BOOKING RICHMOND UPON THAMES LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2013 For a full list of festival venues, see inside the back cover of this programme. I am delighted to welcome you to the Visit www.richmondliterature.com Unless otherwise stated in the programme, all events can be booked 22nd annual Richmond upon Thames for updates and to book your tickets. as follows: Literature Festival. Follow the festival news and share your thoughts on Twitter @richmondlitfest. ONLINE The festival runs throughout the whole We look forward to seeing you at the Book online at www.richmondliterature.com from 30 September. month of November and features an festival soon. exciting line up of authors, commenta- PHONE tors and leading figures from the world Rachel Tranter Call 020 8831 6494 with your credit/debit card ready. The box office is open from of journalism, television, food, history Head of Arts 30 September, Monday–Friday 10am to 4.30pm, with a message service at other times. and politics in a range of interesting and unique venues across the borough. IN PERSON Tickets are available from 30 September by cash, cheque or credit card from: Highlights from this year's main programme include Charles Moore, Orleans House Gallery author of the authorized Margaret Riverside, Twickenham tw1 3dj Thatcher biography speaking at Tuesday–Saturday 1pm to 4.30pm Richmond Theatre; Sir Max Hastings; Sunday 2pm to 4.30pm novelist and journalist Daisy Waugh and the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow’s ON THE DOOR Marc Allum sharing his expertise at artsrichmond is an independent charity Tickets will be on sale 30 minutes prior to the start of the events Marble Hill House. supporting over 100 cultural organisations at the venue concerned, subject to availability. Cash sales only. across the London Borough of Richmond There will also be events on cocktails upon Thames. Throughout the year CONCESSIONS and beer, food and gardening, panel societies affiliated to artsrichmond Concessionary prices are for over-60s, those in receipt of unemployment discussions, poetry and spoken word. operate right across the cultural spectrum benefit or income support, registered disabled and under-16s, full-time Additionally, this year's programme offers in the world of music, fine arts and students and Leisure Card holders. Escorts of registered disabled go free. the opportunity to visit local publishing photography, theatre and of course Please show appropriate proof when purchasing or collecting tickets. house Harlequin UK and participate in a literature. Our community excels in the workshop with their Editorial Director. great arts events it creates and the literary OTHER BOX OFFICE NUMBERS events on offer here add to a rich local Orange Tree Theatre 020 8940 3633 | www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk Our exciting programme for children tapestry. Richmond Theatre 0844 871 7651 | www.atgtickets.com/richmond and young people includes an event with acclaimed author and illustrator We are delighted to be a partner in the GETTING TO RICHMOND of the Alfie series, Shirley Hughes and 2013 Literature Festival which presents Richmond is easily reached by public transport with trains departing regularly her daughter Clara Vullimay; a workshop such a diverse literary menu for you to to all stations in the borough from Waterloo and Clapham Junction. for families on contemporary art with feast on. Richmond is served by the District Line and the London Overground Train service. Jacky and Suzy Klein; and Damian Dibben, Richmond is in zone 4. author of the popular series The History David Ward Keepers, speaking at Strawberry Hill artsrichmond Chairman Journey time from central London is approximately 30 minutes. House. www.richmondliterature.com 3 MAIN Read Right Hear: A Celebration Simon Garfield of Poetry and Spoken Word To the Letter: A Journey through Friday 1 November – 6pm a Vanishing World Whittaker Ellis Suite, Old Town Hall Sunday 3 November – 2.30pm Free (Booking advisable) Riverside Room, Old Town Hall PROGRAMME £8 / £6.50 A celebration of poetry and spoken Special £5 ticket price for Richmond word created by local young people Library Card holders through the Read Right Here project, joined by members of the Keats Letter-writing is one of the things that House Poets. makes us human, but the activity may be about to come to an end. In this The Read Right Hear project is richly illustrated talk, the bestselling developing a new online resource author of Just My Type and On the Map created by young people from the offers a delightful ode to a dwindling borough as a platform to explore the art, stretching from Roman wood chips vibrant literary heritage of Richmond discovered near Hadrian’s Wall to the upon Thames. Funded by the Clore wonders and terrors of email. To the Duffield Foundation, young people have Letter shows how correspondence has been working with poet and spoken illuminated our history and expressed word artist Stephanie ‘Sonority’ Turner