Festival Programme

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Festival Programme

3 – 11 June 2016
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How to
Book Tickets
You can book tickets for all events* online
through the Derby Book Festival website:
www.derbybookfestival.co.uk
In addition:
For events at Déda you can
also call 01332 370911 or visit:
www.deda.uk.com
Please note:
For events at Derby Theatre you
can also call 01332 593939 or visit:
www.derbytheatre.co.uk
Please do arrive in good time for your event.
Seating in the majority of venues is first come,
first served. We reserve the right to deny entry
For events at Derby LIVE you can also
call 01332 255800 or visit:
www.derbylive.co.uk
For events in all other venues
(except Derby Theatre, Derby LIVE
and Déda) tickets are available from
the Festival Box Office (at QUAD) or
you can call 01332 290606.
Tickets can be purchased in person from the
individual box offices above. Some events are
free but ticketed and have to be booked with
the venue – check event for booking details.
to any latecomers.
*Except Derbyshire County Cricket Club on Tuesday 7 June,
the Writer’s Den on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June and the
Writing Surgeries on Sunday 5, Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 June.
Most Festival author events last
approximately one hour, with 45
minutes for authors to talk and
read followed by 15 minutes’
question time. At each event
there is a book stall stocking
the author’s books and author
signings after the event.
You will be able to collect your tickets from
the venue that you have bought them from or
alternatively some venues will offer a postal
non-refundable or exchangeable, except in
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the event of a cancellation.
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– Foreword –
Welcome to the second Derby Book Festival
We were overwhelmed by the support we received for
our first Festival and were delighted by its success. It
will be a hard act to follow, but we believe that our 2016
programme is even more varied and interesting.
Once again we have aimed to appeal to all ages and
to offer a diverse range of events, including a number
with Derby related themes: railways, local history and
architecture, cycling, birding, cricket and even real
ale. We have also expanded our programme for
children, teenagers and families and believe that the
programme has something for everyone. Being Chair
of Derby Book Festival is a great joy and a privilege.
We are delighted that we have established
a partnership with the Guardian and
are offering two Guardian Live events,
with Matt Haig and Simon Callow.
We have a small but dedicated team which organises
the Festival and the support of a large and committed
group of volunteers. However, we could not stage
such an ambitious programme without the generosity
and support of Derby’s arts and educational
organisations. We are also grateful to Derby’s business
community and to the other local organisations which
provide funding, sponsorship and support in kind.
In particular we would like to thank Arts Council
England, Foundation Derbyshire and the
University of Derby for their on-going support.
A welcome from Liz Fothergill CBE,
Chair of Derby Book Festival and
High Sheriff of Derbyshire 2016/17
1 | Derby Book Festival
Message from Professor Kathryn Mitchell
It is a real pleasure for the University of
Derby to support Derby Book Festival
again this year and we are excited to
see the breadth of events in the 2016
programme.
Events such as Derby Book Festival play
an important role in the cultural life of our
city, making it a more vibrant and exciting
place to live. Derby is fast growing a
reputation for being a city of festivals.
Reading is something we are passionate
about as an institution and that is why we are
proud to offer our enthusiastic support.
Books entertain us, but they can also challenge
to discover the joy of reading, especially
and inspire. They have the power to enrich
something we have never tried before.
lives and shape our future, if we let them.
Judging by the success of last year,
It is therefore my hope that this year’s Derby
I feel privileged to be involved.
Book Festival provides us with an opportunity
Most Festival author events last approximately one hour, with 45 minutes for authors
to talk and read followed by 15 minutes’ question time. At each event there is a
book stall stocking the author’s books and author signings after the event.
Join us online to see all the latest news
www.derbybookfestival.co.uk
Tweet us your Festival highlights as they happen
@DerbyBookFest
Tag your friends at your favourite Festival events
DerbyBookFestival
Featured on
Friday 3 June
Opening Event:
Carol Ann Duffy with John Sampson
Sponsored by
7.30pm – 9pm
Derby Cathedral, Cathedral Quarter
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Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate and her
Her writing explores both everyday experience
‘favourite court musician’, John Sampson,
and our inner worlds in deceptively simple,
bring an event of light and shade, laughter and
accessible and profound poems. Alongside
reflection to Derby Cathedral. She will read
the words, John Sampson takes us on a
from her acclaimed poetry collections, including
virtuoso tour through musical highlights of
The World’s Wife, The Bees and other works.
the past 500 years, played on a fascinating
collection of period and modern instruments.
Featured on
Friday 3 June
Credit: Azadour Guzelian
Matt Haig
In association with Guardian Live
2pm – 3pm
QUAD, Cathedral Quarter
4
£8
When Matt Haig was 24 his world fell apart as
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby. he suddenly came face to face with severe
Kathryn is a chartered Psychologist with
depression. The best-selling Reasons to
a life long interest in mental health.
Stay Alive is a funny, warm and moving story
Matt Haig’s previous books include A Boy
of how he coped with his illness. It’s a book
Called Christmas and The Humans, described
about how to live better and feel more alive.
in the Guardian as “The first book that
Matt will be interviewed by Kathryn Mitchell,
changed the way I see people completely.”
Friday 3 June
Helen Mort: No Map Could Show Them
6pm – 7pm
Déda Theatre, Cathedral Quarter
3
£6
Book through Déda: www.deda.uk.com or call 01332 370911
Join recent Derbyshire Poet Laureate Helen
Mort for a poetry reading inspired by the
landscape of the Peak District and the people
who risk their fate on its gritstone edges. Her
latest collection No Map Could Show Them is
inspired by mountains - from Alison Hargreaves
on K2 and the human dramas enacted on
Everest, to shadowy mountains of the mind. Her
first collection Division Street was shortlisted
for the Costa Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize.
John Harvey and Blue Territory
9.30pm – 11pm
Déda, CUBE Café | Bar, Cathedral Quarter
3
£10
Novelist and poet John Harvey is a dedicated
jazz fan and jazz features in many of his
novels and poems. He’s been working with
the Blue Territory jazz quartet for several
years celebrating in words and music some
of the great jazz musicians of the past and,
with the 12th and final Charlie Resnick novel
published last year, a nod in the direction of
Nottinghamshire’s own jazz-loving detective.
Credit: Molly Boiling
Refreshments are available at The CUBE Café | Bar, but please
book your table in advance.
Saturday 4 June
Poetry of a Place
10am (and then stay for as long as you like)
Derby Museum & Art Gallery,
Cathedral Quarter
10
Jacqueline Riding: Derby, Bonnie Prince
Charlie and the ‘45
11.30am – 12.30pm
Cathedral Quarter
£5 (Including tea or coffee)
10
£6 / £4
Arrive at 10am for an introduction to the event in
the Coffee House and then settle down in your
Why is there a statue of ‘Bonnie Prince
favourite spot and be inspired by the Museum’s
Charlie’ on Cathedral Green, as well as a room
exhibits to write a poem. An ode on the Orrery
dedicated to him in Derby Museum? The 1745
… a sonnet about seashells … a limerick about a
Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British
longboat … or even a haiku on herons! Poems
history when Charles Edward Stuart sailed from
have to be submitted by 4pm and a selection will
France to Scotland in July 1745 to claim the
be displayed during the Festival week. Children
throne for his exiled father. After victories in
under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
Scotland, he marched south, swiftly reaching
Derby. Historian and art historian Dr Jacqueline
Riding’s new book Jacobites: A New History of
the ‘45 Rebellion reveals this fascinating period.
Dr Jacqueline Riding is the former Assistant
Curator, the Palace of Westminster and
founding Director of the Handel House
Museum, London. She was the art and history
consultant on Mike Leigh’s film Mr. Turner
and will also be on his next film, Peterloo.
C.J. Flood Book Signing
11am - 1pm
Waterstones, St Peter’s Quarter
6
Free
C. J. Flood grew up in Derby and her first
novel, Infinite Sky was longlisted for the
Carnegie and won the Branford Boase
Award 2013. Chelsey will be signing copies
of her second novel, Nightwanderers.
Featured on
Saturday 4 June
Credit: Jonathan Drori
Tracy Chevalier:
At the Edge of the Orchard
11.30am – 12.30pm
frontier to claim the land. In this rich, brutal
story Tracy evokes the futility of the struggle to
escape our roots, no matter how hard we try.
