Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Programme 2018

BAILLIE GIFFORD BORDERS BOOK FESTIVAL 2018 WWW.BORDERSBOOKFESTIVAL.ORG FOOD VILLAGE . BOOKSHOP . CAFE & BAR . CINEMA . LIVE MUSIC

The Hairy Bikers Antony Beevor Prue Leith Ian Rankin Neil Oliver Nina Conti Chris Bonington Sally Magnusson James Naughtie Mark Beaumont

Rory Bremner Carol Klein Kate Mosse Charles Spencer Robert Peston

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 Welcome 4-5 All the Fun of the Festival 6 -7 Thanks 8 Festival at a Glance 9 - 11 Events for Adults 12 - 38 Family Book Festival 39 - 43

Tickets are available online, by phone and in person

ONLINE:

bordersbookfestival.org

PHONE:

0131 473 2000

IN PERSON:

Who’s Who Directors Michael Moore (Chairman) Lynsey Graham, Francis Hamilton James Hutchison, Alistair Moffat Paula Ogilvie, Susan Windram Honorary Patrons Rory Bremner, Vivian French James Naughtie, Eleanor Updale

DESIGN: JOHNSTON MONTGOMERY 01450 374 152

Patrons The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch Johannes and Antonia de Gier Jonathan and Victoria Tweedie Robert and Maxine Sloss 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 13 June - Mon 18 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.

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Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH1 2NE Phone lines and ticket office are open: Mondays - Saturday, 10.00am - 5.00pm There will also be a box office on site during the festival (14 – 17 June): Harmony Garden, St Mary’s Road, Melrose TD6 9LJ Tickets can be sent as an e-ticket, or collected in person from Hub Tickets. E-tickets must be printed in advance. If you choose to receive your tickets in the post, you will be charged £1 for postage. Please note - there is no booking fee.

Concession tickets (C), where applicable, 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.

There is no wheelchair access to The Vintage Mobile Cinema (located on St Mary’s Road between Harmony Garden and the Orchard).

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. Tickets are non-refundable unless an event is cancelled. Please check the festival website bordersbookfestival.org for the latest news, special events and information.

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Site Map

HARMONY GARDEN Douglas Home Marquee McInroy & Wood Marquee Knight Frank Marquee

Baillie Gifford Festival Hub

(Box Office, Bookshop & Signings)

Harmony Bar Overlangshaw Ice Cream Coffee Shop

THE ORCHARD Orchard Marquee Orchard Bar Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent Bookshop & Ticket Info

TOILETS Disabled & Baby Changing

PRIVATE PARKING ONLY

THE ORCHARD

FOOD VILLAGE

The Crepe Shack Cheesy Toasty Shack Linton & Co. Coffee Pizza Geeks Crèma Caravan Meat:Stack Overlangshaw Ice Cream

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For train times to Edinburgh visit www. scotrail.co.uk

MAIN GATE

Harmony House

DROP OFF POINT

ABBEY STREET

TOILETS Disabled & Baby Changing

HARMONY GARDEN

Super Power Bus Vintage Mobile Cinema

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Welcome to the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival 2018 Welcome to the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival! Our creative team works hard all year round to prepare for this magical June weekend in Melrose - we hope you will agree that once again they have brought together a great line-up to inform and entertain you over these four days.

After last year’s record numbers, we are not changing the formula! See what you think, but we believe the programme offers a great combination of returning friends, old favourites and a mix of performers you will be unlikely to find elsewhere.

We are, as ever, grateful to long time friends such as Rory Bremner and Sally Magnusson, who keep coming back for more. Old favourites include the ever-expanding food village, Schools Gala Day and Family Book Festival, all helping to expand the reach of the festival across Borders’ 4

communities and elsewhere. And as far as the mix is concerned, where else will you see the Hairy Bikers, Robert Peston, Nina Conti, Richard Dawkins and a Muriel Spark retrospective all on the same bill?

The support of people in the Borders and elsewhere in coming to the festival has been exceptional over the past fourteen years – thank you! In addition, our sponsors and funders make this whole weekend possible, so we add our thanks to returning headline sponsors Baillie Gifford, new key sponsors McInroy & Wood, long-term partners Scottish Borders Council and Creative Scotland, as well as to our friends at The Times, back again as media partners. As ever, you will be looked after all weekend by an exceptional team who make the welcome personal and real.

To this entire cast we say, ‘Thank you’ – and hope that, for everyone, the festival is once again the place ‘where words come alive’. Enjoy!

Michael Moore, Chairman Borders Book Festival

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The Times The Times Scotland is delighted once again to be media partner with the runaway success story that is the Borders Book Festival. In not much more than 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? Last year will be a hard act to follow but, with more than 100 events on the programme this time around, I am sure you will have a great time.

Baillie Gifford Welcome to the Borders Book Festival held in association with Edinburgh-based investment managers Baillie Gifford. We are very excited to be continuing as main sponsor of the festival, now in its 15th year. 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. We have been lucky enough to work with the team at Borders over the last couple of years. The festival has become established as one of the country’s top literature events 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 30,000 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

National Trust for Scotland The National Trust for Scotland is delighted to welcome the Borders Book Festival once again to Harmony Garden in Melrose. The event is a firm fixture in the literary calendar and there can be no doubt that this special setting, maintained through the dedication and hard work of our volunteers and staff, has a part to play in its growing success. For 2018, there is a further Trust connection to proceedings, as our recently appointed President, Neil Oliver, is part of this year’s varied and inspiring programme.

He’ll be doing what he does best - sharing his enthusiasm for his favourite places. Here’s to a great visit to Harmony Garden and to another splendid edition of the Borders Book Festival.

Sir Moir Lockhead OBE. Chairman The National Trust for Scotland

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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.

The sbha Schools Gala Day

Bringing the kids?

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. See the full list of family events on pages 39 - 43.

Scotland’s Year of Young People 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.

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Taking the Train or Bus The journey by train takes less than one hour from Edinburgh 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, but, if you’d rather catch a bus, they run regularly between Tweedbank and Melrose.

There are regular trains from Edinburgh Waverley (every 30 minutes at peak times) and you’ll find a link to the ScotRail and Borders Buses timetables in the ‘Getting to Melrose’ section in the ‘About’ tab on www.bordersbookfestival.org

This year, to celebrate Scotland’s Year of Young People, we have an exciting programme strand which involves young events’ programmers, presenters and musicians from across the Scottish Borders. Check out some great events throughout the weekend involving talented and dynamic 12 to 25 year olds. Highlights include Sound Cycle musicians’ new album launch, brand new performance work from Borders Youth Theatre and recordings and author interviews by VOMO (Voice of My Own).

See our events’ pages for more details.

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Super Power Bus It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Super Power Bus! Created by the Super Power Agency, this kitted out bus is the Agency’s way of bringing fun and creativity to the students and schools of Edinburgh.

The bus has books, costumes, art supplies and an interactive screen helping to create a third space for students - not home or school - where they can be as creative as they want to be. Students can go on the bus as Clark Kent, Diana Prince or Bruce Wayne and exit as Superman, Wonder Woman or Batman.

The Super Power Bus will be on St Mary’s Road throughout the festival – climb aboard and unleash your hidden super power!

The Orchard FOOD AND DRINK

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, Hickory Bars will keep the good cheer flowing with their finest beers, wines and craft gins. This year’s offerings for foodies include a welcome return for The Crepe Shack with their lovely sweet and savoury crepes.

Regular favourites Crema Caravan from Galashiels will be back again to tempt everyone into trying their delicious, freshly baked creme brulees. Treat yourself to savoury offerings from The Cheesy Toasty Shack, Pizza Geeks and Meat:Stack whose succulent real American cheesburgers are sure to be a big hit.

You can also enjoy 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.

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.

