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Words by the Sea Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2011 Friday16th - Sunday 18th September
Words by the Sea
Budleigh SaltertonLiterary Festival 2011
Friday16th - Sunday 18th September
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Patron: Eric Dancer CBE JP, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Devon
A message from our President
This is Budleigh Salterton’s third literary festival. It brings together a thought-provoking and lively series of events, providing something for everyone to enjoy. When our Artistic Director, Susan Ward, devised the idea back in 2008 of staging a three day festival, she had a vision which has become a marvellous reality. Budleigh’s festival is now firmly on the literary map.
This year’s programme speaks for itself – a rich mixture of different authors, all of whom have that rare ability to interest, entertain and excite. I hope you will join us for a very special weekend, discovering, relishing and celebrating the written and spoken word.
President: Sue Lawley
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Committee
Chairman: Bill McDermottArtistic & Sponsorship Director: Susan WardProduction Director & Editor: Katherine McDermott-DarleyFinance Director: Roger BassLogistics Director: Nick SpeareEducation Liaison: Barbara FarleyPress Secretary: Steve Andrews
Other Festival Organisers & Advisors: Christopher Briscoe, Sue Chapman, Professor Malcolm Cook, Elizabeth Cummings, Lizzie Everett-Wright Alan Huddart, Richard Matthews, Martin Smith Professor Martin Sorrell, Professor Helen Taylor Professor Charles Ward, Hugh Williams
The Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival is a registered charity (1127885) and company limited by guarantee (6758203)
Sue Lawley, President
Susan Ward, Founder
Friday 16th September 2011
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Programme of Events Friday 16th September
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10am
10am - 12.00
12.00
2pm
2pm
4pm
7.30pm
John Carey
Caroline Taggart and Richard Willis
Josceline Dimbleby
Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Mavis Cheek
Sir Timothy Ackroyd
Carol Ann Duffy & Gillian Clarke
Temple Church
Salterton Playhouse
Temple Church
Public Hall
Temple Church
Temple Church
Public Hall
William Golding: The Making of a Novelist
• A Novel-Writer’s Toolkit • What Publishers Want
Orchards in the Oasis
The Great Explorers
The Lovers of Pound Hill
A Step Out of Time
Two Laureates
9.30am - 5.00pm
10am
10.30am
12.00
2pm
2pm
4pm
Book Fair
Sarah Dunant
Literary Festival Church Service
Jeremy Black
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Jack Thomas
Michael Morpurgo
Masonic Hall
Public Hall
Temple Church
Public Hall
Public Hall
Salterton Playhouse
Public Hall
Imagining History
The Politics of James Bond
In My Granny’s Kitchen - home cooking from the forties to the noughties
The King James Bible - the book that changed the world
The Story of War Horse
10am
10am - 12.00 12.00
2pm
4pm
5.30pm
7.30pm
Sir Roy Strong
Chris Waters Hilary Mantel
‘A Budleigh Good Read’ Chaired by Sue MacGregor with Sarah Dunant and A.L. Kennedy, introduced by Sue Lawley
Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
Simon Hall
A. L. Kennedy
Temple Church
Masonic Hall Temple Church
Public Hall
Public Hall
Public Hall
Public Hall
Visions of England - what does it mean to be English
Full Fathom Five - Poetry Workshop
The Mirror and the Light
• Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion • A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford
The King’s Speech
Reporting Crime, Writing Crime
Words
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Sunday 18th September 2011
John Carey10.00 am Temple ChurchChair: Bill McDermott OBEWilliam Golding: The Making of a Novelist
Distinguished literary critic, reviewer, broadcaster and writer, John Carey is Emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford.
The Guardian once described John Carey as “the scholarship boy from an ‘ordinary’ background”. Incisive, challenging and penetrating in his views, John Carey is a force to be reckoned with - a force for change. His celebrated and controversial book, What Good Are the Arts, left an indelible impression on the literary ‘establishment’.
