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Welcome to the Folkestone Book Festival 2014 Serendipity is one of the joys of a book festival. With so many events taking place in a short time there is the opportunity to take a chance and attend an event on a subject or with an author you don’t already know. By taking this chance enlightening and uplifting discoveries can be made. Geraldine D’Amico has provided a programme with such a range that everyone should be able to go on a new adventure of the mind this November. I am excited to be going on this journey and I hope to share it with many of you. A very important part of running the book festival is that it allows the Creative Foundation to invite authors to town who specifically appeal to young people. It is this group who we must inspire to be the readers and writers, thinkers and doers of the future. By supporting the festival you allow us to do this. Thank you. Alastair Upton Chief Executive, Creative Foundation
The 2014 Folkestone Book Festival opens with an unforgettable performer, poet and lover of words, Michael Rosen, coming to share with us his passionate beliefs in education, reading and the power of the imagination. This will set the tone for a festival full of life, passion, ideas and fun, the place to come if you want to learn, laugh, think or debate. We commemorate WW1 but from the ordinary Tommy’s point of view, told by writers from around the world, remembered in war memorials. There is more history from the Virgin Queen to the Battle of Waterloo, Richard III to the true story of Thomas Cromwell, in books and films. Do not miss Claire Tomalin on Charles Dickens, Carol Ann Duffy reading her poetry, Judith Flanders on the concept of home, Geordie Greig remembering his close friend Lucian Freud and James Hall on the self-portrait from antiquity to the selfie.
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Join the discussions on infidelity, immigration, Scandinavian myths or getting rid of war for good. Prepare to be dazzled and entertained by Michael Frayn’s farce Skios, Andy Miller’s whistle stop tour of great literature and Austentatious’ live improvisation of a Jane Austen novel.
Early bird Purchase your Folkestone Book Festival tickets before and inclusive of Sunday 28 September 2014 and benefit from reduced prices, £5 for most events and £7 for four of them. Concession/Friends and group bookings discounts (see below) will not apply for this period.
All this and incredible adventures, grammar, slang, maths, animal sex, bygone luxury trains, cats and dogs, sewing or rebuilding the world after a major catastrophe: I defy you not to find at least one topic of interest.
Group bookings
A book festival is a unique place where you can hear an author you admire reveal secrets, engage in a discussion with experts, ask questions, discover new writers, meet friends and more.
For those of you who want to purchase quite a few tickets we have put together a great offer! Purchase more than 6 full adult rate, Concession/ Friends tickets for any Folkestone Book Festival events and receive a 10% discount on final price. To benefit from this offer please call Quarterhouse Box Office on 01303 760750. This offer doesn’t apply for free events.
Come to listen and be heard, but above all to enjoy! Geraldine D’Amico Curator, Folkestone Book Festival
Concessions Concessionary rates will apply where stated to under 21s, full time students, registered unemployed and registered disabled. Just show us a proof of status! Folkestone Book Festival Pass Enjoy unlimited access to all Book Festival events for only £120. You can purchase your Festival Pass for only £100 during the early Bird period (see above). To purchase your Folkestone Book Festival Pass please contact Quarterhouse box office on 01303 760750. You must still book your seat for the events you intend to attend.
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Friday 14 November
Saturday 15 November
SCHOOLS EVENT
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Michael Rosen
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Everyday Heroes: How To Breathe Life Into Stories of War
A special show by the author of Centrally Heated Knickers and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt for year 3 and 4 children. A rare chance to meet and ask questions to Michael Rosen, former children’s laureate, poet, writer and infectiously passionate about books and stories.
Do you, your relatives or your friends have war time stories you would like to preserve? Students in this three-hour workshop will integrate research and character development into stories that bring those dramas to life. Come with an idea; go home with characters, a plot line, a research plan, the beginning of your story, and the enthusiasm to finish it. Suitable for beginning or advanced writers.
Fri 14 Nov / 1.30pm / Folkestone Academy Free for schools
Jane Bow’s Cally’s Way explores the lives of women who fought in the Cretan Resistance during WW2. She has taught creative writing to writers of all ages.
