Borders Book Festival Programme 2017

F O O D V I LL AGE . STREE T MAR K E T . BO OK S H OP . C A F E . BA R A wonderful weekend of talks, discussions, food & drink, live music, comedy and more for all the family...

CONTENTS

Booking Information

Booking Information 2 Site Map 3 All the Fun of the Festival 4-5 Welcome 6-7 Thanks 8 Festival at a Glance 9 - 11 Events for Adults 12 - 35 Family Book Festival 36 - 41

ONLINE

Who’s Who

BY TELEPHONE

DIRECTORS Michael Moore - Chairman Francis Hamilton - Director Alistair Moffat - Director Paula Ogilvie - Director & Festival Coordinator Susan Windram - Director HONORARY PATRONS Rory Bremner, Vivian French, James Naughtie, John Sessions, Eleanor Updale PATRONS The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch Johannes and Antonia de Gier Paul and Clare Rooney Jonathan and Victoria Tweedie FESTIVAL STAFF Olivia McLean - Festival Manager Mairi MacLellan - Festival Administrator Hilary Buchan - Sponsorship, Web & Social Media Markus Stitz - Marketing & Development Borders Book Festival is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland Reg. No. SC296476 Scottish Charity No. SC037347 Parking: There is NO general parking at the Borders Book Festival. All parking is in Melrose town centre and is within easy reach of the festival venues.

Restrictions will be in place on St. Mary’s Road from Weds 14 June - Mon 19 June and a diversion route from Abbey Street to Newstead will be in operation.

Although we do have some limited, weather dependent, disabled parking for blue badge holders only, we highly recommend using the drop off point on Annay Road, where assistance from a member of the book festival team will be available. front cover: John Cleese, Melvyn Bragg, Val McDermid, Judy Murray, Arabella Weir, Michael Parkinson and Steve Backshall.

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www.bordersbookfestival.org

All major credit and debit cards accepted

BY EMAIL

boxoffice@bordersbookfestival.org 0844 357 1060

Lines open Mondays - Fridays 10.00am - 5.00pm Answerphone at all other times

IN PERSON

From Thursday 15 June, 2017 Borders Book Festival Box Office Harmony Garden, St Mary’s Road, Melrose TD6 9LJ *Open throughout Festival (15 - 18 June) 10.00am - 9.30pm

Payment: All major credit and debit cards accepted. Cheques should be made payable to Borders Book Festival. Tickets must be paid for at time of booking and are non-refundable. Tickets for the Borders Book Festival are limited and may therefore not be available for purchase at the door on the day of performance. Concession tickets (C) are available to students, registered disabled (plus one carer), registered unemployed, under 16s and Young Scot cardholders. Proof of entitlement will be required.

Visitors with additional needs: All venues at Harmony Garden and The Orchard have wheelchair access. Please ask for individual venue access details when booking.

Events are one hour long unless specified. Seating is unreserved.

Latecomers: Events start punctually. Members of the audience may not be admitted after the beginning of events.

Programme details are correct at time of going to press. The Borders Book Festival reserves the right to alter or cancel events. Please check the festival website www.bordersbookfestival.org for the latest news, special events and information.

FOR FULL TERMS & CONDITIONS VISIT OUR WEBSITE

Harmony Garden

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The Brewin Dolphin Marquee Harmony Marquee Knight Frank Marquee Baillie Gifford Festival Hub (Box Office, Bookshop & Signings)

Born in the Borders Harmony Bar Overlangshaw Ice Cream Charlie Mills Coffee

The Orchard Douglas Home Marquee Born in the Borders Orchard Bar Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent Signing Marquee Brewin Dolphin Hospitality Abbotsford Tipi

PRIVATE PARKING ONLY

TOILETS Disabled & Baby Changing

The Orchard

FOOD VILLAGE

Alanda’s Seafood Grill Fire Dog Hot Dogs Linton & Co. Coffee Fieldwork Cafe The Crepe Shack Crèma Caravan

ROAD CLOSED

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blue badge parking only

St Mary’s Road

MUST BE DISPLAYED

ORCHARD ENTRANCE

Born in the Borders Street Market

MAIN GATE

Harmony House

DROP OFF POINT TOILETS Disabled & Baby Changing

Abbey Street

Harmony Garden

ONE WAY SYSTEM IN OPERATION

TO MELROSE TOWN CENTRE

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All the Fun of the Festival Celebrate summer with a visit to one of Britain’s friendliest book festivals. Get set for a memorable weekend, with more than 100 events for all ages to choose from - and entry to Harmony Garden and Orchard is FREE!

The Baillie Gifford Festival Hub

Harmony Garden Festival Bookshop and Box Office Join us in the Baillie Gifford Festival Hub in Harmony Garden where you will find the festival bookshop and box office. There’s lots of space for browsing, buying and book signings and in the corner kids’ area, children can sit and read, try some colouring in and take part in some fun activities. The bookshop is open from 10am until late - plenty of time for shopping!

We run our own bookshop and all proceeds go directly back to the festival.

Taking the Train

You can reach us by train from Edinburgh in less than one hour, through beautiful countryside to Tweedbank Station, a handy 1.5 miles from the festival site. If you fancy a nice 20-minute stroll to Harmony from the train, just follow the book festival signs to Melrose. If walking isn’t for you, transport will be available at Tweedbank to get you to town - check our website in early June, under the ‘Getting to Melrose’ section on the ‘About’ tab on www. bordersbookfestival.org. There are regular trains from Edinburgh Waverley (every 30 minutes at peak times) and you’ll find a link to the timetable in the same section of our website.

Brewin Dolphin Drop-in

You are cordially invited to join our sponsors Brewin Dolphin at their hospitality marquee in The Orchard. Have a chat with a member of staff or pick up some information about the company; why not enjoy a refreshment while enjoying their delicious popcorn.

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MEDIA You might just come across a TV camera or a large microphone if you’re attending the festival.

RADIO BORDERS, ITV BORDER, VISIT SCOTLAND and VOMO will be with us, interviewing authors, chatting to the public and reporting on events – make sure you’re camera ready; you might end up on the news!

PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO The book festival employs a roving photographer and cameraman who will be taking photos and videos of events and visitors for promotional use.

DOGS We regret that we can’t welcome the four-legged members of your family. Hearing and guide dogs only will be admitted to the festival grounds.

Bringing the kids?

The Orchard

Some events in the adult programme may also be suitable for children. They will be clearly identified, with the age suitability highlighted, where appropriate.

Get your taste buds tingling and enjoy the atmosphere in The Orchard with some of the finest food and drink from across the Borders and Scotland. In a giant stretch tent, Born in the Borders will keep the good cheer flowing with their finest beers, craft gins and will of course be popping a few bottles of festival fizz too! This year’s offerings for foodies include a welcome return for Alanda’s Seafood Grill with their fresh shellfish and their innovative twist on traditional fish and chips. New this year, Fire Dog Hot Dogs will be serving up their delicious hot dogs and artisan burgers for everyone to enjoy. The Fieldwork Café with their mouth-watering selection of cakes, sandwiches and teas will also be joining us for the first time along with The Crepe Shack with their lovely sweet and savoury crepes.

Our Family Book Festival offers a wonderful selection of events with some of today’s best loved authors for children.

There are also lots of free activities to enjoy, and please say hello to our friendly stilt-walkers who will be strolling around over the weekend. See the full list of family events on pages 36 - 41.

