Ilkley Literature Festival Programme 2014

Programme

3–19 OCTOBER 2014 Margaret Atwood Ken Livingstone Clare Balding Sheila Hancock Andrew Motion Lauren Child David Starkey Jodi Picoult Will Self Michael Morpurgo Diane Abbott Michael Rosen

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ilkley literature festival 14 GETTING TO THE FESTIVAL

Ilkley Visitor Information Centre

For information call National Rail Enquiries on 08457 48 49 50 or go to www.nationalrail.co.uk

For information on hotels, restaurants, Ilkley and the Dales. Tel: 01943 602319 or go to www.visitilkley.com

By car

By bus

Ilkley lies on the A65 from Leeds to Skipton. Leeds, Harrogate and Bradford are a 45 minute drive away.

Buses run daily from across Yorkshire. Call MetroLine on 0113 245 7676 for timetables or go to www.wymetro.com

By air

Leeds Bradford International Airport is just 15 minutes drive away. Regular flights run to major cities throughout the UK and beyond.

For information call 0113 250 9696 or go to www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk

By train

There are regular trains to and from Leeds and Bradford which take 30 minutes. Connections throughout the UK can be made in Leeds.

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Aagrah, The Moors Shopping Centre LS29 9LB

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All Saints’ Church and Church House LS29 9DS 3 All Saints’ Primary School, Easby Drive LS29 9BE Audley Clevedon, Ben Rhydding Drive LS29 8AQ 4 Bettys, 32 The Grove LS29 9EE Central Car Park and Toilets 5 Christchurch, The Grove LS29 9LW 6 Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Road LS29 9DZ 7 Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Road LS29 8RQ 8 Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove LS29 9EG 9 Bandstand on The Grove LS29 9LW 10 Ilkley Moor Vaults, Stockeld Road LS29 9HD 11 Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road LS29 8DW

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Ilkley Rugby Club, Denton Road LS29 0BZ Kings Hall, Station Road LS29 8HB 14 Manor House Museum LS29 9DT Otley Courthouse, Courthouse St, Otley LS21 3AN 15 Outside the Box Cafe, Bridge Lane LS29 9HN 16 Panache, Church Street LS29 9DR 17 Rombalds Hotel, Wells Road LS29 9JG 18 St Margaret’s Hall, Queens Road LS29 9TZ Temple Newsam, Temple Newsam Road, Leeds LS15 0AE The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial St, Leeds LS1 6AL The Wheatley Arms, Wheatley Lane, Ben Rhydding LS29 8PP Tourist Visitor Centre, Station Road LS29 8HA

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WELCOME TO ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2014 Festival Strands

Find your way through the Festival – follow one of the Festival Strands. Full details on our website.

NEW WAYS OF WRITING

Will Self, Gary Winters from Lone Twin, Margaret Atwood, Poetry without Words, Marlon James, John Boyne, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Razwan Ul-Haq, Next Generation Poets, early morning and running writing workshops with Kim Moore, new writing from Zimbabwe with Togara Muzanenhamo, and from Slovenia and Albania with Fatos Lubonja and Peter Krištúfek.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN: WEALTH, POWER, RESPONSIBILITY

Welcome to the first Festival of our fifth decade!

This year we’re looking forward – and bringing you some of the most exciting writing around.

There’s a rich mix of events to tempt every member of the family – from household names like Clare Balding, Ken Livingstone, Sheila Hancock and Diane Abbott to leading poets Andrew Motion, Wendy Cope, Patience Agbabi and Don Paterson.

Radio 4 will be recording Book Club at the Festival and we’ll be joined by novelists Margaret Atwood, Kamila Shamsie and John Boyne and legendary interviewer Lynne Barber.

There’s lots for children aged 3–12: authors to meet, enchanting performances for the whole family, fun workshops and special events with acclaimed children’s writers Michael Morpurgo and Lauren Child.

Owen Jones on The Establishment.

John Kampfner on the rich.

John Lanchester on how to speak money.

Beatrix Campbell explores the end of equality.

BEYOND THE TRENCHES: EVERYDAY LIFE IN WW1

Nigel Fountain on everyday life as reported in the Manchester Guardian.

Local historians report on Bradford in WW1, the Headingley Hospital and lead a walk through the Ilkley of 1914.

Michael Morpurgo and Coope, Boyes and Simpson perform Private Peaceful.

ASPECTS OF THE MUSLIM WORLD

Dr Mohammed Siddique Seddon and Professor Ron Geaves on the history of the British Muslim communities Arabic Calligraphy with Razwan Al-Haq. New Writing from Gaza with Nayrouz Qarmout and Mona Abu Sharekh.

Dr Hendrik Kraetzschmar analyses the Arab Spring’s fall into Winter.

Publishing by and for Muslims with Kube, Comma, Saqi and Jacaranda presses.

Plus a dynamic programme of activities to get young people aged 12–18 involved and more than 45 FREE events.

SCIENCE AT THE CUTTING EDGE

We look forward to seeing you here in Ilkley!

CROMWELLS’ WORLD

Rachel Feldberg Festival Director

Professors Steven and Hilary Rose on the new biology.

Alex Bellos on numbers.

Suzannah Dunn on the world of Wolf Hall.

Tracey Borman on the real Thomas Cromwell.

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ilkley literature festival 14 FESTIVAL DIARY AT A GLANCE Your quick guide to what’s on, where and when.

Key to icons

Children’s and All Ages events Young People’s events Free Fringe events

Signed events with BSL interpreter Headline/Kings Hall events Events last one hour unless otherwise stated SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1.

Sat 20 Sep– Sun 23 Nov

Exhibition

Manor House Museum

2014 Festival Exhibition: Dinosaurs, Trolls and Dunderheads

2.

Sat 28 Jun– Sun 9 Nov

Exhibition

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

A Squash and a Squeeze: Sharing Stories with Julia Donaldson Exhibition

3.

Fri 3–Sun 19 Oct

Exhibition

Across Ilkley

Children's Book Trail

4.

Wed 17 Sep

7.30pm

Clarke Foley Centre

Chris Ryan

5.

Sat 27 Sep

11am–3pm

Church House

Festival Blog Workshop Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session

6.

Mon 29 Sep

6.30–8.30pm

Christchurch on The Grove

7.

Wed 1 Oct

7pm for 7.30pm

The Wheatley Arms

Crime and Curry Supper with David Mark

8.

Thu 2 Oct

7.30pm

Manor House Museum

The Leeds Library: Andrew Morrison

9.

Fri 3 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Andrew Motion: The New World

10.

Sat 4 Oct

9–10am

Church House

Kim Moore Early Morning Writing Workshop

11.

Sat 4 Oct

10am–10.35am and 10.45am– 11.20am

Clarke Foley Centre

Story Explorers and Story Wizards – taster sessions

12.

Sat 4 Oct

11am–1pm

Manor House Education Room

Ian Duhig Masterclass

13.

Sat 4 Oct

11am–1pm

St Margaret's Hall

Lyndall Gordon Masterclass

14.

Sat 4 Oct

11am–4pm

Church House

Press Pack: Write a Review

15.

Sat 4 Oct

12–1pm

Manor House Museum

Storytelling and Drawing: David Roberts

16.

Sat 4 Oct

1.30–3.30pm

Manor House Museum

Dinosaurs, Trolls and Dunderheads: David Roberts Exhibition Opening

17.

Sat 4 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The May Bride: Suzannah Dunn

18.

Sat 4 Oct

1.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Vanishing for the Vote: Jill Liddington

19.

Sat 4 Oct

2pm

Kings Hall

Lauren Child Write a Bestseller: Jacq Burns Masterclass

20.

Sat 4 Oct

2–4pm

Manor House Education Room

21.

Sat 4 Oct

2.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

John Campbell on Roy Jenkins

22.

Sat 4 Oct

2.30–4pm

Bandstand on The Grove

Poetry and Brass

23.

Sat 4 Oct

3.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Ian Duhig: Digressions

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Sat 4 Oct

3.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Thomas Cromwell and the Real Wolf Hall: Tracy Borman

25.

Sat 4 Oct

4.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Divided Lives: Lyndall Gordon

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Sat 4 Oct

4.30pm

Kings Hall

Gyles Brandreth: Breaking the Code

27.

Sat 4 Oct

5pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Digging for Richard III: Mike Pitts

28.

Sat 4 Oct

5.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Lives, Landscape, Literature: William Atkins

29.

Sat 4 Oct

5.30pm

Church House

FRINGE Wearing Purple

30.

Sat 4 Oct

7pm–7.20pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Three Hares

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Sat 4 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Tim Brooke-Taylor and Chris Serle

32.

Sat 4 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Getting Under their Skins: Sarah Dunant

33.

Sat 4 Oct

7.30–8.10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Manasamitra: The Singing Bowl

34.

Sat 4 Oct

7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Food and the Bloomsbury Group: Jans Ondaatje Rolls

35.

Sat 4 Oct

7.30pm

Church House

Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group

36.

Sat 4 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Getting into Print

37.

Sat 4 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE The House of Tragic She

38.

Sun 5 Oct

11am–1pm

Rombalds Hotel

Sarah Dunant Masterclass FRINGE Poetry SHOUTING

39.

Sun 5 Oct

12–1pm

Meet at Cow and Calf car park

40.

Sun 5 Oct

1.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The People 1910 – 2010: Selina Todd

41.

Sun 5 Oct

2pm

Craiglands Hotel

Francis Pryor: A Time Traveller's Tale from Prehistory Ilkley Moor Walk with Geologist William Varley

42.

Sun 5 Oct

2–4pm

Meet at Cow and Calf car park

43.

Sun 5 Oct

2pm

Ilkley Playhouse

When Trolls Try to Eat your Goldfish: Dominic Berry Poet in your Pocket

44.

Sun 5 Oct

2–4pm

Manor House Education Room

45.

Sun 5 Oct

2.30–3.45pm

Kings Hall

Diane Abbott

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Sun 5 Oct

2.30pm & 3.45pm

All Saints' School

Peter Pan Ballet Workshops

48.

Sun 5 Oct

3.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Bricks and Mortals: Tom Wilkinson

49.

Sun 5 Oct

4pm

Craiglands Hotel

Michael Holroyd: A Dog's Life

50.

Sun 5 Oct

4pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Pedro Ferreira: The Perfect Theory?

51.

Sun 5 Oct

4.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Hild: Nicola Griffith

52.

Sun 5 Oct

5pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Young Enigma

53.

Sun 5 Oct

6pm

Craiglands Hotel

The Establishment: Owen Jones

54.

Sun 5 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Barrie Rutter reads Simon Armitage's King Arthur

55.

Sun 5 Oct

7.30–9.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

New Writing from Zimbabwe: Togara Muzanenhamo and Zodwa Nyoni

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Sun 5 Oct

7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Wake Up Happy Every Day: Stephen May

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Sun 5 Oct

8pm

Craiglands Hotel

James Booth on Philip Larkin

58.

Mon 6, Wed 8, Mon 13 and Wed 6–7pm 15 Oct

Manor House Education Room

Margaret Atwood: Guided Reading Group

59.

Mon 6 Oct

6.30–7.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Never Ending: Martyn Bedford and Sarah Crossan

60.

Mon 6 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Margaret Atwood: MaddAddam

61.

Mon 6 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Art and Yorkshire – From Turner to Hockney: Jane Sellars

62.

Mon 6 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Eleanor Marx: A Life – Rachel Holmes

63.

Mon 6 Oct

7.30pm

Clarke Foley Centre

Tim Moore: Gironimo!

64.

Mon 6 Oct

9–9.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Jenny: a frightening woman!

65.

Mon 6 Oct

9.15–9.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Shash Trevett

66.

Tue 7 Oct

1.30pm

Kings Hall

Catherine Rayner: Children's Bookshow

67.

Tue 7 Oct

7.30–9.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The Excitement of the New: A Yorkshire Showcase

68.

Tue 7 Oct

7.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Richard Benson: The Valley

69.

Wed 8 Oct

11am–12.30pm

The Leeds Library

Guided Tour of The Leeds Library

70.

Wed 8 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The New Biology: Hilary and Steven Rose

71.

Wed 8 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Waterloo – Four Days that Changed Europe's Destiny: Tim Clayton

72.

Wed 8 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Rugby Club

Hannah Ellis on Dylan Thomas

73.

Wed 8 Oct

7.30–9.30pm

Panache Restaurant

Poetry Banquet

74.

Wed 8 Oct

9–9.50pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Wharfedale Poets

75.

Wed 8 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Hartlington Press

76.

Thu 9 Oct

2–4.30pm

Ilkley Moor Vaults

Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event

77.

Thu 9 Oct

3–4pm

Audley Clevedon

Jeffrey Sherwin: British Surrealism Opened Up

78.

Thu 9 Oct

6pm

Rombalds Hotel

Close Reading of Work by Festival Poets

79.

Thu 9 Oct

7-10pm

Aagrah Restaurant

Gourmet Food and Fine Wine Tasting Evening

80.

Thu 9 Oct

7.30–9.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

North Country Theatre presents: A Month in the Country

81.

Thu 9 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Will Self: Shark

82.

Thu 9 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The Donald Baverstock Lecture: The Future of Regional Television in the UK

83.

Thu 9 Oct

7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Underground Girls of Kabul: Jenny Nordberg

84.

Thu 9 Oct

7.30pm

Rombalds Hotel

Next Generation Poets

85.

Thu 9 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Ilkley Writers

86.

Fri 10 Oct

6.30–7pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Launch of Walter Swan Playwriting Competition

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Fri 10 Oct

7pm

St Margaret's Hall

BBC Radio 4 Book Club: James Naughtie and Blake Morrison

88.

Fri 10 Oct

7.30–9.45pm

Kings Hall

The Adventures of Andy Kershaw

89.

Fri 10 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Lorna Goodison

90.

Fri 10 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Ilkley Playhouse presents The Great War

91.

Fri 10 Oct

7.30pm

Clarke Foley Centre

Arab Spring, Arab Winter: Dr Hendrik Kraetzchmar

92.

Fri 10 Oct

7.30pm

Manor House Museum

Mumonkan with Gordon Tyrrall

93.

Fri 10 Oct

9pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Severn and Somme: film screening

94.

Fri 10 Oct

9.15–9.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Bell-la-Bell

Church House

Pop-up Books Workshop: Robert Crowther

Manor House Education Room

Poetry Hive: Phoebe Power

10.30am– 12.30pm 10.30am– 12.30pm

95.

Sat 11 Oct

96.

Sat 11 Oct

98.

Sat 11 Oct

11am

Kings Hall

James Naughtie: The Madness of July

99.

Sat 11 Oct

1–4pm

Church House

New Forms of Narrative: Gary Winters, Lone Twin Masterclass

100.

Sat 11 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Kamila Shamsie: A God in Every Stone

101.

Sat 11 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The Brand Strategist's Guide to Desire: Anna Simpson Arabic Calligraphy and Islamic Art: Razwan Ul-Haq

102.

Sat 11 Oct

1.30–3.30pm

Manor House Education Room

103.

Sat 11 Oct

2–2.30pm and 3–3.30pm

Bandstand on The Grove

Live Wires Poetry Showcase

104.

Sat 11 Oct

2.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Telling Tales: Patience Agbabi

105.

Sat 11 Oct

4.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Sultan vs. Dracula: Razwan Ul-Haq

106.

Sat 11 Oct

4.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby: Sarah Churchwell

107

Sat 11 Oct

5–6pm

Church House

FRINGE Creative Booster

108.

Sat 11 Oct

5–6.45pm

Manor House Education Room

Patience Agbabi Masterclass

110.

Sat 11 Oct

6pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son – Penny Junor

111.

Sat 11 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

A History of Loneliness: John Boyne

112.

Sat 11 Oct

7.30pm

Otley Courthouse

Behind the Lines

113.

Sat 11 Oct

7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

The Britannic Crescent: Muslims, Empire and the First World War

114

Sat 11 Oct

7.30–8.30pm

Church House

FRINGE Something on My Mind

115.

Sat 11 Oct

7.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Linda Grant: Upstairs at the Party

116.

Sat 11 Oct

9pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool: Charlie Swinbourne

117.

Sat 11 Oct

9.15–10.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Festival Quiz with For Books Sake

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Sat 11 Oct

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225.

Sat 11 Oct

226.

227.

Sat 11 Oct

228.

Sat 11 Oct

229.

230.

9.30–10am

All Saints' School

Suitcase Circus Walkabout

All Saints' School

Eureka! Blast from the Past

All Saints' School

Mud Pie Arts: All Things Weird and Wonderful

10.30–11.15am

All Saints' School

Yasmeen Ismail: Specs for Rex

Sat 11 Oct

10.30am–12 noon

All Saints' School

Angie Sage Pathfinder Writing Workshop

Sat 11 Oct

10.30–11.15am

All Saints' School

Caryl Hart: Foxy Tales

231.

Sat 11 Oct

10.30am, 11.15am, All Saints' School 12noon, 1.30pm, 2.15pm, 3pm

Ilkley Library: Story Sacks

97.

Sat 11 Oct

11–11.30am

Bandstand on The Grove

Suitcase Circus Performance

232.

Sat 11 Oct

11.45am– 12.45pm

All Saints' School

Petr Horáček Workshop

233.

Sat 11 Oct

12–12.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Kjartan Poskitt

234.

Sat 11 Oct

1.15–2pm

All Saints' School

Caryl Hart: Whiffy Wilson

235.

236.

237.

Sat 11 Oct

1.15pm, 2.45pm & 4.15pm

All Saints' School

Suitcase Circus Workshop

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10–11am, 11.30am– 12.30pm, 2.15–3.15pm, 3.45–4.45pm 10–10.50am & 11.45am– 12.35pm

Sat 11 Oct

1.30–2.20pm

All Saints' School

Mud Pie Arts: The Rescue Mission

239.

240.

Sat 11 Oct

1.30–2.30pm & 3–4pm

All Saints' School

Pop-up Books Workshop

241.

Sat 11 Oct

2.45–3.30pm

All Saints' School

Petr Horáček Storytime

242.

Sat 11 Oct

3–3.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Diary of Dennis the Menace

243.

Sat 11 Oct

3.45–4.30pm

All Saints' School

Angie Sage: Araminta Spook

109.

Sat 11 Oct

5–6pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Lempen Puppets: Little Frankenstein

118.

Sun 12 Oct

11am–1pm

Rombalds Hotel

Writing Historical Fiction: Alex Preston Masterclass

119.

Sun 12 Oct

1.30pm

Kings Hall

Kirsty Wark: The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle

120.

Sun 12 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Numbers Through the Looking Glass: Alex Bellos Bryan Talbot Masterclass

121.

Sun 12 Oct

1.45–3.45pm

Manor House Education Room

122.

Sun 12 Oct

2pm

Clarke Foley Centre

Lynne Segal: Out of Time

123.

Sun 12 Oct

2pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The Ark Before Noah: Irving Finkel

124.

Sun 12 Oct

2–6pm

Otley Courthouse

WordsFest with Lucy Saxon Ilkley at the Time of WWI: Walk

125.

Sun 12 Oct

2–4pm

Meet outside Rombalds Hotel

126.

Sun 12 Oct

2.30–4.30pm

Rombalds Hotel

16 Ways of Writing a Poem: Mario Petrucci Masterclass

127.

Sun 12 Oct

3pm

St Margaret's Hall

Joan of Arc: Helen Castor

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Sun 12 Oct

3pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Professor Michael Broers on Napoleon

129.

Sun 12 Oct

3.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

A Shake of the Dice 1959–62: David Kynaston

130.

Sun 12 Oct

4.30pm

Kings Hall

Geoffrey Boycott

131.

Sun 12 Oct

4.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Sally Heathcote: Suffragette - Bryan and Mary Talbot

132.

