Bringing Books to Life
9 — 17 June 2017
Over 70 events celebrating the joy of books and reading for all ages and interests.
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How to Book Tickets
You can book tickets for all events online
through the Derby Book Festival website:
www.derbybookfestival.co.uk
Tickets are also available for events at
venues, other than the ones listed below,
from the Festival Box Office at QUAD.
Visit or phone on 01332 290606.
For events to be held at QUAD only,
there is a special offer for 16-25 year olds:
they can buy tickets for £3.50 if bought
45 mins or less before the start of the
Festival event in QUAD.
For events at Déda you can also visit or
phone 01332 370911.
Please Note: Tickets are non-refundable
or exchangeable, except in the event of
a cancellation.
Most Festival events last
approximately one hour, with a
45 minute author talk/interview
and reading, followed by a 15
minute Q&A with the audience.
At most events we have a
book stall plus author signing
after the event.
For events at Derby Theatre you can also
visit or phone 01332 593939.
For events at Derby LIVE you can also
visit or phone 01332 255800.
For events at The Smallprint Company
you can also visit or phone 07806 782109.
You will be able to collect your tickets
from the venue that you have bought
them from, or alternatively some venues
will offer a postal service if you prefer.
Please arrive in good time for the event.
Seating in the majority of venues is first
come, first served. We reserve the right
to deny entry to any latecomers.
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Welcome to the third Derby Book Festival
A welcome from Liz Fothergill CBE
and Chair of Derby Book Festival
A message from Professor Kathryn
Mitchell, Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Derby
Our first two Festivals exceeded our expectations
and we feel that local people have really taken
Derby Book Festival to their collective heart.
We look forward to welcoming our loyal supporters
back, as well as enticing new book lovers to another
great Festival.
The American children’s author Dr Seuss once
wrote: “The more that you read, the more things you
will know. The more that you learn, the more places
you’ll go.” Taken from the superbly-titled book,
I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!, this quote brilliantly
captures the magic of reading for me.
This year’s Festival coincides with two events of
national significance: the exhibition of the Tower
of London ceramic poppies at The Silk Mill and the
first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. We continue
to include events with a local flavour: this year with
new partners Rolls-Royce and Royal Crown Derby.
We hope all of these will attract an even bigger
Festival audience.
At the University of Derby we want people of all
ages to be inspired by reading, learn new things
and discover new possibilities. It’s my hope that this
year’s Festival will help us all to re-discover a love of
reading and lifelong learning. But most of all,
I hope that we can inspire young minds to discover
the magic of books for themselves. Reading, as
Dr Seuss recognised, helps broaden our horizons
and therefore plays an important role in raising
aspirations among young people and encouraging
them to fulfil their potential.
Being Chair of Derby Book Festival continues to
thrill and excite me, but of course our Festival would
not be possible without our small and dedicated
team and the support of a large and committed
group of volunteers. We are very grateful to Derby’s
arts and educational organisations that provide our
venues and much more besides. I would also like
to thank our business sponsors, the individuals who
support us and the partners who provide funding,
sponsorship and support in kind. In particular we
would like to thank Arts Council England and the
University of Derby for their on-going support.
Looking at this year’s exciting programme, I am
confident that Derby Book Festival 2017 will be
an inspiration to many people. It is, therefore, a
pleasure to offer the enthusiastic support of the
University of Derby once again.
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Friday 9 June
Sebastian Faulks
Sponsored by:
Opening Event
7.30 - 9pm | £15 / £12
Derby Cathedral
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Please note: seats are unallocated and some have restricted views
Our opening event will feature internationally
renowned author Sebastian Faulks, whose latest
book, Where My Heart Used to Beat, returns to
what has become a recurring theme in his novels:
war and love. It is a tender portrait of a man and
a century.
edited A Broken World, a book of letters, diaries and
memories from World War 1.
Probably his best-loved novel, Birdsong, vividly
depicted a British soldier’s experience on the
frontline during the First World War. He has also
After the event you can follow the Fire Trail to The
Silk Mill to view the Poppies exhibition.
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Sebastian will be in conversation with James
Naughtie, BBC News’ Books Editor and Special
Correspondent and former Radio 4 Today presenter,
who returns to the Festival for the third time.
The Fire Trail has been produced by Déda Producing Limited in
association with Walk The Plank.
Friday 9 June
Saturday 10 June
The Derby Book Fair
10am - 4pm | FREE | The Silk Mill
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Visit our first Book Fair in the wonderful setting of
The Silk Mill. Stalls will include publishers, charities,
comics, book shops and authors. There will be
readings throughout the day by authors in The Silk Mill
café. See www.derbybookfestival.co.uk for details.
Joseph Knox
Sirens
11am - 12noon | £8 / £6 | QUAD
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Credit: Orli Rose
Min Kym
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
5.30 - 6.30pm | £8 / £6 | Déda
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Book through Déda
Min Kym was a child prodigy, studying at the Purcell
School of Music, making recordings and then
going on to international competitive success. She
worked with many violins and, at 21, found ‘the one’:
a rare 1696 Stradivarius, perfectly suited to her build
and temperament. But then, in a London café, her
violin was stolen.
Using episodes from her book Gone, Min Kym will
combine readings with playing to illustrate the key
stages of her journey; one which is told as much in
the language of music as it is in words.
Sponsored by:
Credit: Jay Brooks
With a career as Waterstones’ crime buyer, Joseph
Knox has now penned his own Manchester noir
debut novel, Sirens, to great critical acclaim, following
a highly competitive 10-way auction by publishers.
The book follows disgraced detective Aidan Waits,
who is pressured into going undercover to unearth
dirty cops at the heart of Manchester’s underworld
drug scene following the disappearance of a
politician’s daughter.
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Saturday 10 June
Joseph Wright of Derby
Book launch
12noon - 1.30pm | FREE
Museum & Art Gallery
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Joseph Wright of Derby was one of the most
influential artists of the late 18th century and
the city’s museum holds the largest and most
comprehensive collection of his work anywhere
in the world.
Derby-born Lucy Bamford has always had a
passion for Joseph Wright and, since becoming
the Senior Keeper of Art at Derby Museums,
she has been able to focus on researching
this fascinating artist. Lucy and Jonathan
Wallis, Head of Museums and Development,
have teamed up to produce this guide to the
museum’s collections and what it tells us about
Joseph Wright’s life and work.
Join Lucy and Jonathan for a discussion about
Joseph Wright of Derby and the paintings
displayed in the museum.
Mary, Queen of Scots
David Templeman
2 - 3pm | £6 / £4
Museum & Art Gallery
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After years of painstaking
research, David Templeman’s
biography Mary, Queen of
Scots, The Captive Queen in
England creates a detailed
account of her nineteen years
of confinement in England,
culminating in the tragedy
at Fotheringhay.
David will reveal a story not found in any history
book, conveying intrigue, passion, plots and
escape attempts.
Discover the fascinating story of Mary’s captivity
in and around Derbyshire and the East Midlands.
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Louise Doughty
2 - 3pm | £10 / £8 | QUAD
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Apple Tree Yard gripped the nation when it
was televised in January 2017. Her follow up
novel, Black Water, should firmly establish
Louise Doughty as one of our most important
contemporary novelists.
Set against a backdrop of the Cold War and
Civil Rights struggle, it moves across Europe,
California and Indonesia exploring some of the
darkest events in recent world history through
the story of one troubled man. John Harper is
less afraid of what is going to happen than of
something he’s already done. In a local town,
he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled
history - but can he allow himself to get involved
when he knows this might put her at risk?
Saturday 10 June
Beginners’ Bookbinding
2 - 4.30pm | £39
The Smallprint Company
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To book: email [email protected]
or call 07806 782109
Experiment with simple binding techniques
to create a journal, sketchbook, scrapbook or
album. The session is ideal for beginners who
would like to spend a couple of creative hours
in the studio.
Credit: Walter White
Alex Wheatle
Winner, Guardian
Children’s Fiction Prize
2 - 3pm | £5 | QUAD
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For ages 10+
Alex won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
in 2016 for his hard-hitting young adult novel,
Crongton Knights. Schoolboy McKay’s rash
attempt to help out a girl in danger of exposure
for sexting after her phone is stolen, takes him
on a mission even more dangerous than his
more usual challenge of dodging early morning
visits by the bailiffs to his tower block home.
The third book in the trilogy, Straight Outta
Crongton, has just been published.
Alex is an award-winning British novelist of
Jamaican heritage who was born in Brixton and
grew up in council-run Shirley Oaks children’s
home in Croydon. He traces his interest in
books back to a spell in jail after the 1981
Brixton riots.
Matt Sewell
A Charm of Goldfinches
2.30 - 3.30pm | £8 / £6 | Déda
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Is that a bellowing of bullfinches or a mural of
snow buntings? Come and learn the best and
weirdest collective nouns for our feathered
friends with best-selling author Matt Sewell.
Matt will be talking about his lifelong interest
in birds, his hugely successful career in writing
and illustrating and his latest book A Charm of
Goldfinches and other Collective Nouns.