John Carey has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee and was chair of the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the London Sunday Times and regularly appears in radio and on TV. He has authored many books including studies of Dickens, Donne, and Thackeray. Recent books include Pure Pleasure: a Guide to the Twentieth Century’s Most Enjoyable Books, and William Golding: The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’.
Photograph courtesy of Faber & Faber
Josceline Dimbleby12.00 noon Temple ChurchChair: Katherine McDermott-DarleyOrchards in the Oasis
Orchards in the Oasis is a magical book - a unique, personal account of Josceline Dimbleby’s awakening passion for food in the spice markets of Syria, and a memoir of tastes, aromas and recipes that have resonated with her life, friendships and exotic travels. This book is about the food that has inspired her most.
For over 15 years, food columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, and with more than 30 cookery books to her name, Josceline Dimbleby is a highly aclaimed and adventurous cookery writer. She has appeared on numerous radio and TV programmes, including BBC Food and Drink and MasterChef.
This summer, she scooped the prestigious Guild of Food Writers’ Award for Food and Travel Writing with Orchards in the Oasis.
Photograph courtesy of Channel 4
Friday 16th September
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Friday 16th September
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Robin Hanbury-Tenison2.00 pm Public HallChair: Roger BassThe Great Explorers
Sir Timothy Ackroyd4.00 pm Temple ChurchChair: John CrosseA Step Out of Time
Celebrated by the Sunday Times as ‘the greatest explorer of the past 20 years’, Robin Hanbury-Tenison will enthrall us with stories and images from The Great Explorers, a collection of vivid biographical essays and portraits featuring forty of the world’s most intrepid explorers, past and present. This beautifully illustrated book also features an impressive array of expert authors - including academics, historians and travel writers - who describe the lives, motives and passions of these outstanding individuals.
Robin Hanbury-Tenison is a well-known author, film-maker, conservationist and campaigner. Author of numerous books including: A Question of Survival, A Pattern of Peoples, Mulu: the Rainforest, The Yanomami, Fragile Eden, The Oxford Book of Exploration, and his two autobiographies: Worlds Apart and Worlds Within.
Sir Timothy Ackroyd, West End director, actor, poet, author and illustrator, will be performing his internationally acclaimed one man show ‘A Step Out of Time’. Prepare to be taken back in time - this moving and funny show charts the childhood life of one our finest actors, exploring his early meetings with Montgomery, Churchill and Peter O’Toole, and the meaning of friendship.
Sir Timothy’s acting career began in 1976 when he was nominated as Most Promising Newcomer in the West End Theatre Awards for his performance as Clytemnestra in Aeschlus’s Agamemnon.
His London début was in Brian Forbes’ controversial and hugely successful Macbeth at The Old Vic. His West End debut was starring opposite Peter O’Toole and Joyce Carey in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. Other appearances in the West End include the long-running farce No Sex Please, We’re British and Pygmalion with John Thaw.
A Step Out of Time is guaranteed to entertain.
Mavis Cheek2.00 pm Temple ChurchChair: Professor Martin SorrellThe Lovers of Pound Hill
Mavis Cheek has an instinct for what makes people tick - or not, as the case may be.
Brilliant, funny, warm and intelligent, Mavis Cheek is a popular novelist and short-story writer whose beautifully modulated readings can make you laugh out loud. She will be talking about and reading from her latest novel, The Lovers of Pound Hill - a tale of archaeology, love lost and found, the wicked overcome, and lessons from the past.
Winner of the John Menzies First Novel Prize, she is the author of fourteen novels including Mrs. Fytton’s Country Life which sold 90,000 copies, Janice Gentle Gets Sexy, Amenable Women and Truth to Tell.
Caroline Taggart & Richard Willis10.00 am - 12.00 noon Salterton PlayhouseChair: Professor Martin SorrellA Novel-Writer’s Toolkit & What Publishers Want
Caroline and Richard will be sharing their knowledge and insights to the world of publishing from the perspective of an editor and a publisher. This session will particularly appeal to budding writers.