Sun 12 Oct

4.45pm

St Margaret's Hall

The Ten Thousand Things: John Spurling

133.

Sun 12 Oct

5.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Remembering Michael Donaghy: Maddy Paxman and Don Paterson

134.

Sun 12 Oct

6.45–7.15pm

St Margaret's Hall

Amazonia Film Screening: Mario Petrucci

135.

Sun 12 Oct

7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Rain and other Poems: Don Paterson and Mario Petrucci

136.

Mon 13 Oct

1.30pm

Kings Hall

Morris Gleitzman

137.

Mon 13 Oct

4–5pm

Kings Hall

Morris Gleitzman for Teachers and Librarians

138.

Mon 13 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The Unexpected Professor: John Carey

139.

Mon 13 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

An Audience with Ken Livingstone

140.

Mon 13 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Mr Mac and Me: Esther Freud in Conversation

141.

Mon 13 Oct

7.30pm

Outside the Box Cafe

How to Build a Poem without Words

142.

Mon 13 Oct

7.30pm

Clarke Foley Centre

FRINGE Every Voice Counts

143.

Mon 13 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE An After Dinner's Sleep

144.

Mon 13 Oct

9.15–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE All Aboard the Book Bus!

145.

Tue 14 Oct

7.30–8.50pm

Kings Hall

Private Peaceful: Michael Morpurgo and Coope, Boyes and Simpson

146.

Tue 14 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

England, Arise: Juliet Barker

147.

Tue 14 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

The Disappearance Boy: Neil Bartlett

148.

Tue 14 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE A River of Voices

149.

Tue 14 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE War Hospital Stories

150.

Wed 15 Oct

12–2.30pm

The Wheatley Arms

Literary Lunch with Dinah Jefferies and Isabel Wolff

151.

Wed 15 Oct

6–6.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

David Almond: A Song for Ella Grey

152.

Wed 15 Oct

7.30–8.30pm

Kings Hall

Sheila Hancock: Miss Carter's War

153.

Wed 15 Oct

7.30pm

All Saints’ Church

Faith and Wisdom in Science: Tom McLeish

154.

Wed 15 Oct

7.30–8.45pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Dreda Say Mitchell: SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014

155.

Wed 15 Oct

7.30–10pm

Bettys Café Tea Rooms

Yorkshireness: Tony Hannan

156.

Wed 15 Oct

8pm

Ilkley Playhouse

David Almond: The Tightrope Walkers

157.

Wed 15 Oct

9.15–10.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Something Rhymed

158.

Wed 15 Oct

9.15–10.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Going Home: Fever Therapy

159.

Thu 16 Oct

10.30am– 12.30pm

Manor House Education Room

Crime Writing Workshop: Dreda Say Mitchell

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Thu 16 Oct

6pm

Manor House Education Room

First to Last Draft

161.

Thu 16 Oct

7pm

Kings Hall

Michael Rosen: How to be your Child’s (and your Own) Best Teacher

162.

Thu 16 Oct

7.30pm

Craiglands Hotel

John Hegley's New and Selected Potatoes

163

Thu 16 Oct

7.30pm

Grammar School at Leeds

Douglas Hurd: Disraeli

164.

Thu 16 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Barbed Wire for Kisses: Storytelling performance with Hugh Lupton and Nick Hennessey

165.

Thu 16 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Jane Peyton: Beer

166.

Thu 16 Oct

7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

60 Years of the Dales National Park: Colin Speakman

167.

Thu 16 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Bradford in the Great War: 100 Years On

168.

Thu 16 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Tibet: An Accidental Pilgrimage

169.

Fri 17 Oct

10.30am– 12.30pm

Manor House Education Room

John Hegley Workshop

170.

Fri 17 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Austin Mitchell: Calendar Boy

171.

Fri 17 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

My Father and Other Superheroes: Performance by Nick Makoha

172.

Fri 17 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Beatrix Campbell: End of Equality

173.

Fri 17 Oct

7.30–9.15pm

St Margaret's Hall

An Evening with The Poetry Business: Michael Laskey, Matthew Sweeney and Kim Moore

174.

Fri 17 Oct

7.30–9.30pm

Otley Courthouse

Cool Voices Words Club Night

175.

Fri 17 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Sing FREEDOM

176.

Fri 17 Oct

9–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE Poems Become Songs

177.

Sat 18 Oct

10.30am– 4.30pm

Church House

Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day

178.

Sat 18 Oct

11am–1pm

Manor House Education Room

Screenwriting Workshop with James Richards

179.

Sat 18 Oct

11am–1pm

St Margaret's Hall

Michael Laskey Workshop

180.

Sat 18 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Bonnie Greer: A Parallel Life

181.

Sat 18 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

How Aristotle Invented Science: Armand Marie Leroi

182.

Sat 18 Oct

2–5pm

Temple Newsam

Hogarth, Jenny Uglow and Grayson Perry Writers One-to-One Sessions: Kim Moore

183.

Sat 18 Oct

2–5pm

Manor House Education Room

184.

Sat 18 Oct

2.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Women of the World – The Rise of the Female Diplomats: Helen McCarthy

185.

Sat 18 Oct

3pm

Christchurch on The Grove

Love, Death and the Archers: Wendy Cope

186.

Sat 18 Oct

3.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: Responsible Leadership

187.

Sat 18 Oct

3.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives: David Stuttard

188.

Sat 18 Oct

4.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

When the Lamps Went Out: Nigel Fountain

189.

Sat 18 Oct

5pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Ian Mortimer: Centuries of Change

190.

Sat 18 Oct

5.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

A Modern Day Don Juan: Ian Duhig, George Szirtes and Nigel Thompson

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Sat 18 Oct

6pm

Church House

FRINGE Change Your Mind (2214 AD) FRINGE The Happening at the Bandstand

192

Sat 18 Oct

6.30pm & 9pm

The Bandstand on The Grove

193.

Sat 18 Oct

7–7.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Minoli Salgado

194.

Sat 18 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Lynn Barber in Conversation

195.

Sat 18 Oct

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Alan Johnson: Please, Mr Postman

196.

Sat 18 Oct

7.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

John Lahr on Tennessee Williams

197.

Sat 18 Oct

7.30pm

Church House

FRINGE Surviving

198.

Sat 18 Oct

7.30–9pm

Otley Courthouse

Tayo Aluko and Friends present The Norm of Greatness: The Words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr

199.

Sat 18 Oct

7.45pm

St Margaret's Hall

Roopa Farooki and Romesh Gunesekera

200.

Sat 18 Oct

9pm

Ilkley Playhouse

A Street Car Named Desire: Film Screening

201.

Sat 18 Oct

9.15–10.15pm

Ilkley Playhouse

FRINGE WWI Concert Party Running and Writing Workshop with Kim Moore

202.

Sun 19 Oct

9am–12 noon

Meet outside Rombalds Hotel

203.

Sun 19 Oct

1–4.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets

204.

Sun 19 Oct

1.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Jenny Uglow: In These Times

Manor House Education Room

Marlon James Masterclass

205.

Sun 19 Oct

1.30–3.30pm

206.

207.

Sun 19 Oct

1.30pm and 4pm All Saints' School

tutti frutti: Princess and the Pea

208

Sun 19 Oct

2pm

Kings Hall

Charles Spencer: Killers of the King

209.

Sun 19 Oct

3pm

St Margaret's Hall

Getting Colder: Amanda Coe

210.

Sun 19 Oct

3pm

Ilkley Playhouse

John Kampfner: The Rich

211.

Sun 19 Oct

3pm

Rombalds Hotel

Writing from Slovakia and Albania: Fatos Lubonja and Peter Krištúfek

212.

Sun 19 Oct

3.30–4.30pm

Kings Hall Winter Gardens

Informal Festival Feedback

213.

Sun 19 Oct

4.30pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Francesca Martinez: What the **** is Normal?!

214.

Sun 19 Oct

4.30pm

Kings Hall

Clare Balding: Walking Home

215.

Sun 19 Oct

4.45pm

St Margaret's Hall

John Lanchester: How to Speak Money

216.

Sun 19 Oct

5pm

Ilkley Playhouse

A Brief History of Seven Killings: Marlon James

217.

Sun 19 Oct

6.30pm

St Margaret's Hall

Publish or Be Damned: Publishing By and For Muslims

218.

Sun 19 Oct

7.15pm

Kings Hall

David Starkey: The Tudors

219.

Sun 19 Oct

8pm

St Margaret's Hall

The Book of Gaza: Mona Abu Sharekh and Nayrouz Qarmout

220.

Sun 19 Oct

8.30–10pm

Ilkley Playhouse

Open Mic

244.

Tue 11 Nov

7.30pm

Kings Hall

Jodi Picoult: Leaving Time

Events for children and young peopl­e on pages 52–57. Details of how to book on page 61.

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KEEP IN TOUCH For all the latest Festival updates and information go to:

www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk www.facebook.com/ilkleyliteraturefestival @ilkleylitfest #ilf14

FOOD AND ACCESS INFORMATION Refreshments

• At appropriate events the Bar at Kings Hall will be open before and after events and during intervals. Soft drinks, tea and coffee are available at all events.

• The Festival Café serving tea, coffee and delicious cakes, is open at Ilkley Playhouse during Festival evenings and weekends.

Event and Access Information

• All venues are accessible with accessible toilets except the first floor exhibition space of the Manor House Museum.

• St Margaret’s Hall is an uphill walk from the station. Allow 15–20 minutes.

• Selected events are BSL interpreted. Working dogs welcome. Detailed access information from www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or call 01943 816714.

• Events last one hour unless otherwise stated and usually include 15–20 minutes audience questions.

• After events, authors sign books which are available from the Festival bookstall run by our partners, the Grove Bookshop, at each venue. Some authors attract lengthy queues!

If you’d like a large print/audio copy of this brochure call 01943 816714 Cover photos: Margaret Atwood © Jean Malek, Michael Rosen © Laurence Cendrowicz.

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No induction loop system at St Margaret’s Hall or Craiglands Hotel.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 INDEX OF AUTHORS

author

event no.

Abbott, Diane Agbabi, Patience Ali Din, Tara Almond, David Aslam MBE, Mohammed Atkins, William Atwood, Margaret

45 104,108 52 151,156 79 28, 42 60

author

event no.

Churchwell, Sarah Clayton, Tim

Hennessey, Nick

164

Holmes, Rachel

62

Coe, Amanda

209

Holroyd, Michael

49

Coope, Boyes & Simpson

145

Horáček, Petr

Cope, Wendy

185

Howarth Brass Band

Crossan, Sarah

59

Hurd, Douglas

163

95, 239, 240

Hymas, Sarah

67

Ibrahiim, Khadijah

67

Ilkley Young Writers

35

Crowther, Robert

194

Dipper, John

Barker, Juliet

146

Duhig, Ian

Bartlett, Neil

147

Dunant, Sarah

Benson, Richard Berry, Dominic Birt, Yahya Booth, James Borman, Tracy

162, 169

71

214

Bellos, Alex

event no.

Hegley, John

125

Barber, Lynn

Bedford, Martyn

author

Cockshott, Alex

Balding, Clare

Bates, Catherine

106

164 12, 23, 84, 190 32, 38

Ismail, Yasmeen

58

Dunn, Suzannah

17

James, Marlon

59

Ellis, Hannah

72

232,241 22

228 205, 216

Jefferies, Dinah

150

Eureka! 222-225

Johnson, Alan

195

68

Farooki, Roopa

199

Jones, Owen

53

43

Ferreira, Pedro

50

120

Junor, Penny

110

Finkel, Irving

123

Kampfner, John

210

57

Fountain, Nigel

188

Kershaw, Andy

88

24

217

For Books Sake

117

Kraetzschmar, Hendrik

Boycott, Geoffrey

130

Freud, Esther

140

Krištúfek, Peter

211

Boyne, John

111

Geaves, Ron

113

Kynaston, David

129

Brandreth, Gyles

26

Gerald, Jamal

52

Lanchester, John

215

Broers, Michael

128

Gleitzman, Morris

Lahr, John

196

Brooke-Taylor, Tim

31

Goodison, Lorna

Burns, Jacq

20

Gordon, Lyndall

Butler, Steven Campbell, John

136, 137 89 13, 25

Laskey, Michael

91

173, 179

Lempen Puppet Theatre

109 181

242

Grant, Linda

115

Leroi, Armand Marie Lewis, Steve

67

Liddington, Jill

18

21

Greer, Bonnie

180

Campbell, Beatrix

172

Griffith, Nicola

51

Carey, John

138

Gunesekera, Romesh

199

Livingstone, Ken

Castor, Helen

127

Hancock, Sheila

152

Lowe, Adam

Chambers, Claire

217

Hannan, Tony

155

Lubonja, Fatos

211

Cherriman, Becky

124

Hardaker, Andrea

5, 14, 177

Lupton, Hugh

164

230, 234

Makoha, Nick

171

Child, Lauren

19

Hart, Caryl

13

139 52

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event no.

author

Manasamitra 33

Petrucci, Mario

Mark, David

event no.

author

126, 134, 135

event no.

Simpson, Anna

101

7

Peyton, Jane

165

Speakman, Colin

166

Martin, Cheryl

52

Picoult, Jodi

244

Spencer, Charles

208

Marshall, Emily

55

Pitts, Mike

27

Spurling, John

132

233

Martinez, Francesca

213

May, Stephen

56

Poskitt, Kjartan

Starkey, David

218

Power, Phoebe 22, 67, 73, 96, 103

Stuttard, David

187 33

McCarthy, Helen

184

Poynting, Jeremy

193

Sudhir, Rashmi

McLeish, Tom

153

Preston, Alex

118

Suitcase Circus 221, 97, 235-237

Medway, Jim

124

Pryor, Francis

41

Sweeney, Matthew

173

Miah, Shamim

113

Purple Patch Arts

141

Swinbourne, Charlie

116

Qarmout, Nayrouz

219

Szirtes, George

190

Rayner, Catherine

66

Tagoe, Ben

124

67

Talbot, Bryan

121, 131

178

Talbot, Mary

131

Thompson, Nigel

190

Mitchell, Austin

82, 170

Moody-Stuart, Sir Mark

186

Moore, Kim 10, 22, 44, 73, 76, 78

160, 173, 183, 202

Reynolds, Desiree

Moore, Tim

Roberts, David

63

Morpurgo, Michael

145

Morrison, Andrew

8

Morrison, Blake

87

Richards, James

1, 15, 16

Rose, Hilary

70

Todd, Selina

Rose, Steven

70

tutti frutti

Rosen, Michael

161

Tyrrall, Gordon

40 206, 207 92

Mortimer, Ian

189

Uglow, Jenny

182, 204

Mosey, Roger

82

Ryan, Chris

4

Ul-Haq, Razwan

102, 105

9

Sage, Angie

229, 243

Van Leer, Darryl

198

Motion, Andrew Mud Pie Arts

226, 227, 238

Muzanenhamo, Togara Nagarajan, Supriya

Rutter, Barrie

54

Salgado, Minoli

193

Varley, William

55

Saxon, Lucy

124

Walker, Ged

124

33

Say Mitchell, Dreda

154, 159

Wark, Kirsty

119

124

Walsh, Nigel

182

Naughtie, James

87, 98

Nordberg, Jenny

83

Seddon, Mohammed Siddique 113

Wilkinson, Tom

80

Segal, Lynne

Winters, Gary

North Country Theatre Northern Ballet Nyoni, Zodwa Ondaatje Rolls, Jans Page, Ra Paterson, Don

46, 47 55, 103 34

Scally Clarke, Michelle

122

42

48 99

Self, Will

81

Wolff, Isabel

150

Sellars, Jane

61

Woolf, Gabriel

112

31

Yasmin, Rukhsana

217

Serle, Chris

217

Shamsie, Kamila

100

133, 135

Shanks, Rosalind

112

Patterson, James

164

Sharekh, Mona Abu

219

Paxman, Maddy

133

Sherwin, Jeffrey

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Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 EXHIBITIONS AND OPENING EVENTS

David Roberts: Illustration from Jack and the FlumFlum Tree

2014 Festival Exhibition: Dinosaurs, Trolls and Dunderheads: David Roberts

Illustrating Children’s Books 1. Manor House Museum Saturday 20 September–Sunday 23 November An exciting exhibition of original ‘roughs’ and illustrations, showing how award-winning illustrator and Dirty Bertie creator, David Roberts, moves his initial ideas into designs and then to well loved characters for work by authors such as Philip Ardagh, Daren King, Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline Wilson.

Roberts’ recent Illustrations include The Troll by Julia Donaldson and The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman (shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award).

FREE. Opening times: Wed–Sat 11am–5pm, Sun 1–4pm.

See also Events 2, 15 and 16.

A Squash and a Squeeze: Sharing Stories with Julia Donaldson Exhibition Illustrating Children’s Books 2. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford BD9 4NS Saturday 28 June–Sunday 9 November Follow Julia Donaldson’s journey from songwriter for children’s television to former Children’s Laureate. See how she inspires her readers with story, rhyme and rhythm and explore sensory environments based on Donaldson’s books.

Trace Toddle Waddle’s footsteps, climb into the cave with Cave Baby and meet The Gruffalo. Sing along to her songs on Julia’s jukebox or perform a play in a stage setting.

Opening times: Tue–Fri 10am–4pm.

Sat & Sun 11am–4pm. £4. Children under 2 and adults accompanying children FREE. Exhibition staged by Bradford Museums and Galleries.

In collaboration with A Squash and a Squeeze: Sharing Stories with Julia Donaldson.

In association with Bradford Museums and Galleries.

Julia Donaldson

Children’s Book Trail

Illustrating Children’s Books 3. Across Ilkley Friday 3–Sunday 19 October Discover some exciting children’s books (and lots of great shops) as you search Ilkley for books hidden in shop windows. Look out for the Book Trail window stickers to help you. All correct entries will be entered into a Prize Draw after the Festival.

FREE. Age 3–103.

(Prize draw for under 12s only!)

Collect your instructions, map and an entry form at Festival venues, the Grove Bookshop or Ilkley Visitor Information Centre.

In conjunction with www.pickledegg.info

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ilkley literature festival 14 EXHIBITIONS AND OPENING EVENTS WEDNESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 7.30PM

Chris Ryan

4. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm Chris Ryan is the real deal; as part of the SAS, he served in military hot zones around the world, since then he has sold over 4 million books worldwide, including Strike Back, (adapted for Sky One).

Today he lifts the lid on his new gripping thriller, Hunter Killer, following SAS hero Danny Black; on his mission to hunt down a terrorist cell. £8/3.

SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 11 AM

Festival Blog Workshop New Ways of Writing

5. Church House 11am–3pm Find out how to write articles and reviews for www.pickedegg.info, the Festival blog, with journalist Andrea Hardaker. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned critic, become part of the ILF blogging team and we’ll give you tickets to events throughout the Festival and post your work online. £8/6 includes press tickets.For adults.

Please bring packed lunch.

WEDNESDAY 1 OCTOBER 7PM

7.30PM

Crime and Curry Supper: Sorrow Bound with David Mark

7. The Wheatley Arms 7pm for 7.30-9.30pm

David Mark spent seven years as a crime reporter with The Yorkshire Post, walking the Hull streets that became the setting for his Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy novels. His books are heavily influenced by the court cases he covered: defeatist, jaded police officers; incompetent investigators and the raw grief of those touched by tragedy. Dark Winter, his first novel, became an international bestseller. Today he talks about his latest, Sorrow Bound. £20 includes two-course curry supper (with vegetarian option) and coffee.

In association with The Wheatley Arms.

6.30PM

Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session 6. Christchurch on The Grove 6.30pm–8.30pm

Teenagers who love creative writing are invited to try tonight’s free session and see if they’d like to join our weekly group.

Age 12–18. No experience needed.

