OCTOBER 2015 - Ilkley Literature Festival

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FRIDAY 2 – SUNDAY 18
OCTOBER 2015
Brian Blessed Caroline Lucas Robert Winston
Zaffar Kunial Julian Clary Karen Joy Fowler
Jackie Kay Peter and Dan Snow Vince Cable
Simon Armitage Jay Rayner Simon Schama
ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
WELCOME TO ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2015
Festival Strands
AFTER WATERLOO: THE BRONTËS AND THEIR
WORLD
Claire Harman’s biography of Charlotte Brontë; Patricia
Duncker on Villette, Caryl Phillips’ novel The Lost Child
inspired by Wuthering Heights; Publick Transport
Theatre Company’s We are Brontë; Stephen Bates on
England in1815.
HIDDEN VOICES FROM THE FRONT LINE
David Omissi, Annapurna Indian Dance, David Olusoga
and Yasmin Khan on the role of Black and Asian soldiers
in WWI and II.
Welcome to the 2015 Ilkley Literature Festival!
Dive into 17 exciting days of events covering
everything from how to tackle a cryptic
crossword to gluten-free baking, contemporary
Spanish fiction and a novel inspired by
Wuthering Heights.
We’re mixing household names like Brian
Blessed, Vince Cable and Simon Schama with
some less expected events: Julian Clary talks
about his new children’s book, and feminist
campaigner/journalist Caroline Criado-Perez
discusses inspiring women.
Authors Sophie Hannah, Karen Joy Fowler,
Caryl Phillips, Tim Lott, Stephen Kelman
and Jane Smiley are here to talk about their
latest novels and there’ll be poetry readings
by Simon Armitage, Les Murray, Jackie Kay
and Ian McMillan. Not forgetting history from
the Egyptians – Joann Fletcher, Romans –
Tom Holland, Tudors – Alison Weir to David
Olusoga on WWI and James Holland on WWII.
Our children’s programme is filled with fantastic
events for anyone aged 3–12 including Cathy
Cassidy and performances from A Thousand
Cranes and tutti frutti. Young people can
meet author Sally Green, learn how to blog
with Zoella’s writing coach or create a Festival
newspaper! Plus our Fringe Festival offers
dozens of FREE events.
We look forward to seeing you in October!
Rachel Feldberg
Festival Director
BOOKS AND READING – FROM THE ROMANS
TO THE DIGITAL AGE
Make paper or tour the Brotherton Library; hear Frank
Furedi chart the history of the reader; Malcolm Chase
on the history of the self help book; New Writing North’s
panel on writing and reading in the digital age; Melvyn
Bragg and Linda Grant debating the Future of the Book;
Martin Butler on digitising the work of Ben Jonson.
WRITING ACROSS CONTINENTS
Poetry from Finland and Latvia, and from Australia with Les
Murray. Fiction from Japan, Slovenia, Montenegro, Spain,
and from the United States with Karen Joy Fowler, Jane
Smiley, Jami Attenberg and Liza Klaussmann.
UNTOLD STORIES
From 20th century industrial oral history with David Hall
to Olive Senior on the Caribbean workers who built the
Panama Canal and Gulwali Passarlay’s account of life as
a refugee.
SHAPING THE FUTURE
Look towards the future with Stuart Clark (astrophysics)
Matthew Cobb (human genome), John Thackara
(sustainable design), Vince Cable, Paul Mason and
Danny Dorling (economics), Michael Marmot (health)
Oliver Morton (geoengineering).
MODERNISM AND T. S. ELIOT’S
THE WASTE LAND
Join our The Waste Land Guided Reading Group or hear
new perspectives from visual arts curator Professor Mike
Tooby and poet Rommi Smith.
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GETTING TO THE FESTIVAL
Ilkley Visitor Information Centre
For information call National Rail Enquiries on
03457 48 49 50 or go to www.nationalrail.co.uk
For information on hotels, restaurants, Ilkley and the
Dales. Tel: 01943 602319 or go to www.visitilkley.com
By car
By bus
Ilkley lies on the A65 from Leeds to Skipton. Leeds,
Harrogate and Bradford are a 45 minute drive away.
Buses run daily from across Yorkshire. Call MetroLine
on 0113 245 7676 for timetables or go to
www.wymetro.com
By air
Leeds Bradford International Airport is just 15
minutes drive away. Regular flights run to major cities
throughout the UK and beyond.
For information call 0113 250 9696 or go to
www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk
By train
There are regular trains to and from Leeds and Bradford
which take 30 minutes. Connections throughout the UK
can be made in Leeds.
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Aagrah, The Moors Shopping Centre LS29 9LB
Addingham Methodist Church, Chapel Street,
Addingham LS29 0JE
2 All Saints Church and Church House LS29 9DS
3 All Saints’ Primary School, Easby Drive LS29 9BE
4 Bandstand on The Grove LS29 9LW
5 Bettys, 32 The Grove LS29 9EE
Central Car Park and Toilets
6 Christchurch, The Grove LS29 9LW
7 Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Road LS29 9DZ
8 Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Road LS29 8RQ
9 Friends of Ham, Wells Road LS29 9JD
10 Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove LS29 9EG
11 Ilkley Lido, Denton Road LS29 0BZ
Ben Rhydding
The Wheatley Arms
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12 Ilkley Moor Vaults, Stockeld Road LS29 9HD
Ilkley Playhouse, Weston Road LS29 8DW
14 Kings Hall, Station Road LS29 8HB
15 Manor House Museum and Education Room LS29 9DT
Otley Courthouse, Courthouse Street, Otley LS21 3AN
16 Outside the Box Cafe, Bridge Lane LS29 9HN
17 Panache, Church Street LS29 9DR
18 Rombalds Hotel, Wells Road LS29 9JG
19 St Margaret’s Hall, Queens Road LS29 9TZ
University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
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13 The Priory Church of St Mary & St Cuthbert,
Bolton Abbey BD23 6AL
The Wheatley Arms, Wheatley Lane, Ben Rhydding LS29 8PP
Visitor Information Centre, Station Road LS29 8HA
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FESTIVAL DIARY AT A GLANCE
Your quick guide to what’s on, where and when
Signed events with BSL interpreter
Children’s and All Ages events
Headline/Kings Hall events
Young People’s events
Free Fringe events
Events last one hour unless otherwise stated. Children and young people’s events pages 52–57. How to book page 58.
WEDNESDAY 7 – SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
1.
Exhibition
Ilkley Art Trail
Across Ilkley
FRIDAY 2 – SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
2.
Exhibition
Children's Book Trail
Across Ilkley
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
3.
6.30–8.30pm
Ilkley Young Writers Group – taster session
Christchurch
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
4.
7pm for 7.30pm
Crime and Curry Supper with Frances Brody
The Wheatley Arms
John Suchet: The Last Waltz
Kings Hall
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
5.
7.30pm
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
6.
10–11.20am
Story Wizards – taster session
Clarke Foley Centre
7.
11am–1pm
Patricia Duncker Masterclass
Manor House Education Room
8.
11am–1pm
Make A List Poetry Workshop with Beverley Nadin
St Margaret's Hall
9.
11am–3pm
Writing Festival Reviews Workshops
Church House
10.
12–12.45pm
Looking–Glass Girl: Cathy Cassidy
Ilkley Playhouse
11.
1–3pm
FRINGE EVENT Poetry Ramble
Meet at Ilkley Lido Car Park
12.
1.30pm
Portraits: Elaine Feinstein
Ilkley Playhouse
13.
1.45pm
Bog Bodies Uncovered: Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Ilkley Playhouse
14.
2pm
Word Play: Gyles Brandreth
Kings Hall
15.
2–4pm
Writing for Children: Barbara Henderson Masterclass
16.
2.30pm
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and the Gothic: Patricia Duncker
Christchurch
17.
2.30pm
The History of the Reader: Frank Furedi
St Margaret's Hall
18.
2.30pm
Northern Writers Awards Roadshow
Rombalds Hotel
19.
3.15pm
John Berger’s Way of Seeing: Tom Overton
Ilkley Playhouse
20.
3.45pm
Of Mutability: Jo Shapcott and Zaffar Kunial
Ilkley Playhouse
21.
4pm
A Medieval Islamic Library, Lost and Found: Fozia Bora
Church House
22.
4.30pm
The Raj at War: Yasmin Khan
St Margaret's Hall
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SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
23.
4.30pm
The Last of Britain: Michael Nath and Nick Groom
Rombalds Hotel
24.
5pm
Sophie and the Sibyl: Patricia Duncker
Ilkley Playhouse
25.
5.30pm
Writing and Reading in the Digital Age
Ilkley Playhouse
26.
6pm
FRINGE Meeting Uncle Albert and friends
Church House
27.
7.30pm
Caroline Lucas: Honourable Friends?
Kings Hall
28.
7.30pm
Elaine Feinstein on Sylvia Plath
St Margaret’s Hall
29.
7.30pm
The Quality of Silence: Rosamund Lupton
Ilkley Playhouse
30.
7.45pm
FRINGE Never the Twain?
Church House
31.
8pm
Nine Lives: Performance
Ilkley Playhouse
33.
9pm
Inside The Fall: Steve Hanley and Olivia Piekarski
in Conversation with Dave Haslam
Found: Film Showing
34.
9.30pm
FRINGE Memories of William Edward Forster
Ilkley Playhouse
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8pm
Clarke Foley Centre
Ilkley Playhouse
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
35.
10am–1pm
Paper Making Masterclass: Jonathan Korejko
Clarke Foley Centre
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11am–12.30pm
Try the Art of Translating a Poem: Zaffar Kunial Workshop
37.
1–4.30pm
Multi-lingual Mushaira: Gathering of Poets
Ilkley Playhouse
38.
2pm
David Crystal
Kings Hall
39.
2pm –5pm
Paper Making Masterclass: Jonathan Korejko
Clarke Foley Centre
40.
2pm
Spark, the Goblin Wizard with Dominic Berry
Ilkley Playhouse
41.
4pm
Sophie Hannah: In Conversation
Ilkley Playhouse
42.
4.30pm
Max Hastings: The Secret War – Spies, Ciphers and Guerrillas
Kings Hall
43.
4.30pm
A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps: Nikolaus
Wachsmann
44.
5.30pm
Prisoners of Geography: Tim Marshall
Ilkley Playhouse
45.
6pm
The Munich Art Hoard: Catherine Hickley
Ilkley Playhouse
46.
7.30pm
Walking Away: Simon Armitage
Kings Hall
47.
7.30pm
The Unknown Universe: Stuart Clark
Ilkley Playhouse
48.
7.30pm
Forgotten Soldiers of Empire: David Olusoga
St Margaret's Hall
49.
7.30–9.15pm
Dracula: Performance
Otley Courthouse
50.
8pm
The Lady of Misrule: Suzannah Dunn
Ilkley Playhouse
6–7pm
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Guided Reading Group
52.
6.30pm
The Art of Being Normal: James Dawson,
Lisa Williamson and Sam Hepburn
Ilkley Playhouse
53.
7.30pm
Stuart Maconie: The Pie at Night
Kings Hall
54.
7.30pm
Inventing the Universe: Alister McGrath
All Saints Church
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
51.
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MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
55.
7.30pm
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: Karen Joy Fowler
Ilkley Playhouse
56.
7.30–9.30pm
Poetry Banquet
Panache
57.
8pm
Naturalists in Paradise: John Hemming
Ilkley Playhouse
58.
9pm
FRINGE An Evening with Edwin Waugh
Ilkley Playhouse
59.
9.30pm
FRINGE Orthos Presents: A Night of Aconite Prose
Ilkley Playhouse
TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER
60.
1.30pm
Jessica Souhami: Children’s Book Show
Kings Hall
61.
6pm
Treasures of the Brotherton Collection – Festival Private View
Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds
62.
6pm
Exploring the Work of Les Murray
Outside the Box
63.
7.30pm
The Walter Swan Memorial Lecture
Ilkley Playhouse
64.
7.30pm
Alison Weir
Ilkley Playhouse
65.
7.30–9.15pm
Martin Bell: The End of Empire
Kings Hall
66.
9pm
FRINGE Ilkley’s International Entrepreneurs
Ilkley Playhouse
67.
9pm
FRINGE The Joel Dean Experience
Ilkley Playhouse
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER
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7.30pm
The War in the West – A New History: James Holland
Clarke Foley Centre
69.
7.30pm
A New Africa Breaks Free: Alex Perry
Ilkley Playhouse
70.
7.30pm
The Extraordinary Birth and Troubled Life of the BBC:
Charlotte Higgins
Ilkley Playhouse
71.
9pm
FRINGE Red Shed Readings presents: Cresties
Ilkley Playhouse
72.
9pm
FRINGE The New Gentlemen of Verona
Ilkley Playhouse
THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER
73.
2–4.30pm
Poetry Alive! Open Mic and Networking Event
Ilkley Moor Vaults
51.
6pm
74.
6–7.30pm
Future of the Book Debate
Great Hall, University of Leeds
75.
7–10pm
Gourmet Food and Premium Indian Lager Evening
Aagrah
76.
7.30pm
Life After Dark: Dave Haslam
Ilkley Playhouse
77.
7.30pm
Brian Blessed: Absolute Pandemonium
Kings Hall
78.
7.30pm–9pm
A Journey with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: Mike Tooby,
Rommi Smith and Damien O’Keeffe
Ilkley Playhouse
79.
7.30pm
Aftershock: Matthew Green
St Margaret's Hall
80.
9pm
FRINGE Those Coal Town Days
Ilkley Playhouse
81.
9.30pm
FRINGE Ilkley Voices: What Lies Beneath...
Ilkley Playhouse
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
82.
7.30pm
Dynasty: Tom Holland
Clarke Foley Centre
83.
7.30pm
Melvyn Bragg: Now is the Time
Kings Hall
84.
7.30pm
Jellyfish: Janice Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Ilkley Playhouse
85.
7.30pm
86.
7.30–9.30pm
87.
9.15–10.45pm
Dying to Better Ourselves – Uncovering the Caribbean’s
St Margarets Hall
Hidden Histories: Olive Senior
Fire in the North Sky: Epic Tales from Finland with Nick
Ilkley Playhouse
Hennessey, Kristiina Ilmonen, Kaisa Liedes and Timo Väänänen
Festival Quiz
Ilkley Playhouse
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
88.
10am–12 noon
Poets’ Drop in and Advice Session: Zaffar Kunial
Friends of Ham
89.
10.30am–11am
Suitcase Circus Performance
Ilkley Bandstand
90.
11am–4pm
Press Pack: Write a Review
Church House
91.
11am–1pm
Tessa Hadley Masterclass
St Margaret's Hall
Quinntessential Baking with the Bake Off’s
Frances Quinn and Howard Middleton
More Alike than Unalike: Workshop with
Janice Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Kings Hall
92.
11am
93.
11am–1pm
89.
11.30am–12 noon
Suitcase Circus Performance
Ilkley Bandstand
94.
12 noon
The Dinosaur That Pooped a Show!
Ilkley Playhouse
95.
1.30pm
Song for My Father: Ian Clayton
Ilkley Playhouse
96.
2–4pm
Words on the Edge – Poetry Workshop: Zaffar Kunial
97.
2.30pm
The Wimpy Kid Show
Ilkley Playhouse
98.
2.30pm
The Past: Tessa Hadley
St Margaret's Hall
99.
3.30pm
Indian Voices of the Great War: David Omissi
Ilkley Playhouse
100. 3.45pm
FRINGE Tell Tales Workshop
All Saints’ School
101. 4.30pm
Inglorious?: Mark Avery
Ilkley Playhouse
102. 4.30pm
The Crossing and Man on Fire: Andrew Miller and Stephen
Kelman
St Margaret's Hall
103. 5.15pm
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code: Matthew Cobb
Ilkley Playhouse
104. 5.30pm
FRINGE Songs of Joy and Hope
Church House
105. 7.30pm
Caryl Phillips and Robert Antoni: Readings and In Conversation
Clarke Foley Centre
106. 7.30pm
Designing Tomorrow’s World Today: John Thackara
Ilkley Playhouse
107. 7.30pm
Annapurna Indian Dance Company with Ian Clayton
Ilkley Playhouse
108. 7.30pm
Waiting for the Past: Les Murray
109. 7.30pm
Word Blend: Ilkley Young Writers Group
Church House
110. 9pm
FRINGE Common Ground
Ilkley Playhouse
111. 9.30pm
FRINGE The First Telling
Ilkley Playhouse
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
216. 10–11.30am
Elen Caldecott Writing Workshop
All Saints' School
217. 10–10.45am
Phil Earle: Demolition Dad
All Saints' School
218. 10am
Mud Pie Arts: Storymakers
All Saints' School
219. 11.45am
Mud Pie Arts: Storymakers
All Saints' School
220. 10.15–11am
Emily Mackenzie: Wanted
All Saints' School
11am, 11.45am,
221. 12.30pm, 2pm,
2.45pm, 3.30pm
Ilkley Library Story Sacks
All Saints' School
222. 11.45am–12.30pm Tim Hopgood: Walter's Wonderful Web
All Saints' School
223. 11.30am–12.15pm The World of A. F. Harrold
All Saints' School
224. 1–1.45pm
Kate Pankhurst: Mariella Mystery
All Saints' School
225. 1pm
tutti frutti: Snow Child
All Saints' School
226. 3.30pm
tutti frutti: Snow Child
All Saints' School
227. 1.30–3pm
A. F. Harrold Poetry Workshop
All Saints' School
228. 1.30pm
FRINGE Curly Belties
All Saints' School
229. 2.15pm
Suitcase Circus Workshop
All Saints' School
230. 3.45pm
Suitcase Circus Workshop
All Saints' School
231. 2.30–4pm
Comic Books with Jim Medway
All Saints' School
232. 3.15pm
FRINGE Artistic Penguine Convention
All Saints' School
112. 11am–1pm
Stephen Kelman Masterclass
113. 11am–1pm
Michael Arditti Masterclass
Rombalds Hotel
114. 2–6pm
WordsFest
Otley Courthouse
115. 2pm
Vince Cable – After the Storm
Kings Hall
116. 2pm
The Lives of Guy Burgess: Andrew Lownie
Craiglands Hotel
117. 2pm
The News from Waterloo: Brian Cathcart
Clarke Foley Centre
118. 2pm
Francis Bacon – Anatomy of an Enigma: Michael Peppiatt
Ilkley Playhouse
119. 2–2.45pm
Steve Cole
Ilkley Playhouse
120. 2pm
Writing from Latvia: Kārlis Vērdiņš
Rombalds Hotel
121. 2–4pm
Razwan Ul-Haq: Meditation and Arabic Calligraphy
122. 2–4pm
Ilkley at the Time of WWI Walk: 1915
Meet outside Rombalds Hotel
123. 3pm
Villa America: Jami Attenberg and Liza Klaussmann
St Margaret's Hall
124. 3.30pm
The Beginnings of J.M.W. Turner: Matthew Plampin
Ilkley Playhouse
125. 4pm
Animal QC – My Preposterous Life: Gary Bell
Craiglands Hotel
126. 4pm
Widows and Orphans: Michael Arditti
Ilkley Playhouse
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
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127. 4–5pm
Rory Motion: Cryptic Crosswords
Clarke Foley Centre Cafe
128. 4.30pm
Paul Mason
Kings Hall
129. 4.45pm
Bilbao-Ilkley-Seville: Kirmen Uribe and Jesús Carrasco
St Margaret's Hall
130. 5pm
Pitching to an Agent
Rombalds Hotel
131. 5.15pm
The History of Egypt: Joann Fletcher
Ilkley Playhouse
132. 6pm
The Health Gap: Michael Marmot
Craiglands Hotel
133. 6.30pm–7.15pm
Rory Motion
Ilkley Playhouse
134. 7.30–9pm
Jay Rayner: My Dining Hell
Kings Hall
135. 7.30pm
Rosemary Hill on Angela Carter
St Margaret's Hall
136. 8pm
Working Lives: David Hall
Ilkley Playhouse
137. 8pm
Losing It: Helen Lederer
Craiglands Hotel
138. 1.30pm
Steve Cole
Kings Hall
139. 4–5pm
Steve Cole: for Teachers and Librarians
Kings Hall
51.