Matt has been described as the Banksy of the
bird world and has illustrated for the Guardian
and Barbour; painted underpasses for the
RSPB; and exhibited in London, Manchester,
New York, Tokyo and Paris.
David Almond, one of the Guardian judges,
said that the novel “hums with the beat of real
life and the language sings from the page.”
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Saturday 10 June
Slow Travel in the
Peak District
Helen Moat
4 - 5pm | £5 | QUAD
Salley Vickers
5 - 6pm | £8 / £6 | QUAD
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Salley Vickers has been a favourite with book
clubs and reading groups since her first novel,
Miss Garnet’s Angel, was published in 2000.
It became an international word-of-mouth
bestseller and was followed by the equally
successful Mr. Golightly’s Holiday, The Other
Side of You and The Cleaner of Chartres.
Her latest novel, Cousins, has received
critical acclaim and is a spellbinding account
of a family in distress. When the brilliant and
mercurial Will Tye suffers a life-changing
accident the event ripples through three
generations of the complex and eccentric
Tye family.
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Slow Travel embraces the idea of getting under
the skin of a place, finding hidden gems, and
going where your interests take you, rather
than to the top tourist sites. Award-winning
writer Helen Moat has spent most of her life
travelling and living abroad before becoming
a travel writer. Her
latest Bradt Guide,
Slow Travel: The Peak
District, explores her
adopted home. This is
an event for anyone
who loves the area,
has an interest in travel writing, or simply a
desire to learn more
about the philosophy
of Slow.
Festival Book Quiz
with Chip Butties
8pm ’til late | £50 | Old Bell Hotel 17
Price per table for teams of up to 8 people
(includes chip butties)
After the resounding success and fiercely
fought competition last year, the Festival Book
Quiz returns! If you know your Brontë from
your Blyton ... your Rowling from your Roth ...
and your Dahl from your Dickens, you’ll be in
with a chance of winning the coveted Winner’s
Trophy! Please enter as a team (minimum of
six and maximum of eight per table).
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Saturday 10 June
Derbyshire Noir
Crime Writers: Stephen Booth, Steven Dunne,
Sarah Ward and introducing Roz Watkins
6.30 - 7.30pm | £8 | Old Bell Hotel
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From the ‘mean streets’ of Derby to the wild moors
of the Peak District, Derbyshire’s atmospheric
locations have exercised a powerful appeal for
crime novelists. Meet four successful writers
who have been establishing their own genre of
‘Derbyshire Noir’.
Derby is the setting for the DI Damen Brook novels
by Steven Dunne, winner of the 2016 East Midlands
Book Award for A Killing Moon; Sarah Ward lives in
the Peak District and sets her two highly acclaimed
novels there: In Bitter Chill and A Deadly Thaw, and
debut author Roz Watkins is about to launch a new
Derbyshire crime series with The Devil’s Dice.
Stephen Booth, author of the popular Cooper and
Fry series, will chair the session. Stephen’s 17th
novel, Dead in the Dark, is published in June.
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Saturday 10 June
Credit: Clara Molden
Jenny Eclair
7.30 - 9pm | £13 / £11
Derby Theatre
Sponsored by:
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Book through Derby Theatre
One of the UK’s most popular writer/performers,
Jenny Eclair was the first woman to win the
prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe and has many TV and radio credits to her
name and four critically acclaimed novels.
Her latest, Listening In, is a short story collection,
based on the BBC Radio 4 series, Little Lifetimes.
Twenty very different women reach a pivotal
moment in their lives: behind each woman lies a
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gripping tale - of betrayal, of love,
of hope and defiance. Funny,
heart-breaking, inspiring - and
packed with wicked one liners this wonderful collection shows
Jenny Eclair’s exceptional talent
for observation at its very best.
Jenny will be in conversation
with Anne Davies from BBC East
Midlands Today.
Sunday 11 June
Spymaster
Martin Pearce
10.45 - 11.45am | £8 / £6 | QUAD
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How did a Derbyshire farmer’s
son rise to the highest rank
in MI6, despite harbouring a
secret that would have seen
his career ended before it
started? Sir Maurice Oldfield,
the most highly decorated
British spymaster of the Cold
War, was the first Chief of
the Secret Intelligence Service to be named
and pictured in the press and, it has often
been alleged, he was the model for the screen
versions of both Ian Fleming’s ‘M’ and John Le
Carré’s George Smiley. All the more surprising
is that he has been described as a rampant
homosexual, a deeply religious family man and a liar!
His extraordinary story has now been told by
Martin Pearce, his nephew, who has had unique
access to his surviving contacts and papers and
knowledge of his private personality.
Matthew Parris
12.45 - 1.45pm | £8 | QUAD
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“He’s 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever
you do. Or three days, like last time.” Camilla Long on
Nigel Farage
Credit: Sam Riley
Tim Dowling
6 - 7pm | £8 | QUAD
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If your Saturdays aren’t complete until you’ve
read Tim Dowling’s take on life in Guardian
Weekend, here’s a chance to hear from the
man himself, one of our best-loved journalists.
In Dad You Suck, Tim examines the banalities
and rigours of family life with his usual selfdeprecating humour and dry wit. It is a book
about fatherhood, about families and about
being a modern man.
As Tim says: “Perhaps this is my life’s true
purpose: maybe I’m here to teach my sons
that self-esteem comes and goes – it can get
rolled right out of you at short notice – but that
you still can get by in life without any, as long
as you don’t want to be a contestant on The
Apprentice. That, at least, is my experience. And,
for what it’s worth, my example.”
No-one has ever been safe
from insults and put-downs,
particularly in 2016. In
his latest book, Matthew
Parris shows that abuse
can be an art form as he
brings together some of the
funniest, sharpest, rudest
and most devastating insults and invective
in history, from ancient Roman graffiti to
the battlefields of Twitter. He draws on bile
from such exponents of the art as Dorothy
Parker, Elizabeth I, Donald Trump, Groucho
Marx, Princess Anne, Winston Churchill, Nigel
Farage, Mae West and Alastair Campbell.
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Sunday 11 June
Credit: Jamie Drew
Sarah Perry
The Essex Serpent
2 - 3pm | £10 / £8 | QUAD
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The Essex Serpent stormed to the top of the
bestseller lists and 2016 ended with it named as
Waterstones Book of the Year and shortlisted for the
Costa Best Novel Award. The Sunday Times says it
is ‘one of the most memorable historical novels of
the past decade.’
Set in 1893, this gothic tale follows the young
widow Cora Seaborne, an enthusiastic amateur
palaeontologist, to a dank wetlands village in
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Essex, where a sea serpent is said to be terrorising
villagers. Told with exquisite grace and intelligence,
it is most of all a celebration of love and the many
different guises it can take.
Sarah Perry’s first novel, After Me Comes The Flood,
was published in 2015 having been repeatedly
rejected by publishers. Her third novel will be set in
Prague, where she lived when she was UNESCO’s
writer-in-residence.
Sunday 11 June
Credit: Charlie Hopkinson
Virago Press
Sponsored by:
Changing the World
One Page at a Time
4 - 5pm | £10 / £8 | QUAD
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Virago Publisher, Lennie Goodings, returns to the
Festival to talk about the publishing house and
its history and will be joined by one of its authors,
Rachel Seiffert, author of the Booker-shortlisted
The Dark Room.
Forty years on Virago is the outstanding
international publisher of books by women. The
cultural, political and economic landscape has
changed dramatically, but Virago has remained true
to its original aims: to put women centre stage; to
explore the untold stories of their lives and histories;
to break the silence around many women’s
experiences; to publish breathtaking new fiction
alongside rediscovered classics; and to champion
women’s talent.
One of those breathtaking fiction writers is Rachel
Seiffert. Her new novel is A Boy in Winter. Early
on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks
after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town
is overrun by the SS. Deft, spare and devastating,
Rachel Seiffert’s new novel tells of the three days
that follow and the lives that are overturned in the
process. A Boy In Winter is a story of hope when all
is lost, and of mercy when the times have none.
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Sunday 11 June
Dan Cruickshank
A History of Architecture
in 100 Buildings
7.30 - 9.20pm | £15 / £13
Guildhall Theatre
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Jon McGregor
Reservoir 13
8 - 9pm | £10 | QUAD
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Derbyshire, midwinter. A teenage girl goes
missing. The villagers are called up to join
the search, fanning out across the moors.
Meanwhile, there is work that must still be
done: cows milked, fences repaired, pints
poured. Life goes on, as it must.
Journeying through time and place, from the
ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring
skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned
architectural historian Dan Cruickshank
explores the most inspirational and characterful
world buildings.
Many of these represent key pioneering
moments in architectural history ... such as the
Pantheon in Rome, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul,
the Taj Mahal in Agra, and the Forbidden City
in Beijing, as well as less obvious and more
surprising structures: the Oriel Chambers
in Liverpool and the Narkomfin Apartment
building in Moscow.
Having visited all but three of the 100 buildings,
he speaks movingly about ancient artefacts,
some of which may never be experienced
again first hand.
