwide bestseller helping 15:15 / £9, £7c fashion the powerful modern vogue for the revealing personal memoir. ‘It is hard to think of a more timely, powerful or necessary book.’ JK Rowling Chris Mullin 16:45 / £9, £7c Darren McGarvey, better known by his stage name, Loki, is a writer and hip-hop recording artist (@lokiscottishrap) who has All serious politicians should possess a hinterland, made regular media appearances as a social commentator and but not all do. Chris Mullin, Member of Parliament who works with initiatives such as Police Scotland’s Violence for Sunderland South from 1987 to 2010, was Reduction Unit. In his inspiring, shocking and funny book, one who did. By the time he entered parliament Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass, he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos part memoir, part polemic, McGarvey gives voice to the and Cambodia. He was the author of three novels feelings and concerns that are spilling over in Britain’s deprived including A Very British Coup (1982) which foretold communities and in doing so throws down challenges to both the rise of Corbyn and had led the successful the left and the right. As he says: “People are routinely ignored campaign to free the innocent people convicted of by decision makers who think they know better, even when, as the Birmingham bombings. In parliament he quickly they were in Grenfell, they are fatally mistaken.” established himself as a fearless inquisitor, going on to become a minister in three departments. Mullin Growing up in Pollok in a universe where the threat of violence The enthralling is the author of three acclaimed volumes of diaries was all-pervasive, he was only five when his mother, a violent described as ‘witty, waspish and hilarious’ which alcoholic, pinned him against a wall with a knife to his throat. tale that led to the are widely considered the best account of the New After she left home when he was 10, McGarvey attributes his Labour era. Hinterland is his autobiography. survival to the stability his father managed to cobble together saving of the world but even so he became submerged in drink and drugs. A couple of weeks before his mother’s death aged 36 from cirrhosis of famous Boswell PHONE: Box Office: 01563 554 900 the liver, when Darren was 17, they spoke, and for the first time archive. Online: www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk he saw her as a sick person not a bad one. Sober now for three In person: Waterstones, High Street, Ayr years, he is happily settled with a partner and child.

26 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 27 Stuart Kelly Stars of Gogglebox 16:45 / £9, £7c Mary Killen and Should a murderer be Giles Wood allowed to serve as a minister of the church? 17:00 / £9, £7c On release from prison, Known to millions of viewers across James Nelson, who the country for their quirky views had brutally killed his and eccentric style choices, Giles mother, studied divinity and Mary have become the unlikely at St Andrews and took stars of Gogglebox on - the up preaching. In 1984, reality TV series about watching the applying for a licence, telly. As Mary says: “Giles and I were he put the Church of both brought up to prioritise singing madrigals around a piano Scotland’s General or playing chess above watching television. So watching it as Assembly in a very tricky position. After a three- a job was, for us, a glorious guilt-free experience!” Mary soon hour debate, they approved him to become the first abandoned worries about how she looked for the camera in convicted killer to be ordained into the Christian their cramped thatched cottage in Wiltshire, leading one friend church. to remark it was so authentic she could even see the dust. In their real lives, Mary Killen is the renowned Spectator agony A renowned literary critic, Stuart Kelly’s fascinating aunt and well-known journalist who loves parties; whereas her book The Minister and the Murderer follows Nelson’s husband, Giles Wood, is a non-prolific if talented artist and self- story and in doing so encompasses theology, proclaimed natural philosopher in the process of re-wilding his philosophy, the nature of evil and Kelly’s own garden, who finds human company emotionally draining. intellectual development and struggle with faith as he considers the question of whether Nelson was a The Diary of Two Nobodies is a compelling account of a year genuine convert or a clever fake. in their lives charting their exasperations and their ways of surmounting them. Whether you are fan already or not, their He is in conversation with Canon Allan MacLean, story is rare in its honesty and heart-warming in its depiction of Rector of St Vincent’s Chapel, Edinburgh. love and companionship over time. They will be in conversation with Pauline McLean, BBC ‘I doubt there will be a more remarkable Scotland’s Arts Correspondent. Scottish book published this year.’ Alex Massie / Sunday Times Kenny Bryan, Darren McGarvey, Image: Joe Gordon Gordon Turnbull with Stuart Kelly Is Biography’s DNA resilient enough to survive in the digital age? 18:15 / £9, £7c