Real Wood Studios Exhibition

Real Wood Studios is home to some of Scotland’s finest designer-makers producing bespoke furniture and interiors, and we’re delighted that they are sponsoring the festival this year by producing two beautiful, specially commissioned lecterns. They will be exhibiting a range of their stunning handmade work throughout the festival in The Gallery Melrose at 23 Market Square, Melrose. Drop by and take a look!

FOOD AND DRINK

Regular favourites Crema Caravan from Galashiels will be back this year to tempt everyone into trying their delicious, freshly baked crème brulees. You can also savour a great selection of artisan coffees and scrumptious homemade brownies from Linton & Co. Coffee, served from ‘Bernard the Citroen H Van’.

If you’re short of time between events, then beer, wine and coffee are all available in Harmony Garden from Born in the Borders Harmony Bar and Charlie Mills Coffee’s converted horse box. And don’t forget to try the mouth-watering selection of ice creams and sorbets served from ‘Beatrix’ the traditional Over Langshaw Farmhouse ice cream bicycle.

You can find further information on all our fantastic food and drink suppliers on our website.

thefuture@BBF

In 2016 we introduced an exciting new programme strand which involved young events programmers, presenters, authors, poets and performance artists from across the Scottish Borders. It was such a success that we’re doing it all over again this year!

Check out some great events throughout the weekend involving talented and dynamic 12 - 25 year olds, with highlights including Sound Cycle musicians’ album launch, brand new performance work from Borders Youth Theatre, recordings and author interviews by VOMO (Voice of My Own) and a major fundraiser event hosted by Tomorrow’s People. See our events pages for more details.

Born in the Borders Street Market

On St Mary’s Road, you will find the best the Scottish Borders has to offer in retail food, drink and gifts, in the Born in the Borders Street Market. The street market forms a link between our Harmony Garden and The Orchard - and we hope you’ll take the time to sample some delicious apple juice, tablet and much, much more.

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Welcome to the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival 2017 Welcome to the 2017 Borders Book Festival in the magnificent surroundings of Harmony House, where words come alive, year after year.

Your loyalty helps us to continue to attract wonderful artists to the festival. After breaking the 100 event barrier in 2016, this year’s programme goes further with contributions from, amongst others, Michael Parkinson, Judy Murray, Joanna Trollope, Steve Backshall and Allan Little. Our ‘regulars’, whom we never take for granted, are back, including Rory Bremner, James Naughtie and Sally Magnusson – a warm Borders welcome, once again!

We are also very fortunate to have strong support from a range of sponsors and supporters: this year we are delighted to welcome our new title sponsors, Baillie Gifford, and repeat our thanks to our key supporters, Scottish Borders Council, the National Trust for Scotland, EventScotland, Creative Scotland and Arts & Business Scotland, as well as our media partner

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The Times, all of whom continue to provide invaluable assistance. We welcome back many other sponsors, not least Brewin Dolphin, and are pleased to introduce new supporters such as the David Summers Charitable Trust, Douglas Home & Co and PATCH Scotland – thanks to all our supporters and sponsors.

My thanks are also due to the team who make all this happen - to Alistair and Paula who, with their usual elan and verve, lead a team of committed professionals and volunteers to make everything come together. Thanks also to Susan and Francis whose continued enthusiasm and wisdom add so much to the board.

The upshot of all this effort and enthusiasm is a wonderful programme as I am sure you will agree - do enjoy!

Michael Moore Chairman, Borders Book Festival

The Times The Times Scotland is delighted to be media partner once again with the success story that is the Borders Book Festival. In just over a decade this wonderful celebration of the printed word has established itself in both the literary and social calendars and rightly so.

Like The Times, this event thrives on variety and quality and where better to mingle with authors, politicians, raconteurs, writers, historians and personalities than the beautiful town of Melrose? With more than 100 events on the programme I am sure you will have a great time.

Same Story, New Title Welcome to the Borders Book Festival now held in association with Edinburgh based investment managers Baillie Gifford. We are very excited to be taking over as main sponsor of the festival, now in its 14th year. We are grateful to our friends at Brewin Dolphin for allowing us to step up to the plate. Baillie Gifford is an avid supporter of literary festivals across the UK. As befits a somewhat nerdy and bookish organisation, we currently sponsor a dozen festivals up and down the UK from Wigtown and Edinburgh in Scotland to Hay and Cheltenham down south. Now we are lucky enough to work with the team at Borders which has become established as one of the country’s top literature festivals with its name and brand familiar to authors, publishers and audiences across the UK. As well as bringing a raft of distinguished and popular writers, raconteurs and personalities to the picturesque town of Melrose, the festival also nurtures new talent by providing a platform for debut writers and local authors. We hope that over 25,000 visitors will come and enjoy the fun again this year. We are delighted to be among them.

James Budden Director - Marketing and Distribution, Baillie Gifford

Magnus Llewellin Scotland Editor, The Times

Welcome from NTS The National Trust for Scotland is fiercely proud of hosting each year the Borders Book Festival at Harmony Garden in Melrose. When the late Mrs Pitman so generously bequeathed the property to the Trust’s care in 1996, I doubt very much that she had any idea of the wonderful use that could be made of the gardens for the festival. Mrs Pitman would have been gratified, as we are today, that the hard work of our volunteers and staff to maintain the gardens and house throughout the year provides such a splendid backdrop to this internationally renowned event. The team behind the Festival does a truly superb job and we at the National Trust for Scotland look forward to working together as the Festival goes from strength to strength.

Sir Moir Lockhead OBE Chairman, The National Trust for Scotland

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Funders

Key Media Partner

Title Sponsors

Key Sponsor

Key Supporter

Media Partners

Main Sponsors

Sponsors & Supporters

Thanks also to: Best Intent, Border Studio, Border Events, The Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch, David Summers Charitable Trust, DA Audio Sound Engineers, Fauhope Country House, Kelso Races, The Main Street Trading Company, Marmions, Melrose Primary School, Melrose RFC, Over Langshaw Farm, Maude Donkers, St Mary’s School, Scottish Book Trust, StonehillSalt PR, Writer Pictures, Angela Robertson & our wonderful festival volunteers.

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festival at a glance

Thursday 15 June TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

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5.30pm

Four Mums in a Boat

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

12

5.30pm

Sounding Borders: the spark of spoken memories

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

12

5.45pm

Richard Holloway

HARMONY MARQUEE

13

5.45pm

Natalie Haynes

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

13

7.00pm - 8.45pm

Anne Reid: A Night at the Pictures

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

14

7.00pm

Borders Writers' Forum: Abridged

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

15

7.15pm

James Fergusson: Al-Britannia, My Country

HARMONY MARQUEE

15

7.15pm

The Pocket Guide to Whisky

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

15

8.45pm

Suzie Wilde: Storytelling and the Vikings

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

15

9.00pm

Jamie Jauncey: Tales of Don Roberto

HARMONY MARQUEE

16

9.00pm

Malachy Tallack: Un-Discovered Islands

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

16

9.15pm

James Naughtie: Trumpquake

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

16

Friday 16 June 4.30pm

PC Brown & Friends

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

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5.45pm

Arabella Weir

HARMONY MARQUEE

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5.45pm

Louise Gray: The Ethical Carnivore

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

18

6.00pm

Melvyn Bragg

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

18

6.00pm

Fiona Anderson: Tweed

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

19

7.15pm

Misha Glenny

HARMONY MARQUEE

19

7.15pm

The Walter Scott Prize Shortlist

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

19

7.30pm

Judy Murray

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

20

7.30pm

Geoff Allan: The Scottish Bothy Bible

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

20

8.45pm

Mark Billingham and Chris Brookmyre

HARMONY MARQUEE

21

9.00pm

Allan Little: The Brewin Dolphin Lecture

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

21

9.00pm – 10.15pm

Sound Cycle Album Launch

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

22

9.00pm

Polly Clark & Annalena McAfee

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

22

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festival at a glance

Saturday 17 June

FAMILY BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

10.45am

Vivian French: Knight in Training

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

38

11.00am - 4.00pm

Words plus Pictures = Book!

