Words by the Sea
Budleigh Salterton
Literary Festival 2011
Friday16th - Sunday 18th September
Patron: Eric Dancer CBE JP, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Devon
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President: Sue Lawley
A message from our President
This is Budleigh Salterton’s third literary festival.
It brings together a thought-provoking and lively
series of events, providing something for everyone
to enjoy. When our Artistic Director, Susan Ward,
devised the idea back in 2008 of staging a three
day festival, she had a vision which has become
a marvellous reality. Budleigh’s festival is now
firmly on the literary map.
This year’s programme speaks for itself – a rich
mixture of different authors, all of whom have that
rare ability to interest, entertain and excite.
I hope you will join us for a very special weekend,
discovering, relishing and celebrating the written
and spoken word.
Sue Lawley, President
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Committee
Chairman: Bill McDermott
Artistic & Sponsorship Director: Susan Ward
Production Director & Editor: Katherine McDermott-Darley
Finance Director: Roger Bass
Logistics Director: Nick Speare
Education Liaison: Barbara Farley
Press Secretary: Steve Andrews
Other Festival Organisers & Advisors:
Christopher Briscoe, Sue Chapman, Professor Malcolm
Cook, Elizabeth Cummings, Lizzie Everett-Wright
Alan Huddart, Richard Matthews, Martin Smith
Professor Martin Sorrell, Professor Helen Taylor
Professor Charles Ward, Hugh Williams
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Programme of Events
Friday 16th September
Friday 16th September 2011
10am
John Carey
Temple Church
William Golding:
The Making of a Novelist
10am - 12.00
Caroline Taggart
and Richard Willis
Salterton Playhouse
• A Novel-Writer’s Toolkit
• What Publishers Want
12.00
Josceline Dimbleby
Temple Church
Orchards in the Oasis
2pm
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Public Hall
The Great Explorers
2pm
Mavis Cheek
Temple Church
The Lovers of Pound Hill
4pm
Sir Timothy Ackroyd
Temple Church
A Step Out of Time
7.30pm
Carol Ann Duffy
& Gillian Clarke
Public Hall
Two Laureates
Saturday 17th September 2011
10am
Sir Roy Strong
Temple Church
Visions of England - what does it
mean to be English
10am - 12.00
Chris Waters
Masonic Hall
Full Fathom Five - Poetry Workshop
12.00
Hilary Mantel
Temple Church
The Mirror and the Light
2pm
‘A Budleigh Good Read’
Chaired by Sue MacGregor
with Sarah Dunant and
A.L. Kennedy, introduced
by Sue Lawley
Public Hall
• Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
• A Man Could Stand Up
by Ford Madox Ford
4pm
Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
Public Hall
The King’s Speech
5.30pm
Simon Hall
Public Hall
Reporting Crime, Writing Crime
7.30pm
A. L. Kennedy
Public Hall
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Sunday 18th September 2011
9.30am - 5.00pm Book Fair
Masonic Hall
10am
Sarah Dunant
Public Hall
10.30am
Literary Festival Church Service
Temple Church
12.00
Jeremy Black
Public Hall
The Politics of James Bond
2pm
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Public Hall
In My Granny’s Kitchen - home cooking
from the forties to the noughties
2pm
Jack Thomas
Salterton Playhouse
The King James Bible - the book
that changed the world
4pm
Michael Morpurgo
Public Hall
The Story of War Horse
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Imagining History
Adolphus and
all that
Words
by the Sea
John Carey
10.00 am Temple Church
Chair: Bill McDermott OBE
William Golding: The Making of a Novelist
Distinguished literary critic, reviewer, broadcaster and writer, John Carey is Emeritus Merton
Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.
The Guardian once described John Carey as “the scholarship boy from an ‘ordinary’
background”. Incisive, challenging and penetrating in his views, John Carey is a force to
be reckoned with - a force for change. His celebrated and controversial book, What Good
Are the Arts, left an indelible impression on the literary ‘establishment’.
John Carey has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee and was chair of the judging
panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the
London Sunday Times and regularly appears in radio and on TV. He has authored many
books including studies of Dickens, Donne, and Thackeray. Recent books include
Pure Pleasure: a Guide to the Twentieth Century’s Most Enjoyable Books, and
William Golding: The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’.
