Sat 5th - Mon 7th May 2018

Spring BookieThe friendly lit fest by the sea

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The Margate Bookie was founded in in 2015 by Andreas Loizou who grew up in Margate and wanted to share his love of reading and writing. The festival features authors, writers, publishers and illustrators working in all genres and at all levels.

We’ve got many events and and look forward to introducing you to lots of literary talent. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates, special offers and news.

Vanguard EditionsVanguard Editions is a publishing arm run by Richard Skinner, focusing on poetry, short stories and art-writing.

Turner ContemporaryTurner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries and offers a space for everyone to discover different ways of seeing, thinking and learning. Find out more at www.turnercontemporary.org

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Saturday 5th May10:30 - 11:30 Tamara Rattigan Children’s StorytimeTurner Contemporary // FreeJoin Tamara Rattigan for a fun morning of children’s activities. Tamara’s debut book Everybody’s Special is the first in a series of children’s illustrated story books which inspire and encourage children.

11:00 - 12:45Sound and Sway - ‘The Waste Land’ Walking Group // Sold out!Sound and Sway links the rhythms of poetry with the rhythm of walking. Bring comfortable clothing and a sense of adventure. Meet at the Nayland Rock Shelter. Walking with ‘The Waste Land’ is a community group founded by artist Elspeth Penfold in 2014. The group uses walking as a research tool for locating TS Eliot’s The Waste Land and selected other poems in Margate.

14:00 - 15:00Louis de Bernières Turner Contemporary // £6Novelist Louis de Bernières was born in London in 1954. He joined the army at 18 but left after spending four months at Sandhurst. After graduating from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and obtained his MA at the University of London.

In 1993, Louis was selected as one of the 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists 2’ promotion in Granta magazine. His fourth novel, Corelli’s Mandolin, was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Best Book). It was also shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year. Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War, the novel tells the story of a love affair between the daughter of a local doctor and an Italian soldier. It has become a worldwide bestseller and has now been translated into over 30 languages. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001, and the novel has also been adapted for the stage.

Louis de Bernieres

Saturday 5th May

16:00 - 17:00Jake Arnott – The Fatal Tree Turner Contemporary // £6London, the 1720s. The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild, self-styled ‘Thief-taker General’ who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime. Only two people truly defy him: Jack Sheppard, apprentice turned house-breaker, and his lover, the notorious whore and pickpocket Edgworth Bess. From the condemned cell at Newgate, Bess gives her account of how she and Jack formed the most famous criminal partnership of their age: a tale of lost innocence and harsh survival, passion and danger, bold exploits and spectacular gaol-breaks .As the gallows casts its grim shadow, who will live to escape the Fatal Tree?

Jake will be in conversation with Margate Bookie favourite, Simon Wroe.

Jake Arnott was born in 1961, and lives in London. He is the author of The Long Firm, published by Sceptre in 1999 and subsequently made into an acclaimed BBC TV series. His second novel, He Kills Coppers, was also made into a series by Channel 4.

Simon Wroe is an award-winning author, journalist and former chef. Chop Chop, his debut novel about a raucous group of Camden chefs, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, and won a Betty Trask Award. Here Comes Trouble, his second novel, follows the teenage son of a newspaper editor in a post-Soviet country edging towards extremism and revolution.

Jake Arnott

18:00 - 20:00PJ Whiteley Crowdfunding Gig The Lifeboat // FreeAn evening of readings and songs from the books of PJ Whiteley – to support the crowdfunding campaign for his third novel The Rooms We Never Enter. PJ (Philip) Whiteley writes romantic comedies, with a contemporary setting. He doesn’t invent a fantasy world, as he considers Britain in the early 21st Century to be quite weird enough.

The Rooms We Never Enter, to be published by Unbound with the help of a crowdfunding platform, features the would-be love affair between one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Britain and a single mum on a minimum wage income.

George Mowatt takes as his third home a terraced house near the stadium of his beloved football team, and he becomes

neighbour to Karen Barnes, at least on match days. The spark between them is instant, but their lives are a world apart, and their hearts keep missing each other’s beat. Will George’s riches be Karen’s salvation, or an overwhelming obstacle that defeats them both?

