CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL MAKE A LONG WEEKEND OF IT 14-18 SEPTEMBER 2017 St Michael and All Angels Church and Parish Hall, Bath Road, London, W4 1TX, by Turnham Green tube station Other venues include Chiswick House, Chiswick Library, The Tabard Theatre (and pub), Ginger Whisk and the Andrew Clare Balding David Baddiel Cathy Rentzenbrink Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre at the Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) John O’Farrell Jo Malone Nicholas Crane Director: Torin Douglas Author Programme Director: Jo James Production Manager: Vicky Taylor Festival Co-ordinator: Victoria Morley St Michael & Angels Jeremy Vine Hunter Davies Parish Office, W4 1TX www.chiswickbookfestival.net [email protected] Jeremy Vine Maggie O’Farrell Hunter Davies Follow us @W4BookFest and #ChiswickBookFest. Book now and see full updated programme at www.chiswickbookfestival.net WELCOME TO THE CHISWICK BOOK FESTIVAL 2017 PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS th The 9 Chiswick Book Festival brings together top authors and their readers for an inspiring and entertaining Tuesday 12 September, long weekend of fiction, history, politics, memoir, crime, gardening, music, food, wine, the environment, 11am, The Happy Birth workshops, children’s books & more. Book - Beverley Turner Since 2009, the Chiswick Book Festival has raised more than £60,000 for charities which support reading Join LBC’s Beverley and literacy and for St Michael & All Angels Church, which hosts the Festival. This year the Festival will Turner (seen here continue to support: with husband James Cracknell at the launch RNIB Talking Books Service and Books for Children, supporting blind and partially sighted people. The of The Happy Birth Book) Festival has sponsored the recording of many Talking Books, including The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, and a panel of experts Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford and Keeping On, Keeping On by Alan Bennett. as they offer facts, tips Read more at www.RNIB.org.uk/books. and friendly, useful InterAct Stroke Support, which commissions actors to read to stroke patients. The Festival helps to fund advice about birth, its work at Charing Cross Hospital, contributing some two months of reading each year. Read more at babies & beyond. www.interactstrokesupport.org. Waterstones, 220-226 Chiswick High Road. Free admission. Doorstep Library, which brings books and the magic of reading to the homes of children in some of London’s most disadvantaged areas. Its work improves not just reading skills, but confidence, social integration, Tuesday 12 academic performance and employment prospects. Read more at www.doorsteplibrary.org.uk. September, 7-9:30pm, HOW TO BUY TICKETS Lucy’s Food: An Evening with is proud to ONLINE from: www.chiswickbookfestival.net Lucy Cufflin Join Lucy Cufflin BY POST for those unable to book online. Use the Advance Booking Form available from Waterstones, of Chiswick’s new support the 9th 220-226 Chiswick High Road, London W4 1PD, or St Michael & All Angels Church, Bath Road, London W4 Ginger Whisk 1TX. Tickets for most events will be available on the door, unless already sold out. Cooking School, author of Lucy’s TICKET PRICES Admission to most sessions is by a Saturday or Sunday Day Pass (£15 per day or £25 for Food and Lucy’s both days) excluding: Chiswick Bakes, for canapés Lucy’s Food: Cookery demo & supper £20 (Tuesday 12 September - Ginger Whisk Studios) and a cookery demonstration followed by a light supper, in aid of our charities. Raffle and bar. Ginger An Evening With Jane Austen £10 (Thursday 14 – Chiswick House) Whisk Studios, 14 Turnham Green Terrace Mews Book Clare Balding £4 (Friday 15 – Church) (behind Snapdragon). £20 (incl first glass of Hunter Davies & Roger Bolton £10 (Friday 15– Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre, ArtsEd) wine). To book a table, see website David Baddiel £4 (Saturday 16 – Church) Festival Jeremy Vine £10 (Saturday 16 – Church) Wednesday 13 September, 7pm-9pm, Waterstones Local Authors Party Not So Perfect Parents’ Evening £10 (includes glass of bubbles, Saturday 16 - Parish Hall) On the eve of the Festival, we showcase the wealth Nowhere Like London £3 or £1.50 for Library members of local talent that Chiswick has to offer. Each (Monday 18 – Chiswick Library) author has just two minutes to speak about their Waterstones, book, making this a fast-paced, fun and fascinating WORKSHOPS evening. See Festival website for more details. 220-226 Chiswick High Rd, Researching Your Novel (Jill Dawson) £25 pp, max 16 participants (ArtsEd) Waterstones, 220-226 Chiswick High Road. Quick Pitch: The First Five Pages (Louise Lamont) £18 pp, max 12 participants Free admission. London W4 1PD (The Snug, Tabard pub, 10 mins each) T. 020 8995 3559 Time, Place, Action (Emma Henderson) £20 pp, max 20 participants (ArtsEd) Writing the Self (Cathy Rentzenbrink & Francesca Main) £20 pp, max 20 participants (ArtsEd) PLEASE NOTE Admission to Day Pass and Weekend Pass events is subject to venue capacity. