Guildford Book Festival - 3-26 OCTOBER

2021
3 — 2 6 O C TO B E R

Guildford
Book Festival

W W W. G U I L D F O R D B O O K F E S T I VA L . C O.U K

Welcome to the Festival 2021
 Guildford
 As restrictions lift and we begin a cautious return to normal life we are excited

 PROGRAMME
 to be moving forward with plans for the 32nd Guildford Book Festival this
 October.
 With more than 30 speakers taking part in live events at venues across the

 Book Festival
 town, we are once again looking forward to lively debates and entertaining
 talks provided by some of this country’s finest writers and best-known
 personalities.
 Among the highlights this year are Hollywood actress, Hayley Mills, speaking
 about her life as a celebrated child actress; award-winning writer, Sebastian
 Faulks; TV chef and family favourite, Nadiya Hussain; and former politician,
 3 - 24 OCTOBER
 Vince Cable, discussing the West’s relationship with China.
 Historians Max Hastings, Alison Weir and Marc Morris make welcome
 returns to Guildford, while broadcasters Mel Giedroyc and Jeremy Vine, both
 Surrey-born, will be at the festival to talk about their debut novels. Mental
 health campaigner, Jake Tyler, will leading a walking talk through the town,
 while Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of
 Surrey, will dare us to imagine a world beyond capitalism.
 We are delighted that two of our most popular events, Readers’ Day and the
 Literary Lunch, can return this year. Also returning is our School’s Programme.
 It’s truly wonderful to see the excitement among pupils as we take authors
 back into schools to inspire the next generation of young writers and readers.
 And, finally a heartfelt thank you to all our sponsors, especially our headline
 sponsor, SIMBA. Without their support, and the support of individuals who
 sign up to be a Friend, the Festival cannot exist and we are grateful to each
 and every one of you.
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Board of Trustees:
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Andrew Hodges (Chairman)
Gordon Jackson
Jennifer Powell
Sue Sturgeon
John Thorp
Ian Blyth
Will Salmon
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Treasurer:
Claire Morris
Festival Patrons:
Elizabeth Buchan
Michael Buerk
Adele Parks
Michael Rosen
Fay Weldon
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Alex Andrews & Jane Beaton
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F E STIVAL E VE NTS SUMMARY

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SPEAKERS

SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER
 EVENT VENUE TIME PAGE SPEAKERS

 THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER
 EVENT VENUE
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Mike Langman Bird Spotting Hatchlands Park 2 sessions 9 Creative Writing Day 4 | How to Plot ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10

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 Ambra Edwards The Plant Hunter’s Atlas Guildhall 12:30 – 13:30 30
MONDAY 4 OCTOBER

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 Charlie Porter What Artists Wear ZOOM 18:30 – 19:30 31
Creative Writing Day 1 | Getting Started ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10
 Shaw, Henry & Kiernan Crime Panel Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 32
Kate Mosse and Philip Serrell Literary Lunch Harbour Hotel 12:30 – 15:00 11

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 Mel Giedroyc The Best Things Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 35
Sebastian Faulks Snow Country Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 13
Alwyn Marriage Pandora’s Pandemic Guildford Institute 19:00 – 20:00 14
 FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER
Simon Heffer Henry ‘Chips’ Channon – The Diaries Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 15
 Creative Writing Day 5 | Editing/Getting Published ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10

TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER Padel & Cerasi Beethoven in Poetry & Music Hatchlands Park 16:00 – 17:00

Creative Writing Day 2 | Character Development R E B OT C O 4 2 - 3
 ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10 3 - 24 OCTOBER
 19:30 – 20:30 36

Judith Mackrell Going with the Boys Guildhall 12:30 – 13:30 16 SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER
The Countess of Carnarvon Seasons at Highclere Guildhall 14:15 – 15:15 17 Various Readers' Day Harbour Hotel 10:00 – 16:00 38
Graeme Hall All Dogs Great and Small Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 18
Ian Sanjay Patel Amnesty Event St Nicolas’ Church 19:30 – 20:30 19 SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER
Vince Cable The Chinese Conundrum Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 20 Workshop Self Publishing ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 42
Flatman & Durden Smith Flats and Durders Offload Broadwater Pavilion 20:00 – 21:00 21 Jake Tyler A Walk from the Wild Edge River Wey 11:00 – 12:00 43
 Hayley Mills Forever Young Yvonne Arnaud 14:30 – 15:30 45
WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER
Creative Writing Day 3 | Writing Dialogue ZOOM 10:00 – 12:00 10 THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER
Andrew Lownie Traitor King Guildhall 12:30 – 13:30 22
 Alison Weir Katharine Parr – The Sixth Wife Guildhall 18:30 – 19:30 46
Jeremy Vine The Diver and the Lover Electric Theatre 18:30 – 19:30 23
 Marc Morris The Anglo-Saxons Guildhall 20:15 – 21:15 47
Nanton and Burton Black London Guildford Institute 19:00 – 20:00 24
Prof Tim Jackson Post Growth The Zero Hub 19:00 – 20:00 25 SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER
Oliver Craske Indian Sun Cricket Club 19:30 – 22:00 26 Nadiya Hussain Nadiya’s Fast Flavours Yvonne Arnaud 19:00 – 20:00 48
 with music : Nic Meiers World Group
Max Hastings Operation Pedestal Electric Theatre 20:15 – 21:15 28 TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER
 Phil Tufnell How Not To Be a Cricketer Yvonne Arnaud 19:30 – 20:30 51