Join our debate over what form biography and memoir will take in the Festival a decade from now. What will the archives of tomorrow consist of? How are President Trump’s tweets being archived and will the context in which they were composed be known? Who owns the material put out on social media? Does the E-book offer ways of invigorating sales of classic biography? Can traditional biography compete in an age of manic distraction , or is long-form story-telling on the brink of revival based on TV box sets? Join Waterstone’s Kenny Bryan, rapper and social commentator Darren McGarvey, and the keeper of Boswell’s flame, Gordon Turnbull, all in conversation with man of letters, Stuart Kelly.

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“I’ve always loved magic, illusions, secret passages, things that are not quite what they seem”

Anthony Horowitz FESTIVAL FINALE 18:30 / £9, £7c

Writing his first book at the age of ten, the game changer for Anthony Horowitz, OBE, was the first Sally Magnusson 20:00 / £9, £7c Alex Rider adventure. Moving with his audience into adult writing, while continuing to write for children, he began with two continuation novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty, Rooted in real events described in a contemporary memoir by clergyman followed by his entry into the world of James Bond with Trigger Mortis and Forever And A Day - due to Olafur Egilsson, The Sealwoman’s Gift is the story of what happened in 1627 be published on 31 May. His writing for television includes some of the most beloved and successful when Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted over 400 people series made, including Robin of Sherwood, Poirot, Midsomer Murders and the creation of Foyle’s War including the Pastor and his wife and children who were then sold into slavery on which he worked for 15 years. His fiendish mystery Magpie Murders was a top seller in 2017 and in Algiers. With Icelandic story telling in her blood through her father Magnus the paperback of The Word is Murder, in which he appears as a character, comes out on 3 May. Magnusson’s love of Icelandic sagas, BBC Scotland presenter and author Sally Magnusson, who is half Icelandic and half Scottish, turned to fiction to fill the In conversation with Glasgow based novelist, playwright and cultural commentator Denise Mina, gaps in the historical record. Horowitz, the world-wide bestselling author, will talk about his life and the challenges of writing tales of mystery from Midsomer Murders to Sherlock Holmes and on to Bond! Researched in both Iceland and Algiers, Magnusson reimagines the true story in her enthralling new book, in conversation with Jane Fowler, former BBC Editor.

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As a registered charity, Boswell 10:30 - 11:50 Book Festival relies on the generosity of our supporters Drawing the Body Clothed to continue. Please help us by Drawing from the figure in the studio helps to becoming a Festival Friend from concentrate the mind and encourages you to see just £25. Pick up a pencil and draw! Our drawing sessions are suitable for all more and see better. We will discover how dress abilities and all drawing materials are and posture bring colour and character to our As a member of the Friends’ provided free of charge. Over the course drawing. There will be both long and short poses. Drawing can be direct, incisive, intimate, surprising, funny Scheme you will receive: or confrontational. It is a primary language natural to all of the weekend participants will have the Suitable for all ages and abilities. human beings. Everyone can draw. Drawing from observation opportunity to draw from life, working • Online programme in advance of the encourages an active engagement with the visual world around from a model and props in the studio, official programme launch us, connecting what we see with how we think, it can help us around the art collection in Dumfries get our thoughts in order or open up the imaginative mind. So House as well as out and about in the 13:30 - 14:50 • Priority telephone booking woods and the gardens of the estate. whether you’re 8 or 80 pick up a pencil and draw with us… Drawing the Head • A personal invitation to a Festival Sessions will be led by practising artists and tutors Spaces are limited so guarantee your Launch Event place by booking online or through the A portrait class is a great way to study the detail of at the Royal Drawing School, supported by a model • Regular newsletters leading up to Festival Box Office. Drop-in places will a face and head and capture a personality on paper and technician. the Festival be available on the day on a first come – just like biographers do in words. In this class, first serve basis. you will be encouraged to experiment with various drawing mediums, using both colour and black and If you would be willing to offer us a greater white. Suitable for all ages and abilities level of support, please consider becoming a Festival Patron from just £150 and enjoy additional benefits including free tickets, a Festival Reception and acknowledgement 15:30 - 16:50 on the website and in the programme. We have Papyrus, Parchment and Paper Patron Drawing Out and About packages to choose from. Drawing out and about around the Festival is a For full details of all our packages please unique opportunity to capture your experience speak to the on-site Box Office, visit our of the beautiful surroundings and their character, website www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk or sharpening your powers of observation. Nothing is email [email protected] fixed, everything is in flux: enjoy the challenge of being an artist in the great outdoors. Suitable for all ages and abilities.

