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LITERARY FESTIVALSW11
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IntroductionWelcome to the 2008 SW11 Literary Festival organised by Waterstone’sand the Clapham Junction Town Centre Partnership. This year’s festivalis also in conjunction with Time & Leisure Magazine, whom we wouldlike to thank for their support.
The festival would not be possible without the writers, and we wouldlike to thank them not only for the festival but also for enriching ourlives. The festival gives book lovers the opportunity to meet some oftheir favourite writers and to discover new ones, to attend workshopsto sharpen their writing talent or to try their hand at something new.
The ongoing support from Wandsworth Council and Waterstones makethis festival a highlight of the year in Battersea. We would like tothank Angus MacLlennan, manager of Waterstones Clapham Junctionand his staff Eva von Reuss, Cate Moggridge, Becky Hine, KathrynMckenna and Dee Greer for their hard work, Lorinda Freint, the towncentre manager, and of course Wandsworth Libraries, Apples andSnakes, Spread the Word, the businesses who provided venues and thebusinesses who provided sponsorship, as well as all the others whohelped in different ways. Also a big thank you to all the volunteerswho help at the events, and to Emma Jane Clark for her work on theChocky-Wocky Book Bash.
Enjoy the festival!
SW11 Literary Festival Poet in residence 2008 Niall O’Sullivan
Niall O'Sullivan has written and performed poetry since 1997, playing venues all over theUK and Europe, working with organisations such as the British Council, the PoetrySociety and Apples & Snakes, and featuring alongside artists such as Hugo Williams,Roger McGough, Pete Doherty, Phill Jupitus and John Hegley. His first collection, ‘you’renot singing anymore’, was published by Waterways in December 2004. His secondcollection ‘Ventriloquism for Monkeys’ was released with the same publisher in November2007. He hosts Poetry Unplugged, London's biggest open mic event, at CoventGarden's Poetry Café. Before turning professional as a poet, Niall worked for a decadeas a gardener.
"Niall O'Sullivan is known as a host and champion of live poetry in London. It's temptingto call his second collection a crossover - yet these don't read like performance piecestamed for the page, for Niall is no genre hybrid, he is simply a good writer – warm,smart, thoughtful. His poetry inhabits a place where pertinence and impertinence meet.”– Roddy Lumsden.
Poem for all the Old Men that Still Have Elvis Haircuts
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I saw one of them getting off the number 3outside Brixton Town Hall this morning.
He must’ve been in the last five years of his working life,but he still had a full head of hair
and he wasn’t afraid to use it.
Same cut he must’ve had since way backwhen his best mate pulled hot black vinyl
from a crisp white sleeve, snarlingyou aint heard nothin’ yet
with a newfound curl to his lip.After that there came the hard blip
of the needle hitting the grooveand what happened next
was enough to send our boy hometo plunge his fingers into a tub of Brylcreem
and baptise himself.
He kept on doing itthrough strike and recession
through moon landings and flower power,even as hair sprouted from his ears
and his abdomen echoed the Vegas years,he kept on doing it because nothing else
had hit him so hard, searing his souland leaving him all shook up, uh-huh-huh.
Look out for them, they’re everywherestanding out from the other fickle generations
like a well-pronounced ring on an oak tree’s trunksignifying that in that particular year
conditions were suddenly extreme and unpredictable.
Parklife - late august
two days after the stormthe trees of Acton park
are creaking in a breezeless heat
a creaking you could only discernby digging your fingernails
into the ground
the beautiful need blankets between their bronzed skins and the grass
laid down on a slow sweata sexual inertia
you soon bore of watching
the real stories always sit on the benches
a 41 year old virgin squints through booming specs into a bible
while nibbling crustless squaresof honey sandwiches
two benches from thereis the catch of the day
a traffic wardenshe’s been sat for two hours
legs crossed in the same position
she was out in ittwo days ago
drenched to the bonea fair run from shelterwhen lightning struck the tree above her
never had she felt as scaredand yet
she felt she had been chosenfor what?
she still hasn't figured it outchain-smoking mayfairs
patches of sweatforming on her uniform
the ticket book not yet openedas slowly
a cumulus of heartachesregroup within her
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Monday 8 September - 7pm £4 * Victoria HislopWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
‘A beautiful tale of enduring love and unthinking prejudice’ –Daily Express.