Caroline Taggart has been editor of non-fiction books for 30 years and has covered a wide range of subjects from natural history and business, to gardening and astronomy. She was the editor of Writer’s Market UK 2009. Her books include, I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forget from School and A Classical Education.
Formerly the Commissioning Editor of Exeter University Press, Richard Willis is Managing Director of the publishers, Swales and Williams. The publishing house was founded in 1998 and now manages around 250 titles annually. Richard has also established the imprint, Impress Books.
Friday 16th September
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Friday 16th September
Two LaureatesTwo Laureates
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National Poet for Wales, playwright and broadcaster, Gillian Clarke will read from her latest collection of poetry, A Recipe for Water in which she explores water as memory and meaning.
Experience the musicality of Gillian Clarke’s poetry, and sense the spirit of her country and its ancestry through the natural world images she paints.
She writes with power and tenderness - with a very individual voice.
Gillian Clarke’s poetry collections include Snow on the Mountain, The Sundial, Letter from a Far Country, Selected Poems, Letting in the Rumour, The King of Britain’s Daughter, Collected Poems, Five Fields, Nine Green Gardens, Making the Beds for the Dead.
7.30 pm Public Hall
Chair: Bill McDermott OBE
Two Laureates
Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate
Gillian Clarke, National Poet for Wales
Carol Ann Duffy, Britain’s first female Poet Laureate and Scottish poet and playwright, will read from her new book The Bees.
Be captivated by Carol Ann Duffy’s subtle yet provocative poetry that will draw you into its beautiful and complex narrative.
Hear everyday life, truth and fantasy inter-mingle in a most unique and compelling way.
Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collections include Standing Female Nude, Selling Manhattan, Mean Time and Rapture, New & Collected Poems for Children, and The World’s Wife.
(Bar available from 6.30 pm)
Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds
Eldezar and Asama Yama, 1783,erupted violently; a Great Foggblending incredible skies over Europe.In London, Luke Howard was ten.The sky’s lad then. Smitten,he stared up evermore; sawa meteor’s fiery spurt,the clamouring stars;what the moon wouldn’t do;but loved clouds most -dragons and unicorns;Hamlet’s camels, weasels and whales;the heads of heroes;the sword of Excalibur, litby the setting sun. Mackerel sky,mackerel sky, not long wet,not long dry. And knewlove goes naming,even a curl of hair - thus, Cirrus.
Cumulus. Stratus. Nimbus.
An unpublished poem, written by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, reproduced with her kind permission, 2011.
Luke Howard, Namer of Clouds
Pebble
Weigh two hundred million yearsin your hand, the mystery of eras,a single syllablepulsing in a pebble.
It quivers in your palmlike the heartbeat of a hare in its form,with the shindig of ocean, ancient landslips,rock-fall, storm, the sea’s and centuries’ lapse.
Take in your right hand from the evening skythat other sad old stone, the moon.You, Earth, pebble, moon-stone,held together in the noose of gravity.
Feel the beach shift underfoot, the planet turn,
all Earth’s tumultuous story in a stone.
This poem was written in 2011 especially for Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival by Gillian Clarke, National Poet for Wales.
Pebble
Saturday 17th September
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Cultural historian and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong is supremely qualified to investigate ‘what does it mean to be English’. Join him to discover how England’s rich iconography can stand up to a crisis in national identity.
Sir Roy Strong was director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1967 to 1971 and director of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1974 to 1987 when he became a full-time writer, broadcaster and consultant. Notable books include: The Spirit of Britain: A Narrative History of the Arts - a widely acclaimed study of British arts through two millennia; and Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy. His latest book, Visions of England was released in hardback in July 2011.
Sir Roy Strong10.00 am Temple ChurchChair: Lady Michelle SykesVisions of England
Join tutor and prize-winning poet Chris Waters for a session of poetry making and sharing. Taking as the theme, our myriad connections with the sea, we will read, discuss, explore, invent, improvise and quietly compose. Participants are invited to bring along a relevant poem of their own or a favourite by an established poet. All writers and poetry lovers are welcome.