DAVIDSON CHALMERS STORYTELLING TENT

38

11.00am - 4.00pm

Knight School

ABBOTSFORD TIPI

38

12.00pm

Curtis Jobling: Max Helsing

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

38

12.00pm

Petr Horacek

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

38

12.00pm - 12.30pm

Bookbug Rhyme Session

BAILLIE GIFFORD FESTIVAL HUB

39

12.15pm

Joan Ruddock

HARMONY MARQUEE

23

12.15pm

Nicola Davies

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

39

1.00pm - 1.30pm

Bookbug Rhyme Session

BAILLIE GIFFORD FESTIVAL HUB

39

1.30pm

Douglas Alexander and Michael Moore

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

23

1.30pm

Alasdair Hutton: The Greatest Show on Earth

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

23

1.45pm

Guy Bass: Spynosaur

HARMONY MARQUEE

39

1.45pm

Alan Windram: One Button Benny

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

39

3.00pm – 4.15pm

Jay Rayner: The Ten (Food) Commandments

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

24

3.00pm

Barry Hutchison: Beaky Malone

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

39

3.15pm

Ben Macintyre

HARMONY MARQUEE

24

3.15pm

Nicola Davies & Petr Horacek

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

39

4.30pm

Alec Ryrie: Protestants: The Radicals……

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

24

4.45pm

Joanna Trollope

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

25

4.45pm

Richard Ingrams on Ludovic Kennedy

HARMONY MARQUEE

25

4.45pm

Rohan Gunatillake: Modern Mindfulness

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

25

6.15pm

Val McDermid

HARMONY MARQUEE

26

6.15pm

Rory Stewart

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

26

6.15pm

Sumayya Usmani: Mountain Berries & Desert Spice

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

26

6.30pm – 7.15pm

The Walter Scott Prize

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

26

7.45pm

John Cleese

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

27

8.00pm – 10.15pm

The Lyrical Lounge

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

27

8.15pm

Amelia Dalton: Mistress and Commander

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

28

9.30pm

Rory Bremner

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

28

9.30pm

Ella Berthoud: The Novel Cure

HARMONY MARQUEE

28

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Sunday 18 June

FAMILY BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

12.30pm

Chae Strathie: Dear Dinosaur

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

40

P

12.30pm

Philip Ardagh

HARMONY MARQUEE

40

12.30pm

Ella Berthoud: Story Cure

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

40

12.30pm - 4.45pm

Words plus Pictures = Book!

DAVIDSON CHALMERS STORYTELLING TENT

40

12.30pm - 4.45pm

Knight School

ABBOTSFORD TIPI

40

12.45pm

Cathy Rentzenbrink

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

29

1.00pm - 1.30pm

Storytime

ORCHARD SIGNING TENT

40

2.00pm

Steve Backshall

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

29

2.00pm

Mike Nicholson: The Giant Who Snored

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

41

2.00pm – 4.30pm

Ella Berthoud: one-to-one sessions

MAINSTREET TRADING BOOK VAN

30

2.15pm

Chris Mullin

HARMONY MARQUEE

30

2.15pm

Vivian French: Cherry Pie Princess

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

41

2.30pm - 3.00pm

Storytime

ORCHARD SIGNING TENT

40

3.30pm

Carol Klein: Life in a Cottage Garden

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

31

3.30pm - 4.45pm

Kate Leiper: Howlat Workshop

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

41

3.45pm

Derek Landy: Skulduggery Pleasant

HARMONY MARQUEE

41

3.45pm

Chae Strathie : Captain Firebeard

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

41

5.00pm

Richard Porter: Top Gear to The Grand Tour

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

31

5.15pm

Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

HARMONY MARQUEE

32

5.15pm

James Runcie

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

32

5.15pm

Neil Mackay: Borders Abbeys Way

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

32

6.30pm

Ann Cleeves

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

33

6.45pm

Tim Shipman

HARMONY MARQUEE

33

6.45pm

Davy Zyw: I Love Champagne

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

33

6.45pm

Ian Cooper: A History of the Melrose Sevens

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

34

8.15pm – 10.00pm

An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson

BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE

34

8.15pm

Alistair Moffat: The Hidden Ways

HARMONY MARQUEE

35

8.15pm

Sarah Fraser: The Prince Who Would Be King

KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE

35

8.30pm – 10.00pm

Katee Kross & The Amberjax

DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE

35

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Four Mums in a Boat 5.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE £14, £12 This bestseller tells the incredible story of The Yorkshire Rows. Four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire took on an extraordinary challenge. Over a few, or maybe more than a few, glasses of wine, they decided to row across the most treacherous, storm-tossed ocean in the world – the Atlantic. Not only did they succeed, they broke a world record. Two of them, Helen Butters and Janette Benaddi, come to Melrose to talk about why and how they did it – not to escape life, but for life not to escape them.

Sounding Borders: the spark of spoken memories 5.30pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE FREE From animations to drama pieces and from printmaking to poetry, people across the Borders have been responding to the significant oral history collections held by the Scottish Borders Archive. This event will take you on a virtual tour of these creative projects and give you the chance to listen in to Borderers past, via the recorded life stories which inspired them.

In partnership with Connecting Scotland’s Sounds and Scran.

Sponsored by National Library of Scotland

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Richard Holloway 5.45pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 A Little History of Religion is a stunning tour de force, its themes never more relevant. Richard is one of the most extraordinary churchmen of our time.

Anti-authoritarian, impatient of doctrine and open about his own struggles with the nature and place of religion, he has consistently stood against all fundamentalist certainties. And he is a warm, funny – and brilliant - man.

Natalie Haynes Stand-up for the Classics 5.45pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE £10, £8 Natalie Haynes is an unlikely combination: a brilliant, sharp and very funny stand-up comic and also a passionate believer that we should continue to read and enjoy classical literature. Natalie’s documentary on Greek tragedy and soap opera, Oedipus Enders, was broadcast on Radio 4 in April 2010. She then made Attila the Hen, about urban chicken keeping, in 2011, and Vampires vs Zombies examining the metaphorical role of our monsters du jour. With her new book The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes reimagines the Oedipus and Antigone stories from the perspectives of two of the women who have often been overlooked: Jocasta and Ismene. Natalie is funny and fascinating.

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Anne Reid: A Night at the Pictures 7.00pm – 8.45pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE £18 The star of the superb series, Last Tango in Halifax, Ladies of Letters, and before that with Victoria Wood in Dinnerladies, Anne Reid turns out to be even more richly talented. With her musical director, Jason Carr, Anne presents an evening of love songs, fun songs and great stories from a string of immortal movies such as Gigi, Singin’ in the Rain, An American in Paris and many more. Sit back, relax and enjoy.

This event includes a 20-minute interval.

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Abridged 7.00pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £6 There are some 3,000 bridges in the Borders, ranging from tiny footbridges hidden away in forest trails, to the magnificent spans of the Leaderfoot Viaduct. Borders Writers’ Forum members read extracts from their 5th anthology - Abridged - a varied collection of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, all linked, whether in physical, emotional or metaphorical terms, to the over-arching theme of ‘bridge’. Copies of the anthology will be available to purchase.