Philip’s books and short stories also come with a soundtrack. Songs by the Kaiser Chiefs, the Beatles, REM and others feature in his writings, reflecting his early life experiences going to gigs, and playing the guitar badly. At this special, one-off event of readings and songs, his guest musicians and singers perform these timeless classics, while Philip and invited guests read from some of his work.

PJ Whitely

Sunday 6th May

10:15 - 11:15Help Your Children Feel HappierTurner Contemporary // FreeWhat can you do to help yourself and your children feel happier? This session is led by happiness experts Vanessa King and Val Payne, and is based on their new book 50 Ways to Feel Happy. A packed hour of activities and ideas to try with family, friends and on your own. You’ll learn lots of fun ways to get active and boost happiness - you may even learn about mindfulness, relaxation and positivity. This session is great fun for children, tweens and young teens.

11:30 - 12:30Richard Skinner’s Poetry MasterclassTurner Contemporary // £6Free to Poetry Journeyers and holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card

In this poetry workshop, you’ll be looking at and playing with form and learning how to tell journeys as narrative poems.

Richard Skinner is a writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction and poetry. He has published three novels with Faber & Faber, three books of non-fiction and two books of poetry. His third book of poems, The Malvern Aviator is out now. Richard Skinner’s ‘The Malvern Aviator carries a freight of deep poetic intelligence.’ George Szirtes). Richard is Director of the Fiction Programme at the Faber Academy.

13:00 - 14:00Vanguard Readings Turner Contemporary // £2Free to Poetry Journeyers and holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card

You lucky people! For the fourth consecutive year, Vanguard Readings is delighted to be back at the one-and-only Margate Bookie. Set up by Richard Skinner, and hosted by Mr Adrian Cross, it’s your chance to listen to six top quality authors at Turner Contemporary. Readings start at 1pm. The readers are David Barker, Paul Dornan, Chloe Esposito, Karen Hamilton, Evalyn Lee and Rose McGinty

Adrian Cross lives in London and loves Margate. He works in an advisory role with children in care and writes for the Times Educational Supplement and does live music reviews for Gigwise. He co-edited the #1 Vanguard Readings Short Story Anthology and is currently working on two novels; an urban comic thriller and a slice of fen noir.

David Barker spent 26 years working in the City as an economist, trying to predict the Richard Skinner

future. Blue Gold was published in 2017 and Rose Gold is his second novel. David appears on Radio Berkshire’s monthly show, Radio Reads, discussing books with host Bill Buckley and author Claire Dyer. David was born in Cheshire but now lives in Berkshire. He is married to an author of children’s picture books, with a daughter who loves stories.

Paul Dornan has written film screenplays, TV films, comedy dramas, sit-coms and sketches for all the main British TV channels, working with an array of talents like Alistair McGowan, Suranne Jones and Christopher Lloyd from Back To The Future. His play Democracy For Beginners was broadcast on Radio 4 and he has co-authored a number comedy books, one of which, The A-Z of Behaving Badly went to No1 spot in The Sunday Times list. Paul has recently completed work on his first novel Never, Never, Ever and is about to start on his next.

Chloe Esposito grew up in Cheltenham and now lives in London with her husband and daughter. She has a BA and MA in English from The University of Oxford and has worked as a senior management consultant, an English teacher, and a fashion journalist.

The Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know trilogy has sold in 25 territories to date, and has been optioned for a film deal with Universal and Michael de Luca, producer of Fifty Shades of Grey and The Social Network.

Karen Hamilton caught the travel bug after an early childhood spent abroad (Angola,

Malawi, Zimbabwe, Belgium and Italy) and has worked as cabin crew for a major airline. The Perfect Girlfriend is a psychological thriller about a sociopathic flight attendant, Juliette Price. The book is rooted in Karen’s work experience, but is not autobiographical!

When Juliette is dumped by her pilot boyfriend, Nate, her dreams of a ‘happy ever after’ are thrown into jeopardy. She vows to win him back, whatever it takes. She surreptitiously embeds herself into his life by adopting a new persona and securing a position as a flight attendant with the same airline. However, these are only the first steps in her master plan as she reveals just how far one woman will go to achieve her dreams.