Arisaig, finalist in the Plough Poetry Prize 2010.
Chris Waters10.00 am - 12.00 noon Masonic HallChair: Professor Martin SorrellFull Fathom Five - a Poetry making and sharing workshop
Saturday 17th September
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Hilary Mantel12.00 noon Temple ChurchChair: Professor Helen TaylorThe Mirror and the Light
We have the unique privilege of hearing local resident, Hilary Mantel, read from her new work in progress, The Mirror and the Light, sequel to the great Wolf Hall, winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. A penetrating novel about Thomas Cromwell and the court of Henry VIII, this current book, follows him to the heights of his power, and chronicles his fall and execution in the summer of 1540.
Hilary Mantel is an acclaimed English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work ranges in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction. Set in a myriad places and times - from Tudor England, Eighteenth Century Ireland and France, South Africa in the apartheid era, a Peak District village in the 1950s to modern-day Saudi Arabia - her talent and curiosity in evoking times past and present, and the characters inhabiting these worlds, is audacious.
Saturday 17th September
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A Budleigh Good Read
A Budleigh Good Read Sue MacGregor, Sarah Dunant and A.L. Kennedy will be talking about their selected books.
Introduced by Sue Lawley
2.00 pm Public Hall
Saturday 17th September
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A Budleigh Good Read
Sue MacGregorSelected book: Star of the Sea
Producer, reporter and broadcaster Sue MacGregor has selected Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor. The Irish famine of the 1840s was one the greatest social catastrophes of 19th-century Europe and the historical setting for this novel. The “Star of the Sea” of the title is a famine ship which makes the journey from Ireland to New York with a disparate cargo of passengers leaving behind the lives they have known for a new beginning. Star of the Sea was first published in 2004.
Photograph courtesy of the BBC
A. L. KennedySelected book: A Man Could Stand Up
A. L. Kennedy will be talking about A Man Could Stand Up by Ford Madox Ford. The third novel in a four-novel sequence, collectively titled Paradise’s End, the story takes place on Armistice Day, November 1918. Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment - a life vividly depicted in the novels. A Man Could Stand Up was first published in 1926.
Photograph courtesy of New Linear Perspectives
Sarah DunantSelected book: Slouching towards Bethlehem
Sarah Dunant has chosen Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion. An early collection of the essays and journalism of Joan Didion which describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion’s We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction published in 2006.
Photograph courtesy of Charlie Hopkinson
Saturday 17th September
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Simon Hall5.30 pm Public HallChair: Barbara FarleyReporting Crime, Writing Crime
TV crime reporter turned crime writer, Simon Hall will be a familiar face to audiences of Spotlight South West. As the BBC’s Crime Correspondent in the region, Simon is also a regular voice on BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Cornwall. He is also author of the Dan Groves and Adam Breen detective novels in which a TV reporter and a detective work together to solve crimes. These novels are all set in Devon.
Simon Hall has been long-listed for the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library award for writers most popular with library users.
Recent titles include: The Death Pictures, Evil Valley, A Popular Murder, The Judgement Book, and The TV Detective.
Photograph courtesy of the BBC
A. L. Kennedy7.30 pm Public HallChair: Professor Martin SorrellWords
Get ready to be amused. Celebrated for her irony, originality and dead-pan wit, A. L. Kennedy is a writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. She is also a popular stand-up comedian, making regular appearances at comedy clubs and the Edinburgh Fringe.
A.L. Kennedy is passionate about language. She will talk about how we use words, are abused by words and the absurdities of the writer’s life.
“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.” (from Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy).
A.L. Kennedy is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. In 2007, she won the Lannan Literary Award and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. Her novel of that same year, Day, was named Costa Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards. She reviews for The Scotsman, the Glasgow Herald and the Daily Telegraph, is a contributor to the Guardian, and has been a judge for both the Booker Prize for Fiction (1996) and The Guardian First Book Award (2001).