Photograph courtesy of Faber & Faber
Josceline Dimbleby
12.00 noon Temple Church
Chair: Katherine McDermott-Darley
Orchards in the Oasis
Orchards in the Oasis is a magical book - a unique, personal account of Josceline
Dimbleby’s awakening passion for food in the spice markets of Syria, and a memoir of
tastes, aromas and recipes that have resonated with her life, friendships and exotic travels.
This book is about the food that has inspired her most.
For over 15 years, food columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, and with more than 30 cookery
books to her name, Josceline Dimbleby is a highly aclaimed and adventurous cookery writer.
She has appeared on numerous radio and TV programmes, including BBC Food and Drink
and MasterChef.
This summer, she scooped the prestigious Guild of Food Writers’ Award for Food and Travel
Writing with Orchards in the Oasis.
Photograph courtesy of Channel 4
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Friday 16th September
Friday 16th September
Caroline Taggart & Richard Willis
10.00 am - 12.00 noon Salterton Playhouse
Chair: Professor Martin Sorrell
A Novel-Writer’s Toolkit &
What Publishers Want
Caroline and Richard will be sharing their knowledge and insights to the world of publishing
from the perspective of an editor and a publisher. This session will particularly appeal to
budding writers.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
2.00 pm Public Hall
Chair: Roger Bass
The Great Explorers
Caroline Taggart has been editor of non-fiction books for 30 years and has covered a wide
range of subjects from natural history and business, to gardening and astronomy. She
was the editor of Writer’s Market UK 2009. Her books include, I Used to Know That: Stuff You
Forget from School and A Classical Education.
Celebrated by the Sunday Times as ‘the greatest explorer of the past 20 years’, Robin HanburyTenison will enthrall us with stories and images from The Great Explorers, a collection of vivid
biographical essays and portraits featuring forty of the world’s most intrepid explorers, past and
present. This beautifully illustrated book also features an impressive array of expert authors including academics, historians and travel writers - who describe the lives, motives and passions
of these outstanding individuals.
Formerly the Commissioning Editor of Exeter University Press, Richard Willis is Managing
Director of the publishers, Swales and Williams. The publishing house was founded in 1998
and now manages around 250 titles annually. Richard has also established the imprint,
Impress Books.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known author, film-maker, conservationist and campaigner.
Author of numerous books including: A Question of Survival, A Pattern of Peoples, Mulu:
the Rainforest, The Yanomami, Fragile Eden, The Oxford Book of Exploration, and his two
autobiographies: Worlds Apart and Worlds Within.
Mavis Cheek
2.00 pm Temple Church
Chair: Professor Martin Sorrell
The Lovers of Pound Hill
Mavis Cheek has an instinct for what makes people tick - or not, as the case may be.
Sir Timothy Ackroyd
4.00 pm Temple Church
Chair: John Crosse
A Step Out of Time
Brilliant, funny, warm and intelligent, Mavis Cheek is a popular novelist and short-story writer
whose beautifully modulated readings can make you laugh out loud. She will be talking
about and reading from her latest novel, The Lovers of Pound Hill - a tale of archaeology,
love lost and found, the wicked overcome, and lessons from the past.
Sir Timothy Ackroyd, West End director, actor, poet, author and illustrator, will be performing his
internationally acclaimed one man show ‘A Step Out of Time’. Prepare to be taken back in
time - this moving and funny show charts the childhood life of one our finest actors, exploring his
early meetings with Montgomery, Churchill and Peter O’Toole, and the meaning of friendship.
Winner of the John Menzies First Novel Prize, she is the author of fourteen novels including
Mrs. Fytton’s Country Life which sold 90,000 copies, Janice Gentle Gets Sexy, Amenable
Women and Truth to Tell.
Sir Timothy’s acting career began in 1976 when he was nominated as Most Promising
Newcomer in the West End Theatre Awards for his performance as Clytemnestra in
Aeschlus’s Agamemnon.
His London début was in Brian Forbes’ controversial and hugely successful Macbeth at The
Old Vic. His West End debut was starring opposite Peter O’Toole and Joyce Carey in George
Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. Other appearances in the West End include the longrunning farce No Sex Please, We’re British and Pygmalion with John Thaw.
