Morley Literature Festival 2012 Brochure

10 days of talks, music, art & family events in Leeds www.morleyliteraturefestival.co.ukBox office: 0844 848 2706

Welcome to the 2012 Festival “Welcome to this year’s Morley Literature Festival, now in its 7th year and well established as one of the key events in Leeds’ cultural calendar.

Over ten days and nights the festival offers a wide-ranging programme of events for all kinds of book lovers, including some well-known names in literature and media. We are very grateful to the ongoing support of our patron

Gervase Phinn and our sponsors and supporters, including the Friends of Morley Literature Festival, who work so hard behind the scenes to make the festival a success.I look forward to seeing you at our 2012 festival”

Councillor Judith Elliott MBEFestival Chair

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Festival at a Glance Saturday 6 October10.30am Conrad Burdekin — Morley Library11.30am Stephen Waterhouse — Morley Library2pm Sci-Fi and Superheroes — Morley Town Hall3.30pm Publishing in the Digital Age — Morley Town Hall7pm AL Kennedy — Waterstones, Leeds7.30pm Peter Hook — Morley Town Hall

Sunday 7 October2.30pm Tom Hingley — St Peter’s Church Monday 8 OctoberMidday Literary Lunch with Tim Ewart — Village Hotel2pm Writing workshop with Fiona Shaw — Morley Library7pm Fiona Shaw & Katharine McMahon — Morley Library

Tuesday 9 October7.30pm Stanley Accrington — Gildersome Conservative Club

Colour codechildren’s events are peachy

Wednesday 10 October2pm Writing workshop with Stephen May — Morley Library7.00pm Monique Roffey & Stephen May — Morley Library7.30pm Jack Sheffield — Tingley Methodist Church Thursday 11 October7.30pm Chris Nickson & Simon Heywood — Churwell Community Centre7.45pm Ross Raisin, MY Alam, Wes Brown — Morley Library Friday 12 October2pm Leah Fleming — Morley Library7.30pm Polly Toynbee — Morley Town Hall Saturday 13 October10.30am Gillian Rogerson — Morley Library11.30am Stephen Waterhouse — Morley Library1.30pm Dave Simpson — Morley Town Hall3pm Helen Rappaport — Morley Town Hall5pm Simon Garfield — Morley Town Hall7.30pm Stuart Maconie — Morley Town Hall Sunday 14 October2.30pm Gavin Esler — City Varieties Music Hall7.30pm Val McDermid — Morley Town Hall

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Saturday 6 OctoberStephen WaterhouseChildren's event

Yorkshire-based author and illustrator Stephen Waterhouse creates colourful artwork for books, posters, jigsaws and cards. He is the author of the Get Busy… series for Bloomsbury about the adventures of a penguin family, and his latest illustrated work is My Pop Up Atlas.

Join him as he talks about his life as an illustrator and how he develops his characters and then invent your own original character using colourful felt-tip pens.

To see some of Stephen’s colourful artwork visit www.stephenwaterhouse.com

DetailsWhen 11.30amWhere Morley LibraryDuration 45 minutesPrice Free, no ticket requiredAge 5+


Saturday 6 OctoberConrad BurdekinChildren’s event

Conrad is a poet, storyteller, and writer, and has visited well over 100 different primary schools across Yorkshire inspiring children to write. He says that he likes writing poems because they don’t take very long and they are allowed to be silly. He is very proud of his latest poetry book, and especially likes the poem ‘Teachers Pick their Noses’ which he’s had in his head for ages, but only wrote down recently. He has no idea where the idea for the poem came from, but maintains that he NEVER picks his own nose.

To find out more about Conrad, visit www.conradburdekin.com where you can hear him read some of his poems.

DetailsWhen 2pmWhere Morley Town HallDuration 1 hourPrice £4

DetailsWhen 3.30pmWhere Morley Town HallDuration 1 hourPrice Free

Saturday 6 OctoberScience Fiction and SuperheroesDavid Hine, Adam Christopher, Samit Basu & Justina Robson

When Superman landed on our planet in 1938 to single-handedly birth the superhero genre, he came from the science fiction tradition. But how far has superhero fiction moved from its science fiction roots? And how have superhero stories fed back into SF?

We’re joined by comics writer David Hine and science fiction authors Adam Christopher, Samit Basu and Justina Robson to explore the point at which two genres meet.

Saturday 6 OctoberPublishing in the Digital Age

Just how easy is it to publish your own work? What are the processes, what’s available out there in terms of editing and publishing services and how do you produce a more professional-looking product?

Wes Brown, Director of DeadInkBooks.com, hosts this seminar on self-publishing featuring guests from Troubadour Publishing and local authors Mick McCann and Stuart Pereira.