(Bar available from 6.45pm)
Photograph courtesy of Zeit Online
Mark Logue and Peter Conradi4.00 pm Temple ChurchChair: John CrosseThe King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
How can an improbable relationship between two people bring about a personal transformation of such magnitude? The book, and the academy award-winning film, The King’s Speech, tells that remarkable true story.
The King’s Speech, co-authored by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, narrates well-researched facts and insights into that deep connection between an outgoing, genial, self-taught Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, and his client, Prince Albert, Duke of York (the future King George VI). It also provides the historical and political context to an intense relationship which transformed the nervous, tongue-tied Duke into one of Britain’s most cherished monarchs. From their first meeting in 1926, this special relationship endured until their respective deaths in the early 1950s.
The King’s Speech was published in December 2010 and was preceded by the Oscar winning film of the same title earlier last year.
Mark Logue is the grandson of Lionel and, with unique access to his grandfather’s diaries and to family archives, he was able to co-author this fascinating book with Peter Conradi.
Peter Conradi is journalist for The Sunday Times and a veteran non-fiction writer.
Sunday 18th September
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Sunday 18th September
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Is it possible to bring together the novelist’s imagination and the historian’s quest for accuracy and create something that will excite and satisfy everyone? For the last ten years Sarah Dunant has been working to bring the rich, often hidden history of the Italian Renaissance, to life. After three best- selling novels dramatising women’s lives, she is in the middle of writing a novel about the Borgias, one of Italy’s most powerful and notorious families.
But how much of history is actually imagined anyway, and if so, how does one get to the truth and fashion it into a really good read?
Some best-selling titles by Sarah Dunant include: Transgressions, Mapping the Edge, The Birth of Venus, and In the Company of the Courtesan.
Photograph courtesy of Charlie Hopkinson
Sarah Dunant10.00 am Public HallChair: Professor Helen TaylorImagining History
In The Politics of James Bond, Jeremy Black sheds a fascinating light on a well known and celebrated fictional character.
In this book, he uses the gripping plots and larger than life characters of the Bond novels and films, to place Bond in a historical, cultural, and political context. He cleverly explores how the settings and dynamics of the Bond adventures have evolved over time - changes in response to our shifting political landscape, and the specific nature of espionage at key points in our recent history.
He achieves this objective with great flair and insight. As a foremost representative of British scholarly views abroad, Jeremy Black is a leading figure in the study and writing of world of history.
Professor of History at the University of Exeter, he is author of over 90 books. Recent publications include War and World 1450 - 2000, The British Seaborne Empire, Maps and History, George III, and European Warfare in a Global Context, 1660 - 1815.
Professor Jeremy Black12.00 noon Public HallChair: Professor Malcolm CookThe Politics of James Bond
This will be a fun, interesting, informative, even occasionally humorous, lecture on the origins of the King James Bible at the Hampton Court Conference of 1604. The King James Version has shaped the making of the English speaking world over the past 400 years - it has influenced our language and literature, and our values, and has effected dramatic patterns of change in our thinking and culture.
“I dwell on the felicities of the language of the King James Bible and its influence on many other writers . . . This is the greatest book written by a committee.”
Jack Thomas taught at Haileybury College for many years, where he was a Housemaster and live-wire of the English Department. His wife, Imogen Thomas will also be reading.
Jack Thomas2.00 pm Salterton PlayhouseChair: Roger BassKing James’s BibleThe Book That Changed the World
Sunday 18th September
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The family kitchen is the focal point for Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall’s popular and inspirational books about family life. She gives appealing, helpful and light hearted practical advice on how to be a good granny - words of wisdom passed down to her as a child from her own grandmother.
A versatile writer, horticulturist and garden designer, winner of two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall is a remarkable talent. From 2005 to 2007 she wrote a popular weekly column for The Times about family life. She has also written for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Woman’s Weekly, The Garden, The English Garden and Gardens Illustrated.