A Step Out of Time is guaranteed to entertain.
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Friday 16th September
Friday 16th September
Two Laureates
Two Laureates
7.30 pm Public Hall
Gillian Clarke,
National Poet for Wales
Chair: Bill McDermott OBE
Two Laureates
Carol Ann Duffy,
Poet Laureate
Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s first female
Poet Laureate and Scottish poet and
playwright, will read from her new book
The Bees.
Be captivated by Carol Ann Duffy’s subtle
yet provocative poetry that will draw you
into its beautiful and complex narrative.
Hear everyday life, truth and fantasy
inter-mingle in a most unique and
compelling way.
Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collections
include Standing Female Nude, Selling
Manhattan, Mean Time and Rapture,
New & Collected Poems for Children, and
The World’s Wife.
(Bar available from 6.30 pm)
Luke Howard,
Namer of Clouds
Pebble
Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds
Pebble
Eldezar and Asama Yama, 1783,
erupted violently; a Great Fogg
blending incredible skies over Europe.
In London, Luke Howard was ten.
The sky’s lad then.
Smitten,
he stared up evermore; saw
a meteor’s fiery spurt,
the clamouring stars;
what the moon wouldn’t do;
but loved clouds most dragons and unicorns;
Hamlet’s camels, weasels and whales;
the heads of heroes;
the sword of Excalibur, lit
by the setting sun. Mackerel sky,
mackerel sky, not long wet,
not long dry.
And knew
love goes naming,
even a curl of hair - thus, Cirrus.
Cumulus. Stratus. Nimbus.
Weigh two hundred million years
in your hand, the mystery of eras,
a single syllable
pulsing in a pebble.
An unpublished poem, written by the Poet
Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, reproduced with her
kind permission, 2011.
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National Poet for Wales, playwright and
broadcaster, Gillian Clarke will read from her
latest collection of poetry, A Recipe for Water
in which she explores water as memory and
meaning.
Experience the musicality of Gillian Clarke’s
poetry, and sense the spirit of her country and
its ancestry through the natural world images
she paints.
She writes with power and tenderness - with a
very individual voice.
Gillian Clarke’s poetry collections include
Snow on the Mountain, The Sundial, Letter
from a Far Country, Selected Poems, Letting
in the Rumour, The King of Britain’s Daughter,
Collected Poems, Five Fields, Nine Green
Gardens, Making the Beds for the Dead.
It quivers in your palm
like the heartbeat of a hare in its form,
with the shindig of ocean, ancient landslips,
rock-fall, storm, the sea’s and
centuries’ lapse.
Take in your right hand from the
evening sky
that other sad old stone, the moon.
You, Earth, pebble, moon-stone,
held together in the noose of gravity.
Feel the beach shift underfoot, the
planet turn,
all Earth’s tumultuous story in a stone.
This poem was written in 2011 especially for
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival by Gillian Clarke,
National Poet for Wales.
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Saturday 17th September
Saturday 17th September
Hilary Mantel
Sir Roy Strong
10.00 am Temple Church
Chair: Lady Michelle Sykes
Visions of England
Cultural historian and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong is supremely qualified to investigate
‘what does it mean to be English’. Join him to discover how England’s rich iconography
can stand up to a crisis in national identity.
Sir Roy Strong was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1971 and director
of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987 when he became a full-time writer,
broadcaster and consultant. Notable books include: The Spirit of Britain: A Narrative
History of the Arts - a widely acclaimed study of British arts through two millennia; and
Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy. His latest book, Visions of
England was released in hardback in July 2011.
12.00 noon Temple Church
Chair: Professor Helen Taylor
The Mirror and the Light
We have the unique privilege of hearing local resident, Hilary Mantel, read from her new work
in progress, The Mirror and the Light, sequel to the great Wolf Hall, winner of the 2009 Man
Booker Prize. A penetrating novel about Thomas Cromwell and the court of Henry VIII, this
current book, follows him to the heights of his power, and chronicles his fall and execution in the
summer of 1540.