140. 7.30pm
The Book of Tokyo
Ilkley Playhouse
141. 7.30–8.45pm
Mark Thomas: 100 Acts of Minor Dissent – the book
Kings Hall
142. 7.30pm
Publick Transport: We Are Brontë
Ilkley Playhouse
143. 9pm
FRINGE Yorkshire's Forgotten Chekhov
Ilkley Playhouse
Treasures of the Brotherton Collection – Festival Private View
Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds
145. 7.30pm
Headscarf Revolutionaries: Brian Lavery
Clarke Foley Centre
146. 7.30–9pm
Professor Robert Winston: Modifying Humans
– Where Does Genetics Stop?
Kings Hall
147. 7.30pm
Jane Smiley: In Conversation
Ilkley Playhouse
148. 7.30pm
Winning Friends and Influencing People
– A History of the Self Help Book: Malcolm Chase
Ilkley Playhouse
149. 9pm
FRINGE Northern Not Wanted?
Ilkley Playhouse
150. 9pm
FRINGE Vane Women present: Blue Horse
Ilkley Playhouse
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
6pm
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
144. 6pm
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER
151. 6.30–7.15pm
Half Bad: Sally Green
Ilkley Playhouse
152. 7.30pm
One Man and the Battle for Rio: Misha Glenny
Clarke Foley Centre
153. 7.30pm
The Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan
Ilkley Playhouse
154. 7.30pm
Ian McMillan: In Search of the Meaning of Yorkshire
Kings Hall
155. 7.30pm–9pm
Listening to Poetry with Beverley Nadin
Outside the Box
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156. 7.30–10pm
Neil Hanson: Pigs Might Fly
Bettys Café Tea Rooms
157. 7.45pm
Common Ground: Rob Cowen
Ilkley Playhouse
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
158. 2pm
Ranulph Fiennes: Heat
Kings Hall
51.
159. 7.30pm
6pm
In the Footsteps of Odysseus: Harry Mount
Clarke Foley Centre
160. 7.30pm
Shingle Street: Blake Morrison
Ilkley Playhouse
161. 7.30–9.15pm
Peter and Dan Snow: The Battle of Waterloo
Kings Hall
162. 7.30pm
The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace: North Country Theatre
Ilkley Playhouse
163. 9pm
FRINGE Elsewhere
Ilkley Playhouse
164. 4pm
Experience Historical Printing at the University of Leeds
School of English,
University of Leeds
165. 7.30pm
Blake Remixed: Performance
Ilkley Playhouse
166. 7.30pm
Dom Joly
Kings Hall
167. 7.30pm
Oliver Morton
Ilkley Playhouse
168. 7.30–9.30pm
Yorkshire New Writing showcase
St Margaret's Hall
169. 7.30–9.30pm
Cool Voices Words Club Night
Otley Courthouse
170. 9pm
FRINGE Something in the Aire
Ilkley Playhouse
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
171. 10.30am–12.30pm Writing Poems with Peter Sansom Masterclass
172. 10.30am–4.30pm
Breaking News: Make a Newspaper in a Day
Church House
173. 11am–1pm
Spouting, Squealing and Spilling the Beans – Creating Expressive
St Margaret's Hall
Characters for Fiction: Helen Cross Workshop
174. 1.30pm
Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo: Stephen Bates
Ilkley Playhouse
175. 1.30–3.30pm
Fiction Masterclass – Make it Memorable: Leone Ross
176. 1.45pm
Edward Thomas – From Adlestrop to Arras:
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Ilkley Playhouse
177. 2–3pm
Tackling Literacy through Stories: Aamir Darr
Rombalds Hotel
178. 2.30pm
The Book of Memory: Petina Gappah
St Margaret's Hall
179. 3pm
Christmas Carols from Village Green to Church Choir:
Andrew Gant
Priory Church, Bolton Abbey
180. 3.15pm
John Godber, Helen Cross, Peter Samson
Ilkley Playhouse
181. 3.30pm
The Last Summer of the Water Strider: Tim Lott
Ilkley Playhouse
182. 3.45pm–4.30pm
Addingham Vocal Days present: The American Art Song
Addingham Methodist Church
183. 4.30pm
Live Reading of William Langland’s Piers Plowman
184. 4.30pm
Julian Clary and David Roberts: Meet The Bolds
Kings Hall
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SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
185. 5pm
Up Against the Night: Justin Cartwright
Rombalds Hotel
186. 5pm– 6.15pm
Closure: Short Stories from Black British Writers
Ilkley Playhouse
187. 6–7pm
ILF and The Leeds Library: News of an Exciting Project
188. 6–6.50pm
189. 7.30pm
FRINGE Fantasy Plots and Fantastic Plays,
with Daniel Ingram-Brown
The Lightless Sky – Escape to a New Life in Britain:
Gulwali Passarlay
Church House
Ilkley Playhouse
190. 7.45pm
John Agard: Roll Over Atlantic
Ilkley Playhouse
191. 7.45pm
FRINGE Ilkley Soroptimists: Sharing Stories, Changing Lives
Church House
192. 8pm
Inequality and the 1%: Danny Dorling
193. 9pm
FRINGE A Flower is not a Rat
Ilkley Playhouse
194. 11am–1pm
Justin Cartwright Masterclass
195. 11am–1pm
Building Blocks of Narrative Fiction: Jacob Ross Masterclass
Rombalds Hotel
196. 1pm
A Thousand Cranes present: Me and My Cat?
Ilkley Playhouse
197. 2pm
Jonathan Dimbleby: The Battle of the Atlantic
Kings Hall
198. 2pm
M.C. Beaton: In Conversation
Clarke Foley Centre
199. 2pm
Weatherland – Writers and Artists under English Skies:
Alexandra Harris
Ilkley Playhouse
200. 2–4pm
Jackie Kay Masterclass
Rombalds Hotel
201. 2–3.30pm
Roman Ilkley: Walk with Bronwen Riley and Alex Cockshott
Meet outside the Manor House
Museum
202. 3pm
The Man Who Was W.G. Grace: Richard Tomlinson
203. 3.30pm
Charlotte Brontë – A Life: Claire Harman
Ilkley Playhouse
204. 3.30–4.15pm
A Thousand Cranes: Origami Stories Workshop
205. 3.30pm
Informal Festival Feedback
Kings Hall Winter Gardens
206. 4pm
Putting Poetry in the Frame: Rommi Smith and Nigel Walsh
Ilkley Playhouse
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
207. 4.30pm
208. 4.45pm
Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World:
Caroline Criado-Perez
Mothers, Fathers: Goran Vojnović and
Andrej Nikoladis in Conversation
Kings Hall
St Margaret's Hall
209. 5pm
Journey to Britannia AD 130: Bronwen Riley
Clarke Foley Centre
210. 5.15pm
Stevie Smith: Will May
Ilkley Playhouse
211. 6pm
Editing Digitally: Ben Jonson for the 21st Century
Ilkley Playhouse
212. 7pm
Jackie Kay and Zaffar Kunial
Clarke Foley Centre
213. 7.30pm
Simon Schama: The Face of Britain
Kings Hall
214. 7.30pm
Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep
St Margaret's Hall
215.
Open Mic
Ilkley Playhouse
8.30pm–10pm
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
EXHIBITIONS AND OPENING EVENTS
WED 7–SUN 11 OCTOBER
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER
10AM–5PM
6.30PM
7.30PM
1. Across Ilkley
Opening times: Wed–Sun,
10am–5pm
FREE
3. Christchurch on The Grove
6.30–8.30pm FREE with
refreshments Age 12–18
It’s back! After a year’s gap, forty-five
top quality regional artists exhibit
their work in venues around the town
for five days during the Festival. Full
programme available in venues across
Ilkley from September or online:
www.ilkleyarttrail.org.uk
Come and enjoy the whole town as it
becomes an art gallery.
Teenagers who love creative writing
are invited to try tonight’s free session
and see if they’d like to join our weekly
group.
No experience needed.
Ilkley Art Trail
In association with Ilkley Arts.
Ilkley Young Writers Group
– taster session
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
7PM
4. The Wheatley Arms
7pm for 7.30–9.30pm
£20 includes two-course curry
supper (with vegetarian option)
and coffee
Crime and Curry Supper:
Death in the Dales with
Frances Brody
Ilkley Art Trail
FRI 2–SUN 18 OCTOBER
2. Across Ilkley
FREE Age 3–103!
Children’s Book Trail
Discover exciting children’s books
(and lots of great shops) as you
search Ilkley for books hidden in
shop windows. Look out for the
Trail window stickers to help you. All
correct entries will be entered into a
Prize Draw after the Festival.
(Prize draw for under 12s only!)
Collect your instructions, map and
an entry form at Festival venues,
the Grove Bookshop or Ilkley Visitor
Information Centre.
Enjoy a delicious curry then sit back
for a fascinating talk by Frances
Brody, author of the Yorkshirebased mystery novels featuring Kate
Shackleton – First World War widow
turned sleuth. Frances talks about A
Death in the Dales, her latest book set
in Langcliffe and Settle, which finds
the only witness to the killing of a local
publican plagued with guilt...
In association with The Wheatley Arms.
Festival opening
5. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £14/12
John Suchet:
The Last Waltz
John Suchet was the face
of ITV news for 32 years,
presenting News at Ten and the
early evening news as well as
anchoring countless special event
programmes, including ITN’s
election coverage, the Budget
and Princess Diana’s funeral. Now
a hugely popular presenter on
Classic FM, he is a noted authority
on Beethoven and classical music.
Tonight he opens the Festival with
the story of the Strauss family
dynasty.
Sponsored by LCF Law.
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01943 816714
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
10AM
11AM
12 NOON
6. Clarke Foley Centre
10–11.20am with supervised break
FREE with juice and biscuits
Age 8–11
10. Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
12–12.45pm £6/4 Age 9+
Looking–Glass Girl:
Cathy Cassidy
Story Wizards:
Children’s Reading and
Creative Writing Group
Join Cathy Cassidy, bestselling
author of the much loved series The
Chocolate Box Girls and get ready
to fall down the rabbit hole all over
again, 150 years on from Alice In
Wonderland. Alice is thrilled when
Savannah invites her to a Wonderlandthemed sleepover, but an accident
suddenly changes everything.
Children who love reading and creative
writing are invited to have fun creating
stories and exploring books at today’s
free session.
Parents welcome to stay.
11AM
7. Manor House Education Room
11am–1pm
£15/10
Thinking about Fiction
& Narrative Structures:
Patricia Duncker
Masterclass
A masterclass concentrating on
narrative structure: one of the central
problems writers face in creating
convincing fiction, led by noted
novelist Patricia Duncker. You’ll be
considering the simple linear narrative
– usually one central protagonist facing
a sequence of obstacles, reversals or
surprises. What are the advantages
and dangers of fragmented or double
narratives, and multiple narrators?
You’ll be discussing specific examples,
and thinking about method and
technique.
For experienced writers who read
widely and are determined to finish a
work of fiction.
Please book in advance.
Beverley Nadin
8. St Margaret’s Hall
11am–1pm £6
Make a List:
Poetry Workshop
with Beverley Nadin
Join Festival Apprentice Poet in
Residence, Beverley Nadin as she
asks when does your shopping list
become a poem? The list is playful,
recognisable, and strangely imperative.
What ‘whole’ do the parts portray,
organised in this way? Can a list have
progression and closure, tone and
voice? We’ll consider examples and
create poems of our own to add to a
long list of lists.
1PM
For all levels. Please book in advance.
9. Church House
11am–3pm
£8/6 includes press tickets
Writing Festival Reviews
Workshop
Find out how to write articles and
reviews for the Festival blog, with
journalist Victoria Benn. Whether
you’re a beginner or seasoned critic,
become part of the ILF blogging team
and we’ll give you tickets to events
throughout the Festival and post your
work on our website.
Please bring packed lunch.
For adults. Please book in advance.
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11. Meet at Ilkley Lido car park
1–3pm FREE
Poetry Ramble
FRINGE EVENT
Join Jeremy Young on a poetic
ramble around Ilkley. Write poetry,
take pictures and create sketches as
you journey through the picturesque
landscape.
Bring pen and paper, camera,
sarnies, flask etc. Walking boots
recommended.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
1.30PM
2PM
2.30PM
1.30–2.30pm £6/4
2.30–3.30pm £6/4
Portraits: Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein, distinguished poet,
novelist, playwright, translator and
Ted Hughes biographer, reads from
Portraits, her new, long-awaited
poetry collection. Feinstein looks back
on more than 60 years of literary life
and the people she’s known, including
Jean Rhys, Emanuel Litvinoff and
Sylvia Plath. A wonderful reader, she
captivates any audience.
1.45PM
Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
(1853) and the Gothic:
Patricia Duncker
After Waterloo: the Brontës
and their World
14. Kings Hall
2–3pm £12/10
Word Play:
Gyles Brandreth
They say all political careers end
in tears. In Gyles Brandreth’s case
it’s tears of laughter as the former
MP and Government Whip, Just A
Minute regular and survivor of QI
and Have I Got News for You takes
us on a rollicking roller-coaster
ride around his amazing world of
words, with stories from his years
in entertainment and politics. No
hesitation or repetition, but a bit of
deviation guaranteed.
‘Wildly funny, incredibly indiscreet.’
Daily Mail
Writer and academic Patricia
Duncker, Professor of Contemporary
Literature at the University of
Manchester, explores Brontë’s Villette,
a novel described as a ‘too subversive
to be popular’. And yet contemporary
reader George Eliot saw Villette as
‘still more wonderful than Jane Eyre’,
arguing that there was ‘something
almost preternatural in its power.’ All
the Brontës used the Gothic in their
novels as a common literary currency
of the times. But what is different
about Villette? How does Charlotte
electrify the tropes and motifs
fashionable for 50 years and transform
the novel into an unsettling, strange
and passionate tirade on women’s
consciousness and identity?
2–4pm £15/10
13. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
1.45–2.45pm £6/4
Bog Bodies Uncovered:
Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Writing for Children:
Barbara Henderson
Masterclass
There’s never been more interest in
writing for children, but it’s not as easy
as the best authors make it appear. In
Over the past two centuries, peat
cutters in the bogs of northern Europe this practical writing workshop, OCA
tutor and children’s author Barbara
have periodically unearthed the
remains of prehistoric people so well- Henderson (aka Bea Davenport)
preserved that skin and marks of injury covers the plot, characters and
survive, betraying the violence of their language needed for child or teenage
readers, using prompts and exercises
death. Who were these unfortunate
to help you start or develop your own
people, and why were they killed?
story for young people.
Drawing on the latest research
and evidence, Professor Miranda
Aldhouse-Green of Cardiff University
uncovers the truth behind these real
murder mysteries.
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Patricia Duncker
01943 816714
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
2.30PM
3.45PM
2.30–3.30pm £6/4
3.45–4.45pm £5/3
Books and Reading – from the
Romans to the Digital Age
A feast of poetry with Forward, Costa
and National Poetry Prize winning
poet and Professor of Creative Writing
at Royal Holloway, Jo Shapcott.
Shapcott‘s work, surreal, scientific
and with a vein of sardonic humour,
offers frequently surprising angles on
the everyday. Today she reads with
the Festival’s Poet in Residence, Zaffar
Kunial, a Faber New Poet and former
Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence.
Kunial’s debut pamphlet, Faber New
Poets 11, was published in 2014.
The History of the Reader:
Frank Furedi
Why are we hooked on the power of
reading? Celebrated social historian,
pundit and public intellectual, Frank
Furedi, explores the history of the
act of reading, from the hierarchies
of ancient Rome to the esteemed
19th century ‘men of letters’ and
21st century readers’ relationship
with culture and society. Furedi, who
left Hungary for England in 1956, is
Emeritus Professor of Social Science
at the University of Kent.
18. Rombalds Hotel
2.30–3.30pm FREE
Northern Writers’
Awards Roadshow
Each year New Writing North’s
Northern Writers’ Awards support
new and established writers who live
and work in the North of England to
develop their work and connect to the
publishing and broadcast industries
through an open programme of
awards and bursaries. Join Chief
Executive Claire Malcolm and a panel
of previous winners and industry
speakers to find out more about how
to enter and develop your writing
ambitions.
Presented in association with
New Writing North.
www.northernwritersawards.com
Of Mutability: Jo Shapcott
and Zaffar Kunial
Frank Furedi
4PM
3.15PM
3.15–4.15pm £5/3
John Berger’s Way of
Seeing: Tom Overton
Internationally celebrated art writer,
John Berger (Ways of Seeing) is one
of the most influential writers of the
last fifty years. Tom Overton, editor
of Portraits, Berger’s latest book,
cataloguer of Berger’s archive and a
Henry Moore Institute Research Fellow
2014–15, reveals how Berger connects
the artist and history in revolutionary
ways – from the prehistoric paintings
of the Chauvet Caves to Cy Twombly.
Overton illuminates Berger’s new
ways of thinking about artists from
Rembrandt to Henry Moore, while
maintaining the essential connection
between politics, art and the wider
study of culture.
15
21. Church House
4–5pm £6/4
A Medieval Islamic Library,
Lost and Found: Fozia Bora
In Egypt towards the end of the
1100s, the so-called Shi’ite century of
Islamic history, Sunni general Saladin
deposed the Shi’ite ruling family and
in the aftermath, the famed royal
library was dispersed. Saladin, it was
said, had deliberately destroyed the
intellectual legacy of his predecessors.
In this lively exploration of medieval
Islamic politics and book culture,
Fozia Bora of the University of Leeds
examines the legends generated by the
episode, and traces the survival of this
world-renowned collection of literary
treasures.
In association with the University of Leeds.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
4.30PM
23. Rombalds Hotel
4.30–5.30pm £5/3
The Last of Britain:
A Conversation about
Britishness with Michael
Nath and Nick Groom
4.30–5.30pm £6/4
The Raj at War:
Yasmin Khan
Hidden Voices from
the Front Line
Yasmin Khan, writer, historian and
Associate Professor of History at
Oxford, examines the important
contribution and overlooked lives of
ordinary Indians on the home front
in WWII. Khan’s first book, The Great
Partition: The Making of India and
Pakistan, won the Royal Historical
Society’s Gladstone Prize. Her latest,
The Raj at War, is a people’s history
of India’s experience of the Second
World War.
Must national ideas always end in a
punch-up? Nick Groom’s study of
English customs, The Seasons: An
Elegy for the Passing of the Year, and
Michael Nath’s tale of three nations,
British Story: A Romance, were books
of the year in The Observer and The
Morning Star. Here, in conversation,
they consider custom, character,
identity, and the land, in terms of elegy
and romance. Nath, whose first novel,
La Rochelle, was shortlisted for the
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for
Fiction is Senior Lecturer in English at
the University of Westminster. Nick
Groom is Professor of English at the
University of Exeter.
5.30PM
5.30–6.30pm £5/3
Writing and Reading in the
Digital Age
Join book blogger Simon Savidge
(Savidge Reads), author and You Tube
vlogger Jen Campbell (The Bookshop
Book) and publisher Rachael Kerr
(Unbound) in conversation with New
Writing North’s Claire Malcolm to
explore how writers and readers are
making their way in the digital world.
How are book bloggers changing book
reviewing and impacting on what we
read? How can writers benefit from
crowd-funding and digital publishing?
The panel will explore these and many
other issues of interest to readers and
aspiring writers.
In association with New Writing North.
5PM
5–6pm £5/3
Sophie and the Sibyl:
Patricia Duncker
Patricia Duncker, award
winning novelist and Professor of
Contemporary Literature at the
University of Manchester, discuses
Sophie And The Sibyl, her witty post
modern comedy of manners set in
Berlin, whence George Eliot (‘the
Sibyl’) most feted writer in Europe,
has fled after scandalising English
society. Today Duncker reflects on
how her neo-Victorian Romance
merges real life and fiction and
critiques the conventions of the
historical novel.
This event begins with the results
of the 2015 Festival Short Story
Competition.
Sponsored by Leeds Trinity University.