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. THURSDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2017 Festival Supporters Many thanks to the FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2017 local firms who have sponsored events or given their services free, particularly to our Diamond partners: Savills; Waterstones Chiswick, who sell the authors’ books; and Chiswick Auctions, who offer book valuations. We are also very grateful to Hubbard Pegman & Whitney, Killik & Co, University of West London and other organisations who sponsor individual sessions; to Fosters Bookshop, who sponsor the quiz and Alan Connor, who writes it; to ArtsEd, Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, Chiswick Library, St Michael & All Angels Church, the Tabard Theatre & pub and Ginger Whisk CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 7:30pm-8:30pm A Life in the Day Studios for hosting events without charge; 5pm-6pm Clare Balding Author and journalist Hunter Davies talks about to Chiswickbuzz.com, ChiswickW4.com, Clare Balding launches The Racehorse Who his new memoir, which covers living in London in Chiswick Herald and TheChiswickCalendar. Disappeared, her second brilliant adventure the 1960s, becoming editor of Britain’s first ‘colour co.uk for their coverage of the Festival; and story about young heroine Charlie Bass and supp’, The Sunday Times Magazine; befriending Jenny Yen of westeastdesign.co.uk, who her hilarious family of humans and animals. The Beatles; and interviewing the biggest names designed this leaflet. It’s an aspirational story about overcoming in television, film and theatre. Hunter also reflects adversity and following your dreams, subjects on his years spent with the love of his life – the Special thanks to all our participating close to Clare’s heart. Clare will share tales bestselling writer Margaret Forster - and life authors, their publishers, the chairs, and of growing up surrounded by animals and without her. This memoir follows The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! which was about his childhood. Chaired 6pm for 7pm An Evening with Jane Austen the many hardworking volunteers, whose stories from the Olympians and Paralympians by Roger Bolton of Radio 4’s Feedback. On the day Jane Austen graces the £10 note for the support helps us raise money for our she has met during her remarkable career. Supported by the University of West London first time, we hold a special event in the Burlington reading-related charities and without Expect lots of audience interaction and lots of Bar open from 6:45pm Pavilion, celebrating 200 years of her life and whom Chiswick Book Festival would not time for questions. Supported by Young Veterinary Practice The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, work in the splendid Neo-Palladian surroundings be half as enjoyable or successful! ArtsEd, 14 Bath Road, W4 1LY, £10 of Chiswick House & Gardens. Authors Paula St Michael & All Angels Church, £4 Byrne (The Genius of Jane Austen) and Helena Watch for updates to this list at Kelly (Jane Austen The Secret Radical) are joined by www.chiswickbookfestival.net Esmé Whittaker from English Heritage, curator of Chiswick House, who will highlight the links PLANNING YOUR VISIT between the author, Chiswick and its sister estate, Chatsworth, widely thought to be the model for Pemberley in Pride & Prejudice. Chaired by Festival BUYING BOOKS Director Torin Douglas. A team from Waterstones will be selling books and authors will be available for signings after their sessions. Supported by Hubbard, Pegman & Whitney VENUES, TRAVEL & TIMING Bar open and books on sale from 6pm Sessions are usually an hour long, with a 30-minute change-over time. More details on website. The Burlington Pavilion, Chiswick House, £10 DISABLED ACCESS The Burlington Pavilion at Chiswick House, St Michael & All Angels Church and Parish Hall, ArtsEd and Chiswick Library have full disabled access. However The Tabard Theatre is reached up a staircase and unfortunately does not have a lift. FOOD AND DRINK Coffee and home-made cakes will be sold in the Festival Marquee outside the Parish Hall. Drinks will be on Information is correct at time of going to press on 28th July 2017. Programme and other details subject to change. sale before the evening sessions at Chiswick House, ArtsEd and in the Church. There are many restaurants, More events may be added - see Festival website, posters and notice boards for updates. cafes, wine bars and pubs within a few minutes’ walk. 2:30-3:30pm SATURDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2017 CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL The Holocaust: 12:30-1pm Poetry Competition Prize Giving 1:30-2:30pm Giraffe and Frog Activity Party A New History Lucy Hawking (the George Greenby science Join award-winning author illustrator Zehra Celebrated historian Chiswick Auctions: As Chiswick Auctions adventure books) will present the prizes for Hicks for exciting readings, a comic-strip and filmmaker opens its new showroom in South Kensington, the Chiswick Book Festival Young People’s drawing workshop and puppet making! Zehra Laurence Rees its print experts will again give free evaluations Poetry Competition.