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MONDAY
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 MONDAY 4 OCTOBER - FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER
 4 OCTOBER

 VIRTUAL GET CREATIVE! Literary Lunch
 EVENT
 Creative Writing
 with RACHEL MARSH KATE MOSSE AND
 PHILIP SERRELL
 Course

 in conversation with Katherine Higgins
 ONLINE VIA ZOOM | 10:00 – 12:00 | £45 FOR 5 SESSIONS
 Maximum 30 people
 HARBOUR HOTEL | 12:30 – 15:00 | £45
 Monday Introduction/Getting Started (includes two course lunch)
 Tuesday Character Development
 Wednesday Writing Dialogue Bestselling author and playwright Kate Mosse
 Thursday The Plot has written eight novels and short-story
 Friday Editing/Getting Published collections including the multimillion selling
 Languedoc Trilogy, and Gothic fiction including
 The Taxidermists’s Daughter. Her books
 If you have always wanted to write but are not sure where to have been translated into 39 languages and
 start, then join us on our creative writing course being held over published in more than 40 countries. The City
 five weekday mornings during the Festival. of Tears is the second book in Kate’s historical
 series which began with The Burning Chambers.
 Run by Rachel Marsh, a University of Surrey graduate, each
 Set in 16th century France it’s a thrilling story of
 lesson will focus on a different aspect of the writing process.
 love, loss, persecution and revenge.
 The classes will be held via Zoom but will be practical and
 interactive. Each class is a mixture of lecture, discussion, and Kate will also be talking about her non-fiction
 applied writing. The course is open to all levels, meaning that book, An Extra Pair of Hands – A Story of
 each session can be tailored to your own goals. Caring, Ageing and Everyday Acts of Love,
 in which she relates her own story of finding
 Please note that discounts are not available on any virtual
 herself a carer in middle age.
 events.
 Known to millions from his appearances on
 programmes such as Bargain Hunt, Flog It! and
 Rachel Marsh has a PhD in creative writing from the University Antiques Road Trip the gregarious antiques
 of Surrey, where she investigated satire as a form of socio- expert Philip Serrell talks about his life as
 political discourse. Her creative work mixes the surreal and an auctioneer and his dual passions of Royal
 the political. Rachel is an Associate Lecturer with the Open Worcester china and classic cars. With hilarious
 University and lives in Scotland where she teaches classes tales of dodgy cars, fakes in the saleroom, angry
 in creative writing, literature, and English language. She is livestock, and mangled heirlooms, Philip’s
 currently the writer-in-residence for the Braemar Creative Arts Kindly
 book, What Am I Bid? is an entertaining, and
 sponsored by
 Festival, and she is working on a first children’s novel. informative memoir of life under the hammer.
 Rachel is the Judge for the Staunch Short Fiction Prize. She Kate and Philip will be interviewed by vintage
 has also been published as an academic and as a journalist. expert and broadcaster, Katherine Higgins.

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MONDAY 4 OCTOBER

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 SEBASTIAN FAULKS
 SNOW COUNTRY
 in conversation with Stephanie Merritt
SOFA WORKSHOP

 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £32
 (INCLUDES A SIGNED COPY OF SNOW COUNTRY RRP £20)

 Sebastian Faulks is one of Britain’s most respected writers, best known for
 novels such as Birdsong, Charlotte Gray, and Human Traces. He returns to
 Austria, the country of Human Traces, for his latest novel, Snow Country, in
 which he looks back at the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the
 shadow that is starting to fall over Europe. It’s an intensely personal story,
 focussing on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing and Anton, a man of passion
 and self-doubt. With rich characters, and strong narrative, and themes of human
 frailty and longing, it’s a story that will stay with you long after the last page is
 read.

 Kindly sponsored by Guildford Arts

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MONDAY 4 OCTOBER MONDAY 4 OCTOBER

 ALWYN MARRIAGE SIMON HEFFER
 Pandora's Pandemic Henry ‘Chips’ Channon –
 The Diaries 1918-38 & The Diaries 1938-43

 GUILDFORD INSTITUTE | 19:00 – 20:00 | £10 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