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6PM
26. Church House
6–7pm FREE
Meeting Uncle Albert and
friends
FRINGE EVENT
Stephen Wade, Leeds writer and
storyteller, takes you back to the
village he knew as a bairn, backed up
by readings from his new short story
collection, Uncle Albert, from Priory
Press. You’re promised jokes, tall tales
and readings from the fictional village
of Gawpham in the 40s and 50s.
01943 816714
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Quality of Silence:
Rosamund Lupton
Untold Stories
Caroline Lucas © JJ Waller
27. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Caroline Lucas:
Honourable Friends?
When Lucas, ‘Ethical Politician
of the Year’ and former leader of
the Green Party, was elected MP
for Brighton Pavilion she became
witness to Parliament’s absurdities
and baffling customs – an outsider
in an institution fossilised by
tradition and self-interest. Tonight
she reveals what it’s like to defend
the interests of your constituents,
challenge the establishment and
balance the demands of work
and family with a radical political
mission.
Yasmin and her deaf, sign language
using, daughter Ruby arrive in Alaska.
Within hours they are driving across a
frozen wilderness, looking for Ruby’s
father. And someone is watching them
in the dark. Rosamund Lupton, best
selling author of Sister and Afterwards,
the second biggest-selling fiction title
of 2011, introduces her new, tense
thriller. Former critic and screenwriter,
Lupton also worked at the Royal Court
Theatre.
Folllowing this event, why not stay on
for Event 33 (Found).
30. Church House
7.45–8.45pm FREE
Never the Twain?
Untold Stories
FRINGE EVENT
At first sight, it might seem that
Razwan Ul-Haq and Christina
Longden have very little in common.
But a serendipitous meeting at a
Yorkshire literature festival founded a
new friendship between two authors;
one that embraces Islam, Christianity,
class and culture – as well as injecting
plenty of comedy into their writing
styles.
8PM
8–9pm £7/5 young people 12+
welcome
Nine Lives
Untold Stories
Written by Zodwa Nyoni
Performed by Lladel Bryant
Directed by Alex Chisholm
‘…unforgettable solo drama about one
of the key experiences of our time.’
The Scotsman
One man and a suitcase filled with the
past, uncertainty, high heels, African
dancing shells and hope.
Outed, Ishmael seeks sanctuary in
the UK, but is this evidence enough?
As he waits to hear his fate, Zodwa
Nyoni (former ILF Apprentice Poet
in Residence and West Yorkshire
Playhouse/Channel 4 Writer in
Residence 2014) threads humour and
humanity together to tell the personal
story behind the headlines.
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Elaine Feinstein
on Sylvia Plath
Elaine Feinstein has praised Sylvia
Plath as ‘the most talented poet of her
generation’ and expressed anger that
Plath didn’t live to become the major
poet of the age. Tonight, the multiaward winning poet and translator,
whose work includes a highly regarded
biography of Ted Hughes, talks about
the life and work of one of the greatest
inspirations behind her own writing,
and offers an alternative perspective
on Plath’s untimely end and the impact
it had on her literary legacy.
7.45PM
Presented by Leeds Studio in association
with West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Elaine Feinstein
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
8PM
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
9PM
10AM
9–10pm £4
10am–1pm £15/10
Untold Stories
Found
8–9pm £6/4
Inside The Fall:
Steve Hanley and Olivia
Piekarski in Conversation
with Dave Haslam
Following Rosamund Lupton’s event,
film maker Charlie Swinbourne
introduces his short Film4
documentary Found. It features the
personal stories of three profoundly
deaf people who tell us directly to
camera, using an interrotron device,
about their memories of school
and growing up and the day they
discovered the deaf world and saw
sign language for the first time. The
programme conveys a sense of what
the deaf community means to those
who find it, for both deaf and hearing
viewers.
Film has full voice over and subtitles.
Introduction and Q&A will include sign
language interpretation.
Paper Making Masterclass
Create your own handmade paper,
with expert papermaker and artist
Jonathan Korejko who introduces
the joys of paper with a literary theme.
Shakespeare wrote about roses,
Wordsworth mentioned daffodils and
here Korejko pays homage to Dickens,
Tennyson and others as he mixes
flowers, plants and metaphors into a
vat of pulp recycled from old books
and pulp fiction. Discover how art,
literature and nature can be blended
together.
Wear old clothes!
11 AM
11am–12.30pm £7/5
9.30PM
Try the Art of Translating
a Poem
Bass player Steve Hanley’s critically
acclaimed book The Big Midweek
lifts the lid on life inside The Fall,
Britain’s most idiosyncratic band.
Steve’s stories get up close and
personal with an eccentric cast of
band mates, offering unprecedented
insight into the highly-charged creative
atmosphere within The Fall and the
relentless work ethic which won them
high-art respectability and a unique
place in popular music history.
William Edward Forster by Henry Tanworth Wells
‘..as vivid and true a picture of band life
as I’ve read.’ The Wire
9.30–10.30pm FREE
Writing across Continents
ILF’s 2015 Poet in Residence, Zaffar
Kunial, leads an inspiring workshop for
anyone who’s ever wondered how to
go about translating a poem. Working
from a word by word translation
(provided), try your hand at getting to
the heart of the original and bringing
it to life in English. A practical morning
with fun exercises to try.
No language skills needed. For all
levels. Please book in advance.
Memories of William
Edward Forster
FRINGE EVENT
Local Historian Dennis Warwick
tackles the subject of William Edward
Forster, well-known 19th century
industrialist, local philanthropist and
Liberal Party statesman.
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Zaffar Kunial
01943 816714
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
1PM
4.30PM
2–5pm £15/10
1–4.30pm FREE with banquet kindly Paper Making Masterclass
provided by Panache
Multi-lingual Mushaira:
Gathering of Poets
Enjoy Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and
Gujarati poetry readings – with English
translation. We’ll be welcoming some
of the most prominent South Asian
poets in the North.
In association with Bazm-E-Tadeeb
International.
2PM
Repeat of Event 35.
2–3pm £6/4 Age 5–11
Spark, the Goblin Wizard
with Dominic Berry
Spark’s magic rhymes can turn
anything into anything, even bogeys
into pink ribbons. But something
terrible is happening in the enchanted
forest. With lyrics, laughs and lots of
joining in, poet Dommy B needs your
help to save the day!
This event begins with a short reading
by the winners of the Children’s Poetry
Competition.
Sponsored by The Grammar School at
Leeds.
David Crystal © Hilary Crystal
4PM
38. Kings Hall
2–3pm £10/8
David Crystal
Acclaimed writer, editor, lecturer,
broadcaster and authority on the
English Language, David Crystal is
Honorary Professor of Linguistics
at the University of Wales, Bangor.
The punctuation of English
generates a disproportionate
degree of uncertainty and passion!
Professor Crystal leads us through
the minefield with characteristic
wit, clarity and common-sense,
giving a fascinating account of the
origin of every kind of punctuation
and offering advice on how it can
be used to meet the needs of
every occasion.
4–5pm £6/4
Sophie Hannah: In
Conversation
Internationally bestselling crime writer
and poet Sophie Hannah discusses
her work with James Nash, with
readings from her latest volume of
poetry, Marrying the Ugly Millionaire
and her standalone psychological
thriller, A Game For All the Family.
Sophie will also be talking about her
experience of writing The Monogram
Murders, a bestseller in more than
twenty countries and the first Hercule
Poirot novel to be published since
Agatha Christie’s death.
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42. Kings Hall
4.30–5.30pm £14/12
Max Hastings:
The Secret War – Spies,
Ciphers and Guerrillas
in WWII
A vivid portrait of the role played
by espionage, code-breaking and
intelligence on all sides in the
Second World War – with startling
stories of daring, deception and
hardship – from Sir Max Hastings.
A renowned author, journalist
and broadcaster whose work has
appeared in every British national
newspaper, Hastings has reported
on conflicts around the world for
the BBC and is former editor-inchief of the Daily Telegraph and the
Evening Standard.
Presented in association with Clive
Conway Productions Ltd.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
4.30PM
5.30PM
7.30PM
5.30–6.30pm £5/3
Prisoners of Geography:
Tim Marshall
Shaping the Future
46. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £12/10
6PM
Walking Away:
Simon Armitage
Nikolaus Wachsmann
4.30–5.30pm £5/3
KL: A History of the Nazi
Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann
Untold Stories
In a ‘monumentally impressive’ book
which seems certain to become
the definitive history of the Nazi
concentration camps, Nikolaus
Wachsmann, Professor in Modern
European History at Birkbeck College,
explores the context and organisation
of these immense genocidal machines.
He draws a vivid picture of life inside
the camps and gives a voice to
the ‘social deviants’, criminals and
unwanted ethnicities often forgotten.
Author of the prize-winning Hitler’s
Prisons, Wachsmann is a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society.
Simon Armitage © Paul Wolfgang Webster
Ever wondered why Putin is so
obsessed with Crimea or why the
USA was destined to become a global
superpower? Former Sky News
Diplomatic Editor, Tim Marshall
argues that all leaders are constrained
by geography, their choices limited by
mountains, rivers, seas and concrete.
A leading authority on foreign affairs,
Marshall has reported for Sky, ITV and
the BBC from 30 different countries.
Catherine Hickley
6–7pm £6/4
The Munich Art Hoard:
Catherine Hickley
Catherine Hickley, the world’s leading
journalist in the field of Nazi-looted
art tells the story of Hitler’s art dealer,
Hildebrand Gurlitt, and his secret
legacy – an incredible art collection
including work by Matisse, Picasso,
Degas, Otto Dix and Albrecht Duerer
hidden in a non-descript Munich
apartment.
Sponsored by NADFAS.
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Simon Armitage, award winning
poet, playwright, novelist, lyricist,
broadcaster and the new Professor
of Poetry at Oxford University,
reads journey poems and extracts
from Walking Away, the sequel to
his bestselling memoir Walking
Home. Tramping through Devon
and Cornwall, Armitage swapped
the Pennine Way for the South
West Coast Path, reading every
night in harbour pubs, beach
cafes and at one stage, a Celtic
roundhouse.
Sponsored by Centre for Culture and
the Arts at Leeds Beckett University.
01943 816714
SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
7.30PM
6PM
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
6–7pm Mon 5, Thu 8, Mon 12 &
Thu 15 October
£15/12 includes all four sessions
The Unknown Universe:
Stuart Clark
T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land:
Guided Reading Group
Shaping the Future
In 2013, the European Space Agency
released a map that challenged our
understanding of the Universe. Tonight
astrophysicist and noted journalist
Stuart Clark asks whether Newton’s
famous laws of gravity need to be
rewritten. Are the once immutable
laws of physics changing? Author
of the acclaimed The Sun Kings and
a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical
Society, Clark is renowned for
presenting the complex world of
astronomy to the general public.
Modernism and The Waste Land
James Hornsby
49. Otley Courthouse
7.30–9.15pm £8/6
Dracula
A spine-chilling one man adaptation
of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic-horror
novel. Actor James Hornsby has
worked with some of the country’s
leading playwrights: Alan Ayckbourn,
Dame Kay Mellor and the renowned
John Godber at Hull Truck. Hornsby
brings to life a cast of well known
characters, from John Harker and
Mina his beautiful fiancée, to the
crazed bug-eating Renfield and of
course the demonic Transylvanian
Count himself!
In association with Otley Courthouse.
David Olusoga
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Forgotten Soldiers of
Empire: David Olusoga
8PM
8–9pm £6/4
Following hugely popular reading
groups in previous years, Georgina
Binnie, from the School of English
at the University of Leeds, offers an
expert guide to T. S. Eliot’s complex,
multi-layered, post-WWI poem, The
Waste Land. Exploring the relationship
between modernism (the literary
period defined by technological and
social innovation) and myth in Eliot’s
seminal work.
Sessions timed to ensure you don’t
miss other events. Details of what to
study will be sent to participants.
See also Event 78.
6.30–7.30PM
6.30–7.30pm £5/3 Age 12–adult
Groups welcome
The Art of Being Normal:
James Dawson,
Lisa Williamson and
Sam Hepburn
Think YA (young adult) fiction is just
about attractive vampires and bleak
futures? Think again. Join us for a
discussion on how books for young
Forget everything you thought you
World War I was a multi-racial, multipeople can explore ‘difficult’ subjects
knew about Lady Jane Grey and join
national struggle, fought in Africa
and offer a more diverse and honest
Suzannah Dunn, former director of
and Asia as well as Europe but four
the MA in novel writing at Manchester representation of young people – with
million non-white soldier’s stories
University, for an exposé into the crisis James Dawson (author of All of the
have remained in the shadows. David
that gave England a ‘nine days queen’. Above and Stonewall Schools Role
Olusoga, British Nigerian historian,
Model), Lisa Williamson (The Art
The Lady Of Misrule is the latest of
documentary maker and BBC
Dunn’s distinctive bestselling novels on of Being Normal) and Sam Hepburn
producer, describes how Europe’s
the lives and loves of the Tudors (The (If You Were Me). Their most recent
Great War became the World’s War,
books cover sexuality, gender identity
Queen’s Sorrow, The Confession of
exposing the era’s racial obsessions,
Katherine Howard, The May Queen). and accusations of terrorism in their
which dictated which men would serve
portrayals of contemporary teen life.
and to what degree they would suffer.
Hidden Voices from
the Front Line
The Lady of Misrule:
Suzannah Dunn
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
We Are All Completely
Beside Ourselves:
Karen Joy Fowler
53. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Stuart Maconie:
The Pie at Night
Karen Joy Fowler shot to prominence
with We Are All Completely Beside
Ourselves, her fascinating, funny,
disturbing depiction of one family.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,
winner of the PEN/Faulkner, it sold
over a million copies worldwide. The
author of six previous novels including
The Jane Austen Book Club and three
short story collections spanning
literary fiction, fantasy and science
fiction, tonight Fowler reflects on her
work and inspiration.
Industry, toil and grime; its
manufacturing roots mean we
still see the North of England as
a hardworking place. But, more
than anywhere else, the North has
always known how to get dressed
up and have a good time. Stuart
Maconie, TV and radio presenter,
co-host of BBC Radio 6 Music’s
Radcliffe and Maconie Show,
journalist, columnist, author and
one of the UK’s bestselling travel
writers goes in search of what,
exactly, that entails.
54. All Saints Church
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Inventing the Universe:
Alister McGrath
8PM
8–9pm £6/4
Naturalists in Paradise:
John Hemming
John Hemming tells the story of
the amazing achievements of Alfred
Wallace, Henry Bates and Richard
Spruce, three self-educated young
naturalists who went to the Amazon
in the 1840s. Yorkshireman Spruce
was a passionate botanist, Wallace and
Bates were close to Charles Darwin
and together they became outstanding
explorers of the world’s greatest river
and ecosystem. Dr John Hemming,
an expert on the Amazon, has
experienced many of their adventures.
9PM
9–10pm FREE
An Evening with
Edwin Waugh
FRINGE EVENT
56. Panache Restaurant
7.30–9.30pm
£15 includes two-course buffet
Poetry Banquet
Join Poet in Residence, Zaffar Kunial,
Leading scientist and theologian,
and Apprentice Poet in Residence,
Alister McGrath, is Andreas Idreos
Beverley Nadin, at a ‘word banquet’.
Professor of Science and Religion at
Enjoy the delicious South Asian buffet,
Oxford University and author of The
hear some of Zaffar and Beverley’s
Dawkins Delusion and the critically
work and share your own poems or try
acclaimed C.S. Lewis: A Life. Tonight
reciting (or reading) someone else’s!
he explores the themes of his latest
If you would like to read, please come
book, Inventing the Universe, an
accessible, scholarly, engaging account 15 minutes early and let Zaffar know.
In association with Panache.
of the big questions of faith and
science, from the origins of life to
burdens of proof and the existence
of God.
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On the 5 October 1875 Edwin
Waugh presented an evening of
humorous readings, poetry and
song here in Ilkley. Tonight, on the
140th anniversary, Sid Calderbank,
Lancashire’s foremost interpreter
and performer of Victorian Dialect,
recreates Waugh’s concert with
musical accompaniment from the Red
Rose Strings.
9.30PM
9.30–10pm FREE
Orthros Presents:
A Night of Aconite Prose
FRINGE EVENT
Follow Orthros, guardian of the
Underworld, into the darkness to hear
heartbreaking and disturbing stories.
Steve Toase and LMA BaumanMilner sprinkle grave dirt and rattle
dungeon doors in this unsettling
performance.
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TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER
1.30PM
7.30PM
60. Kings Hall
1.30–2.30pm SOLD OUT
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Special event for primary schools.
The Walter Swan memorial lecture
has been set up by the Walter Swan
Trust in memory of Walter Swan,
writer, actor, theatre director, and
for several years, artistic director
of Ilkley Playhouse. The inaugural
lecture will be delivered by writer,
playwright and broadcaster Nick
Ahad. An experienced commentator
on theatre and the arts, Nick is also
an accomplished playwright and
screenwriter.
Jessica Souhami:
Children’s Book Show
6PM
61. Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
6–7pm £5 please book in advance
Treasures of the
Brotherton Collection –
Festival Private View
The Walter Swan
Memorial Lecture
In association with The Walter Swan Trust.
Join our special Festival visit to
a display of the treasures at the
University of Leeds Library, featuring
some of the spectacular rare books
and manuscripts from the Brotherton
Collection, created by industrialist
Lord Brotherton during the 1920s.
University Library staff will be on hand
to answer your questions as you enjoy
treats from the Library’s internationally
renowned Special Collections, which
cover everything from cookery to
Medieval manuscripts.
Parking available in the University car
park on Woodhouse Lane.
62. Outside the Box
6–7pm £3
Exploring the Work of
Les Murray
65. Kings Hall
7.30–9.15pm £14/12
Martin Bell: The End of
Empire
The distinguished former BBC
war reporter and famously
Independent MP for Tatton,
Martin Bell, discusses his days as
a foreign correspondent in some
of the bloodiest conflicts of recent
years. He also introduces The End
of Empire, a powerful, personal
account of his time as a soldier in
the British army in Cyprus in the
late 1950s during the rebellion
against British rule.
This event is in two halves with an
interval.
Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises.
Nick Ahad
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Alison Weir
Alison Weir is the UK’s biggest selling
female historian, her books span
historical novels and biography. The
Tudors are a major focus in her work
Festival Poet in Residence Zaffar
and it’s a period she has described
Kunial leads a friendly session
as ‘the most dramatic in our history’.
exploring the work of leading
Tonight she reflects on The Lost Tudor
Australian poet Les Murray in advance Princess, her biography of Margaret
of Murray’s reading later in the Festival. Douglas, Countess of Lennox, whose
See also Event 108.
eventful life spanned the reigns of four
Tudor monarchs.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER
9PM
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
9–10pm FREE
The Donald Baverstock
Lecture
Ilkley’s International
Entrepreneurs
The Extraordinary Birth
and Troubled Life of the
BBC: Charlotte Higgins
FRINGE EVENT
In 1883, three Bradford industrialists
built a factory town in Marki, Poland.
It was dubbed a ‘second edition of
Saltaire’ and ‘the Polish Bournville
or Port Sunlight’. Dr. Sarah Dietz
describes this little-known story, which
combines local history with a case of
extraordinary international enterprise.
9–10pm FREE
The Joel Dean Experience
FRINGE EVENT
Joel Dean and his chums invite you to
get lost in fiction. Dean and co. explore
the boundaries between Art and life,
challenging the distinctions between
fiction and reality. A meta-theatrical
experience.
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
The War in the West
– A New History:
James Holland
Much of what we think we know
about World War II is steeped in myth
rather than fact and James Holland
feels the achievements of Britain have
been downplayed over the years.
Sunday Times bestselling author,
historian and TV presenter of Battle of
Britain, D-Day and VE Day anniversary
celebrations, Holland deploys deep
research, incisive analysis, and a
profound sense of humanity to revise
our understanding of one of the most
significant events in history.
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
A New Africa Breaks Free:
Alex Perry
Shaping the Future
Twenty-five years after Live Aid,
Ethiopia’s first yuppies are traders
on an electronic food exchange
and cash is becoming a thing of the
past. Newsweek contributing editor
and former TIME correspondent,
journalist Alex Perry takes a vivid look
at how the world gets Africa wrong,
as he explores a continent rising from
centuries of oppression to become an
economic and political titan.