FREE with juice and biscuits.

Sir Andrew Motion © Stuart Leech

Festival opening Andrew Motion: The New World

THURSDAY 2 OCTOBER 7.30PM

The Leeds Library – 246 Years, 145,000 Books and a Ghost: Andrew Morrison 8. Manor House Museum 7.30–8.30pm

MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER

Readers and researchers have enjoyed England’s oldest membership library, in the heart of Leeds, since 1768.

Built in 1808, the current library remains one of the foremost Georgian libraries in the country and in this talk by the library’s Chief Executive, Andrew Morrison, he reveals its illustrious history, fantastical 15th century descriptions of the Holy Land, 18th century botanic illustrations and Darwinian spelling mistakes. £6.

New Ways of Writing 9. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm Sir Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate launches the Festival’s fifth decade. Poet, novelist, and biographer he explores the synergy between poetry and prose and introduces his new book, inspired by Treasure Island but set a decade on, and reads from his award-winning poetry collections. £12/10.

In association with the Friends of the Manor House and The Leeds Library.

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The Leeds Library

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 11AM

12PM

Ian Duhig Masterclass New Ways of Writing

Storytelling and Drawing: David Roberts

12. Manor House Education Room Illustrating Children’s Books 11am–1pm 15. Manor House Museum 12–1pm Exciting, original workshop from multi-award winning poet Ian Duhig based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.

Explore the breadcrumbs of memory which we all have scattered on the paths of our lives. £15/10.

For experienced writers. Please book in advance.

Kim Moore

9AM

New Ways of Writing

10. Church House 9–10am Join Festival Poet in Residence Kim Moore, winner of an Eric Gregory Award, for an invigorating early morning poetry session to kick off your weekend. £10/5 includes coffee/tea, fruit juice and pastries.

For all levels. Please book in advance.

10AM

Story Explorers and Story Wizards: Children’s Reading and Creative Writing Groups – taster sessions

13. St Margaret’s Hall 11am–1pm

Distinguished biographer, Lyndall Gordon, invites anyone intrigued by the possibilities and challenges of life writing to join this masterclass. You’ll discuss choosing a subject; research and gaps; beginnings; chronology and emphasis; the claims of the inner and outward life; documentary versus imaginative truth (and the current vogue for fictional treatments); the question where a life ends; or any other question members of the class might wish to air. £15/10.

For all levels.Please book in advance.

In association with Bradford Museums and Galleries.

David Roberts: illustration from Tyrannosaurus Drip

by Julia Donaldson

1.30PM

Dinosaurs, Trolls and Dunderheads: David Press Pack: Write a Review Roberts Exhibition (young people) Opening 14. Church House 11am–4pm

Come and find out how to write great 11. Clarke Foley Centre reviews and tweets with journalist 10–10.35am (reading) and Andrea Hardaker. Then set off with 10.45–11.20am (writing) your press ticket to a Festival event.

Children who love reading (Story Come back, write up a review in our Explorers) and creative writing (Story newsroom and we’ll post it online.

Wizards) are invited to try today’s free £5 includes ‘press’ ticket to afternoon sessions and see if they’d like to join event. Age 12–18. our weekly groups. Come to one or Please bring packed lunch. Please book both sessions. in advance.

Parents welcome to stay.

Age 8–11. No experience needed.

FREE with juice and biscuits.

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Illustrating Children’s Books 16. Manor House Museum 1.30–3.30pm Join us for refreshments and the official Ilkley Literature Festival opening of David Roberts’ exhibition.

FREE. Places limited – please book: alyson.evans@bradford.gov.uk or 01943 600066.

In association with Bradford Museums and Galleries.

WEEKEND 4 –5 OCTOBER

Kim Moore Early Morning Writing Workshop

Lyndall Gordon Masterclass

Family event for children, adults and illustrators! Draw a character as David Roberts shows you how he does it for his award-winning children’s books.

Listen as David reads the books and brings the stories to life. Bring your own book for David to sign or buy one from the museum shop – and get special messages for Christmas!

FREE. Places limited – please book: alyson.evans@bradford.gov.uk or 01943 600066.

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2PM

2.30PM

The May Bride: Suzannah Dunn

John Campbell on Roy Jenkins

Cromwell’s World

21. St Margaret’s Hall 2.30–3.30pm

17. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm

WEEKEND 4 –5 OCTOBER

Highly regarded historical novelist, Suzannah Dunn, (The Sixth Wife, The Queen’s Sorrow, The Confession of Katherine Howard) turns her attention to the friendship between the teenage Jane Seymour and her sister in law at the real Wolf Hall. With keen attention to historical detail, Dunn, former director of the MA in novel writing at Manchester University, sheds new light on a crucial period in the life of the most beloved of King Henry VIII’s wives. £5/3.

Lauren Child

19. Kings Hall 2–3pm

A chance to meet the hugely popular award-winning, bestselling author and illustrator of the Ruby Redfort series, Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean and hear all about her new Ruby Redfort book – Feel the Fear. Ruby is an undercover agent, code-cracker and thirteen year old genius. She’s brave, she’s determined and she knows the rules of survival… £8/5. Age 9+. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.

Suzannah Dunn

Poetry and Brass

22. Bandstand on The Grove 2.30–4pm Join Poet in Residence (and brass teacher) Kim Moore, Apprentice Poet in Residence Phoebe Power and Haworth Brass Band for a fun afternoon of brass band music and poetry.

FREE. 3.15PM

Ian Duhig: Digressions

1.45PM

Vanishing for the Vote: Jill Liddington

Write a Bestseller: Jacq Burns Masterclass

Historian Jill Liddington tells the story of Sunday 2 April 1911 when suffragettes urged women, all still voteless, to boycott the census.

Many did. Some hid away in darkened houses. In Ilkley one household’s form stated: ‘No Vote No Census’, yet many women complied. Liddington, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, explores ‘the battle for the census’ which raged from Westminster to Ilkley and beyond. £6/4.

There’s no precise formula for writing a bestseller but this masterclass with Jacq Burns, former commissioning editor at Random House and editorial director at HarperCollins before becoming a literary agent, will dramatically improve your odds.

She’ll be helping you get a real handle on the writing and revising process and sharing the secrets, skills and techniques of publishing a bestselling novel. £15/10.

For all levels. Please book in advance.

18. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1.45–2.45pm

John Campbell, one of the UK’s leading political biographers and a regular reviewer for The Times and Sunday Telegraph, reflects on his much lauded and compelling study of Roy Jenkins – the best Prime Minister Britain never had. Although never reaching Downing Street, Jenkins left an enduring mark on British society in a career spanning 50 years from Attlee to Blair, helping to transform almost every area of national life and politics. £6/4.

23. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3.15–4.15pm “We don’t live in places, we live in

20. Manor House Education Room descriptions of places” Wallace 2–4pm Stevens.

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Acclaimed poet, Ian Duhig, reads from his new book, Digressions, created with the artist Philippa Troutman, based on their Tristram Shandy project at Shandy Hall. Duhig, the author of six poetry collections, won the Forward Prize for Best Poem, the National Poetry Competition (twice) and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize three times. £6/4.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER 3.30PM

5.15PM

Thomas Cromwell and the Real Wolf Hall: Tracy Borman

Lives, Landscape, Literature: William Atkins

24. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.30–4.30pm

Enjoy a heady mix of topography, literary criticism and nature writing in this deeply personal journey across our nation’s most forbidding and mysterious terrain. With Ilkley Moor in mind, William Atkins, former Editorial Director at Pan MacMillan UK, takes us from south to north, exploring moorland’s uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. £6/4.

See also Event 42.

28. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5.15–6.15pm

Cromwell’s World

Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, historian Tracy Borman, examines the life, loves and legacy of the man who changed the shape of England for ever. This afternoon she discusses her new biography of Thomas Cromwell, giving fascinating insights into Cromwell’s character, family life and close relationships with Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII and telling the story of the real Wolf Hall. £6/4.

Lyndall Gordon: Divided Lives

New Ways of Writing 25. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm

26. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm

They say all political careers end in tears – in Gyles Brandreth’s case it’s tears of laughter as the author and broadcaster, One Show reporter, Just A Minute regular, former MP and government whip, opens up his Westminster diary to take us on a no-holds-barred roller-coaster ride along the corridors of power. His book, Breaking the Code, contains the first ever insider’s account of the secret world that is the government whips’ office. Now Brandreth is bringing his book to life on stage.

‘Incredibly funny, wildly indiscreet’ Daily Mail. £12/10.

Lyndall Gordon, the renowned, awardwinning biographer of Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Brontë and Mary Wollstonecraft, and currently Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, turns to her own story. Born in 1941, in Cape Town, to a mother whose poor health confined her to life indoors, today Gordon discusses Shared Lives, her wonderfully layered memoir of expectation, generational divisions, love and duty. £6/4.

Digging for Richard III: Mike Pitts

Lyndall Gordon © Jerry Bauer

The discovery of the remains of Richard III in a car park in Leicester is one of the most captivating and important historical discoveries of recent times. Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Mike Pitts covers those behind the story, bringing years of archaeological insight and expertise to a discovery that combined passion, science and a small amount of luck. £6/4.

Sponsored by Skipton Building Society.

William Atkins

5.30PM

Wearing Purple

29. Church House 5.30–6.30pm 5PM

27. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 5–6pm

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‘Writers of a certain age’ with their slightly irreverent, heart-warming writing.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

7PM

Three Hares: Alison Lock and Robin Bowles New Ways of Writing

30. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7–7.20pm The woodlands of the South Pennines through poetry and music.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

WEEKEND 4 –5 OCTOBER

4.30PM

Breaking the Code – the Secret Life of a Whip at Westminster: Gyles Brandreth

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Life, Love and Art – Food and the Bloomsbury Group: Jans Ondaatje Rolls

7.30PM

34. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Jans Ondaatje Rolls

Getting Under their Skins – Art History and Fiction: Sarah Dunant 32. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

WEEKEND 4 –5 OCTOBER

Tim Brooke-Taylor and Chris Serle

31. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Best known as one third of TV comedy trio The Goodies, Tim Brooke-Taylor has been delighting audiences with his gentle, zany humour ever since joining the famous Cambridge Footlights in the early 1960s. A regular panellist on Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, tonight he’s in conversation with broadcaster Chris Serle, known for his work as a reporter on That’s Life with Esther Rantzen. £16/14.

Sponsored by Audley Clevedon.

Sarah Dunant, acclaimed bestselling author of Italian Renaissance trilogy The Birth of Venice, In the Company of the Courtesan , Sacred Hearts and now Blood and Beauty, shares the secrets of her trade. To recreate the past as a living, breathing place she visited churches, archives, museums and art galleries all over Italy. In this sumptuously illustrated talk she recounts how the decoding of old paintings and work of modern historians helped her penetrate the hidden worlds of the Renaissance. £7/5.

Manasamitra: The Singing Bowl

Performance with Supriya Nagarajan and Rashmi Sudhir 33. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.10pm Manasamitra Indian Music and Dance explores the world of lullabies through poetry, languorous dance and lilting music. Taking one of the oldest lullabies from Southern India, written for a king at his birth, the effect soothes the senses and give audiences a glimpse of the world of royalty in India, as it existed in the last century. £6/4.

Manasamitra

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The writers, painters, philosophers and poets who made up the Bloomsbury Group were the ‘foodies’ of their day. E.M. Forster, Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, J.M.Keynes and Lytton Strachey often met around their dining tables for ‘lingering breakfasts’ and ‘painting lunches’. Jans Ondaatje Rolls, culinary expert and food historian, brings their eating habits to life via letters, diaries, memoirs and unique recipes – tested by the author herself. £6/4.

Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group 35. Church House 7.30–8.30pm

The Festival’s young writers group, all aged 12–18, with another stunning performance of their award-winning poetry and prose.

FREE. 9PM

Getting into Print

36. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm Meet and talk about getting published with leading authors from Cybermouse MultiMedia.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

The House of Tragic She

37. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm Psychedelic, live physical performance exploring ‘madness’.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER 11AM

1.45PM

The People 1910–2010: Selina Todd

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 40. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1.45–2.45pm

Sarah Dunant © Charlie Hopkinson

Sarah Dunant Masterclass 38. Rombalds Hotels 11am–1pm

Selina Todd, award-winning historian and lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford University, considers the lives of the working class over the last century – 75% of the population – whose stories went untold until now.

Based on first-person accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives, she charts the rise of the working class through two world wars to their fall in Thatcher’s Britain. £6/4.

42. Meet at Cow and Calf car park 2–4pm

Following William Atkins’ talk about the cultural history of moorland (see Event 28) geographer William Varley, accompanied by Atkins, leads a walk over Ilkley’s famous moor, exploring its geology and landscape history. £7/5.

Please note the walk is mainly on footpaths with some uneven ground, you’ll need suitable footwear and waterproofs.

When Trolls Try to Eat your Goldfish: Dominic Berry 43. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 2–3pm

High energy comedy and music show. £6/4. Age 5–11.

This event begins with a short reading by the winners of the Children’s Poetry Competition.

For full details see page 53.

Sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.

12PM

Poetry SHOUTING

39. Meet at Cow and Calf car park 12–1pm Come for a walk and SHOUT poetry – your own or other people’s – into the wilderness of Ilkley Moor! Poetry books and loud hailer provided. Please note the walk is mainly on footpaths with some uneven ground, you’ll need suitable footwear and waterproofs.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

Selina Todd © Paul Cliff

2PM

Francis Pryor: A Time Traveller’s Tale from Prehistory

Poet in your Pocket

44. Manor House Education Room 2–4pm

Festival Poet in Residence, Kim Moore, with a workshop inspired by work Broadcaster (Time Team, presenter of from poets visiting this year’s Festival.

Whatever your previous writing Channel 4’s AD and BC) and former experience come and let Kim guide president of the Council for British Archaeology, archaeologist Dr Francis you through an exciting and enjoyable session.

Pryor has spent thirty years studying our prehistory. He’s excavated Bronze £10/5. For all levels. Please book in Age farms and entire Iron Age villages advance. and today he takes us on his lifetime’s quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric Britain. Digging in freezing winters and arid summers, he shows how archaeology can reconstruct habits and customs. £8/6.

41. Craiglands Hotel 2–3pm

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WEEKEND 4–5 OCTOBER

A masterclass with leading novelist Sarah Dunant, acclaimed bestselling author of Italian Renaissance trilogy The Birth of Venice, In the Company of the Courtesan and Sacred Hearts £15/10.

For all levels. Please book in advance.

Ilkley Moor Walk with Geographer William Varley

ilkley literature festival 14 SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER 2.30PM

3.30PM

Tom Wilkinson: Bricks and Mortals

48. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.30–4.30pm ‘Can architecture change our lives for the better?’

From The Tower Of Babel via a car factory in Detroit to Finsbury Health Centre, Tom Wilkinson, History Editor of The Architectural Review and lecturer in architectural history at University College London, reveals the intimate relationship between society and architecture. £6/4.

The Perfect Theory? – Pedro Ferreira

Science at the Cutting Edge 50. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4–5pm Almost a century after Einstein first proposed the General Theory of Relativity, its full ramifications are still being debated. Pedro Ferreira, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, explores the science and scientific controversies which have surrounded the General Theory since its conception. £6/4.

4.30PM

Hild: Nicola Griffith

4PM

WEEKEND 4 –5 OCTOBER

51. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm

Diane Abbott

45. Kings Hall 2.30–3.45pm

Labour MP Diane Abbott made history by becoming the first black woman ever elected to the British Parliament. She has since built a distinguished career as a parliamentarian, broadcaster and commentator. Renowned for her feisty style and straight talking she’s a regular on the BBC’s This Week programme. This afternoon she discusses her life and career. £16/14.

Peter Pan Ballet Workshops All Saints’ School 46. 2.30–3.30pm 47. 3.45–4.45pm

Escape to Neverland and explore the story of Peter Pan with Northern Ballet’s dance artist. £6. Age 4–6 and 7–10 respectively.

See page 53 for full details.

In association with Northern Ballet.

Michael Holroyd © Caroline Forbes

Nicola Griffith brings the beautiful, brutal, mesmerising world of seventhcentury Britain and the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby, vividly to life. Winner of the Nebula, James Tiptree, Jr., World Fantasy and six Lambda Literary Awards, Griffith, on a rare visit from the USA, reveals a world where small kingdoms merge often and violently. £6/4.

A Dog’s Life: Michael Holroyd

49. Craiglands Hotel 4–5pm Kenneth has an unusual family. His grandfather Eustace is certainly in charge – or he would be, if everyone stopped mumbling and as for Mathilda and Anne, what would life be without eccentricities? But it might all fall apart if the dog dies.

Michael Holroyd’s biographies of Lytton Strachey, Augustus John and Bernard Shaw established him as one of the most influential biographers of modern times. But as a young man he wrote a controversial autobiographical novel, drawing heavily on the period after his parents’ divorce, when he and his father lived with elderly grandparents. £8/6.

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Nicola Griffith © Jennifer Durham

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER 5PM

Young Enigma

New Ways of Writing 52. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5pm–6pm The North’s LGBT+ writer development programme, Young Enigma, presents a showcase of new writing by Black and Asian writers who identify as LGBT+. Included in the showcase are Tara Ali Din, Cheryl Martin, Jamal Gerald and Adam Lowe with debut writers from Spoke: New Queer Voices (Dog Horn Publishing, 2015), alongside more established writers. £5/3.

Togara Muzanenhamo

7.30PM 6PM

New Ways of Writing 55. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–9.15pm

Owen Jones © Rose Hall

The Establishment: Owen Jones

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 53. Craiglands Hotel 6–7pm Behind our democracy lurks a powerful unaccountable network, wielding massive power and reaping huge profits. Owen Jones, political activist, bestselling author of Chavs and Guardian columnist, lays bare the heart of the Establishment, from the lobbies of Westminster to the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms of the City, arguing that rather than working on our behalf, the people at the top are doing just the opposite. £7/5.

Barrie Rutter reads Simon Armitage’s King Arthur

54. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Barrie Rutter, Founder and Artistic Director of Northern Broadsides and ex-National Theatre actor, gives an unmissable reading of Simon Armitage’s new version of a rousing ancient tale, the medieval epic, The Death of King Arthur. In a sweeping, muscular text roaring to be read aloud, Arthur is a ‘brassed-off, Carlisle-based warrior, enraged by being asked to pay taxes to Rome’. £14/12.

On a rare visit to the UK, Togara Muzanenhamo from Zimbabwe launches his new collection Gumiguru – a month of dryness and heat before the first rains fall. Togara, whose first collection Spirit Brides was published to acclaim in 2006, represented Zimbabwe at the Poetry Parnassus in London 2012. This cycle of poems framed through the natural and agricultural landscapes of Zimbabwe is both an elegy for the poet’s father and a hymn to the veldt, farms and villages, and the people whose lives are interwoven with the seasons. The event begins with an introduction to contemporary writing from Zimbabwe

by Dr Emily Marshall, Leeds Beckett University, and includes work by the Festival’s 2013 Apprentice Poet in Residence, playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni, herself originally from Zimbabwe. £6/4.

In association with Carcanet Press.

Photo of Barrie Rutter © Rose Hall

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WEEKEND 4–5 OCTOBER

New Writing from Zimbabwe: Togara Muzanenhamo and Zodwa Nyoni

ilkley literature festival 14 SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER

MONDAY 6 OCTOBER 6PM

7.30PM

Margaret Atwood: Guided Reading Group New Ways of Writing

WEEKEND 4– 5 OCTOBER

Following popular reading groups in previous years, Dr Catherine Bates, Deputy Director of the Centre for Canadian Studies at the University of Leeds, offers an expert guide to Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake trilogy. The sessions will explore the terrifying futures Atwood imagines in her dystopic trilogy. We will discuss the role scientific development and Stephen May © Jonathan Ring corporate culture play in creating an Wake Up Happy Every Day: unsustainable world, and consider how Stephen May the novels portray environmentalism, religion, art and ultimately, what makes 56. St Margaret’s Hall us human.