Victoria Hislop’s first novel ‘The Island’ was published in 2005. Astory of family secrets set amongst the beautiful scenery ofCrete, it tells the story of Alexis Fielding, a woman on the cusp ofa life-changing decision. The novel shot to the height of publicattention and the bestseller lists with the help of Richard andJudy’s summer book club and went on to win Book of the Year atthe 2007 British Book Awards and has sold over a million copies.
‘The Return’, Hislop’s new book, was published this summer andthis time the novel focuses on Spain during and after the CivilWar. Set in Granada it tells of a family divided by politics andtragedy, at a time when everyone must take sides on a personaland national level; whilst, seventy years later a dancer discoversthe dark secrets of the city’s past.
Victoria Hislop read English at St. Hilda’s, Oxford and was, untilrecently, primarily a journalist writing for Sunday Telegraph, TheMail on Sunday and Woman & Home. She lives in Sissinghurst,Kent with her husband and their two children.
We are delighted and privileged that she has agreed to be thefirst event of this year’s Festival.
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Tuesday 9 September - 7pm £4 * David LoynBattersea Arts Centre, Lower Hall, Lavender Hill
‘Where did it all go wrong?’ – Britain’s involvement in Iraq andAfghanistan with David Loyn and Oliver Poole.
David Loyn
David Loyn has been a foreign correspondent for more than 25years, mostly with the BBC. He has covered conflicts in threecontinents and won major awards for both TV and radio reportingincluding 'Journalist of the Year' in the Royal Television SocietyAwards in 1999. He has travelled extensively in Afghanistan for thepast 15 years and was the only foreign reporter with the Talibanwhen they took Kabul in 1996. His first book Frontline wasshortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2006.
His new book ‘Butcher and Bolt’ is published this Autumn and gives apolemical account of foreign failure in that country. It brings to life thecolourful characters involved in Afghanistan's relationship with theworld, drawing lessons from the past and chronicling misunderstandingsand missed opportunities that have often lead to war.
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Wednesday 10 September - 7pm £4 * Food Night with Mark Hix and Rose PrinceWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
Mark Hix
We are honoured to be hosting an evening with Mark Hix,celebrated chef and food writer. Starting his career in restaurants at18 Hix has worked for the Hilton Group, The Dorchester and waschef-director of Caprice Holdings, then owners of The Ivy and LeCaprice. He has recently opened his own restaurant Hix Oyster andChop House, to unanimously brilliant reviews which has made itundoubtedly the place to be seen this summer. He also appearedon Great British Menu, winning his heat for South West England,from where he originates.
He has written a number of books on British food. His two latest –‘British Regional Food’ and, published this autumn, ‘British SeasonalFood’ – reflect his passion for both locally and seasonally sourcedingredients and his love for the authentic, sometimes forgottenrecipes of Britain. He has been voted Glenfiddich Newspaper‘Cookery Writer of the Year’ and The Guild of Food Writers ‘BestCookery Writer’.
Rose Prince
We are delighted to welcome back Rose Prince to the Festival this year.She is an acclaimed freelance food journalist who regularly features inThe Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Independent. Her firstbook ‘The New English Kitchen’ was published in 2005 and is a guideto sourcing the best food for the best price. Her new book ‘The NewEnglish Table’ continues this theme and includes many more wonderful,simple recipes including ideas on what to do with leftovers. These twocookery books were augmented by her bestseller ‘The Savvy Shopper’which also helps us all shop and cook with a clear conscience.
She lives locally with her husband and two children.
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Thursday 11 September - 7pm £4 * Comic Writers Night with William Sutcliffe And Tibor FischerWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
William Sutcliffe
‘I want to write books that can communicate to people with all kindsof interests’ William Sutcliffe.