The Pocket Guide to Whisky 7.15pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE £15 / Ticket includes whisky samples Blair Bowman and Nikki Welch’s excellent little guide is a miniature encyclopaedia that tells you everything you need to know about the bewildering array of drams on the market – from Glenlivet to the exotic Japanese Hibiki. There is also a guide to blended whiskies, until recently in the shade cast by the fascination with single malts. Slainte Mhath!

Storytelling and the Vikings with Suzie Wilde Al-Britannia, My Country 7.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 James Fergusson has made a journey through Muslim Britain.

After many years reporting on the most dangerous and volatile parts of the Islamic world, he turns his gaze homewards. In twenty years, the Muslim population has more than doubled and will double again in the next twenty. Some see this as dangerous – in two ways. They fear extremism while others see a threat to the core British value of tolerance. This is a groundbreaking book.

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Event

8.45pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE £8, £6 Suzie Wilde’s fascinating novel The Book of Bera draws heavily on extensive research into Norse mythology and the Vikings.

These warriors hold a special place in our cultural consciousness, despite the lack of written records and much knowledge about their everyday lives. Suzie sheds light on how their oral traditions made it into the Norse Sagas and beyond, examining language to illustrate how many of their stories are still relevant today.

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Tales of Don Roberto 9.00pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Jamie Jauncey brings the astonishing Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham to life before our eyes. It is a truly marvellous story that has found its ideal storyteller. Don Roberto was Jamie’s great, great uncle and his life was the stuff of romance: a gaucho and revolutionary conscript in Argentina, a rancher and buffalo hunter in Texas, held to ransom by a Moroccan sheikh, co-founder of the Scottish Labour Party with Keir Hardie and he was founding president of the Scottish National Party. Jamie tells his story brilliantly.

We will never see his like again.

Un-Discovered Islands with Malachy Tallack 9.00pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 ‘Un-Discovered Island: an island once believed to be real, but which is no longer on the map.’ Singer– songwriter & author Malachy Tallack navigates a course through these mythical and fascinating ‘places’.

Drogeo, Icaria & Podalida all fell off the maps eons ago; did they ever exist or were they born out of myth, error or deception? Accompany Malachy on a journey intertwined with his music through these shadowy isles. Maybe he’ll enlighten us about Sandy Island off the Australian coast? Charted as recently as 2012 but no longer on the map…. mysterious indeed.

Supported by The Dr David Summers Charitable Trust

Trumpquake 9.15pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Jim Naughtie reports on the questions on many people’s lips. What happened? How did it happen?

Why did it happen? Will the planet make it to the end of next month? With his unrivalled experience and knowledge of American politics, Jim ponders the most amazing political story in our lifetimes. Maybe he will reassure us, maybe not.

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Event

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charity fundraiser event

PC Brown & Friends Tales from the Touchline 4.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £10 Tomorrow’s People is delighted to present Jim Renwick and Keith Robertson in a special fundraiser where Renwick (Hawick and Scotland) and Robertson (Melrose and Scotland) will re-ignite their rivalry and fight for local pride, refereed by PC Brown (Gala and Scotland). Kicking off Friday, they will talk about representing their country and spill the beans on what it’s like to be local legends, all in aid of Tomorrow’s People, which helps young people in the Borders who are trapped by circumstances not of their own making to escape to employment and a place in society. www.tomorrows-people.co.uk

Arabella Weir 5.45pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Arabella Weir is proof that achieving just one O Level doesn’t hold you back in life. In 2002 she asked the eternal question Does My Bum Look Big In This? and got herself a bestselling novel. Known for TV comedy, her stellar career has included roles in The Fast Show, Two Doors Down & Grumpy Old Women, but who would have guessed that her first acting credit was with Meryl Streep in The French Lieutenant’s woman? On stage, she’s hilarious, warm & challenging – and her grannie came from Melrose!

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The Ethical Carnivore

5.45pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 We should all know exactly where our meat comes from. But what if you took this modern-day maxim to its logical conclusion? What if you only ate animals you killed yourself? Louise Gray decided to do exactly that. Starting small, she shucked oysters and caught fish before moving on to shooting pigeons, rabbits and red deer. She also interviewed farmers and followed livestock all the way from farm to fork. In a discussion of her new book The Ethical Carnivore, Louise will question modern attitudes to meat and whether we should all be eating grey squirrel?

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Melvyn Bragg 6.00pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Writer, television presenter and producer and a parliamentarian, Melvyn Bragg is Britain’s best known and most eloquent advocate for literature and the arts.

Presenter of the South Bank Show for 30 years and Radio 4’s In Our Time, he is also a prolific novelist. His latest Now is the Time, set during the Peasants’ Revolt, is superb. In 2004, Melvyn helped found the Borders Book Festival and he returns to talk about his life and career.

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The Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 7.15pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 In 2017 seven superb historical novels have been chosen and four authors will be in Melrose to talk about their work: Jo Baker with A Country Road, a Tree, Sebastian Barry with Days Without End, Charlotte Hobson with The Vanishing Futurist and Francis Spufford with Golden Hill. Check the website for further confirmations.

Tweed 6.00pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE £8, £6 In her beautiful new book, Fiona Anderson explores the design and cultural history of all types of tweeds from the 1820s to the present day. The work of famous names such as Bernat Klein is included, along with a brilliant analysis of contemporary manufacturing and design. Fiona lectures at the Edinburgh College of Art and was formerly Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the National Museum of Scotland.

Misha Glenny 7.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE £12, £10 The distinguished British journalist, academic and analyst, Misha Glenny, has become fascinated by the importance and implications of cyber security.

Each week, it seems, stories appear about hacking into databases and digital systems. Misha will focus on Vladimir Putin’s Russia and its use of cyber warfare against the western democracies.

This is an unmissable event, a talk on the shape of politics to come.

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Judy Murray 7.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE £14, £12 Knowing the Score is an inspiring story of family, ambition and sport against all the odds, a superb memoir from the woman who single-handedly revolutionised British tennis. “It was the day I put the tennis balls in the tumble dryer that I realised I thought about tennis a little bit differently”. Not only the mother of champions, Jamie and Andy, Judy Murray has championed women’s rights and opportunities in a male-dominated world.

The Scottish Bothy Bible 7.30pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £8, £6 A true labour of love, Geoff Allan’s bestselling book is the first ever complete guide to Scotland’s bothies. Scattered across Scotland’s most beautiful landscapes lies a unique and often hidden network of bothies, once abandoned crofts, farmsteads and mountain huts that are open to all and free to stay in. Geoff Allan navigates you across burns and bogs, taking you to Viking longhouses, island hideaways and highland homesteads. With captivating histories, detailed route descriptions and practical hill craft knowledge, this is your essential guide to wild adventure living.

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Mark Billingham and Chris Brookmyre: “Underclass Retards”

8.45pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Like a dog to its vomit, these two notorious crime writers return to the scene of a past atrocity, bringing down the tone of the entire festival once again with their unflinchingly sweary two-man show. Eschewing articulate and high-minded literary discussion for filth, smut and unconscionable depravity, Billingham and Brookmyre offer something to offend everybody in an event guaranteed to utterly undermine your faith in the written word.

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The Brewin Dolphin Lecture

Allan Little - Reporting the World in an Age of Anger

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9.00pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 The liberal order we have lived with for seventy years is coming apart at a dizzying speed. Europe is fragmenting into rival blocks with competing, often mutually hostile, visions for the future. The US has elected a protectionist ‘America First’ president. Russia is back as a global force - nationalistic, authoritarian and anti-western. The rise of Asia means five hundred years of western hegemony in the world is coming to an end in our lifetimes. Can liberal democracy survive? Allan Little, who has reported for thirty years from more than eighty countries, takes us on a tour of a rapidly changing world and asks - what kind of world are we in transition to?