Sponsored by:
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Jon McGregor, author of Even the Dogs and If
Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, brings
us his first novel in seven years: the story
of many lives haunted by one family’s loss,
unfolding over the course of thirteen years in a
small village.
As an experienced performer of his own
work, Jon will lead the audience on a journey
through the landscapes and hidden stories of
his new novel, Reservoir 13, with live musical
accompaniment from Richard J Birkin and
members of Haiku Salut.
Monday 12 June
Buttons & Biscuits
Morning Coffee with Lynn Knight
The Button Box: The story of women
in the 20th century, told through the
clothes they wore
11am for 11.30 - 12.30pm | £8
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
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Ticket includes tea/coffee and homemade biscuits served
on arrival. Bookings deadline: 2 June
“I used to love the
rattle and whoosh of
my grandma’s buttons
as they scattered from
their Quality Street tin.”
A wooden box holds
the buttons of three
generations of women
in Lynn Knight’s family:
a scarlet ladybird from
her own childhood, chunky turquoise buttons that
fastened her mother’s sixties-era suit, a sky-blue
buckle from a dress her grandmother wore. Each
button has its own tale to tell ...
The Button Box traces the story of women at
home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian
mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in
suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba
and the hankering for vintage.
The Gardens of the
British Working Class
Margaret Willes
2.30 - 3.30pm | £5 | WEA
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Spanning more than
four centuries, from
the earliest records of
the labouring classes
to today, Margaret
Willes’ people’s history
unearths cherished
gardens nurtured
outside modest
workers’ cottages,
fruitful allotments, and horticultural miracles
performed in blackened yards.
Her research has uncovered the ingenious methods
employed by determined and obsessive working
gardeners to make their drab surroundings bloom.
She also explores the stories of the philanthropic
industrialists who provided gardens for their
workforces, the fashionable rich stealing the
gardening ideas of the poor, alehouse syndicates
and fierce rivalries between vegetable growers,
flower-fanciers cultivating exotic blooms on their city
windowsills, and the rich lore handed down from
gardener to gardener through generations.
Bring a few of your own treasured buttons and chat
about them over coffee.
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Monday 12 June
Sponsored by:
Alan Johnson
in conversation with
Matthew Parris
7 - 8pm | £12 | QUAD
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A “fully paid-up member of the human race” is
a description of a politician which is rare - but
certainly an entirely accurate description of Alan
Johnson MP.
His first two highly successful, award-winning
biographies have featured his upbringing in the
East End of the 1950s and his early working life
as a postman.
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The third and final volume of Alan Johnson’s
remarkable memoir, The Long and Winding Road,
takes us from his time as a trade unionist, when he
came to the notice of Tony Blair, to taking up his seat
as an MP in the landslide 1997 election, ultimately
becoming Home Secretary.
He will be in conversation with former MP, author
and The Times columnist Matthew Parris, whose
interview with Ken Livingstone at last year’s Festival
was one of the memorable highlights.
Tuesday 13 June
John McAvoy
Handling History
Marketing Derby Bondholders’ Event
50 Finds From Nottinghamshire
and Derbyshire
8 - 9.30am | £8 | University of Derby
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If you are a Marketing Derby Bondholder, please book through
Lindsey Hatfield. Other bookings through the Festival Box
Office at QUAD.
Redemption: From Iron Bars to Ironman is
the ultimate story of sporting salvation and
the fascinating, frightening and inspirational
autobiography of former career criminal, now worldrecord holder and endurance athlete, John McAvoy.
Born into a notorious London crime family, his uncle
Micky was involved in the legendary Brinks-Mat
gold bullion heist. John bought his first gun at 16
and carved out a lucrative career in armed robbery,
becoming one of Britain’s most-wanted men.
Whilst serving life in Belmarsh, he discovered
a miraculous cardiovascular talent and broke
three world rowing records. Since his release
he has become one of the UK’s leading Ironman
competitors, becoming the highest placed British
athlete in his age group in last year’s European
championships. John aims to turn pro in 2017.
In partnership with
10.30 - 11.15am | FREE
Museum & Art Gallery
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Alastair Willis, Find Liaison Officer from the
Portable Antiquities Scheme, will be discussing his
latest book, 50 Finds from Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshire, which details local treasures that have
been discovered in the region. There will be the
opportunity to handle some treasures to discover
the objects up close.
Tony Garnett
A Life in the Media
6.30 - 7.30pm | £8 / £6 | QUAD
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Tony Garnett’s 60
year career has
encompassed theatre,
TV and film as both an
actor and producer.
He has worked with
some of the leading
directors of the past
half century, including
Mike Leigh, Roland
Joffé and with Ken
Loach as the producer
of ground-breaking programmes such as Cathy
Come Home and Up the Junction. His critically
acclaimed autobiography The Day The Music Died
was published in 2016 and provides a fascinating
memoir of post-war British television as well as
providing a vivid social history.
Tony’s moving story demonstrates how he came
to terms with unimaginable tragedy to become
one of the most respected figures in the media
industry, setting the gold standard for TV drama
and producing some of the most iconic and
controversial moments in BBC history. Tony will be
in conversation with QUAD’s CEO, Adam Buss.
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Tuesday 13 June
Festival Lunch
Sponsored by:
with Dame Jenni Murray:
A History of Britain in
21 Women
12.30 - 3pm | £45 | The Silk Mill
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Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on arrival, a
three-course lunch with two glasses of wine and
tea or coffee. Please note: Booking for this event
is by phone only at the Festival Box Office on 01332
290606. Booking deadline is 5 June.
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Journalist and broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray is best
known as the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s
Hour, a role she has had since 1987.
In A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal
Selection she suggests that British history has
been defined by its conflicts, conquests, men and
monarchs and that it’s more than time we recognise
the achievements of British women. She discusses
the lives of 21 women: from Boudicca to Elizabeth I
and from Mary Seacole to Ethel Smyth, shedding
new light on our history and revealing some
fascinating stories.
Tuesday 13 June
Wednesday 14 June
Helen Mort & Dan Richards
Morning Coffee at
Royal Crown Derby
Because They’re There!
7.30 - 9.10pm | £9 / £7
Guildhall Theatre
The Contradictions of Quaker Pegg
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‘Because they’re there!’ Is this the answer to the
eternal question: why do people climb mountains?
Helen Mort and Dan Richards bring a new
perspective to this question by exploring the
exploits of path-breaking female mountaineers.
Described in The Observer as ‘One of 2016’s
Hidden Gems …’, Climbing Days sees Dan Richards
on the trail of his great-great-aunt, Dorothy Pilley,
a prominent and pioneering mountaineer whose
1935 memoir he discovered. Using it as a guide,
he began to travel and climb across Europe’s
peaks, following in the footsteps of Dorothy and
her husband I.A. Richards. Helen Mort’s latest
poetry collection, No Map Could Show Them,
recounts in her inimitable style the exploits of pathbreaking female mountaineers and the inspiration
of mountains and the Peak District landscape.
Together they discuss these largely forgotten,
pioneering women.
10.30am - 12noon | £8
Royal Crown Derby, Osmaston Road
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Ticket includes tea/coffee and a scone.
Bookings deadline: 9 June
Aged 21, William ‘Quaker’ Pegg joined the Derby
Porcelain Factory, one of the most prestigious and
productive ceramic manufacturers of that era. Five
years later, in 1801, he abandoned his promising career
after becoming a Quaker, adopting the most severe
contemporary version of their beliefs. After 12 years,
he returned and went on to produce some of the
finest botanical paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries. Yet his extreme religious convictions reasserted
themselves and, in 1821, he left and for the next 30
years ran a small shop close by the Factory.
Using photographs,
letters and writings
preserved in Derby
and Quaker archives,
George Drury will
attempt to explain
how someone
who produced
such colourful and
flamboyant work, eventually ceased, in the belief
that even the act of painting was idolatrous.
Event tickets - book through QUAD. The 1750 Tea Room is offering attendees a special set lunch price of £6 each. You can also
have a guided tour of the Royal Crown Derby working factory at
1.30pm and a visit to the museum. Tour: £5/£4.50 concessions.
Booking essential for lunch and/or tour: phone Chloe Tidmarsh
on 01332 712808.
Sponsored by:
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Wednesday 14 June
Hansons’ Valuation Day
Stuart Webb
Books and printed treasures
An Evening with Clough,
Maxwell & Me
10am - 12noon | FREE
Pickford’s House, Friar Gate
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8 - 9pm | £8 | QUAD
Our special version of the Antiques Roadshow
returns to Derby. Do you have old documents lying
around that you just can’t throw out as they may
be of value? At last year’s event, one of Hansons’
valuation team discovered a few hidden gems.
So dig out your printed treasures: books,
magazines, posters … and find out more about
their history and today’s value.
For over 30 years the names of Stuart Webb and
Derby County were inseparable. Now, in Clough,
Maxwell & Me, Stuart tells his remarkable story. Here
is the football man who shared in the Rams’ greatest
days of the 1970s, when first Brian Clough and then
Dave Mackay steered the club to become champions
of England; the man who fought a lone High Court
battle to keep the Rams in business in their centenary
year of 1984 and saw them prosper again.