7.30–8.30pm £15/12 includes all four sessions.

Armed with a trunk of exhibits from his Museum of Perfect Contentment, Sessions timed to ensure you don’t Stephen May shares recipes for miss other events. Details of key happiness – and its opposites – chapters to study will be posted on the uncovered while writing his latest ILF website. novel. Covering big topics – sex, death, See also Event 60. religion, money – this is a funny, In association with the University of Leeds tender, exploration of why it’s hard and the Yorkshire Network for Canadian to be happy and human. May’s Life!

Studies.

Death! Prizes! was shortlisted for the Costa and the Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker Prize’.

6.30PM £6/3.

8PM

James Booth on Philip Larkin

57. Craiglands Hotel 8–9pm The poet Philip Larkin was a household name in his own lifetime.

His reputation as a man is more controversial. James Booth, Larkin’s colleague in the English Department at the University of Hull for seventeen years, offers an unwaveringly frank reinterpretation of Larkin’s life and work, built on meticulous research and fresh material, asking whether art and life were really so deeply at odds. £6/4.

Margaret Atwood: MaddAddam

60. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Acclaimed, prize-winning Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood discusses her latest novel MaddAddam, the final volume in an extraordinary fiction trilogy which has been a decade in the writing.

Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. £14/12.

See also Event 58.

Sponsored by the Centre for Culture and the Arts at Leeds Beckett University.

Never Ending: Martyn Bedford and Sarah Crossan Art and Yorkshire – From 59. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Turner to Hockney: 6.30–7.15pm Jane Sellars What would you do if you thought you had killed your little brother? Like Sarah Crossan, Martyn Bedford’s books for young people deal with big issues – life, death, bereavement, guilt. Bedford’s Flip, won the Sheffield Children’s Book Award and was shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Sarah Crossan’s new book, Apple and Rain explores the bond between mothers and daughters, the power of forgiveness and a passion for poetry. £5/3. Age 12–18 and adults.

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61. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm

Jane Sellars’ book blends art history and autobiography to explore art inspired by Yorkshire, from Turner’s visits to the Wharfe Valley to David Hockney’s pre-occupation with his home county. Former director of the Brontë Parsonage Museum at Haworth, Jane currently runs Harrogate’s museums and the awardwinning Mercer Art Gallery. £6/4.

Margaret Atwood © Jean Malek

58. Manor House Education Room 6–7pm – Mon 6, Wed 8, Mon 13 & Wed 15 Oct

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 MONDAY 6 OCTOBER 7.30PM

Eleanor Marx: A Life Rachel Holmes

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 62. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER 1.30PM

7.30PM

Catherine Rayner: Children’s Book Show 66. Kings Hall 1.30–2.30pm

Special event for primary schools.

SOLD OUT.

A showcase highlighting some of the best new poetry and fiction in the Yorkshire region.

Sealegs by Hymas&Lewis: poet Sarah Hymas’s unique new show, in collaboration with musician Steve Lewis, mixes spoken word, shanties, anecdotes, acoustic music and sampling to portray the expanse and claustrophobia of seafaring life.

In poetry that sings from the page, Khadijah Ibrahiim’s Another Crossing recreates places that have been swept away by time, telling the stories of an individual life, of a family, of the communities of Chapeltown and Harehills, and crucial moments in the making of Leeds as a place where cultures meet.

Seduce is Desiree Reynolds’ first novel. A teacher, broadcaster and DJ she started her writing career as a freelance journalist for the Jamaica Gleaner and the Village Voice and went on to write film scripts, poetry and short stories.

Phoebe Power, the Festival’s Apprentice Poet in Residence, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2009. Her work has featured in magazines including Magma, Cake and POEM. £5/3 includes a glass of wine.

This event is in two halves with an interval.

Tim Moore: Gironimo!

63. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30-8.30pm

Khadijah Ibrahiim

Sponsored by Spooner.

9PM

Jenny: a frightening woman!

64. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–9.45pm

Desiree Reynolds

Janis Goodman

The frightening story of Jenny told in ten dramatic poems and a little music too.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

New Ways of Writing 67. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–9.45pm

Cultural historian, Rachel Holmes, whose work combines meticulous biographical research with an ability to bring the lives and times of her 19th-century subjects vividly to life, explores her dazzling account of Karl Marx’s extraordinary youngest daughter, Eleanor. Britain’s first woman trade union leader, Eleanor founded the Socialist League, precursor to the Labour Party with William Morris and was instrumental in a wide range of strikes before her faithless husband betrayed her. £6/4.

Tim Moore takes a look at the trials and tribulations of cycling, tracing his epic 3000km journey following the route of the first Giro d’Italia on a home built, 100-year-old, bike. £6/4.

The Excitement of the New: A Yorkshire Showcase

9.15PM

Shash Trevett

65. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–9.45pm Shash Trevett reads in English and Tamil from her work on the Sri Lankan civil war.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

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ilkley literature festival 14 TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER

WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER

Waterloo – Four Days that Changed Europe’s Destiny: Tim Clayton

7.45PM

Richard Benson: The Valley The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power

71. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

68. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.45–8.45pm Thirty years on from the Miners’ Strike of 1984, the bestselling author of The Farm (Guardian First Book Award shortlisted) presents a defining history of the mining community as we’ve never heard it before. Following four generations of his mother’s family, the Hollingworths, Richard Benson lets us in on generations of carousing and banter as he shares his epic family saga. £6/4.

11AM

Guided Tour of The Leeds Library

69. 11am–12.30pm The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street, Leeds LS1 6AL A special guided tour of the oldest membership library in the UK. Discover the unique world of a thriving 18th century library in the heart of Leeds! Founded in 1768, The Leeds Library holds over 145,000 books dating back to 1494 and you’ll have the opportunity to see some of its most important treasures at first hand.

2 mins from Leeds railway station or use one of the city centre car parks.

FREE with tea and cake.

Places limited due to space constraints – please book in advance.

Tim Clayton, British Museum co-curator and bestselling author of books on naval and military history, considers the battle of Waterloo. He investigates countless new sources, including the harrowing evidence of the dedicated but ill-prepared medical services, to find out the truth about this much-contested battle. The result is an epic story, rich in dramatic human detail. £6/4.

Hannah Ellis on Dylan Thomas

72. Ilkley Rugby Club 7.30–8.30pm Hannah Ellis, Patron of the Dylan Thomas celebrations and President of the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain is the poet’s granddaughter.

She comes to Ilkley to talk about the collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating her grandfather’s life and exploring his lasting legacy which she edited. £6/4.

In association with The Leeds Library.

7.30PM

The New Biology: Hilary and Steven Rose

Science at the Cutting Edge Richard Benson © Chris Floyd

70. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm Feminist sociologist Professor Hilary Rose and eminent neuroscientist Professor Steven Rose, question why the cornucopia of health benefits promised by bio-scientists since the launch of the Human Genome Project have failed to emerge. They probe the dilemmas of bio-banks, the rivalries between public and private gene sequencers, and consider the ethical dilemmas of stem cell research and genomics. £6/4.

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Hannah Ellis © Welsh Government

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER 7.30PM

Poetry Banquet

73. Panache Restaurant 7.30–9.30pm Join Poet in Residence, Kim Moore, and Apprentice Poet in Residence, Phoebe Power, at a ‘word banquet’.

Enjoy the delicious South Asian buffet, hear some of Kim’s work and share your own poems. If you would like to read, please come 15 minutes early and give Kim your name. £12 includes two-course buffet.

In association with Panache.

9PM

Wharfedale Poets

74. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–9.50pm Eight Wharfedale Poets read from their debut anthology Drystone Lines.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

Hartlington Press

75. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm Dales-based Hartlington Press host an evening of readings, including poets Ray Snape and Roger Nelson.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 58 for full details.

THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER 2PM

7PM

Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event

76. Ilkley Moor Vaults 2–4.30pm Celebrate poetry at our annual open mic and networking event for poets from across the Yorkshire region.

Catch up with other writers, share your pamphlets and chapbooks.

Hosted by Poet in Residence, Kim Moore.

Poets wanting to read should arrive by 1.45pm to put their names down on the list. Everyone, including nonperforming listeners, welcome.

FREE with refreshments.

3PM

British Surrealism Opened Up

77. Audley Clevedon 3–4pm Dr Jeffrey Sherwin offers a unique insight into British surrealism, from the Dada movement in Zurich via Paris to present day England. In this richly illustrated talk. A former GP, Dr Sherwin has built up the largest collection of British Surrealist work in the country. He willl also be talking about his friendships with Henry Moore, Damien Hirst, George Melly, Peter Blake and Eduardo Paolozzi. £7 including tea and biscuits.

In association with Audley Clevedon.

6PM

Close Reading of Work

by Festival Poets 78. Rombalds Hotel 6–7pm

Get to grips with work by Don Paterson and other key poets appearing at the Festival, with the expert help of Poet in Residence, Kim Moore. A group for everyone to enjoy whether you’re a beginner or an expert. £5.

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Gourmet Food and Fine Wine Tasting Evening

79. 7–10pm Aagrah Restaurant, The Moors Shopping Centre, LS29 9LB Aagrah Restaurant will be hosting a unique evening with managing director and executive chef, Mohammed Aslam MBE, who’ll be explaining all about the bespoke meal you’ll be served on the night.

Wine experts will be on hand to explain and answer your questions about the fine wines for wine tasting, which have been carefully selected to complement your meal and there will be some special poetry surprises!

For further info about the meal tel 01943 600628 or visit www.aagrah.com £45 per head. Please book in advance www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or 01943 816714.

In association with Aagrah Restaurant.

7.30PM

North Country Theatre presents: A Month in the Country

80. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–9.30pm with interval JL Carr’s short but perfectly formed novella A Month in the Country, about a war veteran restoring a mural in a rural Yorkshire church, was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1980 and inspired a film adaptation starring Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth. Tonight this elegiac, wistful and moving story is brilliantly revived by the hugely popular and imaginative North Country Theatre. £10/8. Supported by the Friends of Ilkley Literature Festival.

ilkley literature festival 14 THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER 7.30PM

FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER

Underground Girls of Kabul: Jenny Nordberg 83. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Will Self: Shark

New Ways of Writing 81. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Sponsored by Investec.

The Donald Baverstock Lecture – The Future of Regional Television in the UK: Roger Mosey 82. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

British broadcasting executive Roger Mosey, the BBC’s Director of London 2012 Olympic Games coverage, discusses the future of regional television with Austin Mitchell. Mosey’s previous roles for the corporation have included editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today; controller of BBC Radio Five Live and head of BBC Television News. £6/4.

Supported by the Friends of Donald Baverstock

86. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 6.30–7pm

Friends and family of Walter Swan, much-loved former creative development manager of Ilkley Playhouse, launch an inspiring new playwriting competition in his memory, run in association with the Festival and the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Please join us as they explain the scope and practicalities of the new competition, for young people and adults, which will see work performed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Ilkley Playhouse next autumn.

FREE. 7PM

Blake Morrison

‘… one of those rare writers whose imaginations change for ever the way we see the world’ J.G.Ballard.

Will Self’s writing pushes the boundaries. Previous work includes The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, and Booker Prize nominated Umbrella. Shark, his latest novel, turns on an incident in WW2 when the ship that had delivered fissile material to be dropped on Hiroshima was sunk by a Japanese submarine and 200 men were killed in a shark attack. £12/10.

An Afghan woman’s life expectancy is just 44 years and, for some, disguising themselves as boys is their only hope of survival in a society that doesn’t value women. New York based writer and television producer Jenny Nordberg uncovers the true story of the culture known as ‘Bacha Posh’, the hidden lives of Afghan girls disguised as boys. £6/4.

6.30PM

Launch of the Walter Swan Playwriting Competition

Next Generation Poets New Ways of Writing

84. Rombalds Hotel 7.30–8.30pm In an event chaired by Ian Duhig, The Poetry Book Society presents two writers from Next Generation Poets 2014, a major promotion of the 20 most exciting new poets who published their first collection in the last decade. They’ll be reading with a young newcomer and a 1994 or 2004 Next Generation poet. £6/4.

BBC Radio 4 Book Club: James Naughtie and Blake Morrison 87. St Margaret’s Hall 7–8pm

Free, ticketed, recording of this flagship Radio 4 programme.

Presented by James Naughtie with prize winning author and poet Blake Morrison who discusses his ground breaking memoir from 1993, And In association with The Poetry Book Society.

When Did You Last See Your Father? with a group of readers.

9PM The BBC is looking for 28 readers Ilkley Writers to join the group discussing Blake Morrison’s book at this event.

85. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm Please note, there is no ‘audience’ for Inspired by the windswept Ilkley Moor, this event.

Ilkley Writers weave local stories into a Apply to take part via the Bookclub rich, dramatic piece. website only: www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/b006s5sf/contact FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

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Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER 7.30PM

The Great War

Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1 90. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm

The Adventures of Andy Kershaw

88. Kings Hall 7.30–9.45pm

Fascinating and often hilarious audio-visual presentation as the former Radio 1 DJ, Live Aid presenter, BBC1 The One Show reporter and the man who was the central figure in the popularisation of World Music, treats the audience to recollections from a life spent on the front lines of rock & roll.

And on the front lines of some of the world’s most extreme and dangerous countries.

‘The finest British broadcaster bar none.’ Stephen Fry £12/10. This event is in two halves with an interval.

Sponsored by Skipton Building Society.

To mark the centenary of the commencement of the First World War, members of Ilkley Playhouse present readings of poetry and prose written by the men and women who were involved, directly or indirectly, in the four-year long catastrophe. The Great War has been devised by Alan Hall and is directed by Moira Ferguson. £7/5.

In association with Ilkley Playhouse.

89. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm ‘What is the rare quality that has gone out of poetry that these marvellous poems restore? Joy.’ Derek Walcott.

A rare chance to catch Caribbean poet Lorna Goodison, all the way from Canada, on her UK tour. Winner of numerous awards including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, Lorna’s latest collection Oracabessa was published by Carcanet Press to high acclaim. £5/3.

In association with Carcanet Press.

New Ways of Writing 92. Manor House Museum 7.30–9.30pm Enjoy new forms of ancient Chinese stories with Gordon Tyrrall in a retelling of Mumonkan – The Gateless Gate. Compiled in China in 1228, Wumenkuan (known better in its Japanese form as Mumonkan) is a collection of 48 ‘cases’ or ‘koans’ with commentaries and short poems. Some are like short stories, others are riddles and puzzles. In Tyrrall’s performance these ancient Chinese stories take on new forms using song, instrumental music and projected imagery. £12 includes interval wine. Please book in advance on 01943 609393.

In association with Friends of the Manor House.

9PM

Severn and Somme

Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1 93. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm 1915 – Douglas P. M. Dagg

Arab Spring, Arab Winter Lorna Goodison

Mumonkan with Gordon Tyrrall

Aspects of the Muslim World 91. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm The Arab uprisings in 2011–12 were welcomed with euphoria and widely seen as the democratic coming of age of the Middle East. Fast forward to 2014 and in many ‘Arab spring’ countries euphoria has given way to bitter disappointment and a return of authoritarianism. Dr Hendrik Kraetzschmar, from the University of Leeds, explores the trajectories of the uprisings, their achievements and failings and questions the prospects for democratisation in the region. £6/4.

In association with the University of Leeds.

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Highly acclaimed film by Redcliffe Film Productions telling the story of war poet and composer, Ivor Gurney. The film contrasts Gurney’s bucolic existence in his beloved Gloucestershire with the horror of the Somme. It follows the journey of the country boy once dubbed “Schubert’s heir” from the trenches to the asylum, exploring how the great English composers of his day influenced his work. £3.

9.15PM

Bell-la-Bell

94. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–9.45pm Fast-paced sketches and poetry by twins Marva and Pat Bell.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

ilkley literature festival 14 SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 10.30AM

1PM

Pop-up Books Workshop: Robert Crowther

New Forms of Narrative: Gary Winters, Lone Twin Masterclass

95. Church House 10.30am–12.30pm

A chance to learn some of the secrets behind pop-up books and the art of paper engineering in this interactive workshop. Robert Crowther demonstrates various pop-up techniques and the process of producing a pop-up book before giving budding artists the chance to make their own creations. £15/10. All levels. Please book in advance.

Poetry Hive: Phoebe Power

WEEKEND 11–12 OCTOBER

New Ways of Writing 96. Manor House Education Room 10.30am–12.30pm

Phoebe Power, Apprentice Poet in Residence leads an innovative workshop involving experimentation with media, sound and technology.

Like bees, we will experience a multifaceted vision of images and relay our findings to each other, leading to the production of our own honey – poems created both as a group and individually. £5. 16+ and adults. All levels. Please book in advance. Bring your iPad if you have one.

New Ways of Writing

99. Church House 1–4pm

James Naughtie: The Madness of July

98. Kings Hall 11am–12 noon

Now in his twentieth year presenting Radio 4’s Today programme, James Naughtie is one of Britain’s most respected broadcasters. Today he introduces his debut novel, The Madness of July, a sophisticated thriller featuring mysterious deaths, loyalty, survival and political crisis, inspired by espionage, figures in politics – and his time at Westminster as the Guardian’s chief political correspondent. £12/10.

Explore new ways of creating narrative with artist and Ilkley resident, Gary Winters, who together with Gregg Whelan, is Lone Twin – one of Europe’s leading performance companies.

You’ll have the chance to hear about the company’s work which is regularly shown across the world to critical acclaim, with recent partners including the Barbican, Melbourne International Festival, Sadler’s Wells and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels. £15/10. All levels and kinds of experience welcome. Please book in advance.

1.30PM

Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises.

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie: A God in Every Stone

11AM

Suitcase Circus Performance

100. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm

97. Bandstand on The Grove 11–11.30am

Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British Novelist, Kamila Shamsie, discusses her stunning new novel of heartbreak, frayed loyalties and hope. Summer, 1914.

Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. £6/4.

Cheer up your Saturday morning! Join us on the bandstand for this fun circus performance from Suitcase Circus.

FREE Family event for all ages.

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2PM

4.30PM

Live Wires Poetry Showcase

Sultan vs. Dracula: Razwan Ul-Haq

103. Bandstand on The Grove 2–2.30pm and 3–3.30pm

105. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4.30–5.30pm

Brilliant young poets hit the Bandstand. MC’d by Channel 4’s West Yorkshire Playhouse Writer in Residence Zodwa Nyoni and with Festival Apprentice Poet in Residence Phoebe Power among others. Expect verbal fireworks!

FREE.

Razwan Ul-Haq discusses his illustrated novel, Sultan vs. Dracula, introducing a little known sciencefiction genre of early Muslim writers. A mix of fact and fantasy, Sultan vs. Dracula is ‘… an important reimagination of the encounter between Islam and the West around the fall of the Byzantine Empire…Any fan of Dracula lore will find the story exciting, and surprising!’ Sean Stone. £6/4.

New Ways of Writing

The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire: Anna Simpson

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 101. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1.30–2.30pm

Sponsored by Premcrest.

Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby: Sarah Churchwell 106. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm

Patience Agbabi (c) Lyndon Douglas

Telling Tales: Patience Agbabi

New Ways of Writing 104. St Margaret’s Hall 2.30–3.30pm

Award winning poet Patience Agbabi retells Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales for the 21st century in the liveliest version you’ll ever hear.