4
£10
Tracy has written eight novels and edited
two short story collections. Her second
Best selling author Tracy Chevalier joins us to
novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, sold five
talk about, and read from, her latest novel
million copies worldwide and was made
At the Edge of the Orchard, which features the
into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett
Goodenough pioneer family, who plant apple
Johansson. Born in Washington DC, Tracy
trees in the Black Swamp on the American
has lived in the UK for over 30 years.
Featured on
Saturday 4 June
Credit: Jonathan Drori
Charlotte Brontë: 200 years on Claire Harman & Tracy Chevalier
2pm – 3.15pm
4
£10
2016 marks the bicentenary of the birth of
Tracy Chevalier has a lifetime love of Charlotte’s
Charlotte Brontë. Join Claire Harman and Tracy
work and is curator of the 2016 celebratory
Chevalier as they discuss her remarkable life.
exhibitions at Haworth Parsonage. Tracy also
edited Reader, I Married Him, an anthology
Claire Harman is a renowned biographer. Her
by today’s finest women writers, inspired
latest book is Charlotte Brontë: A Life. Claire
by Jane Eyre. They will pay homage to the
will discuss Charlotte’s literary reputation and
literary genius of Charlotte Brontë, and
how she coped with the pressures of London
discuss why her extraordinary vision continues
and the famous literary figures of the day.
to inspire readers and writers today.
Saturday 4 June
Jenny Colgan & Claire North
Blurring the boundaries of genre fiction
4pm – 5pm
Stuart Maconie: The Pie at Night
7.30pm – 9pm
Guildhall Theatre, Cathedral Quarter
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£8 / £6
£15.25 / £13.25
Book through Derby LIVE: www.derbylive.co.uk/whats-on/
stuart-maconie1 or call 01332 255800
Two exciting authors, Jenny Colgan and
Claire North, both write under a number of
Writer and broadcaster Stuart
pseudonyms and their novels are often hard to
Maconie takes you on a nocturnal trip
categorise. From writing for Dr Who to what is
through Britain in search of fun.
often described as commercial women’s fiction
With his best-selling books as a guide
or literary fiction, the work of these two writers
Stuart plots a route that takes in high
is challenging perceptions about the lines we
art to low culture, family holidays to fell-
draw between science fiction, fantasy and what
walking, music, sport, politics, crown green
some would deem more ‘mainstream’ fiction.
bowling and zombie apocalypses … always
Hear them discuss their writing and interests,
keeping in mind his motto … “All things in
why they write under different names – and
moderation … including moderation!”
whether they are devising a new literary genre.
Festival Book Quiz with Pie and Peas
8pm ’til late
The Old Bell Hotel, Sadlergate,
Cathedral Quarter
17
£50
Per table for teams of up to
8 people (includes pie and
peas with a veggie option)
Do you know your Brontë from your Blyton
… your Rowling from your Roth? Here’s
your chance to be the first team to win the
Festival Book Quiz. This will surely become
a highlight of the Festival for years to come
and the Winner’s Trophy will be coveted!
Please enter as a team (minimum of 6 and
maximum of 8 per table). The team fee
includes pie and peas – perfect brain food!
Featured on
Saturday 4 June
CAMRA Real Ale event with Roger Protz
and the Dancing Duck Brewery
5.30pm for 6pm - 7.30pm
The Old Bell Hotel,
Sadlergate, Cathedral Quarter
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£12.50
(includes 3 half pints of
Dancing Duck beer)
Join CAMRA’s Roger Protz, author and editor of
also include three Dancing Duck tastings,
CAMRA’s (Campaign for Real Ale) Good Beer
including their Dark Drake beer which won
Guide and Derby Brewster Rachel Matthews,
‘Supreme’ Bronze in CAMRA’s annual Champion
owner of Dancing Duck Brewery. Find out how
Beer of Britain 2015. Derby has developed
CAMRA decides which pubs and breweries
an excellent reputation for its Real Ale pubs
make it into the Good Beer Guide, why so
and breweries and in 2012 travel gurus at the
many Derby pubs and breweries are listed in
Lonely Planet Guide described Derby as the
it and why Real Ale matters! The event will
“best place to drink real ale in the World”.
Featured on
Sunday 5 June
Credit: Kevin Davis
Simon Callow:
One Man Band
4pm – 5pm
Derby Theatre
1
£15
In association with Guardian Live
Book through
Derby Theatre:
or call 01332 593939
ambitiously took on one medium after another
- theatre, radio, film, television, even ballet
Simon Callow is one of the UK’s finest and
at one point - opening up new directions
best-loved actors, known for his many
and possibilities with his radical approach.
roles on stage and screen, including Four
Weddings and a Funeral. In One Man Band,
Simon Callow will read excerpts from the
the third volume in his epic survey of the
book and talk about what it would have
life and work of Orson Welles, Callow looks
been like to be around him, and ultimately,
at the triumphs and failures of a man who
what it was like to be Orson Welles.
Sunday 5 June
Clare Hartwell:
Revising Pevsner’s Derbyshire
Sponsored by
2pm – 3.15pm
4
Tim Moore
The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold …
and other misadventures!
3.30pm - 4.30pm
Derby Arena (includes tea and cake)
£10 / £8
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£10
Architectural historian and Pevsner Guide
author Clare Hartwell talks to fellow historian,
Sponsored By
Simon Bradley, about her revised and expanded
edition of the Derbyshire volume. The book is
based on years of research and exploration,
Tim Moore has ridden the route of the Tour de
and draws on the help of hundreds of people,
France, led a donkey on a 500-mile pilgrimage,
from historians to house-owners, who have
driven round the worst places in Britain in
answered queries or allowed visits. The result
an Austin Maestro and ridden the 3,160km
is a rich new portrait of the county, from great
route of the 1914 Giro Italia (only eight out
mansions to gentry houses and workers’
of 81 made it back) on a gearless, wooden-
terraces, including full accounts of the churches
wheeled road bike with wine corks for brakes.
and fresh explorations of every town and village.
His next book recounts his hideously
over-ambitious challenge to cycle the
length of the old Iron Curtain on a twowheeled East German shopping bike! That’s
9,000km and 20 countries in three months
on a 1960s version of a Boris Bike!
Featured on
Monday 6 June
Credit: Simon Revill
Sunjeev Sahota:
Home
Sponsored by;
6pm – 7pm
of a group of young Indian men searching
for a new life in Sheffield. The Guardian
describes it as “a brilliant and beautiful novel”
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£8 / £6
and that it “puts the most urgent questions
of the day in a human context.” Sunjeev’s
Derby born Sunjeev Sahota’s much-acclaimed
first novel, Ours Are The Streets, looked into
second novel, The Year of the Runaways,
the mind of a would-be suicide bomber in
was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in
Sheffield and won him a place on the 2013
2015. It portrays the dreams and struggles
Granta Best of Young British Novelists list.
Featured on
Monday 6 June
Ken Livingstone
in conversation with Matthew Parris
Being Red: A Politics for the Future
7.30pm - 8.30pm
against privatisation and pollution and went
head to head with Boris Johnson. His latest
book, Being Red, offers a clear-sighted study
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£12
of the Left’s possibilities and limitations, with
reflections on the Labour Party and its future.
Two leading ex-politicians and commentators
Matthew Parris worked for the Foreign
of the last thirty years, Ken Livingstone
Office and the Conservative Research
and Matthew Parris, come together
Department before serving as MP for West
for what promises to be a fascinating
Derbyshire. He was The Times’ parliamentary
insight into the world of politics.
sketchwriter for 13 years and is now a Times
columnist and won the Press Awards Political
How should the Left govern? Ken Livingstone
Journalist of the Year 2014. He broadcasts
serves up an insider’s account of the Labour
for radio and television and presents BBC
Party and its future at a pivotal moment in its
Radio 4’s Great Lives. He is also a regular
history. Having spent years at the head of
columnist for The Spectator and won the
the Greater London Council, he then served
Orwell Prize for his acclaimed autobiography,
two terms as London Mayor where he battled
Chance Witness, published in 2002.
Monday 6 June
Emma, Duchess of Rutland:
Capability Brown & Belvoir:
Discovering a Lost Landscape
11am for 11.30am – 12.30pm
Cathedral Quarter Hotel,
Cathedral Quarter
13
£8
Ticket includes tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival.
Bookings deadline: Thursday 2 June
2016 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth
of Lancelot Capability Brown, who changed the
face of 18th Century England, creating beautiful
landscapes for country estates and mansions.