In his book Stuart gives the inside track on those
amazing times. His stories about Clough and Peter
Taylor, Mackay, Robert Maxwell, Arthur Cox, Jim
Smith, Lionel Pickering and others will have you
roaring with laughter, and shaking your head in
disbelief. Not only will Rams fans love Clough,
Maxwell & Me, it is also a book that will delight
football fans everywhere.
Gardening for Mindfulness
11am - 12noon | £5 | Déda
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Book through Déda
Gardening, like Mindfulness, is a way of finding
a sense of calm in an otherwise chaotic world, a
simpler existence, even if it is only for a few
minutes. Both forge a connection to the world
around us, to nature and wildlife, which can bring
pleasure and peace.
“He is a class act, sheer class. We enjoyed wonderful days at Derby County,
everyone involved with the club in our era will tell you that. Stuart was there
a lot longer than most of us in a succession of absolutely key roles behind
the scenes.”
Alan Hinton
“But for Stuart‘s determination and dedication to carry on the fight, it was
inevitable that Derby County would have been kicked out of professional
football. Not many people realise just how close the club were to
extinction.”
Arthur Willis (club solicitor)
“Placing the club into receivership was the opening item at my first board
meeting. That evening I dined out in Littleover and a bottle of aspirin
appeared on my plate. It had been sent over by Stuart, who was also eating
there. The next few months required many an aspirin. I invested £250,000,
as promised, and we continued our struggle to keep the club alive.”
Geoff Glossop (club director)
“Over the years, Stuart Webb went through the card in a number of roles.
The common thread was that Derby County had infinitely more success
when he was involved than they did with him on the outside.”
Gerald Mortimer (Derby Telegraph)
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RRP £15.00
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NORTH BRIDGE PUBLISHING
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“Stuart Webb will always be remembered as ‘The Man who saved The
Rams’. He left the club with the gratitude of thousands of supporters.”
Barrie Eccleston (Head of BBC Sport in the Midlands and Radio Derby)
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E X P L O S I V E , T H E I N SI D E T R AC K
STUART WEBB
ISBN 978-0-99545-170-4
Wednesday 14 June
Credit: Philippa Gedge
Credit: Debra Hurford Brown
Joanna Cannon &
Emma Henderson
6 - 7pm | £8 / £6 | QUAD
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To receive critical acclaim and be garlanded with
awards for your first novel is something most
novelists dream about, but for Derbyshire based
Joanna and Emma, this dream became a reality.
Joanna’s The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
continues to ride high in the best-seller lists over
a year since publication and Emma had a similar
experience with Grace Williams Says it Loud in 2010.
Emma’s second novel, The Valentine House, was
published in March 2017 and Joanna’s Three Things
About Elsie will be published in January 2018.
In an exciting Derby Book Festival exclusive,
Joanna will give her first reading from the new book
at this event. Joanna and Emma will share their
experiences of early publishing success and the
more difficult issue of writing the second novel.
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Wednesday 14 June
Credit: Tim Anderson
Reverend
Richard Coles
7.30 - 8.30pm | £10 | Derby Cathedral
Sponsored by:
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Presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and TV
show The Big Painting Challenge are just two of
the many faces of the Reverend Richard Coles.
Ordained by the Bishop of Derby in 2005, he now
has his own parish in Northamptonshire. He is also
the only vicar in Britain to have had a number-one
hit single with Don’t Leave Me This Way, when he
was a member of ‘90s pop group The Communards.
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But what is life like for the parson in Britain today?
In his latest book, Bringing in the Sheaves, he
addresses this question, giving a unique insight
into his daily experience in the ministry, with all the
joy, drama, difficulty and humour which life - and
indeed death - serves up in varying measures. He
will be in conversation with the Right Reverend Jan
McFarlane, Bishop of Repton.
Thursday 15 June
Morning Coffee
with Wendy Holden
11am for 11.30 - 12.30pm | £8
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
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Ticket includes tea, coffee and homemade biscuits served
on arrival. Bookings deadline: 2 June
Number-one-bestselling
author Wendy Holden has ten
consecutive Sunday Times Top
Ten bestselling novels to her
name. She grew up in Yorkshire,
went to Cambridge University
and became a journalist in
London working on Harper’s Bazaar, Tatler, The
Mail on Sunday and The Sunday Times, where
she was deputy editor of the Style section and
ghost-wrote a column for the late Tara PalmerTomkinson. This experience formed the plot for
her first novel, Simply Divine. Her new novel,
Laura Lake and the Hipster Weddings, revisits
the world of glossy magazines.
Afternoon Tea
with Paula Byrne:
The Kennedys and Chatsworth
3 - 5pm | £20
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on arrival and Afternoon
Tea with a selection of cakes and sandwiches. Please note:
Booking for this event is by phone only at the Festival Box
Office on 01332 290606. Bookings deadline: 30 May
In 1938 a young American
arrived in London with her
father, the new US Ambassador.
She was the sister of JFK
and Bobby Kennedy and the
daughter of the formidable Joe
Kennedy. But Kick Kennedy
was also very soon at the heart of the British
aristocracy. As the clouds of war gathered,
Kick met a shy, tall, handsome man called Billy
and, against the wishes of her powerful family,
she married him. He was William Cavendish,
heir to the Duke of Devonshire and the
Chatsworth estate, the most eligible bachelor in
England. But their days of married bliss proved
short. War brought tragedy and loss.
Wendy is married with two children and
lives in Derbyshire. Made an Hon D Litt by
the University of Derby in 2012, she will be
interviewed by the University’s Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Kath Mitchell.
Credit: Laurie Fletcher
Print a Bookplate
1 - 4pm & 6 - 9pm | £69
The Smallprint Company
To book: email [email protected] or
call 07806 782109.
Set a small piece of text combined with ornaments
from our collection to create your very own
bookplates. During the session, you will get to
grips with the traditional technique of letterpress
using an Adana tabletop press and metal type.
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In Kick, Paula Byrne uses recently released
documents to tell, for the first time, this
cinematic story of the meeting of American
and British aristocracy: the Kennedys, the
Devonshires, their friends such as the
Churchills, Astors and Mitfords and the social
whirl of pre-war life.
Sponsored by:
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At a Glance
Children’s and Family events
Fri 26 May - Sun 18 June
Children’s Book Trail
Sadler Gate
Fri 9 June
Tots Make and Do: Where the Poppies Now Grow
MAG
10 - 11.30am
p.32
Fri 9 June
Min Kym
Déda
5.30 - 6.30pm
p.3
Fri 9 June
Sebastian Faulks: Opening Event
Derby Cathedral
7.30 - 9.00pm
p.2
Sat 10 June
Bringing Books to Life
Market Place
10am - 3.30pm
p.34
Sat 10 June
The Derby Book Fair
The Silk Mill
10am - 4pm
p.3
Sat 10 June
Meet Mog
Waterstones
10am - 5pm
p.32
Sat 10 June
Hilary Robinson & Martin Impey
QUAD
10.30 - 11.30am
p.32
Sat 10 June
Joseph Knox: Sirens
QUAD
11am - 12pm
p.3
Sat 10 June
Storytelling at intu Derby
intu Derby
11am - 4pm
p.33
Sat 10 June
Joseph Wright of Derby
MAG
12noon - 1.30pm
p.4
Sat 10 June
NT Live: Peter Pan
QUAD
1 - 3.30pm
p.33
Sat 10 June
Louise Doughty
QUAD
2 - 3pm
p.4
Sat 10 June
Alex Wheatle
QUAD
2 - 3pm
p.5
Sat 10 June
Mary, Queen of Scots: David Templeman
MAG
2 - 3pm
p.4
Sat 10 June
Reading Apps with Nosy Crow
QUAD
2 - 2.45pm
p.33
Sat 10 June
Beginners’ Bookbinding Workshop
The Smallprint Co
2 - 4.30pm
p.5
Sat 10 June
Matt Sewell
Déda
2.30 - 3.30pm
p.5
Sat 10 June
Reading Apps with Nosy Crow
QUAD
3 - 3.45pm
p.33
Sat 10 June
Slow Travel in the Peak District
QUAD
4 - 5pm
p.6
Sat 10 June
Salley Vickers
QUAD
5 - 6pm
p.6
Sat 10 June
Derbyshire Noir: Crime Writers
Old Bell Hotel
6.30 - 7.30pm
p.7
Sat 10 June
Museum Sleepover: Dahl Delights
MAG
7pm - 8am (Sun)
p.36
Sat 10 June
Jenny Eclair
Derby Theatre
7.30 - 9pm
p.8
Sat 10 June
Festival Book Quiz
Old Bell Hotel
8pm - til late
p.6
Sun 11 June
Spymaster: Martin Pearce