32 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 33 All tickets £2 and events are one hour long except where indicated. SATURDAY EVENTS IN No unaccompanied children. Under 2s who do not need a seat are free. Ages in listings are for guidance only. Vivian French Do you like swimming? Anthony Horowitz 10:00 - 11:00 Bozzy’s Marquee £2 / Age 3-6 The Power of Books Billy Hippo hates water. It’s too cold! Too scary! Too 13:30 - 14:30 Engineering Centre £2 / Age 7+ wet! And swimming? No Thanks. Can two cheeky frogs and a BIG surprise change Creator of the number one Billy’s mind and start him swimming? bestselling Alex Rider novels, How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim is an irresistible Anthony Horowitz wrote his new tale from award-winning author Vivian French. first book at the age of 10 and has gone on to thrill his readers Gary Northfield with great plots, great pace and Vivian French The Terrible Tales of the Nicola Davies great humour. His titles include The Diamond Brothers, The Power Spooky Fun Teenytinysaurs! Mysterious of Five and wickedly funny tales 15:00 - 16:00 Engineering Centre £2 / Age 5+ 11:30 - 12:30 Bozzy’s Marquee £2 / Age 5+ Animals such as Granny and Groosham Follow a teeny tiny gang of dinosaurs muddling The Robe of Skulls, the first in the wildly popular series 10:00 - 11:00 Engineering Grange. Horowitz says, “A life their way through prehistoric life and find out if it’s Tales from the Five Kingdoms, sees Lady Lamorna, a Centre £2 / Age 5+ without stories, without the possible to fly to the moon in a bubble of snot or if down-on-her-luck sorceress, ordering a new robe of power of books, would be a very bogey monsters live at the bottom of the garden? skulls and then figuring out how to pay for it. This Prize winning author, zoologist and former presenter grey world – it’s good to add All these questions and more are explored in spooky fairy tale from much-loved author Vivian of BBC’s The Really Wild Show looks at Poo, probably colour.” hysterical adventures, as the dinosaurs wind each French MBE, creates a fantasy world of sorcerers, the most useful stuff on Earth; how and why animals other up. Great graphic stories from the comic- wizards and goblins and laugh-out-loud situations communicate; creatures who live on the bodies of book genius. other animals and why some animals are big, some “Horowitz has become a writer appealing to readers of all ages. wide, some small and others long and thin. Fun and who converts boys to reading.” …a plot involving blackmail, royal engaging, this is a great way to discover the mysteries The Times behind a wide variety of enthralling species. transfrogmification and deep villainy…