An alumnus of Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, Sutcliffe started hiscareer with a novel about school life called ‘New Boy’ in 1996. thiswas followed by his best known and bestselling book ‘Are YouExperienced?’, a pre-university gap-year novel in which two youngpeople travel to India with the intention of ‘finding themselves’. Asharp satire of the middle class traveller and already a classic of thegenre, it is both hilarious and profound. His new novel ‘WhateverMakes You Happy’ turns its attention to the young at home, dealingwith two young men, their love lives and the imminent interferenceof their conniving mothers during a week of live-in life coaching. Hehas written ‘The Love Hexagon’, a London based novel published in2000. he is a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where hemet his wife, novelist Maggie O’Farrell.
Tibor Fischer
‘One of our funniest intellects’ Stephen Poole, The Guardian.
Tibor Fischer’s first book, ‘Under the Frog’ was published in 1992 andbecame a literary sensation. It tells the story of a Hungarianbasketball player, Gyuri Fischer, who dreams of escaping to the westwhile on tour in 1950’s Hungary (both of Fischer’s parents wereprofessional Basketball players). It won the Betty Trask Award andwas shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His other works include ‘TheThought Gang’, ‘The Collector Collector’ and a collection of shortstories ‘Don’t read this Book If You’re Stupid’. His new novel ‘Goodto Be God’ is published this autumn and tells the tale of TyndaleCorbett, his attempts to convince the citizens of Miami that he isThe Supreme Being and his involvement with Church of the HeavilyArmed Christ.
He was born in Stockport to Hungarian parents but grew up inLondon before going to Cambridge to study Latin and French.
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Friday 12 September - 7pm £4 * A World Without Bees
Alison Benjamin, Brian McCallum and James Hamill (The Hive Honey Shop)Waterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then manwould only have four years of life left.” Albert Einstein.
Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum
Alison and Brian took up beekeeping three years ago and havesince written two books on the subject. ‘A World Without Bees’ istheir second, released this June and delves into Einstein’s famousquote and the increasing alarms we hear raised on the futureextinction of the honeybee. They explore both sides of theargument and leave no stone unturned. Alison writes for TheGuardian newspaper whilst her partner Brian is studying tobecome a geography teacher. They live locally and are strongspeakers on environmental issues.
James Hamill from The Hive Honey Shop
James has run the world famous ‘The Hive Honey Shop’ onNorthcote Road for 16 years now but has been beekeeping allhis life, a skill which was has been passed down from hisgrandfather. He has won over 50 awards and runs courses fromhis farm in Kingswood, Surrey.
This promises to be a fantastic local event, with Alison and Brianspeaking on ‘A world without bees’ and then James on how tostart up beekeeping. There will also be an opportunity to try,and, buy, some Wandsworth honey, honey chocolates and James’sfarm apple juice.
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Saturday 13 September - 10am-5pm £5 Pathways into Playwriting: an introduction – WorkshopYork Library, Lavender Road, Battersea SW11.
This introductory practical workshop is aimed at adults interested increating a short dramatic script for the stage. The workshop willcomprise both of writing exercises as well as interactive improvisationexercises in order to explore fully the theatre making process. Theparticipants will leave the workshop with their own short piece ofwritten work and the tools to continue the process at home.
Booking is essential.
Saturday 13 September - 2pm Free (Ticketed event)
Emma Chichester Clark – Children’s EventWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
‘Among the many flavours of children’s books, that of EmmaChichester Clark’s – funny, elegant and delicious – is unique.’Quentin Blake.
Emma Chichester Clark has written and illustrated numerousacclaimed children’s books, including ‘I Love You, Blue Kangaroo’and others in the series. She was born in London but lived inIreland until 1975. she studied at the Chelsea School of Art andThe Royal College of Art where she was taught by Quentin Blake.She has twice been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
She will be reading her new book ‘Hansel and Gretel’, and signingcopies of her books for children and adults alike.