IDEAS
Sat 15 Nov / 10am to 1pm / Quarterhouse conference room £15 / Friends & Concessions £10 Limited to 12 people only
Michael Rosen’s Good Ideas Learning can be much more fun – and former children’s laureate, million-selling author, broadcaster, father of five and all-round National Treasure, Michael Rosen wants to show you how.
NATURE
Peter Forbes Dazzled and Deceived
‘The way we are taught is rigidly divided into subjects that were invented hundreds of years ago. Outside school, we don’t have to think of life, knowledge and culture in that way. When we go to a museum, a castle, a beach or garden centre, we don’t have to think: ‘Is this history or geography? Is this foreign languages or maths? The way we’ve been taught excludes or limits all sorts of practical ways of finding out about ideas, knowledge and culture – anything from cooking to fixing loo cisterns, from dance to modelmaking, from playing Top Trumps to arguing with TV programmes, from collecting leaves to playing “Who am I?” I want to show you how you can use everything around you to learn more – and how enjoyable and satisfying it can be.’
Peter Forbes talks about his award winning book, the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature’s fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. Peter looks at how humanity learnt to profit from nature’s ploys, in particular World War I dazzle ships. Sat 15 Nov / 11am / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 HISTORY
Clive Aslet War Memorial The former editor of Country Life, Clive Aslet, unravels the story of one war memorial, in the Dartmoor village of Lydford. Through original documents, he traces the lives of the twenty-two men, and one woman, who died fighting for Britain in the two World Wars, the Falklands and Iraq who, but for the war memorial, would be forgotten. A timely reflection on the role and purpose of war memorials.
Fri 14 Nov / 7.00pm / Quarterhouse £10 / Friends & Concessions £8 Sponsored by the Friends of the Book Festival
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STORIES
Simon Gough and Jane Bow Island Stories Fact and fantasy collide in The White Goddess, Simon Gough’s account of his relationship with his great uncle Robert Graves in Deia where he fell under the spell of the poet’s muse. In Cally’s Way, Jane Bow takes us back and forth between a contemporary love story and one that took place during WW2 in Crete. They will talk about weaving facts into fiction, love and war. Sat 15 Nov / 2pm / Folkestone Library £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 HISTORY
Richard Van Emden Tommy’s War One of Britain’s leading military historians, tells the story of the Great War exclusively through the words and images of soldiers on the ground. This illustrated talk shows what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally. Sat 15 Nov / 2.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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WW1 Fiction with Clive Aslet, Pete Ayrton and Louisa Young How have novelists retold the story of the Great War over the years? Serpent’s Tail founder, Pete Ayrton has put together the first truly international anthology of WW1 fiction by 47 writers from 20 different nations, many of whom experienced the war on the front line. Clive Aslet’s first novel, The Birdcage, set in Salonika, a city nominally neutral, a kaleidoscope of nations seething with intrigues, is a breathless ride where the spirit of PG Wodehouse meets the world of Biggles. Louisa Young’s beautiful heartbreaking novel My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You was a huge bestseller. “If you read one book about the effects of WW1, make it this.” wrote The Times of its sequel, The Heroes’ Welcome. She also wrote about her grandmother Kathleen Scott who worked with the pioneering WW1 surgeons. Chaired by Boyd Tonkin, Senior Writer, The Independent Sat 15 Nov / 5.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 Brian Milton, one of the top twenty living British adventurers according to The Daily Telegraph, was the first man to fly a microlight aircraft around the world. He survived a fall of 250 feet into a field and dropping into the Persian Gulf on Christmas Day in the middle of the Iran/Iraq War, but still made it to Australia.