Of the 170 projects Capability Brown executed
Mark Patterson: Roman Derbyshire
2pm - 3pm
WEA, The Mill, Lodge Lane
in his lifetime, 150 survive today. But as of 2015,
there are now 151. Amazingly, after 235 years,
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his plans for the garden at Belvoir Castle - home
of the Dukes of Rutland for over 1,000 years -
Derbyshire was the geographical centre of
were discovered hidden in the castle archives. Roman Britain. Derby, Chesterfield, Buxton and
The Duchess of Rutland is a real champion
many places in the White and Dark Peaks hosted
for the very best of British and that includes
forts, farms and industries, including home-
gardens and gardening! Determined to
grown Derbyshire Ware pottery, all connected by
leave her own mark on Belvoir Castle, Her
numerous Roman roads. Tales of lost antiquities
Grace, the 11th Duchess of Rutland has set
and legends about those left behind when the
out to finish what Mr Brown started!
Romans withdrew are also part of the story
told by journalist Mark Patterson, whose earlier
book, Roman Nottinghamshire was shortlisted
for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year.
Featured on
Tuesday 7 June
Credit: Jan Klos
Simon Bradley:
The Railways: Nation,
Network and People
7pm – 8.15pm
The Roundhouse, Derby College,
Pride Park
Sponsored by;
us that to travel through Britain by train is
to travel through time as well as space.
Written with the general reader in mind and
voted History Book of the Year 2015 by The
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£12
Sunday Times, The Railways: Nation, Network
and People will also inspire the enthusiast to
In a major new book Simon Bradley explores
look at Britain’s railways with a fresh eye.
the landscape of the railways, the trains
“A magnificent story both intricate and
and the passengers who travel along the
gripping ... Bradley has mastered the
thousands of route-miles fenced off from the
detail without losing touch with the
rest of the country. He weaves a remarkable
romance.” Matthew Parris, The Times.
story of technological change, of architecture
“A first-class, entertaining analysis of a
and engineering, of shifting social classes,
great, albeit troubled, institution that has
gender relations and public health, of tourism
now been given a history worthy of its
and the changing world of work, showing
national significance.” The Guardian.
In partnership with Derby College.
Tuesday 7 June
Marketing Derby Bondholders’ Event:
Author to be confirmed
8am - 9.30am
University of Derby
7
£8
If you are a Marketing Derby Bondholder, please book through
Lindsey Hatfield. Other bookings through the Festival Box
Office at QUAD.
At the first Derby Book Festival in 2015 over
100 Marketing Derby Bondholders enjoyed an
evening with James Daunt at the University
of Derby. Guests heard how Alexander
Mamut acquired the high street bookseller
Waterstones and appointed James as its new
Chief Executive to take the company into profit.
This year we are delighted that we are again
Noël Janis-Norton:
Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting
11am - 12noon
hosting an event in association with Marketing
Derby Bondholders and organising a business
3
£5
breakfast to be held at the University of Derby.
Guest speaker to be announced
on the Festival website soon.
Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting is a
revolutionary programme that provides
simple steps to take the daily battles out of
parenting. These strategies resolve one of
parents’ biggest frustrations: getting your
children to listen and do what you ask, the
first time you ask. Noël Janis Norton’s career
as a learning and behaviour specialist spans
more than forty years: as a teacher, advisor,
tutor, head teacher and a parenting educator.
Noël is the founder and director of the Calmer,
Easier, Happier Parenting Centre in London,
which provides courses and consultations for
parents of toddlers through teens. In her most
recent title Calmer, Easier, Happier Screen Time,
Noël adapts her proven parenting strategies to
help parents limit and manage screen time.
Tuesday 7 June
Handling History
11am - 11.30am
Derby Museum & Art Gallery
10
Chris Adams
12noon - 2.30pm
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
5
FREE
Derby Museum will bring out some new
objects for Handling History as part of the
Festival. They have been busy exploring
£25
Ticket includes a two course lunch plus ticket for the
Derbyshire v Durham match in the Royal London Cup.
Book through Alexa Dokic on 01332 388 111
or e-mail: alexa.dokic@derbyshireccc.com
the stores for fascinating objects related
In a cricket career spanning nearly 30 years,
to literature – come and see them up
Chris Adams has enjoyed some unforgettable
close and handle them for yourself!
moments. He started his career with Derbyshire
and went on to play for England, enduring a
brutal Test debut against South Africa in 1999.
Words of Power:
Reading Shakespeare and the Bible
6.30pm - 7.30pm
He was the greatest captain in the history of
Sussex, turning them into the most successful
county of the 2000s. Throughout his life in
cricket ‘Grizzly’ has always tried to remain true
to his convictions. Now, as he contemplates
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his next challenges in the game, Adams tells
his own remarkable story of a life in cricket in
Shakespeare and the Bible are two of the
Grizzly: The Life and Times of Chris Adams.
great icons of English-speaking culture, their
words appearing everywhere from pulpits to
tea-towels, from coronations to conspiracy
theories. Jem Bloomfield’s talk, based on
his book Words of Power, traces the origins
exploring how they have been used and
interpreted across the centuries and telling
some intriguing stories along the way. What
GRIZZLY
and later history of these two ‘sacred texts’,
can a spaniel tell us about Shakespeare’s
personal life? Why did St Augustine disapprove
of St Ambrose reading the Bible?
GRIZZLY
MY Life and Times in Cricket
Chris Adams
Tuesday 7 June
Poetry Evening with Sandeep Parmar
and Matthew Clegg
7pm - 9pm
Mickleover Library
£4
(to find venue visit: www.derby.gov.uk/libraries)
Born in Nottingham, Sandeep’s mother’s family
have lived in Derby since the 1960s, owning one
of the first Asian grocery shops on Normanton
Road. Much of her recent work engages with
immigration, racial and national identities.
She teaches English Literature at the
University of Liverpool and regularly
appears on BBC Radio 3.
Matthew was Poet in Residence for the
Credit: Cunard
Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere from 1999 to
2001 and currently teaches creative writing
at the University of Derby and hosts the
Co-Conspirators creative salon in Derby.
Elly Griffiths
7pm – 8.30pm
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£4
Following her sell out event last year, we
are delighted that Elly is back in Derby for
a second visit. The Woman in Blue is her
eighth book about forensic archaeologist
Ruth Galloway. Elly’s inspiration came from
her husband who switched from a city job
to become an archaeologist. Ruth lives
in her cottage in Norfolk with her two cats
Credit: Jack Brooks
– when she is not digging up graves and
bones linked to archaeology, that is.
Featured on
Wednesday 8 June
Credit: Robin Sinha
David Lindo aka ‘The Urban Birder’:
Tales from Concrete Jungles
Sponsored by;
6.30pm – 7.30pm
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5pm – 6pm
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£10 / £8
FREE
David Lindo, also known as ‘The Urban Birder’,
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has organised a
has visited over 270 cities worldwide in search
special Festival Watch Point to view the world
of urban birds, one of them being Derby
famous Derby Cathedral Peregrines in their
which he visited in 2010. During his travels he
11th year together and to talk about the project. has found a surprising number of committed
conservationists, interesting birding locations
Places are limited. Please be prepared to wait
and importantly, many birds. Join him on his
as we take groups in turn at 15 minute intervals.
journey around the world and also hear how
We are unable to take bookings for these.
the fastest bird on the planet can be found right
above your heads as you listen to his talk.
Wednesday 8 June
Hansons’ Valuation:
Books ... and printed ephemera
10am - 12noon
Pickford’s House, Friargate
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Afternoon Tea with Selina Hastings
Somerset Maugham, A Life Under Cover
3pm - 5pm
Cathedral Quarter Hotel, Cathedral Quarter
13
FREE
Come along and join one of the Hansons’
valuation team in this special edition event for
the Festival. Bring along your treasured printed
£15
Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on arrival. A scone and jam,
a sandwich and tea and coffee will be served after the talk.
Please book by phone through QUAD on
01332 290606 by Tuesday 31 May
ephemera: books, magazines, posters … and find
out more about their history and today’s value.
During much of his lifetime Somerset
Maugham was the most famous writer in the
world, selling millions of novels and short
stories which were translated and filmed. Of
Human Bondage became one of the most
widely read novels of the 20th century. He
seemed to know everyone, from Henry
James to Winston Churchill and looked every
inch the conventional English gentleman.