Although the event is free it will still be ticketed as we are verylimited for space! So it is first come first served!
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Saturday 13 September - 10am-4pm £5 Telling Stories - WorkshopTutor: Jan BlakeNorthcote Library, 155E Northcote Road
In this introductory practical workshop you will explore the oralcraft of storytelling with the internationally acclaimed Jan Blake.
Jan Blake is an internationally acclaimed storyteller, specializing instories from Africa and the Caribbean. She has appeared atstorytelling events in a range of venues from schools to artscentres throughout the world and continues to innovate withinthe art form.
Booking is essential.
Saturday 13 September - 11am-4pm £5 Poetry - Workshop Presented by Apples and SnakesBAC, Lavender Hill
Are you tempted to try out your poetry at a spoken-word event?Are you a spoken-word performer looking for new ideas anddirections? SW11 Literary Festival’s poet-in-residence NiallO'Sullivan leads a one-day workshop of exercises to helpgenerate new poems, and there’ll be tips on building yourconfidence and technique as you take that leap from page tostage. Suitable for beginners or poets needing a kickstart.
Booking is essential.
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Saturday 13 September - 7pm £6 Tim EcottBloxham Gallery, 129 St. John’s Hill
‘Funny, witty and affecting [Stealing Water] is a very differentAfrican memoir about the true value of friendship and how theworst of times can become the most important and valuableperiod of a person’s life.’ The Good Book Guide.
Tim Ecott is a former BBC correspondent and broadcast newsproducer who resigned in 1998 to write full time. His journalismand travel writing have appeared in The Economist, The Times,The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. His most recent book‘Stealing Water: A Secret Life in an African City’ was published inMarch 2008 and tells of his growing up in South Africa, thebreak-up of his family and the subsequent return to Ireland forhim and his father. It is a poignant, funny, affecting, moving andslightly bizarre tale, full of rich characters and memories.
He has also written ‘travel’ books, ‘Vanilla’ and ‘Natural Buoyancy:Adventures in a Liquid World’ which draws on his experience oftwo years in the Seychelles as a diving instructor. He has alsowritten the screenplay for the movie version of the BBC’s BluePlanet series (Deep Blue).
Tim lives in Oxford with his family.
Tuesday 2 September till 13 SeptemberPicture as Narrative - Exhibition by Adrian Erasmus
This exhibition will run from the launch of the Festival on 2 Septuntil Tim Ecott’s event on 13 Sept. Adrian is a South-African photographer who has had successfulexhibitions in his home country and has had a number of picturespublished in magazines. This exhibition includes pictures of aspecific section of the South-African community, and is thebeginning of a wider project which will depict all the groups whomake up the urban poor. In his pictures Adrian follows in thetradition of the David Goldblatt.
When capturing the moment, capture the emotion. – A. Erasmus.
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Monday 15 September - 7pm £4 * Crime Writer’s Panel with Jason Goodwin, Andrew Martin andMeg GardinerWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
Jason Goodwin
Jason Goodwin is the author of three novels set in Istanbul duringthe nineteenth century and featuring the Turkish eunuch detectiveYashim Togalu. The first of this series, ‘The Janissary Tree’, won theEdgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel in 2007 and it has beenfollowed by ‘The Snake Stone’ and, this summer, ‘The Bellini Card’.The novels reflect the serpentine nature of the backstreets of thecity in their labyrinthine twist and turns the style of which havebeen compared to ‘The Name of the Rose’.
Goodwin studied Byzantine history at Cambridge and this influencedhim to take a pilgrimage across eastern Europe to Istanbul, theresult being his first book, ‘On Foot for the Golden Horne’, a brillianttravel biography which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1993. Heis married to Kate, his companion on this journey and lives in Dorset.
Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin is a former Spectator Young Writer of the Year, aYorkshire man and journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Granta. He haswritten many novels; some comic, but most atmospheric murdermysteries set in the golden age of the steam railways. The first inthe series ‘Necropolis Railway’, was a runaway success (apologies)and follows the protagonist Jim Stringer south from York to Londonwhere he discovers a tawdry world of bars, brothels and murder whichstarts him on his career as ‘The Railway Detective’. The fifth title inthe series ‘Death on a Branch Line’ was published this June.