ADVENTURE
IDEAS
Joanna Bourke Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invades Our Lives
Brian Milton Adventure – on not giving up
Wars are frequently justified ‘in our name’, paid by our taxes. Militarist values and practices permeate our language, entertain us at the movies or in video game. Our loved ones are killed and maimed. War is unending and violence deeply entrenched in our society. Or is it? Join Professor of History at Birkbeck College, Joanna Bourke, for a discussion on whether it really has to be this way and how we might resist an increasingly violent world. Sat 1
But he will also tell us about his first adventure which took him from London to South Africa in a 1937 Austin 7 Ruby to propose to the woman he loved. 2,000 miles on 3 pistons, 900 miles without brakes, lights, starter-motor or –handle, 5 weeks without money, across bits of Africa wracked by civil war. Come and find out how it ended! Sat 15 Nov / 7.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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Sunday 16 November
Sunday 16 November
KNOWLEDGE
HISTORY
Nicholas Shakespeare called him “the Dr Johnson of slang, its Putin, its Mr Toad, its Dickens.” Jonathon Green published in 2010 the Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a three-volume 6,200 page dictionary offering some 110,000 words and phrases stretching from 1500 to the present day. He talks to Andy Miller about his autobiography Odd Job Man and Language! and his passion for slang which he says “represents humanity at its most human.”
Sky News economics editor, Ed Conway, tells us the colourful story of Bretton Woods, the 1944 summit which gave the US dollar its central role in the world economy. Spies, dramatic turns, myths debunked but above all history at its best, shedding light on today’s economic problem.
Jonathon Green in conversation with Andy Miller
Sun 16 Nov / 12 noon / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Ed Conway on The Summit
Sun 16 Nov / 3pm / Folkestone Library £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
KNOWLEDGE
Alex Bellos Through the Looking-Glass Alex Bellos tells us about the hidden maths that underpins our lives through a number of intriguing stories. Even if you think maths are not for you, he will get you hooked as he delves deep into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and proves just how much fun we can have with them. Sun 16 Nov / 1.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
CRAFT
ART
Stuart Hillard Sew Fabulous
James Hall The Self-Portrait, a Cultural History
For over 20 years Stuart has been sewing and designing home décor projects, teaching and encouraging others to give up the rules and just enjoy sewing. He became an instant star when he took part in the first series of the Great British Sewing Bee. He will tell us about his experience on the show and his passion for crafting, particularly patchwork and quilting.
In this illustrated talk, James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of bearing witness to the prolific self-image-making of today’s contemporary artists. Hall looks at all sorts of self-portraits, from comic and caricature self-portraits to invented or imaginary ones, and explores the worlds and mind-sets of the artists who have created them.
Sun 16 Nov / 3pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Sun 16 Nov / 4.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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Sunday 16 November
Monday 17 November
Tuesday 18 November
FICTION
Gallic Night with Antoine Laurain and Helene Gestern Two award-winning authors bring a touch of French magic to Folkestone. In his clever novel, The President’s Hat, Antoine Laurain imagines the somewhat life-changing effect Mitterand’s hat, forgotten in a restaurant, has on a succession of people who find it, making their dreams come true. Hélène Gestern’s The People in the Photo explores the themes of blame and forgiveness, identity and love as two young people find their destiny in their parents’ past.
KNOWLEDGE
Andy Miller Read Yourself Fitter
HISTORY
Becky Taylor A History of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are some of the most marginalized and vilified people. They are rarely seen as having a place, either geographically or socially, no matter where they live or what they do. Becky Taylor charts their movement from their roots in the Indian subcontinent, across the Ottoman empire to Western Europe. Their experiences provide a way to understand mainstream society’s relationship with outsiders and immigrants.
Mon 17 Nov / 7pm / Quarterhouse £10 / Friends & Concessions £8 Includes French wine and cheese
Andy Miller, the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously, gives us the honest account of his quest to reverse 20 years of lies and read the books he’s always claimed to have read. His high-speed, whistle-stop tour of all fifty books is guaranteed to help audience members appear well-read and win pub quizzes.
Tue 18 Nov / 6pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Sun 16 Nov / 6pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 SCHOOLS EVENT / FAMILIES
HL Dennis Be a Secret Breaker Young code breakers: Can you read a rope? Do you want to use a code breaking machine? Brodie, Hunter and Tusia are three kids chosen to solve the greatest unbroken code in the world. But why will some people kill to stop them?
PARTICIPATE
Friends of the Book Festival Quiz
Dying Well
Join Team Veritas and crack the codes to help them. A fun and exciting event for the whole family.
A little literary knowledge will help along with lots of general knowledge! Teams can be no more than 6 people but don’t worry if you are on your own, you can join with others.