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Sound Cycle Album Launch 9.00pm - 10.15pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £8 For months now, Sound Cycle, The Borders Youth Music Forum, has been working alongside Eyemouth Sound, The Eyemouth Music Initiative, the Hawick Music Initiative and other groups of young musicians from across the Scottish Borders, on a variety of projects. Both have been in the recording studio and are delighted to be given the opportunity to launch their respective albums at the book festival. Join them for an evening of eclectic music featuring some of our very talented young musicians - quirky loop maestro Millie Hanlon Cole (pictured), the Eyemouth Sound band ‘Collectiv’ with their driving soulful rock sound, talented singersongwriter Erin Highton, Borders guitar whizz Jack Hinks and many more.

Polly Clark & Annalena McAfee 9.00pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE £8, £6 Polly Clark and Annalena McAfee, two superb writers with novels that are real favourites with the book festival team, join us to talk about their gripping new books Larchfield and Hame. Both novels are set in coastal Scotland, where their protagonists seek to carve out new lives.

These atmospheric stories of two modernday women interweave with those of two complex poets who once lived in their adopted homes. Yes - W.H Auden really did live in Helensburgh whereas the irascible Grigor McWatt of Fascary is pure fiction.

Supported by The Dr David Summers Charitable Trust

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Joan Ruddock 12.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Going Nowhere is the memoir of a pioneer, a woman ahead of her time, bright, brave, determined and principled. Joan Ruddock set up a local campaign against Cruise missiles at Greenham Common and by the 1980s had become Chair of CND. Elected a Labour MP in 1987, she was appointed Minister for Women.

Joan has made a remarkable journey – from an upbringing in Pontypool to the Privy Council.

Around the World in 60 Minutes - What Just Happened?

1.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 A week may be a long time in politics, but just look what can happen in a year. From the pre-Brexit, preTrump, pre-general election world of last June, to the new world we now inhabit, it has been 12 months we won’t forget anytime soon. Douglas Alexander and Michael Moore have been invited back to explain why they predicted none of it then and to see if they can do any better this time.

Alasdair Hutton

The Greatest Show on Earth 1.30pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £8, £6 Former Convener of Scottish Borders Council, Alasdair Hutton had another job. For 25 years he was the presenter of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. In his new book The Greatest Show on Earth, Alasdair brings to life the excitements and complexities of putting on this amazing show year after year. The book includes many stunning colour pictures of the action.

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Jay Rayner: The Ten (Food) Commandments 3.00pm - 4.15pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Masterchef judge and restaurant critic Jay Rayner returns to Melrose with an audio-visual romp through his 10 Food Commandments. We all thought the Bible included 10 commandments, but apparently there are 613 - with 32 about food. One instructs us not to eat blood, another not to eat ‘non-kosher maggots’! Luckily, ultimate foodie Jay, has stepped up to the plate to offer his new rules including ‘always worship leftovers,’ and ‘do not cut off the fat,’ - just two he’ll share with us on the way to the edible promised land.

Ben Macintyre 3.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 SAS: Rogue Heroes is the brilliantly told tale of an idea born in the Western Desert in 1941. A bored and eccentric officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and against the rules: a small, undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world. The excellent Ben Macintyre returns to Melrose to tell the story of the SAS.

Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World

Event sponsored by Charlesfield Farms

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4.30pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £8, £6 Alec Ryrie has written a brilliant account of the rebellion that began 500 years ago with one stubborn German monk. What Martin Luther set in train has become a worldwide phenomenon with more than a billion adherents across the globe. This is a dazzling story of one of the most creative and destructive movements in human history.

Richard Ingrams

4.45pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Ticket includes a glass of wine The author of 19 bestsellers including The Rector’s Wife, Marrying the Mistress and Daughters-in-Law, Joanna joins us in Melrose to introduce her 20th novel. City of Friends is a keenly observed study of the long-cherished friendship of four women who met when girls at university. Always a writer who gets to the heart of the matter with such real and flawed characters, Joanna’s tale of revelations and relationships is unputdownable!

4.45pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 The co-founder and longtime editor of Private Eye and the founding editor of The Oldie has written an inspiring biography of his friend and hero, Ludovic Kennedy. Ludo and the Power of the Book deals with Kennedy’s lifelong obsession with miscarriages of justice: the execution of Derek Bentley and Timothy Evans and the imprisonment of Paddy Meehan. With his wife, Moira Shearer, Ludovic Kennedy lived for many years at Makerstoun, near Kelso.

‘….as subtle as Austen, as sharp as Bronte. Trollope’s brilliant’ Mail on Sunday In partnership with The Mainstreet Trading Company

Modern Mindfulness with Rohan Gunatillake 4.45pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 In this fast-paced, always-on world we may talk about mindfulness but most of us don’t actually get around to doing anything about it. We think we must switch off and stop in order to meditate and live more mindful, calm and happy lives. But Rohan Gunatillake, author of Modern Mindfulness and creator of the bestselling buddhify app, argues the opposite and teaches principles and techniques to bring awareness, composure and kindness into our lives. He reframes meditation as something that can be practised wherever we are and whatever we’re doing.

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Joanna Trollope

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Val McDermid 6.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Val is back! Out of Bounds is her 30th novel – and it is the most gripping yet. A teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma. DNA reveals a link to a cold case, an unsolved murder from 22 years before, a case as twisted as the double helix itself. And Karen Pirie also finds herself drawn to another mystery she has no business investigating. Absolutely riveting.

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Sumayya Usmani: Mountain Berries and Desert Spice Rory Stewart

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6.15pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 In his superb The Marches, the MP and travel writer traverses the borderlands between England and Scotland musing on history, memory and landscape.

With his father, Brian, occasionally joining him, Rory walks 600 miles over 30 days. Their odyssey develops into a history of nationhood, an anatomy of the landscape, a chronicle of contemporary Britain and an exuberant encounter between a father and a son.

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6.15pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £8, £6 After her wonderful event last year on her acclaimed debut cookery book, Summers Under the Tamarind Tree, Sumayya continues her journey of discovery through the exotic cuisine of her native Pakistan, sharing the secrets of her home country’s incredible and varied desserts and sweets. Mountain Berries and Desert Spice is a glorious tour around the culinary wonders of the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, where berries and fruits grow in abundance, down to the Punjab with its gorgeous rice and grain-based desserts, and on to the fragrances of the Arabian Sea in the south where saffron and cardamomlaced sweet recipes are much loved. Sumayya is a wonderful enthusiast for the cuisine of her native land and we can’t wait to welcome her back to Melrose.

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The Walter Scott Prize 6.30pm - 7.15pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £10, £8 Now in its 8th year, this distinctive prize honours the legacy of Walter Scott, the founding father of historical fiction. Sponsored by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, past winners of the £25,000 prize have included Robert Harris, Hilary Mantel, Tan Twan Eng and Sebastian Barry. This year’s shortlist is the best ever and it will be very difficult to predict – and choose – a winner. And championed by Elizabeth Buccleuch, the winners of the Young Walter Scott Prize will be presented with their awards by Tan Twan Eng, the winner of the Walter Scott Prize in 2012.

SHORTLIST 2017 Jo Baker, Sebastian Barry, Charlotte Hobson, Hannah Kent, Francis Spufford, Graham Swift and Rose Tremain

John Cleese 7.45pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 A comedy giant in every sense, John’s global reputation rests on Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and a string of hugely successful films from A Fish Called Wanda to the four Python films and more recently, James Bond, Harry Potter and Shrek. But perhaps his most significant achievement was to be elected Rector of the University of St Andrews! John talks to Rory Bremner.