 When Covid-19 swept across the world, it took everyone by 60 years after the death of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon historian and journalist
 surprise. Debilitating illness, unprecedented lockdowns and Simon Heffer brings us the uncensored edition of his sensational diaries. Born
 tragic deaths soon followed. Poet Alwyn Marriage caught in Chicago in 1897 Chips Channon settled in England after the Great War and
 the disease early on and this is where her moving collection married into the wealthy Guinness family, serving as an MP from 1935 to his death
 of poems begins. In real time she tracked the course of her in 1958.
 illness and recovery, the death of her brother and the gradual
 His career was unremarkable but his diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant,
 dawning of new hope. Above all, she asks what we have learnt
 gossipy and bitchy, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went
 from this pandemic, and whether the world will ever be the
 everywhere, and knew everybody. He dined with Edward VIII and Wallis
 same again. This is poetry that grips you, may make you cry,
 Simpson in the lead up to the abdication, knew all the leading politicians and
 but will also warm your heart.
 aristocrats of the day, and observed at first hand the last days of appeasement.
 Alwyn Marriage, is an acclaimed poet, writer and lecturer, who
 gives poetry readings all over Britain and abroad. She is also a
 Research Fellow in the School of English and Languages of the
 'The greatest british diarist of the 20th century.
 University of Surrey. A feast of weapons-grade above-stairs gossip.' Ben Macintyre, The Times

 ‘Wickedly entertaining…’ Andrew Marr, New Statesman

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TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER

 JUDITH MACKRELL THE COUNTESS OF CARNARVON
 in conversation with Katherine Higgins
 Going with the Boys –
 Six Extraordinary Women Seasons at Highclere:
 Writing from the Front Line Gardening, Growing, and Cooking Through the Year
 at The Real Downton Abbey

 GUILDHALL | 12:30 – 13:30 | £10 GUILDHALL | 14:15 – 15:15 | £10

 Journalist and writer Judith Mackrell returns to Guildford to tell Join Lady Carnarvon for a behind-the-scenes look at daily life at High-
 the story of how six bold and resolute women, including Martha clere Castle, also known as the ‘real Downton Abbey’, as it changes
 Gellhorn, Lee Miller and Britain’s Clare Hollingworth, became through the seasons. With recipes from Highclere’s kitchens and Lady
 front-line war correspondents during WWII. Their motives varied Carnarvon’s own family recipes, gardening tips, and fascinating stories
 from wanting to save the world to wanting to see the world, and secrets from the castle's archives, her latest book shines fresh light
 and even wanting to save themselves, but they remained on the beloved historical house, and how it celebrates and prepares for
 determined to uncover the truth. Barred from official briefings each new season.
 they set up their own informal contacts with soldiers and
 presented articles with human interest giving a different colour, Lady Carnarvon is the wife of Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, whose
 and heartbeat, to their stories. Their writings changed the face family seat is Highclere. The castle was the setting for the much-loved
 of war reporting for ever. TV series, Downton Abbey, as well as the first film released in autumn
 2019. A second film will be released at the end of the year.
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TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER

 Family Event

 In Association with
 Amnesty International:

 ‘THIS IS AN
 EXTRAORDINARY AND
 IMPORTANT BOOK’
 GRAEME HALL IAN SANJAY PATEL Philippe Sands,
 author of East West
 All Dogs Great and Small – We’re Here Because You Were There – Street

 Lessons I’ve Learnt Training Dogs Immigration and the End of Empire

 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15 ST NICOLAS' COMMUNITY CENTRE | 19:30 – 20:30 | £10

 Have you ever wished you could get the dogs in your What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain today?
 life to behave better? Graeme Hall ‘The Dogfather’, star Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 of Channel 5’s Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly, imparts his Dr Ian Sanjay Patel looks at the changes in post-war immigration laws that
 wisdom on how to build the best relationship with your saw British citizenship redefined along racial lines, fatally compromising the
 dog, sharing heart-warming, and sometimes hilarious, Commonwealth, and exposing the limits of Britain’s influence in world politics.
 stories of some of the special dogs he’s loved and trained Combining voices of so-called immigrants trying to make a home in Britain, and
 throughout his career. the politicians, diplomats and commentators who were rethinking the nation,
 Having worked with more than 5,000 dogs he has seen Dr Ian Sanjay Patel excavates the reasons why Britain failed to create a post-
 every behavioural issue going and whether it’s house- imperial national identity.
 destruction, fear and anxiety or aggression, he’s fixed it. Dr Ian Sanjay Patel is currently LSE Fellow in Human Rights at the London
 Backed up by scientific research, Graeme has established School of Economics.
 his golden rules for dog training that he follows every time
 he works with dogs and their people. His simple, practical
 and effective rules will help you to understand your dog
 and help drive better behaviours and bring much-needed
 harmony to your home. Happy dog, happy owner!