Evalyn Lee is a former CBS News producer currently living in London, England. Her broadcast work received an Emmy and numerous Writers Guild Awards. She produced television segments for 60 Minutes in New York and the BBC in London, and wrote for Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Lesley Stahl while covering both Gulf Wars and many investigative pieces. She has interviewed writers including Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Dick Francis and Margaret Atwood about their work. Evalyn won the Willow Review prize for short fiction for 2016.

Rose McGinty is the author of the best seller Electric Souk, published in 2017 by Urbane Publications. Rose lives in Kent and works for the NHS in East London, and has worked overseas, includ-ing the Middle East. She is

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an alumni of the Trinity College, Dublin and the Faber Academy. She was the winner of the Kent Life short story competition 2016, with a story inspired by Margate called Dreamland. Electric Souk is a thriller about forbidden love, corruption and an encounter with evil in the desert, set in the Middle East as the Arab Spring erupts. Rose says of her story, ‘The parts of the story that are true, I probably wish were not; while the parts that are not, I probably wish were true.’ Rose is now completing her second novel, a thriller that has taken her to some rather gothic hospital corridors!

14:30 - 15:30Salena Godden’s Performance Masterclass Turner Contemporary // £6Free to Poetry Journeyers and holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card

An electrifying performer who owns her audience, Salena will inspire you to open your hearts and give your all. She’ll talk about the creative process, different paths to publication and how she produced her live album of poetry.

Margate-born Salena is one of Britain’s foremost spoken word artists and poets. Salena has appeared as a guest and writer for many BBC Radio programmes including The Verb, Saturday Live, Loose Ends and Fact To Fiction, and has written and presented several arts documentaries for the BBC and Channel4.

Salena is the author of literary memoir Springfield Road (Unbound) and poetry books Fishing In The Aftermath Poems: 1994-2014 (Burning Eye) and Under The Pier (Nasty Little Press). Salena’s essay titled ‘Shade’ was published in The Good Immigrant. It featured as a Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Readers Choice Book Of The Year Award.

Salena Godden

16:00 - 17:00The Red Dancer: A Life of Mata Hari Turner Contemporary // £2Free to Poetry Journeyers and holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card Readings ‘in character’ from Richard Skinner’s recently reissued Faber & Faber novel. Joining Richard are the authors David Barker, Paul Dornan, Chloe Esposito, Karen Hamilton, Evalyn Lee and Rose McGinty

When Margaretha Zelle, a young woman living in The Hague, answers a lonely hearts advertisement she becomes drawn into a relationship with an army captain twice her age. After a hasty wedding, they depart for Indonesia, where the marriage collapses amid infidelity and violence.

Seeking a new life, Margaretha returns to Europe and travels to Paris, where she adopts the stage name Mata Hari, reinventing herself as an exotic dancer. In her new role she attracts the attention of numerous admirers, many of whom are officers, ready to share their secrets with a woman of notorious allure and intrigue, as Europe lurches towards explosive conflict.

17.30 – 19.00 Creative Workshop – Writing and Happiness with Vanessa King and Elise Valmorbida // Sands Hotel // £5They’re back! The stars of Margate Bookie 2017 present their follow up course. It’s a marvellous opportunity to boost your writing skills and emotional well-being.

20:00 - MidnightSalena Godden Live and the Bookie Slam // Olby’s Soul Cafe // £5Free to Performers and Poetry Journeyers

Watch the electrifying Salena Godden live in action! Salena is one of the UK’s foremost live poets who regularly headlines festivals nationally and internationally. After Salena it’s the Bookie Slam. Margate hosts some of the most highly contested poetry slams this side of London. This dynamic spin on open mics pits poets against each in a bid to be declared champion.