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Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s
chief culture writer, steps behind
the polished doors of Broadcasting
House to investigate the BBC as she
asks what does this uniquely British
institution mean to us now? What
threatens its continued existence? Is
it worth fighting for? Higgins traces
the BBC’s origins, celebrating the early
pioneering spirit, unearthing forgotten
characters and shedding new light on
recent feuds and scandals.
Supported by the Friends of Donald
Baverstock.
9PM
9–10pm FREE
Red Shed Readings
presents: Cresties
FRINGE EVENT
Crestie: a local word from Castleford
and Featherstone meaning a scruffy
person, a loser.
Identity, exile, love and losing in a
musical poem cycle combining poetry,
music and short stories, from a group
of writers loosely connected by
Wakefield’s Red Shed Readings.
9–10pm FREE
The New Gentlemen
of Verona
FRINGE EVENT
The New Gentlemen of Verona
is a syllable-for-syllable rewrite of
Shakespeare’s first play; The Two
Gentlemen of Verona. Join writer
Ash Caton and cast as they discuss
adapting the play with a new comic
storyline, as well as hearing contrasting
excerpts of both versions.
01943 816714
THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER NATIONAL POETRY DAY
7PM
73. Ilkley Moor Vaults
2–4.30pm FREE with refreshments
75. Aagrah Restaurant, The Moors
Shopping Centre, LS29 9LB
7–10pm £45 per head
please book in advance
Poetry Alive! Open Mic
and Networking Event
Celebrate National Poetry Day at our
annual open mic and networking event
for poets from across the Yorkshire
region. Catch up with other writers,
share your pamphlets and chapbooks.
Hosted by Poet in Residence, Zaffar
Kunial and Apprentice Poet in
Residence, Beverley Nadin.
Poets wanting to read should arrive
by 1.45pm to put their names down.
Everyone, including non-performing
listeners, welcome.
6PM
74. Great Hall, University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
6–7.30pm FREE but please book in
advance via www.whiterose.ac.uk
Future of the Book Debate
Gourmet Food and
Premium Indian Lager
Tasting Evening
Aagrah Ilkley are hosting a unique
evening with Managing Director and
Executive Chef Mohammed Aslam,
MBE, who’ll be explaining all about the
spices used to make the meal you’ll be
served on the night.
A Beer expert will also be on hand to
explain and answer your questions
about Lal Toofan, a premium
full-bodied lager which perfectly
complements hot and spicy Indian
cuisine and there will be some special
poetry surprises!
For further info about the meal
telephone 01943 600628 or visit
www.aagrah.com
In association with Aagrah Restaurant.
For centuries, the bound volume
held a seemingly invincible place in
our culture. In the digital age nothing
about the status of books is certain.
How should we understand the
present moment, suspended between
the print culture of old and the digital
future? Does digitisation herald the
end of the book, a new beginning or
perhaps neither? Lord Melvyn Bragg
– renowned arts broadcaster and
University of Leeds Chancellor – chairs
a debate with James Daunt Managing
Director of Waterstones, Linda Grant
Orange Prize-winning author of I
Murdered My Library and experts from
Leeds, York and Sheffield Universities.
In association with the White Rose
Consortium. Part of the Debating the
Book Programme.
For more details on the Debating the
Book Programme please see page 51.
Brian Blessed © Steve Cowell
2PM
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Life After Dark:
Dave Haslam
From vice-ridden Victorian dance halls
to psychedelic light shows, high street
discos and warehouse raves, author,
broadcaster and former Hacienda
nightclub DJ, Dave Haslam, charts the
development of the British nightclub,
a vital aspect of UK history. Along the
way he explores different subcultures,
encountering the likes of Jarvis Cocker,
Noddy Holder, the Chemical Brothers
and Duran Duran. Haslam’s previous
books include the highly acclaimed
Manchester, England.
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77. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Brian Blessed:
Absolute Pandemonium
There’s no one quite like Brian
Blessed, actor, film star, trained
undertaker, unlikely diplomat,
mountaineer and brilliant
storyteller. He comes to Ilkley
to talk about his autobiography,
Absolute Pandemonium, a riotous
journey from childhood, as the
son of a miner in Goldthorpe,
South Yorkshire, to finding fame in
Z-Cars, punching Harold Pinter and
winning round George Lucas to get
the role of Boss Nass in Star Wars
Episode 1. A funny, life-affirming
evening crammed with anecdotes.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER
7.30PM
FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
7.30PM
Aftershock:
Matthew Green
Hidden Voices from
the Front Line
What happens when soldiers
return home, having lost friends
and killed enemies? Through
interviews with former combatants,
their families, serving personnel,
doctors and psychologists, former
Reuters and Financial Times foreign
correspondent, Matthew Green,
looks beyond the labels of shell shock Tom Holland © Charlie Hopkinson
Rommi Smith © Leeds University
and PTSD to get to the heart of today’s 82. Clarke Foley Centre
post-conflict experience. Green,
embedded with US Marines during the 7.30–8.30pm £6/4
7.30–9pm £5/3
Iraq invasion, has reported from over Dynasty: Tom Holland
A Journey with T. S. Eliot’s 30 countries.
Writer, historian and television
documentary presenter, Tom Holland
The Waste Land:
won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for
Mike Tooby, Rommi Smith 9PM
History for Rubicon: The Last Years
and Damien O’Keeffe
of the Roman Republic. In this sequel,
Modernism and The Waste Land 9–10pm FREE
Dynasty, he gives a dazzling portrait
A multi layered event exploring the
of Rome’s first imperial dynasty,
Those
Coal
Town
Days
resonances of Eliot’s iconic poem.
from Augustus and Caligula to
Untold
Stories
Poet and playwright Rommi Smith
Nero via the great capital rebuilt by
and actor Damien O’Keeffe give a
FRINGE EVENT
Augustus and the barbarian-haunted
compelling reading of The Waste
forests of Germany. With a cast
An entertainment in verse and song
Land. This is followed by input from
of murderers, adulterers, druids,
devised and performed by David
Professor Mike Tooby, Senior
Kidman and Jim Saville. Exploring the scheming grandmothers and reluctant
Research Fellow at the Henry
miner’s life experience and delving into gladiators, this is the family that
Moore Institute (2014–15), who
transformed Rome.
the industry’s history, environmental
is developing a participative visual
impact and politics. Classic songs will
arts exhibition – with a subsequent
compliment moving verses, often by
collaborative presentation in Leeds
poets involved with mining.
– on The Waste Land with Turner
Contemporary art gallery in Margate,
9.30PM
where Eliot wrote part of the poem
while recuperating in 1922. Tooby’s
curatorial process is involving
9.30–10.30pm FREE
people of diverse backgrounds
Ilkley Voices:
and celebrating the potential for
challenging new perspectives. Tonight What Lies Beneath...
he outlines this exciting project and
FRINGE EVENT
discusses how we might consider a
The River Wharfe has a thousand
range of responses to the poem by
guises. She can lift spirits, invoke peace
visual artists.
and soothe troubled minds. Yet she
See also Event 51.
can also be murderously cruel. Lean
in close with Ilkley Writers and listen
to tales inspired by the river’s everchanging spirit.
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FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Jellyfish: Janice Galloway
and Vicki Jarrett
Melvyn Bragg © ITV
83. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Melvyn Bragg:
Now is the Time
Melvyn Bragg, award winning
novelist, broadcaster and
acclaimed presenter of the South
Bank Show and In Our Time,
introduces his gripping new novel.
Now is the Time is set during
the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt as a
vast force of common people
invade London, led by former
soldier, Walter (Wat) Tyler, and
radical preacher John Ball. Their
demands: freedom, equality and
the complete uprooting of Church
and state.
Olive Senior © Caroline Forbes
Author of novels, short stories, poetry,
nonfiction and collaborative works
with visual artists, videographers and
musicians, Janice Galloway is one
of the most versatile and acclaimed
authors in the British Isles. Tonight
she discusses Jellyfish, her powerful,
sparkling new collection of short
stories, inspired by David Lodge’s
assertion – ‘Literature is mostly about
having sex and not much about having
children; life’s the other way round’.
Vicki Jarrett, Edinburgh novelist and
short story writer joins her to talk
about her first collection of short
stories, The Way Out, fairytale-like
accounts of dilemmas, desires and
disappointments, long-listed for both
the Frank O’Connor International
Short Story Award and the Jerwood
Fiction Uncovered Prize.
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Dying to Better
Ourselves – Uncovering
the Caribbean’s Hidden
Histories: Olive Senior
Untold Stories
The popular West Indian migration
narrative starts with the ‘Windrush
Generation’, but from 1850–1914
people from the Caribbean were lured
to Panama by the promise of lucrative
work on the canal and railway.
Renowned, multi-award winning
Jamaican poet, novelist, short story
and nonfiction writer, Olive Senior,
tells the compelling story of the West
Indian rite of passage of ‘Going to
Panama’. Drawing on official records,
newspapers, books, songs, sayings
and the words of the participants
themselves, Senior traces who went
to Panama, how and why – and reads
from her short stories.
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7.30–9.30pm £8/6
Fire in the North Sky:
Epic Tales from Finland
with Nick Hennessey,
Kristiina Ilmonen, Kaisa
Liedes and Timo Väänänen
Be transported by the songs, stories
and adventures of Finland’s cultural
treasure, the Kalevala. UK storyteller
Nick Hennessey and three virtuoso
Finnish musicians bring these 2000
year old stories alive with a touch of
offbeat fun, enchantment and music
that moves between dancing flutes,
intoxicating rhythms and hauntingly
beautiful sung melodies.
Please note this is an event in two
halves with an interval.
9.15PM
9.15–10.45pm £5
Festival Quiz
Do you know your Miss Marple from
your Nancy Drew, your Little Women
from your Famous Five? Popular, fun,
book-based pub-style quiz that tests
your literary (and not-so-literary)
knowledge.
Come with a team of three or four or
come on your own and we’ll link you
up with fellow Festival goers.
Pens, paper – and prizes – supplied!
Hosted by For Books’ Sake.
www.forbookssake.net
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
10AM
All day – Dozens of children’s and young
people’s events. See pages 52–57 for details.
88. Friends of Ham
10am–12pm FREE
The Children’s Festival is sponsored
by The Grammar School at Leeds.
Poets’ Drop in and Advice
Session: Zaffar Kunial
Drop in and meet Festival Poet in
Residence Zaffar Kunial for a chat
about your poetry – or his – at any
point during the morning. Bring some
of your work, if you’d like to, and feel
free to pick his brains for advice.
11am–1pm £15/10
10.30AM
89. Bandstand on The Grove
10.30–11am & 11.30am–12 noon
FREE family event for all ages
More Alike than Unalike:
Workshop with Janice
Galloway and Vicki Jarrett
Suitcase Circus
Performance
Cheer up your Saturday morning! Join
us on the bandstand for these fun
circus performances from Suitcase
Circus.
11AM
90. Church House
11am–4pm £5 includes ‘Press Pass’
for the afternoon Age 12–18
Press Pack: Write a Review
Find out how to write great reviews,
blogs and tweets then set off to a
Festival event. Write up a great review
in our newsroom and we’ll post it
online.
Bring a packed lunch.
11am–1pm £15/10
Tessa Hadley Masterclass
A practical, hands on masterclass
with experienced tutor Tessa Hadley,
Professor of Creative Writing at Bath
Spa University and author of six novels,
who regularly has stories published
in The New Yorker, Granta and the
Guardian.
92. Kings Hall
11am–12 noon £14/12
Quinntessential Baking
with the Bake Off’s
Frances Quinn and
Howard Middleton
Meet two of the Great British Bake
Off’s most popular stars. Frances
Quinn (winner 2013) wowed
the judges with her imaginative
showstoppers and extraordinary
baking skills. Amateur baker
Howard Middleton from Sheffield
caught the public’s attention
with his first bake – a gluten
free passion fruit and coconut
sandwich cake.
This morning Frances discusses
her creations; honey bee bite
flapjacks and giant jammy dodger
shortbread, while Howard is full
of ideas on how to enjoy perfect
cakes, melt-in-the-mouth biscuits
and gorgeous, crusty breads,
all gluten-free and absolutely
delicious.
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A hands-on workshop exploring
notions of the particular and the
universal in fiction. With examples and
short exercises, participants will be
encouraged to challenge and refresh
their thinking about their own writing
practice.
12PM
12–1pm £6/4 Age 5+
The Dinosaur That
Pooped a Show!
Host Alastair Watson brings the
bestselling The Dinosaur That Pooped
books to life with help from The
Dinosaur himself! Interactive event
featuring dinosaur impressions,
live drawing, gross games and
exclusive video clips from creators,
Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter
(McBusted).
WARNING: CONTAINS DINOSAUR
POO!
01943 816714
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
1.30PM
2.30PM
3.30PM
2.30–3.30pm £6/4 Age 8+
The Wimpy Kid Show
A must for all Wimpy Kid fans! Alastair
Watson brings the books to life with
The Wimpy Kid Draw-Along, The
Wimp Wars! Quiz AND exclusive clips
of author Jeff Kinney talking about the
books, the films and how to draw the
characters.
1.30–2.30pm £6/4
3.30–4.30pm £5/3
Song for My Father:
Ian Clayton
Popular broadcaster and storyteller
Ian Clayton will be telling tales from
his latest book, Song for My Father,
reflecting on what happened when
his dad reappeared in his life after a
40 year absence. With characteristic
wit and good humour, Ian recounts
their extraordinary encounters and
ponders on what happens when things
don’t work out just the way we want
them to.
2PM
2–4pm £8/6
Words on the Edge –
Poetry Workshop:
Zaffar Kunial
A look at borders and edges in poetry.
An edge is potentially both an end
and a beginning and in this workshop
Zaffar Kunial, Festival Poet in
Residence, encourages you to explore
how words might occupy edges and
borders and the vital, sometimes
surprising, role of line endings. We’ll
be looking at examples from various
poems and then having a go at writing
poems inspired by these themes.
Indian Voices of the Great
War: David Omissi
Hidden Voices from
the Front Line
Tessa Hadley © Mark Vessey
2.30–3.30pm £5/3
The Past: Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley, a fiction writer of
remarkable gifts, has been compared
to Elizabeth Bowen and Alice Munro.
Her new novel, The Past, the latest
of five books and two collections of
short stories, is a mesmerising tale of
siblings meeting in their grandparents’
old house for three long, hot summer
weeks. The house is full of memories
but under the idyllic surface, tensions
are simmering.
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David Omissi’s much lauded Indian
Voices of the Great War: Soldiers’
Letters, 1914–1918 is an anthology of
letters to and from Indian soldiers on
the Western Front. Using translated
extracts in the reports of the British
military censors, Dr Omissi, Senior
Lecturer in Modern History at the
University of Hull, shows how people
on the margins of literacy made
imaginative, effective use of writing,
even under impossibly restrictive
conditions.
3.45PM
100. All Saints’ School
3.45–4.45pm FREE
Adults and children welcome
Tell Tales Workshop
FRINGE EVENT
Develop your storytelling skills with
Julie Pryke. Learn how to improvise
original stories for children from 3–9
years of age in this fun, interactive
workshop. You’ll learn to invent new
stories and not just repeat the old
familiar ones.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
4.30PM
5.15PM
5.30PM
4.30–5.30pm £6/4
104. Church House
5.30–6.30pm FREE
Mark Avery, former Director of the
RSPB and influential campaigner on
conservation and environmental
issues, takes on the controversial issue
of driven grouse shooting in Britain.
In a wide ranging event, he considers
the environmental impact for the
grouse population, the huge economic
importance and longstanding tradition
of the sport and the ecological effects
on the land.
FRINGE EVENT
Inglorious?: Mark Avery
Songs of Joy and Hope
Join us on World Mental Health Day
for a celebration of arts, creative
writing and mental wellbeing. Mind
in Bradford presents an inspirational
selection of music and poetry. Their
collected poetry anthology Something
on My Mind was published last year.
7.30PM
5.15–6.15pm £5/3
The Race to Crack
the Genetic Code:
Matthew Cobb
Shaping the Future
Stephen Kelman © Jonathan Ring
4.30–5.30pm £5/3
The Crossing and Man on
Fire: Andrew Miller and
Stephen Kelman
Two highly regarded novelists discuss
their work. Andrew Miller, whose
previous novel Pure won the Costa
Book of the Year Award, reflects on
The Crossing – his subtle, almost
dreamlike story of a woman who is a
mystery even to those closest to her. A
woman with a talent for survival, who
works long hours and loves to sail –
preferably on her own. Miller is joined
by Stephen Kelman, whose second
novel Man on Fire, the follow-up to his
Booker Prize-nominated debut Pigeon
English, is inspired by the life of Bibhuti
Nayak, a journalist, fitness freak and
world record holder for the number
of kicks to the groin. An unforgettable
story of faith, forgiveness, friendship
and differing cultures.
Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology
at the University of Manchester,
interweaves science, biography and
anecdote to tell the story of the
discovery and cracking of the genetic
code, a scientific breakthrough that
transformed the way we think about
life. Hear about theoretical deadends and ingenious experiments;
cooperation and competition among
some of the twentieth century’s most
outstanding (and eccentric) minds
and the part played by computing and
cybernetics.
Robert Antoni
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Caryl Phillips
7.30–8.30pm £7/5
Renaissance One Presents
Caryl Phillips and Robert
Antoni: Readings and
In Conversation
Caryl Phillips’ new novel, The Lost
Child, is a story of orphans and
outcasts inspired by Wuthering
Heights. Born in St Kitts, he grew up in
Leeds and teaches at Yale University.
Equal parts Trinidadian, Bahamian,
and US citizen, Robert Antoni is the
author of five books and a recipient of
the OCM Bocas Prize. His new book,
As Flies To Whatless Boys, is a richly
comic historical novel.
Event part of a Tour produced by
www.renaissanceone.co.uk
01943 816714
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
7.30PM
109. Church House
7.30–8.30pm FREE
Word Blend:
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Designing Tomorrow’s
World Today:
John Thackara
The Festival’s own Ilkley Young
Writers Group, all aged 12–18, with
another exciting performance of their
award winning poetry and prose.
Shaping the Future
John Thackara, writer, educator,
producer, speaker and connector in
the worlds of design and transition,
has spent a lifetime roving the globe
in search of design that serves
human needs sustainably. Drawing on
inspiring examples, from a temple-led
water management system in Bali
to an innovative e-bike collective in
Vienna, Thackara argues that below
the radar of mainstream media,
global communities are creating
a replacement economy from the
ground up.
Sponsored by Leeds College of Art.
9PM
9–10pm FREE
Common Ground
FRINGE EVENT
Les Murray
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Waiting for the Past:
Les Murray
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Unknown Becomes
Known: Annapurna Indian
Dance Company with
Ian Clayton
Hidden Voices from
the Front Line
Annapurna Indian Dancers pay
homage to the Indian servicemen of
WWI. India, which in 1914 included
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Bhutan and Nepal, sent 1,105,000
personnel to support the British
Empire. 74,000 troops sacrificed
their lives. The evening reveals this
shared history which touches on
race, religion, empire and culture,
with strong bearings on the present.
Narrated by writer and broadcaster
Ian Clayton.
Born in 1938 on a dairy farm in New
South Wales, Les Murray is Australia’s
leading poet and one of the greatest
contemporary poets writing in
English. Winner of numerous awards,
including the T.S. Eliot Prize and The
Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, his
work resonates with reverence for
the land and landscape and his belief
in the Bush and Bush values. On a
rare visit to England he reads from his
new collection, Waiting for the Past, a
Poetry Book Society Choice.
Supported by Heritage Lottery.
Annapurna Indian Dance Company
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Poet Marilyn Longstaff and singersongwriter Pete Ryder met at
Darlington Salvation Army Citadel
and they have been friends for half a
century. Common Ground interweaves
songs and poems from their quaint
upbringing – honest, moving, and
funny; they take you into another time,
another world. Neither of them is in
the Salvation Army today.