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TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER

 VINCE CABLE DAVID FLATMAN AND MARK DURDEN-SMITH
 The Chinese Conundrum – Flats and Durders Offload – Rugby Laid Bare
 Engagement or Conflict

 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15 BROADWATER PAVILION | 20:00 – 21:00 | £15

 According to many experts, China is the largest economy on Join former Bath prop forward, David Flatman, and broadcaster, Mark
 the planet – yet its relations with the rest of the world have Durden-Smith, for an entertaining evening of rugby talk. Once described
 deteriorated in recent years, and are now at an all-time low. as rugby’s answer to Ant & Dec the hugely popular broadcasting double act
 Is this a passing phase caused by the shockwaves of the are known for their acute observations and witty one-liners. Tonight they
 Covid pandemic and the personalities of leaders in China and discuss every aspect of the sport from how to survive the front row, to what
 in the USA, or are the current divergences going to become makes a good leader, from referees (good and bad), to mind games with the
 wider and more entrenched, as China grows economically opposition, and with teammates. They speak frankly about what can happen
 and develops technological leadership? Can the West learn on tour, and reveal who are rugby’s hardest players.
 from its past mistakes and engage successfully with China on
 common interests, or are we on the verge of a new Cold War?
 What are the possible repercussions of the election of
 Joe Biden as President of the United States? Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/guildfordbookfestival
 In his powerful new book the former leader of the Liberal
 Democrats and MP for Twickenham Vince Cable examines Like us on Instagram: guildfordbookfestival
 the long history of relationships between China and the West,
 and provides answers to many of these questions. Gripping, Follow us on Twitter: @gfordbookfest
 insightful and accessible this investigation into the intricacies
 of today’s economic and geopolitical situation is a must for
 anyone who cares about politics, and our economic future.

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WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER

 ANDREW LOWNIE JEREMY VINE
 Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the The Diver and the Lover
 Duke and Duchess of Windsor

 GUILDHALL | 12:30 – 13:30 | £10 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15

 Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Lownie, examines The popular broadcaster returns to Guildford to discuss his first novel,
 the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the The Diver and the Lover, inspired by true events.
 former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status It is 1951 and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England
 for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and denied any real job. to Catalonia in search of distraction and respite. While there they
 Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives discover the artist Salvador Dali is staying nearby and they long to
 and Freedom of Information requests, it makes the case that meet the famous surrealist. When a young American who Meredith has
 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the naïve dupes befriended is chosen as Dali’s latest model, the lives of the characters
 of the Germans but actively intrigued against Britain in both war become entangled as family secrets, ego and the dangerous politics
 and peace. It also shines light on the relationship between the of Franco's Spain threaten to undo the fragile bonds that have been
 Duke and Wallis, revealing it to be far from the love story it is forged. A powerful story of love, sacrifice and the lengths we will go to
 often assumed to be. for whom - or what - we love.

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WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER

 “A masterpiece of
 measured rage
 and love”
 JONATHAN PORRITT,
 AUTHOR OF
 HOPE IN HELL

 AVRIL NANTON AND JODY BURTON PROFESSOR TIM JACKSON
 Black London – History, Arts and Culture in conversation with Molly Scott Cato
 Post Growth – Life after Capitalism

 GUILDFORD INSTITUTE | 19:00 – 20:00 | £10 THE ZERO HUB | 19:00 – 20:00 | £15

 London is a city justly proud o f its cultural diversity, yet for too Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate
 long the focus has been on mainstream history. Black London catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-
 allows us to see this familiar city anew, revealing events and prepared for life in a global pandemic. Professor Tim Jackson of the
 places that tell the story of its black inhabitants. From the University of Surrey dares us to imagine a world beyond capitalism – a
 Royal ‘blacke trumpeter’ of Tudor times, John Blanke, and 18th place where relationship and meaning take precedence over profits and
 century writer and composer, Ignatius Sancho, to the arrival of power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system change and an invitation
 the Windrush generations, and the Black Live Matters mural in to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of the human condition.
 Woolwich, join authors Avril and Jody to discover the work of Tim Jackson is Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable
 some remarkable individuals who have helped make London Prosperity (CUSP), and Professor of Sustainable Development at the
 a truly global modern city. The event is run as part of Black University of Surrey, where he explores the moral, economic and social
 History Month. dimensions of prosperity on a finite planet. He was formerly Economics
 Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission. Molly
 Scott Cato is an economist, writer and campaigner for green politics.
 Between 2014 and 2020 she represented South West England in the
 European Parliament where she worked on sustainable finance and
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 regenerative agriculture. She joined the Green Party in 1988 and is their
 spokesperson on economics, finance and Brexit.
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 In partnership with Zero Carbon Guildford
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WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER

 World Music Night In conversation
 with Tony Haynes,

 “Technically dazzling and genuinely exciting” –
 JAZZMAN REVIEW OF LIVE, JUNE 2020
 In association with Guildford Jazz
 Jazz

 The Indian sitar virtuso and composer Ravi Shankar was the world's best-known

 World Music Night exponent of Indian classical music, who influenced many other musicians around
 the world. Oliver Craske first met Shankar in 1994 and worked with him on his
 autobiography. Shankar encouraged him to write his full story after his death. The
 in conversation with Tony Haynes result is a fascinating biography that paints a vivid picture of the public and private
 co-founder of the Grand Union Orchestra faces of a captivating, restless workaholic who lived an extraordinary life.
 Nicolas Meier World Group featuring: Richard Jones violin, Kevin Glasgow bass,
 Demi Garcia percussion, Nicolas Meier fretted & fretless nylon string guitars and
 TALK: OLIVER CRASKE: glissentar.
 Indian Sun – The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar Nicolas Meier is unquestionably one of today’s most well-rounded and masterful
 talents on guitar. In just a few short years, he has acquired reputation as one of the
 UK’s most original and uniquely talented guitarists. Drawing from a love of Turkish,
 MUSIC: NIC MEIER’S WORLD GROUP Eastern and Middle Eastern music, flamenco, tango and more, all mixed with jazz, his
 versatility and musical fluency extends well beyond that. His considerable talents
 drew the attention of rock guitar legend, Jeff Beck, who has since made Nicolas
 a mainstay in the Jeff Beck Group, taking him on two world tours over the past
 several years.
 CRICKET CLUB | 19:30 – 22:00
 Nicolas Meier World Group’s new album Peaceful features the talented Demi
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WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER

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 Operation Pedestal – @ExperienceGford
 The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

 A thrilling new account of a little-known naval battle that
 was a pivotal moment in WWII. In 1942, the Luftwaffe had
 a stranglehold on the island of Malta. British attempts to
 bring in supplies and reinforcements were failing, and the
 people of the island were starving. Operation Pedestal saw
 an armada of 50 British ships try to fight its way through.
 Despite heavy losses on all sides the British scrapped a
 victory and succeeded in reaching Malta. In his signature
 brilliant style, Max Hastings, gives an enthralling narrative of
 this crucial naval battle.

 Kindly sponsored by Cressive DX

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THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER

 VIRTUAL
 EVENT

 AMBRA EDWARDS CHARLIE PORTER:
 The Plant Hunter’s Atlas – A World Tour of What Artists Wear
 Botanical Adventures, Chance Discoveries In association with Watts Gallery
 and Strange Specimens

 GUILDHALL | 12:30 – 13:30 | £10 VIRTUAL EVENT VIA ZOOM | 18:30 – 19:30 | £10

 Award-winning writer and garden historian Ambra Edwards, In What Artists Wear, fashion critic, curator and visiting lecturer in Fashion at
 will relate extraordinary stories of how plants have travelled the University of Westminster, Charlie Porter takes us on an intimate and
 the world. From Australia’s Botany Bay to the Tibetan plateau, illuminating journey through the wardrobes of modern and contemporary
 from the deserts of South Africa to the jungles of Brazil, she artists. Weaving together a new way of understanding the lives and work
 will introduce us to the dedicated scientists and reckless of artists, from Andy Warhol and Yves Klein to Cindy Sherman and Yayoi
 adventurers, men and women, who scoured the world to locate Kusama, Porter explores artist's clothing as tools of expression, storytelling,
 plants that have shaped empires, secured (and destroyed) power, resistance, and creativity.
 economies, revolutionized medicine, and advanced our
 understanding of science. The talk will be illustrated with
 botanical artworks from the Kew Gardens archives.

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THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER

 The Murder Box by Olivia Kiernan is the
 fourth book in the acclaimed Frankie
 Sheehan series. When a series of grisly
 crimes are discovered across Dublin
 city Frankie and her team set out to

 CRIME PANEL investigate.

 SETTING THE SCENE
 WITH WILLIAM SHAW, JAMES HENRY
 AND OLIVIA KIERNAN Set in the garrison city of Colchester,
 James Henry’s Whitethroat, opens with
 the discovery of the body of a young Lance
 Corporal. The military police hope to keep
 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15 the matter confined to ranks, but when
 events spill out into civilian life DI Nicholas
 Three leading crime writers discuss the importance of the Lowry and his team get involved.
 setting in creating the atmosphere and building suspense in
 crime writing.
 William Shaw, Olivia Kiernan and James Henry will discuss
 the theme in connection to their latest books.
 William Shaw’s The Trawlerman, is the fourth
 book in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series. The
 TICKETS FROM brooding waters of the Kent coastline offer
 www.guildford.gov.uk/visitguildford/touristinformationcentre an ominous backdrop for this lively page-
 turner of corruption, mental health and the
 complexities of human connection.

 Kindly sponsored by Quercus Books

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THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER

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Become a Friend of the
Guildford Book Festival
 And enjoy a range of benefits that membership brings,
 For just while helping to support your local Festival. MEL GIEDROYC
£30
 per year RESERVED SEATING
 in conversation with Lesley McCabe
 The Best Things
 REDUCED PRICE TICKETS
 ADVANCED EVENT INFORMATION
 ELECTRIC THEATRE | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

Visit www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk/become-a-friend A funny, timely novel about a family on the brink from one of our best-loved
 entertainers. Set in Leatherhead, where Mel Giedroyc grew up, it tells the
 story of Sally Parker who is struggling to find the hero within. All she really
 wants to do is lie down. Her husband has lost his business, their home and
 their savings, their bank cards are declined, and the children have gone
 feral. What does an ordinary woman do in such circumstances? Sally is
 about to surprise everybody. Most of all herself.