Hilary Mantel is an acclaimed English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work ranges in
subject from personal memoir to historical fiction. Set in a myriad places and times - from Tudor
England, Eighteenth Century Ireland and France, South Africa in the apartheid era, a Peak
District village in the 1950s to modern-day Saudi Arabia - her talent and curiosity in evoking
times past and present, and the characters inhabiting these worlds, is audacious.
Chris Waters
10.00 am - 12.00 noon Masonic Hall
Chair: Professor Martin Sorrell
Full Fathom Five - a Poetry
making and sharing workshop
Join tutor and prize-winning poet Chris Waters for a session of poetry making and sharing.
Taking as the theme, our myriad connections with the sea, we will read, discuss, explore,
invent, improvise and quietly compose. Participants are invited to bring along a relevant
poem of their own or a favourite by an established poet. All writers and poetry lovers
are welcome.
Arisaig, finalist in the Plough Poetry Prize 2010.
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Saturday 17th September
Saturday 17th September
A Budleigh Good Read
A Budleigh Good Read
A Budleigh Good Read
Sue MacGregor, Sarah Dunant and A.L. Kennedy
will be talking about their selected books.
Introduced by Sue Lawley
2.00 pm Public Hall
Sarah Dunant
Selected book: Slouching towards Bethlehem
Sarah Dunant has chosen Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. An early
collection of the essays and journalism of Joan Didion which describes her experiences
in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem The Second Coming by W.B.
Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion’s We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order
to Live: Collected Nonfiction published in 2006.
Photograph courtesy of Charlie Hopkinson
Sue MacGregor
Selected book: Star of the Sea
Producer, reporter and broadcaster Sue MacGregor has selected Star of the Sea by
Joseph O’Connor. The Irish famine of the 1840s was one the greatest social catastrophes
of 19th-century Europe and the historical setting for this novel. The “Star of the Sea” of the
title is a famine ship which makes the journey from Ireland to New York with a disparate
cargo of passengers leaving behind the lives they have known for a new beginning.
Star of the Sea was first published in 2004.
A. L. Kennedy
Selected book: A Man Could Stand Up
Photograph courtesy of the BBC
A. L. Kennedy will be talking about A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford. The third
novel in a four-novel sequence, collectively titled Paradise’s End, the story takes place
on Armistice Day, November 1918. Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment - a life
vividly depicted in the novels. A Man Could Stand Up was first published in 1926.
Photograph courtesy of New Linear Perspectives
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Saturday 17th September
Saturday 17th September
Simon Hall
5.30 pm Public Hall
Chair: Barbara Farley
Reporting Crime, Writing Crime
Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
4.00 pm Temple Church
Chair: John Crosse
The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
How can an improbable relationship between two people bring about a personal
transformation of such magnitude? The book, and the academy award-winning film,
The King’s Speech, tells that remarkable true story.
The King’s Speech, co-authored by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, narrates well-researched
facts and insights into that deep connection between an outgoing, genial, self-taught
Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, and his client, Prince Albert, Duke of York (the
future King George VI). It also provides the historical and political context to an intense
relationship which transformed the nervous, tongue-tied Duke into one of Britain’s most
cherished monarchs. From their first meeting in 1926, this special relationship endured until
their respective deaths in the early 1950s.
TV crime reporter turned crime writer, Simon Hall will be a familiar face to audiences of
Spotlight South West. As the BBC’s Crime Correspondent in the region, Simon is also a
regular voice on BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Cornwall. He is also author of the Dan
Groves and Adam Breen detective novels in which a TV reporter and a detective work
together to solve crimes. These novels are all set in Devon.
Simon Hall has been long-listed for the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library
award for writers most popular with library users.
Recent titles include: The Death Pictures, Evil Valley, A Popular Murder, The Judgement
Book, and The TV Detective.
Photograph courtesy of the BBC
A. L. Kennedy
7.30 pm Public Hall
Chair: Professor Martin Sorrell
Words
The King’s Speech was published in December 2010 and was preceded by the Oscar
winning film of the same title earlier last year.
Mark Logue is the grandson of Lionel and, with unique access to his grandfather’s diaries
and to family archives, he was able to co-author this fascinating book with Peter Conradi.
Peter Conradi is journalist for The Sunday Times and a veteran non-fiction writer.