QUAD
10.45 - 11.45am
p.9
Sun 11 June
Matthew Parris
QUAD
12.45 - 1.45pm
p.9
Sun 11 June
Sarah Perry
QUAD
2 - 3pm
p.10
Sun 11 June
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
MAG
2 - 3pm
p.36
Sun 11 June
Virago Press & Rachel Seiffert
QUAD
4 - 5pm
p.11
Sun 11 June
Tim Dowling
QUAD
6 - 7pm
p.9
Sun 11 June
Dan Cruickshank
Guildhall Theatre
7.30 - 9.20pm
p.12
Sun 11 June
Jon McGregor: Reservoir 13
QUAD
8 - 9.30pm
p.12
Mon 12 June
Buttons & Biscuits: Morning Coffee
CQ Hotel
11am - 12.30pm
p.13
Mon 12 June
Gardens of the British Working Class
WEA
2.30 - 3.30pm
p.13
Mon 12 June
Alan Johnson with Matthew Parris
QUAD
7 - 8pm
p.14
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p.32
Tue 13 June
John McAvoy
University of Derby
8 - 9.30am
p.15
Tue 13 June
Handling History: 50 Best Finds in Notts & Derbyshire
MAG
10.30 - 11.15am
p.15
Tue 13 June
Festival Lunch with Dame Jenni Murray
The Silk Mill
12.30 - 3pm
p.16
Tue 13 June
Tony Garnett
QUAD
6.30 - 7.30pm
p.15
Tue 13 June
Helen Mort & Dan Richards
Guildhall Theatre
7.30 - 9.10pm
p.17
Wed 14 June
Hansons’ Valuation Day: Books and Printed Treasures
Pickford’s House
10am - 12pm
p.18
Wed 14 June
Morning Coffee at Royal Crown Derby Royal Crown Derby
10.30am - 12pm
p.17
Wed 14 June
Gardening for Mindfulness
Déda
11am - 12pm
p.18
Wed 14 June
Derby on Board Games
Book Café
4 - 10pm
p.36
Wed 14 June
Joanna Cannon & Emma Henderson
QUAD
6 - 7pm
p.19
Wed 14 June
Reverend Richard Coles
Derby Cathedral
7.30 - 8.30pm
p.20
Wed 14 June
Stuart Webb: Clough, Maxwell & me
QUAD
8 - 9pm
p.18
Thu 15 June
Wendy Holden: Morning Coffee
CQ Hotel
11am - 12.30pm
p.21
Thu 15 June
Bookplates printing
The Smallprint Co
1 - 4pm
p.21
Thu 15 June
Afternoon Tea: The Kennedys & Chatsworth
CQ Hotel
3 - 5pm
p.21
Thu 15 June
Marked for Death: Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Learning and
Development Centre
6 - 7pm
p.24
Thu 15 June
Bookplates printing
The Smallprint Co
6 - 9pm
p.21
Thu 15 June
Alison Weir: Anne Boleyn
QUAD
7 - 8pm
p.25
Thu 15 June
An Evening with John Hegley
Déda
7.30 - 8.30pm
p.24
Fri 16 June
Tots Make and Do: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
MAG
10 - 11.30am
p.37
Fri 16 June
Red Ellen
WEA
1 - 2pm
p.26
Fri 16 June
Afternoon Tea with Katie Fforde
CQ Hotel
3 - 5pm
p.26
Fri 16 June
Stephen Westaby: Fragile Lives
QUAD
7.30 - 8.30pm
p.27
Sat 17 June
Day of Writing
QUAD
10 - 4pm
p.28
Sat 17 June
Meet The Gruffalo
Waterstones
10am - 5pm
p.37
Sat 17 June
Open Day at The Smallprint Company
The Smallprint Co
11am - 4pm
p.38
Sat 17 June
The Writer’s Den
University of Derby
10am - 5pm
p.37
Sat 17 June
Mistress and Muse
WEA
11am - 12pm
p.29
Sat 17 June
Dogs Don’t Do Ballet
Déda
11.30am - 12.30pm
p.38
Sat 17 June
A Tale to Tell
Derby Theatre
2 - 3pm
p.38
Sat 17 June
Jane Austen: The Secret Radical
QUAD
1.30 - 2.30pm
p.29
Sat 17 June
Dogs Don’t Do Ballet
Déda
2.30 - 3.30pm
p.38
Sat 17 June
A Tale to Tell
Derby Theatre
4 - 5pm
p.38
Sat 17 June
Sarah Day: Debut Author
QUAD
6 - 7pm
p.30
Sat 17 June
Shappi Khorsandi: Oh My Country!
Guildhall Theatre
8 - 9.50pm
p.30
Sat 17 June
Dave McKean: Black Dog - Closing Event
QUAD
8 - 9.30pm
p.31
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Thursday 15 June
Marked For Death
James Hamilton-Paterson
6 - 7pm | £10 / £8
Rolls-Royce Learning &
Development Centre, Wilmore Road
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The Heritage Exhibition will be open to visitors from
5 - 6pm and from 7 - 8pm
Little more than 10 years after the first powered
flight, aircraft were pressed into service in the
First World War. Marked For Death is both a
homage to the famous aircraft of the period
as well as to the 50,000 doomed young pilots
who died flying them.
James Hamilton-Paterson debunks popular
myth about the gallant air ‘aces’ who become
national heroes and explores the brutal truths
of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and
unprotected pilots.
John Hegley
7.30 - 8.30pm | £14 | Déda
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Book through Déda
Edinburgh Festival regular, writer and
performer John Hegley is noted for his
exploration of such diverse topics as dog hair,
potatoes, handkerchiefs and the misery of
human existence.
He also reveals how four years of war
produced profound changes both in the
aircraft themselves and in military attitudes and
strategy. By 1918 it was widely accepted that
domination of the air above the battlefield was
crucial to military success, changing the nature
of warfare forever.
Performing extracts from Peace, Love and
Potatoes and other works - devised for adults,
but acceptable to certain spectacle-wearing nine
year olds - this evening with the UK’s favourite
performance poet is simply unmissable.
Sponsored by:
“In Derby, I’m coming to dance
To some Soul and Baroque sounds
from France
While I’m holding a spud
And describing the mud,
Which some drawings will help
to enhance.”
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Thursday 15 June
Alison Weir
Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession
7 - 8pm | £10 / £8 | QUAD
4
Following her sell-out event in 2016, Alison Weir
returns to the Festival to recount one of the most
sensational episodes in English history. Anne
Boleyn, the second of Henry VIII’s queens, was
an extraordinary young woman, born into an
ambitious family and destined to be the focus of
scandal and calumny.
Fresh from the cultivated hothouse of Renaissance
France, Anne Boleyn draws attention at the English
court. A nobleman, a poet and a king vie for her
love. She has a spirit worthy of a crown – and
a crown is what she seeks. It is a more powerful
aphrodisiac than love. And so she embarks on her
perilous course, which will plunge a kingdom into
turmoil. Blood will flow on her account. Her only
protection is the King’s great love. Be prepared for
your perceptions to be challenged.
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Friday 16 June
Red Ellen
The Life of Ellen Wilkinson,
Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist
1 - 2pm | £5 | WEA
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Born in 1908, Ellen Wilkinson came from a
working class family in Manchester and is best
remembered as the leader of the Jarrow March.
By 1945 she was Minister of Education, had
helped found the Communist Party and had
become a renowned advocate for the poor and
dispossessed at home and abroad. She was
one of the first female delegates to the United
Nations and played a central role in the post-war
Labour party. Red Ellen’s life story is as much an
inspiration for activism today as it is a history of
an increasingly distant radical past.
Laura Beers is a Birmingham Fellow at the
University of Birmingham and an Associate
Professor of History at American University,
Washington DC.
Credit: David O’Driscoll
Afternoon Tea
with Katie Fforde
3 - 5pm | £20
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
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Ticket includes a glass of Prosecco on arrival and Afternoon
Tea with a selection of cakes and sandwiches. Please note:
Booking for this event is by phone only at the Festival Box
Office on 01332 290606. Bookings deadline: 30 May
Following the success of her previous novels,
including A Vintage Wedding, Recipe for
Love, and A French Affair, Katie Fforde’s latest
romantic novel A Secret Garden instantly
became a Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller.
Each of her novels explores a different
profession and this time her heroines are
Lorna, a talented gardener and Philly, a
plantswoman. Together they work in the
grounds of a beautiful manor house in the
Cotswolds. They enjoy their jobs and are
surrounded by family and friends but, for them
both, the door to true love remains resolutely
closed … until now.
Katie was one of the authors at our first Festival
and we are delighted to welcome her back!
Sponsored by:
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Friday 16 June
Stephen Westaby
Sponsored by:
Fragile Lives
7.30 - 8.30pm | £8 / £6 | QUAD
4
A slip of the hand and life ebbs away. The balance
between life and death is so delicate and the heart
surgeon walks that tightrope between the two.
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and
Death, is The Sunday Times best-selling memoir by
Professor Stephen Westaby, one of the world’s most
eminent heart surgeons. He has saved hundreds of
lives, performing over 11,000 heart operations over
the course of a thirty-five year career in several of
the UK’s top hospitals. In his astounding memoir, he
details some of his most remarkable and poignant
cases. Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight
into the exhilarating and sometimes tragic world of
heart surgery, and how it feels to hold someone’s
life in your hands.