 Become a Mel will be interviewed by Lesley McCabe from BBC Surrey & Sussex

 If you would like your
 partner school to join our schools

 school programme visit
 www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk

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FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER
 SAVE THE DATES!
 Music

 Celebrating Vaughan Williams
 in the Surrey Hills
 SATURDAY
 INVESTEC 19 MARCH 2022
 at Charterhouse School
 Beethoven in Poetry & Music with Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin, Britten Sinfonia
 WITH RUTH PADEL (POET) & the Chapel Choir and string players of Charterhouse School
 & CAROLE CERASI (PIANO)

 HATCHLANDS PARK | 16:00 – 17:00 | £15
 plus concerts on
 | 19:30 – 20:30 | £15
 THURSDAY 5 MAY - SATURDAY 7 MAY 2022
 We are delighted to be able to reschedule this unique
 celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary originally THURSDAY 12 MAY - SATURDAY 14 MAY 2022
 scheduled for the 2020 Festival. In association with INVESTEC,
 Hatchlands, and The Cobbe Collection the event will combine
 readings by Ruth Padel from her collection, Beethoven Visit www.iimf.co.uk for more details and to sign up
 to our mailing list and receive the latest festival news.
 Variations: Poems on a Life with a taste of the great composer’s
 music performed by historic instrument specialist Carole Cerasi
 on a piano once played by Beethoven himself.

 Kindly sponsored by

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Readers' Day Harbour Hotel | 10:00 – 16:00
 £48 including light lunch and refreshments
 SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER
 DEBORAH MOGGACH The Black Dress
 Six fiction speakers in one day
 From the bestselling author of 20 novels including Tulip Fever,
 at the Harbour Hotel The Carer and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes this
 delightful, funny and tender story about the unexpected twists
 STACEY HALLS, ELIZABETH MACNEAL, and pleasures of life. When Pru‘s husband walks out on her she’s
 left to contemplate her future. She’s missing not so much him
 PEACE ADZO MEDIE, DEBORAH MOGGACH, but the life they had together. In a daze she goes off to a friend’s
 TONY PARSONS AND HAFSA ZAYYAN funeral and finds herself at the wrong funeral. But, everyone has
 been so welcoming, and she thinks, why not go to another? So,
 she does. After all what harm can it do?

 TONY PARSONS
 Your Neighbour’s Wife
 ‘Parsons at his very best.' Daily Mail
 What do you do when your perfect life spins out of control? Tana
 Carver seems to have it all. A loving mother and wife, a successful
 business woman, she’s the sort of person you’d want to live next
 door to, who might even be your best friend. But, on one night of
 madness, on a work trip from home, she puts all this at risk, and
 her life becomes a nightmare. There’s only one way out. And it
 involves murder. A gripping psychological thriller from the award-
 winning journalist and bestselling author whose books have been
 translated into more than 40 languages. His most-loved novel,
 Man and Boy, won the Book of the Year in 2000.

 Hosted by Fanny Blake
 HAFSA ZAYYAN We Are All Birds of Uganda
 Fanny was a publisher for many years before
 becoming a freelance journalist and writer. She Sameer is a high-flying lawyer in London but senses an emptiness
 has written various non-fiction titles, acted as in his life. When he returns to his family home after a tragedy
 ghost writer for a number of celebrities, and is a he is put under pressure to stay. But Sameer sees a different
 former books editor of Woman & Home magazine. future for himself. On a last-minute trip to Uganda, the land of
 She has been a judge of a number of literary his grandfather, he uncovers a past he knew nothing about, and
 prizes, including the Costa First Novel award finds a life for himself he could never have imagined. Moving
 and the British Book Awards. She is also the between two continents over a troubled century, this is a moving
 commissioning editor for Quick Reads and a book and poignant novel of generational love, loss, and what it means
 reviewer. She has written seven novels, including to find home. The book won the first #Merky Books New Writer’s
 Our Summer Together, An Italian Summer and her Prize supported by Stormzy.
 latest book, The Long Way Home.
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Readers' Day
STACEY HALLS
Mrs England
Ruby May is a newly graduated nurse when she
 FAMILY EVENTS X 3???
arrives at the remote Yorkshire home of a wealthy
couple, Charles and Lilian England, to look after
their children. She hopes it will be the fresh start she
needs but it soon becomes clear that something
is not right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs
England. Set in the Edwardian era, and simmering
with slow-burning menace, Stacey’s third novel is a
compelling read, and follows on from the success
of The Familiars and The Foundling, both Sunday
Times bestsellers.

ELIZABETH MACNEAL
Circus of Wonders
Sold by her father to a circus as the ‘leopard girl’ due to the
birthmarks on her skin Nell is torn from all that she knows. But
as her fame grows, and she finds friendships among the other
performers, she begins to think that maybe it was the best thing
that could have happened to her.
Moving from the pleasure gardens of Vauxhall to the battle-
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Doll Factory.