Vintage Mobile Cinema During the festival ‘Audrey’ will be parked on St Mary’s Road for visitors to admire, photograph or hop aboard. Every day there will be free screenings showing the history of this beautifully restored 1960s mobile cinema. Audiences will also be able to watch fascinating archive footage from around the Scottish Borders.

There will be daily feature film screenings too, with full details listed in the programme pages.

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Thanks also to: Best Intent, Border Studio, Border Events, The Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch, David Summers Charitable Trust, Fauhope Country House, Kelso Races, The Main Street Trading Company, Marmions, Melrose Primary School, 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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Thursday 14 June TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

4.30pm

The Hairy Bikers

Douglas Home Marquee

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6.00pm

Charles Spencer

Douglas Home Marquee

13

6.00pm

Mary and the Lama

Knight Frank Marquee

13

6.15pm

Sue Black: All That Remains - A Life in Death

McInroy & Wood Marquee

13

6.30pm - 8.30pm

Film: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Vintage Mobile Cinema

14

7.30pm

Chris Bonington

Douglas Home Marquee

14

7.30pm

Allan Massie

Knight Frank Marquee

15

7.45pm

Paula McLain

McInroy & Wood Marquee

15

7.45pm

Clare Mulley: The Women Who Flew for Hitler

Orchard Marquee

15

9.00pm

Prue Leith

Douglas Home Marquee

15

9.00pm

Natasha Solomons

Knight Frank Marquee

16

9.15pm

Archie Macpherson

McInroy & Wood Marquee

16

9.30pm

Mike Compton

Orchard Marquee

16

Friday 15 June 1.30pm

What is Mindfulness and How Does it Work?

Orchard Marquee

17

1.30pm

Take Charge of Your Health with Ayurvedic Medicine

Knight Frank Marquee

17

1.30pm - 4.00pm

Massage Sessions

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

17

3.00pm

Be Good to Your Gut

Knight Frank Marquee

17

3.00pm

Restorative Yoga with Yoga Ganesh

McInroy & Wood Marquee

17

4.30pm

Doddie Weir

Douglas Home Marquee

18

4.45pm

Mary Contini

Orchard Marquee

18

5.30pm

Border Voices

Knight Frank Marquee

18

6.00pm

Misha Glenny: McMafia

Douglas Home Marquee

18

6.15pm

Ian Rankin & Alan Taylor on Muriel Spark

McInroy & Wood Marquee

19

6.15pm

Alistair Moffat: The Hidden Ways

Orchard Marquee

19

7.30pm

James Naughtie & Simon Jenkins: Crisis or Opportunity

Douglas Home Marquee

20

7.30pm

Finding the Stories Within

Knight Frank Marquee

20

7.45pm

John Lister-Kaye

McInroy & Wood Marquee

20

7.45pm

The Walter Scott Prize Shortlist

Orchard Marquee

20

8.00pm - 10.00pm

Film: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Vintage Mobile Cinema

21

9.00pm

Ian Rankin

Douglas Home Marquee

21

9.00pm

Claire Bell: Trying to escape apartheid’s shadows

Knight Frank Marquee

22

9.15pm

Edwina Brocklesby: Irongran

McInroy & Wood Marquee

22

9.15pm - 10.45pm

Katee Kross & The Amberjax

Orchard Marquee

23

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Saturday 16 June

FAMILY BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

P

10.00am

Storytelling & Bookmaking the Super Powered Way!

Knight Frank Marquee

40

10.15am - 10.45am

Bookbug Rhyme Session

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

40

10.30am

Vivian French: How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim

Orchard Marquee

40

11.00am -11.30am

Storytime

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

40

11.30am

Simon Chapman: Expedition Diaries

McInroy & Wood Marquee

40

11.45am -12.15pm

Bookbug Rhyme Session

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

40

12 noon

William Hague

Douglas Home Marquee

24

12 noon

Alan Windram: Puppies and Robots

Knight Frank Marquee

40

12.15pm

Mike Nicholson: Roman Riddles

Orchard Marquee

41

12.45pm - 2.45pm

Get Crafty with Robert Smail's Printing Workshop

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

41

1.00pm

Mark Millar

McInroy & Wood Marquee

24

1.30pm

Antony Beevor

Douglas Home Marquee

25

1.30pm

Dracula Detectives

Knight Frank Marquee

41

1.45pm

Debi Gliori: Goodnight World

Orchard Marquee

41

2.30pm

Sally Magnusson

McInroy & Wood Marquee

25

3.00pm

Gordon Brown

Douglas Home Marquee

26

3.00pm

Colin MacIntyre: The Humdrum Drum

Knight Frank Marquee

41

3.00pm - 5.00pm

Film: Kick-Ass

Vintage Mobile Cinema

26

3.15pm

David Solomons

Orchard Marquee

41

3.15pm - 4.45pm

How to Write a Play

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

27

4.30pm

Neil Oliver

Douglas Home Marquee

27

4.30pm

Kate Figes

Knight Frank Marquee

27

4.45pm

The Really Terrible Orchestra

McInroy & Wood Marquee

28

4.45pm

Natalie Haynes

Orchard Marquee

28

5.15pm - 6.45pm

How to Write a Weekly Column

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

28

6.00pm

Frank Quitely: Drawings + Sketches

Knight Frank Marquee

28

6.15pm - 7.00pm

The Walter Scott Prize

Douglas Home Marquee

28

6.15pm

Norman Davies

McInroy & Wood Marquee

29

6.15pm

Simon Jenkins

Orchard Marquee

29

7.30pm

Richard Dawkins

Douglas Home Marquee

29

7.30pm

Debi Gliori: Night Shift

Knight Frank Marquee

30

7.45pm

Richard Holloway

McInroy & Wood Marquee

30

7.45pm

Colin MacIntyre/Mull Historical Society

Orchard Marquee

30

9.00pm

Markus Stitz

Knight Frank Marquee

30

9.15pm

Rory Bremner

Douglas Home Marquee

30

9.15pm

Dean Burnett: The Happy Brain

McInroy & Wood Marquee

30

9.30pm - 10.45pm

Sound Cycle Album Launch

Orchard Marquee

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Sunday 17 June

FAMILY BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

TIME

EVENT

LOCATION

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12.30pm

Team Hero

McInroy & Wood Marquee

42

12.30pm

Ross Collins

Orchard Marquee

42

12.30pm

BYT: The Misfits and the Misunderstood

Knight Frank Marquee

33

12.45pm - 1.15pm

Storytime

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

42

2.00pm

Alexander McCall Smith

Douglas Home Marquee

33

2.00pm

Chris Mullin: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn

McInroy & Wood Marquee

33

2.00pm

Rufus with Simon Bartram

Knight Frank Marquee

42

2.00pm - 3.30pm

Drawing Workshop: The Mighty Women of Science

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

42

2.15pm

Vivian French & Ross Collins

Orchard Marquee

42

3.30pm

Robert Peston: The McInroy & Wood Lecture

Douglas Home Marquee

33

3.30pm

Home from Home

Knight Frank Marquee

42

3.45pm

Steve Brusatte: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

McInroy & Wood Marquee

34

3.45pm

Dekko Comics Workshop

Orchard Marquee

42

4.15pm - 5.45pm

How to Write a Picture Book

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent

34

5.00pm

Rory Bremner and Jan Ravens

Douglas Home Marquee

34

5.00pm

Helen Bellany: The Restless Wave

Knight Frank Marquee

35

5.15pm

Carol Klein

McInroy & Wood Marquee

35

5.15pm

Gavin Francis: Shapeshifters

Orchard Marquee

36

5.30pm - 7.30pm

Film: You Choose

Vintage Mobile Cinema

36

6.30pm

Mark Beaumont

Douglas Home Marquee

36

6.30pm

Shaun Bythell: The Diary of a Bookseller

Knight Frank Marquee

36

6.45pm

Stacey Dooley: Women on the Frontline

McInroy & Wood Marquee

37

6.45pm

Graham Robb: The Debatable Land

Orchard Marquee

37

8.00pm

In the Sports Psychologist's Chair

Knight Frank Marquee

37

8.15pm

Nina Conti

Douglas Home Marquee

38

8.15pm

Jamie Bartlett: The People vs Tech

McInroy & Wood Marquee

38

8.30pm - 10.00pm

A Book and a Bottle with Kate Mosse & Damian Barr

Orchard Marquee

38

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The Hairy Bikers

Mary and the Lama

Thanks to their series of Hairy Dieters’ books, Si and Dave are shadows of their former selves – but only in one sense. They are still big-hearted and down to earth. With The Hairy Dieters Make It Easy: Lose weight and keep it off the easy way, they return with another collection of healthy and delicious recipes. Come and join Britain’s favourite food heroes!