The Lyrical Lounge 8.00pm - 10.15pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10 A high-octane evening of music and poetry to make you laugh and cry. Will Letford is a young poet who wears his heart on his sleeve and has enough spark to light a fire.

Formerly one half of literary cabaret Rally & Broad, Jenny Lindsay’s dry humour and social commentary won her a BBC Slam Championship. And rising star of the spoken word scene, award-winning poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz delivers a powerful punch. With live music from multi-instrumentalist and Shooglenifty band member Ewan MacPherson.

This event includes a 20-minute interval.

Will Letford, Sabrina Mahfouz and Jenny Lindsay

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Mistress and Commander 8.15pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE/ £8, £6 Amelia Dalton has written a wonderful account of her transformation of an old Arctic fishing boat into an expedition ship to run cruises around her beloved Western Isles. Subtitled High Jinks, High Seas and Highlanders, it reads like a mixture of A Year in Provence with cast of Para Handy and a touch of James Herriot. But the project was transformative in another way. Amelia had lost her second son and wanted to change her life.

And she did! Brilliantly.

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9.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE £14, £12 With his new show, Party Political, fresh from a sellout tour, the amazing, the inimitable, the astonishing Rory Bremner returns for his annual visit to Harmony Garden. His support for our festival adds such sparkle and warmth, we could not start the party without him. And in an age where the burning political question is ‘What on Earth is Going on?’, maybe Rory knows the answer.

The Novel Cure 9.30pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 It is said that books can cure all ills. Whether you have a stubbed toe or a severe case of the blues, you can find help within a novel. Bibliotherapist and author of The Novel Cure, Ella Berthoud interviews bestselling writers Joanna Trollope and Cathy Rentzenbrink about their ailments and offers literary salves to ease the pain. This unique, uplifting and entertaining event is a reminder of how the power of literature can change our lives.

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Steve Backshall 2.00pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Since visiting us three years ago, adventurer, explorer, wildlife expert and BAFTA award winning Deadly 60 TV presenter Steve Backshall has rarely been off our screens. Some of his most recent programmes include the BBC series Extreme Mountain Challenge and Down the Mighty River with Steve Backshall. Join him for an exciting afternoon as he shares his experiences of travelling to some of the world’s most inhospitable places and his gripping encounters with deadly creatures from all corners of the globe.

Suitable for adults, families and age 8+ Parents are advised that the content might be challenging for very young children.

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Cathy Rentzenbrink 12.45pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 When Cathy was still a teenager, her happy family was torn apart by an unthinkable tragedy.

In A Manual for Heartache, she describes how she learned to live with grief and loss and find joy in the world again. She explores how to cope with life at its most difficult and overwhelming, and how we can emerge from suffering forever changed, but filled with hope. This is an inspirational, wise and insightful book.

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The Novel Cure: one-to-one sessions 2.00pm - 4.30pm / MAINSTREET TRADING BOOK VAN / FREE Feeling blue, need cheering up? Whether you have a broken heart or a broken toe, books have the power to soothe your soul. Bibliotherapist and author of The Novel Cure, Ella Berthoud will be dispensing literary prescriptions to revive your spirits at Mainstreet Trading’s Book Van parked outside Harmony Garden.

Booking essential – just leave your name on the blackboard by the Book Van on the day.

Chris Mullin 2.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 All serious politicians should possess a hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one who did. By the time he entered parliament, he had reported from the wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. He was the author of three novels and had led the successful campaign to free the innocent people convicted of the Birmingham bombings. In parliament, he quickly established himself as a fearless inquisitor, going on to become a minister in three departments. He is the author of three widely acclaimed volumes of diaries.

Hinterland is his autobiography.

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Carol Klein: Life in a Cottage Garden 3.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Acclaimed plantswoman, bestselling author and one of our most familiar gardening experts in the media today, Carol Klein is most famous for her role as regular presenter of BBC Gardeners’ World, having featured on (almost) every programme since 2005. Her natural, down-to-earth approach has made her a popular and trusted figure, and she makes a special journey to Melrose to tell us about life in her own beautiful cottage garden.

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Richard Porter From Top Gear to The Grand Tour…and Everything in Between Carol Klein event supported by the National Trust for Scotland

5.00pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE/ £14, £12 Richard Porter was the script editor on the last iteration of Top Gear, from the disastrous pilot show of 2002 right up until the ignominious end in 2015, a run of 13 years and 175 programmes which he catalogued in his book And On That Bombshell. He’s now the script editor for The Grand Tour and he’ll be at the festival to talk about the old show, the new show, adventures in self-publishing, and what it’s really like to work with Jeremy Clarkson.

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Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains 5.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent describes a journey across Arunachal Pradesh, India’s forgotten frontier.

Beautifully written, this is the story of a thrilling adventure through the eastern ramparts of the Himalayas. A wild land of unnamed peaks and unexplored forests, Arunchal Pradesh was closed to foreigners between 1950 and 1998.

Now the epic beauty of the last Shangri La is revealed.

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5.15pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10, £8 Played by James Norton in ITV’s Grantchester Chronicles, Sidney Chambers is a wonderful fictional creation. Now, James Runcie has written the sixth in this much-loved series about the full-time priest and part-time detective. It is set in May, 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer, but behind the bluebells and the swoop of the swallows, something darker is lurking. Great storytelling.

Borders Abbeys Way

5.15pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £8, £6 This charming walk links Melrose’s ruined abbey with those of Dryburgh, Kelso and Jedburgh and passes through Hawick, Selkirk and Abbotsford House, the historic home of Sir Walter Scott. The 67-mile circuit is rich in Borders history, scenery and wildlife. Written by local author and access consultant Neil Mackay, this thorough guidebook is published by Rucksack Readers (www. rucsacs.com). It is launched at the festival with glorious visuals, plenty of interaction and a special launch offer.

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Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent James Runcie

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Ann Cleeves 6.30pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £14, £12 Ann Cleeves, the Sunday Times bestselling Queen of Crime Fiction, is the author of ITV’s Vera, starring Brenda Blethyn, and BBC One’s Shetland starring Douglas Henshall. Cleeves will tell us some of the facts behind her fiction and how she creates the characters now loved by millions across the world. How do the stories evolve from book to screen? Martha Hillier, BAFTA nominated screenwriter who adapted the Edgar nominated Vera, as well as The Halcyon and Versailles set as far apart as wartime London and the court of Louis XIV, joins Ann to let us into the secrets.

Tim Shipman 6.45pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class has been hailed by Andrew Marr as the best political book of the year. It is the only account to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the European Union. It is a superb piece of storytelling and reporting of the most important political decision since the end of the Second World War. Tim Shipman is the political editor of the Sunday Times.

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I Love Champagne 6.45pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £15 Ticket includes champagne samples Well, who doesn’t? But nobody loves it more than Davy Zyw and his book about the world’s 50 best champagnes proves it. The research? Somebody had to do it and Davy has done it brilliantly. The youngest ever British sommelier at Le Gavroche, the world famous Roux restaurant, he takes us on a tour of the best champagne houses in France.

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A History of the Melrose Sevens 6.45pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE £8, £6 In 1883 two Melrose butchers, Ned Haig and Davie Sanderson, came up with an idea. Funds could be raised to save their rugby club by holding a Sports Day to include a seven-a-side tournament of shortened games. The credit for the rugby element went to Ned Haig and Melrose Sevens was born at the Greenyards. The book records meticulously every single tie between 1883 and 2016 and it provides fascinating memories of great teams and great players. Melrose RFC invented Sevens – now a worldwide and Olympic sport. Event will be in conversation with author Ian Cooper and rugby legend PC Brown.