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Meg Gardiner
Meg Gardiner was brought up in Santa Barbara but now lives inCobham, Surrey with her husband and children. After graduatingfrom Stanford Law School and practising law in L.A., she went on toteach on the Writing Program at the University of California. Shestarted to write crime thrillers after moving to England and is now afull time writer. Her first book ‘China Lake’ introduced her heroineEvan Delaney who has featured in most subsequent novels.
Meg is probably unique in the annals of American crime writers inhaving originally only being published in Britain. Her profile wassubstantially raised stateside after a glowing endorsement fromStephen King in his influential ‘Entertainment Weekly’ column where hestated that he was ‘convinced [he] had found the next suspensesuperstar’. Things have changed since then and she now has six novelsin print, her latest being ‘Dirty Secrets Club’, published this summer.
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Tuesday 16 September - 7pm £4 * Tom Holland in conversation with James DelingpoleWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
Tom Holland
Tom Holland is one of the brightest and bestselling stars in thehistorical firmament.
‘Rubicon’ looks at the final decades of the Roman republic and dealswith some of the great characters of ancient history – Pompey,Cato, Cicero and Caesar – and was shortlisted for the SamuelJohnson Prize in 2003. Immensely readable and charged with a truenarrative drive it has been instrumental in the fresh new wave ofhistorical writing we are now so fortunate to have. As Ian McEwansaid ‘This is narrative history at its best…it really held me, in fact,obsessed me’.
‘Persian Fire’, his second ancient history, tells the story of the globalsuperpower that was the Persian Empire of the 5th century BC andits struggle with the ‘terrorist’ states of Athens and Sparta. Thestory of how the citizens of these two states took on the most
powerful man on the planet is as heart stoppingas any episode in history.
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Tuesday 16 September - 7pm £3 Poetic FrenzyTaybridge Pub, 47-49 Lavender Hill
Seasoned performer Niall O’Sullivan celebrates his stint as ourresident poet with an evening of spoken word. Join him as heintroduces some of the most finely-honed voices from today’s live-lit scene, including The Speech Painter, Nandita Ghose, Sam Coxand Inua Ellams. Beware of fast-moving verbs, and prepare to haveyour thoughts well and truly provoked.
An exciting and popular evening of entertainment you wont forget– Go on, do something different…
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His new book ‘Millenium’ covers the two centuries either side of theapocalyptic year 1000 and concentrates on the dawning of a newage in Western Europe. It was the age of Canute, William theConqueror, Vikings, monks and serfs and the primal conflict betweenchurch and state. As reviewer Andrew Holgate said of ‘Persian Fire’,‘All the elements that made Rubicon so exhilarating – Holland’serudition, his cynicism, and above all his narrative zest – are presentand correct in the new one.’ Expect similar praise this autumn.
James Delingpole
James Delingpole is well known for his work as a political and socialwriter. His works include ‘Thinly Disguised Autobiography’ which TheTimes reviewed as ‘…snappy, snortingly funny and incrediblypropulsive – the apparently aimless narrative grips throughout’; and‘How to Be Right’. Published in June this year his latest book‘Coward on the Beach’ is a novel which follows the adventures ofDick Coward, a reluctant World War II hero with an unfortunateknack for being in just the right place at exactly the wrong time. Itis a very English book, reminiscent of the Flashman series (there areanother nine books planned in the series), but based on thetestimony of War Veterans Delingpole collected for his War Lifecolumn in The Spectator.
He writes for many national papers including The Times and TheTelegraph and is TV critic of The Spectator.
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Wednesday 17 September - 7pm £4 * Nadeem AslamWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
‘Despite the violence that lies at the heart of the novel, it is acelebration of love and life… This is that rare sort of book thatgives a voice to those whose voices are seldom heard’ The Observeron ‘Maps for Lost Lovers’.
