Off the Sh el f Festival o f Words Sheffield 11 October - 1 November 2014 Platinum Sponsor Introduction Welcome to the 23rd Off the Shelf Festival of Words, one of the most exciting book festivals in the UK attracting some of the best known names in literature and media. This is the word as live as it gets - no retakes, no second chances – it’s all of the moment. Savour the chance to meet the writers and thinkers who have created the books you love and immerse yourself Gold Sponsor in the flow of words and ideas. It’s our biggest ever festival, with more than 200 events including 40 with community groups from across the city. Plus some pre-festival tasters and some post-festival specials to enjoy. There is also a truly international strand with guests from Jamaica, Cuba, Sweden and the Czech Republic as well as a celebration of literature from a little closer to home with a ‘dawn to dusk’ Dylan Thomas day to mark the centenary of Wales’ greatest poet. We are grateful to all our sponsors especially Platinum Sponsor Civica and Arts Council England. We also want to thank our audiences for their fantastic support. Please join us again Silver Sponsor this year and be part of the inspirational and thought provoking adventure that is Off the Shelf. Cllr Isobel Bowler Paul Billington Cabinet Member for Culture, Sport and Leisure Director Culture and Environment Civica Civica Education partners with schools in Sheffield providing creative ICT solutions to support teachers in delivering transformational learning. Civica provides support services to schools in Sheffield and our team of E-Learning Consultants, all trained teachers, work with schools to integrate ICT into the curriculum to engage and excite students. Why Sponsor Sheffield’s Off the Shelf? Technology and literacy needn’t be mutually exclusive. Appropriate use of ICT can engage children whose attention is difficult to grab. Games can inspire new ideas for storytelling. Blogging can provide a new, engaging way to practice writing. Civica Education is proud to be Platinum Sponsor of Off the Shelf for the fourth year running in support of raising literacy levels. KEY to PAGES Page 4 Events Page 40 Workshops Page 43 Events for Children and MADE Young People Page 47 Events for Schools Page 48 Competitions Support and resources for people who write Page 49 Exhibitions Page 51 Booking Information 02 * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 03 Sat 27 Sept 10am – 3pm Q Tues 7 Oct 7pm Q How to Book Your Tickets Off the Shelf on the Road at Doncaster Arne Dahl Tickets for all events – including those at Showroom Cinema and University of Doncaster Library, Waterdale, DN1 Showroom Cinema, Paternoster Row, S1 Sheffield Students’ Union, unless otherwise stated, can be purchased through our Admission free, no need to book Tickets £7.50/£6 (cons) principal box office at SIV Tickets as well as from Sheffield Theatres Box Office and * Children under 11 years must be accompanied by City Hall Box Office. Tickets can be purchased on line, by telephone and in person. Arne Dahl is an award-winning Swedish crime an adult. novelist whose books have sold over 2.5 million Showroom Cinema and University of Sheffield Students’ Union Box Office can only sell A whole day of fun including a book swap, copies worldwide. The Swedish television tickets for events taking place at their own venues. Tickets for events organised by competition, quizzes and poetry to go with poets adaptations of the books aired last year on BBC community and partner organisations are available as specified with individual event Joe Kriss and Stan Skinny. Plus 10am – 12 noon Four. To the Top of the Mountain is the third book in information in the brochure make a mask or stick puppet from The Tiger Who his crime fiction series (the others are The Blinded Came to Tea Man Bad Blood Please see page 51 for full information on how to book tickets including with Fiona Mannion (for children and ), which revolves around a aged 5 – 7). And look out for Gary Bridgens with tight-knit team of elite specialists who investigate information on where booking charges apply and how you can purchase tickets his walkabout storytelling family show Trunks. the dark side of Swedish society. without incurring a booking charge. In collaboration with Doncaster Libraries Arne Dahl has won several awards, including the Please telephone 0114 273 4400 with any queries. German Crime Award and the Danish Crime Mon 6 Oct 7.30pm Q Writing Award – the only Scandinavian author to win both these prizes. Yotam Ottolenghi This year he has been shortlisted for the European The Octagon, University of Sheffield Students’ Crime Fiction Star Award alongside Ian Rankin Mon 1 Sept 7.30pm Q Off the Shelf at Festival of the Mind Union, Western Bank, S10 and Jussi