Aspects of the Muslim World Mining Chaucer’s Middle-English masterwork for its performance as 102. Manor House Education well as its poetry and pilgrims, this Room 1.30–3.30pm boisterous, lyrical collection gives one Have a go at free-form Arabic of Britain’s most significant works Calligraphy using hand-ground ink and thrilling new life. Former poet laureate learn more about Arabic Calligraphy of Canterbury, Agbabi is known as with artist and author Razwan Ul-Haq. an outstanding performer and is the Razwan’s most recent work is a giant author of three poetry collections. piece of Arabic Calligraphy near £6/4.

Haworth, commissioned to celebrate This event is part of the Telling Tales Tour the Tour de France. produced by renaissance one. £15/10. For all levels. Please book in advance.

Arabic Calligraphy and Islamic Art: Razwan Ul-Haq

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Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia and the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn, turns her attention to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Combining literary criticism, biography, history and a real life murder mystery, she unravels the Jazz Age background to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work. £6/4.

5PM

Creative Booster

New Ways of Writing 107. Church House 5–6pm Rediscover your creative self and explore the potential of getting it wrong in this practical workshop by Playful Being.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

WEEKEND 11–12 OCTOBER

How can brands bring real value to our lives? As public confidence in governments dwindles, businesses are building lasting relationships with their customers. But first they need to understand what we want. Drawing on everything from Greek philosophy to the Samba schools of Rio, Anna Simpson, curator and editor at Forum for the Future and author of The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire, discusses why, to succeed, businesses need to respond to our desires with real integrity. £6/4.

2.30PM

Aspects of the Muslim World

ilkley literature festival 14 SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER All day – Dozens of children’s and young people’s events. See pages 52-57 for details.

7.30PM

The Children’s Festival is sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.

5PM

6PM

Patience Agbabi Masterclass

John Boyne © Richard Gilligan

A History of Loneliness: John Boyne

108. Manor House Education Room 5-6.45pm

111. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm

WEEKEND 11–12 OCTOBER

Exciting poet and wordsmith Patience Agbabi will stimulate and bombard you with ideas and themes, some of which stem from her new collection, Telling Tales, which offers a range of characters and voices. She will set you tasks for poems, which you may go on to perform.

Intermediate and experienced levels. £15/10. Please book in advance.

This event is part of the Telling Tales tour produced by renaissance one www.renaissanceone.co.uk

Penny Junor

Penny Junor: Prince Harry – Brother, Soldier, Son 110. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6–7pm

Lempen Puppet Theatre Company: Little Frankenstein

109. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5–6pm Frank Stein needs help from the audience to create a new live puppet that is destined to change his life forever!

Gentle horror for the whole family. £6/4. Age 5–105!

Acclaimed Royal family biographer, the author and broadcaster Penny Junor, discusses her new study of Prince Harry – the brilliant, impetuous, unpredictable, maverick Prince. Junor tells the story of how, surviving the loss and chaos of his childhood, the troubled teenager grew into a leader of men, a soldier, a pilot, an adventurer and passionate champion of those who are in danger of being destroyed or forgotten. £6/4.

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John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas which became a Miramax feature film and sold more than six million copies worldwide, comes to Ilkley. Winner of two Irish Book Awards, today he talks about A History of Loneliness, the story of a ‘good priest’ forced to face cataclysmic changes as the sexual scandals of the Catholic Church unfold around him. £6/4.

Behind the Lines read by Gabriel Woolf and Rosalind Shanks Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1 112. Otley Courthouse 7.30–8.30pm An inspiring and moving performance with Gabriel Woolf and Rosalind Shanks, two of the best known BBC radio voices. Contrasting ‘What they thought at home and what they knew at The Front’, they read from the WW1 work of Owen, Gurney, Thomas, Sasson and Brooke, mixing it with the enthusiasm of Grenfell, the wry humour of e e cummings, the poetry of the women who waited, the jingoism of John Bull, and ‘Fun under Fire’ from the pages of the famous trench newspaper, The Wipers Times. £10.

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7.45PM

9PM

The Britannic Crescent: Muslims, Empire and the First World War, 1830–1930

Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool: Charlie Swinbourne

113. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30– 8.30pm

116. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9pm–10pm

The history of Muslim communities in Britain goes back far further than most people realise. Join leading experts to hear more about the Yemeni oriental sailors or ‘lascars’ who formed the first communities in the ports, the characterful founder of England’s first mosque, the convert Abdullah Quilliam, dubbed the ‘Sheikh al-Islam of the British Isles’ by the Ottoman caliph, and the untold sacrifice of the Yemenis as stokers on the British merchant fleet during the First World War. With Professor Ron Geaves of Liverpool Hope University, author of Islam in Victorian Britain, and Dr Mohammed Siddique Seddon, author of The Last of the Lascars.

Chaired by Dr Shamim Miah from the University of Huddersfield. £6/4.

Screenings of The Kiss (7 mins) and Four Deaf Yorkshiremen go to Blackpool (28 mins), with a short introduction by filmmaker Charlie Swinbourne.

How does a film aimed at a Deaf audience differ from a mainstream film?

Award-winning local writer and director Charlie Swinbourne introduces two short comedies which both star Deaf actors. Charlie, who is partially deaf and is also a journalist, will discuss Deaf humour and how growing up in a Deaf family inspired his work. £5.

Aspects of the Muslim World

Something on My Mind

114. Church House 7.30–8.30pm Part of World Mental Health Day – incisive poetic expression about mental health in our society.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

Linda Grant © Charlie Hopkinson

Linda Grant: Upstairs at the Party

115. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.45–8.45pm In the early Seventies a glamorous, androgynous couple appear out of nowhere on a university campus, unsettling the world around them…

Orange Prize-winning and Man Booker-shortlisted author Linda Grant talks about her powerful and captivating novel, the moments and secrets that shape our lives and her own upbringing in Liverpool as the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. £6/4.

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Charlie Swinbourne

9.15PM

Festival Quiz

117. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15pm–10.45pm Do you know your Miss Marple from your Nancy Drew, your Little Women from your Famous Five? Popular, fun book based pub-style quiz that tests your literary (and not-so-literary) knowledge, hosted by For Books’ Sake. www.forbookssake.net Come with a team of three or four or come on your own and we’ll link you up with fellow Festival goers. Pens, paper – and prizes – supplied! £5.

WEEKEND 11–12 OCTOBER

In association with Kube publishing.

New Ways of Writing

ilkley literature festival 14 SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 11AM

2PM

Writing Historical Fiction: Alex Preston Masterclass

Lynne Segal: Out of Time – the Pleasures and Perils of Ageing

118. Rombalds Hotel 11am–1pm

A masterclass not to be missed!

Alex Preston teaches the Guardian Masterclass on historical fiction and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Kent. His third novel In Love and War is a blend of fact and historical fiction set in Florence during WWII, based on the true life stories of the Italians he met on research trips. A regular on BBC R4’s Saturday Review, Preston’s This Bleeding City won the Edinburgh First Book Award. £15/10.

WEEKEND 11– 12 OCTOBER

1.30PM

122. Clarke Foley Centre 2–3pm

Alex Bellos

Alex Bellos: Numbers Through the Looking Glass Science at the Cutting Edge 120. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm Unleash your inner-geek with the help of Guardian maths blogger Alex Bellos and discover how maths can be quirky and even fun. Oxford graduate and best-selling author of Alex’s Adventures in Numberland, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm to demonstrate how numbers have changed the world. £6/4.

1.45PM

Kirsty Wark: The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle 119. Kings Hall 1.30–2.30pm

Kirsty Wark, highly regarded Newsnight journalist, broadcaster and writer discusses her debut novel, her sense of belonging to her Scottish home and her family’s connection to Arran.

Elizabeth Pringle is a familiar yet solitary figure on the island.

A dutiful daughter, an inspirational teacher, a gardener. But did anyone really know her? £12/10.

Sponsored by Forward Ladies

Women are supposed to deny being old, with fears of ageing encapsulated in fairy tales full of monstrous female figures. Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck College University of London, and a leading feminist, writer and thinker, offers a damning critique of the psychology and politics of ageing, arguing that while we may have tackled many other stereotypes, age is still very much a feminist issue. £6/4.

Lynne Segal

The Ark before Noah: Irving Finkel

123. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 2–3pm

In 1985, a member of the public walked into the British Museum with New Ways of Writing an ancient Babylonian clay tablet 121. Manor House Education the size of a mobile phone. Dr Irving Room 1.45–3.45pm Finkel, a world expert in cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia and A unique opportunity to be part of a small group as renowned Costa Award- Assistant Keeper of the Ancient Mesopotamian script at the museum winning graphic artist Bryan Talbot realised immediately it was of (Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, Alice in enormous significance. Dating from Sunderland, known for his work on 1850BC, the tablet contains detailed underground comics and superhero stories) gives an insiders view on ‘How instructions for building the Ark which, it turns out, was round like a coracle.

I Create a Graphic Novel’.

Today he decodes the story of the £15/10. Please book in advance.

Note this is not a practical workshop. Flood, including extraordinary images of a recent experiment to build the Ark. £6/4.

Bryan Talbot Masterclass

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3PM

3.45PM

WordsFest

124. Otley Courthouse 2–6pm An afternoon of inspiring workshops for young people who enjoy creative writing, including sessions on songwriting and comic books, plus a headline event with young people’s author Lucy Saxon. £4. Age12–18.

See page 57 for details.

Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club

Ilkley at the Time of WW1 Walk Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1

Helen Castor © Chris Gibbions

Join knowledgeable local historian Alex Cockshott for a guided walk round Ilkley and the town’s preparations for war at the start of WW1 in 1914. £7 includes tea and scones at Rombalds Hotel afterwards.

Sponsored by Rombalds Hotel.

2.30PM

16 Ways of Writing a Poem: Mario Petrucci Masterclass

Mystic, warrior, martyr, saint. Helen Castor, Fellow in History at Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, presenter of Radio 4’s Making History and She-Wolves for BBC television, asks whether in making her an icon we lost sight of the real Joan of Arc. Telling her story afresh, Castor sets this extraordinary young woman within her world, where neither Joan, nor people around her knew what would happen next. £6/4.

126. Rombalds Hotel 2.30–4.30pm Professor Michael Broers This fascinating, hands-on trawl of all the major pathways into new poems, is as comprehensive as it is unique. Includes observation, the senses, personal memory, reflection, imagination, other people’s work – everything from the ‘found poem’ to Larkin’s pickles. Mario Petrucci’s immense experience in the field fuels a groundbreaking masterclass on compositional process, generating a workshop experience of immense variety and enduring value. £15/10. For all levels. Please book in advance.

on Napoleon

128. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3–4pm Noted Napoleonic scholar Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at Oxford University.

His books include The Napoleonic Empire in Italy: 1796–1814 (winner, Grand Prix Napoléon prize). Broers draws on Napoleon’s own thoughts, creating the first biography of Napoleon that makes full use of his correspondence, revealing a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. £6/4.

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A Shake of the Dice 1959–62: David Kynaston

129. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.45–4.45pm Much lauded historian David Kynaston unfolds the triumphant conclusion to his story of how Britain metamorphosed from the calm of the 1950s into a country experiencing huge change. Through diaries, letters and newspapers, Kynaston gets up close as consumerism inexorably takes hold, immigration turns into an ever-hotter issue, Coronation Street establishes itself as a national institution, city centres are yanked into the age of the motor car and the skyline is studded with brutalist highrise boxes. £6/4.

WEEKEND 11– 12 OCTOBER

125. Meet outside Rombalds Hotel Helen Castor: Joan of Arc 2–4pm 127. St Margaret’s Hall 3–4pm

ilkley literature festival 14 SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER 4.30PM

4.45PM

The Ten Thousand Things: John Spurling

132. St Margaret’s Hall 4.45–5.45pm

Geoffrey Boycott

130. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm

WEEKEND 11– 12 OCTOBER

Former Yorkshire and England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott joins us at the Festival. One of the most recognisable England cricketers, Geoffrey Boycott is now one of the most recognisable figures in sports journalism, lending his famously no-nonsense Yorkshireman’s take on the world of cricket to the BBC’s Test Match Special and Channel 4’s cricket coverage. £16/14

Bryan and Mary Talbot New Ways of Writing

131. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4.30–5.30pm

Renowned author and playwright, John Spurling, makes a welcome return to the Festival, following his popular event about the composer Liszt in 2011. Today he’s revealing The Ten Thousand Things, his compelling new historical novel following the life of artist Wang Meng in the final years of the Yuan Dynasty in 14th century China. £6/4.

5.30PM

Remembering Michael Donaghy: Maddy Paxman and Don Paterson

133. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5.30–6.30pm The acclaimed poet Michael Donaghy died suddenly at the age of 50 in 2004. Maddy Paxman discusses her husband, his work and her compelling memoir of Donaghy’s life and death, The Great Below, an unflinching account of grief, but also one of love and courage, in conversation with Don Paterson, Michael Donaghy’s close friend and one of Britain’s most respected poets. £6/4.

Bryan and Mary Talbot, Costa Award-winning authors of Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, discuss their stunning new graphic novel Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women which follows the fortunes of a maid-of-all-work swept up in the feminist militancy of the era.

Known for his work on underground comics and superhero stories (Judge Dredd, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight) Bryan Talbot’s books include Alice in Sunderland. Mary Talbot is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has published widely on language, gender and power. £6/4.

John Spurling

6.45PM

Amazonia Film Screening: Mario Petrucci New Ways of Writing 134. St Margaret’s Hall 6.45–7.15pm ‘My centre is everywhere. Everything – huge and hung together.’

Enjoy this free showing of Amazonia, a poetry-ecology film written by poet Mario Petrucci and directed

by David Bickerstaff, a vast video poetry projection, commissioned

by The Natural History Museum. Its mesmerising imagery and sounds were recorded during a scientific expedition through the Peruvian rainforest.

FREE. 7.30PM

Rain and other Poems: Don Paterson and Mario Petrucci 135. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30– 8.30pm

‘Opposites attract in Paterson’s work, his language switching from colloquial to erudite, from playful knowingness to naked lyricism.’ Acclaimed poet Don Paterson, winner of the Forward, Whitbread and T. S. Eliot Prizes, reads from his collections including his latest, Rain.

Mario Petrucci’s crib draws on the 111 poems he composed for his newborn son. Tender though never sentimental, inventive yet anchored in physical and psychological reality, this many-sided poetry records a father’s profound attentiveness to his boy. £6/4.

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Mr Mac and Me: Esther Freud in Conversation

1.30PM

Morris Gleitzman

140. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

136. Kings Hall 1.30–2.30pm Special event for Y6/7 school groups only. Call 01943 601210 to book. £3.50.

Esther Freud, one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 1993, returns to Ilkley to discuss her latest book Mr Mac and Me. Set in a Suffolk village at the outbreak of WW1 and inspired by a real event, she traces the impact Charles Rennie Mackintosh has on local boy, Thomas Maggs, when he and his wife, the artist Margaret Macdonald, come to live there. £6/4.

4PM

Morris Gleitzman: for Teachers and Librarians

137. Kings Hall Winter Gardens 4–5pm Teachers and librarians are warmly invited to come and hear Morris Gleitzman as he discusses children, literature and reading in this special event.

FREE with tea and biscuits but please book places in advance.

Tel: 01943 816714.

7.30PM

An Audience with Ken Livingstone

139. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

John Carey

John Carey: The Unexpected Professor

138. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm John Carey, English professor at Oxford, is a controversial commentator and critic, best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?

Now he reflects on a life immersed in literature, from grammar school beginnings, through the London blitz and army service in Egypt to a prestigious academic career. £6/4.

Former MP, London Mayor and one-time leader of the Greater London Council, Ken Livingstone discusses his extraordinary political career. Dubbed ‘Red Ken’ by the mainstream media who rubbished his support for republicanism and gay rights, his bitter clashes with Margaret Thatcher resulted in her abolition of the Greater London Council. A polarising figure in British politics, Livingstone is the author of two autobiographies, If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It and You Can’t Say That. £16/14.

Sponsored by Irwin Mitchell.

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Esther Freud

How to Build a Poem Without Words New Ways of Writing

141. Outside the Box Cafe 7.30–8.30pm An evening of multi-sensory exploration! With a little help from Ian McMillan, Purple Patch Arts were funded by the Clore Duffield Foundation to create a poem without words. They delivered poetry workshops in schools for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities, recording their reactions and responses. Come along and find out more about this intriguing, and often moving, journey including a short film of the project! £3.

ilkley literature festival 14 MONDAY 13 OCTOBER

TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER

7.30PM

7.30PM

Every Voice Counts 142. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm

SI Ilkley present a mosaic of women’s stories. Join them for story telling, conversations, life writing exercises and the chance to add your own voice.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

9PM

An After Dinner’s Sleep...

143. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm

Maria, Gill and Hannah, MA students in Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University, have a poetic rant about youth, age and what might lie in-between.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

9.15PM

All Aboard the Book Bus!

144. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–10pm

Hear about UK charity Book Bus’ work in Zambia and join Adrian Thompson on a safari adventure.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

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Private Peaceful: Michael Morpurgo and Coope, Boyes & Simpson Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1

145. Kings Hall 7.30–8.50pm Master storyteller and bestselling author Michael Morpurgo is joined by outstanding English a cappella trio Coope, Boyes & Simpson.

Based on his award-winning book, Private Peaceful combines Morpurgo’s evocative readings with songs written and arranged by Coope, Boyes & Simpson, matching and intensifying Morpurgo’s inspired narration as the story of Tommo Peaceful moves between humour and tragedy – from childhood in a Devon village to the First World War trenches of the Western Front.

An innovative, atmospheric production that offers a unique and timely reminder of the human cost of the war to end all wars. £16/10. Most suitable for ages 8+ to adults. This event lasts one hour 20 minutes with no interval.

Juliet Barker: England, Arise

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 146. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm Juliet Barker, acclaimed author of Agincourt, discusses her fascinating account of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt, whose dramatic and shocking events give a snapshot of what everyday life was like for ordinary people in the Middle Ages. Barker explores why such a diverse group of ordinary men and women united in armed rebellion against church and state, demanding a radical political agenda. £6/4.

Coope, Boyes & Simpson © Patrick Demey Juliet Barker © Chris Henderson

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The Disappearance Boy: Neil Bartlett

WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 12PM

7.30PM

Lunch with Dinah Jefferies and Isabel Wolff

147. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

150. The Wheatley Arms 12 noon for 12.30–2.30pm

Award-winning novelist, theatre director and playwright Neil Bartlett introduces his first novel in seven years. The Disappearance Boy tells the story of Reggie Rainbow, a stagehand at the heart of the world of variety performance in the 1950s. Bartlett’s previous novels have won a clutch of awards including Capital Gay Book of the Year and nominations for the Whitbread Prize and Costa. £6/4.

Following a delicious lunch, bestselling author Isabel Wolff discusses Ghostwritten – where a childhood mistake become a lifetime of regrets and Dinah Jefferies introduces The Separation. Malaya 1955 and the Cartwright family are on the eve of departure... £21 includes two-course lunch with coffee.

In association with The Wheatley Arms.

9PM

A River of Voices

148. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm Poems and stories fused with live music in a show flowing between spoken word and song.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

6PM

David Almond: A Song for Ella Grey

151. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 6–6.45pm ‘I’m the one who’s left behind. I’m the one to tell the tale. I knew them both... knew how they lived and how they died.’

David Almond – author of Skellig, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Whitbread and Newbery Awards, and hailed as one of the most important writers for young people – joins us to discuss his latest book for young adults. £5/3. Age 12–18 and adults. Groups welcome.

War Hospital Stories Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1

152. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Much loved actor Sheila Hancock reflects on her life, her writing and her new novel, Miss Carter’s War. Sweeping from post-war Britain to the present day, embracing CND and the AIDS crisis, social welfare, education, the aftermath of WW2 and the war with Iraq, it’s a campaigning novel which embraces the issues Sheila herself has lived through, cared about and fought for. £15/10.

Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises.

149. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm Richard Wilcocks tells extraordinary stories from the Wartime Hospital at Beckett Park a century ago.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

Sheila Hancock: Miss Carter’s War

David Almond

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ilkley literature festival 14 WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER 7.30PM

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER

Yorkshireness: Tony Hannan

10.30AM

155. Bettys Café Tea Rooms 7.30–10pm

Tom McLeish: Faith and Wisdom in Science 153. All Saints’ Church 7.30–8.30pm

‘Wisdom to count the clouds?’ asks God in the Book of Job. Tom McLeish, Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Durham, takes a scientist’s reading of this ancient text to make the case for science as a deeply human and ancient activity.

Drawing on stories from the modern science of chaos and uncertainty, alongside medieval, classical and Biblical sources, he challenges the current ‘science and religion’ debate. £6/4.

Delicious Bettys’ two course Yorkshire supper and a talk by Tony Hannan. £31 includes a two-course set meal and tea/coffee. Tickets from Bettys Café Tea Rooms Ilkley, 01943 608029.

Full details: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

8PM

David Almond: The Tightrope Walkers

156. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 8–9pm David Almond, acclaimed author of Skellig and winner of two Whitbread Awards, turns his attention to work for adults. This evening, he reflects on his powerful second adult novel, a wild, beautiful, bleak but ultimately hopeful, story about a boy growing up in the North East of England during the sixties. £6/3.

9.15PM

Dreda Say Mitchell

Crime Writing Workshop: Dreda Say Mitchell 159. Manor House Education Room 10.30am–12.30pm

A workshop with crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell. If you see yourself as a future Agatha Christie, Ian Rankin 9.15–10.15pm or P.D. James, now’s your chance to Emily Midorikawa, SI Literary Prize 3rd find out how to do it! An experienced teacher and Crime Writers’ Association Prize-winner, 2012 and Emma Claire John Creasey Award winner, Dreda Sweeney discuss the friendships of offers you tips and practical exercises well known female writers. to get you started.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. £15/10.

See page 59 for full details.

Dreda Say Mitchell: Something Rhymed SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014 157. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 154. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.45pm

Join us, and six anxious shortlisted writers, for the announcement of the winner of this award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women. Key note speaker Dreda Say Mitchell will be talking about her work as a crime writer, broadcaster, journalist and education adviser and her journey to publication and beyond. There will be readings from some of the shortlisted writers before the announcement of the winner, who will take home a cheque for £2,000. £6/4.

In association with SI Leeds, Ilkley Literature Festival and Peepal Tree Press.

Going Home: Fever Therapy

158. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9.15–10.15pm

Local author Jim Burnside reads from his fourth novel Fever Therapy, discusses his literary influences and answers your questions about the publishing industry.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

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First to Last Draft

160. Manor House Education Room 6–7pm See how poets get from the first to final draft of their work with some actual examples and the expert help of Poet in Residence, Kim Moore.

A group for everyone to enjoy whether you’re a beginner or an expert. £5.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER 7PM

7.30PM

Michael Rosen © Laurence Cendrowicz

John Hegley’s New and Selected Potatoes 162. Craiglands Hotel 7.30–8.30pm

‘Fabulously funny’ Time Out. ‘Comedy’s poet laureate’ Independent Poet, comic, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, with numerous appearances on radio and television.

Revel in the breadth of his appeal, with seriously funny, cleverly comic poems on everything from love, family, France, art and the sea to dogs, dads, Hugh Lupton gods, taxidermy, carrots, spectacles Barbed Wire for Kisses and – of course – potatoes.

Beyond the Trenches: £11/9.

Everyday Life in WW1

164. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm Acclaimed storytellers Hugh Lupton and Nick Hennessey are joined by musicians John Dipper and James Patterson in this unique telling of “the war to end all wars”. Using valuable verbatim accounts from letters and historical archives and a soundtrack of folk songs old and new, Barbed Wire for Kisses focuses on the stories of the families in one small Lincolnshire village. This is conflict at its most personal. £10/8.

Michael Rosen: How to be your Child’s (and your Own) Best Teacher 161. Kings Hall 7–8pm

Renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and scriptwriter, Michael Rosen is a former Children’s Laureate and one of the best-known figures in the childrens book world. Currently Professor at Goldsmiths, his Dear Mr. Gove column (the Guardian) has a devoted staffroom following.

Tonight he argues that learning should be much more fun. Forget lists, passing tests and ticking boxes, the world outside the classroom can’t be contained within the limits of any kind of curriculum. Long car journeys, poems about farting, even shouting at the TV can teach lessons that will last a lifetime. £14/12.

Sponsored by Ilkley Grammar School.

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Douglas Hurd: Disraeli

163. The Grammar School at Leeds, LS17 9NA 7.30–8.30pm Lord Douglas Hurd, Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign Secretary and a leading Tory elder statesman, explores Disraeli’s ‘two lives’. A gifted parliamentarian, writer and wit, Benjamin Disraeli twice rose to be Prime Minister despite nineteenth century anti-Semitism. But his life was a paradox: dandy and gambler, he was also Queen Victoria’s loyal servant and her favourite Prime Minister. £12/10.

Douglas Hurd

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FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

60 Years of the Dales National Park: Colin Speakman

166. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Co-founder of the Yorkshire Dales Society and the Dales Way Association, Colin Speakman is the author of over 50 books, many focused on walking and the Yorkshire Dales. Also a poet, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Bradford for his literary and environmental work, and in 2007 became the first recipient of the Dalesman Rural Lifetime Achievement Award. £6/4.

10.30AM

John Hegley Masterclass

169. Manor House Education Room 10.30am–12.30pm

Writing, drawing and drawing out the creative. An exciting workshop with poet John Hegley. No previous experience or creations necessary. £15/10.

7.30PM

Jane Peyton

Jane Peyton: Beer

165. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm Join Jane Peyton, Britain’s Beer Sommelier of the Year, for an entertaining presentation about her favourite subject – beer! Author of several books including Beer O’Clock and School of Booze, she’ll be sharing samples of several beers from the award-winning Ilkley Brewery whilst relating a plethora of fascinating facts about the world’s favourite alcoholic drink. £9/7 including beer. This Event is for over 18s only.

In association with Ilkley Brewery.

Colin Speakman

9PM

Bradford in the Great War: 100 Years On Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1

167. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm Bradford WW1 Group explore the challenging dilemmas faced by local people at the outbreak of war.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 59 for full details.

Tibet: An Accidental Pilgrimage

168. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm Ivan Cooper reads and discusses his travel book on the barely-visited regions of Tibet.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

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Austin Mitchell: Calendar Boy

170. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Austin Mitchell won fame as one of the first presenters on Yorkshire TV’s Calendar, alongside his friend Richard Whiteley, before becoming outspoken MP for Grimsby. His brand new memoir Calendar Boy is a hilarious account of the early days of Yorkshire Television, its flagship news programme, the spin-off Dales and science documentaries which transformed Mitchell and Whiteley into the Clown Princes of Yorkshire. £12/10.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER 7.30PM An Evening with The Poetry Business: My Father and Other Superheroes: Performance Michael Laskey, Matthew Sweeney and Kim Moore

by Nick Makoha

171. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30–8.30pm

My Father and Other Superheroes is poet Nick Makoha’s moving and powerful story about the journey from childhood to fatherhood. Set across continents and eras, it follows one man’s struggle to come to terms with the responsibilities of being a parent and his confrontation with his father’s absence. This production was originally developed at SpokeLab, Theatre Royal Stratford East. £6/4.

Supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Nick Makoha appears in association with Southbank Centre and Nimble Fish.

Beatrix Campbell: End of Equality

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 172. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm

173. St Margaret’s Hall 7.30–9.15pm

Michael Laskey, founder of The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and cofounder of poetry magazine Smiths Knoll, is one of Britain’s best-loved poets. Warm and insightful, he introducers his new collection Weighing the Present.

Festival 2014 Poet in Residence, Kim Moore, winner of the Poetry Business Competition for her pamphlet If We Could Speak like Wolves, was selected as one of the Independent’s Books of the Year in 2012 and has won an Eric Gregory Award.

Matthew Sweeney ‘is one of our finest poets of the unconscious; of darkness brought to light...’ Ruth Padel. Tonight he launches a new pamphlet, Twenty One Men, and reads from his classic back catalogue. £7/5 includes a glass of wine.

In association with The Poetry Business.

This event starts with the result of the 2014 Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Competition and lasts 105 minutes.

There’s an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – but, argues renowned feminist, award winning writer, broadcaster and playwright Beatrix Campbell, in many way progress has stopped.

Even as patriarchy has lost some of its legitimacy, new inequalities are emerging. Violence has proliferated; sex trafficking thrives. Campbell joins the dots between neoliberalism, sexism, equal pay, war zones, the veil, The Wire, the web and welfare states … and offers a new way of thinking about where we’re at. £6/4.

Cool Voices Words Club Night

174. Otley Courthouse 7.30– 9.30pm Talented young writers, poets, songwriters and performers are invited to take to the stage to perform their own work! Plus the winners of the Young People’s Poetry and Short Story Competition.

If you’d like to perform, put your name down by contacting info@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk £4 for audience members. Performers FREE. Age 12–18.

Details of how to enter the Young People’s Poetry and Short Story Competition from: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Competition prizes kindly provided by Ilkley Book Club.

9PM

Sing FREEDOM

175. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–10pm A personal story of growing up in apartheid South Africa interwoven with liberation movement songs. FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

Poems Become Songs

176. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9–10pm An original concert by the Sounds Lyrical Project fusing poetry to new classical music.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

Get Involved!

Get tweeting

Use #ILF14 or @ilkleylitfest on twitter to share your thoughts, experiences and pictures of the Festival. Or use #litfesthour between 9–10pm each night.

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1.30PM

2PM

Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day

Hogarth, Jenny Uglow and Grayson Perry

Become a real-life journalist for a day!

Interview famous Festival authors and work with a journalist to create a special edition Festival newspaper. £5 includes ‘press’ ticket to afternoon event. Age 13–18.

Bring packed lunch. Please book in advance.

Enjoy a special Festival afternoon at Temple Newsam House in Leeds which is hosting artist Grayson Perry’s exhibition Vanity of Small Differences, inspired by Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress.

2pm Talk on the Vanity of Small Differences exhibition by curator Nigel Walsh.

2.30pm Author Jenny Uglow explores Hogarth in the context of his times.

After Jenny Uglow’s talk, browse the exhibition, which includes a display of Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress and is open until 5pm. £8/6.50 includes admission to the House and exhibition (runs 23 August–7 December). Please book: temple.newsam.house@leeds.gov.uk or 0113 3367460.

177. Church House 10.30am–4.30pm

182. 2–5pm Temple Newsam House, LS15 0AE

11AM

WEEKEND 18–19 OCTOBER

It’s All About Character: Screenwriting Workshop with James Richards

Bonnie Greer © Edward Webb/Rex

Practical exercises to help participants write for screen and TV. Workshop leader and Open College of the Arts tutor James Richards will be discussing how screenwriters create characters, find and structure stories and craft realistic dialogue. An award-winning writer with thirty years experience, James has taught creative writing in schools, colleges and universities. £15/10. For all levels. Please book in advance.

Award-winning playwright, author and critic Bonnie Greer discusses her touching, funny and thoughtprovoking memoir: A Parallel Life – a voyage into the making of a woman who set out to unmake what she’d been born and brought up to be. Born in segregated, racist America, Bonnie defeated the odds to become one of the most important champions of civil – and human – rights. £7/5.

Bonnie Greer: A Parallel Life

178. Manor House Education Room 180. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm 11am–1pm

In association with Open College of the Arts.

Michael Laskey Workshop 179. St Margaret’s Hall 11am–1pm

Well known as a brilliant poet and editor, Michael Laskey is the founder of The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and also an outstanding workshop leader. This is a rare chance to create new poems with one of the very best writing tutors in the country. £15/10. For all levels. Please book in advance.

How Aristotle Invented Science: Armand Marie Leroi

Science at the Cutting Edge 181. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1.30–2.30pm Armand Marie Leroi, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London, takes a look at Aristotle. Known as a philosopher, he was also a biologist. Travelling to a Greek island, he studied its animals, dissected their bodies and wrote about how they lived, fed and bred. 2,000 years later, his thought still permeates modern science. Leroi’s Mutants won the Guardian First Book Award. £6/4.

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Writers’ One-to-One Sessions: Kim Moore

183. Manor House Education Room 30 minute slots between 2–5pm Take the opportunity to discuss your writing with Poet in Residence Kim Moore and get some expert feedback.

Book yourself an individual slot at: 2pm, 2.30pm, 3pm, 3.30pm, 4pm or 4.30pm. £6.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 2.30PM

3.30PM

4.30PM

Women of the World – The Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: Rise of Female Diplomats: Responsible Leadership Helen McCarthy The Other Side of the Coin: 184. St Margaret’s Hall 2.30–3.30pm

It is only since WW2 that women have been allowed to represent Britain as diplomats. Helen McCarthy, Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, explores the lives of those extraordinary women who defied social conventions and political and personal struggle in their determination to seek adventure and gain international influence. £6/4.

3PM

Wealth, Responsibility, Power 186. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 3.30–4.30pm

Wendy Cope © Caroline Forbes

Love, Death and the Archers: Wendy Cope

185. Christchurch Sanctuary 3–4pm A poetry reading from the quiet phenomenon who has proved quality can be popular! Wendy Cope reads a hilariously dissatisfied and ironic set – a slightly seditious but seriously good ironic moan about life’s little irritations, at times sharp and punchy, at times soft and contemplative. She moves through her compilation of 25 years work: Two Cures for Love and her recent collection, Family Values with ease…..and beside the irony there’s plenty of life celebration too. £8/6.

Nigel Fountain

Nigel Fountain: When the Lamps Went Out Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1 188. St Margaret’s Hall 4.30–5.30pm Nigel Fountain, writer, broadcaster and journalist for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and History Today, presents a picture of Britain during WW1 recorded by the people who were there. Using material from the Guardian archive he gives a surprising insight into what British society was reading about during the Great War, from Boy Scouts patrolling the coast to Charlie Chaplin impersonators on the Euston Road. £6/4.

5PM

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart

David Stuttard: A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives

Ian Mortimer: Centuries of Change

189. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5–6pm

Historian Ian Mortimer has an unrivalled ability to immerse his reader in history’s daily reality – as proved by Academic, author and founder of his bestselling Time Traveller’s Guides theatre company Actors of Dionysus, to Medieval and Elizabethan England.

David Stuttard sets out to tell the Now he sets out to discover which story of a civilisation – Ancient Greece of the last ten centuries has seen – through the interconnecting lives our world change most dramatically. of those who shaped its politics, Did railways affect us more than literature, science, philosophy, art and the discovery that the Earth rotates sport. In forensic detail he explores an around the Sun? How do you weigh empire whose influence still surrounds technology’s impact against the us today.

Renaissance or the abolition of slavery? £6/4. £7/5.

187. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3.30–4.30pm

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As Chairman of the Royal Dutch/ Shell Group at the time of Brent Spar, Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (who is also a Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge) is as qualified as anyone on the planet to discuss the realities, dilemmas and lessons to be learnt from the last 20 years of corporate engagement with sustainability, ethics and responsibility. He brings us a unique voice from the front line of corporate responsibility which he has helped to frame and talks frankly about how, for corporations, trying to do the right thing can sometimes be almost impossible. £6/4.

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A Modern Day Don Juan: Ian Duhig, George Szirtes, Nigel Thompson

7PM

Minoli Salgado

193. St Margaret’s Hall 7–7.30pm

Join author Minoli Salgado, winner of the first SI Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished fiction, and Peepal Tree Press editor, Jeremy Poynting, Two hundred years after Byron for a short reading from Minoli’s turned his back on the hypocrisy debut novel, A Little Dust on the Eyes. and cant of England, Smokestack’s Drawing on real historical events, this collection, A Modern Don Juan, pays haunting, evocative novel merges homage to Byron’s greatest satirical myth and magic, as the bustle of a creation, mixing Low Comedy and seaside city in England gives way to the High Seriousness. Three of the unreal calm of coastal communities in contributors, poets George Szirtes, southern Sri Lanka where thousands Ian Duhig and N S Thompson follow night-club DJ and picaresque anti-hero have disappeared. Salgado grew up Donald Johnson as he stumbles from in Sri Lanka and England and is the one romantic disaster to the next and author of the acclaimed book, Writing give him a helping hand (as well as the Sri Lanka. £3. Why not stay for Event 199. occasional push).

In association with Peepal Tree Press and the £6/4.

190. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 5.15–6.15pm

WEEKEND 18–19 OCTOBER

In association with Five Leaves.

6PM

Change Your Mind (2214 AD)

191. Church House 6–7pm Leona Deakin gets the audience to make some future predictions of their own.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

6.30PM

The Happening at the Bandstand 192. Ilkley Bandstand on

The Grove 6.30pm and 9pm

Inspired by the Cow and Calf, a group of local artists will be bringing live music installation and projections of dynamic physical performance.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

SI Leeds Prize.

7.30PM

Lynn Barber: In Conversation

194. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 7.30–8.30pm Britain’s greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber (author of An Education and winner of six British Press Awards) talks about her razor-sharp, frank and funny memoir A Curious Life. She recalls the one-day interview with Salvador Dali that ran into four and a spectacularly rude Marianne Faithfull. She’s worked for the Sunday Express, Independent on Sunday, Observer and Sunday Times profiling everyone from Lady Gaga to Gore Vidal. £7/5.

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Alan Johnson: Please, Mr Postman

195. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Former Home Secretary and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Alan Johnson won the Orwell Prize for his much lauded autobiography, This Boy. Now he talks about the sequel, Please, Mr Postman – charting life in 1970s Britain, a turbulent decade that began with him joining the Labour Party and swapping a career in supermarket shelf-stacking for trade unionism and a rise up the political ladder. £12/10.

Tennessee Williams – Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh: John Lahr 196. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 7.30pm–8.30pm

John Lahr, the major American drama critic, gives us intimate access to one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped American theatre and the nation’s sense of itself. Lahr sheds light on Tennessee Williams’ warring family, creative triumphs and failures, sexuality, numerous affairs, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate.

With compassion and verve, he explores how Williams’ relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. £6/4.

Followed by a screening of A Streetcar Named Desire at 9pm. See Event 200.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7.30PM

SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER 7.45PM

9AM

Surviving

Running and Writing Workshop with Kim Moore

197. Church House 7.30–8.30pm Expect to be moved and entertained as writers from Osmondthorpe Hub perform short stories, poetry and plays on the theme of surviving.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

New Ways of Writing 202. Meet outside Rombalds Hotel – then workshop at Rombalds Hotel.

Run 9–10am Workshop 10.30am–12 noon

Roopa Farooki

Roopa Farooki and Romesh Gunesekera

199. St Margaret’s Hall 7.45pm–8.45pm

Tayo Aluko and Friends present The Norm of Greatness: The Words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. 198. Otley Courthouse 7.30pm–9pm

Performed by American stage and screen actor Darryl Van Leer.

‘Exceptional…masterful…nothing can prepare one for the power and emotionality that Darryl Van Leer delivers.’ Variety Magazine.

There is much more to the man who came to personify the modern American Civil Rights Movement than his famous ‘I Have A Dream’ speech.

Van Leer uncannily re-creates the great man’s musicality, vocal dexterity and passion, as an unknown preacher is propelled onto the world stage by the actions of a young woman who refuses to move to the back of the bus in segregated Alabama. £10.

In association with Otley Courthouse.

9PM

A Streetcar Named Desire: Film Screening 200. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 9–11.10pm A screening of Tennessee Williams’ famous play – the classic 1951 film version starring Marlon Brando. £3.