PEACE ADZO MEDIE His Only Wife
When Afi Tekple is persuaded to marry a wealthy man she
barely knows she accepts, seeing him as a way into an exciting
new life in Ghana’s capital. But it’s not quite the life-changing
opportunity she imagined. For a start he sends a stand-in
to his own wedding. And he loves another. Afi must use
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independent life for herself. Bursting with warmth and humour,
this contemporary tale of a young woman making her way in a Like us on Instagram: guildfordbookfestival
modern world is a stunning debut novel.
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SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

 VIRTUAL
 MENTAL
 EVENT
 HEALTH
 ADVOCATE
 Workshop

 'A tale told with courageous
 honesty. There's much to learn
 here about how reconnecting
 with nature and trusting
 others can rekindle the joy of
 being alive'

 SELF PUBLISHING: BBC COUNTRYFILE
 ‘An inspirational read’
 From paper to print and beyond MATT HAIG

 WITH MADDY GLENN JAKE TYLER:
 & NATHAN JAMES from SWS Publishing A Walk from the Wild Edge

 VIA ZOOM | 10:00 – 12:00 | £10 TALK AND WALK ALONG RIVER WEY (MEET OUTSIDE THE MARCH HARE)
 11:00 – 12:00 | £10
 A two-hour interactive workshop on Zoom that explores the
 different options for writers who are considering self-publishing Join broadcaster and mental health advocate Jake Tyler on an inspirational
 their novels. walk along the riverside in Guildford. Now in his 30s Jake has struggled
 With the rapid rise in popularity and acceptance for self- with mental health problems all his life. After a bad period of depression, he
 published novels, writers are confronted with an increasing decided to take back control of his life, and with only a pair of walking boots
 number of options for their manuscript. This online event will and a backpack, he left his old life behind and began a 3000-mile walk
 explore the benefits of self-publishing and will discuss the around Britain. Jake will talk about his extraordinary journey, the places he
 creative and financial freedoms that a self-publishing journey visited, the people he met, the big, honest conversations he had, and how
 can enjoy. he finally started to see a more positive future.
 We’ll deconstruct the myths behind creative writing, give Jake’s show on BBC Surrey and Sussex, Open Up with Jake Tyler,
 advice for best practice when self-editing a manuscript, and launched in 2019. His TedX talk, I’m fine has received 3.1 million views.
 focus on important things you need to know about formatting,
 book design, and your options for printing.
 Kindly sponsored by Cressive DX
 The second half of the workshop will examine book marketing
 and give top tips on how to maximise your social media
 strategies.
 All participants will receive a PDF workbook complete with
 notes and graphics from the workshop, which also provides
 interactive tasks.

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More great reads SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER

on our stage!
TUE 5 & WED 6 OCT

 SUN 7 NOV SIGNED
 BOOK
 HAYLEY MILLS AVAILABLE
 AN EVENING WITH in conversation with Elizabeth Buchan
 Lady Glenconner
 Forever Young - A Memoir
WED 24 NOV

 FRI 26 & SAT 27 OCT

 YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE | 14:30 – 15:30
 £21, £38 INCLUDING SIGNED BOOK (RRP £20)
 Prices include all fees
 TICKETS FROM www.yvonnearnaud.co.uk/whats-on/hayley-mills

 Actress Hayley Mills was the most famous child stars of the ‘60s, acclaimed for
 her performances in a host of family classics. The daughter of Sir John Mills
 and Mary Hayley Bell, and sister to Juliet Mills, she spent her early teens in
 Hollywood and made several films with Walt Disney including Pollyanna – for
 which she won an Oscar– The Parent Trap, and Whistle Down the Wind.
 Now, for the first time, Hayley tells the story of those years, and in her own words.
 Miriam Margolyes David Suchet Using records from the Disney archives she discovered for the first time all the
 THIS MUCH IS TRUE POIROT & ME: A RETROSPECTIVE machinations that had gone into shaping - and arguably arresting - her career.
 As one of the era’s great teen idols, she realised she had spent a decade not
 being allowed to grow up, with the world changing around her just as she was
 PLUS don’t miss our Guildford Book Festival events! changing herself.
 Hayley Mills - Forever Young: A Memoir | Sun 10 Oct An immensely nostalgic evocation of a bygone era, Forever Young is a frank telling
 of the reality behind the set dressing – and of Hayley’s survival.
 Nadiya Hussain - Nadiya’s Fast Flavours | Sun 24 Oct
 Hayley Mills will be in conversation with Elizabeth Buchan, Festival Patron and
 author of more than a dozen novels including her latest, Two Women in Rome.

 YVONNE-ARNAUD.CO.UK | 01483 44 00 00
 Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX 45
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THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER

 ALISON WEIR MARC MORRIS:
 Katharine Parr – The Sixth Wife The Anglo-Saxons – A History of the Beginnings of England