And yet conventional he was not. In Maugham’s
outwardly respectable existence there was a
great deal he was determined to keep hidden,
and in the latter part of his life he did his utmost
to make sure his privacy would remain intact.
Only in recent years have the secrets of this
extraordinary man’s life finally been revealed.
Check out our children and family events on pages 36 - 45
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Wednesday 8 June
Alison Weir
Sponsored by;
7.15pm – 8.30pm
overshadowed by dynastic pressures, doubts
and the allure of an ambitious woman?
Alison Weir evokes a court peopled by the
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luminaries of the early Tudor age and the
magnificent figure of a young and athletic
The lives of Henry VIII’s queens make for
Henry VIII. They live in a lost world of
dramatic stories. In her new novel, the first
splendour and brutality, dominated by faith
in a series of six, historian and historical
and by momentous religious change. This
novelist Alison Weir tells the poignant story
was Katherine’s world, and we can only
of Katherine of Aragon, the King’s first wife,
understand her properly within its context.
drawing on new research and keeping closely
to the historical record. Was Katherine’s
Alison Weir has published 17 history
union with Prince Arthur consummated? What
books and five historical novels, selling
happens when a happy royal marriage is
over 2.7 million books worldwide.
Wednesday 8 June
Derby on Board Games
4pm - 10pm
The Book Café, Cornmarket,
Cathedral Quarter
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FREE
Family event
Join Derby on Board Games for a special board
games evening - all games played will have
a book theme. Come and join in the fun!
Derby on Board Games meet regularly
on the last Wednesday of the month at
Credit: bonbon Photography
the Book Café. They are a family-friendly
group - everyone is welcome regardless of
Milly Johnson
7pm – 8.30pm
6
age, gaming knowledge and skill level. £4
As well as being a Sunday Times best selling
author of 11 published novels, two short story
books and a novella, Milly Johnson is also a
copywriter for the greetings card industry, a
joke-writer, a columnist, after dinner speaker,
poet, BBC newspaper reviewer and a
sometime BBC radio presenter. She writes
about love, life, friendships and that little bit of
magic that sometimes crops up in real life.
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At a glance
Children and families events
Fri 27 May - 12 Jun
Children’s Book Trail
Sadlergate
Fri 3 June
Family Friday: Shadows and Shapes
DMAG
10am - 11.30am
P.36
Fri 3 June
Doodle Dance (Age 3+ and families)
Déda
11.30am - 12.30pm
P.37
Fri 3 June
Matt Haig
QUAD
2pm - 3pm
P.4
Fri 3 June
Doodle Dance (Age 3+ and families)
Déda
2.30pm - 3.30pm
P.37
Fri 3 June
Helen Mort
Déda Theatre
6pm - 7pm
P.5
Fri 3 June
Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson
Derby Cathedral
7.30pm - 9pm
P.3
Fri 3 June
John Harvey & Blue Territory
Déda CUBE
9.30pm - 11pm
P.5
Sat 4 June
Bringing Books to Life
Market Place/Guildhall
Arches/Clubroom
10am - 4pm
P.40
Sat 4 June
Poetry of a Place
DMAG
10am
P.6
Sat 4 June
Children and Families’ Illustration Workshops
QUAD
10.15am - 11.15am
P.39
Sat 4 June
Illustration Workshops: Teenagers
QUAD
3pm - 4pm
P.39
Sat 4 June
Storytelling at intu Derby
intu
11am - 4pm
P.37
Sat 4 June
C J Flood Book Signing
Waterstones
11am - 1pm
P.6
Sat 4 June
Make it Sessions
DMAG
11am - 3pm
P.37
Sat 4 June
Tracy Chevalier: At the Edge of the Orchard
QUAD
11.30am - 12.30pm
P.7
Sat 4 June
Jacqueline Riding - Derby, Bonnie
Prince Charlie and the ‘45
DMAG
11.30am - 12.30pm
P.6
Sat 4 June
Andy Cope & Spydog: The Final Chapter
QUAD
11.30am - 12.30pm
P.38
Sat 4 June
Andy Cope - The Art of Being a Brilliant Teenager
QUAD
1.45am - 2.45pm
P.38
Sat 4 June
Claire Harman & Tracy Chevalier
Charlotte Brontë: 200 years on
QUAD
2pm - 3.15pm
P.8
Sat 4 June
Jenny Colgan & Claire North
QUAD
4pm - 5pm
P.9
Sat 4 June
CAMRA Real Ale Event
Old Bell Hotel
5.30pm - 7.30pm
P.10
Sat 4 June
Festival Book Quiz
Old Bell Hotel
8pm ‘til late
P.9
Sat 4 June
Stuart Maconie
Guildhall Theatre
7.30pm - 9pm
P.9
P.36
Sun 5 June
Augustus and His Smile Premiere
DMAG
12.30pm - 1.30pm
P.42
Sun 5 June
Clare Hartwell: Revising Pevsner’s “Derbyshire”
QUAD
2pm - 3.15pm
P.12
Sun 5 June
Augustus and His Smile Premiere
DMAG
2.30pm - 3.30pm
P.42
Sun 5 June
Tim Moore
Arena
3.30pm - 4.30pm
P.12
Sun 5 June
Writing Surgery (Sunday to Tuesday)
QUAD
4pm - 10pm
P.46
Sun 5 June
Simon Callow
Derby Theatre
4pm - 5pm
P.11
Mon 6 June
Duchess of Rutland: Capability Brown and
Belvoir: Discovering a Lost Landscape
CQ Hotel
11.30am - 12.30pm
P.5
Mon 6 June
Roman Derbyshire - Mark Patterson
WEA
2pm - 3pm
P.15
Mon 6 June
Sunjeev Sahota: Home
QUAD
6pm - 7pm
P.13
Mon 6 June
Ken Livingstone with Matthew Parris
QUAD
7.30pm - 8.30pm
P.14
Tues 7 June
Marketing Derby Bondholder Event - TBC
University of Derby
8am - 9.30am
P.17
Tues 7 June
Noel Janis-Norton
Deda Theatre
11am - 12noon
P.17
Tues 7 June
Handling History
DMAG
11am - 11.30am
P.18
Tues 7 June
Cricketing Author - Chris Adams
Derbyshire CCC
12noon - 2.30pm
P.18
Tues 7 June
Shakespeare and the Bible
Derby Cathedral
6.30pm - 7.30pm
P.18
Tues 7 June
Poetry with Sandeep Parmar
Mickleover Library 7pm - 9pm
P.19
Tues 7 June
Simon Bradley: The Railways:
Nation, Network and People
Roundhouse
7pm - 8.15pm
P.16
Tues 7 June
Elly Griffiths
Waterstones
7pm - 8.30pm
P.19
Wed 8 June
Hanson’s Valuation: Books
Pickford’s House
10am - 12noon
P.21
Wed 8 June
Afternoon Tea with Selina Hastings
CQ Hotel
3pm - 5pm
P.21
Wed 8 June
Derby on Board Games
Bookcafe
4pm - 10pm
P.23
Wed 8 June
Cathedral Peregrines Watchpoint with DWT
Derby Cathedral
5pm - 6pm
P.20
Wed 8 June
David Lindo - Tales from Concrete Jungles Derby Cathedral
6.30pm - 7.30pm
P.20
Wed 8 June
Alison Weir
QUAD
7.15pm - 8.30pm
P.22
Wed 8 June
Milly Johnson
Waterstones
7pm - 8.30pm
P.23
Thurs 9 June
Festival Lunch - Joan Bakewell
CQ Hotel
12.30pm - 3pm
P.26
Thurs 9 June
Sinfonia Viva: Flights of Fantasy
Market Place
6pm - 7.15pm
P.29
Thurs 9 June
Sophie Hannah and Stephen Booth on Crime
QUAD
6.15pm - 7.30pm
P.29
Thurs 9 June
Ben Duke - Paradise Lost
(lies unopened beside me)
Déda Theatre
7.30pm - 9pm
P.28
Thurs 9 June
Louis de Bernieres and the Bookshop Band
QUAD
8pm - 9.30pm
P.27
Fri 10 June
Tots Make & Do: Constellations Above
DMAG
10am - 11.30am
P.42
Fri 10 June
Andrew Lownie
QUAD
12noon - 1pm
P.31
Fri 10 June
The Bookshop Band
Waterstones
1pm - 2pm
P.32
Fri 10 June
Afternoon Tea with Persephone Books
CQ Hotel
3pm - 5pm
P.31
Fri 10 June
Joanna Cannon - Debut Author
Déda
6pm - 7pm
P.32
Fri 10 June
Celebration in the Cathedral - Sir Peter
Bazalgette/Jim Naughtie/Bookshop Band
Derby Cathedral
7.15pm - 8.45pm
P.30
Fri 10 June
Nobody’s Home
Derby Theatre
8pm
P.32
Sat 11 June
Writers’ Day
QUAD
10am - 4.30pm
P.33
Sat 11 June
Writer’s Den (and Sunday 12)
University of Derby
10am - 5pm
P.43
Sat 11 June
Chloe Inkpen
Mickleover Library
10.30am - 11.30am
Sat 11 June
Walter Lemonface
Studio, Derby Theatre 11am & 2pm
P.43
Sat 11 June
Keith Alldritt: Vaughan Williams:
Composer, Radical, Patriot
WEA
11am - 12noon
P.33
Sat 11 June
Maxwell Craven: John Whitehurst
WEA
2.30pm - 3.30pm
P.34
Sat 11 June
Joe Hill
QUAD
7pm - 8.15pm
P.35
Mon 6 - Sat 11 June The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie
Derby Theatre
7.30pm/2.30pm Wed & Sat
P.43
P.46
Featured on
Thursday 9 June
Credit: Sukey Parnell
Festival Lunch with
Dame Joan Bakewell
12.30pm – 3pm
Cathedral Quarter
Sponsored by;
it may look as though she is now part of
the Establishment, she’s anything but and
remains outspoken and courageous.