Nadeem Aslam is one of Britain’s finest contemporary authors. Hisfirst novel ‘Season of the Rainbirds’ (1993) won the Betty TraskAward, the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted forthe John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Whitbread FirstNovel Award.
His second book ‘Maps for Lost Lovers’ (2004) took him intouncharted territory as a bestselling literary sensation. It deals withthe death, possibly murder, of two British Muslims and thedisintegration of a family living on the cultural fringes of its adoptedcountry. There are few books which seem to have engendered such arapturous response from critics and readers alike to its jewel-likeprose and expose of the tortured immigrant experience.
‘The Wasted Vigil’, Aslam’s new book, published this autumn, takesplace in modern day Afghanistan. Spanning nearly a quarter of acentury the stories and histories that gradually unfold tell of theterrible afflictions that have plagued Afghanistan. The manyprotagonists tell the tale from differing perspectives; American,Russian, English, as well as Afghan, both radicalised and domestic. It is a work of the deepest humanity and offers a timely portrait ofa region so beset by war and conflict. It is angry, unflinching andmemorably beautiful.
After having appeared at our festival in 2005 as part of a panel ofwriters (where his gentle nature and exquisite prose ratheroverwhelmed both audience and fellow authors alike) we aredelighted that this year Nadeem has returned to appear ‘solo’.
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Thursday 18 September - 7pm £6/£4 concessions
Will SelfSt. Mary’s Church, Battersea Church Road
‘Brilliantly original, Will Self is one of those rare writers whoseimaginations change for ever the way we see the world’ J G Ballard.
A regular broadcaster on television and radio, contributor tonumerous newspapers and magazines, novelist and writer ofextraordinary ingenuity, Will Self is a force of literary nature andgood friend to Waterstone’s SW11 (he appeared briefly at theFestival in 2006 solely to introduce his good friend Ralph Steadman,as well as giving a talk earlier that year at the BAC).
Will Self was born in London and ended his education at ExeterCollege, Cambridge. From his first published work, the short storycollection ‘The Quantum Theory of Insanity’ he has been both aninimitable, original voice and a high profile player on the mediascene. Sacked from ‘The Observer’ for allegedly taking heroin onJohn Major’s election jet, he has maintained a separate yetinfluential position as a journalist and novelist yet has still managedto garner many literary prizes: the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in1991, the French Aga Khan Prize for Fiction in 1998 and theBollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2008 forhis novel ‘The Butt’ published earlier this year. He has also beenshortlisted three times for the Bad Sex in Fiction Prize in 2002,2004 and 2006, but has never won.
This year has seen the publication of the paperback of‘Psychogeography’ written with Ralph Steadman, ‘The Butt’, a grandpost 9/11 satire/roadtrip of a novel, full of the keystone wild humourand vicious seriousness redolent in a Will Self novel. Later thisautumn will follow a collection of shorter prose ‘The Undivided Self ’.
‘I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things.You are removing things, snipping away at language to reveal a livingform’ Will Self.
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Friday 19 September - 7pm £6/£4 concessions
Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara VineSt. Mary’s Chuch, Battersea Church Road
‘Ruth Rendell is, I believe, unique among British crime writers. No-one can equal her range or her accomplishment; no-one has earnedmore respect from her fellow practitioners…As writers, we’re lucky tohave her to inspire us. As readers, we’re even luckier to have herbooks.’ Val McDermid.
Ruth Rendell is one of the world’s best known crime writers. Her newnovel ‘The Birthday Present’, published this August, is written underher pseudonym Barbara Vine, an alter-ego she uses when writingbooks of a psychological suspenseful nature.
‘The Birthday Present’ is her 58th book in a career which beganwith the publication of the first Wexford novel ‘From Doon withDeath’ in 1964. Another twenty books have followed in this series,whose popularity has been heightened by the television series‘Inspector Wexford Mysteries’.