 GUILDHALL | 18:30 – 19:30 | £15 GUILDHALL | 20:15 – 21:15 | £15

 Renowned, bestselling historian Alison Weir recounts the ‘An absolute masterpiece’ DAN SNOW
 story of Henry VIII's last wife - Katharine Parr, the queen who
 survived him, in the sixth of her series of acclaimed novels
 about the six wives. Renowned historian Marc Morris tells the extraordinary story of how the
 foundations of England were laid. Covering six centuries he explores what
 A warm, clever woman of great fortitude who rose boldly happened when Britain left the Roman Empire and foreign invaders came
 to every turn her life took, she was torn between love and from across the sea into a violent and unstable world, and established
 duty. Two husbands dead, a boy and a sick man. And now themselves as its new masters. He describes how they fought relentlessly
 Katharine is free to make her own choice. The ageing King's for supremacy but then abandoned their gods for Christianity, establishing
 eye falls upon her. She cannot refuse him... or betray that she churches and intricate works of art, reviving towns and trade, and creating
 wanted another. She becomes the sixth wife - a queen and shires, boroughs and bishoprics. A new society, a new culture, and a single
 a friend. Henry loves and trusts her. But Katharine is hiding unified nation emerged. Featuring characters such as King Offa, Alfred the
 another secret in her heart, a deeply held faith that could see Great and Edward the Confessor, and drawing on a vast range of original
 her burn... evidence, Morris brings to life this little understood period of our nation’s
 history.

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SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER

 Family Event
 Since winning the Great British Bake Off
 in 2015 Nadiya Hussain has rarely been
 off our TV screens. Known for her easy-
 going style, and bold, fun approach to
 flavours, she has become a firm favourite
 with families throughout the nation,
 presenting popular series such as Nadiya
 Bakes and Nadiya’s Family Favourites.
 Nadiya has also written several books
 for children and is recognised as a
 commentator on mental health after
 opening up about her own struggles with
 anxiety. In 2019 Nadiya was awarded an
 MBE for services for broadcasting and
 the culinary arts.
 Nadiya will be talking about her passion
 for no-fuss cooking, the ups and downs
 SIGNED of her meteoric rise to fame, baking
 BOOK for The Queen, and her latest series,
 AVAILABLE Nadiya’s Fast Flavours, which airs
 this autumn on BBC2. Along with the
 companion book of the same name, it
 NADIYA HUSSAIN is filled with delicious everyday recipes
 in conversation with Seni Glaister offering new and innovation ways to pack
 your meals with flavour without spending
 Nadiya's Fast Flavours hours in the kitchen.

 YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE | 19:00 – 20:00

 £21, £15.00 under 18s
 £39 including signed book (RRP£22)

 Prices include all fees

 TICKETS FROM
 www.yvonnearnaud.co.uk/whats-on/nadiya-hussain Kindly sponsored by

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TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER

 SIGNED
 BOOK
 AVAILABLE

 PHIL TUFNELL
 in conversation
 How Not to Be a Cricketer

 YVONNE ARNAUD THEATRE | 19:30 – 20:30
 £21, £38 including a Signed Copy of How Not To Be a Cricketer (RRP £20)
 Prices include all fees
 A treasure trove of beautiful furniture, homeware TICKETS FROM www.yvonnearnaud.co.uk/whats-on

and gifts located in a charming old farmhouse building Former England spin-bowler and much-loved broadcaster Phil Tufnell highlights
 in the heart of the village of West Horsley. the pitfalls of being a professional cricketer, providing hilarious insights into how
 to avoid them and what happens when you don’t. From dodgy haircuts and flying
 VISIT OUR SHOWROOM AT Pot Noodles, match day teas to soothsaying parrots Tuffers recounts tales from
 his cricketing career, both on and off the pitch. With chapters such as How to
 UNIT 1, OPEN VIEW FARM
 Keep Your Head Down, How Not to Impress Your Leader and How Not to Achieve
 EPSOM ROAD, WEST HORSLEY, KT24 6AP Physical Perfection his book can be considered a blueprint for life for anyone who
 never reads the rules and who likes to do things differently.
 TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS 10AM TILL 4 PM
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Booking and Ticket Information 2021 Festival Venues & Box Offices

Festival Box Offices Ticket Prices
Except where stated, tickets for all Festival events GROUP DISCOUNTS: 5+ tickets get 10% off,
are available from the Tourist Information Centre 10+ tickets get 15% off 8 7
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and www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk.
 CONCESSIONS: If you are registered disabled
Please book in advance to avoid disappointment. you are entitled to a free ticket for your support
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availability. you would need to contact our Box Office directly.
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All details are correct at the time of going to press. We Disabled Access
reserve the right to change programmes. If you require disabled access, please contact the 1. The Electric Theatre 8. Watts Gallery
The views and opinions expressed in any of the Box Offices to see how we can assist you. Onslow St, Guildford, GU1 4SZ Down Ln, Compton, Guildford, GU3 1DQ
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authors and do not reflect the official policy or position 3 Alexandra Terrace, Guildford, GU1 3DA 155 High St, Guildford, GU1 3AJ
of the Guildford Book Festival. 3. Guildhall 10. Guildford Institute
 High St, Guildford, GU1 3AA Ward St, Guildford GU1 4LH
 4. Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 11. Broadwater Pavilion
 Millbrook, Guildford, GU1 3UX Guildford Rd, Godalming GU7 3DH
Covid Precautions 5. St Nicolas' Community Centre
 Millmead Terrace, Guildford, GU2 4YT
 12. The Zero Club
 14-16 Friary Street, Guildford, GU1 4EH
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are optional. Hand sanitiser will be supplied at all venues. Please respect people’s space as you enter East Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7RT
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