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Lowdham Book Festival
2nd-29th June 2019 – our 20th year!
Lowdham, Nottinghamshire
Tickets: The Bookcase, Lowdham 0115 966 3219
Lowdham Book
Hello and welcome...
...to Lowdham Book Festival 2019. This is focused on two main strands – the Best of June for this extended celebration of our
our 20th year - hard to believe we know! the Fest and the local connection. So we book-loving community!
hope you love the mix of events on offer – Jane Streeter and Ross Bradshaw
Looking back at the past programmes it is it’s a delight to welcome back so many
really amazing to see how far we have authors who have visited us before, and to janestreeter@thebookcase.co.uk
come from those early days, whilst at the introduce some new elements to entertain www.thebookcase.co.uk
same time it is clear that the focus has you! Of course, at the heart of the Festival is www.nottinghambooks.co.uk
always been about “the story” in all its you – our audience. Your support over the bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk
many forms. In the planning of this very past 20 years is very sincerely appreciated, www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk
special birthday programme we have and we really look forward to seeing you in www.fiveleaves.co.uk
Later in the year...
We are delighted to announce that crafts for pre-schoolers, evening
we will be extending our events events for teenagers, book groups,
programme for children and young games evenings and lots more... and
people throughout the autumn. we welcome your ideas too!
Join our mailing list to keep in touch Email: janestreeter@thebookcase.co.uk
with our schedule which will include a with your suggestions and to add
Children’s Cinema Club, storytime and your contact details to our mailing list
2 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219
Festival June 2019 The Festival Quiz...
8 In Stephen King's book, The Girl Who Loved
The 2019 Festival Book Quiz ... Tom Gordon, for which team and in which
In the early days of the Festival, the printed sport did Tom Gordon play?
programme always included a quiz. So we 4 Temperance Brennan, Forensic
are bringing it back, and to give you a clue – Anthropologist in the district of Quebec,
all the questions are based on books made her second appearance in which book
published 20 years ago! of 1999? Title and author, please. 9 Laura Hillenbrand wrote a story about one
of the most newsworthy events and
1 Nate O'Reilly is the lawyer in this best- characters in the USA in 1938. Who was it?
selling book of 1999. Name the book Names of the animal and human please.
and author. 5 The most popular autobiography of the year
was later followed up by Teacher Man.
Whose autobiography and what was the
title? 10 Millbank Prison and Spiritualist Selina
2 Flavigny-sur- Ozoraine is the village where a Dawes appear in which novel of 1999, and
famous book of 1999 was filmed. The story who is the author?
begins with the arrival of a mother and
daughter on Shrove Tuesday. Name the 6 Terry Pratchett published his 24th novel in
book and author. the Discworld series. Name the book and the
location in which it was set. Please hand this in with your answers at any
of the Festival events. The winner will be
drawn on the final Saturday (29th June) and
3 David Lurie is Professor of the prize will be a magnificent booklover’s
Communications and Romantic Poetry in 7 The Gruffalo appeared for the first time in hamper provided by The Bookcase and Five
a South African University in which prize- 1999. How many copies has it sold to date Leaves Bookshop. Name, telephone number
winning book of 1999? and how many characters does Mouse meet and/or email please:
Give author and title. on his adventure?
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 3
Sunday 2nd–Monday 3rd June Lowdham Book
Sunday 2nd June, 7–8.30pm 2.30–3.30pm Ustinov Room,
Southwell Road Community Hall, Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington
1 Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham, Circus, Nottingham NG1 5AL
Nottingham NG14 7PS An Audience with Adam Penford
In Byron’s Wake Adam Penford became Artistic Director
with Miranda Seymour Monday 3rd June, 10.30am–12.30pm of Nottingham Playhouse in 2017
We are delighted to open this year’s Meet at Nottingham Tourist Centre, having trained at the Liverpool Institute
Festival with Miranda Seymour and Smithy Row, Nottingham NG1 2BY of Performing Arts before going on to
Lord Byron! Miranda lives at Thrumpton Nottingham Booklover’s Walk direct nationally and internationally,
Hall and is an award winning novelist, A one mile guided walk with Felicity including at the National Theatre and
biographer and critic. Drawing on Whittle from Gold Star Guides around on Broadway. Since taking over at the
fascinating new material, she reveals Nottingham city centre that aims to Playhouse, Adam has directed
the ways in which Byron shaped the capture the essence of this literature- Wonderland, Holes and The Madness of
reputations of both his wife and infused city. George III and will share his thoughts
daughter, their turbulent lives being about the forthcoming productions of
forever haunted by his dangerous spirit. From crime-writers to diarists, Coram Boy and An Enemy of the People.
