Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival Jacqueline Wilson Alastair Campbell Paul Merton Simon Russell Beale Harriet Walter Nick Butterworth Hugo Rifkind Antonia Fraser Christina Lamb Alexander McCall Smith Chris Riddell Richard Davenport Hines Helen Lederer Jessie Burton Douglas Hurd David & Ben Crystal and many more… Box Office: 01789 207100 or online at: www.stratfordartshouse.co.uk The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival 25th April to 3rd May 2015 www.stratlitfest.co.uk PLUS: Writing Competition | Song for Stratford | Book Group MACDONALD ALVESTON MANOR HOTEL ONE OF THE FINEST 4-STAR HOTELS IN WARWICKSHIRE, OFFERING GREAT LUXURY ACCOMMODATION IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HISTORIC PARTS OF ENGLAND. • Set in its own grounds just 5 minutes walk from • Our Vital Health & Wellbeing club all the cultural attractions of Stratford-upon-Avon provides you with an equal balance • Perfect venue for leisure breaks, romantic of luxury and tranquility weekends, business meetings, weddings and • Savor specialty dishes and fine wines in special occasions our award-winning Manor Restaurant For more information or to book call 0844 879 9138 or email [email protected] Macdonald Alveston Manor Hotel, Clopton Bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 7HP WWW.MACDONALDHOTELS.CO.UK/ALVESTONMANOR 22141_Alveston A5 Advert AW.indd 1 03/02/2014 09:09 Box Office: 01789 207100 3 MACDONALD or online at www.stratfordartshouse.co.uk | www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk ALVESTON MANOR HOTEL Welcome to the 2015 Festival he theme of this year’s Festival is My Voice – one that resonates through all the events Tin our programme We bring you a wonderfully varied selection this year, which we hope includes something for everyone to enjoy. It would be churlish to ignore the up-coming general election so we’ve a smattering of politics in the mix – some reflective, some subversive – and for the first time at the Festival, we’re bringing together that perfect blend: music and words. The programme includes four Dames, two Lords, and some exciting and award-winning fiction. Our thanks as ever to our media partner The Week, to Guardian Masterclass, our new addition for 2015, to Stratford Town Trust who has so generously supported our community and schools project, and to all our other partners who have made the Festival possible. ONE OF THE FINEST 4-STAR HOTELS IN WARWICKSHIRE, Box Office: 01789 207100 or book online at www.stratfordartshouse.co.uk OFFERING GREAT LUXURY ACCOMMODATION IN ONE OF Festival Bookshop: Waterstones will be selling books THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HISTORIC PARTS OF ENGLAND. by all the authors appearing at the Festival. Authors will be signing copies after each event. • Set in its own grounds just 5 minutes walk from • Our Vital Health & Wellbeing club Follow us on Twitter @stratlitfest all the cultural attractions of Stratford-upon-Avon provides you with an equal balance and on Facebook • Perfect venue for leisure breaks, romantic of luxury and tranquility Go to our weekends, business meetings, weddings and • Savor specialty dishes and fine wines in website for any changes or special occasions our award-winning Manor Restaurant additions to the Programme! For more information or to book call 0844 879 9138 or email [email protected] Please Note: The Civic Hall, Rother Street is now known as Stratford Artshouse. We would like to thank the following for their support: Macdonald Alveston Manor Hotel, Clopton Bridge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 7HP WWW.MACDONALDHOTELS.CO.UK/ALVESTONMANOR 22141_Alveston A5 Advert AW.indd 1 03/02/2014 09:09 BAILLIE GIFFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL SPONSORSHIP AT BAILLIE GIFFORD WE BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF GREAT LITERATURE AND IN LONG-LASTING SUCCESS STORIES. We love great work that stands the test of time. Baillie Gifford is delighted to continue to sponsor some of the most renowned literary festivals throughout the UK. We believe that, much like a classic piece of literature, a great investment philosophy will stand the test of time. Baillie Gifford is one of the UK’s largest independent investment trust managers. In our daily work in investments we do our very best to emulate the imagination, insight and intelligence that successful writers bring to the creative process. In our own way we’re publishers too. Our free, award-winning