our emotions, and explains why digital to map the borough’s literary locations communication is such a poor substi- and to create their own responses to tute. With examples from Jane Austen, authors who lived and worked here Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes and Charlie through the decades. Brown this event will provide foolproof instruction into how to write the The Keats House Poets Forum has perfect letter. eight core members who meet regularly to share work and support Simon Garfield is an award-winning each other's developing careers in feature writer on the Observer and poetry. They run a free poetry event author of two previous books of oral at the Keats House Museum, as well as history, both highly acclaimed. His workshops for the public. The forum is study of Aids in Britain, The End of supported by ‘Stories of the World’ and Innocence, was awarded the Somerset the Heritage Lottery fund. Maugham Prize, and the bestselling Mauve was described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘a book about science which also happens to be a miniature work of art’. www.richmondliterature.com 5 artsrichmond Books for our time event Max Hastings: Catastrophe Wednesday 6 November – 7.30pm Duke Street Church £10 / £8.50 Sir Max Hastings discusses his magiste- Peter Conradi Andrew McConnell Stott rial chronicle Catastrophe, exploring the Hotdogs and Cocktails: The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy calamity that befell Europe a hundred When FDR met King George VI and The Curse of Byron years ago as the continent shifted from at Hyde Park on Hudson Monday 4 November – 7pm the glamour of the Edwardian era to Sunday 3 November – 7pm Strawberry Hill House the tragedy of total war. Orange Tree Theatre £8 / £6.50 £10 / £8.50 Max Hastings is the author of 25 books, Tickets from: Orange Tree Theatre In the spring of 1816, Lord Byron was many of which are about war and box office 020 8940 3633 or the greatest poet of his generation for which he has won many awards, www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk and the most famous man in Britain, including the Somerset Maugham Prize but his personal life was about to erupt. and the Pritzher Military Library Between 9 and 12 June 1939, King Fleeing his celebrity, notoriety and Award. George VI and Queen Elizabeth debts he sought refuge in Europe, were the guests of President Franklin taking his young doctor with him. As a journalist, he reported for the D. Roosevelt at his country estate in As an inexperienced medic with BBC and multiple newspapers from Hyde Park, New York State, during literary aspirations of his own, 64 countries and 11 conflicts, most what was the first ever visit by a Dr Polidori could not believe his luck. famously the Falklands war. He has reigning British monarch to the been both Editor in Chief of the Daily United States. At a time when Britain That summer another literary star also Telegraph and Editor of the Evening desperately needed America’s help in arrived in Geneva. With Percy Bysshe Standard and was knighted for his a conflict that now seemed inevitable, Shelley came his lover, Mary and her services to the profession in 2002. the meeting was front page news on step-sister Claire Clairmont. For the both sides of the Atlantic and imbued next three months, this party of young Sir Max will be introduced by with huge political significance. bohemians shared their lives, charged Anne Sebba, this year’s President with sexual and artistic tensions. of artsrichmond and biographer In this book Peter Conradi – who has of the Duchess of Windsor and already introduced us to the gentle, Join Andrew McConnell Stott, author Jenny Churchill, and was herself a shy figure of George VI in his bestseller of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi former foreign correspondent. The King’s Speech – recreates the and Professor of English at the backdrop to the royal visit, analysing University of Buffalo as he delves into the political background, the media’s the lives of these well know writers and reaction and telling the back stories explores this period of extraordinary both of the King and of FDR; whose creativity from which would emerge colourful personal life became the gothic masterpiece of Romantic entwined with the visit. fiction,Frankenstein ; Byron’s Childe Harold, Shelley’s Mont Blanc, and The Vampyre by John Polidori; the first great vampire novel. 6 www.richmondliterature.com www.richmondliterature.com 7 © Tricia de Courcy Ling Dance in Libraries Frauke Requardt: What we Love Thursday 7 – Saturday 16 November Times – see below Richmond Lending Library FREE As part of Richmond’s Dance in Libraries season, Richmond Lending Library will be host to a brand new site-specific dance performance by choreographer Frauke Requardt. Working in collaboration with writer Sonia Hughes and sound artist Dave Price, Frauke has conducted a series of interviews with library users to explore favourite books, memories and stories of the local area.