£7 Full, £6 Concession, £5 Festival Friend children’s literature to poetry, with £6 Full, £5 Concession, £4 Festival Friend
(including drinks and nibbles) Byron, Lawrence and Sillitoe, a
Booker Prize winner and our very own
Young Poet Laureate… Booklist
provided at the end of the walk at
Five Leaves Bookshop.
£12 (please note there are only
15 spaces for this walk so early
booking is advisable)
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Festival June 2019 Tuesday 4th–Thursday 6th June
Wednesday 5th June, 7.30–9pm Thursday 6th June, 1–2.30pm
Southwell Library, The Bramley Centre, Southwell Library, The Bramley Centre,
King Street, Southwell NG25 0EH King Street, Southwell NG25 0EH
Meet the author – C J Tudor Those Who are Loved
C. J. Tudor grew up in Nottingham, and – Victoria Hislop
her love of writing, especially the dark A warm welcome back to Victoria
and macabre, started young. Her first Hislop. Her new novel is set against the
novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday backdrop of the German occupation of
Times bestseller and tonight she will Greece in WWII and she will be in
share her story with us, as well as conversation with fellow grecophile
Tuesday 4th June, 2–3.30pm talking about her new novel, Anne Zouroudi, author of the
Lowdham Methodist Chapel, The Taking of Annie Thorne. bestselling Greek Detective series.
Main Street, Lowdham NG14 7AG “Some writers have it, and some don’t. C. A lunchtime treat...
Historical Mystery, Murder J Tudor has it big time…terrific in every £8 Full, £7 Concession, £6 Festival Friend
and Magic with Karen Maitland way” Lee Child
Medieval thriller writer Karen Maitland £6 Full, £5 Concession, £4 Festival Friend
has appeared several times at our Licensed Bar available
Festival and we are so happy that she
© Bill Walters
is returning to talk about her latest
novel, A Gathering of Ghosts, and to
share her fascination for medieval
myth and magic.
£7 Full, £6 Concession,
£5 Festival Friend
(includes tea and cake)
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 5
Friday 7th–Sunday 9th June Lowdham Book
Friday 7th June, 2–3pm Sunday 9th June, 11am–12.30pm
Southwell Road Community Hall, Southwell Road Community Hall,
Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham, Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham,
Nottingham NG14 7PS Nottingham NG14 7PS
Pyjamarama! Saturday 8th June, 10am–5pm Explore, Expand, Engage
Join us for the pyjama party of the year Southwell Road Community Hall, with Philippa Bottrill
as part of a Booktrust nationwide Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham, Philippa is the owner of Balance, a
celebration. Put on your pjs, grab your Nottingham NG14 7PS Pilates and Well Being studio in Newark,
pillow and bedtime cuddly, and enjoy a Baby Photoshoot! and her passion in life is to encourage
bedtime story adventure with BeBops A lovely opportunity to get gorgeous people to live happier, healthier lives.