Lama Yeshe Rinpoche, Abbot of Samye Ling Monastery, Eskdalemuir, will be appearing with Dr Mary Gunn, retired Borders GP, to discuss her recent book Well. Mary, who was diagnosed with cancer over twenty years ago, shares how Lama Yeshe’s advice helps her meet her fear and live ‘well’. Her book describes ways in which ancient Buddhist wisdom can offer us all a wider perspective and a steadier path through challenging times.

Douglas Home Marquee | 4.30pm | £15, £13

Knight Frank Marquee | 6.00pm | £8, £6

Image: Morgan SilkWired© The Conde Nast Publications Ltd

Charles Spencer

Douglas Home Marquee | 6.00pm | £15, £13 To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape is history written with the pace of a thriller as Charles, Earl Spencer, recounts the story of the greatest manhunt in British history. In 1649 Charles I was beheaded and, after defeat at the Battle of Worcester, his son seemed certain to be caught and sent to the scaffold. If he had, Richard Buccleuch would have found it difficult to introduce the author. He is a direct descendant of Charles II.

Sue Black: All That Remains – A Life In Death McInroy & Wood Marquee | 6.15pm | £13, £11

In her new book, All That Remains: A Life in Death, Professor Sue Black, one of the world’s leading forensic scientists whose work has been crucial to many high profile cases, recounts stories from her career, describing the many faces of death, what our mortal remains can tell us and how she confronts the inevitable. Is this book sad? Macabre? Neither.

Certainly there is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as any crime novel.

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Vintage Mobile Cinema | 6.30pm 8.30pm | £10 (ticket is for film only)

This screening runs before Mike Compton, one of the real-life Soggy Bottom Boys, who performed on this smash hit film’s soundtrack, plays live at the festival. In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden loot pursued by a relentless lawman. Fast-talking their way out of various jams the trio even manage to make a pretty good record along the way. The Coen brothers’ film, starring George Clooney, won a Grammy for best movie soundtrack which featured the song Man of Constant Sorrow.

Come to the film then enjoy the music of one of the original band members.

Certificate: 12A Mike Compton event: 14 June at 9.30pm

Chris Bonington

Douglas Home Marquee | 7.30pm | £15, £13 Chris’s memoir, Ascent, reads like the pages of an epic saga with all the battles and victories, triumphs and tragedies, loves and losses one would expect of a mythical hero. And yet this great climber is a gentle, reflective man. After the death of his wife, Wendy, Chris decided at the age of 80 to return to an iconic climb from his past, The Old Man of Hoy. And now, amidst sadness and grief, he has found love again. This is a truly inspirational story.

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Allan Massie

Knight Frank Marquee 7.30pm | £8, £6 The Ragged Lion is a work of brilliance by one of Scotland’s greatest novelists. Voted one of the ten best-ever works of historical fiction, this is an apparently fictional memoir by Walter Scott, discovered in the library of an Italian countess. And yet, more than any documentary treatment, this novel gets to the heart of Scott, showing a man at odds with his popular image: good and courageous, but also an enigma. The Ragged Lion is utterly enthralling.

The Women Who Flew For Hitler

Orchard Marquee | 7.45pm | £11, £9 Clare Mulley tells the story of Hitler’s Valkyries. Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were pioneering test pilots, both talented, courageous, strikingly attractive and very different. Countess von Stauffenberg was arrested along with her brothers-in-law after the attempted assassination of Hitler, but later released.

Hanna Reitsch was devoted to the Fuhrer and, in April 1945, begged him to allow her to fly him out of Berlin to safety. This is an extraordinary - and true - story.

Image: Melanie Acevedo

Paula McLain

McInroy & Wood Marquee 7.45pm | £13, £11

Image: Robert Wilson

Considered the new rising star of historical fiction, the American author of The Paris Wife has written a beautiful and deeply engrossing new novel. Martha Gellhorn was one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century, a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman. In Love and Ruin, Paula McLain returns to the life of Ernest Hemingway in this novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha to whom he dedicated For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Prue Leith

Douglas Home Marquee 9.00pm | £15, £13 Now an even bigger star as judge of The Great British Bake Off, Prue comes back to Melrose with an updating of her memoir, Relish. It is a terrific tale of a girl who could stand the heat and who made the kitchen into a remarkable career which has taken a dizzying new turn with a TV phenomenon - and, having fallen in love and married again in her seventies, Prue’s life has changed even more. And perhaps Prue will tell us who has won Bake Off this year.

Or perhaps not?

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Natasha Solomons

Knight Frank Marquee | 9.00pm | £8, £6 The acclaimed author of The Gallery of Vanished Husbands and Mr Rosenblum’s List has written a new novel. House of Gold is set on the eve of the First World War and tells the tale of the Goldbaums, confidantes of bankers and emperors. The influence of the House of Goldbaum reaches right across Europe but, as war looms, a divide opens between the Austrian and English branches of this immensely powerful family.

This is a wonderful, gripping, accomplished historical novel.

Archie Macpherson

McInroy & Wood Marquee | 9.15pm | £13, £11

Image: Steve Welsh

Adventures in the Golden Age: Scotland in the World Cup Finals 1974 - 1998 tells the story of a bygone age. Few Scotland fans are booking tickets to Russia 2018, but twenty years ago it was different. Archie commentated on all of Scotland’s 18 matches in that purple patch and the man who was the voice of Scottish football knew the players, the managers and many of the fans. He saw bungs in brown envelopes, rows at the BBC and the drunken antics of many of the best known names. But he also saw glory - or at least the possibility of it.

Mike Compton

Orchard Marquee | 9.30pm | £11 Grammy award-winning mandolinist Mike Compton is a legendary figure on the Nashville scene. One of the real-life Soggy Bottom Boys, performing on the smash hit film O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, Mike has also worked with musical luminaries ranging from Sting, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton, playing at venues from Carnegie Hall to the White House. This Mississippi-born master of bluegrass, old style country blues, rootsy Americana and Delta blues soars beyond easy categorisation as an acoustic mandolin player and singer his music is loved by rockers, hipsters, diehard country, folk and bluegrass fans alike.

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Health & Wellbeing at the Festival Some of this year’s events are aimed at inspiring us to get fit, eat well and feel good, from The Hairy Bikers’ hints on how to stick to and enjoy a heathier diet, Edwina Brockelsby proving it’s never too late to get active, Debi Gliori’s poetic insights on living with depression, a guide to improving sporting performance from top sports psychologist Tony Westbury, to a fascinating investigation by neuroscientist Dean Bartlett on the science of happiness - and much more besides.

We have also added a range of practical and accessible health and wellbeing sessions so there’s no excuse.

Come along – you can listen, participate or even do both!

What is Mindfulness and How Does it Work?