Trust magazine provides you with an engaging and insightful overview of the investment world, along with details of our literary festival activity throughout the UK. To find out more or to take out a free subscription for Trust magazine, please call us on 0800 280 2820 or visit us at www.bgtrustonline.com Baillie Gifford – long-term investment partners Your call may be recorded for training or monitoring purposes. Baillie Gifford Savings Management Limited (BGSM) produces Trust magazine and is an affiliate of Baillie Gifford & Co Limited, which is the manager and secretary of seven investment trusts. Your personal data is held and used by BGSM in accordance with data protection legislation. We may use your information to send you details about Baillie Gifford products, funds or special offers and to contact you for business research purposes. We will only disclose your information to other companies within the Baillie Gifford group and to agents appointed by us for these purposes. You can withdraw your consent to receiving further marketing communications from us and to being contacted for business research purposes at any time. You also have the right to review and amend your data at any time. BAILLIE GIFFORD LITERARY FESTIVAL SPONSORSHIP Box Office: 01789 207100 5 or online at www.stratfordartshouse.co.uk | www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk AT BAILLIE GIFFORD WE BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF GREAT LITERATURE AND Thursday, 16th April Saturday, 25th April IN LONG-LASTING Alveston Manor Hotel, Stratford Artshouse SUCCESS STORIES. Clopton Bridge 7.30pm £15* 4.45pm £8 Lit Fest Quiz in aid of The What the **** is Normal? Shakespeare Hospice Francesca Martinez Following on from last year’s Francesca is a brilliant, bare knuckle fight, we’re inviting award-winning comedian who you to pit your wits once again in just happens to have cerebral aid of a great cause. Gather your palsy. She will be talking about team (maximum 6 people per her book, What The **** is team) and pool your literary Normal, a warm, funny general knowledge with the coming-of-age memoir about chance to win great prizes as her refusal to be pigeon holed we ask you to identify books, as disabled - she describes films of books and actors who acted in the film of herself as ‘just wobbly’ - and her inspiring the book. Now play nicely! determination to succeed as a comic a career. Prizes include Picture House Membership, Afternoon She has had many sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Tea for Two at HR Cafe and Ivor Novello Tea for Two at Festival and internationally, including the Melbourne The Fourteas. Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Perth Festival, and the Just For Laughs Festival in We love great work that Many thanks to Alveston Manor Hotel for hosting this Montreal. In 2013 she completed a 68-date UK tour event. Bar available. and has had off-West End London runs at the Tricycle stands the test of time. Theatre (twice), the Hackney Empire, and the Soho *inc. burger and chips (or veggie option) Theatre. She has challenged the government in a Baillie Gifford is delighted to continue to sponsor some of the most renowned literary festivals For tickets please call 01789 470185 number of TV interviews, including on Newsnight and throughout the UK. We believe that, much like a classic piece of literature, a great investment This Week. In April 2014, she was named as one of philosophy will stand the test of time. In aid of: Britain’s most influential women in the BBC Woman’s Hour power list 2014. Baillie Gifford is one of the UK’s largest independent investment trust managers. In our daily ‘A cheerful optimistic, belly-laugh broadside at work in investments we do our very best to emulate the imagination, insight and intelligence prejudice and a wonderful testament to the power that successful writers bring to the creative process. of “being funny”. I love Francesca Martinez.’ In our own way we’re publishers too. Our free, award-winning Trust magazine provides you Steve Coogan with an engaging and insightful overview of the investment world, along with details of our literary festival activity throughout the UK. To find out more or to take out a free subscription for Trust magazine, please call us on 0800 280 2820 or visit us at www.bgtrustonline.com Baillie Gifford – long-term investment partners Your call may be recorded for training or monitoring purposes. 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