Paola Dionisotti and George Irving read from Plato to Philip Larkin, taking in meditations on dying by Montaigne, Johnson, Byron, Dickinson, Yeats, Dylan Thomas and others, to illustrate the many ways in which writers have observed the ars moriendi, revealing that, in Sylvia Plath’s words “dying is an art, like everything else”.
Tue 18 Nov / Quarterhouse Schools only (years 5 & 6): 11.30am & 1.30pm / Free for schools Everyone welcome: 4.30pm / £6 for children (recommended age 8+) Accompanying adults go free
Sun 16 Nov / 7.30pm / Quarterhouse £30 per table (max 6) or £5 per person Special Quiz Night offer: Buy a bottle of house wine and receive some free nibbles
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LITERARY READINGS
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Wednesday 19 November
Wednesday 19 November HISTORY
Gordon Corrigan Waterloo Fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 by some 220,000 men, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revolutionary and later imperial France and her enemies. A decisive defeat for Napoleon and a hard-won victory for the Allied armies of the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians led by Blucher, it brought about the emperor’s final exile to St Helena and cleared the way for Britain to become the dominant world power. A former soldier, Gordon Corrigan is the author of an acclaimed military biography of Wellington and has walked the battlefields of the Napoleonic era many times. He offers a robust, clear and gripping account of the campaign. Napoleon reckoned ‘the English are bad troops and this affair is nothing more than eating breakfast’. He was wrong, and this splendid book proves just how wrong. Wed 19 Nov / 1pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 FILM
Waterloo (1970)
POETRY
Jenny Uglow In These Times: Living in Britain through the French Wars
Carol Ann Duffy The Unseen Down the quiet road, away, away, towards the dying time, Love went, brave soldier, the song dwindling; walked to the edge of absence; all moments going, gone; bells through rain to fall on the carved names of the lost.
We know the stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars – but what of those left behind? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers? Jenny Uglow, the prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Nature’s Engraver, follows the back-and-forth of the first global war, but shows how it reached the people through the satires of Gillray, Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, as well as Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Scott and Byron. She tells the moving story of people struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.
With Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles. Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. 128 minutes The climactic battle of Waterloo is re-enacted with such stunning realism by a cast of around 20,000 extras that it looks like documentary footage from history itself. Rod Steiger makes a commanding Napoleon, Christopher Plummer a worthy adversary as Wellington, while the supporting cast led by Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins and Virginia McKenna is excellent.
The Poet Laureate – who contributed these beautiful lines to the Road of Remembrance – reads from her wonderful poetry. Wed 19 Nov / 7.30pm / Quarterhouse £10 / Friends & Concessions £8
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Wed 19 Nov / 3pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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Thursday 20 November
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Friday 21 November
HISTORY
Amy Licence Richard III Why does Richard III remain so controversial after five centuries? After the dramatic announcement that his body had been discovered, past controversies were matched by fresh disputes. The question of his reburial provoked national debate and protest, taking levels of interest in the medieval king to an unprecedented level. Portrayed as an evil hunchback by Shakespeare, and in recent years as a much maligned King, what exactly did Richard do to merit such reactions? Why did he take the throne in 1483? What happened to his nephews, the Princes in the Tower? What is the truth about his death at Bosworth Field, which heralded the arrival of the Tudors?
HISTORY
Lisa Hilton Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince ‘We are a prince from a line of princes’ Lisa Hilton’s majestic biography of ‘The Virgin Queen’, Elizabeth I, provides vibrant new insights on the monarch’s compelling life story. Lisa Hilton presents a fresh interpretation of Elizabeth as a queen who saw herself primarily as a Renaissance prince. Elizabeth was not an exceptional woman but an exceptional ruler, and Hilton redraws English history with this animated portrait of an astounding life. Her biography maps the dramatic journey that Elizabeth took from being a timid and meek newly-crowned queen, to one of the most powerful and vivid monarchs ever to rule England.
Author of six books on the period, including Richard III: The Road to Leicester and biographies of Richard’s mother, wife and niece, Amy Licence explores the King’s life and reign and some of the most difficult historical questions to answer.
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris
Tracy Borman Who was Thomas Cromwell really, Hilary Mantel’s leading character? He played a great part in Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his marriage to Anne Boleyn, and her execution, in England’s split with the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformation.