Orchard Marquee | 1.30pm | £10

Mindfulness is the most significant development in mental health over the last few years and has been proven to help with pain, depression, anxiety and addiction. Doctors, neuroscientists, counsellors and teachers all agree that mindfulness works, but what exactly is it and how do you do it? Join mindfulness trainer Carole McMurray for this fascinating discussion and take part in a guided meditation to find out how it could benefit you.

Take Charge of Your Health with Ayurvedic Medicine

Massage Therapy Drop-In Sessions Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent 1.30pm - 4.00pm Prices vary depending on treatment

Massage therapy works to promote healing and enhance overall wellbeing. There are many forms of massage therapy, each with its own benefits. Why not try out some of the short treatments available to help you learn which type of massage might be right for you? Sessions vary in price and duration.

No advance bookings.

Be Good to your Gut

Knight Frank Marquee | 3.00pm | £10 The state of your gut has a huge impact on your physical and mental wellbeing, affecting everything from your weight to your mood. What you eat isn’t just nutrition for you, it also feeds the trillions of bacteria that live in your gut. Join Edinburgh Fermentarium and food expert Charlotte Maberly to find out how to boost your good gut bacteria and learn how to make delicious fermented foods that will leave you feeling happier and healthier.

Tastings included!

Restorative Yoga with Yoga Ganesh McInroy & Wood Marquee | 3.00pm | £10

Join Yoga Ganesh aka Braxton for a Restorative Yoga class that will leave you feeling relaxed and energised. Braxton’s unique sessions combine Yin Yoga with music, breath and asanas. Yin Yoga calms and balances the mind and body, reduces stress and anxiety, increases circulation and improves flexibility.

The practice will conclude with an extended savasana meditation. Suitable for all levels.

Bring your own yoga mat.

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Ayurveda is an Indian health practice thought to be more than 5000 years old and continues to be one of the world’s most powerful mind-body health systems. It consists of a number of disciplines, including aromatherapy, diet, herbal medicine, acupuncture, yoga, massage, meditation and balancing of energies. Ayurvedic therapist Louise Dodds explains more about this ancient practice and offers advice on how it can treat a range of illnesses to help you stay vibrant and healthy.

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Doddie Weir

Douglas Home Marquee | 4.30pm | £15, £13 Join Scotland and British and Irish Lions greats Finlay Calder and Gary Armstrong as they talk to Doddie Weir to celebrate rugby, Borders’ rugby in particular. They will also talk about Doddie’s remarkable campaign to raise awareness about motor neurone disease and promote efforts to increase research and perhaps find a therapy or even a cure for this devastating illness. Despite the subject - and perhaps because of it - there will be laughs, leg-pulls and good stories. Join us to enjoy the blether and support Doddie’s achievements.

Mary Contini

Orchard Marquee | 4.45pm | £11, £9 Dear Alfonso: An Italian Feast of Love and Laughter is the third in Mary’s acclaimed series about her Scottish-Italian family and is a heart-warming celebration of life and living, illustrated with archive family images and packed with anecdote, humour and history plus more than a hundred of Mary’s superb recipes from her personal collection. The feel of Italy is on every page - its tastes, its scents, its colour. This is simply the most delightful book.

Border Voices

Knight Frank Marquee | 5.30pm | £6 Back at the festival for the eighth year running, Borders Writers Forum members read from recently released titles. Enjoy an hour of luminous poetry and fiction from local authors, including award-winning Margaret Skea. After a Q+A session you’ll be able to chat to the authors and browse their books.

Misha Glenny: McMafia

Douglas Home Marquee | 6.00pm | £15, £13 McMafia, Seriously Organised Crime was turned into a riveting TV series starring James Norton and it stirred enormous interest in a world that many thought fictional.

But in fact, Misha’s original book was not a novel, but a meticulously researched investigation into the rise and operation of hugely powerful criminals in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It also blurs the distinction between state and criminal activity and perhaps the starkest recent example was the poisoning of two Russians in Salisbury.

Muriel Spark

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Ian Rankin and Alan Taylor Celebrate Muriel Spark McInroy & Wood Marquee 6.15pm | £13, £11 On the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth, Ian and Alan talk about the life and work of one of the greatest novelists of the last century.

Much more than the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark’s novels helped define a post-war generation. In Appointment in Arezzo: A friendship with Muriel Spark, Alan has compiled a memoir that paints a complete picture of a fascinating woman.

The Hidden Ways

Orchard Marquee | 6.15pm | £11, £9 Alistair Moffat talks of his journeys through history along Scotland’s forgotten roads.

Armies, drovers, pilgrims, merchants and many others marched, walked and rode along Dere Street, the great Roman road through the Cheviots, on the Great North Road through Berwickshire, the Herring Road through the Lammermuirs, along the Cowie Stop Line near Stonehaven and many others.

It is a fascinating journey back into our past.

Alan Taylor

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Ian Rankin

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James Naughtie and Simon Jenkins: Crisis or Opportunity?

Douglas Home Marquee | 7.30pm | £15, £13 The European question has tormented the political parties for half a century and, with less than a year to go before the UK leaves the EU, Brexit still divides the country. Two of our most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, Guardian columnist and former editor of The Times, and James Naughtie, BBC special correspondent, take to the stage together for a conversation about Britain and Europe - the history, the people and the constitutional future.

Finding The Stories Within: How Creativity and Writing Can Help Students Succeed Knight Frank Marquee | 7.30pm | £8, £6 How do you make education exciting to students?

The Super Power Agency (superpoweragency.com) aims to improve the lives and literacy rates of some of Edinburgh’s most under-resourced young people by fostering aspirations, building self-esteem and developing confidence within students by engaging them with unique and fun programmes. Join the conversation led by CEO of the Super Power Agency, Gerald Richards, and other distinguished guests as they talk about education, literacy, the work of the Super Power Agency, and how we can all help advance student achievement.

John Lister-Kaye

McInroy & Wood Marquee | 7.45pm | £13, £11 A beautiful, sensitive memoir of a childhood spent discovering the natural world, an elegy to his remarkable mother and a wise and affectionate celebration of Britain’s wildlife by a great naturalist and a gifted storyteller. The Dun Cow Rib tells how a boy woke up to the wonders that surrounded him as he tried to come to terms with his mother’s unexplained illness and many absences. No one writes better or with such transporting poetic skill about encounters with wild creatures.

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The Walter Scott Prize Shortlist

Orchard Marquee | 7.45pm | £11, £9 In 2018 six superb historical novels have been chosen and their authors will be in Melrose to talk about their work; joining us this year are Benjamin Myers with The Gallows Pole, Jane Harris with Sugar Money, Rachel Malik with Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, Patrick McGrath with The Wardrobe Mistress and Paul Lynch with Grace.

SHORTLIST 2018 Benjamin Myers Jane Harris Jennifer Egan Rachel Malik

Patrick McGrath Paul Lynch

The Gallows Pole Sugar Money Manhattan Beach Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves The Wardrobe Mistress Grace

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Film at the Festival

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Vintage Mobile Cinema | 8.00pm - 10.00pm £10 (ticket is for film only) Introduced by ardent Muriel Spark fan, Ian Rankin, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring the wonderful Maggie Smith, tells the story of a freethinking and unconventional 1930s Edinburgh school teacher and the influence she has on six students, ‘the Brodie set’.

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life” says Miss Brodie. Never one to follow the rules, Miss Brodie interprets the curriculum with her own romanticised ideas, as she seeks to guide her girls to fulfil her own ambitions, never expecting that one of them will betray her one day…

Ian Rankin

Douglas Home Marquee | 9.00pm | £15, £13

Certificate: 12A

When Ian first came to the Borders Book Festival in 2006, he held a sell-out audience spellbound with a reading from his next John Rebus novel before talking of his plans for his writing future. A dozen Rebus novels and many other superb pieces of fiction later, he returns to talk of and to celebrate both times past and novels of the future. And perhaps he can be persuaded to read from In a House of Lies, the next Rebus novel.