9.30PM
9.30–10.30pm FREE
The First Telling
FRINGE EVENT
Local poet Mandy Sutter and Chester
poet Gill McEvoy read from their
2015 collections Old Blue Car and The
First Telling. They also invite poets
and poetry fans to the stage to read
one of their own poems or a poem by
someone else that has inspired them.
Or simply come and listen!
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
11AM
116. Craiglands Hotel
2–3pm £6/4
11am–1pm £15/10
The Lives of Guy Burgess:
Andrew Lownie
Stephen Kelman
Masterclass
Guy Burgess, immortalised in Julian
Mitchell’s Another Country is the
most complex and enigmatic of
the Cambridge Spies. His friends
included Lucian Freud, W.H. Auden
and Christopher Isherwood and
although regarded as unreliable, he
penetrated the BBC, Foreign Office
and MI6. Andrew Lownie, who has
written for The Times, Spectator and
the Guardian, draws on thirty years of
research to chart Burgess’ life from
naval cadet to exile.
A masterclass with Stephen Kelman
whose first novel, Pigeon English, was
shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker
Prize for Fiction and the Guardian
First Book Award and translated into
25 languages. Kelman has also written
several screenplays for feature films.
113. Rombalds Hotel
11am–1pm £15/10
Michael Arditti
Masterclass
Two hours of handy tips and practical
exercises aimed as much at those who
have never had the confidence to
practise their writing skills as at those
who are already well on the fictional way.
2PM
2–6pm £5 Age 12–18
115. Kings Hall
2–3pm £14/12
Vince Cable
– After the Storm
Shaping the Future
Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat
and former Coalition Business
Secretary, made a name for
himself as the nation’s ‘best
loved politician’, described
by Simon Jenkins as ‘the only
British politician to emerge from
the credit crunch a star’. Now
unfettered by the restraints of
Government, he talks about what
really went on in the Coalition,
what happens next and how
the British economy should be
managed over the next decade.
Sponsored by Manse Capital.
WordsFest
An afternoon of inspiring workshops
for young people who enjoy creative
writing, including sessions on blogging
with Zoella’s writing coach, plotting
your page-turner and song-writing,
plus a headline event with young
people’s author Teresa Flavin.
See page 57 for full details.
Sponsored by Ilkley Book Group.
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2–3pm £5/3
The News from Waterloo:
Brian Cathcart
and their World
As Europe marks 200 years since
Wellington’s triumph at Waterloo,
Brian Cathcart charts the three
days it took the news to travel from
the blood-soaked battlefield of
Waterloo to the decorous dining
rooms of Regency London. Professor
of Journalism at Kingston University,
Cathcart is a founder of the ‘Hacked
Off’ campaign. He has previously been
deputy editor of the Independent on
Sunday and assistant editor of the New
Statesman.
01943 816714
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
2PM
120. Rombalds Hotel
2–3pm £5/3
Writing from Latvia:
Kārlis Vērdiņš
Latvian writer Kārlis Vērdiņš reads
his poetry. Born in Riga, Vērdiņš is an
author, an academic – with books on
prose, poetry and essays on Latvian
and foreign literature – librettist,
lyricist and prolific literary critic. He
has published several volumes of
poetry including Cottage Cheese with
Sour Cream and his latest, Pieaugušie
(Adults); and translated work by
T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman.
2–3pm £6/4
Francis Bacon
– Anatomy of an Enigma:
Michael Peppiatt
Artist Francis Bacon was notoriously
secretive about his personal life. But
since his death, secrecy has been
blown apart by memoirs, lawsuits,
scandals and analysis of the ‘compost
that blanketed Bacon’s studio
floor’. His friend and art historian,
Dr Michael Peppiatt, unpacks the
enigma that was Francis Bacon from
the nightclubs of pre-war Berlin to the
streets of Soho.
2–2.45pm £6/4 Age 9–12
Steve Cole
Meet Steve Cole – the lively,
bestselling, non-stop author of
Astrosaurs, Cows In Action, The Slime
Squad, Z-Raptor and many other
books including several original Doctor
Who stories!
3PM
3–4pm £5/3
Villa America:
Jami Attenberg and
Liza Klaussmann
Acclaimed bestselling author of The
Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg’s new
novel Saint Mazie, a BBC R4 Book at
Bedtime, honours the extraordinary
life of Mazie Adams, big-hearted
owner of The Venice movie theatre
in New York who gave shelter to the
homeless during the Great Depression.
In association with Literature Across Frontiers. Attenberg discusses her original
approach to writing historical fiction,
weaving together diaries, writings and
interviews, with Liza Klaussmann,
bestselling author of Tigers in Red
121. Manor House Education Room Weather. Klaussmann’s latest novel,
2–4pm £12/10
Villa America, sees Scott and Zelda
Razwan Ul-Haq: Meditation Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and
Linda Porter and Ernest Hemingway
and Arabic Calligraphy
Books and Reading – from the summering as guests of Gerald and
Sara Murphy in their coastal oasis.
Using traditional Arabic calligraphy
materials we will be exploring
meditation and calligraphic art. Artist
and author Razwan Ul-Haq will be
gently guiding participants to make
use of breath control as they explore
the line and plasticity of Arabic script.
Knowledge of the Arabic script is not
necessary.
122. Meet outside Rombalds Hotel
2–4pm £7 includes tea and scones
at Rombalds Hotel afterwards
Ilkley at the Time of WWI
Walk: 1915
Join knowledgeable local historian
Alex Cockshott for a guided walk
round Ilkley as it was in 1915. She’ll be
highlighting the railway station at war
and the home front activities of local
women.
Sponsored by Rombalds Hotel.
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3.30PM
3.30–4.30pm £5/3
‘A plain, uninteresting
youth’ – The Beginnings
of J.M.W. Turner:
Matthew Plampin
Art historian Matthew Plampin’s
latest novel, Will & Tom, set over a
week at nearby Harewood House,
offers a profound glimpse into the
early life of Turner, his humble origins,
fervent work ethic and rivalry with
now obscure artist Tom Girtin. In this
talk, Plampin explores the emergence
of this awkward, secretive, irritable
young man as one of the great figures
of British art.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
4PM
4.30PM
4.45PM
4–5pm £6/4
4.45–5.45pm £5/3
Gary Bell QC – one of Britain’s
leading lawyers, presenter of BBC’s
The Legalizer – appears to be a pillar
of the Establishment, but he grew up
in a Nottinghamshire pit village, left
school without qualifications and was
a notorious football hooligan. Going
to university as a mature student
he’s now an award winning stand-up
comic, Beverly Hills lawyer and among
the country’s top defence barristers.
He comes to Ilkley to tell his funny,
moving, life-affirming story.
Animal QC – My
Preposterous Life:
Gary Bell
4–5pm £5/3
Widows and Orphans:
Michael Arditti
Michael Arditti, described by the
Spectator as ‘a Graham Greene for
our time’, reads from and discusses his
highly acclaimed new novel, Widows
and Orphans. This portrait of life in a
small seaside town was hailed by Helen
Dunmore in the Guardian as ‘brilliantly
revealing… powerfully realistic. An
uncomfortable but very readable novel
about the careless greeds of the way
we live now’.
Bilbao-Ilkley-Seville:
Kirmen Uribe and
Jesús Carrasco
128. Kings Hall
4.30–5.30pm £10/8
Please check our website for
details of this event which is
awaiting confirmation
Paul Mason
Shaping the Future
Award winning Economics Editor
at Channel 4 News, Paul Mason,
asks has capitalism reached its
limit? Is it changing into something
new? Information technology
means people are discovering
new ways of doing business, from
parallel currencies and time banks,
to cooperatives and self-managed
online spaces – all contrary to
the current system of corporate
capitalism. Is this our chance to
create a more socially just and
sustainable global economy?
Kirmen Uribe is one of the leading
Spanish writers of his generation. He
writes in Basque and lives in Bilbao. His
first novel, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao,
won the Spanish National Prize for
Literature in 2009 and has been
translated into fifteen languages.
Praised for combining innovation and
tradition with a an intense and powerful
style, Jesús Carrasco’s first novel, Out
In The Open, was declared Book of the
Year by booksellers in Madrid and has
been published worldwide.
In association with Literature Across Frontiers.
5PM
130. Rombalds Hotel
5–6pm £5/3
Pitching to an Agent
Highly regarded London literary
agent Andrew Lownie of the Andrew
Lownie Literary Agency offers tips and
advice on how to pitch your nonfiction
(and fiction) work to a literary agent.
5.15PM
4–5pm £5 includes tea and cake
5.15–6.15pm £6/4
Rory Motion:
Cryptic Crosswords
The History of Egypt:
Joann Fletcher
Enjoy tea and cake as poet and
performer Rory Motion introduces
you to the secrets of how to
understand – and successfully tackle –
cryptic crosswords.
Dr Joann Fletcher, presenter of
BBC2’s Life and Death in the Valley
of the Kings and Honorary Research
Fellow at the University of York, brings
the history and people of ancient Egypt
alive – from Ramesses II’s penchant
for dying his grey hair, to how we
know Mentuhotep’s chief wife bit her
nails. Today she reveals how women
became pharaohs and how the ancient
Egyptians built the first Suez Canal.
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01943 816714
SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
6PM
7.30PM
8PM
6–7pm £6/4
8–9pm £6/4
The Health Gap:
Michael Marmot
Working Lives: David Hall
Untold Stories
Shaping the Future
Sir Michael Marmot is one of the
world’s leading doctors and public
intellectuals. Drawing on forty years’
experience and evidence, from the
United States to India, he argues that
social injustice is the greatest killer
in the world – people live shorter
lives than they could or should. This
afternoon he reframes everything you
thought you knew about health, and
challenges the way we live our lives.
6.30PM
6.30–7.15pm £6/4
Rory Motion
An Evening of Comedy
One of the most popular and
innovative performers on the national
circuit, Rory Motion has charmed
audiences from Mozambique to
Glastonbury with his deceptive
laid-back style, keen intelligence and
quirky wit. Poet, singer-songwriter,
comedian, tree impressionist and a
regular contributor to national radio
– he has appeared on Booked, the
BBC R4 literature panel game with
Roger McGough and Miles Kington,
and written and presented his own
programmes on Radios 4 and 5.
134. Kings Hall
7.30–9pm £15/12
Jay Rayner: My Dining Hell
If award-winning food critic Jay
Rayner has learnt one thing, it’s
that readers love reviews of bad
restaurants. My Dining Hell is
Rayner’s exploration of our love
affair with reading about bad
food, terrible service and dubious
establishments. Hear him discuss
some of his most excruciating
nights out – and some of the
worst reviews his own writing has
inspired over the years.
parts with an interval.
Early 1950s Britain: the most
industrialized nation in the world. For
millions of men and women smokeblackened factories and towering slag
heaps dominated their lives. David
Hall bestselling writer of nonfiction
and a highly successful TV producer
(Yorkshire Television, BBC, Channel 4
and the History Channel) reflects on
Working Lives – a unique collection of
oral testimonies from workers whose
stories might not otherwise be told.
From mill girls who risked life and limb
in noisy weaving sheds to steel workers
wrestling sheets of white-hot metal
and miners who hewed coal by hand
on filthy coalfaces.
Sponsored by Friends of Ham.
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Rosemary Hill on
Angela Carter
Despite being one of the most
influential and best-loved of the
post-war English writers, Angela
Carter remains little-known as a poet.
In Unicorn, the critic and historian
Rosemary Hill collects together
Carter’s published verse from 1963–
1971, a period in which she began to
explore the themes that dominated
her later work. The collection and
its accompanying essays provide
compelling insight into the formation
of a remarkable imagination.
Rory Motion
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Helen Lederer
8–9pm £6/4
Losing It: Helen Lederer
An Evening of Comedy
Dubbed “the funniest woman in
England” by Dawn French, writer, TV
performer and actor Helen Lederer
has been at the vanguard of the British
comedy scene for decades. Tonight
she talks about Losing It, her new
novel about “desperation, denial, debt
and chaos” in the life of a magazine
agony aunt who agrees to lose weight
for a diet pill company. The struggle to
achieve perfection has rarely been as
hilariously explored.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER
1.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
138. Kings Hall
1.30–2.30pm £4
Publick Transport:
We Are Brontë
Steve Cole
and their World
Special event for Y5/6 school groups
only. Call 01943 601210 to book.
4PM
Mark Thomas © Steve Ullathorne
139. Kings Hall Winter Gardens
4–5pm
FREE with tea and biscuits but
please book places in advance
Tel: 01943 816714
Steve Cole: for Teachers
and Librarians
Teachers and librarians are warmly
invited to come and hear Steve Cole
as he discusses children, literature and
reading in this special event.
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Book of Tokyo
Comma Press’s latest anthology of
their City in Short Fiction series brings
together some of Japan’s best writers
exploring that mysterious, ultramodern, yet often culturally-traditional
metropolis. A very special guest from
Japan will discuss their contribution
to The Book of Tokyo with interpreter
Asa Yoneda. An unmissable event
for anyone fascinated by Japanese
literature and culture.
In association with Comma Press.
Unmissable, comic visual theatre,
inspired by the real (and imaginary)
worlds of Yorkshire’s literary siblings.
Physical theatre collides with clowning
and improvisation as two performers
deconstruct not only gothic themes of
love, madness, repression and death,
but also themselves. Part play, part
enquiry into the act of putting on a
play, this promises to be no ordinary
Brontë adaptation.
‘pure genius…a brilliant bonkers show’
Bristol Culture on Discombobulated
141. Kings Hall
7.30–8.45pm £14/12
Lakin McCarthy presents
Mark Thomas:
100 Acts of Minor
Dissent – the book
Comedian Mark Thomas is well
versed in the art of creative
mayhem. Over the years his
troublemaking has changed laws,
cost companies millions and
annoyed those who most deserved
to be. In 2014, Mark set himself
the task of committing 100 Acts of
Minor Dissent in twelve months,
cataloging everything from the
smallest and silliest gesture to
the grandest confrontations. The
results are subversive, hilarious,
mainly legal and occasionally
inspiring. In this event – part book
reading, part stand up – Mark
celebrates the year’s activity.
Publick Transport in We Are Brontë
9PM
9–10pm FREE
Yorkshire’s Forgotten
Chekhov
FRINGE EVENT
This event celebrates the work of
Malachi Whitaker, a short story writer
who leapt to fame in the 1920s. Time
Out travel journalist and editor Valerie
Waterhouse asks why is this former
Yorkshire resident so thoroughly
overlooked?
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01943 816714
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
6PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
144. Brotherton Library, University
of Leeds LS2 9JT
Jane Smiley:
In Conversation
Treasures of the
Brotherton Collection –
Festival Private View
Renowned American author, Jane
Smiley is a recipient of the PEN USA
Lifetime Achievement Award for
Literature and the author of numerous
novels, including the Pulitzer Prize
winning A Thousand Acres. She comes
to Ilkley to discuss Golden Age, the
final work in her dazzling trilogy of
novels, set in a changing America
between the 1980s and 2020.
Repeat of Event 61.
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Headscarf Revolutionaries:
Brian Lavery
Untold Stories
Brian W. Lavery talks about his book,
The Headscarf Revolutionaries, the
story of the 1968 Hull Triple Trawler
Disaster and the incredible fishwives’
uprising that came in its wake, led by
Mrs Lillian Bilocca. Dubbed “Big Lil” by
the Press, the battling fishwife became
an international celebrity. The tragedy’s
lone survivor made worldwide
headlines too – both found out the
cost of their ‘15 minutes of fame’.
146. Kings Hall
7.30–9pm £14/12
Professor Robert
Winston: Modifying
Humans – Where Does
Genetics Stop?
Shaping the Future
Researcher, doctor, writer
and broadcaster, Lord Robert
Winston is Britain’s best-known
reproductive health expert
and Professor of Science and
Society and Emeritus Professor
of Fertility Studies at Imperial
College London. Tonight he asks
does the sequencing of the human
genome herald a new opportunity
for medicine or is there a darker
side that we ignore? Will ethical
considerations prevent us from
the next step – manufacturing
stronger, more gifted and very
intelligent children? Or will our
imperfect knowledge of how our
abilities are inherited mean there
are some major surprises in store?
Jane Smiley © Derek Shapton
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Winning Friends and
Influencing People –
A History of the Self Help
Book: Malcolm Chase
Our appetite for self-improvement
books seems endless. The greatest
of them all, Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help
(1859), actually originated in Leeds.
Yet it was not the first, nor was it
the most popular among Victorian
readers. From The Housewife’s Reason
Why to modern classics like How to
Stop Worrying and Start Living, here’s
a fascinating history that tells us much
about our ancestors, their aspirations
and fears.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER
9PM
6.30PM
9–10pm FREE
6.30–7.15pm £4 Age 12+
Northern Not Wanted?
Don’t miss your chance to meet
Sally Green, author of the hugely
‘But you’re not a London publisher!’
successful Half Bad – the fast paced
said a broadsheet literary editor.
supernatural thriller series set in a
Does geography and class dictate
modern England where witches and
what is published? Come and listen
humans warily coexist. Her books have
to publishers Bluemoose Books and
been translated in to over 50 different
author Michael Stewart. Hear from
languages worldwide and a Hollywood
the Hebden Bridge independents, who
film is already in the pipeline. ‘The new
are fighting the good fight with award
Hunger Games … brilliant and utterly
winning books and a Hollywood film
compelling’ Kate Atkinson.
to boot!
9–10pm FREE
Vane Women present:
Blue Horse
Untold Stories
FRINGE EVENT
The Vane Women collective read
from Joanna Boulter’s Blue Horse; a
modernist masterpiece. These poems
demand to be heard, but Joanna has
Alzheimer’s and can no longer perform
her own work. Here, her fellow poets
and friends give these poems a voice.
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
One Man and the Battle for
Rio: Misha Glenny
Misha Glenny is a former BBC Central
Europe correspondent. His books
include McMafia, the award winning
The Rebirth of History and The Fall
of Yugoslavia. His latest unflinching
investigative work, Nemesis: One Man
and the Battle for Rio, is the true story
of an ordinary man who became the
drug cartel king of the largest favela
in the city, and Brazil’s most wanted
criminal.
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
The Silk Roads:
Peter Frankopan
An extraordinary retelling of world
history from the Eastern perspective.
Peter Frankopan, Senior Research
Fellow at Worcester College,
Oxford, and Director of the Centre
for Byzantine Research at Oxford
University, charts the rise and fall
of empires and the forces that have
driven the flow of ideas and goods
across the world for over a thousand
years.
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Ian McMillan © Adrian Mealing
FRINGE EVENT
154. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £12/10
Ian McMillan: In Search
of the Meaning of
Yorkshire
With his father born in Scotland,
poet Ian McMillan is worried: is
he Yorkshire enough? Join a living
legend as he discusses his new
book, Neither Nowt Nor Summat:
In search of the meaning of
Yorkshire. Few are better qualified
to define the essence of this
diverse and sprawling county with
as much wit, humour and poetry as
The Bard of Barnsley himself.
155. Outside the Box
7.30–9pm FREE
Listening to Poetry with
Beverley Nadin
Join Apprentice Poet in Residence,
Beverley Nadin in the relaxed
surroundings of Outside the Box, to
listen to recordings of well known
poets reading their work. We’ll be
dimming the lights and letting you soak
up the atmosphere.
01943 816714
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
7.30PM
2PM
7.30PM
156. Bettys Café Tea Room
7.30–10pm £35 includes a twocourse set meal and tea/coffee
Tickets from Bettys Café Tea
Rooms Ilkley 01943 608029
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
In the Footsteps of
Odysseus: Harry Mount
Neil Hanson: Pigs Might Fly
7.45PM
7.45–8.45pm £5/3
Common Ground:
Rob Cowen
Award winning journalist and writer
Rob Cowen, author of regular
columns on nature and travel for the
Independent and Telegraph, is ‘one of
the UK’s most exciting nature writers’.
He shares his powerful evocation of
how, over the course of one year, he
discovered a common square mile of
wood, meadow, hedge and river and its
edge-land inhabitants: a fox, tawny owl,
hare, badger and roe deer. Blurring the
boundaries of memoir, natural history
and novel, he reveals an enthralling new
way of writing about nature.