Titles on the theme of being a grandmother include: The Good Granny Guide: Or How to Be a Modern Grandmother, The Good Granny Diary, The Good Granny Cookbook, and The Good Granny Companion. Her energy is infectious and inspiring.Photograph courtesy of Nicholas Harmer
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall2.00 pm Public HallChair: Barbara FarleyIn my Granny’s Kitchen - Home Cooking from the Forties to the Noughties
Sunday 18th September
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War Horse, the children’s book, and the West End production that it inspired, appeals to all generations alike. It is a tribute to one of our most celebrated children’s writers and story tellers.
Set in the First World War, War Horse tells the story of a young boy’s love for his dray horse and their journey and transformation together - from a peaceful Devon farm to the war-torn fields of the Western Front. It is a powerful and moving story.
Author of over 100 books, playwright, poet and librettist, Michael Morpurgo has a gift for magical storytelling, for writing stories that inspire and enchant. Reoccurring themes in his work include: nature and environmental issues, the community and interdependence, and relationships between the old and the young.
Other books by Michael Morpurgo include Why the Whales Came (made into a film starring Helen Mirren), King of the Cloud Forests, which won the Cercle D’Or Prix Sorciere (France), My Friend Walter, and Out of the Ashes. His children’s novel, The Wreck of the Zanzibar, won the 1995 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.
Children’s Laureate from 2003-05, Michael Morpurgo was awarded an OBE in 2006 for services to literature.
Photograph courtesy of Waterstones Bookshop
Michael Morpurgo4.00 pm Public HallChair: Bill McDermott OBEThe Story of War Horse
Winner of five Tonys, including Best Play, America’s most prestigious theatrical award.
Information about ticketsBox office opens 11th July 2011
Time Event Venue Title Tickets
Friday 16th September 2011 9.20am - 9.45am Pre-School Baby Bounce Library Free & Rhyme for under-3s
10am John Carey Temple Church William Golding: £7.50 The Making of a Novelist
10am - 12 noon Caroline Taggart & Salterton Playhouse •A Novel-Writer’s Toolkit £10.00 Richard Willis •What Publishers’ Want
12 noon Josceline Dimbleby Temple Church Orchards in the Oasis £7.50
2pm Robin Hanbury-Tenison Public Hall The Great Explorers £7.50
2pm Mavis Cheek Temple Church The Lovers of Pound Hill £7.50
4pm Sir Timothy Ackroyd Temple Church A Step Out of Time £7.50
7.30pm Carol Ann Duffy & Gillian Clarke Public Hall Two Laureates £12.50/£7.00 for under 16s and students
Saturday 17th September 2011 10am Sir Roy Strong Temple Church Visions of England - what £7.50 does it mean to be English
10am - 12 noon Chris Waters Masonic Hall Full Fathom Five - poetry workshop £7.50
10.15am - 10.45am Local author Jan Oke Library Tickets available from the Free will be reading Library 9th September from her new unpublished book for children
11.00am - 12 noon Children’s Craft Event Library Tickets available from the Free Library 9th September
12 noon Hilary Mantel Temple Church The Mirror and the Light £7.50
2pm ‘A Budleigh Good Read’ Public Hall •Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor £7.50 chaired by Sue MacGregor •Slouching Towards Bethlehem joined by Sarah Dunant and by Joan Didion A.L. Kennedy and introduced •A Man Could Stand Up by Sue Lawley by Ford Madox Ford
4pm Mark Logue & Peter Conradi Public Hall The King’s Speech £7.50
5.30pm Simon Hall Public Hall Reporting Crime, Writing Crime £7.50
7.30pm A. L. Kennedy Public Hall Words £7.50
Sunday 18th September 2011 9.30am - 5.00pm Book Fair Masonic Hall Free Entry
10am Sarah Dunant Public Hall Imagining History £7.50
10.30am Literary Festival Church Service Temple Church
10.30am - 12 noon Literary Festival Walk Meeting point: A Walk with Words Donations to Fairlynch Museum the Otter Valley Garden Association & Fairlynch Museum
12 noon Jeremy Black Public Hall The Politics of James Bond £7.50
2pm Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall Public Hall In My Granny’s Kitchen - £7.50 home cooking from the forties to the noughties
2pm Jack Thomas Salterton Playhouse The King James Bible - the book £7.50 that changed the World
4pm Michael Morpurgo Public Hall The Story of War Horse £7.50/£3.50 for under 16s and students
Other Festival events
Words by the Sea
A Walk with Words
Literary Festival Church ServiceSunday 18th September, 10.30 am Temple Church
Festival Book Fair Sunday 18th September, 9.30 - 5.00 pm Masonic Hall
Five leading booksellers from Devon and Dorset will be offering a wide selection of collectable and second hand books.