Ian Rankin and Alan Taylor discuss Muriel Spark: 15 June at 6.15pm

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Claire Bell: Trying to Escape Apartheid’s Shadows

Edwina Brocklesby: Irongran

Knight Frank Marquee | 9.00pm | £8, £6

At the age of 50, Edwina Brocklesby decided to run her first half-marathon. Just like that. Having done little running or sport, she thought she would challenge herself and 20 years of marathons, triathlons and Ironman races began. At 75 she is still going and is an inspiration to the 11.5m people in Britain who are over 65. In Irongran, Eddie shares the difficulties she’s experienced in her sporting endeavours and explains how she’s managed to overcome them. She is passionate about the health and wellbeing of our ageing population and provides up-to-date research about the importance of keeping active in later years, along with guidance about how to remain full of life.

Come and listen to Eddie, a brilliant storyteller - and order the lycra later.

Writer and journalist Claire Bell wrote her memoir/ reportage book Lost Where We Belong: Trying to escape apartheid’s shadows as she criss-crossed South Africa in a quest to try and make sense of her white identity.

Unpicking the secrets and lies of the past, and putting her own assumptions under a magnifying glass, Bell occupied some uncomfortable spaces throughout her journey. A journey that is in part a penance but also an experience which Bell hopes will inspire more honest conversation.

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Katee Kross & The Amberjax Orchard Marquee | 9.15pm - 10.45pm | £11

It’s been an amazing year for talented young singer-songwriter Katee Kross since her brilliant debut appearance here in 2017. She was personally invited by Seasick Steve to support him at Glasgow Bandstand last August, recently wowed audiences on the Acoustic Stage at the C2C Festival at Glasgow Hydro and her new single, Bluebird, from her next album, Body & Soul, has been featured on Sky TV. Katee and the band are set to headline soon in the world-famous King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and will play at numerous festivals this summer – we can’t wait to welcome them back!

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William Hague

Leader of the Conservative Party at 36 and foreign secretary in the coalition government, William Hague is one of the most gifted and perceptive politicians of his generation.

Having written biographies of William Pitt the Younger and the great anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce, his literary talents have informed and enlightened many.

William comes to Melrose to talk to Rory Bremner about books, Brexit and life after the hurly-burly of politics.

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Mark Millar

McInroy & Wood Marquee 1.00pm | £13, £11 Bestselling Scottish writer Mark Millar is the man behind many of the biggest comic book titles and their movie adaptations in recent years. He is the author of Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kick-Ass and Wanted which have all been made into major Hollywood films. He also created Wolverine: Old Man Logan and Civil War, Marvel’s two biggest selling graphic novels ever. The first inspired Fox’s Logan movie in 2017 and the other was the basis of the Captain America: Civil War movie. In 2017, Netflix bought Millarworld in the company’s first ever acquisition, and employed Mark as president to continue creating comics, TV shows and movies. Kirsty Wark will be joining him to discuss his extraordinary career.

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Antony Beevor

Douglas Home Marquee | 1.30pm | £15, £13 One of the greatest historians of the Second World War, Antony Beevor makes his debut at the Borders Book Festival to talk about his new book Arnhem.

Known as Operation Market Garden, this massive paratroop campaign to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond turned out to be a catastrophic failure and was hailed as the last German victory. Antony Beevor has painstakingly reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting and, with consummate skill, he looks into the very heart of war.

Sally Magnusson

McInroy & Wood Marquee | 2.30pm | £13, £11 A tale of 17th century Iceland, The Sealwoman’s Gift is Sally’s first novel and it is brilliant - a glorious, unflinching account of a remarkable incident. In 1627 Barbary pirates raided an island off the Icelandic coast and abducted 250 people into slavery in Algiers. Asta, the wife of a pastor, is the central character in this extraordinary clash of culture and the unravelling of identity and beliefs. Having written excellent nonfiction, Sally turns out to be a gifted novelist.

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Gordon Brown

Chancellor for ten years, prime minister for three, Gordon Brown was a pivotal political figure for much longer than most, and, in My Life, Our Times, a candid memoir, he offers a pungent sense of the pressures, problems and occasional joys of government. The introduction is candid, confessing that as a son of a Scottish manse, Gordon was not a touchy-feely, tweeting, Facebooking sort of communicator - perhaps an analogue figure in a digital age. And yet his oldfashioned skills were critical, both in his leadership in the global financial crisis of 2008 and his eve of poll speech at the Scottish Referendum of 2014.

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Film at the festival

Kick-Ass

Vintage Mobile Cinema | 3.00pm - 5.00pm £10 (ticket is for film only) This film runs after Mark Milllar’s festival event, and was inspired by his original comic strip for Marvel. The story centres around a high school nobody who uses his love of comics as inspiration to reinvent himself as a superhero -- despite a complete lack of special powers! He dons a costume and dubs himself “Kick-Ass”. His first attempt at fighting crime has disastrous results. Can he truly become a force to be reckoned with...? Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz & Mark Strong Certificate: 15 Mark Millar event: 16 June at 1.00pm

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How to Write a Play

Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent 3.15pm - 4.45pm | Price £10 Want to try your hand at playwriting? This taster workshop will show you some of the secrets of writing a scene and bringing characters to life on stage. Learn how to wrangle tension, momentum, subtext, space, and other crafty aspects of writing for performance. Great for fiction writers too! Open University tutor Jules Horne has won two Fringe Firsts for drama and is an Associate Playwright with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland. No experience necessary: just bring pencil and paper.

Neil Oliver

Douglas Home Marquee | 4.30pm | £15, £13

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Best known as an excellent TV presenter, historian, archaeologist, novelist and conservationist, Neil is now President of the National Trust for Scotland and he has spent his life and career caring about Scotland and trying to understand its story. He comes to Melrose to talk about his passions, plans and aspirations. Neil is a brilliant raconteur with a gimlet eye for detail, daftness and excellence.

Supported by the National Trust for Scotland

Kate Figes

Knight Frank Marquee | 4.30pm | £8, £6 On Smaller Dogs and Larger Life Questions is an account of how one of Britain’s best loved journalists has coped with living with a life-threatening disease. She offers an intelligent and passionate look at the way we can approach disappointment and trouble, friendship and love – every day. When she was suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer, Kate began to write for her life.

Instead of a gentle journey into middle age, she found she had to claw back confidence and control but she was determined to live life to the full - and with dignity. This is an original, funny and moving story.

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The Really Terrible Orchestra

Frank Quitely: Drawings + Sketches

A triumphant return to Melrose for this valiant band of real triers! This year the RTO will feature film music, especially cowboy films. Sit back, close your eyes and try to picture John Wayne and Gary Cooper riding the range. In high Scandinavian contrast, the orchestra will perform Sibelius’ Finlandia and a Swedish piece called New Delhi. Sandy McCall Smith will add wisdom and a few notes of his own.

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Natalie Haynes

Orchard Marquee | 4.45pm | £11, £9 Natalie Haynes (star of BBC Radio 4’s Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics) takes you on a whistle-stop tour of the ancient world: from gladiators to Greek comedy and from Juvenal to Julius Caesar. Come and find out why Shakespeare fibbed about Caesar’s last words, why no gladiator ever said, ‘Those about to die salute you,’ and how to avoid becoming the victim of Vedius Pollio, history’s first Bond villain. With bonus elephants.

How to Write a Weekly Column Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent 5.15pm - 6.45pm | Price £15 Professor Heather McGregor is the executive dean of Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University’s graduate school of business. Mrs Moneypenny in the Financial Times for 17 years, columnist for the Times, Financial News, The Field, eFinancialCareers, Hedge Fund Monthly, the Australian Women’s Weekly, Malaysia’s New Strait Times, writer of op-eds for the Times and the FT as well as contributing to the BBC World Service Business Daily – what a wealth of experience! Tap into it in this workshop by writing a column alongside Heather in real time and learn how to keep your writing fresh and relevant.