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Saturday 17 June
Day of Writing
10 - 4pm | QUAD
4
Each workshop £10, Panel £5
Our annual Day of Writing - tailor-made for any
aspiring authors! With a range of lively workshops
plus an insightful author panel, this is the ideal event
for writers looking to learn more about the craft and
build their careers in the field.
Workshop: Tracy Bloom
– Successful Self-Publishing
10 - 11.30am | £10
Join bestselling author of romantic comedies, Tracy
Bloom, for an informative session on self-publishing
and how to make it work for you.
Workshop: Alex Davis
– Making a Living as a Writer
10 - 11.30am | £10
QUAD’s very own Literature Officer, Alex Davis,
presents a session on the financial realities of
being a writer, with advice on how to build a living
in the profession.
Workshop: Karen Ball
– Writing Children’s Fiction
12noon – 1.30pm | £10
Run by one of the leading editors in children’s
fiction, this session offers a fantastic look into what
makes great stories for kids.
Workshop: Clare Harvey
– Writing Historical Fiction
12noon – 1.30pm | £10
Award-winning historical fiction author Clare Harvey
presents a workshop exploring one of the most
popular genres in the publishing world today.
Workshop: Shaun Kennedy
– Writing Flash Fiction
2.30 – 4pm | £10
Flash fiction is an exciting area of writing for those
with an interest in short stories – this session will
show you how to create great tales in 1000 words
or less.
Panel: Jo Bunt, Sarah Day and Roz
Watkins – Authors and the First Book
2.30 – 4pm | £5
Almost every writer dreams of having their book
published – but what’s it really like to sign that first
publishing contract … hold that book in your hands
and see all those aspirations become a reality?
Join acclaimed debut novelist Sarah Day, author of
Mussolini’s Island, crime author Roz Watkins, whose
novel The Devil’s Dice is released in 2018, and local
author Jo Bunt, whose debut novel will also be
out in 2018. Expect an honest look at the ups and
downs of getting your book out there, what the road
to publication is really like and how being published
can change your life.
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Saturday 17 June
Mistress and Muse
The Second Mrs Vaughan Williams
11 - 12noon | £5 | WEA
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Janet Tennant will talk about her biography
of Ursula, the second wife of composer Ralph
Vaughan Williams. A difficult child and young
woman, she was desperate to find a role in the
literary world as a poet. Born into a peripatetic
army family she married an officer and was
stationed with him all around the country but
escaped whenever she could to London. There
she met and fell in love with Vaughan Williams,
forty years her senior and married for many
years to an invalid wife.
The book tells how the non-musical young
woman became his muse, influencing his work
and sometimes collaborating with him.
Janet will be interviewed by Keith Aldritt,
author of the recent biography of Ralph
Vaughan Williams.
Jane Austen
The Secret Radical
1.30 - 2.30pm | £8 / £6 | QUAD
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Almost everything we think we know about
Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don’t confine
themselves to grand houses and they were
not written just for readers’ enjoyment. She
writes about serious subjects and her books
are deeply subversive. We just don’t read
her properly - we haven’t been reading her
properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The
Secret Radical puts that right.
Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces us
to a passionate woman living in an age of
revolution. Jane Austen was a writer who
used the novel, regarded as the lightest of
literary genres, to grapple with the weightiest
of subjects. She dealt with feminism, slavery,
abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of
the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a
place, when to write about such things directly
was seen as akin to treason.
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Saturday 17 June
Sarah Day
Shappi Khorsandi
Debut Author
‘Oh My Country!’ from Morris
Dancing to Morrissey
6 - 7pm | £5 | QUAD
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Set in Italy in 1938, Sarah Day’s debut novel,
Mussolini’s Island, tells the true story of a group
of gay men who were imprisoned as political
‘deviants’ on the island of San Domino. In the close
confines of the island the men soon realise that one
of their number must have betrayed them to the
authorities. Seductive, moving and full of insight into
the desperate acts committed by individuals when
fighting for their lives, Mussolini’s Island is a novel
of sexuality and desire and the secrets we keep
locked within us.
Credit: Lou Abercrombie
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8 - 9.50pm | £16 / £14
Guildhall Theatre
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Over 16s only.
Book through Derby LIVE
Star of Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News for You
and QI, Shappi Khorsandi is also the best-selling
author of A Beginner’s Guide to Acting English
and her debut novel Nina is not OK was published
in 2016. In her latest show she will celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of her arrival in Britain. She’s
reclaiming patriotism, sending a love letter to her
adopted land. She has whip-crack jokes and is
effortlessly funny as she handles every subject with
a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously
mischievous delivery and endless charm.
Saturday 17 June
Dave McKean:
Black Dog - The Dreams of Paul Nash
Closing Event
8 - 9.30pm | £15 / £12 | QUAD
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Illustrator, comic artist, filmmaker and musician Dave
McKean has worked with many authors on over 70
books, including Neil Gaiman, Heston Blumenthal,
Richard Dawkins, David Almond, Ray Bradbury,
Stephen King and John Cale. He has written and
directed three feature films; MirrorMask (with Gaiman),
The Gospel of Us (with actor Michael Sheen, winner
of 2 BAFTA Cymru awards) and Luna (winner of
Raindance Best British Feature, BIFA awards).
Derby Book
Festival
presentation of
Black Dog
is supported by:
Black Dog - The Dreams of Paul Nash is co-commissioned by:
His latest venture, Black Dog - The Dreams of Paul
Nash, is a multimedia performance and graphic
novel which explores the work of Paul Nash, one
of the most important British artists of the twentieth
century, whose First World War experiences inspired
him to create paintings of disturbing, lasting power.
It combines visual storytelling, a captivating musical
score and spoken word performance. Black Dog
has toured internationally to much acclaim as part
of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First
World War centenary.
Musical collaborators performing include Matthew
Sharp, solo cellist, baritone and actor and violin
player Clare Haythornthwaite.
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Children’s
& Family
Programme
Saturday 10 June
Meet Mog
10am - 5pm | FREE | Waterstones
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Pop along to Waterstones and meet children’s book
character, Mog!
Friday 26 May —
Sunday 18 June
Children’s Book Trail
FREE | Sadlergate
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Suitable for under 12s
The Children’s Book Trail returns! Pop along to
Sadlergate and see what you can find in the shop
windows. Pick up your quiz sheet from participating
stores and return your answers to the White Stuff
shop. You could win a prize in our Book Trail
Prize Draw.
Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey
Where the Poppies Now Grow
10.30 - 11.30am | £6 / £4 | QUAD
Friday 9 June
Suitable for ages 4 - 11 and their grown-ups
Tots Make and Do
Where the Poppies Now Grow
10 - 11.30am | FREE
Museum & Art Gallery
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Suitable for ages 2 - 5 and their grown-ups
Hilary Robinson’s award winning Where The
Poppies Now Grow is a delightful children’s picture
book, with powerful illustrations by Martin Impey,
about two boyhood friends who go to war.
Where The Poppies Now Grow is a touching
children’s story of the power of friendship amidst the
tragedy of war. The carefree childhood of Ben and
his best friend Ray becomes a distant memory when
they join the army to serve their country in 1914.
Written to mark the centenary of the start of the
First World War, Hilary Robinson and Martin Impey
have dedicated the book to their great uncles who
fell at the Somme. In tribute to the war poets of the
time, Hilary wrote the story in rhyme. Martin, who
illustrated War Horse, has captured the innocence of
childhood and the courage of those in battle in his
beautiful illustrations.
Join Hilary and Martin at the Bringing Books to
Life event in the afternoon for Medal Making.
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Saturday 10 June
Storytelling at intu Derby
11am - 4pm | FREE
intu Derby, Level 1, outside Boots
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Readings will take place every 30 minutes
intu’s Kids’ Club will host an
inspired and engaging event
full of magical storytelling
and crafts.
Reading Apps with Nosy Crow
Little ones are invited to let loose their imaginations
and join us to hear a variety of classic children’s
short stories. Afterwards, they can take part in our
crafty workshop and create personalised friendship
bracelets for their best buddies. Like any good kids’
books, it’ll be thoroughly entertaining and full of fun
and laughter.
NT Live: Peter Pan (PG)
1 - 3.30pm
£17 / £15 / £13 / £10 for under 16s
QUAD
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Suitable for families
All children, except one, grow up …
When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his
shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it.
In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker
Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Captain
Hook await. A riot of magic, music and makebelieve ensues.
2 - 2.45pm or 3 - 3.45pm
(two sessions 45 mins each)
£5 (one adult and up to two children) | QUAD
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Ages 4 - 7 and their grown ups. All children must be accompanied
by an adult. Please note: booking for this event is by phone only
at the Festival Box Office on 01332 290606
Need help in improving your
children’s reading skills? Join Tom
Bonnick from Nosy Crow for a
45 minute session on how to use
Reading Apps. Award winning
children’s publisher Nosy Crow
have developed these fun and easy
Apps and will help you to navigate
your way round them using QUAD’s ipads. Help your
child to learn to read and become a book lover!
Captured live at the National Theatre, see this
recorded performance of JM Barrie’s much-loved
tale. A delight for children and adults alike.
Entertaining and full of fun and laughter.