Christopher Lloyd Waterstones Big Bang to Today Children’s Book Shop Stonemason’s Yard On site for the weekend selling books by all Nicola Davies -The Word Bird 11:30 - 12:30 Engineering Centre £2 / Age 7+ the authors appearing. Eilidh Muldoon: 13:30 - 14:30 Bozzy’s Marquee £2 / Age 3-6 Christopher Lloyd’s Big History transports the reader Book Signing Hot Air Balloons Join in the rhyming texts in zoologist, poet and top author Nicola Davies’ richly illustrated books, from the Big Bang to today. Using an award-winning Authors will sign copies of their books after 10:00 - 11:15 Stonemason’s Yard £1 / All Ages their events. The Word Bird and Animal Surprises. Discover the method of telling stories through giant visual timelines, 13:30 - 14:15 Stonemason’s Yard £1 / All Ages information is presented in a way guaranteed to inspire Café delights of nature in ‘creatures of all shapes and children’s curiosity. An hour of history and not a yawn Make and decorate your own hot air balloon with sizes, some you’ll know and some... surprises!’ A couple of minutes walk away The Coach House in sight! More than 500,000 copies sold worldwide. Café - serving delicious cold and hot food, snacks, ingenious Colouring Book artist and Illustrator in juices, hot drinks, tea, coffee and home baked cakes. Residence Eilidh Muldoon. Her books include Gift Boxes David Craig & John Patterson to Colour and Make and The Colouring Book of Scotland. Naval Heroes 15:00 Bozzy’s Marquee Free Age 5+ Meet real life heroes who survived an unexploded bomb in their ship’s coal bunker and were bombarded by the Nazis as they took vital supplies across freezing seas from Scotland to Russia in the Arctic Convoys. Maybe you can think of questions to ask them?

34 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 35 Christopher SUNDAY EVENTS IN Book Trail Display Lloyd The first step towards an exciting, new, Book Trail Science Let from Auchinleck to Dumfries House has been Out of its Box! created by Primary pupils in Auchinleck and Chae Strathie with the help of visiting author Vivian 13:30 - 14:30 Engineering French and illustrator Eilidh Muldoon. The Boswell Centre £2 / Age 7+ Gorilla Loves Vanilla greyhound found on the coat of arms on the Bozzy’s Marquee Using his award-winning Boswell Mausoleum in Auchinleck was used to 10:00 - 11:00 Bozzy’s Marquee £2 / Age 3-6 method of telling stories stimulate discussion in the schools on through giant visual When the animals visit Little Sam Sundae’s Ice Cream the role of the greyhound in the timelines Christopher shop on Jellybean Street, they have some unusual local area. Bozzy’s greyhound Lloyd’s Science and requests. Sam whips up blue was chosen as the trail’s mascot Engineering Wallbook, developed with The Science cheese sundae for Mouse and will lead families round Museum, tells the story of the world’s greatest and a worm cornet for Hen. the trail once it is completed. scientists and inventors from the Stone Age to the Finally, Gorilla orders but After the Festival the Book Trail Gary Northfield present day. all he wants is plain old artwork will be on show in the vanilla. In deliciously funny Auchinleck Library. Julius Zebra Gorilla Loves Vanilla, the Festival Finale Rumble with the other animals realise that Gorilla has made the best Romans Vivian French, Eilidh Muldoon & Chae Strathie choice. 10:00 - 11:00 Engineering Centre / £2 / Age 6+ Story Consequences with FREE Interactive Activities From a smelly watering hole Vivian French Words, Pictures and Music with Dumfries House Education deep in the heart of the 15:00 - 16:00 Engineering Centre £2 / All Ages A Great Adventure Serengeti to the ferocious (Average time 15 minutes) Come and help create the world’s funniest illustrated 11:30 - 12:30 Bozzy’s Marquee £2 / Age 3-6 clamour of the Colosseum, stories with Vivian, Chae and Eilidh, based on audience join Julius Zebra and his Come and help brilliant storyteller, Vivian French, MBE, STONE MASON’S YARD suggestions, and make some new songs to accompany 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 friends as they gear up to be write a new adventure for Alfie Onion. In his first quest your favourite tunes. Guaranteed family fun for all ages! Sow and Throw with the Dumfries House ... gladiators! Only if they win the love of the Roman Alfie saved the day, with a little help from his loyal gardeners - make a green grenade and watch it crowds will they win back their freedom. Madagascar dog, when his elder brother Magnifico - setting out to explode with colour. Free meets Gladiator in this exciting, action-packed and make the family fortunes and find a princess to marry hysterically funny story from celebrated cartoonist - turned out not to be half the hero he was cracked up Enjoy composting with Yucky Worms. Free Gary Northfield. to be. So what should Alfie’s next adventure be? Woolly Weavers – Learn about where wool comes Eilidh Muldoon from, how it’s used to produce textiles and try Hot Air Balloons Gary Northfield your hand at weaving. Free 11:30 - 12:15 Stonemason’s Yard £1 / All Ages Gary’s Garden HARMONY PLAYPARK 11:00 - 13:00 & 14:00 - 16:00 Nicola Davies - Make and decorate your own hot air balloon with 13:30 - 14:30 Bozzy’s ingenious Colouring Book artist and Illustrator in Marquee £2 / Age 4+ Funky Junk Challenge Free Watery Tales Residence Eilidh Muldoon. Her books include Gift Get creative with up-cycling. See what you can 11:30 - 12:30 Engineering Centre Boxes to Colour and Make and The Colouring Book of Gary is chilling in his Garden. make from all those scrap heap treasures. £2 / Age 5+ Scotland. But wait! Look CLOSER! Look Award-winning author Nicola what’s happening right HARMONY PLAYPARK Sat: 14:00 - 15:00/ Sun: 13:30 - 14:30 Davies has always been fascinated by under Gary’s NOSE...Grumpy the remarkable lives of animals living Caterpillars! Space travelling Bozzy Book Safari Free in our seas. She will talk about our need to care for ladybirds! Ninja Hedgehogs! PARP! What Try our book festival themed geocache trail – prize whales, turtles, sharks and ice bears as well as giving a was that? An insect orchestra - wow! Gary Northfield for the first group to complete the challenges. sneak preview of her new book A First Book of the Sea. has been writing and drawing comics since 2002. One of his favourite subject matters is animals and their OWL MAGIC Captivating and fun, this is a great way to discover Sat: 11:00 - 15:00/ Sun: 11:00 - 15:00 Free jolly lives. the wonders of our watery world. Visit the Owl Magic tent to learn about owls and birds of prey and see these stunning birds close up.