9.15PM

World War One Concert Party Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life in WW1

201. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 9.15–10.15pm Devised and directed by Eddie Lawler, local singers perform a concert of music, poetry and tales.

FREE FRINGE EVENT. See page 60 for full details.

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Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets

203. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 1–4.30pm Enjoy Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, English and Gujarati poetry readings – with English translation. We’ll be welcoming some of the most prominent South Asian poets in the North.

FREE with banquet kindly provided by Panache.

In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb International.

WEEKEND 18–19 OCTOBER

Darryl Van Leer as Martin Luther King

Three times Orange Prize longlisted author, Roopa Farooki and Booker Prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera discuss their new books and the inspiration behind them. Farooki’s The Good Children is set in 1940 Lahore and modern day London while Gunesekera’s Noontide Toll deals with an uncertain future for post-war Sri Lanka. £6/4.

This event begins with the results of the 2014 Festival Short Story Competition.

Join Festival Poet in Residence Kim Moore at 9am for a morning run of between 4 and 5 miles followed by a poetry workshop from 10.30am–12 noon where we will be writing about running, landscape and the body.

There will be plenty of looping during the run so nobody will be left behind – suitable for all levels of poets and runners with some experience. £10/5. Please book in advance. Please note: runners with some experience only and you run at your own risk.

Wear suitable clothing.

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3PM

Getting Colder: Amanda Coe

Jenny Uglow, prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Nature’s Engraver, delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how ordinary people lived their lives during and after the Napoleonic Wars. She reveals the gripping pillar to post journey of the first global war, through the eyes of aristocrats, mill workers, bankers, bakers and candlestick makers. £6/4.

Screenwriter and author Amanda Coe, whose credits include a BAFTA winning adaptation of John Braine’s Room at the Top, explores her painfully funny, disturbing and un-putdownable novel about family and love. When once sexy, ferocious young playwright Patrick finds himself washed up in a crumbling house in Cornwall, following the death of his devoted wife and muse Sara, there are questions to be answered. £6/4.

204. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 1.30–2.30pm

209. St Margaret’s Hall 3–4pm

Marlon James Masterclass

WEEKEND 18–19 OCTOBER

205. Manor House Education Room 1.30–3.30pm

What can we learn from bad dialogue and what makes dialogue stilted? Are your characters talking to each other or the reader? What is tone, rhythm, energy and seduction? Marlon James will be helping you break your flaws down to the very nuts and bolts of prose, then build the whole thing back up, better. £15/10 Beginners with some experience to intermediate.

Please book in advance.

Charles Spencer

208. Kings Hall 2–3pm

Bestselling historian Charles Spencer recounts the shocking stories of the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant, offering a unique insight into the dangers of political and religious allegiance in Stuart England. January 1649, after seven years of fighting, Parliament had overpowered King Charles I and faced a problem: what to do with a king who refused to surrender? £16/14.

tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal present Princess and the Pea by Mike Kenny

Amanda Coe © Dorothee Gillessen

John Kampfner: The Rich

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power

All Saints’ School 206. 1.30–2.30pm 207. 4–5pm

210. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3–4pm Love them or hate them, we can’t help being fascinated by the gilded lives of the world’s super-wealthy. In his book, former editor of The New Statesman and Orwell Prize shortlisted author, John Kampfner lifts the lid on over 2,000 years of rich history, from Ancient Egypt and Rome to the technological giants of Silicon Valley and the bankers who caused the current financial crisis. £6/4.

tutti frutti are back to wow young Festival audiences. A magical, funny and original version of this popular Hans Christian Andersen tale. Fake Princesses beware! £6/4. Age 3–7.

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Photo of Charles Spencer © Jonathan Ring

Jenny Uglow: In These Times

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER 3PM

Writing from Slovakia and Albania: Fatos Lubonja and Peter Krištúfek 211. Rombalds Hotel 3–4pm

In association with Literature Across Frontiers, Istros Books and Parthian Books.

3.30PM

Informal Festival Feedback 212. Kings Hall Winter Gardens 3.30–4.30pm

Fatos Ljubonja © Hans Peter Yost

4.30PM

Francesca Martinez: What the **** is Normal?!

Clare Balding: Walking Home

What do you do when you’re labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where going bald is cause for mental breakdown, what the **** do you do if you’re, gasp... disabled? Stand-up comedian and actor, Francesca Martinez was diagnosed with cerebral palsy when she was two. As an adult she realised she had the power to stop judging herself by society’s unhealthy standards and create her own. Today she offers a very funny, moving celebration of learning to be happy with who you are. £6/4.

In 1999, much loved broadcaster and sports presenter Clare Balding was asked to present a new radio series. Ramblings, is still going strong – and Clare caught the walking bug. She’s walked with historians, geologists, twitchers, botanists and poets. Now she wants her family to share the pleasure.

She tells of paths and people, discovering the glories of Britain and Ireland, (mis)adventures with the family and gives her take on the 2012 Olympics. £24 single ticket; £34 double ticket.

Both single and double tickets include one hardback copy of Clare Balding’s book. Please note: tickets without the book are not available.

213. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 4.30–5.30pm

214. Kings Hall 4.30–5.30pm

Sponsored by Specsavers.

Drop in for a cup of tea upstairs in the Winter Gardens with members of the Festival team and let us know your thoughts on this year’s Festival.

Suggestions, brickbats, praise and ideas for next year’s Festival all welcome – PLUS put your name in the hat for guaranteed tickets to next year’s headline event.

FREE with tea and biscuits.

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Meet two authors whose books provide an insight into the troubled history of Eastern Europe. The Slovak novelist and filmmaker Peter Krištúfek’s novel The House of a Deaf Man traces the turbulent 20th century history of his home country and questions those who turned a deaf ear to their conscience. Fatos Lubonja is a writer, editor and leading figure in Albania’s political life. He spent 17 years in prison for his political views, much of it in solitary confinement. False Apocalypse is a unique and disturbing non-fiction work that concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of postcommunist Albania. After the world’s most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship many people fell prey to fraudulent investment schemes, which imploded causing mass poverty and social unrest. £6/4.

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8PM

A Brief History of Seven Killings: Marlon James New Ways of Writing

216. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5–6pm

Marlon James

4.45PM

WEEKEND 18–19 OCTOBER

John Lanchester: How to Speak Money

The Other Side of the Coin: Wealth, Responsibility, Power 215. St Margaret’s Hall 4.45– 5.45pm Ever wondered whether a hedge fund has anything to do with hedges?

Or thought consumer surplus has something to do with a surplus of consumers? John Lanchester explains what the language of the economic elite really means, giving a funny, clear and brilliantly entertaining guide to the world of money. Author of The Sunday Times bestselling Whoops!

Lanchester explains everything from high-frequency trading downwards. £7/5.

In 1976, two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica concert to ease political tensions, seven men stormed his house with machine guns. This near-mythic event was the inspiration for Caribbean novelist, Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings. He describes an imagined oral biography, told by ghosts, killers, members of parliament, drug dealers, conmen, beauty queens and CIA agents. Currently teaching in the USA, James’ first novel was a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize finalist, and New York Times Editor’s Choice. £6/4.

6.30PM

Publish or Be Damned: Publishing By and For Muslims

Aspects of the Muslim World 217. St Margaret’s Hall 6.30– 7.30pm Want to know more about what goes on behind the scenes in publishing?

Tonight’s panel, Yahya Birt (Kube Publishing), Ra Page (Comma Press) and Rukhsana Yasmin (Saqi and Jacaranda) discuss the various aspects surrounding the publication of books by authors of Muslim heritage, with the aid of convenor, Claire Chambers.

They’ll be including issues such as commissioning, editing and marketing – and of course your questions. £5/3.

We will be serving free sparkling elderflower between this Event and Event 219. Why not stay for the whole evening?

In association with Kube Publishing, Comma Press, Saqi and Jacaranda .

John Lanchester

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David Starkey: The Tudors

218. Kings Hall 7.15–8.15pm

Let respected historian and broadcaster David Starkey take you on a white-knuckle ride through the glorious soap opera that was the Tudors; turning the accepted view of iconic historical figures on its head with his forthright views backed by meticulous research. £16/14.

Get Involved!

I-Write

Do YOU have a story to tell? Ilkley Writers are keen to hear it. We’ve distributed a number of opening paragraphs to various locations throughout the town and we want YOU to finish the stories.

Look out for the opening paragraphs at Festival venues including the Playhouse and Kings Hall, add the next paragraph along with your contact details and leave it for the next person. The stories will be published on the Ilkley Writers’ website at the end of the Festival.

For more information on i-Write or the group email Andrea Hardaker: events@pickledegg.info

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER 8PM

TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 8.30PM

The Book of Gaza / Short Stories from Gaza: Nayrouz Qarmout and Mona Abu Sharekh 219. St Margaret’s Hall 8–9pm

220. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 8.30–10pm The chance for anyone to perform their own work. Poetry, prose, stand-up – it’s all fair game. But you’ve only got three minutes to convince your audience and win £200 and the coveted Open Mic title. 2nd prize £75, 3rd prize £25.

It’s not only performers who enjoy this frenzied night out – come along to watch and bring your friends.

Phone 01943 816714 or email boxoffice@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org. uk by midnight on 30 Sep to put your name in the hat. The first 16 people drawn at random on 1 Oct get the chance to perform. £5.

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Jodi Picoult: Leaving Time

244. Kings Hall 7.30–8.30pm

Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult comes to Ilkley on a rare visit to the UK – and we knew you wouldn’t want to miss it! She’ll be talking about her work as a writer and her latest novel, Leaving Time, which cranks up the emotion with her usual unassuming brilliance, giving us an insight into a moving portrait of a mother’s love for her child, and a child’s need for a mother. £12/10.

In association with Comma Press.

Supported by English PEN and the A.M. Qattan Foundation.

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PUT THE DATES IN YOUR DIARY NOW! Looking forward to seeing you at Ilkley Literature Festival 2015.

Friday 2 October to Sunday 18 October 2015 Box Office opens 9am on Tuesday 1 September 2015

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WEEKEND 18–19 OCTOBER

The city of Gaza may feature in the news every week, but what do we really know of life there, beyond the headlines? Today two contributors from a new anthology of short stories by ten of the city’s leading authors offer insights into everyday life and struggles in a place that has been called ‘the world’s largest prison’.

Nayrouz Qarmout was born in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus in 1984 and was returned to the Gaza Strip as a refugee, as part of the 1994 Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreement.

She currently works in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, raising awareness of gender issues. Mona Abu Sharekh’s family was originally from Ashkelon (her father was expelled from his land in 1948). She studied English Literature at Islamic University of Gaza from 2001 to 2005, and her first collection of short stories, What the Madman Said was published in 2008 by the Palestinian Writers Union. £5/3.

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Fun r s fo event ren child 3–12

Children under 12 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED at all events except where indicated.

Accompanying adults need a ticket at all events except where it indicates that Adults are FREE, when NO adult ticket is needed.

Please do not bring children younger than the age indicated!

FRIDAY 3–SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER

A Squash and a Squeeze: Sharing Stories with Julia Donaldson Exhibition Illustrating Children’s Books 2. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford BD9 4NS Saturday 28 June–Sunday 9 November

David Roberts: illustration from Little Red

2014 Festival Exhibition Dinosaurs, Trolls and Dunderheads: David Roberts

Follow Julia Donaldson’s journey from songwriter for children’s television to former Children’s Laureate. Trace Toddle Waddle’s footsteps, climb into the cave with Cave Baby and meet The Gruffalo.

Opening times: Tue–Fri 10am–4pm.

Sat & Sun 11am–4pm. £4. Children under 2 and adults accompanying children FREE. Exhibition staged by Bradford Museums and Galleries.

Illustrating Children’s Books 1. Manor House Museum

Saturday 20 September–Sunday 23 November

An exciting exhibition showing how award-winning illustrator and Dirty Bertie creator, David Roberts, designs his well loved characters for work by authors including Philip Ardagh, Julia Donaldson and Jacqueline Wilson.

FREE. Opening times: Wed–Sat 11am–5pm, Sun 1–4pm.

See also Events 2, and 15.

In collaboration with A Squash and a Squeeze: Sharing Stories with Julia Donaldson.

In association with Bradford Museums and Galleries.

Children’s Book Trail

Illustrating Children’s Books 3. Across Ilkley

SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER

Story Explorers and Story Wizards: Children’s Reading and Creative Writing Groups – taster sessions

11. Clarke Foley Centre 10–10.35am (reading) and 10.45–11.20am (writing)

Children who love reading (Story Explorers) and creative writing (Story Wizards) are invited to try today’s free sessions and see if they’d like to join one of our weekly groups. Come to one or both sessions.

Parents welcome to stay if wanted.

Age 8–11. No experience needed.

FREE with juice and biscuits.

Storytelling and Drawing: David Roberts

Illustrating Children’s Books 15. Manor House Museum 12–1pm Family event for children, adults and illustrators! Draw a character as David Roberts shows you how he does it for his award-winning children’s books.

FREE. Places limited, please book: alyson.evans@bradford.gov.uk or 01943 600066.

In association with Bradford Museums and Galleries.

Friday 3–Sunday 19 October

Discover some exciting children’s books and enter a Prize Draw as you search Ilkley for books hidden in shop windows.

FREE. Age 3–103. (Prize draw for under 12s only!)

Collect your instructions, map and an entry form at Festival venues, the Grove Bookshop or Ilkley Visitor Information Centre.

In conjunction with www.pickledegg.info

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David Roberts: illustration from Dear Tabby

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER

SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

Lauren Child

19. Kings Hall 2–3pm Meet the award-winning, bestselling author and illustrator of Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean and hear all about her new Ruby Redfort book – Feel the Fear. £8/5. Age 9+.

Eureka! Blast from the Past All Saints’ School Upstairs 222. 10–11am 223. 11.30am–12.30pm 224. 2.15–3.15pm 225. 3.45–4.45pm

Sponsored by The Grammar School at Leeds.

Photo © Alastair Muir

Northern Ballet Workshop

All Saints’ School 46. 2.30–3.30pm (age 4–6) and 47. 3.45–4.45pm (age 7–10)

SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER

When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish with Dominic Berry

43. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 2–3pm A line of troll-prints lead out of the door, across the lawn and into the dark, deep forest. Nikki’s goldfish, Great Bumbleduke the Third, needs rescuing! £6/4. Age 5–11.

This event begins with a short reading by the winners of the Children’s Poetry Competition.

Escape to Neverland with Northern Ballet and explore the story of Peter Pan. Discover a magical land of mermaids and fairy dust, lost boys and pirates, as you learn steps from the production.

No previous experience needed – boys and girls welcome. £6. Please follow stipulated age.

Loose comfortable clothing and trainers or dance shoes.

Parents don’t need a ticket but must remain in the building.

In association with Northern Ballet.

An interactive journey back through time to Ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire and Tudor England discovering fascinating (and disgusting!) treatments for irksome illnesses. £4.50. Age 5–11. Adults FREE. Please book in advance.

Mud Pie Arts: All Things Weird and Wonderful

All Saints’ School Hall 226. 10–10.50am 227. 11.45am–12.35pm

Explorers Monica and Bernie Swatbottle need volunteers to join their expedition to save an endangered creature, before it is too late. Expect storytelling, globetrotting and insect bites! £4.50. Age 3–6.

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

Suitcase Circus Walkabout

221. Outside All Saints’ School 9.30–10am

Zany impromptu circus performances from Suitcase Circus.

FREE. Family event for all ages.

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SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

Fabulous Story Sacks 231. All Saints’ School

10.30am, 11.15am, 12 noon, 1.30pm, 2.15pm and 3pm.

Ilkley Library staff bring stories to life using puppets and props in these drop in storytelling sessions.

FREE. Family event for all ages.

In association with Bradford Libraries.

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Yasmeen Ismail: Specs for Rex

228. All Saints’ School

10.30–11.15am

Join Yasmeen Ismail, award-winning author and illustrator of Time for Bed, Fred!, for storytelling and a spec-tastic craft session themed around her latest book Specs for Rex. £4.50. Age 3–6. Adults FREE.

Kjartan Poskitt: Borgon the Axeboy and the Dangerous Breakfast

233. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 12–12.45pm Join Kjartan Poskitt for this fun filled event – meet barbarian Borgon and learn what the most dangerous breakfast of all time might be! £4.50. Age 7–9.

Suitcase Circus Performance

97. Bandstand on The Grove 11–11.30am

Cheer up your Saturday morning!

Join us on the bandstand for this fun performance from Suitcase Circus.

FREE. Family event for all ages.

Angie Sage: Pathfinder Workshop

Whiffy Wilson – The Wolf Who Wouldn’t Go to School

10.30am–12 noon

Whiffy Wilson does NOT want to go to school. He’d rather stay at home and watch television. Luckily his friend Dotty is on hand to sort him out! £4.50. Age 3–6.

234. All Saints’ School 1.15–2pm

229. All Saints’ School

Are you interested in writing about other worlds, amazing magic and strange creatures? Join Angie Sage, author of Pathfinder and the Septimus Heap series, as she gives out top tips on writing fantasy. £4.50. Age 8-12. Children aged 8 and over may attend unaccompanied.

Foxy Tales: Caryl Hart

230. All Saints’ School 10.30am –11.15am Foxy DuBois wants to get rich quick.

The trouble is, Alphonso the Alligator keeps getting in her way. She must make enough money to feed him or he’s going to eat HER…! £4.50. Age 5–8.

Suitcase Circus Workshop Petr Horáček Illustration Workshop

Illustrating Children’s Books 232. All Saints’ School

11.45am–12.45pm

Make your own bright and bold picture-book masterpiece to take home with award-winning illustrator Petr Horáček, creator of Puffin Peter, Suzy Goose and the brand new The Mouse Who Ate the Moon. £4.50. Age 5+. Adults FREE.

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235. 1.15-2.15pm 236. 2.45–3.45pm 237. 4.15–5.15pm

Try your hand at circus skills with Pete White from Suitcase Circus. £4.50. Age 6–11. Adults FREE.

Mud Pie Arts: The Rescue Mission 238. All Saints’ School Hall 1.30–2.20pm

Wanted: Naturalists, explorers, camera crew, medics and catering crew. Join the expedition to save an endangered species before it is too late. Go wild in this drama role-play workshop! £4.50. Age 7–11. Adults FREE.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

Pop-up Books Workshop All Saints’ School 239. 1.30–2.30pm 240. 3–4pm

Come and learn how to make a ‘popup’ with the master of pop-up books Robert Crowther in this fun hands on workshop! £4.50. Age 8–12. Children aged 8 and over may attend unaccompanied.

Petr Horáček Storytime

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER

Lempen Puppet Theatre Company: Little Frankenstein

109. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 5–6pm Frank Stein needs help from the audience to create a new live puppet that is destined to change his life forever!

Gentle horror for the whole family. £6/4. Age 5–105!

241. All Saints’ School 2.45–3.30pm

Listen to Petr Horáček creator of Puffin Peter, Suzy Goose and The Mouse Who Ate the Moon, bring his lovable animal characters to life. £4.50. Age 3+.

Diary of Dennis the Menace

242. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 3–3.45pm Meet Dennis, Gnasher and the Beanotown gang. Pranks, doodles, splats and all – with a little help from Roald Dahl Funny Prize shortlisted author Steven Butler. £6/4. Age 6+.

Angie Sage: Araminta Spook

TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER

Private Peaceful: Michael Morpurgo and Coope, Boyes & Simpson 145. Kings Hall 7.30–8.50pm

Not to be missed. Michael Morpurgo combines evocative readings from his award-winning book, Private Peaceful with songs from acclaimed a cappella trio Coope, Boyes & Simpson. The story of Tommo Peaceful moves between humour and tragedy – from childhood in a Devon village to the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War. £16/10. Age 8+.