Sally Cookson (NT Live: Jane Eyre) directs this wondrously
inventive production, a co-production with Bristol Old Vic theatre
Alex Wheatle
Winner, Guardian
Children’s Fiction Prize
2 - 3pm | £5 | QUAD
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For ages 10+
See page 5 for full details.
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Saturday 10 June
Bringing Books
to Life event
10am - 3.30pm | FREE | Market Place
Sponsored by:
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Join us for a fun-packed, spellbinding
day of stories, creativity, music,
magic and nonsense – and it’s all
about Friendship!
Visit the giant inflatable marquee:
Captivating Stories
Family Book Quiz - For Under 7s
10am
11.50am
Author Richard O’Neill inspires all ages with a
fantastic blend of old, new, and original stories.
Test your knowledge with our Fun Family Book Quiz.
Street Theatre with
Quite Remarkable Productions
10.55am
Captivating Stories
12.25pm
Join Richard O’Neill, storyteller extraordinaire,
for more tantalising tales.
For ages 2 - 6.
Join Mandy and her silly friend Geoffrey
Jumper. Using music, magic and puppetry to tell
stories, explore the wonderful world of reading
and friendship.
Family Book Quiz - For Over 7s
Fancy Dress Competition
Street Theatre with
Quite Remarkable Productions
11.30am
Come along as friendly characters from your
favourite book – you could win a Book Token!
1.20pm
Second Fun Family Book Quiz of the day
1.55pm
Captivating Stories
2.40pm
What’s in store from Richard O’Neill as he weaves
his final tales?
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Saturday 10 June
Bringing Books
to Life event
And ... all day on the Market Place,
sun, fun, face-painting and Déda’s
pop up café
The Mad Hatter gets the party started!
Calling all budding artists and writers - chalk
your favourite literary friends on the Pavement,
Be inspired by Derby Museums’ collections to
write your own story about them,
Make your own medal with Hilary Robinson and
Martin Impey and learn about their book Where
The Poppies Now Grow.
Still dying to dive into a book? You’ll be spoilt
for choice with book stalls from Derby Libraries,
Derby Schools and Oxfam.
Don’t forget to bring a book along to swap at
our Book Swap stall!
Feel like a rest - grab a seat on board the Trent
Barton Bus to hear our Bard on the Bus, with lively
tales from Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Decorate our special Friendship Trees and see
your favourite books come to life,
Dance along to Derby Saxophone Quartet’s
musical stories or
Hop on The Book Bus and listen to magical
stories from Africa and add your favourite
books to their bookshelf.
And also ...
CQ Street Circus
11am - 3pm | Market Place
Chango Fuego: Fire juggling, unicycle etc
Tinna Misto: Hula Hoops performance & workshop
Sam Davey: Circus skills & tricks
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Saturday 10 June
Tuesday 13 June
Museum Sleepover: Dahl Delights
The Boat and The Blue
7pm - 8am (Sunday)
11.30am - 12.15pm | £6
£20 per child / £15 per adult
Museum & Art Gallery
Market Place
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Suitable for ages 0 – 5 - Book at www.vivaorch.co.uk
Suitable for ages 7 - 12. All children must be accompanied by an
adult. Please note: Booking for this event is by phone only at the
Festival Box Office: 01332 290606
Come and spend the night at the Museum at the
Festival’s first Sleepover!
The family sleepover takes the phizz-whizzing
wonders of Roald Dahl’s magnificent stories and
characters as its inspiration. From Matilda to The
Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox to The BFG, there’ll be a
packed programme of activities and games!
The evening will culminate in a torchlight tour of
the museum before bedtime stories and lights out!
Enjoy sunrise and breakfast in the galleries the
following morning before heading home.
Join Jack Ross, Eleanor Meredith
and Sinfonia Viva for a magical
maritime adventure with songs,
live visuals and musical games.
Join Rowan on her adventures
afloat, meeting frogs, paper boats,
ducks and whales. You’ll also get a free CD and
book of the story.
Wednesday 14 June
Derby on Board Games
4 - 10pm | FREE | The BookCafé
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Suitable for all
Derby on Board Games returns for the third year
with a special event - all games played will have a
book theme. Come and join in the fun!
Sunday 11 June
Derby on Board Games meets regularly on the last
Wednesday of the month at The BookCafé. They
are a family-friendly group - everyone is welcome
regardless of age, gaming knowledge and skill level.
Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
2 - 3pm
The Coffee House, £2 for under 14s
£4 for 14s and over | Museum & Art Gallery
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Suitable for all. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
Join us for a very important date in Wonderland!
Spend an afternoon at the Museum, and enjoy
storytelling, crafts and cake - all inspired by Lewis
Carroll’s classic story. Create your very own hat
and enjoy some delicious treats and tasty drinks
together in Wonderland.
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Friday 16 June
Saturday 17 June
Tots Make & Do
Meet The Gruffalo
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
10 - 11.30am | FREE
Museum & Art Gallery
10am - 5pm | FREE
Waterstones
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Suitable for ages 2 - 5 and their grown-ups
Pop along to Waterstones and meet children’s book
character, The Gruffalo.
Today we draw inspiration from Eric Carle’s classic
tale of one very hungry caterpillar! Hear the story
and paint, print and create your own beautiful
butterfly to take home.
The Writer’s Den
10am - 5pm | £15
University of Derby, Kedleston Road
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For ages 9 - 14. Book your place online at
www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk
There are a limited number of bursary places
available for low income families.
The Writer’s Den is a gymnasium for the
imagination. You’ll take part in fun, creative writing
workshops, performances, competitions and
games, all delivered by professional writers and
designed to keep you inventing and imagining long
after the Den closes. You’ll meet lots of other people
your age who also love writing and you’ll leave the
Den with new friends and new skills. With brand
new tutors running intensive workshops in fiction
and poetry, they’ll help you to develop your skills
and confidence.
We’ll round off the day with a special performance
by one of the featured authors, which you can invite
your family and friends to watch with you.
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Saturday 17 June
Open Day
A Tale To Tell
Print a Bookmark drop-in sessions
Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah
11am - 4pm | FREE | £2 a Bookmark
The Smallprint Company
2 - 3pm & 4 - 5pm
£10 / £7 | Derby Theatre Studio
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Suitable for all ages.
Pop in and join The Smallprint Company to
celebrate the art of the book and welcome Chrissy
Stangroom’s exhibition, Footprints, to The Gallery
Space. Meet Chrissy, print a letterpress bookmark
and browse the little letterpress shop.
Dogs Don’t Do Ballet
Presented by Blunderbus
Theatre Company
11.30am - 12.30pm & 2.30 - 3.30pm
£7 | Déda
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Book through Derby Theatre.
Perfect for over 7s and their grown ups
An enchanting journey into storytelling and
shadow play.
Are you a spinner of stories, a teller of tales? For
1000 nights, Queen Scheherazade has told her
stories of magic and adventure to the King. But now
she’s run out of ideas and needs your help to finish
her final story. If you’re clever and brave enough,
come and meet her in her tent in the palace
gardens for an enchanting journey into the world of
The Arabian Nights.
Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah are specialists in stimulating
enquiry and exploration, using compelling stories and high
quality participatory theatre made with, and for, children and
young people.
Book through Déda. For ages 3+
Biff is not like other dogs. He doesn’t do dog stuff
like weeing on lampposts, or scratching his fleas,
or drinking out of the toilet. No, Biff likes moonlight
and music and walking on his tiptoes. You see, Biff
doesn’t think he’s a dog. He thinks he’s a ballerina!
Based on the bestselling children’s book by Anna
Kemp and Sara Ogilvie, this fabulous feel-good
show features music, songs, hand-crafted puppets
and Biff, the ballet-dancing dog!
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Credit: Lizzie Coombes
Education
Programme
We organise author events and activities for all
Derby Schools, which we hope will inspire them
in their reading and writing. All these events are
by invitation only for Derby Schools and are not
public events.
Big Books Project
Last year the University of Derby invited infant,
junior and primary schools to be involved in a Big
Book Challenge: to create a ‘Big Book’. The books
we received were fabulous and there was a prize
for the winning books. The theme for the books last
year was inspired by illustrations.
This year the Book Challenge is even more exciting
because, not only will there be the £50 book
vouchers for the winning KS1 and KS2 books, but
the University will provide the winning schools with
a published version of their book.
Thursday 15 June
Sponsored by:
Every Derby infant and primary
school has been invited to send
six pupils and two adults to
these events.
Primary Schools:
Meet the Author Event (Y2, 3 & 4)
with Sarah McIntyre and Philip Reeve
Author Philip Reeve and author/illustrator Sarah
McIntyre have created a number of award
winning books. Their events are zany and fun
and the children can look forward to being
entertained and inspired. They are best known
for Oliver and the Seawigs, Cakes in Space,
and Pugs of the Frozen North. Their latest
novel is Jinks and O’Hare Funfair Repair.
Wednesday 14 June
Secondary Schools:
Meet the Author Event
with Christopher Edge
Christopher’s previous novel,
The Many Worlds of Albie
Bright, was described by The
Times as proving ‘the theory
that novels about science can
be enormous fun.’ His latest
novel The Jamie Drake Equation
again has a science theme,
this time about having an astronaut for a dad!