She has never been content to be pigeonholed by the success ofthe Wexford books, writing many stand alone novels as well as thetwelve written as Barbara Vine. What interests her as a writer,however, has remained constant: the collision of society and theindividual; the changing mores of Britain since the mid-sixties; howpeople react when things start to fall apart; the ordinary inextraordinary situations – these things are aided by her exquisitesense of place and her skill as a surgeon of the human psyche.
Rendell has received many awards for her writing, including theSilver, Gold and Cartier Diamond Daggers from the Crime Writers’Association. She was made a CBE in 1996 and a life peer asBaroness Rendell of Babergh in 1997. She sits in the House ofLords for New Labour.
We are very honoured that she has agreed to appear at this year’s Festival.
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Saturday 20 September - 10am-1pm £5 Creating Crime - Writing Workshop Tutor: Natasha CooperNorthcote Library, 155E Northcote Road
This workshop is an introduction to writing crime fiction. You willlearn how to develop plot, create believable characters and settings.Open to all levels.
Natasha Cooper is a crime writer. She is the author of the WillowKing series and the Trish Maguire novels. She was Chair of theCrime Writers' Association in 1999/2000. Natasha also broadcasts,reviews, writes features and short stories and talks to readinggroups and literary festivals in the UK and US.
Booking is essential.
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Saturday 20 September - 7pm £4 * Dorothy RoweWaterstone’s, 70 St. John’s Road
Dorothy Rowe is a clinical psychologist, writer and expert onresearch into the biological basis of mental disorder. She was bornand raised in New South Wales, Australia and came to England in1968. in 1972 she set up and headed the Lincolnshire Departmentof Clinical Psychology.
In 1986 Dorothy left the National Health Service to become self-employed. She is now an Emeritus Associate of the Royal College ofPsychiatrists. She now lives in London, writing regularly for SagaMagazine and Openmind, as well as for newspapers and magazines;she appears frequently in the media, has been named as one of theUK’s wisest people and also bears the astonishing accolade of beingnamed one of the 100 Living Geniuses by a global vote (she came72=) for the consultancy Creators Synetics.
She is the author of twelve books, her best known being ‘Depression:The Way Out of your Prison’ published in 1984 and winner of theMind Book of the Year Award of that year.
Dorothy Rowe’s latest book ‘What Should I believe?’ will be publishedin October. In it she cites the rise of religion to its current state ofpolitical power, how it affects us all, whether we are religious or not.She shows how, if used as a defence mechanism, we can feelcompelled to force our beliefs on to other people by coercion oraggression. Yet she also explores the power of religious and spiritualbelief and shows how it is possible to create a set of beliefs whichallow us to live at peace with ourselves and others, to feel strong inourselves without having to remain a child, forever dependent onsome supernatural power, and to face life with courage and optimism.
Although the book will most likely not be available at the time ofthe event we believe that the timely nature of the subject and thehonour of having such a distinguished guest made it worthwhilenevertheless. (A special offer will be available on the night for when
the book is published!)
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Friday 26 September - 6.30pm £10 Chocky-Wocky Book BashChocolate festivalYork Gardens Library, Lavender Road, Battersea
Sweet toothed guests to this event will have theirchocolate cravings satisfied fully, as an evening ofpure chocolate decadence mixed with literaryentertainment, is planned for this year's LiteraryFestival closing party. Micah Carr-Hill (chef & co-author of Green & Black's Recipe Book) will bewhipping up wonderful chocolate creations during hislive cooking show, whilst Sara Jayne Staines OBE willbe giving a talk on the journey of chocolate "from pod to palate",before the evening is completed by a quiz hosted by Sudi Piggott,author of "How to Be a Better Foodie". Champagne reception,chocolate tastings and a goody bag for each guest to take home;this event is the grand finale of the SW11 Literary Festival 2008.