Beck! There will be songs, games and baby photos with a book-themed Philippa is an Advanced RTT (Hypnosis)
refreshments – and a goody bag to backdrop, with up and coming local Practitioner and Mindset Coach and will
take home! photographer Rebecca Rogan from talk today about how making small
£5 per child (adults free) – includes Captured Moments. Choose between consistent changes in your life can lead
refreshments Guess How Much I Love You, The Gruffalo to living a life less ordinary.
and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. There £5 Full,
are just eight 30-minute slots available £4 Concession,
plus craft activities, stories and £3 Festival
refreshments for families throughout Friend
the day. Book your slot asap! (including
£40 per photoshoot (includes all photos, healthy
refreshments, storytime and goody bag) refreshments)
6 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219
Festival June 2019 Wednesday12th–Friday 14th June
Wednesday 12th June, 2–3.30pm Friday 14th June 15-22 June is...
Caythorpe Cricket Club, Caythorpe Rd, Southwell Road Community Hall,
Independent Bookshop Week
Caythorpe, Nottingham NG14 7EB Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham,
Meet the author – Phil McCann Nottingham NG14 7PS To celebrate IBW and our 20th Festival the
Cricket Teas by author and cricket Father’s Day Stories and Crafts booksellers at The Bookcase and Five
enthusiast Phil McCann is the first book Two lovely sessions to make a Leaves Bookshop would love to hear from
to investigate this most sacred of card/gift for dads everywhere! our wonderfully supportive customers
about why bookshops are important. We
sporting traditions, with recollections 2–3pm: Bring your little ones along for love being part of our vibrant communities
from legends of the game a fun afternoon of card making and and really appreciate your loyalty in this
including Sir Michael storytelling! There will be Father’s Day world of online shopping. We hope our
Parkinson, Michael Vaughan gifts available to purchase. shops provide an oasis of calm where you
and many more. £2 per child (adults free) -includes all can press your pause button – we always
want to be “more than just a bookshop”. If
£8 to include a real Cricket Tea! materials plus refreshments
you would like to tell us what our shops
mean to you, and have your comments
Thursday 13th June, 2–3.30pm 4–5pm: Journey Around My Dad : featured on our social media and in our
Southwell Road Community Hall, Old A light-hearted writing workshop for IBW window display, please email a few
Tannery Dr, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7PS 8-11 year olds putting “My Dad” at the words to janestreeter@thebookcase.co.uk
and info@fiveleaves.co.uk. During IBW call
Written on the Shore – centre of the universe with Father’s Day
in for a chat, tell us what you are reading,
an afternoon of poetry in mind. Children’s author Elizabeth and pick up freebies...
with Pauline Prior-Pitt Baguley invites you to come and
Festival favourite Pauline celebrate all things Dad-ful. The Bookcase will also be a drop-off point
Prior-Pitt joins us to share her latest Laughter and honesty allowed! for books you would like to donate – we
poetry collections. Always a very £3 per child (only 15 tickets available will take them to local hospital libraries and
nursing homes. Thank you for allowing us
special event. £7 Full, £6 Concession, so book early! Includes the final product
to do what we love!
£5 Festival Friend (including tea and cakes) plus refreshments)
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 7Monday 17th–Thursday 20th June Lowdham Book
Wednesday 19th June, 2–3pm Thursday 20th June, 7–8.30pm
Southwell Road Community Hall, Minster School, Nottingham Road,
Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham, Southwell NG25 0LG
Nottingham NG14 7PS An Evening with David Almond
Edwardian Nottingham and Julia Green
in colour We are so honoured to welcome
An illustrated talk featuring a postcard these two leading writers for
series published between 1904 and young people. David Almond is
1912. Brian and Rob from Reflections the author of Skellig, The Colour
of the Sun and many other novels,
of a Bygone Age will share their
picture books, opera librettos and plays. His work
adventures in recreating the 125
is translated into 40 languages, and is widely
Monday 17th June, 10.30am –12.30pm scenes on which their book Edwardian adapted for stage and screen. His most recent
Southwell Road Community Hall, Nottingham in colour is based. book is Joe Quinn’s Poltergeist, a graphic novel
Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham, Photography with Dave McKean. Julia Green is the author of
Nottingham NG14 7PS secrets will be seventeen books for children and young adults,
Food at the Festival – with shared! most recently The House of Light. She writes
Jackie Skinner and Catherine £6 Full, about family and friendship and our connection
Humphries £5 Concession, to the natural world. Tonight they will explore the
This wonderful cookery £4 Festival Friend nature of creativity, how they write, why they
demonstration is one of the best of our (includes tea write for the young, and their own childhoods
Festival traditions. Come along and and cake) and influences.