Ranulph Fiennes © Graham Trott
Enjoy a delicious Bettys’ two-course
Yorkshire supper before being
entertained by ‘The James Herriot of
pubs’ as Neil Hanson, author of the
bestselling The Inn at the Top, shares
more tales of Britain’s highest inn, deep
in the Yorkshire Dales. The rich cast of
characters includes eccentric farmers, a
theatrical pet pig, a spiky punk barmaid,
two wandering Australians, legendary
fell walker Alfred Wainwright, and
national treasure Ted Moult.
Harry Mount is a regular writer for
the Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and
The Daily Mail. Inspired by the heroes,
locations and tales of the Odyssey, he
talks about his latest book, Ancient
Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus
– an entertaining combination of
memoir, travelogue and meditation on
this great civilisation.
158. Kings Hall
2–3pm £14/12
Ranulph Fiennes: Heat
The world’s greatest living
explorer, Ranulph Fiennes, has
travelled to some of the most
remote and dangerous parts of the
globe, raised over £14m for charity
and become the oldest Briton to
reach the summit of Everest. Well
known for his experiences at the
poles, he has now completed the
Marathon des Sables – a six day
race through the Sahara desert
– enduring some of the hottest
conditions on the planet.
Sponsored by Investec.
Sponsored by Wild Goose.
Blake Morrison © Getty Images
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
Shingle Street:
Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison reads from his new
poetry collection Shingle Street. Set
along the Suffolk coast, the poems
address a receding world – via
landscape, portraits of people from
the past and works that explore
political issues. Born in Skipton,
Morrison’s work spans memoir, poetry
and journalism. Professor of Creative
Writing at Goldsmiths, his much
lauded book, And When Did you Last
See your Father? was adapted for film.
This Event begins with the results of
the 2015 Festival Poetry Competition.
Competition sponsored by Leeds Trinity
University.
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER
7.30PM
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
7.30–9.30pm £10/8
The Gift of Stones by
Jim Crace: North Country
Theatre
161. Kings Hall
7.30–9.15pm £16/14
Peter and Dan Snow:
The Battle of Waterloo
Popular broadcasters, father and
son duo, Peter and Dan Snow
present an illustrated talk drawn
from their new book The Battle of
Waterloo Experience. The historic
clash between military giants
Napoleon and Wellington on 18
June 1815 changed the course of
history. Here it’s discussed by two
of the best contemporary military
historians. Each an acclaimed
author in their own right, they’ve
previously collaborated on
Battlefield Britain: from Boudicca
to the Battle of Britain and 20th
Century Battlefields.
interval.
Sponsored by Yorkshire Cruise Club.
Jim Crace’s award winning historical
novel is brought to the stage by firm
Festival favourites North Country
Theatre, whose previous brilliant
adaptations have ranged from the
hilarious 39 Steps to the deeply
moving A Month in the Country.
The village of flint knappers is safe,
self-satisfied, and inward looking but
a stray arrow, an amputation, and a
wild woman from the salt sea marshes
bring murder, mystery and cataclysmic
change.
parts with an interval.
9PM
9–10pm FREE
Elsewhere
FRINGE EVENT
Inspired by the past, the future, foreign
lands and other elsewheres. Enjoy an
intimate, amusing and moving poetry
reading from three strikingly different
poets; each writing about the notion
of ‘elsewhere’. Together Joanna
Sedgwick, Rachel Kerr and Mark
Connors promise an entertaining and
thought provoking evening.
4PM
164. School of English, University of
Leeds LS2 9JT
Experience Historical
Printing at the University
of Leeds
The School of English at the University
of Leeds has a historic print room
with equipment dating back to the
nineteenth century. Come and see
how type was set, pages printed, and
books were bound in the past. And
hear why such techniques continue
to be relevant today, both in the
university and beyond.
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £6/4
West Yorkshire Playhouse and
LittleMighty present
Blake Remixed
by Testament
World record-holding beatboxer and
acclaimed rapper Testament, mixes
together UK hip-hop and the iconic
poetry of William Blake. Celebrating
one of the great counter-cultural
voices in British literary history, Blake
Remixed (made in collaboration
with DJ Woody, Scratch DJ World
Champion) fuses music, storytelling
and interactive video to create an
original and exciting piece of theatre.
Testament has worked with artists
including Kate Tempest and Corinne
Bailey Rae.
Testament in Blake Remixed
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01943 816714
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
7.30PM
7.30–9.30pm £5/3 includes a glass
of wine
New Writing Showcase
Dom Joly © Rich Hardcastle
166. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm £14/12
Dom Joly
Following his spoof memoir (Look
At ME, Look At ME!) Dom Joly’s
actual memoir Here Comes The
Clown: A Stumble Through Show
Business takes up the story from
the day the first episode of his
anarchic hidden camera TV show,
Trigger Happy TV, aired in 2000
and he became unexpectedly
famous overnight. Joly’s real
adventures in show business
are no less hilarious and socially
embarrassing than his infamous
stunts and sketches.
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
The Planet Remade:
Oliver Morton
Shaping the Future
Oliver Morton, author of The Planet
Remade, examines the history of
climate change and the science and
politics that underpin it, offering a
new – and controversial – response:
geoengineering. From a stratospheric
veil against the sun through to a
fleet of unmanned ships seeding
clouds, Morton unpicks the moral
implications of human intervention in
the biosphere and analyses whether
geoengineering can change the world.
A showcase highlighting some of the
best new poetry in the region.
Chijioke Ojukwu won ILF’s Words
in the City 2015 Poetry Slam with an
utterly compelling performance.
Beverley Nadin, the Festival’s
Apprentice Poet in Residence’s poem
Bees was commended in the National
Poetry Competition 2014. Her poems
have appeared in PN Review, The
Rialto, Magma, and Stand.
Lola Haskins’ newest poetry
collection, How Small, Confronting
Morning, is scheduled for spring
2016. Her poems have appeared in
The London Review of Books, Stand,
Outposts, London Magazine and the
Atlantic.
Javaad Alipoor, artistic director of
Northern Lines, is a writer, spoken
word performer and theatre maker.
Eleanor Rees and Sarah Corbett are
published by Liverpool University’s
Pavilion Poetry. Rees’ new collection is
Blood Child. Her Andraste’s Hair was
shortlisted for the Forward Prize for
Best First Collection. Corbett’s fourth
book, And She Was is an experimental
riff on the idea of the novel-in-verse.
Her collection The Red Wardrobe
was shortlisted for Forward Best First
Collection and the T. S. Eliot prize.
interval.
Eleanor Rees
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7.30–9.30pm £4 audience members
FREE for performers
Cool Voices Club Night
Come and see talented young writers,
poets, songwriters and performers
aged 12–18 take to the stage to
perform their own work! Plus the
winners of the Young People’s Writing
Competitions.
If you’re aged 12–18 and would
like to perform, put your name
down by contacting: info@
Details of how to enter the Young
People’s Writing Competitions from:
Competition prizes kindly provided by
Ilkley Book Club.
9PM
9–10pm FREE
Something in the Aire
FRINGE EVENT
Meet the Ackroyds, five generations
of one family in a novel depicting
Bradford’s rise from Victorian squalor
to industrial might, told in story and
song by author Stuart Campbell
and balladeer Eddie Lawler. Come
and share this family’s joys and
disappointments, loves and losses,
during the wool city’s turbulent
growth.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
10.30AM
11AM
171. Manor House Education Room 173. St Margaret’s Hall
10.30am–12.30pm £15/10
11am–1pm £15/10
Writing Poems with Peter
Sansom Masterclass
A chance to work with ‘the most
astute and effective writing tutor in
the UK’ (as Simon Armitage says).
Drawing on classic poems, this hugely
enjoyable writing session is for new
and more experienced poets. Writer
in Residence with Marks & Spencer,
and formerly Fellow in Poetry at Leeds
and Manchester universities, Peter
Sansom is co-director of The Poetry
Business with Ann Sansom. Books
include Writing Poems and the brand
new Careful What You Wish For.
All levels. Please book in advance.
172. Church House
10.30am–4.30pm £5 Age 12–18
Breaking News: Make a
Newspaper in a Day
Become a real-life journalist for a day!
Interview famous Festival authors
and work with a journalist to create a
special edition Festival newspaper.
Bring packed lunch. Please book in
advance.
Spouting, Squealing
and Spilling the Beans
– Creating Expressive
Characters for Fiction:
Helen Cross Workshop
1.30–3.30pm £15/10
Fiction Masterclass
– Make it Memorable:
Leone Ross
What makes a piece of prose stand
out? Using key tools and tips, Leone
Ross challenges you to look at the
detail of your work – the senses,
the adjectives, the verbs and nouns
– to tease out more original and
memorable phrases and imagery.
How do you make your characters
walk the walk and talk the talk? Helen
Cross will guide you in creating
complex, memorable and story-supple
characters for all kinds of stories from 1.45PM
novels to radio and screenplays. Next,
she’ll show you ways of giving these
characters bold, brilliant, believable
voices. By the end of the session you
will create taut, subtle dialogue alive
with subtext that can effectively reveal
your characters and power your
stories forward.
1.30PM
1.30–2.30pm £5/3
Regency Britain in the Year
of Waterloo:
Stephen Bates
and their World
A kaleidoscopic picture of British
society in the year of the Battle of
Waterloo. Stephen Bates evokes
the sights, sounds and smells of
a momentous twelve months,
interweaving first-hand accounts of
personal experience with the major
trends and events of the Regency
world – a world into which the
Brontës were born. Bates is an award
winning journalist writing for the
Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The
Guardian.
Stephen Bates
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1.45–2.45pm £5/3
Edward Thomas – From
Adlestrop to Arras:
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Hidden Voices from
the Front Line
Eminent literary biographer, Jean
Moorcroft Wilson, lecturer at
Birkbeck College and a leading expert
on First World War Literature,
explores the life of the poet Edward
Thomasr. Ted Hughes described
Thomas as ‘the father of us all’, and yet
his work wasn’t published until after
his death in 1917. Moorcroft Wilson
is also the author of biographies
of Siegfried Sassoon and Isaac
Rosenberg.
01943 816714
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
2PM
3PM
3.15PM
177. Rombalds Hotel
2–3pm FREE
179. The Priory Church of St Mary
and St Cuthbert, Bolton Abbey
BD23 6AL
3–4pm £6/4 includes car parking
3.15–4.15pm £6/4
Tackling Literacy through
Stories: Aamir Darr
An event for parents, teachers and
all those interested in children and
reading. Educationalist and bookseller
Aamir Darr is tackling low literacy
levels through the power of children’s
books. Come and hear him describe
his unique project, Kahani, and some
of the books he believes can make a
difference to children’s lives.
2.30PM
Christmas Carols from
Village Green to Church
Choir: Andrew Gant
John Godber, Helen Cross,
Peter Sansom
A brilliantly entertaining afternoon
of readings and conversation with a
trio of acclaimed writers – playwright,
novelist and poet – as they talk about
In the beautiful surroundings of the
their relationship with the North.
Priory Church, composer, lecturer in
music at Oxford and former organist, John Godber is the third most
performed playwright in the UK (after
choirmaster and composer at Her
Shakespeare and Ayckbourn). Plays
Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Andrew
such as Bouncers, Teechers, Up ‘n’
Gant unravels a captivating and
Under, and a new black comedy,
scholarly tale of the origins of some
Shafted! have won him a Laurence
of our favourite carols, with musical
Olivier Award and seven Los Angeles
illustrations. It’s a story of musicians,
saints, pagans, shepherd boys, monks Circle Awards. Helen Cross’ novel,
and drunks – and how Ralph Vaughan My Summer of Love, won the Betty
Williams bolted the tune of an English Trask Award and became a BAFTA
winning film starring Emily Blunt. She
folk song about a dead ox to a poem
has just completed her fourth novel
by a 19th century American pilgrim.
Free parking at the main Bolton Abbey and is working on a film adaptation
of Spilt Milk, Black Coffee. Peter
car park on production of ticket for
Sansom’s acclaimed books include the
this event.
brilliant, brand new Careful What You
Refreshments available (donations).
Wish For. Peter has been company
In association with The Priory Church of St
poet with Marks & Spencer and is
Mary and St Cuthbert.
co-director, with Ann Sansom, of The
Poetry Business in Sheffield.
3.30PM
Petina Gappah © Okwenje Bathsheba
3.30–4.30pm £6/4
2.30–3.30pm £5/3
The Last Summer of the
Water Strider: Tim Lott
The Book of Memory:
Petina Gappah
Writer, journalist and popular Guardian
columnist Tim Lott’s White City Blue,
won the Whitbread First Novel Award.
The Scent of Dried Roses, a moving
account of his mother’s depression,
won the J. R. Ackerley Prize. Today he
reflects on The Last Summer of the
Water Strider, his latest captivating
1970s-set novel, a coming-of-age
and end-of-an-age story about love,
the lure of idealism, innocence and
decadence.
Zimbabwean born writer Petina
Gappah won the Guardian First Book
Award for her short story collection
An Elegy for Easterly. Today she talks
about her debut novel The Book of
Memory, the mesmerising story of
an albino woman languishing in a
maximum security prison in Harare,
Zimbabwe, where she has been
convicted for the murder of Lloyd
Hendricks, her adopted father. But
who was Hendricks and why does
Memory feel no remorse?
Tim Lott
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
3.45PM
5–6.15pm £5/3
182. Addingham Methodist Church
LS29 0PZ
3.45–4.30pm FREE
Closure: Short Stories
from Black British Writers
Addingham Vocal Days
present: The American
Art Song
Following a day exploring the songs
of American composers, Addingham
Vocal Days present an informal
concert with songs/duets by Samuel
Barber, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland,
Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem
– and an ensemble by Stephen
Sondheim.
For more information contact
[email protected] or
01943 831062.
4.30PM
184. Kings Hall
4.30–5.30pm £10/5 Age 7–adult
Julian Clary and David
Roberts: Meet The Bolds
Much loved comedian, novelist
and BBC R4 Just a Minute
panellist, Julian Clary, and
award winning illustrator David
Roberts introduce The Bolds.
Mr and Mrs Bold are just like
you and me: they live in a nice
house (in Teddington), have jobs
(like writing Christmas cracker
jokes) and love to have a bit of
a giggle. One slight difference:
they’re hyenas. A family event with
hilarious readings, live-drawing and
lots of laughter for all ages.
Closure is a new book of themed short
stories from internationally renowned
and new Black British writers. Four
women, acclaimed novelist Leone
Ross, last year’s SI Leeds Literary Prize
winner Mahsuda Snaith and Inscribe
supported writers, Nana-Essi CaselyHayford and Lynne Blackwood, will
be reading their stories. Chaired by
Closure editor, Jacob Ross.
This event also launches the 2016 SI
Leeds Literary Prize for unpublished
fiction by Black and Asian women.
In association with Inscribe and the SI Leeds
Literary Prize.
Sponsored by The Grammar School at
Leeds.
Leone Ross
5PM
4.30–5.30pm £5/3
185. Rombalds Hotel
5–6pm £5/3
Peter Sutton, actor and playwright,
reads from his new translation of
William Langland’s seminal fourteenth
century poem in a version which
preserves the energy and alliteration
of the original. Piers Plowman is a
disturbing and humorous quest for
how to lead a moral life, which remains
astonishingly fresh and apposite today.
Acclaimed novelist Justin
Cartwright’s previous work includes
the Booker shortlisted In Every Face
I Meet, and Whitbread Novel Award
winner Leading the Cheers. This
afternoon he introduces his latest his
latest subtle, brilliant book Up Against
the Night, about South Africa – its
beautiful landscape, violent past and
uncertain present.
Live Reading of William
Langland’s Piers Plowman
Up Against the Night:
Justin Cartwright
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01943 816714
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
6PM
7.45PM
6–7pm FREE
7.45–8.45pm £6/4
ILF and The Leeds Library:
News of an Exciting
Project
John Agard:
Roll Over Atlantic
Dawn Cameron, the Festival’s
Development Worker, introduces
an innovative project the Festival
has undertaken in collaboration with
The Leeds Library, which has seen
members of the Together for Peace
organisation creating a very special
book.
In association with The Leeds Library.
John Agard © Paul Taylor
7.30PM
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Join Caribbean-British poet John
Agard, winner of the Queen’s Gold
Medal for Poetry, in this quirky revisioning of the notorious New World
Enterprise of Christopher Columbus.
A voyage in verse, performed against
an evocative soundscape of Atlantic
murmurings, with Agard variously
taking on the voices of Columbus,
The Atlantic Ocean and a chorus of
politically conscious mosquitoes. A
one-man show that mixes the tides of
cabaret and calypso with mischievous
satirical wit.
191. Church House
The Lightless Sky – Escape 7.45–8.45pm FREE
to a New Life in Britain:
Ilkley Soroptimists:
Gulwali Passarlay
Sharing Stories,
Untold Stories
Changing Lives
The Leeds Library
188. Church House
6–6.50pm FREE Age 7+
Fantasy Plots and
Fantastic Plays, with
Daniel Ingram-Brown
FRINGE EVENT
Meet author and playwright, Daniel
Ingram-Brown and Apprentice
Adventurers, Fletcher and Scoop.
Hear about their exploits at Blotting’s
Academy, the place where story
characters are trained. Come and
discover more about writing.
Children must be accompanied at this
event.
‘To risk my life had to mean something.
Otherwise what was it all for?’
At the age of 12, Gulwali Passarlay
fled the war that was destroying
his home in Afghanistan. Travelling
alone, mostly on foot, Gulwali was
ejected from nine countries before
somehow making it to Britain, where
he was fostered, won a place at a top
university and was chosen to carry the
Olympic torch in 2012. Now 21, he’s
determined to bring to life the plight
of the thousands of men, women
and children who risk their lives to
leave behind the troubles of their
homelands.
Gulwali Passarlay
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FRINGE EVENT
“There’s nothing interesting about my
life”...
Challenges, opportunities, reflection,
laughter and tears: everyone has a
story worth telling. Get an insight into
the lives of others through stories and
conversation.
Find out more at:
www.everyvoicecounts.co.uk
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
8PM
11AM
2PM
11am–1pm £15/10
Justin Cartwright
Masterclass
Danny Dorling
8–9pm £6/4
Inequality and the 1%:
Danny Dorling
Shaping the Future
Since the recession, the gap between
the haves and the have-nots has
turned into a chasm. But inequality is
more than just economics. Being born
outside the richest 1% has a dramatic
impact on a person’s potential:
reducing life expectancy, limiting
educational and work prospects,
and even affecting mental health.
Leading social thinker Danny Dorling,
Professor of Geography at Oxford
University and former Professor
of Geography at the University of
Sheffield, lays bare the true cost of
the division in our society and why we
must urgently redress the balance.
Sponsored by Big Issue In the North.
What are characters in fiction and
how do we create them? Masterclass
with novelist Justin Cartwright,
for people who have written or
started writing something, exploring
pitfalls, mistakes and ways of making
characters come alive.
Intermediate. Please book In advance.
195. Rombalds Hotel
11am–1pm £15/10
Building Blocks of
Narrative Fiction:
Jacob Ross Masterclass
Jacob Ross examines the building
blocks of narrative and shows you
ways to produce strong, memorable
stories as well as drawing on key
story structures to develop your
own writing. You’ll be offered fresh,
productive ways of understanding
both character and story
development. Come prepared to
discuss the challenges you encounter
in your own writing.
1PM
1–2pm £6/4 Age 5+
9PM
A Thousand Cranes present
Me and My Cat?
Calling all Junior Detectives!
Join Detective K as she sets off on
an exciting and hilarious adventure,
A Flower is not a Rat
full of mysterious clues, golden rules
FRINGE EVENT
and strange events. Will she solve the
Ruth Steinberg tells a weave of Jewish mystery in time?
stories, using music, song, poetry, mime A fast paced, action packed story for all
and clowning. Join her on a journey
the family. Based on the book by award
through the humour and wisdom of
winning Japanese children’s author and
jokes and ‘wise fool’ stories, to history, illustrator, Satoshi Kitamura.
myth and her own story as a Jewish
woman. Ruth will be accompanied by
musician Terry Simpson.