In this illustrated talk, Sue Roe will show that the real revolution in the arts first took place not in the 1920s to the sounds of the Charleston and black jazz but more intimately, in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century.
Reviled as a schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power, Cromwell was also a loving husband, father and a devoted servant to both Cardinal Wolsey and the king as Tracy Borman, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, will show.
She brings to life the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910: that of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck and Modigliani, the Ballet Russe and the salons of Gertrude Stein.
Thur 20 Nov / 7.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Fri 21 Nov / 1pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Thur 20 Nov / 3pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Thur 20 Nov / 1pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
FILM
STORIES
With Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston. Directed by Shekhar Kapur. 124 min
Enjoy a delicious Indian dinner at Curry Garden in the company of writers. Colin Grant remembers his Jamaican father in 70s Britain, Balraj Khanna tells the story of a young Indian who arrives in 60s London and Jennifer Klinec, while exploring Iranian cooking, discovers the difficulties of love in this repressive country. Clash of cultures, the importance of food, memory, innocence and experience are just some of the topics to be discussed.
Elizabeth (1998)
The Oscar-winning film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch. Thur 20 Nov / 4.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 Box Office 01303 760750
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Friday 21 November
Saturday 22 November
HISTORY
Andrew Martin Belles and Whistles In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman’s on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous ‘named trains’ and aspired to ride aboard them. Andrew Martin has travelled aboard five of these famous train journeys modern day equivalents and explains how we got from there to here. He combines humour, historical anecdote, reportage from the present and romantic evocations of the past.
IDEAS
Café Philo with Kate Figes
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
HUMOUR
What better way to start your Christmas festive season than joining us for the Christmas Lights Switch On at the Creative Quarter. We promise live music, happenings, great food and shopping for the whole family. All the Creative Quarter shops, artists’ studios and galleries will stay open until 8pm. Local shops will once again take part in the Window Display Competition, pulling out all the stops to get everyone in the festive spirit for the coming weeks. Vote for your favourite window display and win amazing prizes!
Undoubtedly one of the most talked-about shows on the improvised comedy circuit, Austentatious is an hour-long comedy play spun in the inimitable style of Jane Austen – and based entirely on audience suggestions. Performed in period costume with live cello accompaniment, it is an immersive and hilarious treat for fans of Austen and improvised comedy alike.
Creative Quarter Christmas Lights Switch On
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Fri 21 Nov / 7.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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Come for a lazy start of the day and discuss monogamy and betrayal, truth and lies, with Kate Figes over coffee and croissants in Rocksalt bar. Why do affairs happen? Can a couple ever recover and if yes, how? Come and share stories, no personal experience required, both men and women welcome! Sat 22 Nov / 10.30am / Rocksalt £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Sat 22 Nov / 11.30am / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
NATURE
JWS Bradshaw Dogs and cats: the animals amongst us Dr John Bradshaw is an anthrozoologist at Bristol University, the science of human-animal interactions. His research interests centre on the behaviour and welfare of domestic cats and dogs and their relationships with people. His best-selling books have been translated in many languages and his television programmes attract record audiences. Don’t miss this chance to listen to his findings on your favourite pet and to ask him your questions! Sat 22 Nov / 1pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6 17
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Saturday 22 November
Saturday 22 November
NATURE
HISTORY
STORIES
BIOGRAPHY
1,000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries.
The acclaimed author of The Victorian City vividly explores parts the 500-year history of how and why our homes have come to be what they are owing to social, religious and economic factors. Expect thrilling mini histories of many household items from cutlery to the fitted kitchen on the way.
Michael Frayns talks about his most recent hilarious novel Skios, about applying the rules of the stage farce to fiction, lampooning the wealthy and making fun of intellectual life.
Clare Tomalin talks about – sometimes resident of Folkestone – Charles Dickens, the subject of her award-winning biography. She discusses his relationship with Nelly Terman and her own contribution to the film, The Invisible Woman. Claire Tomalin is the author of award-winning biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. The Invisible Woman (a study of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens) was made into a film with Ralph Fiennes.