Get ready to be amused. Celebrated for her irony, originality and dead-pan wit, A. L.
Kennedy is a writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is also a popular stand-up
comedian, making regular appearances at comedy clubs and the Edinburgh Fringe.
A.L. Kennedy is passionate about language. She will talk about how we use words, are
abused by words and the absurdities of the writer’s life.
“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to
choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might
read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”
(from Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy).
A.L. Kennedy is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. In 2007,
she won the Lannan Literary Award and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature.
Her novel of that same year, Day, was named Costa Book of the Year in the Costa Book
Awards. She reviews for The Scotsman, the Glasgow Herald and the Daily Telegraph, is a
contributor to the Guardian, and has been a judge for both the Booker Prize for Fiction
(1996) and The Guardian First Book Award (2001).
(Bar available from 6.45pm)
Photograph courtesy of Zeit Online
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Sunday 18th September
Sunday 18th September
Professor Jeremy Black
12.00 noon Public Hall
Chair: Professor Malcolm Cook
The Politics of James Bond
Sarah Dunant
In The Politics of James Bond, Jeremy Black sheds a fascinating light on a well known and
celebrated fictional character.
10.00 am Public Hall
Chair: Professor Helen Taylor
Imagining History
Is it possible to bring together the novelist’s imagination and the historian’s quest for accuracy
and create something that will excite and satisfy everyone? For the last ten years Sarah
Dunant has been working to bring the rich, often hidden history of the Italian Renaissance,
to life. After three best- selling novels dramatising women’s lives, she is in the middle of
writing a novel about the Borgias, one of Italy’s most powerful and notorious families.
But how much of history is actually imagined anyway, and if so, how does one get to the
truth and fashion it into a really good read?
In this book, he uses the gripping plots and larger than life characters of the Bond novels
and films, to place Bond in a historical, cultural, and political context. He cleverly explores
how the settings and dynamics of the Bond adventures have evolved over time - changes
in response to our shifting political landscape, and the specific nature of espionage at key
points in our recent history.
He achieves this objective with great flair and insight. As a foremost representative of
British scholarly views abroad, Jeremy Black is a leading figure in the study and writing of
world of history.
Professor of History at the University of Exeter, he is author of over 90 books. Recent
publications include War and World 1450 - 2000, The British Seaborne Empire, Maps and
History, George III, and European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660 - 1815.
Some best-selling titles by Sarah Dunant include: Transgressions, Mapping the Edge, The
Birth of Venus, and In the Company of the Courtesan.
Photograph courtesy of Charlie Hopkinson
Jack Thomas
2.00 pm Salterton Playhouse
Chair: Roger Bass
King James’s Bible
The Book That Changed the World
This will be a fun, interesting, informative, even occasionally humorous, lecture on the
origins of the King James Bible at the Hampton Court Conference of 1604. The King
James Version has shaped the making of the English speaking world over the past 400
years - it has influenced our language and literature, and our values, and has effected
dramatic patterns of change in our thinking and culture.
“I dwell on the felicities of the language of the King James Bible and its influence on
many other writers . . . This is the greatest book written by a committee.”
Jack Thomas taught at Haileybury College for many years, where he was a Housemaster
and live-wire of the English Department. His wife, Imogen Thomas will also be reading.
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Michael Morpurgo
4.00 pm Public Hall
Chair: Bill McDermott OBE
The Story of War Horse
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
2.00 pm Public Hall
Chair: Barbara Farley
In my Granny’s Kitchen - Home Cooking from the Forties to the Noughties
The family kitchen is the focal point for Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall’s popular and
inspirational books about family life. She gives appealing, helpful and light hearted
practical advice on how to be a good granny - words of wisdom passed down to her as a
child from her own grandmother.
A versatile writer, horticulturist and garden designer, winner of two gold medals at the
Chelsea Flower Show, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall is a remarkable talent. From 2005 to 2007
she wrote a popular weekly column for The Times about family life. She has also written
for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Woman’s Weekly, The Garden, The English Garden and
Gardens Illustrated.