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Frank Quitely is known worldwide for drawing Batman, Superman, Flex Mentallo and X-Men. If you’re a writer, you want to work with him; if you’re an artist, you admire his draughtsmanship and signature style, and if you’re a fan you’ll queue for hours to meet him in a comic convention. Drawings + Sketches is a beautiful new art book revealing never before seen material from one of the most influential and popular artists in contemporary comics and this is a rare chance to hear the stories behind them from the man himself.

The Walter Scott Prize Douglas Home Marquee 6.15pm - 7.00pm | £11, £9

Now in its ninth year and one of Britain’s major literary prizes, it honours Walter Scott, the founder and still the moving spirit behind historical fiction. Sponsored by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, past winners of the £25,000 prize include Robert Harris, Hilary Mantel, Tan Twan Eng and Sebastian Barry.

This year’s shortlist is probably the best ever and it will be very difficult to predict – and choose – a winner. Championed by Elizabeth Buccleuch, the winners of the Young Walter Scott Prize will be presented with their awards while Sebastian Barry returns to present the adult award.

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Natalie Haynes

Norman Davies

McInroy & Wood Marquee | 6.15pm £13, £11 Norman writes history like no one else and Beneath Another Sky is an account of a global circumnavigation that seeks the history behind the headlines to see how things became as they are. From Abu Dhabi to Singapore, to the settlement of Tasmania and the short-lived Republic of Texas, he sees how peoples came to tell themselves the stories that make up their identities. This is a book of wonders - full of richness and insight.

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Simon Jenkins

Orchard Marquee | 6.15pm | £11, £9 One of Britain’s most distinguished journalists, Simon has been hailed as the supreme champion of our heritage and his new book Britain’s 100 Best Railway Stations is superb. Railway stations are the locations of all our hopeful beginnings and intended ends, institutions with their own rituals and priests and they are a long neglected aspect of our architecture.

Simon has travelled the length and breadth of the country to select this joyous celebration of our social history.

Richard Dawkins

Douglas Home Marquee | 7.30pm | £15, £13 Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist is a sparkling new anthology of essays, lectures and letters by the brilliant and ever-controversial evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. It is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and glory of science.

Alongside the piercingly acute thinking, the celebrations and arguments, there are wonderfully funny ventures into satire and parody as well as moving personal reflections in memory and honour of others.

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Debi Gliori: Night Shift

Markus Stitz: Around the World Singlespeed

Shortlisted for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal, Night Shift, an insight into depression that words often struggle to reach is a remarkable insight that is drawn from Debi’s own experience. David Walliams wrote “I cannot recommend this beautiful picture book highly enough. It’s a masterpiece”. With beautiful black and white illustrations and deceptively simple text, the author and illustrator looks at how depression affects one’s whole outlook on life and shows that there can be an escape – it may not be easy to find but it is there.

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Richard Holloway

McInroy & Wood Marquee | 7.45pm | £13, £11 Waiting for the Last Bus is a masterpiece, a moving, elegiac, practical, amusing exploration of – death. It is also a stirring plea to reconsider what our mortality means. Now in his ninth decade, Richard has spent a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying and now he offers advice and observations both to himself and the reader. This book is also an invitation to reconsider life’s greatest mystery by one of the most important and beloved religious leaders of our time.

From Stage to Page: Colin MacIntyre/Mull Historical Society Orchard Marquee | 7.45pm | £11, £9 An evening of storytelling from Scotland’s Top Creative Talent award-winning musician and author Colin MacIntyre. Colin will be playing his Mull Historical Society hits sprinkled with readings from his new book Hometown Tales: The Boy in the Bubble, a memoir about growing up on the isle of Mull — it is a moving and fascinating exploration of what ‘home’ really means, charting his journey from island boy to internationally acclaimed musician.

Supported by The Dr David Summers Charitable Trust

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From September 2015 till August 2016 Markus Stitz rode round the world on his bike which had one gear only. During his journey he saw the Aurora Borealis in Iceland, braved minus 17C in New Mexico, crossed the Australian outback, cycled through 40C in Thailand, climbed up to 3,150 m in Iran, cycled both the Anatolian Highlands and the Alps and rode the famous cobbles of Flanders. All this to prove that it can be done - one gear is enough to cycle the world.

Rory Bremner

Douglas Home Marquee | 9.15pm | £15, £13 No Borders Book Festival could happen without lovely Rory and his annual report on the glorious madness of the world we live in. And as ever, he has company.

No doubt Donald Trump will have something to say about the wall around Harmony Garden, and perhaps our guests from earlier in the day, William Hague and Gordon Brown will make cameo appearances. Rory is wonderfully gifted, piercingly intelligent and generous – the man without whom…

Dean Burnett: The Happy Brain

McInroy & Wood Marquee | 9.15pm | £13, £11 Neuroscientist and stand-up comedian, Dean Burnett, delves deep into the inner workings of our minds to explore some fundamental questions about happiness. In his book The Happy Brain, he asks what it actually means to be happy. Where does happiness come from? Can we make it last forever? He reveals the surprising truth behind the question: do love, sex, friendship, wealth and success actually make us happier? Come along to this uniquely entertaining insight into what it means to be human.

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Sound Cycle Album Launch Orchard Marquee 9.30pm - 10.45pm | £9 Sound Cycle returns! At last year’s festival, we celebrated the launch of our album, Sound Cycle One, with a great night of music and members of Sound Cycle, the Borders Youth Music Forum, are delighted to be performing here once again. Our second album is in production and we will be showcasing the wide array of styles and skills involved in its production. We’ll have solo artists, DJs, groups and possibly a few surprises too, so come along and enjoy an evening of exciting new sounds and fresh Borders talent.

Richard Holloway

Colin MacIntyre

Debi Gliori

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Borders Youth Theatre: The Misfits and the Misunderstood

Alexander McCall Smith

Knight Frank Marquee | 12.30pm | £8, £6

It is 20 years since the No1 Ladies Detective Agency was published and since then a glorious torrent of fiction has flowed from Sandy’s keyboard. This year alone will see three new novels and three new children’s novels as well as the libretto for an opera and two new radio series on the Scotland Street books and Mma Ramotswe and her friends. Sandy talks very amusingly (with a highly contagious chuckle) about his life and work and gives lovely long answers to questions. If he didn’t exist, a world hungry for wonderful and uplifting stories would have had to invent him.

A ragtag group of misfits and misunderstood gather for your entertainment. Freakish actors re-enact Frankenstein - the gothic tale of the most misunderstood monster ever - and written by a young Mary Shelley 200 years ago. This comic horror ramps up to a rhyming climax - the whole performance is guaranteed to keep you in stitches!

Partly devised by Borders Youth Theatre with The Scary Tale of Frankenstein by Richard Coleman. Mashed up

by Karen Anderson and performed by Borders Youth Theatre.

Suitable also for age 10+

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Chris Mullin: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn McInroy & Wood Marquee | 2.00pm | £13, £11 In his brilliant novel of 1982 A Very British Coup, Chris imagined how a left-winger was unexpectedly swept to power in Britain. As reality overtakes fiction, the former MP and journalist talks about how Jeremy Corbyn’s first 100 days might turn out and how it came to pass that a man deemed by the Special Branch to be a subversive who might undermine parliamentary democracy rose to become leader of the Labour Party and possibly Britain’s next prime minister.