36 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BOSWELLBOOKFESTIVAL.CO.UK 37 Waterstones Bookshop Festival Marquee Kenny Bryan and his excellent team from James Boswell 1740-1795 Waterstones, Ayr are our on-site bookseller. On offer Inventor of Modern Biography will be a superb selection of titles by or about our authors for all to browse and discover new delights. James Boswell sprang from an ancient Ayrshire family, A separate children’s bookshop will operate at the which had been settled at Auchinleck since the sixteenth Engineering Centre. century. He was born in Edinburgh in 1740 where his Book signings: Authors will be delighted to sign copies of their books immediately after their events. father, who became Lord Auchinleck, was a Judge in the Supreme Court of Scotland. His mother was descended Whisky Tastings with The from a minor branch of Scottish royalty. Festival Café Bar Festival Marquee Lost Distillery Company He was educated at Edinburgh University followed by Waiting for a talk or of one? In our Hosted by Ewan Henderson, Glasgow University, where he attended the lectures of the Festival marquee, soup, sandwiches, wraps, large Global Brand Ambassador great Enlightenment philosopher, . From the selection of cakes, tray bakes and scones together start, Bozzy as he was affectionately known, was drawn Location - The Whisky Room, adjacent to with teas, coffees, wine, beer and soft drinks will be to the pleasure-loving side of life. His first visit to London Dumfries House Lodge on offer for your delectation. Feel free to take your at the age of 19 began a love affair with the city which drinks into the Pavilion. The Lost Distillery Company is a never wavered. His charm, sensitivity and intelligence boutique Scotch Whisky company based opened doors to the most brilliant men of the day, but at Dumfries House, obsessive about the ultimate prize for Boswell was his friendship with Coach House Café their craft and uncompromising when it the towering figure of Dr Samuel Johnson – compiler A short walkway takes you to the newly extended comes to whisky quality. Their mission of the definitive dictionary of the English language and Coach House where there is a more extensive menu is to create present day expressions of celebrated man of letters. Boswell’s friendship led him to on offer, from a warming bowl of homemade soup legendary whiskies from the past. become Johnson’s biographer and the account of his life, and a wide range of hot or cold snacks to a light published 220 years ago this May, has never been out of lunch or supper. Freshly brewed coffee and tea with print. His Life of Johnson established him as the inventor of delicious cakes also await you or alternatively relax • The Lost Distillery modern biography and has upheld his reputation as one with a glass of wine or beer. Masterclass of the most innovative writers of the Enlightenment. Friday 10:00-22:00 Saturday 10:00-22:00 Saturday 11:15 - 11.45 & 14:00 - 14:30 Boswell was also author of a pioneering travel book An Sunday 10:00-21:00 - £20 to include a discount off bottle Account of Corsica and his famous Journal of a Tour to the purchase Hebrides, which described an expedition made to the Woodlands Restaurant Western Isles with Dr Johnson. At the end of their journey, This bespoke tasting will include an they stayed at Auchinleck where Johnson famously Dumfries House This stylish restaurant offers a refreshingly imaginative insightful introduction and tasting across crossed swords with Boswell’s father. range of delicious dishes using fresh and locally 30 minutes mini-tours / £5 through Dumfries The Lost Distillery family. sourced ingredients, including seasonal vegetables House website or buy on the day Boswell’s fame redoubled in the twentieth century with from the Dumfries House garden. the discovery and publication of his diaries, setting him Don’t miss out on the opportunity to experience • The Lost Distillery Vintage Special Festival Menu: 2C £19.95 / 3C £25.00 alongside Pepys as one of the greatest diarists in the the superb interiors and treasures of Dumfries Masterclass Fri17:00-22:00 / Sat 17: 00 - 22:00 / Sun 12:00-21:00 English language. Boswell ushered in the confessional House which have been restored to their original Reservations on: 01290 425959 Saturday 16:45-17:15 - £35 to include a memoir, which is so popular today. Nothing was omitted splendour. Combining the architecture of Robert discount off bottle purchase - including his innumerable sexual encounters, his battle Adam and his brother with the furniture of Thomas with depression, his difficult relationship with his father, Chippendale and leading 18th century Scottish Go Bunkers! This bespoke tasting will include an his frustrated political ambition and his life as a lawyer in cabinet makers, the house and original contents, Tamar Manoukian Outdoor Centre insightful introduction and tasting across the Scottish courts. which include nearly 10% of Chippendale’s Book a room in the bunkhouse and stay onsite The Lost Distillery Vintage and Archivist surviving work, represent one of the most important on Dumfries House estate to enjoy the luxurious family. Boswell was an Ayrshireman through and through. He documents of the . bunkbed and breakfast experience with like-minded married his cousin, Margaret Montgomerie, with whom people. Then you can relax and immerse yourself in he had five children and became Laird of Auchinleck on Saturday & Sunday Tour times: the Festival without your fun being dampened by the death of his father in 1782 and devoted much time 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 the thought of a long drive home. and money to the care of the Estate. He died in 1795 and 1110 1210 1310 1410 1510 1610 1710 £25 per person per night / Bookings: Anne Kelso on was interred in the Boswell Mausoleum in Auchinleck 1120 1220 1320 1420 1520 1620 1720 01290 429917 churchyard.