13
£35
At our Festival Lunch Joan will be talking
Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on arrival, a two-course
lunch with two glasses of wine and tea or coffee. Please note: Booking for this event is by phone only at the
Festival Box Office on 01332 290606. Booking deadline is
23rd May.
about her latest book Stop the Clocks. It is
a book of musings, a look back at what she
was given by her family, at the times in which
she grew up - ranging from the minutiae of
life, such as the knowledge of how to darn
Joan Bakewell has led a varied life: she has
and how to make a bed properly with hospital
been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager,
corners, to the bigger lessons of politics, of
broadcaster, journalist, the government’s
lovers, of betrayal. She talks of the present,
Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre
of her family, of friends and literature - and
company Shared Experience. Though
talks too of what she will leave behind.
Featured on
Thursday 9 June
Credit: Ivon Bartholomew
Louis de Bernières
with The Bookshop Band
8pm – 9.30pm
The author will talk about his new novel
4
£10 / £8
and also about Of Love and Desire, a
rich collection of love poems written over
a lifetime, and capturing its many forms
The first new novel in a decade from the
– from rapture, infatuation and urgency,
bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin,
to sorrow, heartache and disillusion.
The Dust That Falls From Dreams is a sweeping
story of love and loss in the Great War. Rosie
Louis will be joined on stage by The Bookshop
McCosh and her sisters have a peaceful and
Band with a performance of their book inspired
happy childhood in Kent until the Edwardian
songs. The band recently collaborated with
age dissolves into chaos. They are forced to
Louis to write a song inspired by his new
grow up quickly and salvage what happiness
book, which will soon be released as part of a
they can in a complicated new world.
collection of over 10 new book-inspired albums.
Featured on
Thursday 9 June
Credit: Zoe Manners
Ben Duke – Paradise Lost
(lies unopened beside me)
7.30pm – 9pm
3
£12 / £10
There is a possibility that God made
Artistic Director Ben Duke won the award
everything because he was terrified of doing
for Outstanding Male Performance at the
nothing. Here is a re-telling of the story of the
National Dance Awards, January 2016.
beginning of everything inspired by Milton’s
Paradise Lost – told through words, music
and the easily misunderstood medium of
dance. A show for anyone who has created
Co-commissioned by The Place and Battersea Arts Centre
with further commissioning support from Bath ICIA University.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through
Arts Council England.
anything (child, garden, paper aeroplane)
and then watched it spiral out of control.
Thursday 9 June
Sinfonia Viva: Flights of Fantasy
with 1623’s Ben Spiller
6pm - 7.15pm
Market Place, Cathedral Quarter
19
£10 / £8 /
£6 for anyone under 26
Credit: Philippa Gedge
(£1.50 more per ticket if bought in person or by phone)
Book through Derby LIVE: www.derbylive.co.uk
or call 01332 255800
Join Sinfonia Viva inside the Cabinet of
Curiosity - a portable, inflatable venue and
stage where every show’s different. In this,
Sophie Hannah and
Stephen Booth on Crime
6.15pm - 7.30pm
the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s
death, Viva will present extracts from Weber’s
4
£8 / £6
classic Der Freischütz and will tell the story
of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the
Join acclaimed crime writers Sophie Hannah
classic score of Grand Tour composer Felix
and Stephen Booth as they discuss their craft
Mendelssohn. Featuring narration from 1623’s
and approaches to their award winning crime
Ben Spiller, this event is part of the Grand Tour.
novels. Sophie has recently published her tenth
Supported by Rolls-Royce plc, Derby City Council, Derby
LIVE, Derby Cathedral and Orchestras Live. Sinfonia Viva is
supported using public funding by the National Lottery through
Arts Council England.
Culver Valley crime novel, The Narrow Bed. The
Independent’s reviewer has stated: “Hannah like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell before
her - is an expert at exploring the delicate line
between the ordinary and the monstrous, yet her
everyday tales of warped psychology are laced
with humour.” She also wrote The Monogram
Murders, the first authorised Hercule Poirot novel
to be published since Agatha Christie’s death.
Stephen was one of the first authors to agree
to take part in our first Festival and is a great
supporter. We are delighted to welcome him
back for our second year. His hugely successful
Peak District based detectives, Cooper and
Fry, will feature in his sixteenth novel Secrets
of Death, to be published in June 2016.
Featured on
Friday 10 June
Celebration in the Cathedral:
Sponsored by
Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chair Arts Council
England and James Naughtie
with The Bookshop Band
7.15pm – 8.45pm
with Sir Peter and to talk about his
second novel Paris Spring.
11
£12
Sir Peter, or Baz as he is popularly known,
will talk to Jim about the arts and culture
Join us for a special celebratory evening in
and his belief in their importance, his time at
Derby Cathedral with James Naughtie, one of
Arts Council England and the challenges of
Britain’s most respected broadcasters and Sir
his new role as non-executive chairman of
Peter Bazalgette, Chair of Arts Council England.
ITV which he will take up in January 2017.
They will be joined by The Bookshop Band.
Jim will talk to Baz about his life with
At our first Festival James, or Jim as he
books - as presenter of Radio 4 Bookclub,
is popularly known, recorded an episode
BBC News Books Editor and author.
of Radio 4 Bookclub and spoke about
The Bookshop Band, who write songs
his debut novel The Madness of July.
inspired by books, will punctuate their
This year he returns for a conversation
conversation with songs and music.
Friday 10 June
Andrew Lownie: Stalin’s Englishman:
The Lives of Guy Burgess
12noon - 1pm
4
£8 / £6
Published in 2015 to great critical acclaim,
Andrew Lownie re-evaluates the part that
Guy Burgess played as a member of ‘The
Cambridge Spies’ with Maclean, Philby and
Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the
Afternoon Tea with Persephone Books:
Dorothy Whipple - a Bestselling
Novelist Then and Now
3pm - 5pm
Cathedral Quarter
13
£18.50
Ticket includes a full afternoon tea with a selection of cakes and
sandwiches. Please note: Booking for this event is by phone
only at the Festival Box Office on 01332 290606. Booking
deadline is 25th May.
1930s who passed Western secrets to the
Soviets before and during the Cold War.
In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie
shows us how even Burgess’s chaotic
personal life of drunken philandering did
nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal
of the British Intelligence Service. Through
interviews with more than a hundred people
who knew Burgess personally, many of whom
have never spoken about him before, and
the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin’s
We are delighted to welcome back Nicola
Englishman brilliantly unravels the many
Beauman, founder and director of Persephone
lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing,
Books, which publishes beautiful reprints of
chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder.
(mostly) women writers of the inter-war period.
Nicola will talk about Dorothy Whipple, who
lived for many years in Nottingham. She wrote
eight extremely successful novels between
1927 and 1953 and two of them, They Knew
Mr Knight (1934) and They Were Sisters
(1943), were made into films. She also wrote
short stories and two volumes of memoirs.