9–10pm FREE
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197. Kings Hall
2–3pm £14/12
Jonathan Dimbleby:
The Battle of the Atlantic
Join Jonathan Dimbleby as the
writer and broadcaster discusses
his latest book The Battle of the
Atlantic. He tells the extraordinary
story of the longest campaign of
the Second World War, including
the moves and maneuverings
that led to allied victory.
Dimbleby interweaves fascinating
contemporary diaries and letters
with a thrilling narrative that tells
the epic story of the men and
women who contributed to the
final victory.
198 . Clarke Foley Centre
2–3pm £6/4
M.C. Beaton:
In Conversation
The most borrowed UK adult author
in libraries, M.C. Beaton has sold 15
million books worldwide and been
called ‘the Queen of the village green
mystery’. Best known for her Hamish
Macbeth and Agatha Raisin novels,
Beaton’s latest work includes Hamish
Macbeth and the Death of a Liar and
Agatha Raisin and the Blood of an
Englishman.
Sponsored by Hebridean Island Cruises.
01943 816714
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
2PM
201. Meet outside the Manor House 3.30PM
Museum
2–3.30pm £5
Roman Ilkley: Walk with
Bronwen Riley and
Alex Cockshott
Join Bronwen Riley, managing editor
of guidebooks at English Heritage and
author of A Journey to Britannia which
traces a trip from Rome to Hadrian’s
Wall in AD 130, and local historian
Alex Cockshott. They’ll be taking you Claire Harman
on a guided walk round the site of
Ilkley’s Roman Fort (first established
around AD 80) and the nearby
3.30–4.30pm £6/4
Romano-British settlement.
Charlotte Brontë – A Life:
See also Event 209.
Claire Harman
and their World
3PM
2–3pm £5/3
Weatherland – Writers
and Artists under English
Skies: Alexandra Harris
Across the centuries, from Chaucer to
Ian McEwan, writers and artists looking
up at the same skies have felt very
different things. Alexandra Harris,
lecturer in English at the University of
Liverpool and winner of the Guardian
First Book Award for Romantic
Moderns, considers the weather as
recreated in the human imagination
in a sweeping study of cultural
climates on the move. ‘Bloody cold’,
3–4pm £6/4
says Jonathan Swift in the ‘slobbery’
The Man Who Was
January of 1713; Percy Shelley wants
to become a cloud, John Ruskin wants W.G. Grace
to bottle one.
Published to mark the centenary of
his death, Amazing Grace is Richard
200. Rombalds Hotel
Tomlinson’s biography of recordbreaking cricketer W.G. Grace. The
2–4pm £15/10
most recognisable sporting figure of
Jackie Kay Masterclass
Victorian Britain, Grace transcended
An unmissable masterclass with
the sport to become an icon of his
Jackie Kay, award winning poet and
time. This definitive book also charts
Professor of Creative Writing at the
Grace’s private life and career as a
University of Newcastle.
doctor in one of sport’s great untold
For intermediate and experienced
stories. A historian and former playing
writers. Please book in advance.
member of MCC, Tomlinson is an
award winning journalist.
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2016 marks the 200th anniversary
of Charlotte Brontë’s birth. Claire
Harman discusses her timely, intimate
and definitive biography of a literary
visionary whose life was every bit as
dramatic as the gothic novels she
created. Writer and critic Harman has
lectured at Manchester, Oxford and
Columbia Universities and her books
include the bestselling Jane’s Fame:
How Jane Austen Conquered the
World.
Supported by the Friends of the Festival.
3.30–4.15pm £5 Age 5+
Adults do not need a ticket
A Thousand Cranes:
Origami Stories Workshop
Join the star of Me and My Cat?,
Kumiko Mendl, to make some origami
and hear the tales of Princess Moon,
The Ogres of Belching Hill and The
Hidden Treasures.
Three Japanese stories on one
mountain told with paper, imagination
and fun.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
#ilf15
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
3.30PM
4.30PM
4.45PM
205. Kings Hall Winter Gardens
3.30–4.30pm FREE with tea and
biscuits
4.45–5.45pm £5/3
Mothers, Fathers:
Goran Vojnović and Andrej
Nikoladis in Conversation
Informal Festival Feedback
Drop in for a cup of tea upstairs in
the Winter Gardens with members
of the Festival team and let us know
your thoughts on this year’s Festival.
Suggestions, brickbats, praise and
ideas for next year’s Festival all
welcome – PLUS put your name in
the hat for guaranteed tickets to next
year’s headline event.
4PM
4–5pm £3
207. Kings Hall
4.30–5.30pm £10/8
Putting Poetry in the
Frame
Do It Like a Woman...
and Change the World:
Caroline Criado-Perez
Poet and Playwright Rommi Smith,
curator Nigel Walsh (Leeds Art
Gallery) and Ilkley Literature Festival
Director Rachel Feldberg, discuss
their involvement in the innovative
Creative Case NORTH Explorations
project which provided organisations
and artists with time and space for
experimentation on the theme of the
Creative Case for Diversity earlier this
year. Rommi Smith also reads work
inspired by the project which brought
art and poetry together – and put
hidden voices back into the frame.
Caroline Criado-Perez is one
of the most vocal, tenacious
campaigners of her generation,
successfully campaigning for the
inclusion of women on British
bank notes. Journalist and feminist
activist, her work has appeared in
The Times, Telegraph, Guardian,
Independent and New Statesman.
Awarded Liberty Human Rights
Campaigner of the Year 2013,
today she discusses pioneering
women who are reinventing what
it means to be female: a female
fighter pilot in Afghanistan, a
climate change activist who scaled
new heights and the Iranian
journalist who dared to uncover
her hair.
Sponsored by Forward Ladies
Caroline Criado-Perez © Caitlin Mogridge
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November 2015 marks the 20th
anniversary of the end of the war in
former Yugoslavia. Join famous author
and journalist, Andrej Nikoladis from
Montenegro, and Slovenian author and
film maker, Goran Vojnović, as they
talk about their novels exploring the
aftermath of war. A reporter sets off
to discover the truth – was his birth
mother one of a band of elite killers
employed by the Yugoslav Secret
Service? A man journeys through the
Balkans in search of his fugitive war
criminal father…
In association with Istros Books.
5PM
5–6pm £5/3
Journey to Britannia
AD 130: Bronwen Riley
AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of
a vast empire. Faraway Britannia is one
of its most troublesome provinces:
the sun is seldom seen and ‘the
atmosphere in the country is always
gloomy’. What awaits the traveller
to Britannia? How will you get there?
What do you need to pack? Combining
an extensive range of sources
Bronwen Riley, editor of English
Heritage’s Red Guides, describes an
epic journey from Rome to Hadrian’s
Wall, bringing the smells, sounds,
colours and textures of travel in the
second century AD vividly to life.
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SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
5.15PM
7PM
7.30PM
5.15–6.15pm £5/3
Stevie Smith: Will May
Although normally associated with
London’s suburbs, Stevie Smith was
born in Hull, and has a good claim to
be one of Yorkshire’s finest poets.
Some of her greatest living fans –
Jeanette Winterson, Jarvis Cocker
– hear in her off-kilter lines a distinctly
Northern voice. Will May, Senior
Lecturer in English at Southampton
University and editor of The Collected
Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith,
explores the importance of the
English landscape in Smith’s poetry
in a talk which includes recordings
of her unique poetry performances,
and introduces you to her distinctive
drawings.
6PM
6–7pm £5/3
Editing Digitally:
Ben Jonson for the
21st Century
Jackie Kay
7–8pm £6/4
Jackie Kay and
Zaffar Kunial
Currently Professor of Creative
Writing at the University of Newcastle,
Jackie Kay has published five
acclaimed collections of poetry for
adults, including The Adoption Papers
which won the Forward Prize, a Saltire
Award and a Scottish Arts Council
Book Award. Tonight she reads with
Festival Poet in Residence, Zaffar
Kunial, a Faber New Poet and former
Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence.
Professor Martin Butler (University
of Leeds) explores the possibilities
and pitfalls of digital editing by
demonstrating the resource of his
website, The Cambridge Edition
of Ben Jonson Online. This richly
illustrated, multimedia space, devoted
to Shakespeare’s great friend and
contemporary, allows Jonson’s richly
imaginative plays, poems and prose
to be accessed in innovative and
interactive ways.
213. Kings Hall
7.30–8.30pm
£28 single ticket; £37 double
ticket – both single and double
tickets include one copy of
Simon Schama’s book
(worth £30)
Please note: tickets without the
book are not available
Simon Schama:
The Face of Britain
Renowned historian Simon
Schama closes the 2015 Festival,
turning his unrivalled gaze to the
relationship between the sitter, the
artist and the public in the creation
of historical portraits – from the
divine paintings of Elizabeth I and
iconic photograph of ‘bulldog’
Churchill to the posthumous
tribute to Amy Winehouse.
Schama is University Professor
of Art History and History at
Columbia University and the
author of sixteen books. His award
winning television work includes A
History of Britain.
Sponsored by NADFAS.
Ben Jonson
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2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
7.30PM
Don’t miss our
Young Writers
Summer School
Friday 4 – Sunday 6 September 2015
Lineham Farm, Leeds LS16 8AZ
Spindles
7.30–8.30pm £5/3
Spindles: Short Stories
from the Science of Sleep
Storytelling has an age-old fascination
with sleep and dreams, but what
happens when fiction writers are
paired with sleep scientists? Spindles,
an anthology specially commissioned
by Comma Press, tackles everything
from memory consolidation to
parasomnia, through fiction and
scientific afterwords. Join award
winning short story writer Adam
Marek and Dr Penelope Lewis from
Manchester’s Sleep Lab as they discuss
what Shakespeare called ‘nature’s
second course’.
WORKSHOPS, WORDS CABARET,
CAMPFIRE STORYTELLING …
The perfect residential weekend for anyone
aged 12–19 who loves creative writing!
£40/25 concessions inc. accommodation and meals.
(Full bursaries available)
More information: www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
Sponsored by
llkley Literature Festival’s
Young Writers group
is recruiting!
8.30PM
8.30–10pm £5/3
FREE for performers
Open Mic
The chance for anyone to perform
their own work. Poetry, prose,
stand-up – it’s all fair game. But you’ve
only got three minutes to convince
your audience and win £200 and the
coveted Open Mic title. 2nd prize £75,
3rd prize £25. It’s not only performers
who enjoy this frenzied night out –
come along to watch and bring your
friends.
Phone 01943 816714 or email
[email protected]
by midnight on 30 Sep to put your
name in the hat. The first 16 people
drawn at random on 1 Oct get the
chance to perform.
Lots of fun
writing
activities
with other
teenagers.
Young people aged 12-18 who like writing are
invited to join our friendly weekly group.
Mondays 6.30–8.30pm term time in Ilkley – no
experience needed.
Costs: £12 a term.
Try the free taster session Event 3.
To book a place or find out more,
email [email protected]
Put the dates in your diary now!
FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER –
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
2016
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Box Office opens 9am on
Tuesday 30 August 2016
Debating the Book:
Past, Present
and Future
Join us this autumn for a wide-ranging series of events
across Yorkshire – for anyone curious about books
Several events are detailed elsewhere in this festival programme, including the free
Future of the Book debate chaired by Melvyn Bragg at the University of Leeds on
8 October
To find out more, visit whiterose.ac.uk
or call 01904 435353
ilkley literature
Children's Festival
with The Grammar School at Leeds
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
10–11.20AM
FREE with juice and biscuits
Age 8–11 (parents welcome to stay)
Story Wizards:
Children’s Reading and
Creative Writing Group
Children under 12 MUST BE
ACCOMPANIED at all events
except where indicated.
Accompanying adults NEED
A TICKET at all events unless
otherwise stated.
Please do not bring children
younger than the age stipulated.
Children who love reading and creative SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER
writing are invited to have fun at
today’s free session writing stories and
2–3PM
exploring books.
12–12.45PM
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
10–10.45AM
£5 Age 7+
Demolition Dad: Phil Earle
Phil Earle talks pro-wrestling, comics
and superheroes as he introduces the
hilarious, heart-warming adventures
of Jake and his Dad – The Demolition
Man!
10–11AM & 11.45AM–12.45PM
£6/4 Age 5–11
Spark, the Goblin Wizard
with Dominic Berry
Spark’s magic rhymes can turn
anything into anything, even bogeys
into pink ribbons. But, something
terrible is happening in the enchanted
forest. With lyrics, laughs and lots of
joining in, poet Dommy B needs your
help to save the day!
This event begins with a short reading Journey – Mud Pie Arts
by the winners of the Children’s Poetry
218 & 219. All Saints’ School
Competition.
£5 Age 3–7
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
Cathy Cassidy
£6/4 Age 9+
Looking-Glass Girl:
Cathy Cassidy
Savannah invites her to a Wonderlandthemed sleepover, but an accident
10–11.30AM
Journey
Interactive Storytime with
Mud Pie Arts
One grey day Clara finds a piece of
red chalk. She draws a door and goes
£5 Age 8–12
through it. Come with Clara on an
Children can attend unaccompanied interactive drama session based on
Marsh Road Mysteries
Writing Workshop
Elen Caldecott’s Marsh Road
Mysteries series is filled with adventure
and intrigue. Find out the secret to
writing great stories from this award
winning writer then get ready to plot
your own page-turner.
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the exquisite picture book Journey by
Aaron Becker. Join in, solve problems
and make a chalk drawing of your
adventure to take home.
Sat
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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
10.15–11AM
11.30AM–12.15PM
1–1.45PM
£5 Age 4–6
£5 Age 7+
£5 Age 7+
WANTED! Ralfy Rabbit,
Book Burglar
The World of A.F. Harrold
Come along and meet children’s
author and poet, A.F. Harrold for a
laughter-inducing session to set your
Ralfy Rabbit is WANTED! He loves
reading so much that he starts to steal imaginations soaring! A.F. Harrold’s
books include Fizzlebert Stump and
the books from Arthur’s shelf – but
the Girl Who Lifted Quite Heavy
then he is introduced to something
wonderful! Meet author and illustrator Things and The Imaginary. Imaginary
Emily MacKenzie and make your own Friends more than welcome.
bunny bandit mask.
11AM, 11.45AM, 12.30PM, 2PM,
2.45PM & 3.30PM
Mariella Mystery:
Kate Pankhurst
Meet Kate Pankhurst, the creator of
Mariella Mystery – the totally amazing
girl detective, aged 9 and a bit. Able to
solve the most mysterious mysteries
and perplexing problems!
1–2PM & 3.30–4.30PM
12–1PM
FREE Family event for all ages
Fabulous Story Sacks
Ilkley Library bring stories to life using
puppets and props in these drop in
storytelling sessions.
In association with Bradford Libraries.
10.30–11AM & 11.30AM–12 NOON
89. Bandstand on The Grove
FREE Family event for all ages
Suitcase Circus
Cheer up your Saturday morning! Join
us on the bandstand for these fun circus
performances from Suitcase Circus.
11.45AM–12.30PM
£5 Age 4–6
Walter’s Wonderful Web
Wonderful web inspired craft
workshop for young children with
Tim Hopgood.
£6/4 Age 5+
The Dinosaur That
Pooped a Show!
Host Alastair Watson brings
the bestselling The Dinosaur
That Pooped books to life
with help from The Dinosaur
himself! Interactive event
featuring dinosaur impressions,
live drawing, gross games and
exclusive video clips from
creators, Tom Fletcher and
Dougie Poynter (McBusted).
WARNING:
CONTAINS DINOSAUR POO!
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£6/4 Age 3–7
tutti frutti and York Theatre
Royal present
Snow Child by Emma
Reeves
tutti frutti are back to wow young
Festival audiences. As the first snow
falls, a lonely couple build a small figure
from the ice… But, will the Snow Child
and her parents find their “happily ever
after”?
ilkley literature
Children's Festival
with The Grammar School at Leeds
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
1.30–3PM
2.15–3.15PM & 3.45–4.45PM
£5 Age 8–12
£5 Age 6+
Children can attend unaccompanied Adults do not need a ticket
3.15–4.15PM
FREE Age 4+
The Yorkshire Penguin
Things you find in A Poet’s Suitcase Circus Workshop Posse
Try your hand at circus skills with Pete FRINGE EVENT
Beard: Poetry Workshop
A.F. Harrold, poet, performer and
children’s author, leads an exciting
poetry workshop filled with fun ideas
to get you writing. Witness how this
bearded marvel creates poetry and
join in the jamboree of word-juggling
jollity. No previous poetry-making
experience required.
White from Suitcase Circus.
Byron, the
penguin poet,
2.30–4PM
needs inspiration…
can you help?
Join writer
£5 Age 8–12
Peter Haney
Children can attend unaccompanied and illustrator,
Create Comics with
Denise Webber
at this interactive
Jim Medway
Find out how to make your own comic workshop. Bring
along your own
book with comic book creator Jim
penguin pal (toy, book or costume!)
Medway.
Let’s fill this town with penguins!
2.30–3.30PM
1.30–2.30PM
FREE Age 4–7
Meet the Belties
FRINGE EVENT
A Belted Galloway bull, two little Beltie
calves and a runaway chilli pepper
are just some of the characters from
Scottish Indie publisher Curly Tale
Books. Meet the team behind the
books for readings and fun activities.
£6/4 Age 8+
The Wimpy Kid Show
A must for all Diary of a Wimpy Kid
fans! Alastair Watson brings the
books to life with The Wimpy Kid
Draw-Along, The Wimp Wars! Quiz
AND exclusive clips of author Jeff
Kinney talking about the books,
the films and how to draw the
characters.
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER
2–2.45PM
4.30–5.30PM
1–2PM
£6/4 Age 9–12
1–2pm £6/4 Age 5+
Meet Steve Cole – the lively,
bestselling, non-stop author of
Astrosaurs, Cows In Action, The Slime
Squad, Z-Raptor and many other
books including several original Doctor
Who stories!
Me and My Cat?
Steve Cole
A Thousand Cranes present
Julian Clary
184. Kings Hall
4.30–5.30pm £10/5 Age 7+
Calling all Junior Detectives! Join
Detective K as she sets off on an
exciting and hilarious adventure, full
of mysterious clues, golden rules
and strange events. Will she solve
the mystery in time? A fast paced,
action packed story for all the family.
Based on the book by award winning
Japanese children’s author and
illustrator, Satoshi Kitamura.
Meet The Bolds
with Julian Clary and
David Roberts
Comedian and writer Julian Clary
and award winning illustrator
David Roberts introduce The
Bolds – with hilarious readings,
live-drawing and lots of laughter
for the whole family.
FRIDAY 2–SUNDAY 18 OCTOBER 6–6.50PM
2. Across Ilkley
FREE Age 3–103
Children’s Book Trail
Discover some exciting children’s
books and enter a Prize Draw as
you search Ilkley for books hidden
in shop windows.
(Prize draw for under 12s only!)
Collect your instructions, map and
an entry form at Festival venues,
the Grove Bookshop or Ilkley
Visitor Information Centre.
188. Church House
FREE Age 7+
Fantasy Plots and
Fantastic Plays, with
Daniel Ingram-Brown
FRINGE EVENT
Meet author and playwright, Daniel
Ingram-Brown and Apprentice
Adventurers, Fletcher and Scoop.
Hear about their exploits at Blotting’s
Academy, the place where story
characters are trained. Come and
discover more about writing.
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3.30–4.15PM
£5 Age 5+
A Thousand Cranes:
Origami Stories Workshop
Join the star of Me and My Cat?,
Kumiko Mendl, to make some origami
and hear the tales of Princess Moon,
The Ogres of Belching Hill and The
Hidden Treasures.
Three Japanese stories on one
mountain told with paper, imagination
and fun.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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events for young people
MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER
6.30–8.30PM
8–9PM
6.30–7.30PM
FREE with refreshments
Age 12–18
£5/3 Groups welcome Age 12–adult
The Art of Being Normal:
James Dawson,
Lisa Williamson and
Sam Hepburn
– taster session
Try tonight’s free session for young
people who love writing and see if
you’d like to join our weekly young
writers group.
Think YA (young adult) fiction is just
about attractive vampires and bleak
futures? Think again.