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Your call may be recorded for training or monitoring purposes. Baillie Gifford Savings Management Limited (BGSM) produces Trust magazine 42 BOSWELL BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 and is an affiliate of Baillie Gifford & CoWWW.B Limited, whichOS isWELLB the managerOO andKFE secretarySTIVAL.C of sevenO investment.UK trusts. 43 Main Box Office Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock BUY YOUR TICKETS (until 12:00 Thurs 3 May) Tel: 01563 554 900 Lines open: Tue - Sat, 10:00 -16:30 (until 12:00 Thurs 3 May, then use Festival number below) Most major credit and debit cards accepted - no cheques. How To Find Us Tickets also on sale: FOLLOW THE SIGNS TO DUMFRIES HOUSE Waterstones, High Street, Ayr Dumfries House, Cumnock, Ayrshire (open Mon - Sat 09:00 -1 7:30 / Sun 13:00 - 17:00) Postcode: KA18 2NJ (until 17:30 Fri 4 May) Directions on: www.dumfries-house.org.uk Cumnock Town Hall (open Tue - Sat 10:00 - 16:30) (until 12:00 Thur 3 May) Online Tickets www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk Festival Weekend Box Office Tickets by Phone 07530 380 021 (from 12:00 Thurs 3 May ONLY) Lines open: Thur 3 May 12:00 - 16:30 Fri 4 - Sun 6 May 10:30 - 18:00 Tickets On-Site Dumfries House (from 18:00 Fri 4 May ONLY) Fri 4 May 18:00 - 19:30, Sat 5 May 10:30 - 20:00 Sun 6 May 10:30 - 20:00 Festival Weekend Children’s