Persephone Books has its own distinctive
bookshop in Bloomsbury and 115 beautifully
produced titles in print. Last year’s Afternoon
Tea event was sold out, and we are sure this
year’s will be hugely popular, so book early.
Friday 10 June
The Bookshop Band
1pm - 2pm
6
Debut Author: Joanna Cannon
6pm - 7pm
3
FREE
Pop into Watersones for a lunchtime treat
£8 / £6
and enjoy some book inspired songs
We are delighted to welcome a local writer as
performed by The Bookshop Band.
our debut author this year. Joanna was born
and raised in the Peak District, where she
continues to live with her family and her dog.
Joanna left school at fifteen with one O-level
and, having worked her way through a number
of jobs, in her thirties she decided to return
to studying. She graduated from Leicester
Medical School and worked as a hospital
doctor. She now specialises in psychiatry.
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep was
published in January 2016 to rave reviews.
Nobody’s Home: A theatrical
retelling of Homer’s Odyssey
8pm
Derby Theatre Studio
1
Set in the long hot summer of 1976, it
features ten-year-olds Grace and Tilly who
take matters into their own hands when
neighbour Mrs Creasy goes missing ...
£10 / £7
Book through Derby Theatre: www.derbytheatre.co.uk
or call 01332 593939
Odysseus has come home from the war. His
bath’s broken, and he can’t fix it. As he stares at
his reflection, he begins to find that his journey
back to the people he loves might not be as
easy as it seems. Nobody’s Home follows
a soldier’s journey through his own mind, as
he struggles with the monsters of his past
to finally come home. A unique and striking
exploration of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Developed with Salisbury Playhouse, with support from
Wellcome Trust.
Antonia Hodgson
Featured on
Saturday 11 June
Julia Murday
Writers’ Day
Writing Workshops
Meet the Publishing Experts
10am – 1pm
1pm – 2.30pm
4
4
£25
for 3 Writing workshops plus
Meet the Publishing Experts
£8 / £6
10 - 11am: Emma Bamford - Non-Fiction
Ever wondered what an agent does for an
10 - 11am: Joanna Courtney - Historical Fiction
author? Or how a publisher decides on the
next big thing? Or what the publicity and
11am - 12pm: Anne Zouroudi - Crime Fiction
marketing team do to get a book out there?
11am - 12pm: Ian C Douglas- Young Adult Fiction
Well here’s where you can get the answers!
12 - 1pm: Eve Makis - Literary Fiction
Join us for a fascinating panel session giving
12 - 1pm: Alex Davies - Science Fiction
an unparalleled insight into the world of
publishing with author Antonia Hodgson,
Join us for a superb morning of writing
who is also a publisher of twenty years’
workshops exploring a host of different genres
experience, Penguin Life publicist, Julia Murday
and writing styles. Giving you the chance
(both from Derby!) and a literary agent.
to glean an array of useful techniques, tips
and advice from established authors. These
Writing Groups showcase
practical sessions are perfect for those
3pm – 4.30pm
already writing in the genre or those looking
FREE event, but ticketed.
to explore a new direction for their work.
Being part of a writing group can be hugely
useful for any writer, but what groups are out
there in Derby, and what do they offer? Join
us for this unique event bringing together a
range of Derby’s writing groups for an afternoon
of information, readings and networking – a
great way for any local author to get more
involved in the writing scene in the city.
Anne Zouroudi
Joanna Coutney
Saturday 11 June
Keith Alldritt: Vaughan Williams:
Composer, Radical, Patriot
11am - 12noon
18
£4
Keith Alldritt will be in conversation with Janet
Tennant about his latest book, Vaughan
Williams: Composer, Radical, Patriot.
Based on extensive research into the
unpublished papers of Vaughan Williams, this
biography gives a detailed account of the
long life and career of one of Britain’s greatest
composers. It shows how historical events such
as the Boer War, the two World Wars and the
Depression of the thirties, as well as his interest
in history and literature, influenced the life and
music of Britain’s greatest symphonist. It is also
Maxwell Craven: John Whitehurst
2.30pm - 3.30pm
the first book to assess the importance of the
love affair which he entered into late in life.
18
£4
John Whitehurst FRS (1713-1788) was an
important figure in the English Enlightenment,
a man who lived for 40 years in Derby and
one of the founders of the celebrated Lunar
Society, established with Erasmus Darwin and
Matthew Boulton in 1765. Yet his reputation
has been overshadowed by later colleagues:
Josiah Wedgwood, James Keir, James Watt and
Joseph Priestley. Although a clockmaker by
calling, Whitehurst was an important pioneer of
modern geological science, of factory design,
meteorology and domestic appliances. This
book places Whitehurst firmly back where he
belongs, at the core of the Enlightenment and
in the vanguard of the Industrial Revolution.
Featured on
Saturday 11 June
Joe Hill
7pm – 8.15pm
4
£10
Undoubtedly the most exciting talent to emerge
His new title, The Fireman, is an end-of-
on to the thriller scene in the last decade,
the-world thriller set in a world where much
Joe Hill began his career with the hugely
of the population has been wiped out by
popular short story collection 20th Century
a deadly spore. The book is garnering
Ghosts. Since then he has produced
stunning early reviews, and has already been
three stunning novels – the critically-
optioned for a major film release. Join us
acclaimed Heart Shaped Box, Horns (later
for this special event celebrating the launch
made into a feature film starring Daniel
of one of 2016’s most prominent thriller
Radcliffe and Juno Temple) and NOS4A2.
titles with one of the genre’s very finest.
Children’s & Family Programme
Friday 27 May - 12 June
Friday 3 June
Children’s Book Trail ‘Where am I?’
Sadlergate and the Strand Arcade,
Cathedral Quarter
Family Friday: Shadows and Shapes
10am – 11.30am
Cathedral Quarter
Sponsored by
10
15
FREE
FREE
Suitable for under 12s
It’s an extra special edition of Family Friday
for Half Term. We will draw inspiration from
our beautiful Nature Gallery as we explore
the book Augustus and His Smile. Come
and create some stunning, interactive
illustrations to bring this wonderful tale to life.
See page 42 for details of the premiere of
the theatre show Augustus and His Smile.
Credit: Lauren Child
The popular Children’s Book Trail in
Sadlergate and the Strand Arcade
is back – with a difference!
This year your quiz sheet will list wellknown characters from children’s books
and you will be asked to identify the
shops where the characters are hiding.
Pick up your quiz sheet from participating
shops and return the completed sheets
to the White Stuff shop. You could win a
special prize in the Book Trail Prize Draw.
Friday 3 June
Saturday 4 June
The Doodle Dance Show
11.30am - 12.30pm and 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Storytelling at intu Derby
11am - 4pm
The readings will take
place every 30 minutes.
intu Derby
3
£7
Suitable for ages 3+
and their families
2
FREE
Grab a pen and kick off your shoes for this
Forage on down to intu Derby and get
playful interactive story-show that will get the
ready to enjoy a purple-prickled monster
whole family drawing and moving, doodling
of a story as a storyteller brings the
and imagining. Together we will create a world
amazing tale of Julia Donaldson and
populated by crazy birds, dancing pirates,
Axel Scheffler’s The Gruffalo to life.
strange underwater creatures and maybe more…
There is also a creative competition for your
Join award-winning performers Anna Williams
little ones with an intu Gift Card to be won.
(Russell Maliphant, LaRibot) and Tom Roden
So walk further into the deep dark wood,
(New Art Club) for this inventive show that asks,
and discover what happens when the quick-
“Can you dance a scribble, or draw a sneeze?” thinking mouse comes face to face with
an owl, a snake and a hungry gruffalo…
The Gruffalo ©Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler –
Macmillan Children’s Books 1999.
Make It Sessions
11am - 3pm
Cathedral Quarter
10
FREE Suitable for all ages
Join local Makers for an interactive session of
creativity inspired by books! From traditional
The Doodle Dance Show is commissioned and produced
by Greenwich Dance, co-commissioned by DanceEast and
South East Dance and supported by Arts Council England and
Cambridge Junction. Art material sponsorship by Cass Art.
An East Midlands Children’s Theatre and Dance Network tour.
printing techniques, glimmering illuminated
letters and watercolour illustrations – there is
something for the whole family to have a go at.