Adler-Olson. Tickets £10/£8 (cons) A Taste of Sheffield Local History * In collaboration with Showroom Cinema David Mitchell One of the world’s most innovative, influential and All talks 12 noon – 1pm Crucible Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 creative chefs and food writers comes to Sheffield Tickets £10/£8 (cons) Speigel Tent, Barkers Pool, S1 * to serve up Plenty More – the hotly anticipated Tues 7 Oct 7.45pm Q Admission free. No need to book David Mitchell was described in the Independent follow-up to the bestselling and award-winning Allan Ahlberg – The Bucket as ‘one of the most brilliantly inventive writers in Thurs 18 Sept Plenty . Crucible Studio, 55 Norfolk Street, S1 this or any country’. Yotam Ottolenghi is a revered household name, Suzanne Bingham: Sheffielders on Holiday Tickets £10/£9 (cons) famous for his shops, restaurant, books, television * His multi award winning novels include Fri 19 Sept The Bucket Number9Dream , Black Swan Green and The Thousand programmes and Guardian column. In Plenty More is the enthralling childhood memoir of Ann Beedham: The Silversmith, The Autumns of Jacob de Zoet . His novel Cloud Atlas was vegetables have moved from the side dish to the one of the most successful and best-loved Suffragette and The Storyteller shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and his main plate, grains re-dressed with colour and flair. children's authors in the world. Allan Ahlberg was stunning new novel is Bone Clocks . Mon 22 Sept It’s a revolution that is bold, vibrant and adopted as a baby, picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres Ray Battye: Place Names and Surnames ever-expanding. Let Yotam introduce you to kashk and dakos and Black Country. He spent an oddly enchanted Tues 23 Sept discuss his philosophy of food. This star chef childhood in an industrial town in the 1940s – a promises an evening that will inspire you in the time which lovers of Ahlberg's classic picture David Battye: Sheffield Dialect, Customs and The Baby's Catalogue Peepo! Folklore since WW2 kitchen for years to come. books and might feel they have glimpsed before. Weds 24 Sept In collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union He held jobs as a gravedigger, postman and JP Bean: Charlie Peace teacher and collaborated with his wife Janet on a Thurs 25 Sept series of much-loved, now classic children's picture books including Cops and Robbers , Each Peach Pear Janet Ridler: Sheffield Cathedral Plum , Burglar Bill , Please Mrs Butler , and The Ha Fri 26 Sept Ha Bonk Book . Allan will talk about his life and his Lloyd Powell: Sheffield Castle incredible body of work. In association with Festival of the Mind In collaboration with Sheffield Theatres Shedloads of Work: Write poetry or prose inspired by place to celebrate 100 Years of Dylan Thomas. Selected work will feature on new website www.shedloadofwork.co.uk. Deadline for submissions 10am Friday 12 September 2014. Tel 0114 273 4400 for details. In association with Eleven Design Please see page 50 for details Sponsored by Sheffield Hallam University * 10% booking fee per ticket for all transactions, unless made in person 4 with cash at Sheffield City Hall Box Office. Booking www.SIVTickets.com 5 Mon 20 Oct A Study of Letters 1575-1611 Weds 8 Oct 6.30pm Q Thurs 9 Oct 2 – 4pm Q Doctor Graham Williams School of English. A study of familiar letters written by two Andy Kirkpatrick The Living Library aristocratic women in late Elizabethan and Carpenter Room, Central Library, Surrey Street, S1 Carpenter Room, Central Lending Library, Surrey early Jacobean England. Admission free. Places must be booked. Street, S1 Admission free. Places must be booked. Tues 21 Oct Fly Photoreceptors Compute Tel 0114 273 4727 Tel. 0114 273 4727 Professor Daniel Coca Department of Britain’s first and only stand-up mountaineer! Automatic Control and Systems Engineering. Andy Kirkpatrick is an adventurer who has faced A chance to chat with ‘living books’ (people), A look at how cutting edge technology and and conquered some of the world’s hardest their stories and real life experiences of mental image processing may improve the design of climbs. His stories are inspirational and hilarious. health. Take part in discussions about issues often retinal implants. considered taboo and discover the people behind Weds 22 Oct Social Evolution Weds 8 Oct 7pm the labels. Free tea and cake served, open to all. Doctor James A R Marshall Department of Q An event for Sheffield Mental Health Week Computer Science. A look at how evolutionary Digby Jones thinking seeks to explain the adaption of Pennine Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Fri 10 Oct 7.30pm Q individuals and groups such as honey bees to Owen Building, Howard Street, S1 their environment.