Book sales and signingsAll book sales and signings will be organised by Blackwell’s (Exeter University book shop) during the period of the Festival events.
Children’s Events at The Library(Free Tickets can be booked at the Library and will be available from 9th September)
Friday 16th September, 9.20 am - 9.45 am - Baby Bounce and Rhyme
Saturday 17th September, 10.15 am - 10.45 am - Jan Oke, children’s writer will be reading from her latest book
Saturday 17th September, 11.00 am - 12.00 noon - Craft Event
In association with the Otter Valley Association and Fairlynch Museum, a literary walk, exploring the writers, scientists and artists who have lived in, or written about, Budleigh Salterton. Starting out from Fairlynch Garden at 10.30 am on Sunday 18th September. Duration: approx 1.5 hours.
Photograph courtesy of Fairlynch Museum
Second Hand Book SaleA second hand book sale will take place in the Public Hall on Saturday 17th September from 10 am - 12 noon organised by the local Raleigh Group with proceeds to The National Trust.
Book SaleThere will be a Book Sale at A La Ronde, Summer Lane, Exmouth, Devon EX8 5BD, from Saturday 17th until Monday 19th September, 10.30 am - 4.00 pm daily.
In the run up to the Literary Festival, DUETS by Peter Quilter is being performed at the Salterton Playhouse (5th - 10th September). Duets is made up of a quartet of short plays looking at relationships. “Quilter’s understanding of human desires and quirks is on show and probed so endearingly. A warm and funny exploration of love and other bruises.” Daily Telegraph.
Photo courtesy of National Trust Photographic Library, Rupert Truman
Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Centre on the High Street opposite Temple Church. Telephone Budleigh Salterton 01395 445275 or visit www.visitbudleigh.com
Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled by the Festival
Support and donations gratefully acknowledgedThe Festival Hub & Open Air Refreshments
How to find us
In addition to our lead sponsors Everys Solicitors, we would gratefully thank the following:
Blackwell’s Publishers
Budleigh Salterton Library
Budleigh Salterton Tourist Information Centre
Budleigh Salterton Town Council
Creative Engine Room
Internet Design & Marketing
Devon County Council
Councillor Christine Channon, Michael Jackaman, Sue Lawley, Hugh Williams, P. J. White, and other Literary Festival Friends and supporters who have kindly sponsored or contributed to the Festival.
The geographic hub for this year’s Festival, including Blackwell’s Book Stall, will be the Budleigh Salterton Public Hall. Festival Stewards will be in attendance throughout the event.As well as a number of excellent cafes, pubs and restaurants along and adjacent to the High Street and the sea front, refreshments will be available close to the Pubic Hall and main public car park. Van Rouge will be parked on the green opposite the Public Hall throughout the Festival and there will be a covered open air seating area on the green.
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For more up to date information about the Festival visit www.budlitfest.org.uk
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Budleigh SaltertonLiterary Festival 2011
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Thanks to all our visiting writers and their audiences. We hope that you have enjoyed the Festival.
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