With all the interest in space travel engendered
by Tim Peake, we feel sure Christopher can
inspire even the most reluctant reader to read
his book. Every Derby City secondary school
has been invited to send a group of Year 7s.
Primary Schools:
Meet the Author Event (Y5 & 6)
with Marcia Williams
Marcia has written and illustrated
numerous books since The First
Christmas was published in 1987.
Many of these have been retellings
of classic stories – from Noah’s
Ark to Don Quixote – illustrated in
her distinctive cartoon-strip style.
She has also written two books about the First and
Second World Wars: Archie’s War and My Secret
War Diary by Flossie Albright. We hope Marcia’s
event will inspire students to visit The Silk Mill and
will enable them to develop a better understanding
of the significance of the Poppies exhibition.
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Community
Programme
LEXIS
ESOL programme at Derby College.
Our Community Programme is an important
aspect of the Festival and we seek to
provide something for everyone.
The LEXIS department at Derby College offers a
one-year programme for second language English
learners aged 16 - 18 years.
This year we have three projects specifically
aimed at engaging new audiences.
The programme draws students from across the
world - some 23 different nationalities at present and aims to equip them with the English language
skills they need to gain access to Further Education
and employment. Last year the Lexis learners wrote
stories about their experience of their journeys
to England. These were then illustrated by the
College’s art students and published in a book, ‘My
Journey to English – the Key to Opportunity’, which
was launched at Derby Book Festival. Following the
success of the project this year’s learners are writing
stories about memories of their home country. Once
again, a book of the stories will be produced and
launched at the Festival.
“To be given the wonderful opportunity to
be a part of Derby Book Festival and write
for an audience – other than the teacher or
the examiner – is rare and truly motivating
for the students. Our students benefit
from the experience by being a part of
the creative conception, working through
the critical development phase and being
supported in a published author workshop
and by sessions with their English tutors.
This will be further enhanced by working
alongside fellow students from Derby
College Art department who have been
tasked with illustrating their stories. The
experience will not only expand their
knowledge and skills, but also extend
their friendships.”
— Andrew Parfitt - Lexis Department,
Derby College
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The Roma Project
This year Derby Book Festival has been working
with two groups of children from the local Roma
communities. Pupils from Bemrose School have
been writing stories around the idea of exploring
other cultures and faraway places. These will be
illustrated and published in a book to be launched
at the Festival. Another group of pupils from Pear
Tree Community Junior School is developing a short
performance based around a children’s story written
by Richard O’Neill, a nationally recognised Roma
author and storyteller, who has been working with
both groups since the beginning of the year.
Richard uses the strong oral storytelling tradition of
the Romany people to help young people develop
their potential and, most importantly, to use the
idea of storytelling as a springboard into writing.
Having the opportunity to work with a writer from
their community, and to see their culture and life
experiences reflected and celebrated at such an
important Festival, is a huge step forward, culturally
and personally.
“This year, our school was given the
superb opportunity of being involved with
Derby Book Festival. Not only have we
been enthused and motivated, but also
inspired by the work. We look forward to
sharing our work at the Festival and are
confident the whole experience will leave
us not only with everlasting memories, but
also an incredible sense of pride.”
—Arvinder Badwal, Assistant Headteacher,
Pear Tree Community Junior School
Shared Reading
Derby Book Festival volunteers have been running
reading sessions with residents in the Parklands
View Extra Care housing complex. Residents
gather in one of the sitting rooms for an hour
and a half each week to listen to the volunteers
reading poetry and short stories. Research is
increasingly identifying the quality of life benefits
of ‘bibliotherapy’, including increased confidence
and social and mental well-being. Shared Reading
group members find the group calming, relaxing
and therapeutic.
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Derby Book Festival aims to bring Derby’s
residents together in a love of books and to
inspire new readers to appreciate the pleasure
and power of reading.
We believe passionately that the arts and culture matter and firmly endorse
Arts Council England’s belief that art and culture:
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open our minds and stir our hearts
inspire our children so they can flourish
help us understand our past, and show
us how we can shape the future help us build better places to live and
work, and improve our health and
well-being.
Now in our third year, we strive to improve our
Festival programme each year, always looking
to include some events to reflect Derby’s special
character and heritage, which have a particular
resonance for local people.
We believe that a rich cultural offer enhances the
experience of living and working in Derby.
From the very start, we have been overwhelmed by
the enthusiasm and support of our partners across
the city in offering us their venues, knowledge,
expertise and funding: from Derby’s arts and
educational organisations, local businesses and
individual sponsors.
We’d like to make particular mention of:
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Arts Council England, our major funder
who provides advice and guidance and
encourages us to be more ambitious in
our programming.
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The University of Derby, which not only
funds the Festival, but provides us with an
office and an increasing number of students
who are actively engaged with Festival events
and projects.
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Foundation Derbyshire, whose various
funds support Festival activities, including our
community programme, our volunteers and
the children’s activities.
With thanks to:
Derby Book Festival Team
Amanda Penman (Artsbeat), Andy Powell,
Melbourne Assembly Rooms, BBC Radio Derby,
Derby Telegraph, John Tams, Melbourne Arts
Festival, New Bath Hotel, Stuart Leslie,
The BookCafé, University of Nottingham
Jenny Denton: Festival Organiser/Programming/
Community Projects
Sian Hoyle: Festival Organiser/Programming/
Marketing/Education
Rita Silvester: Festival Organiser Finance/Logistics
Roxanne Cooper: Festival Administrator
Special thanks to our ‘Super Volunteers’:
Helen Bauer, Helen Bishop, Diane Irvine, Steph
Marshall Power, Helen Osler, Dianne Smith.
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If you would like to get involved with Derby Book
Festival 2018, as a sponsor, a volunteer or with any
good ideas to improve the Festival, we’d love to
hear from you! Please get in touch by emailing:
[email protected]
Funders
Sponsors
John
&
Pam Rivers
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Media partners
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Finding your way around Derby City Centre
Tourist Information
Bus Station
Train Station
Car Parking
Derby Theatre
Royal Crown Derby, DE23 8JZ
intu Derby
Cathedral Quarter Hotel
Déda
Rolls-Royce Learning & Development
Centre, DE23 8JZ
QUAD
Sadlergate
The Smallprint Company
Pickford’s House
Waterstones
Old Bell Hotel, Sadlergate
University of Derby
WEA, Lodge Lane
The BookCafé
Market Place
Guildhall Theatre
The Silk Mill
Museum & Art Gallery
Derby Cathedral
Travel to the Festival with Travel Partner,
Trent Barton Buses: The Villager to Etwall, Hilton,
Tutbury, Repton and Littleover. The Sixes to Belper,
Wirksworth, Matlock, Ripley and Bakewell
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Bookends
A few things to look out for around the Festival:
Flash Fiction Writing Competition
Le Livre Libre (The Free Book)
Every year we run a Fifty Word Flash Fiction Writing
Competition. This year’s theme is ‘Journeys’.
We had double the number of entries compared
to 2016, with a total of 713, and the winning stories
are illustrated by a student from the University of
Derby. Pick up your bookmarks at Festival venues
around the city – there are six to collect!
2 – 23 June | Banks Mill Studios Foyer,
Bridge Street | FREE
Festival Tote Bags
Make sure you get hold of one of our Festival tote
bags, on sale at events at £5 each.
The Derby Yearbook
Derby turns forty as a city this year. Students from
the University of Derby’s MA Publishing course have
created The Derby Yearbook with contributions
from authors and local people. It celebrates Derby’s
historical and cultural heritage, with the tales of
companies, institutions, and, more importantly, the
people that have made the city what it is today. You
can buy the book for £9.99 from local book shops
and from the publisher, Peregrine Publishers.
Taster Events
Following the success of our Taster Events last
year, we have organised two further ones this
year: at Melbourne Assembly Rooms on Thursday
20 April (free but ticketed - available from the
Assembly Rooms, Fortey’s and Melbourne Library)
and at the New Bath Hotel, in partnership with
Scarthin Books, on Thursday 27 April (ticket price
£5 - available from Scarthins).
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Visit Green Door Printmaking Studio’s exhibition of
artist’s books and illustrative prints.
FORMAT International
Photography Festival, QUAD
until 11 June
FORMAT International Photography Festival takes
place in Derby every two years and is organised
by Festival partners QUAD and the University of
Derby. This year’s main exhibition at QUAD: Ahead
Still Lies Our Future continues until 11 June and
entry is FREE. It presents work that encourages the
viewer to speculate about our global future and the
technologically induced changes to our planet.
All of the artists look at the extraordinary
interconnected nature of the human spirit and the
habitat that it encounters or creates.
Festivals in the city coming up
Derby Film Festival
28th April - 7th May
Edge-Lit
15th July
Derby Comedy
Festival
5th - 14th May
Derby Festé
29th - 30th September
Derby CAMRA City
Charter Beer Festival
5th - 9th July
Derby Folk Festival
6th - 8th October