Robert Peston: The McInroy & Wood Lecture Douglas Home Marquee | 3.30pm | £15, £13 ITV’s political editor and presenter of Peston on Sunday, Robert comes to Melrose to talk about the mess facing liberal democracy and what can be done to mend the terrible fractures in our society. He looks at what must happen to prevent democracy being subverted by technocratic geniuses with the ability to manipulate social media, what can be done to staunch the widening gap between rich and poor and how to raise living standards for all. Based on his book WTF, this lecture will be personal, angry and funny.

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Rory Bremner & Jan Ravens Douglas Home Marquee | 5.00pm | £15, £13

In The Art of Impressionism, Rory is joined by Jan, a gifted mimic, who will in turn introduce Theresa May, Nigella Lawson, Fiona Bruce and even, Heaven forfend, our own Kirsty Wark as well as many others. Rory and Jan will talk technique, targets and how reality is outrunning comedy in almost all aspects of life. Only at the Borders Book Festival would Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton once again agree to share a stage.

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs McInroy & Wood Marquee | 3.45pm | £13, £11 Leading palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Steve Brusatte has written The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World that has recently come sharply into focus with the discovery of the footprint of a six metre tall meat-eating dinosaur on Skye. Using other very recent research, Steve shows how these remarkable creatures created a 150 million year empire that saw human-size tyrannosaurs, carnivores even larger than a T. rex and feathered raptors. He describes a real and even more fascinating Jurassic world.

How to Write a Picture Book Love picture books? Want to write your own, but not sure where to begin? Come and find out what works and what doesn’t in this interactive workshop with Vivian French, who has written more than 300 books for children. No experience necessary: just bring pencil and paper. And who knows? This could be the beginning of a whole new career…

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Helen Bellany: The Restless Wave

Carol Klein: Making a Garden

Knight Frank Marquee | 5.00pm | £8, £6

This life-enhancing, gifted gardener, who entertained and informed a packed festival crowd last year, returns to talk about Making a Garden: successful gardening by nature’s rules. Carol explains how to get the most from your outdoor space by taking inspiration from what works in the wild - be it in a meadow, woodland, hedgerow, seaside or exposed setting and helps pick the plants that flourish in these conditions. Carol has been a regular presenter on the BBC’s flagship gardening programme, BBC Gardeners’ World for more than 25 years and this year was awarded the prestigious RHS Victoria Medal of Honour. But more than all of that, Carol puts a smile on your face with her infectious enthusiasm and great learning.

Twice married to the artist, John Bellany, Helen writes of their lives together in Scotland, London and Italy.

One of the most innovative 20th century British artists, his work described as at once realist, expressionist and surrealist, this book tells how John rose from rebellious art student to worldwide recognition. Inspired by the sea and the Scottish fishing community he was born into, he began a visionary journey. Helen also writes of the human cost of his work – of John’s battle against alcoholism followed by his recovery and renaissance.

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Gavin Francis: Shapeshifters

The Diary of a Bookseller

Shapeshifters: On Medicine & Human Change is a work of brilliance as it unpacks the mysteries of human transformation. To be alive is to be in perpetual change: growing, healing, learning, ageing. Some we have little choice about: puberty, menopause or our hair turning grey. But others might be welcome milestones such as pregnancy, recovery from illness or even a long awaited transition to another gender.

Gavin draws on history, art, literature, myth and magic to show how change is the very essence of being human.

Shaun Bythell, owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop, has written a witty, laugh-out-loud tale of British eccentricity as he recounts the inside story of the trade. Buying trips to old estates and auction houses, the antics of customers and the rhythms and charms of smalltown life all combine to make a thoroughly engaging tale built around the band of eccentrics and book obsessives who patrol a mile of shelving, narrow corridors and who keep roaring fires roaring.

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FILM at the festival

‘You Choose…’

Vintage Mobile Cinema 5.30pm - 7.30pm | £10

This final screening has proved difficult for us to decide, so we have come up with a cunning plan…you can choose! Go to our Facebook page @bordersbookfestival and cast your vote for one of these 4 films shortlisted by the BBF team members. You can buy tickets now if you like the thrill of not knowing what you’re coming to see.

Otherwise, the winning film will be announced on 31st May.

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Some Like It Hot In the Heat of the Night A Fish Called Wanda Pan’s Labyrinth

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Douglas Home Marquee | 6.30pm | £15, £13 On Monday 18th September 2017, Mark pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 78 days,14 hours and 40 minutes earlier, he had set off from the same place, beginning his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time and imitate Jules Verne’s fictional feat. Around the World in 80 Days is the story of Mark’s amazing achievement as he made his way through extreme conditions to beat the previous record by an astonishing 45 days.

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Stacey Dooley: Women on the Front Line McInroy & Wood Marquee | 6.45pm | £13, £11 On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back is by one of Britain’s most loved TV documentary makers and in this superb new book, she shares her encounters with incredible women fighting back around the world: Yazidi women in Syria, sex workers in Russia, victims of domestic violence in Honduras and many others. From gender equality and domestic violence, to sex trafficking and sexual identity, Stacey explores issues at the centre of female experience.

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Graham Robb: The Debatable Land Orchard Marquee | 6.45pm | £11, £9 Graham Robb’s subtitle is The Lost World Between England and Scotland and he means the area between the Liddel and Esk in the east and the Sark in the west. It was about ten miles in length and four miles wide. When Robb bought a house on the Liddel, he became interested in this area and his book is based on journeys around it. He advances new views on the culture of the Border reivers and makes some controversial claims. The book captures well the landscape and the nature of this corner of the Border country.

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In the Sports Psychologist’s Chair Knight Frank Marquee | 8.00pm | £8, £6 Most games are played not on a pitch, court or course but between the ears. Tony Westbury will interview Jason White, a former Scotland rugby captain, about his experience of the mental side of sport. An Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Edinburgh Napier University, Tony has also been a consultant to Olympic, national and professional teams and his book, Faster, Fitter, Happier, has developed out of his work.

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Nina Conti

A Book and a Bottle with Kate Mosse & Damian Barr

Brilliant, hilarious, unique and endlessly inventive, when she came last to the festival the marquee walls shook as waves of laughter rippled around them. To describe her as a ventriloquist would be accurate but a bit like calling Shakespeare a scribbler. A sell-out artist all over the world, Nina makes each of her shows unlike any other because she improvises constantly, feeding off the responses of the audience. This show is unmissable.

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Jamie Bartlett: The People Vs Tech

Your ticket includes sampling three delicious wines shortlisted by Corney & Barrow. Even more books and bottles are available to buy on the night and Kate Mosse will be signing books after the event.

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McInroy & Wood Marquee | 8.15pm | £13, £11 How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) is the uncompromising subtitle of bestselling author, Jamie Bartlett’s new book. Each week, it seems, the news is full of stories about ‘big tech’, Russian hackers and Facebook’s growing role in politics. Under all of this noise is a simple truth; digital technology and democracy are incompatible. So what do we do? Jamie Bartlett proposes some answers.

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Join us in the very fine company of Kate Mosse and Damian Barr as we attempt to find the perfect bottle of wine to match Kate’s new novel The Burning Chamber - a story of love, loss and adventure, displacement, war and faith. Spanning three hundred years, from Languedoc in 1562 to the beautiful mountainous landscape of Franschhoek, it ensures an abundance of inspiration for our Novel Pairing.

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Welcome to a fabulous weekend of surprises, delights and lots of fun!

Listen to a story at our Storytime events or sing along at our Bookbug Rhyme sessions.

Learn some circus skills with Oli & Co… and check out the dazzling Super Power Bus which will be parked on St Mary’s Road throughout the festival – climb aboard and unleash your hidden super power!

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Vivian French: How Billy Hippo Learned to Swim

10.30am | Orchard Marquee £6 | Age 2 - 6 All hippos LOVE swimming... except for Billy. He thinks water is much too cold and wet...