Jules Howard Sex on Earth
Judith Flanders
Sex made planet Earth sexy.
Sat 22 Nov / 4pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
Biologist Jules Howard tells us the how and why of sex on Earth. From sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, racy harems, penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits, monogamy and true love.
Claire Tomalin
Michael Frayn ‘s novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It and A Landing on the Sun. Headlong was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his novel, Spies, won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently Afterlife. Sat 22 Nov / 5.30pm / Quarterhouse £10 / Friends & Concessions £8
Sat 22 Nov / 2.30pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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Michael Frayn
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Sunday 23 November
Sunday 23 November
CRAFT
Paper making workshop with Jonathan Korejko A one day workshop in which you will be taught how to make handmade paper from a variety of ingredients with step-by-step expert guidance. Prepare to get your hands dirty but have fun and leave with beautiful and unique paper. Sun 23 Nov / 10.30am – 4.30pm / Quarterhouse £30 / Friends & Concessions £25 (not included in the Festival Pass) 12 places only
IDEAS
IDEAS
The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happiest people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hate the Swedes?
In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. He paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by immigration – its ethnic minorities projected to be around 25 per cent of the population by the early 2020s.
Michael Booth The Truth about the Nordic Miracle
LANGUAGE
ART
David Marsh For Who the Bell Tolls
Geordie Greig Breakfast with Lucian
The Guardian Style editor, David Marsh talks about the grammar that people really need to know, such as the fact that an apostrophe is the difference between a company that knows its s*** and a company that knows it’s s***.
For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast, when over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. Greig shares some of Freud’s stories: of death threats; escaping from Nazi Germany; falling out with his brother Clement; loathing his mother; painting David Hockney, Kate Moss and the Queen; and why Velázquez was the greatest painter. It is revelatory about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies and his love of gambling.
Clear, honest use of English has many enemies: politicians, business and marketing people, local authority and civil service jargonauts, rail companies, estate agents, academics ... and some journalists. He tells us why he decided to write the book that might defeat them. Sun 23 Nov / 11am / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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David Goodhart Success and Failures of Post-War Immigration
David Goodhart tells us why he argues that an overzealous multiculturalism has reinforced difference instead of promoting a common life and why Britain needs a political culture of integration. His solutions are firstly, as advocated by the centre right, to bring immigration down to more sustainable levels. Secondly, as advocated by the centre left, to shape a progressive national story about openness and opportunity – one that captures how people of different traditions are coming together to make the British dream.
Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians, on and off, for over ten years, perplexed by their many strange paradoxes and equally bemused by the unquestioning enthusiasm for all things Nordic that has engulfed the rest of the world, whether it be for their food, television, social systems or chunky knitwear. He tells us what his journey through all five of the Nordic countries has taught him and gives us a darker picture of a region plagued by taboos and populated by extremists of various shades.
What do you think? This is your chance to come and join the discussion. David Goodhart is the Chair of Demos’s Advisory Group. He was the founder and former editor of Prospect Magazine.
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Fringe Festival
Sunday 23 November
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The Poetry of Clothing
Short Story Competition
A poetry-writing workshop inspired by fabric, patterns - and memories led by spoken word poet Leah Thorn in a beautiful vintage clothes shop.Using flow-writing and other poetry activities, Leah will invite you to play and create. No previous experience necessary. Just bring paper and pen and a willingness to be inspired.
Run by FOLKESTONE WRITERS, open to anyone within the UK. The best stories will be published in the next Folkestone Anthology. Entrance fee: £5 per story Deadline: 31 October 2014 FIRST PRIZE £100 SECOND PRIZE £50
Booking is essential, as places are limited, and for more information, call Leah on 07730 431 286
No particular theme is specified but stories should appeal to an intelligent adult readership. They must be the author’s own original work, as yet unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
IDEAS
Lewis Dartnell How to Rebuild our World from Scratch
Tue 18 Nov / 7pm–9.30pm 7 The Old High Street, Folkestone CT20 1RJ £14 / Concessions £8
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Short Story Competition
Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again. What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch?