Saturday 4 June
Sponsored by
Andy Cope & Spydog:
The Final Chapter
11.30am - 12.30pm
4
Sponsored by
Andy Cope
The Art of Being a
Brilliant Teenager
1.45pm - 2.45pm
£6 / £4
4
£5
All children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
For ages 11+
All children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
It’s good fun being young. You’ve probably
sussed the system and what works for you.
You’ve developed some good habits and
probably a few bad ones too. But there’s a lot
of growing up to do. Wouldn’t it be great to
learn some stuff that would give you the edge?
Wouldn’t it be cool to have bags of confidence.
What if you could learn to be your best self?
Always? That’s what The Art of Being a Brilliant
Teenager is all about. Come along and listen.
Have some fun. If you put the principles into
practice it might just change your life ... forever!
Andy is a Derby author and he owns a Derby
dog. Little did he know that his adopted mutt
would turn out to be a secret agent, working
undercover as a family pet. The idea was born
and the book series followed. There are now
20 best-selling books in the Spy Dog, Spy Pups
and Spy Cat series and young readers will have
the chance to meet the world famous dog.
Saturday 4 June
Children and Families’
Illustration Workshops
10.15am - 11.15am
4
£5
Get Creative!
Illustration Workshops for
Teenagers (12+)
3pm - 4pm
per child
4
Children must be accompanied
£5
per young person
Choose from three fun workshops:
For ages 12+. Emergency contact details must
be provided and verified.
Learn to Cartoon with John Byrne
Choose from two fun workshops:
For 6+. £5 per child
Learn how to draw cartoons, just pick up a
Cartooning with John Byrne
pencil and have a go, you’ll be surprised what
John is a cartoonist, joke writer and
you can do. A fun interactive ‘learn to cartoon’
graphic artist. Whether your ambition is to
session showing that anybody can draw.
work for Marvel or DC or as an animator
or game designer, he will show you how
Monster puppet making
to create characters and stories.
for 5 - 7s. £5 per child
Join Katherine Wheatley for a fun monster theme
puppet workshop where children can explore
a variety of craft ideas using recycled materials,
brightly coloured card, pens and art resources. A Peculiar Poem & Picture Performance! For 5 - 12s and parents
£5 per participant or £15 Family ticket (for 4 people)
Children and parents can join together with
poet, writer and illustrator Chris White for a fun-
Printmaking with Duncan and Emma Pass
filled hour of crazy creativity. Bring: your voice to
Make and print your own illustrations using
sing and shout along, your hand to draw along
simple relief printmaking techniques. Using
and, most importantly ... your imagination.
poetry as inspiration, you will produce printing
plates from cereal boxes and stiff cards which
can then be printed in a variety of colours on a
printing press built from a converted mangle.
Saturday 4 June
Bringing Books to Life
Sponsored by
10am - 4pm
Derby Market Place, Cathedral Quarter
Create Pavement Art
19
FREE
The Gruffalo, the BFG ... whoever is your
favourite children’s book character, just
Calling all chiddlers and other human beans!
come along and chalk them directly
Skididdle to Derby Market Place to be
on to the pavement or bring along a
catching a tiny glimp of your favourite books
sketch of your favourite character and
and be joining the brain-boggling fun!
we will help you bring it to life.
Celebrate Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday year by
doing his favourite things - wear something
A Magnificent Mural
yellow, wear something backwards, use
Have fun with others drawing, collaging and
the BFG’s favourite language, swap a Roald
gluing to create scenes from James and
Dahl book, talk backwards (well OK - maybe
the Giant Peach, The Gruffalo and other
a bit too twitch-tickling!), bring your own
favourites. Or bring along your sketches
revolting rhyme, give someone a treat,
and ideas and add them to the Mural.
create a mural - and so much more!
Materials provided for these two activities whilst stocks last.
But whatever you do, don’t be forgetting to
dress up as your favourite book character
The Book Bus
and have a chance of winning a book token!
Around the world, 125 million children are
Judging at 11.15am, 1.30pm and 3pm after
still unable to read. The Book Bus improves
Oddsocks and Quite Remarkable theatre shows.
lives, one book at a time, for children in Africa,
Asia and South America. Come and learn
Interactive Street Theatre
about their work and even sponsor a book. A special guest appearance by the
elusive Willy Wonka! Dress up, have
Book Swap and Charity Book Stalls
your photo taken and maybe win a book
Clear out your bookshelves! Bring
token! Wait … Strike that, reverse it!
along a book and swap it for one that
Willy Wonka appears courtesy of Life Theatre Limited.
you would like to read ... or buy a
book from the charity bookstalls.
Book Trust
Come and find out more about Book Trust,
the largest reading charity in the UK which
works to inspire a love of reading in children.
Saturday 4 June
Special events
Display of Big Books created
by Derby schools
Stories in the Yurt
10.15am, 11.45am, 1.30pm and 3pm
Come and see the display of Big Books of
As Tim Peake prepares for his journey
Illustrations which have been produced by
back to earth, Sophie Snell spins some
local schools for Derby Book Festival and take
magical stories based on space: intriguing,
inspiration from them to create your own.
comic and mesmerizing! For under 6s.
In partnership with the University of Derby
The Quite Remarkable Bookcase
10.45am and 1pm
Summer Reading Challenge and the
Book Doctor
Join magician Geoffrey Jumper and his silly
Derby Libraries’ Summer Reading Challenge,
adventure into the world of The Gruffalo with
The Big Friendly Read, features some of
live music, puppetry and storytelling! Under 6s.
little friend Mandy for a Quite Remarkable
Roald Dahl’s best-loved characters and the
Need help with what to read? Consult our
Cartoon drawing for families
1pm
Book Doctor who will provide you with
Have a go at drawing cartoons! Just pick up
your very own reading prescription. a pencil, you’ll be surprised what you can do
amazing artwork of Sir Quentin Blake. with cartoonist John Byrne on hand to show
The Bard on the Bus
children and adults that anybody can draw.
Board the Festival Bus and join Derby
celebrate the 400 year anniversary of the life
Off the Page with Oddsocks
2pm
of William Shakespeare, our favourite Bard.
Don’t miss this dramatic storytelling session,
Shakespeare Theatre Company as they
delving into Roald Dahl’s fantastical world with
The BFG’s pop up café
brave and bold Matilda and the dream catching
Charlie and the BFG’s delumptious,
BFG. Come and share some of his most popular
jumbley food and drinks will be served
adventures with comedy theatre company
all day on the Market Place.
Oddsocks Productions. For ages 6 to 106!
And to add to the fun, there’ll be
music on and off during the day.
In partnership with
If wet, most events will continue as planned in the
Guildhall Market and Arches.
Sunday 5 June
Friday 10 June
Augustus and his Smile Premiere
by Face Up Theatre
12.30pm - 1.30pm & 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Cathedral Quarter
Tots Make & Do: Constellations Above
10am - 11.30am
Cathedral Quarter
10
10
£5
FREE
Suitable for 2-5 year olds and their grown-ups.
For little cubs from 3 – 8 year olds and their grown ups.
Explore the swirling shapes, twinkling lights
Augustus the Tiger is sad ... he has lost his smile.
and fantastical creatures from one of the most
Join Augustus and help him on his search from
famous books in our collection – The Atlas
the bottom of the ocean to the top of the highest
Coelestis. Create your own piece of art to
mountains. Along the way you can expect to
take home inspired by this wonderful object.!
have a wonderful, joyful family adventure of
your own!! Face Up Theatre has transformed
Catherine Rayner’s much loved book Augustus
and His Smile into this exciting children’s show
which will be premiered at the Festival.
Pop into The Coffee House for a special
Tiger Tea before or after the performance.
Tag your friends at your
favourite Festival events
DerbyBookFestival
www.littletigerpress.com
Saturday 11 June
Saturday 11 June
The Adventures of Walter Lemonface
Presented by 154 Collective
11am & 2pm
Studio, Derby Theatre
Chloe Inkpen
10.30am - 11.30am
Mickleover Library
FREE
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For children aged 3-7 and their grown ups
£10 / £7
Join Chloe who will bring her picture
For children aged 3+ and their grown ups
or call 01332 593939
Ever wanted to control what happens in
a cartoon? Now you can in this fun-filled
book stories to life through drama,
live drawing and craft activities.