Titles on the theme of being a grandmother include: The Good Granny Guide: Or How to
Be a Modern Grandmother, The Good Granny Diary, The Good Granny Cookbook, and
The Good Granny Companion. Her energy is infectious and inspiring.
War Horse, the children’s book, and the West End production that it inspired, appeals to
all generations alike. It is a tribute to one of our most celebrated children’s writers and
story tellers.
Set in the First World War, War Horse tells the story of a young boy’s love for his dray horse
and their journey and transformation together - from a peaceful Devon farm to the wartorn fields of the Western Front. It is a powerful and moving story.
Author of over 100 books, playwright, poet and librettist, Michael Morpurgo has a gift for
magical storytelling, for writing stories that inspire and enchant. Reoccurring themes in his
work include: nature and environmental issues, the community and interdependence,
and relationships between the old and the young.
Other books by Michael Morpurgo include Why the Whales Came (made into a film
starring Helen Mirren), King of the Cloud Forests, which won the Cercle D’Or Prix Sorciere
(France), My Friend Walter, and Out of the Ashes. His children’s novel, The Wreck of the
Zanzibar, won the 1995 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.
Children’s Laureate from 2003-05, Michael Morpurgo was awarded an OBE in 2006 for
services to literature.
Photograph courtesy of Waterstones Bookshop
Photograph courtesy of Nicholas Harmer
Winner of five Tonys, including Best Play,
America’s most prestigious theatrical award.
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Information about tickets
Box office opens 11th July 2011
Other Festival events
Time
Book sales and signings
Venue
Title
Tickets
Friday 16th September 2011
All book sales and signings will be organised by Blackwell’s
(Exeter University book shop) during the period of the Festival events.
A Walk with Words
Event
9.20am - 9.45am
Pre-School Baby Bounce Library
Free
& Rhyme for under-3s
In association with the Otter Valley Association and Fairlynch
Museum, a literary walk, exploring the writers, scientists and
artists who have lived in, or written about, Budleigh Salterton.
Starting out from Fairlynch Garden at 10.30 am on Sunday
18th September. Duration: approx 1.5 hours.
10am
John Carey
Temple Church
William Golding: The Making of a Novelist
10am - 12 noon
Caroline Taggart & Salterton Playhouse
Richard Willis
•A Novel-Writer’s Toolkit
£10.00
•What Publishers’ Want
12 noon
Josceline Dimbleby
Temple Church
Orchards in the Oasis
£7.50
2pm
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Public Hall
The Great Explorers
£7.50
Photograph courtesy of Fairlynch Museum
2pm
Mavis Cheek
Temple Church
The Lovers of Pound Hill
£7.50
4pm
Sir Timothy Ackroyd
Temple Church
A Step Out of Time
£7.50
Second Hand Book Sale
A second hand book sale will take place in the Public Hall on
Saturday 17th September from 10 am - 12 noon organised by the local
Raleigh Group with proceeds to The National Trust.
Book Sale
There will be a Book Sale at A La Ronde, Summer Lane,
Exmouth, Devon EX8 5BD, from Saturday 17th until Monday
19th September, 10.30 am - 4.00 pm daily.
Photo courtesy of National Trust Photographic Library, Rupert Truman
7.30pm
Carol Ann Duffy & Gillian Clarke Public Hall
Two Laureates
£7.50
£12.50/£7.00 for under 16s and students
Saturday 17th September 2011
10am
Sir Roy Strong
Temple Church
Visions of England - what
does it mean to be English
£7.50
10am - 12 noon
Chris Waters
Full Fathom Five - poetry workshop
£7.50
10.15am - 10.45am
Local author Jan Oke Library
will be reading
from her new unpublished book for children
Tickets available from the
Library 9th September
Free
11.00am - 12 noon
Children’s Craft Event
Library
Tickets available from the
Library 9th September
Free
Masonic Hall
12 noon
Hilary Mantel
The Mirror and the Light
£7.50
2pm
‘A Budleigh Good Read’ Public Hall chaired by Sue MacGregor joined by Sarah Dunant and
A.L. Kennedy and introduced
by Sue Lawley
•Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor
•Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
•A Man Could Stand Up
by Ford Madox Ford
£7.50
Festival Book Fair
4pm
Mark Logue & Peter Conradi
Public Hall
The King’s Speech
£7.50
Sunday 18th September, 9.30 - 5.00 pm Masonic Hall
5.30pm
Simon Hall
Public Hall
Reporting Crime, Writing Crime
£7.50 7.30pm
A. L. Kennedy
Public Hall
Words
£7.50
Literary Festival Church Service
Sunday 18th September, 10.30 am Temple Church
Five leading booksellers from Devon and Dorset will be offering a wide selection of
collectable and second hand books.