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Wednesday 24 September - 7pm £4 * Angela YoungBattersea Library, Lavender Hill
Angela Young was the first unpublished writer to be awarded abursary by the Arts Council, England to research and write a novel.Her short stories have been widely acclaimed – she was Runner Upin the 2004 London Writers’ competition. Speaking of Love, whichfirst appeared as a short story in ‘Mslexia’ magazine, was shortlistedfor the 2008 World Book Day Award – The Book to Talk About, andcame 5th in the popular vote by readers.
‘Speaking of Love’ , Young’s first novel, was published by BeautifulBooks in hardback in March 2007, and in paperback in February2008. Young is working on her second novel which is inspired by thelife of her great-grandmother who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Angela lives in Battersea and has appeared at a number of readinggroups both locally and around the country. She has an active andmuch-followed blog at www.writinglifeandtheuniverse.blogspot.com
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27 September 2008 - 10am-12pm £5 Starting the Novel – Writing WorkshopTutor: Claire CollisonNorthcote Library, 155E Northcote Road
Got an idea for a novel? Want to do something about it? This workshop will help you explore ways to nurture the seeds ofyour ideas.Claire Collison's first novel, Treading Water, was a finalist in the2005 Dundee Book Prize. Her short stories have won various prizes,including Virago/Marie Claire, Woman's Own, and the Bridport Prize.She is currently working on her second novel.
Booking is essential.
Monday 29 September - 7pm £2 Literary Quiz.Latchmere Pub, Battersea Park Road
The legendary literary quiz is back! All things literary... Lots of funand prizes. Teams can have between 1 and 6 members. There will bea team from Waterstones there on the evening, keeping a very lowprofile, unless they win…
This year we are delighted to have a special guest Question Masterin the shape of James Walton, author of the soon to be published‘Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennets: A Literary Quiz Book’. James is thetelevision critic for The Daily Telegraph and the writer and presenterof Radio 4’s book quiz ‘The Write Stuff ’.
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www.donna-margherita.com
“Well known locally for quality pizza and friendly family vibe, Donna Margherita is unpretentious”
Time Out Food & Drink Guide (07)
“The best pizza outside Italy”Johnny Vaughan, Capital FM (08)
“...it was the best thing I’ve eaten in ages”Metro Life, Evening Standard (06)
“Recently I received an email from Dan Leppard Who is to baking what Lewis Hamilton is to Formula One!!!!!!
Leppard was getting in touch to tell me that he had recently been directedto what he had been told was a source of near-perfect pizza; I’ve been there
too he said!!!! And I have to agree”!!!!!!Jay Rayner!!!!!!! Observer (07)
“Genuine” sort of place, invariably tipped as a “wonderful local”
Harden’s guide (08)183 Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TE 020 7228 2660
602 Fulham RoadLondon SW6 5PAT 0207 736 9639E [email protected]
Unit 4, Brighton Buildings St Johns HillClapham JunctionLondon SW11 1RZT 0207 223 1741E [email protected]
Bob is born out of desire to create anenvironment and experience thatprovides our clients much morethan they may have come to expectfrom the average hair salon. Bob hasa team dedicated to ensuring thatevery client is as important as thenext, within a salon that practisesthe highest standards ofhairdressing in a relaxed boutiqueenvironment.
Looking great is about feeling greatand at Bob we want to ensure thatevery experience with us leaves youfeeling relaxed and lookingamazing.
We would love you to come and seeus at one of our salons. Please quote''Literary Festival'' while bookingyour appointment and we will treatyou with 50% off on your first visitfrom Mon to Fri and 20% off atweekends and furtherappointments.'
SW11 Booking FormPayment for tickets can be made:
In person at: Waterstone’s Bookshop, 70 St John’s Road, Clapham Junction, SW11 1PT
By post to: Lorinda Freint, EDO 1st Floor New Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 2PU (cheque payments only) (020) 7627 3182
By telephone: during opening hours (10am-5.30pm) (020) 8871 6181 (credit or debit card only)and out of hours (020) 7627 3182
Please make cheques payable to Wandsworth Borough Council exceptwhere payment is made in person at Waterstone’s where cheques should bemade payable to Waterstone’s Bookshop.
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