Illustration © Jacky Fleming

SUNDAY 19 OCTOBER

243. All Saints’ School 3.45–4.30pm

tutti frutti and York Theatre Royal present Princess and the Pea by Mike Kenny

Araminta is a girl who lives in a haunted house, has ghosts and ghouls for friends, and gets up to all sorts of spooky adventures.

Black clothes and stripy tights optional! £4.50. Age 8–12.

All Saints’ School 206 1.30–2.30pm 207. 4–5pm

tutti frutti are back to wow young Festival audiences. A magical, funny and original version of this popular Hans Christian Andersen tale. Fake Princesses beware! £6/4. Age 3–7.

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MONDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

MONDAY 6 OCTOBER

Ilkley Young Writers Group Never Ending: Martyn – taster session Bedford and Sarah Crossan 6. Christchurch on The Grove 6.30–8.30pm

59. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman 6.30–7.15pm

Try tonight’s free session for young people who love writing and see if you’d like to join the weekly group.

No experience needed.

FREE with juice and biscuits.

Age 12–18.

How would you cope if you thought you’d accidentally killed your little brother? Full of big themes like forgiveness, guilt and bereavement, award-winning authors Martyn Bedford and Sarah Crossan discuss their new books for young people, Never Ending and Apple and Rain. Both are must reads! £3. Age 12–18. Groups welcome.

SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER

Press Pack: Write a Review 14. Church House 11am–4pm

Find out how to write great reviews, blogs and tweets then set off to a Festival event. Write up a review in our newsroom and we’ll post it online. £5 includes ‘press’ ticket to afternoon event. Age 12–18.

Bring a packed lunch. Please book in advance.

Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group

Win an iPad Mini Prize Draw

Bradford Grammar School will kindly be offering attendees at young people’s events the chance to win an iPad mini in an exciting free prize draw. Make sure that you complete an entry form and pop it through the post box on the day!

www.bradfordgrammar.com

Sarah Crossan

35. Church House 7.30–8.30pm

The Festival’s young writers group, all aged 12–18, with another stunning performance of their award winning poetry and prose.

FREE.

Martyn Bedford

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David Almond

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SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER

WordsFest

124. Otley Courthouse 2–6pm (sign up from 1.30pm) An afternoon of laid-back workshops, cake, writing and fun for young people aged 12 to 18 only!

1.30pm

Choose your sessions ...

2pm

Lucy Saxon, 19 year old author of young adult epic adventure series Take Back the Skies, is here to discuss her work and answer your questions!

4pm

Create a comic book with Jim Medway.

Creating a character with Ben Tagoe.

Perfect your song writing skills with Michelle Scally-Clarke.

Try graffiti with Ged Walker.

Top tips for writing fiction with Becky Cherriman.

WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER

3.10pm

Do a second workshop.

5.10pm

Fast and furious ‘slam’ – share your work from the day for fantastic prizes! £4. Age 12–18.

Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club..

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER

David Almond: A Song for Ella Grey

Cool Voices Words Club Night

Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day

I’m the one who’s left behind. I’m the one to tell the tale. I knew them both... knew how they lived and how they died.

David Almond – author of Skellig, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen, Whitbread and Newbery Awards and one of the most important writers for young people – is here.

Don’t miss it! £3. Age 12–18. Groups welcome.

songwriters and performers are invited to take to the stage to perform their own work! Plus the winners of the Young People’s Poetry and Short Story Competition.

If you would like to perform, put your name down by contacting: info@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk £4 for audience members. Age 12–18.

Details of how to enter the Young People’s Poetry and Short Story Competition from: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

Become a real-life journalist for the day! Interview famous Festival authors and work with a journalist to create a special edition Festival newspaper. £5. Age 13–18.

Bring a packed lunch. Please book in advance.

151. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside 6–6.45pm

174. Otley Courthouse 7.30–9.30pm 177. Church House 10.30am–4.30pm Talented young writers, poets,

Competition prizes kindly provided by Ilkley Book Club.

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Festival Fringe All FRINGE events take place at Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road, Ilkley LS29 8DW unless otherwise stated.

Fringe events are created for the Festival by talented writers and performers from across Yorkshire.

They’re free, fun and exciting and like the Fringe anywhere you take them as you find them!

All Fringe events are FREE. There’s no need to book in advance – just turn up.

SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER

Wearing Purple

29. Church House 5.30–6.30pm Slightly irreverent, heart-warming, laugh-out-loud and occasionally shocking, these writers ‘of a certain age’ return for their second Fringe performance. Enjoy their experiencepacked poetry, fiction, musings and memoirs.

Getting into Print 36. 9–10pm

Meet and share the experience of authors Bryony Doran, Susan ElliotWright, Danuta Reah, Ruth Valentine, Linda Lee Welch, Jenny Rodwell, and award-winning foreign correspondent Angela Robson as they answer your questions about getting published.

Meet Bill Allerton and understand what drove him to found Cybermouse MultiMedia.

The House of Tragic She

MONDAY 6 OCTOBER

Jenny: a frightening woman!

64. 9–9.45pm

Born in a Newcastle gutter, brought up in a convent, Jenny survived WW1 as a prostitute in Normandy, living by her wits to a ripe old age. A frightening story told in 10 dramatic poems with a little music.

Shash Trevett 65. 9.15–9.45pm

York-based poet Shash Trevett reads in English and Tamil from a selection A harrowing, humorous journey round of her work about the civil war in Sri Lanka, touching on the trauma of the mental health services through the stories of three women, exploring warfare, exile and the lasting effects literature’s constant re-interpretation of conflict. of madness. A psychedelic show of experimental electronic music, WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER physical theatre and visual projections Wharfedale Poets

by Six Lips Theatre!

37. 9–10pm

74. 9–9.50pm

SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER

Alison Lock and Robin Bowles © Ann Bettys

Poetry SHOUTING

Three Hares

39. Meet at Cow and Calf car park 12–1pm

A new collaboration between poet Alison Lock and musician Robin Bowles exploring the woodlands of the South Pennines and bringing the two art forms together in a complementary and unique way.

Come for a walk and SHOUT poetry into the wilderness of Ilkley Moor – your own or other people’s, it’s up to you! Poetry books and loud hailer provided. Please note the walk is mainly on footpaths with some uneven ground – you’ll need adequate shoes and bring waterproofs.

30. 7–7.20pm

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Taking their cue from the breathtaking Dales countryside, eight Wharfedale Poets read from, and discuss, their joint debut anthology Drystone Lines.

Hartlington Press 75. 9–10pm

Dales-based Hartlington Press host an evening of readings and discussions headlined by local poets Ray Snape and Roger Nelson.

Book online www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Box Office 01943 816714 FRINGE EVENTS THURSDAY 9 OCTOBER

MONDAY 13 OCTOBER

Ilkley Writers

Every Voice Counts

Inspired by the windswept Ilkley Moor and drawing on local archives, Ilkley Writers weave local stories into a rich and dramatic piece shrouding the audience in a dark and chilling world.

SI Ilkley present a mosaic of women’s stories. Join them for storytelling, conversations, life writing exercises and the chance to add your own voice.

85. 9–10pm

142. Clarke Foley Centre 7.30–8.30pm

FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER

Every Voice Counts © Liz Stringer

Bell-la-Bell

WEDNESDAY 15 OCTOBER

94. 9.15–9.45pm

Twins Marva and Pat Bell take you on a An After Dinner’s Sleep...

Caribbean journey of humour, love and 143. 9–10pm pain in a fast-paced performance of Maria, Gill and Hannah, MA students sketches, monologues and poetry! in Creative Writing from Leeds Trinity University, have a poetic rant about youth, age and what might lie SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER in-between.

Creative Booster

107. Church House 5–6pm

Flex your creative muscles exploring the imaginative potential of ‘getting it wrong’ and see the familiar differently in this practical workshop by Playful Being.

Something on My Mind

114. Church House 7.30–8.30pm Celebrating World Mental Health Day, Mind in Bradford service users perform from their recent anthology Something on My Mind. Incisive and inspirational poetic expressions about dealing with mental health in our society.

All Aboard the Book Bus! 144. 9.15–10pm

All aboard the Book Bus with Adrian Thompson! Learn all about the work done with children in rural schools in Zambia by UK charity Book Bus. An adventure featuring elephants, lions and lots of books!

TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER

A River of Voices 148. 9–10pm

The Mouth of the River group, who met via poetry workshops with past Festival Poet in Residence Rommi Smith, perform poems and stories fused with live music in a show flowing between spoken-word and song.

War Hospital Stories Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life and WWI 149. 9–10pm The Wartime Hospital at Beckett Park was the setting for extraordinary scenes 100 years ago. Richard Wilcocks tells some true stories about the lives of men and women from his acclaimed new book.

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Something Rhymed 157. 9.15–10.15pm

Who did Jane Austen turn to for literary friendship? What about Charlotte Brontë? Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney discuss the friendship of female authors and share new writing inspired by the friendships of Ilkley Festival goers.

Going Home: Fever Therapy 158. 9.15–10.15pm

Local author Jim Burnside reads from his fourth novel Fever Therapy, discusses his literary influences and answers your questions about the publishing industry.

THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER

Bradford in the Great War: 100 Years On Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life and WWI 167. 9–10pm 1914. How did local people react to outbreak of war? What did the global conflict mean to them? Bradford WW1 Group explore the challenging dilemmas faced by local people as the Great War began.

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THURSDAY 16 OCTOBER

Tibet: an Accidental Pilgrimage

191. Church House 6–7pm

168. 9–10pm

What will the future be like? Leona Ivan Cooper reads from his book Tibet: Deakin talks about her time travelling debut novel Anomaly and asks An Accidental Pilgrimage. Comic, the audience to make their own dramatic and on occasion scary, join Ivan on a trip through the remote and predictions for the future. barely-visited regions of Tibet!

The Happening at the Bandstand

FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER

Sing FREEDOM

192. Ilkley Bandstand on The Grove 6.30pm and 9pm

175. 9–10pm

Daughter of ANC activist Rusty Bernstein, Frances Bernstein tells of growing up in apartheid South Africa as Free Range choir perform songs that helped sustain the liberation movement.

Poems Become Songs

Inspired by the Cow and Calf this group of local artists will be bringing live music installation and projections of dynamic physical performance.

Expect words, dance, colour, rhythms.

The Bandstand transformed!

Visit www.thehappeningat.org for more info.

Expect to be moved, surprised and entertained as writers from Osmondthorpe Hub perform short stories, poetry and plays on the theme of surviving, bridging words and worlds.

World War One Concert Party Beyond the Trenches: Everyday Life and WWI 201. 9.15–10.15pm Devised and directed by Eddie Lawler, local singers perform a concert of music, poetry and tales. A packed programme, including songs to join in with and well known verses.

176. 9–10pm

An ambitious collaboration of poets, composers and instrumentalists from York. Hear Sounds Lyrical Project fusing poetry and spoken word to new classical music in a fascinating and original concert.

Eddie Lawler

The Grove Bookshop

10 The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG Tel 01943 609335 Fax 01943 817086 www.grovebookshop.com Open 9am–5.30pm Mon–Sat 11.30am–4.30pm Sunday

The Ilkley Literature Festival Bookshop • We sell tickets for Festival Kings Hall events

• Books signed by Festival authors will also be available at our shop on The Grove (just along from Bettys) • If you can’t get to a session but would like to reserve a signed book, just pop in or give us a call • We will be pleased to post books to you if you can’t get to Ilkley • We also have a specialist music department selling CDs and sheet music • We can order any British book in print – many delivered within 48 hours – just call 01943 609335 with your order 60

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Refunds and resale

All tickets are non-refundable except in the event of a cancelled performance. The Box Office can only accept tickets for resale if an event has sold out and any refund is subject to a 10% handling fee. All refunds for returned tickets will be made after the Festival.

We will try to resell tickets for sold-out events but offer no guarantee that we will be able to do so.

All details are correct at the time of going to press (August 2014).

The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd is not liable for any subsequent changes. Keep up to date by visiting www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk

www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk You can buy tickets for all events online from 9am Tuesday 26 August on our secure website.

A transaction fee of £2 applies on all online orders

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You can buy tickets for all events from our Box Office on 01943 816714 from Tuesday 26 August.

Box Office opening hours are Monday to Friday 10am–4pm and Saturday 10am–1pm. (Please note that telephone booking opens at 9am on Tuesday 26 August only – then at 10am daily) A transaction fee of £2 applies on all telephone orders.

Concessions

In person – Kings Hall events only

The Festival offers concessions to the following people (proof of status will be required):

You can buy tickets for Kings Hall events only, either from Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove Bookshop from Tuesday 26 August.

Ilkley Visitor Information Centre, Station Road, Ilkley LS29 8HA. Opening hours Monday and Wednesday–Saturday 9.30am–4pm, Tues 10am–4pm. Closed Sundays.

(The Visitor Information Centre will open at 9am on Tuesday 26 August only) The Grove Bookshop, The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG. 0pening hours Monday–Saturday 9am–5.30pm, Sun 11.30am–4.30pm (Friends’ discounts cannot be claimed when booking through Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove Bookshop) For tickets to all other events please book by phone or online as above. Please note that you cannot book in person at the Festival Office.

• Children and young people under 25 • People in receipt of Disability Living Allowance/ Personal Independence Payment

• People in receipt of a means tested benefit

Concessionary prices are stated after the full price for each event eg £5/£3.

Group bookings

The Festival welcomes bookings from schools and established community/reading groups as follows: £6 per person Kings Hall, £5 for Craiglands Hotel, £3 per person for most events at other venues, plus one free ticket for every ten tickets booked. We regret we can’t offer group rates for events including transport or meals.

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If you do not wish to be contacted in this way, please let us know on info@ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or 01943 601210. We are committed to protecting your privacy and will not sell, trade or share your personal information with others.

On the door

All unsold tickets and any returns will be available from the Box Office at the venue 60 minutes before the start of Kings Hall events, 45 minutes for all other events.

Returns are usually available at most (but not all) soldout events.

For non-headline events, tickets are generally available on the door. However you are strongly advised to book in advance to avoid disappointment.

Friends priority booking

Festival Friends enjoy priority booking from Wednesday 13 to Wednesday 20 August.

If you’d like to become a Friend of the Festival, membership re-opens on 1 September 2014. Go to our website www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk for full details or contact the office on 01943 601210.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Festival would like to thank the following organisations for their support during 2014.

Major Sponsors Skipton Building Society The Grammar School at Leeds Aagrah Spellman Walker Media and PR Partners Yorkshire Post Anita Morris Associates Big Issue in the North Event Sponsors Audley Clevedon Hebridean Island Cruises Ilkley Book Club Ilkley Brewery Ilkley Grammar School Investec Wealth & Investment Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Leeds Beckett University Centre for Arts and Culture Premcrest Rombalds Hotel Specsavers Spooner Patrons Sir Rodney Brooke CBE DL Brenda L Collins Hilary Crawford Simon Currie David Henderson Peter & Kate Roberts John Woodward Event Partners Adverse Camber Alchemy Bazm-E-Tadeeb International BBC Radio 4 Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms Bradford Grammar School Bradford Libraries and Information Services Bradford Museums and Galleries Children’s Bookshow Comma Press Eureka! The National Children’s Museum For Books Sake Friends of the Manor House Friends of Donald Baverstock The Grove Bookshop Ilkley Playhouse Ilkley Library Ilkley Young Writers Group Leeds Beckett University The Leeds Library Literature Across Frontiers Manasamitra Manor House Museum, Ilkley

Mud Pie Arts Northern Ballet Northern Broadsides North Country Theatre Open College of the Arts Otley Courthouse Arts Centre Panache Peepal Tree Press Poetry Book Society Renaissance One Smokestack Books The Pickled Egg The Poetry Business Soroptimist International of Leeds University of Leeds University of York The Wheatley Arms Supporters All Saints’ C of E Primary School Beanstalk Bluewater Holidays BMDC Education and Learning Calderdale Library Service Christchurch Clarke Foley Centre Craiglands Hotel Dale Eddison Garbutt & Elliott Ilkley Moor Vaults Ilkley Visitor Information Centre Info Display Kings Hall, Ilkley Lancashire Library Service Leeds Building Society Leeds Library Service North Yorkshire Library Service Right Sort St Margaret’s Church Hall Publishing Partners Bloomsbury Carcanet Comma Press Doubleday Duckworth Publishers Faber Granta & Portobello Books Great Northern Books Green Leaf Publishing Hachette Children’s Books HarperCollins Headline Hodder & Stoughton John Murray Kube Publishing Little, Brown Oneworld Publications Oxford University Press Palgrave Penguin Profile Books

Random House Scratching Shed Smith|Doorstop Smokestack Books Thames & Hudson Transworld Smokestack Verso Viking Virago Walker Books Festival Staff Director: Rachel Feldberg Festival Manager: Gail Price Sponsorship Director: Judy Passmore Audience Development & Outreach: Dawn Cameron Marketing Officer: Alex Corwin Festival Administrator: Laura Beddows Festival Assistant & Fringe Coordinator: Rodolfo Barradas Poet in Residence: Kim Moore Apprentice Poet in Residence: Phoebe Power Box Office Administrators: Melissa Watson, Stephanie Mawer Box Office Administrator (Venues): Mary Varley Technical Director: Richard Speight Asst Technical Director: Chris Bradley Technical Team: David Wallbank, Robbie Kay, Ian Cheesebrough, Andy Price, Alyson Howe, Harry Drake Volunteers Coordinator: Hayley Doswell Assistant Directors: Judy Passmore, Liz Palliser, Glynis Charlton, Annie Latham, Gail Ferrin, Fiona Goh, Kitty Wright, Jess Penrose, Jane Dale, Glenis Burgess, Kate Jones Stage Managers: Sophie Loftus, Conor Whelan, Jan Hilditch, Lauren Day, Alex Fullelove, Sarah Hull, Mosa Mopetha, Sarah Wilson, Jess Macdonald, Hollie Bryan Graphic Design: dg3 Copy Checking: Abbey Vale Copy Assistants: Sally Brown, Ben Myers Festival Photographer: Paul Floyd Blake Web Site maintenance: Johnathan Kendall, Vitamin K Ltd A special thanks to all our Festival stewards and volunteers and to the Friends of the Festival.

The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd. Registered In England and Wales Company No: 1061343 Ilkley Literature Festival is a registered charity Charity No: 501801

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The experience

Deliciously Authentic Kashmiri Cuisine

Your Local Branch Aagrah Ilkley, The Moors Shopping Centre, Ilkley, LS29 9LB Tel: 01943 600628 · aagrah.com Opening Hours Buffet Lunch: Sun 12 noon - 3pm A La Carte: Mon-Sat 5:30pm - 11:30pm Sun 5:30pm - 10:30pm

The Grammar School at Leeds

Open events For girls and boys aged 3 to 18

2014/15

Visit us between 9am and 12pm Wednesday 17 September Saturday 11 October Thursday 6 November

Tuesday 25 November Tuesday 17 March Wednesday 29 April

Entrance exam – Friday 23 January 2015 For further information please contact our Admissions Manager, Angela Boult T: 0113 229 1552 E: admissions@gsal.org.uk

www.gsal.org.uk

My life ahead...

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More than just October ...

re iteratu Ilkley L rs l delive Festiva s g event inspirin jects all and pro un d . year ro

Poetry in the City Bradford, June 2015 at the World Curry Festival Story Explorers and Story Wizards, weekly book and creative writing groups for 8–12 year olds Ilkley Young Writers, weekly creative writing group for 12–18 year olds Young Writers Residential Summer School, last weekend in August Poetry and short story competitions Author visits and development work in Bradford and Leeds schools One-off visits

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