Saturday 6 OctoberAL KennedyCreativity & Madness

Award-winning author AL Kennedy presents a talk on creativity and madness, the subject of her recent BBC Radio 3 documentary. She will question the cliched link between madness and creativity, claiming that being true to oneself and exploring one’s identity is integral to the making or performing of one’s art - however perilous this can seem.

AL Kennedy is the author of 12 books: 5 novels, 5 books of short stories and 2 books of non-fiction. Her novel Day won the Costa Book of the Year in 2007 and her most recent work, The Blue Book,will be published in paperback in August 2012.

DetailsWhen 7pmWhere Waterstones, Albion Street, Leeds City CentreDuration 1 hourPrice £3*

DetailsWhen 7.30pmWhere Morley Town HallDuration 1 hourPrice £6

Saturday 6 OctoberPeter Hookin conversation with Dave Simpson

“It’s very strange. Over the years Joy Division has become a huge part of music culture. A lot of people think they know what happened. But they don’t. Anyone who’s ever written a book or made a film about Joy Division, unless they were sat in that van or car with us, they don’t know anything about it. Me, Barney, Steve, Ian, Rob, Twinny, Terry and Dave. Only us lot know what really happened...”

This year, the NME named Joy Division’s ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ the greatest track of the last 60 years. Legendary bassist Peter Hook talks to Guardian music journalist Dave Simpson about his new memoir Unknown Pleasures, recounting the post-punk band’s journey from their formation in Manchester to frontman Ian Curtis’s tragic suicide on the eve of their first American tour.

*includes a glass of wine

Presented by

Sunday 7 OctoberTom HingleyCarpet Burns — My Life with Inspiral Carpets

‘Oh my God! Every band is the same. I couldn’t put it down.’ Peter Hook

Carpet Burns is Tom Hingley’s account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets, one of the big three bands of the Madchester movement who, along with The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, changed music for a generation.

The son of an Oxford Don, Tom brings a fresh and unique perspective on what it felt like to be in the eye of a pop hurricane and what happens when the hits end and the arguments kick in. Tom will perform some songs as part of this event.

Monday 8 OctoberReporting the RoyalsLiterary Lunch with Tim Ewart

Queen Elizabeth’s reign has seen some remarkable historical events and it has also seen new challenges, particularly around the Royal Family’s relationship with the media.

As ITV News’ Royal Correspondent, Tim Ewart has been reporting on the Windsors since the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981, and his background as a foreign correspondent has given him a unique perspective on the world of royal reporting.

Tim will have just returned from a royal trip to the South Pacific with Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge so who better to give us an insight into the Royal Family, and transformation in media relations since the ‘annus horribilis’?

DetailsWhen 12 noonWhere The Village Hotel, TingleyDuration 2 hours 30 minutesPrice £25*

DetailsWhen 2.30pmWhere St Peter’s Church, MorleyDuration 1 hourPrice £4

NB: Tickets for this event will not be sold through the box office. To book please contact Lesley Gettings on 0113 253 9763

*includes a 3-course lunch with tea/coffee to follow

DetailsWhen 2pmWhere Morley libraryDuration 3 hoursPrice £5*

DetailsWhen 7pmWhere Morley LibraryDuration 1 hourPrice £4*

Monday 8 OctoberCreative Writing Workshopwith Fiona Shaw

Birth, death and the big bits in-between: prose writing and rites of passage.

Take part in this creative writing workshop to explore how you can begin to write about those life-changing events, whether in fiction or in life-writing.This small and friendly workshop is suitable for writers of all levels.

Fiona Shaw is the author of four novels and a memoir, Out Of Me. She lives in York and is currently a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at Sheffield University, attached to the Animal and Plant Sciences Department.

*includes free entry to the evening reading by Fiona Shaw & Katherine McMahon

Monday 8 OctoberFiona Shaw & Katharine McMahon

Set across two continents, and opening dramatically on board a ship on course for Africa during World War Two, Fiona Shaw’s fourth novel A Stone’s Throw has received warm reviews for its beautifully told, moving story of self-determination, duty and familial love.

‘Her prose eshews the elemental: it is as subtle and delicate as gossamer... a masterclass in restraint’Financial Times

Katharine McMahon is an internationally published historical novelist. Her books include The Crimson Rooms and the best-selling The Rose Of Sebastopol which was shortlisted for the Best Read Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards. Her new book, Season of Light, is set during the French Revolution.NB: Tickets for this event will

only be sold from Morley Library

*including light refreshments

Wednesday 10 OctoberCreative Writing Workshopwith Stephen May

Writing a Novel – a creative writing workshop for writers of all levels of experience.