Monday 7th May

11:30 - 12:30Sam Gayton – Fanzine Workshop for Kids 7+ // Turner Contemporary // £2Free to Poetry Journeyers and holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card

Children aged seven and up can make their own fanzine with Sam Gayton. This hands-on session will involve origami, colouring and creative writing. Sam Gayton grew up in Kent. He spent his days playing with Lego, and making comics with his friend Loo Loo. Nowadays, Sam still loves Lego and comics. But he also loves drinking tea (milk, no sugar), eating pizza (pepperoni, extra cheese), and wondering how long he would survive a zombie apocalypse (probably about fourteen minutes). He lives in Margate now! His most recent books include Hercufleas and (drum roll) The Adventures of Lottie Peppercorn.

13:00 - 14:00Anna Hart – Departures – readings and interview with Daisy Buchanan Turner Contemporary // £6£2 to holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card and Thanet residents.

Anna Hart is a freelance writer specialising in lifestyle, travel and international culture, and is currently a regular columnist at The Telegraph and speaker at events such as Stylist LIVE and WOW at the Southbank centre, and on the radio.A call-to-action for adventurers everywhere, Anna Hart’s first book is about the power of travel to transform us, heal us, challenge us and turn us into everyday adventure seekers even after we return to the grind back home. Anna will be interviewed by award-winning journalist and agony aunt Daisy Buchanan, who is an author and media commentator

from Margate, writing about everything from sex and feminism to social media and reality TV. Daisy is Grazia UK’s resident agony aunt.

14:30 - 15:30Thanet Writers Club Turner Contemporary // £4Price includes a voucher for £5 off the anthology.

Thanet Writers launch their first fiction anthology Shoal. Bringing together over twenty short stories from local writers, the anthology reflects the scale of writing talents across Thanet. There’s a high possibility of champagne. Six great local authors will read from published work and work-in-progress. Hear – and meet – Catherine Law, David Lee Stone, Maggie Harris, Matthew Munson and Seb Reilly.

16:00 - 17:00Dosh Archer – Story and Play Workshop for Children 3+Turner Contemporary // £2Free to holders of Turner Contemporary CT9 Card and Thanet residents.

Dosh Archer is a writer and illustrator. She lives in Margate in a small house near the sea with her cat and her daughter. She is most well known for her Urgency Emergency! series, which are sold internationally. Dosh’s latest series begins with Detective Paw of the Law, which will be published by Albert Whitman in 2018. Dosh’s madcap humour and love of strong, plot-based stories make her perfect for creating books for newly independent readers.

Co-relate runs projects that build creative and communication skills with

young people and adults.www.co-relate.co.uk

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The Red DancerRichard Skinner with David Barker, Paul Dornan, Chloe Esposito, Karen Ham

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7pmSalena Godden and Poetry SlamMC Connor Sansby

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10.30amTam

ara Rattigan Children’s Storytim

eHelp Your Children Feel Happier Fun W

orkshop with Vanessa King and Val Payne. (Starts at 10.15am

)

11.30amSound and Sway - The W

asteland W

alking Group (Starts at Nayland Rock Shelter at 11am

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Richard Skinner’s Poetry W

orkshopSam

Gayton - Fanzine Workshop

1pmVanguard ReadingsIntroduced by Adrian CrossDavid Barker, Paul Dornan, Chloe Esposito, Karen Ham

ilton, Evalyn Lee, Rose McGinty

Anna Hart - DeparturesIntroduced by Daisy Buchanan

2pmLouis de Bernières Introduced by PJ W

hiteleySalena Godden’s Poetry W

orkshop (Starts at 2.30pm

)Thanet W

riters Book Launch (Starts at 2.30pm

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4pmThe Fatal Tree - Jake Arnott introduced by Sim

on Wroe

The Red DancerRichard Skinner with David Barker, Paul Dornan, Chloe Esposito, Karen Ham

ilton, Evalyn Lee, Rose McGinty

Children’s Cartoon Workshop -

Dosh Archer

Sands Hotel16 Marine Drive

5.30pmW

riting and Happiness with Vanessa King and Elise Valm

orbida

Lifeboat1 Market Street

6pmAn evening of reading and m

usic from

the books of PJ Whiteley

Olby’s3-5 King Street

7pmSalena Godden and Poetry SlamMC Connor Sansby