By Air: Glasgow International Airport is 50 minutes away Festival Box Office By Car: Access to Dumfries House is from the A70 Ayr-Cumnock or Tickets by Phone 07596 841 272 Cumnock-Ayr direction. There are two entrances – one clearly marked ‘cars only’ and the other ‘coaches only’. (from 12:00 Thurs 3 May ONLY) By Train: The nearest train station is Auchinleck which connects Lines open: to many lines in the region. The train from Glasgow Central calls at Thursday 3 May 12:00 - 16:30 Barrhead, Dunlop, , , Kilmarnock, and Auchineck. From Carlisle the train calls at Gretna Green, Annan, Dumfries, Fri 4 - Sun 6 May 10:30 - 16:00 Sanquhar, Kirkconnel, and Auchinleck. Book a taxi in advance to pick you up from Auchinleck Station. Tickets On-Site Engineering Centre By Bicycle: See the instructions for By Car or By Train. By Train the (from Sat 5 May ONLY) best entrance to Dumfries House is from the B7036 Sat 5 May 09:30 - 16:00, Sun 6 May 09:30 -15:00

Approximate journey times from: Tickets: Tickets must be paid for at the time of booking and are non- refundable. Tickets for The Boswell Book Festival are limited and may Glasgow: 50 mins therefore not be available for purchase at the door on the day of performance. Edinburgh: 2 hours Concessions: Available to students, registered disabled (plus one carer), Dumfries: 1 hour 10mins registered unemployed, under 16s and Young Scot cardholders. Proof of Stranraer: 1 hour 30 mins entitlement will be required. Carlisle: 1 hour 30mins Events are one hour long unless specified. All seating is unreserved. Visitors with additional needs: The marquee venues have wheelchair access. Seats on the front row or by the central aisle can be reserved for ticket No Car? Prefer not to Drive? Glaisnock Taxis are offering holders with disabilities, subject to availability. To arrange, please phone the special Festival rates to Dumfries House – sample fares £8 from Box Office in advance. Latecomers: Events start punctually. Members of the Auchinleck, £8 from Cumnock. Why not make a party of it and audience may not be admitted after the beginning of events. book an eight seater or sixteen seater minibus, for an extra Programme details are correct at the time of going to press. The Boswell Book £1.25 per person for four people up. Festival reserves the right to alter or cancel events. Reservations on: 01290 423669 Please check the Festival website www.boswellbookfestival.co.uk, Facebook or Twitter for the latest news, special events and information.