Stephen May’s latest novel, Life! Death! Prizes! was published by Bloomsbury in April this year to critical acclaim. His first novel Tag was published by a small Welsh press and won Welsh Book of the Year 2009 – despite Stephen not being Welsh.

A one-time drama teacher and manager of the Arvon Foundation’s Lumb Bank centre, Stephen lives in Yorkshire where he works for Arts Council England.

Tuesday 9 OctoberStanley Accrington with Morley Folk, Jim Saville & David Lindsay

An evening of folk song and banter presented in association with Morley Folk Club

A stalwart of the northern folk scene, Lancashire’s Stanley Accrington is well known for his satirical, off-the-wall humour, and his ability to write brilliantly topical songs at very short notice.

He’s joined by local duo Morley Folk, namely Keith Brown and Alan Street, who play a mix of contemporary and more traditional repertoire, and are the resident duo at the successful Morley Folk Club. The line-up also features local poets David Lindsay and Jim Saville.

DetailsWhen 7.30pmWhere Gildersome Conservative ClubDuration 2 hoursPrice £6*

DetailsWhen 2pmWhere Morley LibraryDuration 3 hoursPrice £5*

*ticket price includes a pie and pea supper

*includes free entry to the evening reading by Stephen May & Monique Roffey

NB: Tickets for this workshop are only available from Morley Library

DetailsWhen 7.30pmWhere Tingley Methodist ChurchDuration 1 hourPrice £4

DetailsWhen 7pmWhere Morley LibraryDuration 1 hourPrice £4*

Wednesday 10 OctoberJack Sheffield

Go back to a simpler, heart-warming time with the witty Jack Sheffield as he recounts his adventures in a small Yorkshire village in the eighties.

Leeds-born Sheffield returns to Morley with his latest book about Ragley Village School, Educating Jack. It’s 1982 – the time of ET and Greenham Common, Prince William’s birth, Fame leg warmers and the puzzling introduction of the new 20p piece.

‘Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure’ Alan Titchmarsh

Wednesday 10 OctoberMonique Roffey & Stephen May

Trinidad-born Monique Roffey’s The White Woman on a Green Bicycle was deservedly shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011. Her new novel, Archipelago, is also set in the Caribbean and is a novel about a man, a girl, a dog and their therapeutic boat journey on the sea.

Stephen May’s Life! Death! Prizes! also tracks how families deal with grief - in this case, a 19-year old battling to stay as sole carer of his 6 year-old brother after their mother dies. The boys’ new world is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it’s also a world that teeters perilously on its axis.

‘Life! Death! Prizes! is an intoxicating gulp of a novel’ Chrisopher Wakling

*including light refreshments

Thursday 11 OctoberChris Nickson & Simon Heywood

Join Chris and Simon for an evening of murder, mayhem, laughter and music from the deep shadows of the past.

Chris Nickson writes crime novels set in Leeds in the 1730s. Simon Heywood is a storyteller who explores the darker side of England.

Together they present an entertaining mix of readings, conversation, tales true and false, and even some of the old folk songs that feature in Chris’ novels The Broken Token and Cold Cruel Winter.

DetailsWhen 7.30pmWhere Churwell Community CentreDuration 1 hour 30 minsPrice £5

DetailsWhen 7.45pmWhere Morley LibraryDuration 1 hourPrice £4

Thursday 11 OctoberClass, Identity, EnvironmentRoss Raisin, M Y Alam, Wes Brown

A discussion between three authors from the region on how location influences their work and shapes their characters’ identities and actions.

Born in Keighley Ross Raisin’s first novel God’s Own Country immersed readers in the Yorkshire dialect of the Haworth moors and his latest Waterline, tracks the decline into homelessness of a Glaswegian shipbuilder.

MY Alam’s latest novel Red Laal is at once a page-turning thriller and an homage to his home city of Bradford. Wes Brown’s debut novel Shark, set in working class Leeds, won acclaim for its style and use of Northern vernacular.

NB: Tickets for this event will not be sold through the box office. To book please contact Denise Blower on 0113 238 0025 or email [email protected]

Friday 12 OctoberLeah Fleming

Leah Fleming is an author of epic, romantic novels.

She has published 15 novels and was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel Association awards in 1998 and 2010. The Captain’s Daughter is currently shortlisted for the Premio Roma Award in Italy for Foreign Fiction 2012 under the title: La Strada in Fundo al Mare.

Leah says that being based in the beautiful landscape of a Yorkshire Dales village brought out the storyteller within; although ideas for new novels are usually marinated for a few months each year under an olive grove on Crete!