Come and hear how Billy is helped by two cheeky frogs. Be ready to sing some swimming songs and draw some froggy pictures!

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Storytime

11.00am - 11.30am | Davidson Chalmers Storytelling 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. No tickets required.

Storytelling and Bookmaking the Super Power Agency Way!

Simon Chapman: Expedition Diaries

This storytelling and bookmaking workshop is a chance for a group of young people to participate in an interactive, high-energy writing workshop.

Working in collaboration with volunteers, participants will craft an illustrated story from scratch, creating original characters and plots using the power of their imagination. Once the collaborative story reaches its climax, participants will separate and write their own endings.

Bitten by a crocodile, charged by giant otters; Blue Peter award-winning author, Simon Chapman, has explored jungles and mountains from the Amazon to the Himalayas. In his interactive talk, where audience members will learn to scream like a spider monkey and get kitted up for a rainforest expedition, Simon will show to what lengths he goes when producing his colourful new series of expedition diaries.

Bookbug Rhyme Session

Alan Windram: Puppies and Robots

10.00am - 11.30am | Knight Frank Marquee £6 | Age 8 - 12

10.15am - 10.45am and 11.45am - 12.15pm Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent | Babies & under 3s | FREE Join Live Borders Libraries for a funpacked half hour of interactive songs and stories for babies and toddlers.

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11.30am | McInroy & Wood Marquee £6 | Age 7 - 12

12.00pm | Knight Frank Marquee £6 | Age 3 - 7 A picture book extravaganza with lost Puppies and Robots who have to save the world. Join Borders’ author Alan Windram for stories, sing-along songs and some robot dancing from his hugely popular picture books A Puppy’s Tale and One Button Benny.

Roman Riddles and Spooky Secrets

12.15pm | Orchard Marquee | £6 | Age 7+ Did you know that Roman soldiers once walked near Melrose? So imagine if a local farmer ploughed up weapons, jewellery and a gladiator’s helmet. Then imagine this displayed in a museum and strange things happening…a ghostly voice… weird green smoke. Call the Museum Mystery Squad! Mike Nicholson brings The Case of the Roman Riddle, the 4th book in this popular series, and some swords and armour to help tell the tale.

In association with the Trimontium Trust The Trimontium Trust runs a unique museum dedicated to Roman Scotland and is embarking on a major campaign to bring this story to wider audiences.

Get Crafty with Robert Smail’s Printing Workshop 12.45pm - 2.45pm | Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent | £10 | Age 8+

Join Robert Smail’s Printing Works for two hours of crafty fun, creating and decorating your own handmade books. A chance to make concertina books, star books, your own 3-hole stitch notebook and lots more. Ticket price includes full tuition and all materials.

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Colin MacIntyre: The Humdrum Drum 3.00pm | Knight Frank Marquee £6 | Age 3 - 7

When the orchestra drum is feeling unhappy he just stops playing and so the entire orchestra comes to an embarrassing halt. His friends - a cast of colourful instruments, as well as ironing mice and shaving pigeons - make Drum realise that without him keeping the beat, they lose their way and they need him to save the day! Join award-winning author and musician Colin MacIntyre (of Mull Historical Society) as he launches his debut picture book with stories and sing-along songs.

David Solomons: My Brother is a Superhero

3.15pm | Orchard Marquee | £6 | Age 8 - 12 Polish up your knowledge of superheroes and supervillains at this brilliant event with David Solomons. Heard of Arm Fall Off Boy? Know what Superman’s weakness is? Find out all the answers and more as David shares stories from some of his side-splittingly funny books, including My Brother is a Superhero and his brand new My Arch-Enemy is a Brain in a Jar. Like saving the world? Like dramatic alien visits? Like cases of mistaken identity? Then you’ll like THIS!

Dracula Detectives

1.30pm | Knight Frank Marquee £6 | Age 8 - 14 Welcome to the village of Losthope, which is experiencing an unfortunate outbreak of vampirism, begun by Count Dracula. Help Dr Death and Professor MacHelsing (alias author Gill Arbuthnott and scientist Doug MacDonald) with their experiments. Show how the infection spreads using ‘blood serum’ (no biting required…) and find out if you are a vampire. Trace the infection back and discover which of the villagers is actually Dracula…

Debi Gliori: Goodnight World 1.45pm | Orchard Marquee | £6 | Age 5+

Come and help Debi Gliori tuck the world up in bed. From the planets, via penguins and a rocket in pyjamas, nothing is too small or too big to go to bed. And then learn how to draw and make a little bed for a creature of your choice.

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What Does an Anteater Eat? with Ross Collins 12.30pm | Orchard Marquee | £6 | Age 4 - 8

Anteater is hungry, but he has completely forgotten what anteaters eat. Baffled and with his tummy rumbling, he consults the other animals. But Sloth is too busy, Toucan is clueless, and Crocodile has his own mouth full. Whatever will Anteater do? Find out what anteaters eat in the brand new picture book by Ross Collins, creator of There’s a Bear on My Chair.

Sun 17 June

Borders Youth Theatre: The Misfits and the Misunderstood Check out this freakishly entertaining re-enactment of Frankenstein which is guaranteed to keep you in stitches – suitable for adults and age 10+.

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Storytime

12.45pm - 1.15pm | Davidson Chalmers Storytelling 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. No tickets required.

Rufus with Simon Bartram 2.00pm | Knight Frank Marquee £6 | Age 3 - 7

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Team Hero

12.30pm | McInroy & Wood Marquee £6 | Age 7 - 12 Calling all heroes!

This is your chance to meet Chancellor Rex, headmaster of the world-famous - and world-saving - Hero Academy. You’ll need bravery, cunning and strength as you learn how to find your inner hero! From author of Beast Quest, Adam Blade, comes this stunningly exciting new series. Are you brave enough to join Team Hero?

Please note that Adam Blade will not be present in the event…

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Rufus is a monster. But he doesn’t feel like a Tip-Top monster. Every monster book he’s read says that monsters are supposed to scare Peoply People and there aren’t any of those in his desert. Rufus decides that there is only one thing for it. He’s going to have to find a Peoply Person to scare. But where in the world are they all hiding? Join Simon Bartram to find out!

Drawing Workshop: The Mighty Women of Science 2.00pm - 3.30pm | Davidson Chalmers Storytelling Tent | £6 | Age 8 - 12

Meet artist and illustrator Clare Forrest, who has created an engaging A - Z art book which celebrates women who have helped shape modern science, from astronauts to zoologists. This is a fascinating journey through time and science and in this workshop you can create your own colourful characters and learn more about these inspiring women.

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Let’s Make the Craziest Story EVER with Vivian French & Ross Collins 2.15pm | Orchard Marquee | £6 | 7 - 10

Join the award-winning Tales from the Five Kingdoms duo of author Vivian French & illustrator Ross Collins and together we will make the Craziest Story EVER! Not for the faint-hearted.

Home from Home

3.30pm | Knight Frank Marquee Free but ticketed | All ages What does ‘home’ mean to you? Is it the place you came from or where you live now? Many of us travel elsewhere to start new lives, bringing fascinating stories and traditions, and learning new ones from our adopted homes. Over recent years, the Scottish Borders has become home for a community of Syrian families; join us, and them, for an hour of great storytelling, music and dance from both lands.

Dekko Comics Workshop

3.45pm | Orchard Marquee | £6 | 8 - 14

Artwork: Ross Collins

Rossie Stone struggled with dyslexia at school and found himself constantly at the bottom of his classes. All this changed when he discovered a way to turn his school notes into comic strips and entertainment. It boosted his enjoyment and understanding of school work, and turned his grades from a ‘D’ into an ‘A’. In this workshop, he shows how to make any information (school or otherwise) into entertainment to make it more engaging, memorable and motivating. Bring along a sketchpad and pencils.

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