Sponsored by Melrose Rugby Legacy Project

An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson 8.15pm - 10.00pm / BREWIN DOLPHIN MARQUEE / £20 An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson celebrates the life and career of a man who has interviewed over 2000 of the most important cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. In conversation with his son Mike and showing highlights from the Parkinson archive, An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson is a unique opportunity to get an intimate, entertaining and informative look at his remarkable journey from a pit village in Yorkshire to the top of those famous stairs whilst reliving the best moments from a show that for many defined their Saturday night.

This event includes a 20-minute interval.

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The Hidden Ways 8.15pm / HARMONY MARQUEE / £12, £10 Alistair Moffat and Nat Edwards present a preview of a project and book due to launch in October. The Hidden Ways traces ten of Scotland’s forgotten roads, two of which run through the Borders. Dere Street, the Roman road, descends from the Cheviot watershed and parts can be seen as far north as Lauder and beyond, while the Great North Road, although not the A1, runs through some of the most beautiful countryside in Berwickshire before crossing into East Lothian.

The Prince Who Would Be King 8.15pm / KNIGHT FRANK MARQUEE / £8, £6 This is the story of what might have been. Henry Stuart was the eldest son of James I and VI and a celebrity across Europe. His court attracted brilliant minds, scientists, inventors and empire builders as all anticipated that he would be the first prince to inherit four kingdoms. But in 1612, Henry died, aged only 18. Sarah Fraser wrote the bestseller The Last Highlander, and in telling this fascinating tale, she is in top form.

Supported by The Dr David Summers Charitable Trust

Sarah Fraser

Katee Kross

Katee Kross & The Amberjax 8.30pm - 10.00pm / DOUGLAS HOME MARQUEE / £10 At the tender age of twenty, talented Scottish singer-songwriter Katee Kross is already making quite a name for herself. She has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, supporting Karine Polwart, Dougie MacLean and Barbara Dickson, and in October 2016 she played live at Wembley Arena with Seasick Steve. Join Katee and the Amberjax as they wrap up this year’s festival with some great music, including tracks from her brilliant new album, Don’t Fade to Grey.

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Join us for a weekend of surprises and delights, fascinating stories, amazing facts and LOTS of laughter!

Free Stuff!

All accompanying adults go free!

Many of our events and activities don’t cost a penny.

Listen to a story at our Storytime events or sing along at our Bookbug rhyme sessions. Head to the Abbotsford Tipi for Knight School activities, help create a book in the Words plus Pictures = Book! drop-in sessions, learn some circus skills with festival favourites, Oli & Co and say hello to our friendly stilt-walkers who will be strolling around all weekend. WOWEE!!

Come and explore the Orchard - a family-friendly space for relaxing, where many of our activities also take place.

We’re delighted to announce that there is NO ENTRY CHARGE for adults accompanying children to Family Book Festival events.

Please note that all events are ticketed, so remember to put your FREE adult ticket in the basket at the time of booking.

Artwork: Amy Lewis

Accompanying Children to Events

We strongly advise that adults accompany children under age ten to all events. Everyone attending must have a ticket. Ages in listings are for guidance only.

Photography

Official photographs may be taken throughout the festival and used in future publicity. No unofficial photography is permitted at events.

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Max Helsing: Monster Hunter with Curtis Jobling

Knight in Training with Vivian French

12.00pm / Brewin Dolphin Marquee / £5 / Age 9+ Meet Max Helsing - trainee monster hunter. As a descendant of Van Helsing, he SHOULD be able to tell the difference between gargoyles and ghouls, but now he’s thirteen, he’s expected to control them too! Curtis Jobling is an author and veteran of the UK animation industry who wrote the bestselling fantasy horror series, Wereworld. He also designed Bob the Builder. Join us as he introduces the fearless Max in his thrilling new books Max Helsing: Monster Hunter and The Beast of Bone Creek. There will be live illustration, animation screening - and Bob the Builder will transform into a werewolf before your very eyes…

10.45am / Douglas Home Marquee / £5 / Age 5-9 Sam J Butterbiggins has had to face hungry monsters, bothersome bears and a knotted worm in his quest to become a Very Noble Knight. In the Fearsome Forest, there are wolves - and MUCH worse! Come and join Vivian French as Sam sets out on his final adventure, and hear how this six book series owes a LOT to the children of the Borders Book Festival!

Words plus Pictures = Book!

11.00am – 4.00pm / Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent / FREE / All Ages Astrid Jaekel is a wonderful artist and illustrator who has exhibited widely in Scotland, the UK, and beyond. She will be creating pictures inspired by the words of children at the festival with the help of talented illustrator Anders Frang, and Vivian French will be working with them both to help create a book that will be made right in front of your eyes!

Abbotsford Knight School

Petr Horcek  12.00pm / Knight Frank Marquee / £5 / Age 3+ Czech illustrator Petr Horáček is the author of a variety of charming picture books for children, including Blue Penguin, The Greedy Goat, Silly Suzy Goose, Elephant, Puffin Peter and The Mouse Who Reached the Sky. Join him for storytelling and watch him bring his characters to life with a live drawing session.

Image: Petr Horacek

11.00am - 4.00pm / Abbotsford Tipi / FREE All Ages Calling all courageous knights! Pop into Abbotsford’s special Ivanhoe Tipi in The Orchard and get creative with medieval-inspired activities for children of all ages. Discover the secrets and symbols of the medieval art of heraldry and design your very own coat of arms to adorn a shield and flag fit for a knight! Activities are run on a drop-in basis with all materials provided.

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Bookbug Rhyme Session

One Button Benny

12.00pm - 12.30pm and 1.00pm – 1.30pm / Baillie Gifford Festival Hub Babies & under 3s / FREE Join Live Borders Libraries for a funpacked half hour of interactive songs and stories for babies and toddlers.

Tickets available from the box office on day of event.

1.45pm / Douglas Home Marquee / £5 / Age 3-7 Sometimes you find heroes in the most unexpected places. Join Mac and Bob author Alan Windram and illustrator Chloe Holwill-Hunter as they launch One Button Benny, their amazing new robot picture book for three to six year-olds. There will be stories, amazing illustrations, singalong songs and robot dancing for all.

Nicola Davies 12. 15pm / Douglas Home Marquee / £5 / Age 7+ Zoologist and acclaimed author of The First Book of Nature, Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes and the Heroes of the Wild series, Nicola will take you on a whistle-stop tour around the globe and guide you through the wondrous, weird and wacky world of animals. Did you know that blue whales have hearts the size of smart cars and that elephants hear through their feet?

Beaky Malone with Barry Hutchison 3.00pm / Knight Frank Marquee / £5 / Age 8-11 Join award-winning professional liar, Barry Hutchison, as he introduces us to Beaky Malone, the star of his hilarious new children’s book series.

Beaky may be the self-proclaimed ‘World’s Greatest Liar,’ but when he is shoved inside a mysterious truth-telling machine his life is changed forever.

The truth hurts, and poor Beaky is about to find out just how much! A laugh-out-loud event from one of Scotland’s best loved children’s authors*. (*This bit is a lie.)

Nicola Davies & Petr Horcek  - A First Book of Animals 3.15pm / Douglas Home Marquee / £5 / Age 5+ Nicola Davies is a zoologist and knows everything about animals! Petr Horáček is an artist who brings each creature to life in this wild book. Petr does live painting whilst Nicola talks, and each piece of art is a wonder to behold. Full of animal facts and unbelievable animal stories, this event is full of fun and laughter, and you even learn to sing a whale song at the end!