DetailsWhen 2pmWhere Morley LibraryDuration 1 hourPrice Free, no ticket required

Friday 12 OctoberPolly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee has been a political and social commentator for the Guardian since 1998 and is one of the most influential columnists in the UK. In 2007 she was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ at the British Press Awards.

Most recently she co-authored Unjust Rewards: Exposing Greed and Inequality in Britain Today (2008) and The Verdict: Did Labour change Britain? (2010). President of the British Humanist Association, she was made an Honorary Doctor of The Open University in 2005 for “her notable contribution to the educational and cultural well-being of society”.

Come and hear her speak on the most pressing topical subjects of the day.

Saturday 13 OctoberStephen WaterhouseChildren's event

Yorkshire-based author and illustrator Stephen Waterhouse returns for another hands-on workshop for children. Design and draw your own hot air balloon. What would you take with you and where would you go?

Stephen is the author of the Get Busy… series for Bloomsbury about the adventures of a penguin family, and his latest illustrated work is My Pop Up Atlas.


DetailsWhen 10.30amWhere Morley LibraryDuration 45 minutesPrice Free, no ticket requiredAge 3 — 6

Saturday 13 OctoberGillian RogersonChildren’s event

Picture book author Gillian Rogerson reads from her latest splendidly silly picturebook You Can’t Scare a Princess.

When a crew of scurvy pirates sail up the Royal Moat and take King Cupcake captive, there’s only one person who can save the day: Princess Spaghetti! But Captain Waffle is the meanest, baddest pirate in the whole wide world – has Princess Spaghetti met her match?


DetailsWhen 3pmWhere Morley Town HallDuration 1 hour 30 minsPrice £7*

Saturday 13 OctoberThe Last ChampionsDave Simpson

Guardian journalist Dave Simpson talks about The Last Champions, his new book about Leeds United and their 1992 championship win. That same year football changed for ever with the arrival of the Premier League, skyrocketing wages, billionaire foreign owners and the dictates of television taking the game away from the fans.

The book looks back at the roots of Leeds United’s championship success as well as the amazing cast of characters that came together to bring about their triumph. It is a brilliantly told story of the end of an era.

Saturday 13 OctoberAfternoon Tea with Helen Rappaport

Over afternoon tea, Historian Helen Rappaport introduces her new book, Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert & the Death that Changed the Monarchy.

Following Albert’s death after 21 years of marriage, the Queen retreated into a state of pathological grief which nobody could penetrate and few understood.

Drawing widely on contemporary letters, diaries and memories, Rappaport brings new light to bear on the causes of Albert’s death and tracks Victoria’s mission to commemorate her husband in perpetuity. Richly compelling, this is the story of a magnificent obsession that even death could not sever.

*including afternoon tea

DetailsWhen 5pmWhere Morley Town HallDuration 1 hourPrice £4


Saturday 13 OctoberSimon Garfield

The author of the international bestseller Just My Type turns his inquisitive gaze to maps.

From the awe-inspiring medieval Mappa Mundi and the early explorers’ maps to treasure maps and the satellite renderings on our smart phones, Simon Garfield explores the unique way that maps relate and realign our history – and reflect the best and worst of what makes us human.

Packed with fascinating tales of cartographic intrigue, outsize personalities, and amusing ‘Pocket Maps’, On the Map is a rich historical tapestry infused with Garfield’s signature narrative flair. Map-obsessives and carto-phobics alike will be lining up to join him on this richly illustrated journey through time and around the globe.

Saturday 13 OctoberStuart Maconie

Spend an evening in the company of popular and prolific TV and radio presenter and author Stuart Maconie. Stuart co-hosts the Radcliffe and Maconie Show, as well as The Freak Zone on BBC 6 Music, and has written and presented dozens of other shows on BBC Radio.

He is the UK’s best-selling travel writer of non-TV tie-in books and his Pies and Prejudice was one of 2008’s top selling paperbacks. His work has been compared with Bill Bryson, Alan Bennett and John Peel. His music memoir Cider with Roadies was published in 2004. In his latest book Hope and Glory Stuart goes in search of the places, people and events that have shaped modern Britain.

DetailsWhen 2.30pmWhere City Varieties Music Hall, LeedsDuration 1 hourPrice £8


Sunday 14 October Gavin EslerLessons from the Top

Behind every leader there is always a great story.

Join us at the City Varieties Music Hall where BBC Newsnight’s Gavin Esler presents a fascinating portrait of leadership in the modern world.

Esler draws upon 30 years’ experience at the BBC to show how leaders in all fields, from politics to business, showbiz to sport, are masters at crafting stories – about themselves, their origins and their beliefs.

