Southwold Literature Festival 9 – 12 November 2017
Ways With Words
Festival Facts
All of the festival events take place in St Edmund’s Hall which is situated on Cumberland Road, IP18 6JW.
WELCOME TO SOUTHWOLD WELCOME TO WAYS WITH WORDS Early August and we are leaving for our annual holiday in Southwold. It’s a time to walk by the edge of the sea, hear the waves breaking on the shingle, buy fish from the harbour and RELAX. We hope those coming to the festival this November will enjoy similar pleasures. Festival-goers can also hear speakers on a variety of topics. Edward Lear, crime novels, the state of the country and the world: there’s much to entice the curious and questioning. Kay Dunbar, Stephen Bristow, Chloë and Videl Bar-Kar Festival Directors
There is on-road parking around the Hall and the town’s car parks are no more than a 10 minute walk. There will be a small café running upstairs at the Hall during the festival serving hot drinks, cakes, soup, and snacks.
With thanks to:
Adnams Hotels
Official Festival Bookseller
Southwold Books Official Festival Bookseller
Surviving Captivity
Rosamund Young
Looking at Cows
Matthew d’Ancona
1) 1.30pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 Having spent five years imprisoned in Beirut, humanitarian and author Terry Waite, was released 25 years ago. To mark this important milestone he offers a glimpse into the depths of faith, hope and love that sustained him through his time of suffering. Out of the Silence: Memories, Poems, Reflections (SPCK)
2) 3.15pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 In this heart-warming talk, Rosamund Young shows that cows love, play games, bond, and form life-long friendships. They babysit for one another; invent games; hold grudges, and grieve. The reason most of us don’t know about this is because modern farming leaves no room for the natural behaviour celebrated here. A fascinating study of animal sentience and an utterly delightful observation which alters our vision of the world. The Secret Life of Cows (Faber and Faber)
3) 5pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 The art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy. What is new is not the mendacity of politicians but the public’s response to it and the ability of social media to manipulate, polarise and entrench opinion. Political journalist Matthew d’Ancona investigates how we got here and why quiet resignation is not an option. Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back (Ebury)
Thursday Day Ticket : £30
Post-Truth Politics
THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Terry Waite
FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER
A.C. Grayling
War – The Battle Over Justifications and Prognostications 4) 10am St Edmund’s Hall £12 A.C. Grayling is the Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, its Professor of Philosophy and the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas, and essays. He challenges long-held views on just wars, and explores whether a deeper understanding of war may enable us to mitigate its horrors. War: An Enquiry (Yale Books)
Friday Day Ticket : £50
Simon Thurley
Roman Krznaric
5) 11.45am St Edmund’s Hall £12 Drawing on 30 years of original research, Simon Thurley, leading architectural historian and former CEO of English Heritage, unravels the evidence that the Tudor palaces reveal. They offer insights into the characters of those who lived in them and clues to how the Tudor monarchy lived and governed. Houses of Power: The Places That Shaped the Tudor World (Bantam Press)
6) 1.30pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 Drawing on everything from the neuropsychology of regret and medieval carnival traditions to the carpe diem lives of nightclub dancers, social philosopher Roman Krznaric unpacks the history, philosophy and modern-day applications of ‘seizing the day’. He offers inspiration for anyone prepared to face the challenge of a meaningful life. This talk was very enthusiastically received at the Dartington Ways With Words Festival this July. Carpe Diem Regained (Unbound)
Inside Tudor Palace Walls
Seize the Day
On Friday 10 November from 6.30pm - 8pm Adnams invites all festival-goers to call in to the Cellar & Kitchen Store on Victoria Street for a drinks reception and a chance to browse round the store. Perfect for Christmas shopping.