£7/5 Groups welcome
Join us for a discussion on how books
for young people can explore ‘difficult’
Age 12–adult
subjects and offer a more diverse
Nine Lives
honest representation of young
SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER
Written by Zodwa Nyoni
people – with James Dawson (author
Performed
by
Lladel
Bryant
12–12.45PM
of All of the Above and Stonewall
Directed by Alex Chisholm
Schools Role Model), Lisa Williamson
Presented by Leeds Studio in
(The Art of Being Normal) and Sam
£6/4 Age 9+
association with West Yorkshire Hepburn (If You Were Me). Their
Playhouse
Looking-Glass Girl:
most recent books cover sexuality,
‘…unforgettable solo drama about one gender identity and accusations
Cathy Cassidy
of terrorism in their portrayals of
of the key experiences of our time.’
contemporary teen life.
The Scotsman
One man and a suitcase filled with the
past, uncertainty, high heels, African
dancing shells – and hope.
Ishmael is seeking sanctuary in the UK,
Savannah invites her to a Wonderland- As he waits to hear his fate, Zodwa
themed sleepover, but an accident
Nyoni (former ILF Apprentice Poet
in Residence and West Yorkshire
Playhouse/Channel 4 Writer in
Residence 2014) uses humour and
humanity to tell the personal story
behind the headlines.
Lladel Bryant
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SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER
2–6PM (SIGN UP FROM 1.40PM)
Teresa Flavin
SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER
£5 Age 12–18
An afternoon of laid-back
workshops, cake, writing and fun for
young people aged 12 to 18 only!
1.40pm
Choose your sessions...
2pm
Plot your own page-turner with
Elen Caldecott.
Start blogging with Siobhan
Curham (writing coach to Zoella).
Be coached on your poetry by
Sai Murray.
Perfect your song-writing skills with
Michelle Scally-Clarke.
Try out graffiti art with Ged Walker.
3.10pm
Meet Teresa Flavin – the author of
The Blackhope Enigma series and
Jet Black Heart, a supernatural time
travel story set on the North York
Moors. Teresa is here to discuss her
work and answer your questions!
4pm
Do a second workshop.
5.10pm
Fast and furious ‘slam’ – share your
work from the day to win fantastic
prizes!
Sponsored by Ilkley Book Club.
11AM–4PM
90. Church House
£5 includes ‘press’ ticket to
afternoon events Age 12–18
6.30–7.15PM
Press Pack: Write a Review 151. Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
£4 Age 12+
Find out how to write great reviews,
blogs and tweets then, accompanied
by staff, set off to a Festival event.
Write up a review in our newsroom
and we’ll post it online.
7.30–8.30PM
109. Church House
FREE
Word Blend: Ilkley Young
Writers Group
Don’t miss your chance to meet Sally
Green, author of the hugely successful
Half Bad – the fast paced supernatural
thriller series set in a modern England
where witches and humans warily
coexist.
‘the new Hunger Games … brilliant and
utterly compelling’ Kate Atkinson
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
7.30–8.30PM
£6/4 Groups welcome
Age 14–adult
West Yorkshire Playhouse
and LittleMighty present
Blake Remixed
Beatboxing, spoken word, theatre and
scratch DJ Testament (BBC Urban
Music Award Winner) mixes his love
of British hip-hop with the poetry of
William Blake. Made in collaboration with
Scratch DJ World Champion DJ Woody,
a coming of age story with a difference.
7.30–9.30PM
The Festival’s own Ilkley Young
Writers Group, all aged 12–18, with
another stunning performance of their £4 for audience members
award winning poetry and prose.
Age 12–18 plus parents
Cool Voices Club Night
Talented young writers, poets, and
performers take to the stage! Plus
the winners of the Young People’s
Writing Competitions. If you would
like to perform or enter the Writing
Competitions details are available from:
Competition prizes kindly provided by
Ilkley Book Club.
Testament
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER
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SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER
10.30AM–4.30PM
172. Church House
£5 Age 12–18
Breaking News: Make a
Newspaper in a Day
Become a real-life journalist for the
day! Interview famous Festival authors
and work with a journalist to create a
special edition Festival newspaper.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
TICKETS AND BOOKING
Online
Friends priority booking
By phone
Refunds and resale
You can buy tickets for all events online from 9am
Tuesday 1 September on our secure website.
A handling fee of £2 applies on all online orders.
You can buy tickets for all events from our Box Office
on 01943 816714 from Tuesday 1 September.
Box Office opening hours are Monday to Friday
10am–4pm and Saturday 10am–1pm.
(Please note that telephone booking opens at 9am on
Tuesday 1 September only – then at 10am daily).
A handling fee of £2 applies on all telephone orders.
In person – Kings Hall events only
You can buy tickets for Kings Hall events only, either
from Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove
Bookshop from Tuesday 1 September until Wednesday
30 September.
Ilkley Visitor Information Centre, Station Road,
Ilkley LS29 8HA.
Opening hours Monday and Wednesday–Saturday
9.30am–4pm, Tues 10am–4pm. Closed Sundays.
(The Visitor Information Centre will open at 9am on
Tuesday 1 September only)
The Grove Bookshop, The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG.
Opening hours Monday–Saturday 9am–5.30pm,
Sun 11.30am–4.30pm.
(Friends’ discounts cannot be claimed when booking
through Ilkley Visitor Information Centre or the Grove
Bookshop)
For tickets to all other events please book by phone or
online as above. Please note that you cannot book in
person at the Festival Office.
On the door
All unsold tickets and any returns will be available from
the Box Office at the venue 60 minutes before the start
of Kings Hall events, 45 minutes for all other events.
Returns are usually available at most (but not all) soldout events. However you are strongly advised to book
in advance to avoid disappointment.
Festival Friends enjoy priority booking from Monday
17 to Wednesday 26 August. If you’d like to become
a Friend of the Festival please go to the Friends page
on our website for full details or contact the office on
01943 601210.
All tickets are non-refundable except in the event of a
cancelled performance. The Box Office can only accept
tickets for resale if an event has sold out and any refund
is subject to a 10% handling fee. All refunds for returned
tickets will be made after the Festival.
We will try to resell tickets for sold-out events but offer
no guarantee that we will be able to do so.
All details are correct at the time of going to press
(August 2015).
The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd is not liable for any
subsequent changes. Keep up to date by visiting
Concessions
The Festival offers concessions to the following people
(proof of status will be required):
• Children and young people under 25.
• People in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or
Personal Independence Payment.
• People in receipt of a means tested benefit.
Concessionary prices are stated after the full price for
each event, eg £5/£3.
Group bookings
The Festival welcomes bookings from schools and
established community/reading groups as follows:
£6 per person Kings Hall, £5 for Craiglands Hotel,
£3 per person for most events at other venues, plus
one free ticket for every ten tickets booked.
We regret we can’t offer group rates for events
including books, transport or meals.
Data protection
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We
store the information that you have provided when
contacting us, registering for information or ordering
tickets to allow us to process your orders and for
marketing purposes. We may contact you from time
to time with information about the Ilkley Literature
Festival and its events. If you do not wish to be
contacted in this way please let us know. We will not
sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.
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FOOD AND ACCESS INFORMATION
Refreshments
• At appropriate events the Bar at Kings Hall will be open before and after events and
during intervals. Tea and coffee are available at all events.
• The Festival Cafe serving tea, coffee, sandwiches, salads and delicious cakes, is open at
Ilkley Playhouse during Festival evenings and weekends.
Event and Access Information
• All venues are accessible with accessible toilets except Friends of Ham. If you would like
to take part in the Festival Poet in Residence drop in, please call the office and we will
arrange an alternative venue.
• St Margaret’s Hall is an uphill walk from the station. Allow 15–20 minutes.
• Selected events are BSL interpreted. Working dogs welcome. Detailed access
information available from www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or call 01943 816714.
• Events last one hour unless otherwise stated and usually include 15–20 minutes
audience questions.
• After events, authors sign books which are available from the Festival bookstall run by
our partners, the Grove Bookshop, at each venue. Some authors attract lengthy queues!
If you’d like a large print/audio copy of this brochure call 01943 816714.
KEEP IN TOUCH
For all the latest Festival updates and information go to:
www.facebook.com/ilkleyliteraturefestival
@ilkleylitfest #ilf15
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No induction loop system
at St Margaret’s Hall or
Craiglands Hotel.
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
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INDEX OF AUTHORS
author
event no.
author
event no.
186
Galloway, Janice
event no.
Agard, John
190
Ahad, Nick
63
Cassidy, Cathy
10
Gant, Andrew
179
Aldhouse-Green, Miranda
Casely-Hayford, Nana-Essi
author
84
13
Cathcart, Brian
117
Gappah, Petina
178
Alipoor, Javaad
168
Chase, Malcolm
148
Glenny, Misha
152
Annapurna Indian
Dance Company
107
Clark, Stuart
47
Godber, John
180
Antoni, Robert
105
Clary, Julian
184
Grant, Linda
74
Arditti, Michael
113, 126
Clayton, Ian
95, 107
Green, Matthew
79
Armitage, Simon
46
Aslam, Mohammed
75
A Thousand Cranes
196, 204
Attenberg, Jami
123
Avery, Mark
101
Bates, Stephen
174
Beaton, M.C.
198
Bell, Gary
125
Bell, Martin
65
Benn, Victoria
9
Berry, Dominic
40
Binnie, Georgina
51
Blackwood, Lynne
186
Blessed, Brian
77
Bora, Fozia
21
Bragg, Melvyn
Brandreth, Gyles
74, 83
14
Brody, Frances
4
Bryant, Lladel
31
Butler, Martin
211
Cable, Vince
115
Caldecott, Elen
Cameron, Dawn
Campbell, Jen
Carrasco, Jesus
Cartwright, Justin
114, 216
187
25
129
185, 194
Cobb, Matthew
103
Green, Sally
151
Cockshott, Alex
122, 201
Groom, Nick
23
Cole, Steve
119, 138, 139
Hadley, Tessa
91, 98
Corbett, Sarah
168
Hanley, Steve
32
Cowen, Rob
157
Hannah, Sophie
Criado-Perez, Caroline
207
Hanson, Neil
156
Hall, David
136
Cross, Helen
173, 180
Crystal, David
38
41
Harman, Claire
203
Curham, Siobhan
114
Harris, Alexandra
199
Darr, Aamir
177
Harrold, A.F. 223, 227
74
Haskins, Lola
168
Daunt, James
Dawson, James
Dimbleby, Jonathan
Dorling, Danny
52
Haslam, Dave
32, 76
197
Hastings, Max
42
192
Hemming, John
57
Henderson, Barbara
15
Hennessey, Nick
86
Duncker, Patricia
7, 16, 24
Dunn, Suzannah
50
Earle, Phil
Hepburn, Sam
52
12, 28
217
Hickley, Catherine
45
Fiennes, Ranulph
158
Higgins, Charlotte
Feldberg, Rachel
206
Hill, Rosemary
135
Flavin, Teresa
114
Holland, James
68
Fletcher, Joann
131
Holland, Tom
82
For Books’ Sake
87
Hopgood, Tim
222
Fowler, Karen Joy
55
Hornsby, James
Frankopan, Peter
153
Feinstein, Elaine
Furedi, Frank
17
60
Ilkley Young Writers
Ilmonen, Kristiina
70
49
109
86
01943 816714
INDEX OF AUTHORS
author
Jarrett, Vicki
event no.
author
event no.
author
event no.
84
Motion, Rory
127, 133
Senior, Olive
85
Joly, Dom
166
Mount, Harry
159
Shapcott, Jo
20
Kay, Jackie
200, 212
Mud Pie Arts
218, 219
Smiley, Jane
Kelman, Stephen
102, 112
Murray, Les
108
Smith, Rommi
Kerr, Rachael
25
Murray, Sai
114
Snaith, Mahsuda
186
Khan, Yasmin
22
Nadin, Beverley 8, 56, 73, 155, 168
Snow, Dan
161
Nath, Michael
Snow, Peter
161
Klaussmann, Liza
Korejko, Jonathan
Kunial, Zaffar
123
35, 39
20, 36, 56, 62, 73, 88, 96, 212
Lavery, Brian W
145
Lederer, Helen
137
Lewis, Penelope
214
Liedes, Kaisa
Lott, Tim
Lownie, Andrew
86
181
116, 130
Lucas, Caroline
27
Lupton, Rosamund
29
MacKenzie, Emily
220
Maconie, Stuart
53
Malcolm, Claire
18, 25
Marek, Adam
214
Marmot, Michael
132
Marshall, Tim
44
Mason, Paul
128
May, Will
210
McGrath, Alister
54
McMillan, Ian
154
Medway, Jim
231
Mendl, Kumiko
Middleton, Howard
196, 204
92
Miller, Andrew
102
Morrison, Blake
160
Morton, Oliver
167
23
Nikolaidis, Andrej
208
Souhami, Jessica
North Country Theatre
162
Suchet, John
O’Keeffe, Damien
78
Ojukwu, Chijioke
168
Suitcase Circus
147
78, 206
60
5
89, 229, 230
Sutton, Peter
183
Olusoga, David
48
Swinbourne, Charlie
Omissi, David
99
Testament165
Overton, Tom
19
Thackara, John
106
Pankhurst, Kate
224
Thomas, Mark
141
Passarlay, Gulwali
189
Tomlinson, Richard
202
Peppiatt, Michael
118
Tooby, Mike
Perry, Alex
69
Phillips, Caryl
105
Piekarski, Olivia
32
tutti frutti
33
78
225, 226
Ul-Haq, Razwan
121
Uribe, Kirmen
129
Plampin, Matthew
124
Vaananen, Timo
Publick Transport
142
Vērdiņš, Kārlis
120
Vojnović, Goran
208
Quinn, Francis
92
Rayner, Jay
134
Wachsmann, Nikolaus
Rees, Eleanor
168
Walker, Ged
Riley, Bronwen
201, 209
Walsh, Nigel
Roberts, David
184
Watson, Alastair
86
43
114
206
94, 97
Ross, Jacob
186, 195
Weir, Alison
64
Ross, Leone
175, 186
Williamson, Lisa
52
Sansom, Peter
171, 180
Wilson, Jean Moorcroft
176
Winston, Robert
146
Yoneda, Asa
140
Savidge, Simon
25
Scally-Clarke, Michelle
114
Schama, Simon
213
61
2–18 OCTOBER 2015
@ilkleylitfest
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Festival would like to thank
the following organisations for
their support during 2015.
Major Sponsors
Aagrah
The Grammar School at Leeds
Spellman Walker
Media and PR Partners
Big Issue in the North
Event Sponsors
Eversheds
Forward Ladies
Friends of Ham
Hebridean Island Cruises
Ilkley Book Club
Investec Wealth & Investment
LCF Law
Leeds Beckett University Centre
for Culture and the Arts
Leeds College of Art
Leeds Trinity University
Manse Capital
NADFAS
Open College of the Arts
Rombalds Hotel
Wild Goose
Yorkshire Cruise Club
Patrons
Sir Rodney Brooke CBE DL
Trevor & Jennifer Bryan
John & Alex Cockshott
Brenda L Collins
Hilary Crawford
Simon Currie
David Henderson
Peter & Kate Roberts
John Woodward
Children’s Festival Patron
John Cunliffe
Event Partners
Bazm-E-Tadeeb International
Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms
Children’s Bookshow
Comma Press
For Books Sake
Friends of Donald Baverstock
The Grove Bookshop
Ilkley Arts
Ilkley Library
Ilkley Playhouse
Inscribe
Leeds Art Gallery
The Leeds Library
Literature Across Frontiers
Little Mighty
New Writing North
Otley Courthouse Arts Centre
Panache
Peepal Tree Press
The Poetry Business
The Priory Church of St Mary & St
Cuthbert
Renaissance One
Soroptimist International of Leeds
University of Leeds
The Walter Swan Trust
West Yorkshire Playhouse
The Wheatley Arms
White Rose Consortium
Supporters
All Saints Church
All Saints’ C of E Primary School
BMDC Education and Learning
Booths
Bradford Libraries
Brontë Society
Christchurch
Clarke Foley Centre
Craiglands Hotel
Dale Eddison
Ilkley Moor Vaults
Ilkley Visitor Information Centre
Kings Hall, Ilkley
Lancashire Library Service
North Yorkshire Library Service
Outside the Box
St Margaret’s Church Hall
Publishing Partners
Barbican Press
Bloomsbury
Carcanet
Chicken House Books
David Fickling Books
Ebury
Faber
Freight Books
Granta & Portobello Books
Hachette Children’s Books
Harper Collins
Head of Zeus
Hodder & Stoughton
Hot Key Books
Istros Books
Little, Brown Book Group
Macmillan Children’s Books
Orion Publishing Group
Pan Macmillan
Penguin Random House
Profile Books
Route
Thames & Hudson
Simon and Schuster
Verso
Vintage
Festival Staff
Director: Rachel Feldberg
Festival Manager: Gail Price
Festival Administrator:
Laura Beddows
Sponsorship Director:
Judy Passmore
Audience Development &
Outreach: Dawn Cameron
Marketing Officer: Alex Corwin
Volunteers Coordinator:
Hayley Gillard
Bookkeeper: Beverley Kitching
Festival Assistant & Fringe
Coordinator: Anna Turner
Poet in Residence: Zaffar Kunial
Apprentice Poet in Residence:
Beverley Nadin
Senior Box Office Administrator:
Melissa Watson
Box Office Administrator:
Anna Dominian
Box Office Administrator
(Venues): Mary Varley
Technical Director:
Richard Speight
Asst Technical Director:
Chris Bradley
Technical Team: David Wallbank,
Andy Price, Robbie Kay,
Sam Prowse, Ian Cheesebrough,
Harry Drake
Event Managers:
Judy Passmore, Annie Latham,
Gail Ferrin, Fiona Goh,
Jenny Harris, Kitty Wright,
Jess Penrose, Glenis Burgess,
Kate Jones, Katherine Stanton
Venues Coordinator:
Mosa Mpetha
Stage Managers:
Conor Whelan, Jan Hilditch,
Lauren Day, Alex Fullelove,
Claire Drury, Sarah Wilson,
Zoe Melia, Jess Macdonald,
Hollie Bryan, Sammy Gooch
Playhouse Catering: Chloe Walker
PR Agency:
Anita Morris Associates
Copy Checking: Abbey Vale
Copy Assistant: Ben Myers
Festival Photographer:
Paul Floyd Blake
Web Site:
Johnathan Kendall, Vitamin K
Graphic Design:
Richard Honey, dg3
Special thanks to the Friends of
Ilkley Literature Festival and all the
Volunteer Stewards.
The Ilkley Literature Festival Ltd. Registered In England and Wales Company No: 1061343 Ilkley Literature Festival is a registered charity Charity No: 501801
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The Grove Bookshop
10 The Grove, Ilkley LS29 9EG
Tel 01943 609335 Fax 01943 817086
www.grovebookshop.com
Open 9am–5.30pm Mon–Sat 11.30am–4.30pm Sunday
The Ilkley Literature Festival Bookshop
• We sell tickets for Festival Kings Hall events
• Books signed by Festival authors will also be available at our shop on The Grove
(just along from Bettys)
• If you can’t get to a session but would like to reserve a signed book, just pop in
or give us a call
• We will be pleased to post books to you if you can’t get to Ilkley
• We also have a specialist music department selling CDs and sheet music
• We can order any British book in print – many delivered within 48 hours
– just call 01943 609335 with your order
More than just October ...
erature
Ilkley Lit
delivers
Festival
events
inspiring
cts all
and proje
nd.
year rou
Words in the City taking place in June in Bradford
Story Wizards, weekly book groups for 8–12 year olds
Ilkley Young Writers, creative writing group
for 12–18 year olds
Young Writers Summer School
Poetry and short story competitions
Year round Author Visits to schools across the region
Visit www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
or join our mailing list for the latest news and information
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Aagrah Ilkley, Units 8 - 10,
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· Unique diamond model offering all through education
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· National finalists in major school sports
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· Accessible, semi-rural location in North Leeds

OCTOBER 2015 - Ilkley Literature Festival

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