Reflecting on his encounters with the likes of Clinton, Blair, Mandela, Branson, Thatcher, Merkel and also Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, Dolly Parton and even members of the IRA, Esler reveals how leaders create their images, how media has changed story telling and how it can all go horribly wrong for those at the top.

Sunday 14 OctoberVal McDermidin conversation with N J Cooper

We are delighted to welcome international award winning crime-writer Val McDermid, “the acknowledged queen of the psychological thriller” (The Guardian) to close this year’s festival.

McDermid is a Top 10 bestselling author; her books have been translated into more than 30 languages, with over 2 million copies sold in the UK and 10 million worldwide. Her landmark 25th novel, The Retribution, scored Val her first Number One and was published in September 2011 to critical acclaim.

She is the author of Wire in the Blood, as seen in the highly successful ITV1 drama series starring Robson Green as Tony Hill, which ran for an impressive six series.

Presented in association with

Paul Rooney — New workRenowned artist Paul Rooney will create a new video work to be screened from an empty shop window. Liverpool-based Rooney is a previous winner of the Northern Art Prize and his piece will blur elements of fact and fiction relating to the history of Morley.

This year’s public artwork has been funded by

Fact & Fiction: A series of public art works for Morley Town Centre.This year we are working with Leeds Met’s Fine Art Department on a series of temporary public art works for Morley Town Centre during the festival.

Playful Public SignageDuring the festival look out for five new pieces of temporary public signage around the pedestrian precinct in Morley. Created by locally-based artists Paul Ashton, Amelia Crouch, Clare Charnley, Jess Mitchell and Vikkie Mulford, the new works may or may not look like familiar public signs. Can you spot them?

Pick up one of our arts trail leaflets to find them all!

Work, Class & Morley: A Walking Tour with Elisa OliverSaturday 6 October, 10.30am - meet outside Morley Town Hall’s Queen Street entrance

This informal tour of Morley town centre will look at buildings and locations that trace the history of class, work and working conditions within the area. Probing beyond the facades of buildings, we’ll ask how these traces reflect what we mean by class today, how our notions of ‘work’ have changed and the impact of these changes on identity.Bring your own memories of Morley with you to share amongst literary readings and historical reflections.

Schools ProgrammeWe’ve another packed programme of activity for schools this year, including:

Friends of Morley Literature FestivalBecoming a Friend of Morley Literature Festival is a great way to meet like-minded book lovers and support the running of the festival. For an annual subscriptiion of £5, Friends of Morley Literature Festival enjoy:

— Opportunity to steward at events— Friends newsletter— Invitation to special events

during the year

Short story competition The Friends administer an annual short story competition with cash prizes.

For more information on the 2013 competition contact Stuart [email protected]

Nick ArnoldThe author of the award-winning series Horrible Science and Wild Lives is our special guest for an inter-school Meet The Author event at Morley Town Hall on Friday 12 October.

Poetry FactorA poetry slam championship for primary and high schools led by poet and singer Andy Craven-Griffiths, including workshop days and showcase competition.

Emma Barnes & Curtis JoblingAuthor/illustrators Emma and Curtis will be running author events for school groups in Morley Library during the week of the festival.

To find out more contact Ann Dodgson on0113 252 [email protected]


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VenuesMorley Town HallQueen Street, LS27 9EB

Morley Library Commercial Street, Morley, Leeds, LS27 8HZ

St Peter’s ChurchRooms Lane, Morley, Leeds, LS27 9PA

Waterstones93-97 Albion Street, Leeds LS1 5JS

City Varieties Music HallSwan Street, Leeds, LS1 6LW

Village HotelCapitol Boulevard, Tingley, LS27 0TS

Gildersome Conservative ClubStreet Lane, Gildersome, Leeds LS27 7HX

Tingley Methodist ChurchWesterton Road, Tingley WF3 1BH

Churwell Community CentreElland Road, Leeds LS27 7SY

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How to book ticketsBy telephone

0844 848 2706 (Leeds Grand Theatre)Mon – Sat 9.30am – 8:00pm

Online


In person

Leeds Grand Theatre, 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NZ (Mon – Sat 9.30am – 8:00pm)

Morley Library, Commercial Street, Morley, Leeds LS27 8HY(Opening hours vary, tel. 0113 214 5418)

NB

Tickets for the Literary Lunch on 8 October are only available from Lesley Gettings – 0113 253 9763. Tickets for Chris Nickson & Simon Heywood on 11 October are only available from Denise Blower – 0113 238 0025.


Morley Literature Festival would like to thank its partners and funders:

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Morley Literature Festival 2012 Brochure