Saturday 11 & 12 June
experience for the whole family – there’s
no such thing as too much joining in! Join
adventurer, fearless inventor and connoisseur
of carrots, Walter Lemonface as he hunts for
Rhubarb Ogres, battles ghosts and finds a new
The Writer’s Den
10am - 5pm
University of Derby, Kedleston Road
adventure around every corner. Oh… and he
has a yellow head that looks like a lemon.
Sometimes scary, often touching and always
with a healthy sprinkling of silly, this is a magical
mix of live animation, music and storytelling.
7
(two days)
(single day)
For ages 9-14.
Some fully sponsored places available – please enquire.
Book your place online at www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
or call 0115 959 7929.
Calling all diary keepers, list makers,
secret scribblers, aspiring authors, story
hoarders, journalists, tweeters and future
poets! Writing East Midlands presents The
Writer’s Den - two days of inspiring creative
writing activities for 9-14 year olds at the
University of Derby. Workshops are led by
professional writers and will include storytelling, poetry, fiction, journalism and comic
book making. Join us for one or both days
and see where your imagination takes you ...
Education Programme
Monday 6 June
One of the Festival’s aims is to inspire a new
New Arrivals. New Books.
Derby College
generation of readers to appreciate the joy
that books and reading bring to our lives.
Our Education Programme is an important
The Lexis Department at Derby College draws
part of the Festival and we have developed
students from across the world – some 17
author events and activities for schools
different nationalities at present – aiming to
and young people which we hope will
equip them with English language skills.
inspire them in their reading and writing.
This year, in a partnership with the Festival,
All these events are by invitation
Lexis students have produced a book of
only for Derby schools and Derby
stories about the journeys from their home
College and are not public events.
countries and about living in Derby. The
stories have been illustrated by the College’s
Art and Design students. The Lexis project
Throughout the week
also provides learning support for adults at
the St. James’ Centre in Normanton. These
students have produced a book of recipes
from their home countries. Both books will
Derby City Libraries’ Schools projects
be launched during Derby Book Festival and
copies will be available from Derby College.
Derby City Libraries will run interactive illustration
themed workshops for invited school groups
“A rare
throughout the week at local libraries, featuring
and truly
children’s book illustrator Sarah Dyer and
motivational
for teenagers, Manga artist Sonia Leong. experience
for our
There will also be storytelling sessions for
students to
invited pre-school groups, led by Chloe
write for an
Inkpen who will bring her picture book stories
audience”
to life through a stimulating combination of
Lexis Tutor
drama, live drawing and craft activities.
Credit: Ben Tomlinson
Thursday 9 June
Monday 13 June
Primary Schools’ Author Event:
Andy Mulligan
Primary Schools’ Author Event:
Lauren Child
Sponsored by
Andy Mulligan is the author of the Ribblestrop
series of books and won the Guardian Children
Fiction Prize in 2011 for Return to Ribblestrop.
Trash, a thriller set in the Philippines about
children who live on the rubbish tips there
and end up in great danger, was shortlisted
for the Carnegie Medal and has recently
been made into a film. Every Derby City
primary school has been invited to send a
group of children to meet Andy and hear
him talk about his work and inspiration.
Credit:Jun Santos
A by-invitation only event for a group of children
from every primary and infant school in Derby
to meet Lauren Child, the multi-award-winning,
Author Visits to Secondary Schools
bestselling writer and artist whose books are
known and loved the world over. Lauren is best
As part of the Festival, several teen and young
known for the Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean
adult authors will visit secondary schools across
and Ruby Redfort series. She is the winner
the city to inspire pupils about their passion
of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé
for writing and where their ideas come from.
Smarties Book Prize. The children will have the
The authors are Cathy Cassidy, Sufiya Ahmed,
opportunity to hear Lauren talk about her books,
Emma Pass plus Chicken House authors:
writing and illustrating, and ask her questions.
Martin Griffin, Dan Smith, Kiran Millwood
Lauren’s talk will be followed by a book signing.
Hargrave, Sophia Bennett and M G Leonard.
In partnership with Derby Theatre
Teachers and librarians will have the
chance to meet the Chicken House
authors at a breakfast session in QUAD.
Throughout the week
Writing Surgeries
Sunday 5 June - Tuesday 7 June
4pm - 10pm (each day)
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The Mousetrap
Monday 6 June - Saturday 11 June
7.30pm
(and 2.30pm on Wed 8 June & Sat 11 June)
Derby Theatre
1-hour session: £20
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To book and for all enquiries,
email: alexdavisevents@hotmail.co.uk
Looking for detailed feedback on your work,
From £19.50 - £32.50
or call 01332 593939
advice on how to take your writing forward
The Mousetrap is famous around the world
and guidance on where to get it published?
for being the longest-running show of any
Then these are the ideal sessions for you! Led
kind in the history of theatre, with over
by author, tutor and Boo Books publisher Alex
25,000 performances. In her own inimitable
Davis, these one-hour sessions include a full
style, Dame Agatha Christie has created an
read through of up to 10,000 words of your
atmosphere of shuddering suspense and a
project, with an in-depth session to discuss
brilliantly intricate plot where murder lurks
the direction of your writing career and where
around every corner. Now the 60th anniversary
and how you can drive forward to publication.
production is back starring Louise Jameson (Dr
Who, EastEnders, Doc Martin) as Mrs Boyle.
Other Festivals in the city coming up
Derby Film Festival
Derby CAMRA City Charter Beer Festival
29 April – 8 May
6 July - 10 July Derby Comedy Festival
Derby Festé
29 April – 8 May
23 and 24 September
Edge-Lit
Derby Folk Festival
16 July
30 September – 2 October
Bookends
A few things to look out for during
the Festival and beyond …
The Beauty of Books and
Illuminated Tales Exhibitions
Déda
5 May – 30 July
Two exhibitions at Déda celebrate
the way storytelling has long held
the tradition of complementing tales,
stories and folklore with illustrative
imagery to enhance and expand the
reader’s imagination. Organised by
Green Door Printmaking Studio and
The Smallprint Company, Illuminated
Tales features artists Chris Barker,
Hannah Barker, Anna Johnson and
Pandora Johnson.
Spot the book themed shop windows
along Irongate and The Strand all
showing their support for the Festival
CQ Saturdays: Street Circus
Market Place
Saturday 11 June, 11am - 3pm
(Déda event)
Alice in Wonderland
Derby Theatre
Friday 2 Dec ‘16 - Saturday 7 Jan ‘17
Tickets: £12 - £28
Flash Fiction Writing Competition
Every year we run a Fifty Word Flash
Fiction Writing Competition. This year
the winning stories are illustrated by a
student from the University of Derby.
Pick up your bookmarks at Festival
venues around the city – there are six
to collect!
Big Bus Book Swap
From 1 May Trent Barton Buses are
joining in the Festival fun with a Big
Bus Book Swap on their Sixes and
Villager buses. Bring a book with you
on your next bus journey. Look out for
the special Festival book stand near
the front of the bus and swap your
book for one you haven’t read. You
can also pick up one of the six Festival
bookmarks with the winning entries of
our Fifty Word Flash Fiction story - and
collect all six throughout the Festival.
Limited edition Festival Tote Bags
Make sure you get your 2016 limited
edition Festival tote bag. Available for
£10 at all Festival events.
Finding your way around
Derby City Centre
Tourist Information
Bus Station
Train Station
Car Parking
Derby Theatre
Derby Cathedral
intu Derby
Derby Arena
Déda
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
QUAD
The Roundhouse
Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Sadlergate
Waterstones
Pickford’s House
University of Derby
Old Bell Hotel, Sadlergate
The BookCafé
WEA, Lodge Lane
Guildhall Theatre, Arches and Market
The Market Place
Derby Museum & Art Gallery
Travelling to the Festival by Trent Barton Buses:
The Villager to Etwall, Hilton, Tutbury, Repton and
Littleover. The Sixes to Belper, Wirksworth, Matlock,
Ripley and Bakewell
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Partners
With thanks to:
Derby Book Festival would not happen
Authors Aloud, BBC Radio Derby, Black Apricot
without the army of willing, enthusiastic
Creative, CAMRA, Dancing Duck Brewery, Derby
and committed volunteers. Special thanks
Arena, Derby Cathedral Quarter Hotel, Derby
go to Helen Bauer, Diane Irvine, Helen
Jazz, Derby Shakespeare Company, Oxfam,
Osler, Andy Powell and Di Smith who have
University of Nottingham, Writing West Midlands
led on a number of specific projects.

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