Spynosaur with Guy Bass 1.45pm / Harmony Marquee / £5 / Age 7-11 When top spy-entists put the mind of a secret agent inside the body of a dinosaur, they create Spynosaur, the prehistoric hero who’ll protect the world from international badness! Join author Guy Bass for a high-octane, interactive event full of readings, pictures, props and lots and lots of laughs.

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Words plus Pictures = Book!

12.30pm – 4.45pm / Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent / FREE / All Ages Astrid Jaekel is a wonderful artist and illustrator who has exhibited widely in Scotland, the UK, and beyond. She will be creating pictures inspired by the words of children at the festival with the help of talented illustrator Anders Frang, and Vivian French will be working with them both to help create a book that will be made right in front of your eyes!

Abbotsford Knight School Dear Dinosaur with Chae Strathie 12.30pm / Brewin Dolphin Marquee / £5 / Age 3+ Max writes a letter to his favourite dinosaur, the mighty T Rex – and the T Rex writes back! As they learn about each other’s lives, a very unusual friendship develops. Chae Strathie talks about his beautiful interactive picture book, which has real letters to open.

Warning: this event contains some monster dinosaur facts!

Philip Ardagh

The Story Cure 12.30pm / Knight Frank Marquee / £5 Parents and age 8+ From tantrums to teenage angst, a book can be the best medicine. Bibliotherapist and author of The Story Cure, Ella Berthoud recommends the perfect children’s book for every hiccup and heartache.

Whether it’s being bullied or feeling anxious about exams, the right story can help. Featuring old favourites alongside modern classics, The Story Cure is the perfect event to encourage children to find solace and pleasure from reading. This is a family event for parents and children to enjoy together.

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Storytime 1.00pm - 1.30pm and 2.30pm - 3.00pm Orchard Signing Tent / FREE / All ages Join Mark Timmins for a great collection of magical, funny and captivating stories from your best loved writers. Especially suited to 3-10s. Tickets available from the box office on day of event.

Image: Nicola O’Byrne

Philip Ardagh

12.30pm / Harmony Marquee / £5 / Age 7-12 Join Roald Dahl Funny Prize winning author Philip Ardagh. He is the author of The Grunts and soon to be launched The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge, a Medieval Knight in Training. Philip Ardagh is two metres tall with a ridiculously big, bushy beard and size sixteen feet, making him an instantly recognisable figure at literary festivals around the world.

12.30pm - 4.45pm / Abbotsford Tipi / FREE All Ages Calling all courageous knights! Pop into Abbotsford’s special Ivanhoe Tipi in The Orchard and get creative with medieval-inspired activities for children of all ages. Discover the secrets and symbols of the medieval art of heraldry and design your very own coat of arms to adorn a shield and flag fit for a knight! Activities are run on a drop-in basis with all materials provided.

Skulduggery Pleasant with Derek Landy 3.45pm / Harmony Marquee / £5 / Age 11+ Author Derek Landy comes to Melrose to launch Resurrection - the tenth triumphant instalment of his internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series. Bringing his trademark wit and heartstopping action to this mind-blowing supernatural thriller, Derek reveals what inspires his fast-paced, paranormal page-turners.

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The Giant Who Snored 2.00pm / Knight Frank Marquee / £5 / Age 3-6 What’s that TERRIBLE noise?! The normally helpful giant has fallen asleep and his snores are deafening the whole town. Join children’s author Mike Nicholson on the hunt for whoever can stop a giant snoring. You’ll hear a fantastic rhyming tale, sing some fun songs and hear lots of snorting and snuffling!

The Adventures of Alfie Onion and The Cherry Pie Princess 2.15pm / Douglas Home Marquee / £5 / Age 7+ Magnifico Onion is the most useless of heroes, despite being the seventh son of a seventh son.

Luckily for him, his brother Alfie isn’t terrified of trolls, ogres, and deep dark forests ...

Princess Peony didn’t mean to send a librarian to the dungeon for Those Who Speak Out of Turn, and she’s determined to rescue him - but The Hag of Scrabster’s Hump has some nasty ideas of her own!

Vivian French adores creating her own brand of fairy tale, with lots of twists and humour. She had huge fun writing these two standalone stories; she’d love to share her ideas, and inspire her audience to write stories of their own!

The Book of the Howlat workshop with Kate Leiper 3.30pm - 4.45pm / Knight Frank Marquee / £5 Age 7+ In this workshop for families and children, hear the tale of a young owl who, believing himself to be ugly, asks for help from the other birds, then create your own art work inspired by the characters in the story with artist and illustrator Kate Leiper. With lots of drawing, colouring-in and feather-making fun for all!

Captain Firebeard's School for Pirates with Chae Strathie 3.45pm / Douglas Home Marquee / £5 / Age 6-8 Join Tommy for his first term on board the Rusty Barnacle as he learns how to walk, talk and swashbuckle like a proper pirate. Will he and his friends pass their pirate tests? And can they find the mysterious lost treasure? Come aboard landlubbers and prepare to walk the plank.

Steve Backshall

Check out Steve’s event on page 29 of the adult programme – also suitable for families and age 8+

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Support us The Borders Book Festival wouldn’t happen without the generous help from our sponsors, funders and supporters.

If you would like to support the Borders Book Festival as sponsor or in any other way in the future, please contact us at info@bordersbookfestival.org

The National Library of Scotland preserves the memory of the nation.

From Mary Queen of Scots’ last letter to the manuscripts of contemporary Scottish writers, we collect Scotland’s memories and heritage - and, in amongst 26 million items, we have something to inspire you.

Visit the Library’s exhibition and treasures displays, attend an event or browse our collections - in person in Edinburgh or Glasgow, or online, wherever in the world you are.

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TIME TRAVELS IN FICTION The Young Walter Scott Prize

– a unique opportunity for young writers of historical fiction Congratulations to this year’s winners – Demelza Mason from Cambridgeshire and Alice Sargent from Carmarthenshire – and welcome to the Borders Book Festival! You can read their stories on our website.

Writers aged between 11 and 19 are invited to enter the Young Walter Scott Prize – entry forms, guidelines, T&Cs are on our website alongside suggestions from published writers including David Almond, Hermione Eyre and Ann Weisgarber.

When in the world will you go for inspiration?

We look forward to finding out!

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Reflecting life in The Borders

Sounding Borders We’ve been exploring new ways to connect with the recorded life story interviews cared for by the Scottish Borders Archive.

Come and hear about creative projects sparked by spoken memories at the Borders Book Festival on 15 June.

You can browse archive recordings from home at www.libraries.scran.ac.uk (log in with your library card) and at www.memorybank.org.uk

Connecting Scotland’s Sounds is a project based at the National Library of Scotland, championing the preservation and sharing of Scotland’s heritage sound recordings with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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WIN A LUXURY BREAK TO EDINBURGH – UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE Subscribe to Baillie Gifford’s free Trust magazine and you could win a luxury break to Edinburgh, the first ever city to be designated City of Literature by UNESCO. Indulge your love of books with a literary tour or a visit to one of Edinburgh’s monuments or museums dedicated to literature. In August, you can attend the world-renowned Edinburgh International Book Festival, or try one of the many shows on offer at the International or Fringe festivals.

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For your opportunity to win this fantastic prize, complete the reply paid card in Trust magazine, which can be found in the Baillie Gifford Festival Hub, or enter online now at www.bailliegifford.com/literaryprize Terms and conditions apply.