The winning stories and others will be read. Copies of the Folkestone 2014 Anthology will be on sale. Wed 19 Nov / 3pm Fresh & Easy, 17 Old High Street, Folkestone
Once you’ve scavenged what you can, how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food, generate power, prepare medicines? Could you avert another Dark Ages or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment?
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Living in the modern world, we have become disconnected from the basic processes that support our lives.
Transitions 4, published and edited by Pavement Pounders, is produced for the Between the Storms project about Folkestone as a port. It continues with the theme of crossings that explore the paradox of port as haven and bastion. Contents include fictions of sea, accounts of Channel crossings by ferry or swimming, and articles concerned with Folkestone’s rich historical, geological, literary and artistic heritage. The title of this year’s Triennial ‘Lookout’ aptly describes Folkestone’s position as place of embarkation and arrival for many millions and some of its artists have, for Transitions 4, written on how their works express this heritage.
How do the world’s most popular musicians create hit songs; is it natural talent, or do external influences affect their writing process? Jenny Boyd, 60s model and ex-wife of drummer Mick Fleetwood, now a psychologist, spent four years interviewing 75 world famous musicians such as Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Julian Lennon, Don Henley, Hank Marvin, Keith Richards, Ringo Starr, Steve Winwood, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Joni Mitchell. Jenny has delved into the drive to create, the importance of nurturing creativity, the role of unconscious influences and the effects of chemicals and drugs on the creative process.
Lewis Dartnell introduces his quickstart guide for rebooting civilisation. Lewis Dartnell is currently a UK Space Agency research Fellow at the University of Leicester, working in the field of astrobiology and the search for microbial life on Mars. He has won several awards for his science writing and outreach work and is a brilliant speaker. Sun 23 Nov / 5pm / Quarterhouse £7 / Friends & Concessions £6
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The Word Set Free Poetry Competition An exciting opportunity for budding young poets Become a friend of the Folkestone Book Festival The Friends offer support and sponsorship of Festival events. Your membership of the Friends is an important element ensuring the future success of the Festival.
The Creative Foundation and Folkestone Herald are offering Kent schools the chance to take part in The Word Set Free poetry competition as part of the 2014 Folkestone Book Festival.
For an annual membership fee of £10 single, £15 double (couples/friends) you can enjoy the following benefits and make a vital contribution to the Folkestone Book Festival.
— Friends Festival Preview — Concessions on Festival tickets — Priority booking — Dedicated Friends area on the Festival website — Book reading group — Annual quiz night
The Herald are seeking talented young writers from local schools, to create original poems around the themes of:
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To join the Friends please contact: Jo Olliver, Membership Secretary Tel 01303 247775 or email info@flits.org.uk
Winter Schools are invited to encourage promising new writers by asking their students of Years 5 and 6 to create and illustrate poems for submission. The selected entries will be celebrated at the schools gala with H L Dennis on Tuesday 18th November at Quarterhouse, as well as being published online and in The Herald. Deadline Friday 7th November. Entries should be submitted to Quarterhouse by post or handed to Box Office.
Quarterhouse Café Open Throughout Book Festival
The café will offer a range of hot beverages, freshly baked cakes and biscuits, sandwiches, snacks, soft drinks, wines, beers and spirits all at very reasonable prices!
The Quarterhouse Café was a hive of activity at last year’s Book Festival. The perfect place for everybody to meet and discuss the fantastic and varied programme of events that the festival has to offer. A relaxed and comfortable space where you can meet your favourite authors who will be signing their books.
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By Train High speed trains run regularly from London St Pancras International (Journey time 57 Minutes). The last return train from Folkestone to London is at 22:56. Folkestone Central Station is a short walk from the centre of town and approximately 15 minutes from Quarterhouse. National Railway Enquiries – 08457 484 950 or www.nationalrail. co.uk
Group bookings Purchase more than 6 full adult rate, Concession/ Friends tickets for any Folkestone Book Festival events and receive a 10% discount on final price. To benefit from this offer please call Quarterhouse Box Office on 01303 760750. This offer doesn’t apply for free events.
By Car From the M20, turn off at junction 13 and follow signs to the Harbour. (SAT NAV USERS – CT20 1BN Parking The Nearest car parks are Tram Road (2mins), Payers Park (2mins) and the Harbour car park
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