Children’s Events at The Library
(Free Tickets can be booked at the Library and will be available from 9th September)
Friday 16th September, 9.20 am - 9.45 am - Baby Bounce and Rhyme
Temple Church
Sunday 18th September 2011
9.30am - 5.00pm
Book Fair
Masonic Hall
Free Entry
10am
Sarah Dunant
Public Hall
£7.50
10.30am
Literary Festival Church Service
Temple Church
Imagining History
Saturday 17th September, 10.15 am - 10.45 am - Jan Oke, children’s writer will be reading
from her latest book
10.30am - 12 noon
Literary Festival Walk
Meeting point: A Walk with Words
Fairlynch Museum
Garden
Donations to
the Otter Valley
Association &
Fairlynch Museum
Saturday 17th September, 11.00 am - 12.00 noon - Craft Event
12 noon
In the run up to the Literary Festival, DUETS by Peter Quilter is being performed at the
Salterton Playhouse (5th - 10th September). Duets is made up of a quartet of short plays
looking at relationships. “Quilter’s understanding of human desires and quirks is on show and
probed so endearingly. A warm and funny exploration of love and other bruises.” Daily Telegraph.
The Politics of James Bond
£7.50
2pm
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Public Hall
Jeremy Black
Public Hall
In My Granny’s Kitchen -
home cooking from the
forties to the noughties
£7.50
2pm
Jack Thomas
Salterton Playhouse
The King James Bible - the book
that changed the World
£7.50
4pm
Michael Morpurgo
Public Hall
The Story of War Horse
Words by the Sea
£7.50/£3.50 for under 16s and students
Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Centre on the High Street opposite Temple Church.
Telephone Budleigh Salterton 01395 445275 or visit www.visitbudleigh.com
Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled by the Festival
The Festival Hub & Open Air Refreshments
Support and donations gratefully acknowledged
The geographic hub for this year’s Festival, including Blackwell’s Book Stall, will be
the Budleigh Salterton Public Hall. Festival Stewards will be in attendance throughout
the event.
As well as a number of excellent cafes, pubs and restaurants along and adjacent to the
High Street and the sea front, refreshments will be available close to the Pubic Hall and
main public car park. Van Rouge will be parked on the green opposite the Public Hall
throughout the Festival and there will be a covered open air seating area on the green.
In addition to our lead sponsors Everys Solicitors, we would gratefully thank the following:
Blackwell’s Publishers
The Tolkien Trust
Budleigh Salterton Library
Budleigh Salterton
Tourist Information Centre
Palmers Whitton and Laing
Budleigh Salterton Town Council
Creative Engine Room
Internet Design & Marketing
How to find us
Address:
Station Road, Budleigh Salterton, EX9 6RJ
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Devon County Council
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Simcoe House, Budleigh Salterton
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Norman Family Charitable Trust
Fairlynch
Museum
Temple Church
& Church Hall
Tourist
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Gallery
For more up to date information about the Festival
visit www.budlitfest.org.uk
Words by the Sea
Councillor Christine Channon, Michael Jackaman, Sue Lawley, Hugh Williams,
P. J. White, and other Literary Festival Friends and supporters who have kindly
sponsored or contributed to the Festival.
Words by the Sea
Celebrating great literature
Supporting and showcasing new talent
Promoting reading and writing
Provoking new thinking
Engaging and entertaining the whole community
Thanks to all our visiting writers and their audiences.
We hope that you have enjoyed the Festival.
If you would like to hear more about the Festival, become a Friend of the Festival,
or a Festival Sponsor, or if you would like to share your views about the Festival,
please contact us via the Festival web site on www.budlitfest.org.uk.
Budleigh Salterton
Literary Festival 2011
www.budlitfest.org.uk