Craig Brown
Jenny Uglow
7) 3.15pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 To her friends, Princess Margaret was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950s heyday she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death she had come to personify disappointment. Craig Brown gives an unconventional portrait of Princess Margaret. Ma’am Darling – 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret (4th Estate)
8) 5pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 Edward Lear lived all his life on the borders of rules and structures, of disciplines and desire. Children adored him and adults loved him, yet somehow he was always alone. He had a troubled childhood and strove as an artist. His ‘nonsenses’ are elegantly unpicked by Jenny Uglow – without losing any of their fun – and his complex poetic genius is revealed. Mr Lear – A Life of Art and Nonsense (Faber and Faber)
Portrait of a Princess
Art and Nonsense
Friday Day Ticket : £50
FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER
Adnams’ Cellar & Kitchen Store
SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER
Southwold Books Official Festival Bookseller Nicola Upson
Crime and Josephine Tey 9) 10am St Edmund’s Hall £12 Over lunch with P.D. James, Nicola Upson decided to write crime novels whose main character was to be Josephine Tey – one of the leading authors of Britain’s Golden Age of crime writing. Her latest novel in this series is a superior mix of period crime combined with a modern sensibility. Today she talks about her own fascination with crime and with Josephine Tey. Nine Lessons (Faber and Faber)
Saturday Day Ticket : £50
Simon Heffer
The Decadence of Victorian and Edwardian Britain 10) 11.45am St Edmund’s Hall £12 Think of Britain before the Great War and a picture of power, contentment and order seems likely. Yet below the surface there was extensive decadence. Simon Heffer, author, journalist and renowned historian, depicts scandalous behaviour and exposes the contradictions and hypocracies of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 (Penguin)
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Vince Cable
11) 1.30pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 Martin Bell is one of the outstanding TV journalists of our time. He has travelled through war zones as both a soldier and a journalist and has witnessed first-hand the dramatic changes in how conflicts are fought and how they are reported. He mixes autobiography, reportage and a ‘state of the nation’ survey of wartime reporting. War and the Death of News – Reflections of a Grade B Reporter (Oneworld)
12) 3.15pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, MP and former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Sir Vince Cable, draws on his experience in politics to write ‘Open Arms’, a thriller which moves from Whitehall to the slums of Mumbai and combines political detail with international intrigue, desire, and the quest for power. Open Arms (Atlantic)
Wartime Reporting
Saturday Day Ticket : £50
From Fact to Fiction
Peter Stanford
Luther – Man of the Moment 13) 5pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Peter Stanford examines the man, the myth and the mass movement that his act of rebellion provoked. Journalist and broadcaster, Peter Stanford explores this complex, often charismatic man of God. Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident (Hodder & Stoughton)
SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER
Martin Bell
SUNDAY 12 NOVEMBER
Peter Stanford and Martin Bell
What Now?
14) 10am St Edmund’s Hall £12 Peter Stanford is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. Martin Bell is a British UNICEF Ambassador; he was an Independent MP and a former broadcast war reporter who is sometimes known as “the man in the white suit”. Together they will discuss how the future may be.
Sunday Day Ticket : £50
Blake Morrison
Andrew Wilson
15) 11.45am St Edmund’s Hall £12 Blake Morrison switches literary hats frequently. Poetry, plays, libretti, novels, non-fiction, journalism: he is admired and respected for his innovation and thoughtfulness in many genres. Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, and tutor on our Italian writing courses, he will talk about the range of his writing today. For Love or Money, Blake Morrison’s new adaptation of Alain-Rene Lasage’s comedy Turcaret will play at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds from 17 - 21 October
16) 1.30pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 In December 1926, Agatha Christie left her home in Berkshire and disappeared. Ten days later she was discovered at a hotel in Harrogate. Christie never spoke of these events. Biographer Andrew Wilson discusses how he used the real-life facts as a basis for his new crime novel. A Talent for Murder (Simon & Schuster)
Wordly Wise
Ten Days In December: Agatha Christie’s Disappearance
The Uncertain Future of the Public Sector 17) 3.15pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 We’re ageing. We’re divided as never before. We lack houses. The market isn’t going to provide health, schools, police, welfare, care in old age. Polly Toynbee and David Walker explore the public services on which we depend, the rich as well as the poor. Dismembered: How the Attack on the State Harms Us All (Guardian Faber Press)
SUNDAY 12 NOVEMBER
Polly Toynbee and David Walker
David Owen
After Brexit 18) 5pm St Edmund’s Hall £12 David Owen was an MP for twenty-six years from 1966-92. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party, and its leader from 1983-87. Lord Owen argues that Britain’s global role and influence can be enhanced, rather than diminished, post-Brexit. He examines what lies ahead, encompassing a diplomatic, security, development and trade agenda based on hard-headed realism. British Foreign Policy After Brexit: An Independent Voice (Biteback Publishing)
Sunday Day Ticket : £50
Dates for your Diary:
ACCOMMODATION IN SOUTHWOLD
Ways With Words Holiday Courses Writing and Art Courses and Discussion Groups in Italy Villa Pia, Umbria, Italy Week one: 16 – 23 Sept. 2017 Week two: 23 – 30 Sept. 2017
Words by the Water in the Lake District 9 – 18 March 2018 Ways With Words at Dartington Hall, Devon 6 – 16 July 2018 And back in Southwold, Suffolk for Southwold Ways With Words 8 – 12 November 2018 Full details on all of the above is on our website: wayswithwords.co.uk
Many of you will have noticed that this year we are not advertising packages at the Swan Hotel or the Crown Hotel in Southwold. This is because the Swan Hotel is currently undergoing a major refurbishment and, at the time of printing this brochure, we do not have a date for its completion.
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