celebrate 20 years of Festival food and £8 Full, £7 Concession,
Nottinghamshire recipes – tasting £6 Festival Friend
obligatory! (includes drinks and
£6 Full, £5 Concession, £4 Festival Friend nibbles)
8 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219Festival June 2019 Friday21st–Saturday 22nd June
© Kyte Photography
Friday 21st June, 2–3.30pm Saturday 22nd June, 10.45 am–1pm
Southwell Road Community Hall, Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street,
Old Tannery Drive, Lowdham, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
Nottingham NG14 7PS Reading Group morning with
The Restless Kings Diane Setterfield and Fanny Blake
with Nick Barratt Replete with folklore, suspense and
Nick visited us previously with his Who romance, Once Upon a River opens on a
Do You Think You Are? book. This time dark midwinter’s night in an ancient
he presents the tumultuous struggle inn on the Thames. A fantastic
for supremacy between the first opportunity to meet Diane, the
Plantagenet King, Henry II, and his four bestselling author of The Thirteenth
sons, bringing to life some of the most 7.30 – 9pm Lowdham Village Hall, Tale and Bellman and Black, and to
flawed and brilliant monarchs ever to Main Street, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD discuss her spellbinding novels. We are
have sat on the English throne. An Evening with Joanne Harris so pleased to welcome back as our
£6 Full, £5 Concession, £4 Festival Friend For Joanne’s third visit to Lowdham we Chair, Fanny Blake, Books Editor on
(including tea and cake) return to the world of Chocolat with Woman and Home magazine. NB – you
her new novel, The Strawberry Thief. don’t need to belong to a reading group.
Joanne says “This is a book about letting £20 including a copy of Once Upon A River
go; and adulthood; and falling in love; plus unlimited coffee and cake!
and learning to accept the marks and
scars that Life inflicts on us. It takes us
almost full circle from CHOCOLAT, twenty
years ago”. A special evening awaits.
£10 Full, £9 Concession, £8 Festival Friend
Licensed bar available
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 9Saturday 22nd–Sunday 23rd June Lowdham Book
Sunday 23rd June, 1.45 – 3.15pm
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
Alan Johnson and BBC Radio
Nottingham’s John Holmes in
conversation
We are delighted to welcome back
Saturday 22nd June, 8pm former politician turned award-winning
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street, author, Alan Johnson, whose life has
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD always had a musical soundtrack. In My
The Young’Uns – Life vividly transports us to a world that
Ballad of Johnny Longstaff is no longer with us - a world of 3.30–5pm Olde Mill Pottery,
Three time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Dansettes and jukeboxes. From Bob 22 Main Street, Caythorpe,
winners The Young’Uns present a new Dylan to David Bowie, all of Alan’s Nottingham NG14 7ED
and unique musical adventure, favourites are here. As are, of course, his Prosecco and Poetry
following the footsteps of one working beloved Beatles, whom he has Local poets Jane Wyles and Fiona
class hero who witnessed some of the worshipped with undying admiration Theokritoff invite you to relax with a
most momentous events of the 1930s. since 1963. ‘I may not have made an glass of prosecco/cup of tea and
£22 www.warthogpromotions.com impact on the music scene, but it has homemade cake as they share their
none the less had an enormous impact work and others’ poems, including
on me,’ says Johnson. their popular poetry bingo and a
£12 Full, £11 Concession, £10 Festival literary picnic! Plus the chance to
Friend (includes a copy of In My Life) browse around Judy Firmin’s
Licensed café serving hot and cold drinks delightful Olde Mill studio and shop.
and home-made cake £10 to include refreshments
10 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219Festival June 2019 Sunday 23rd–Tuesday 25th June
7pm Lowdham Village Hall, Main Monday 24th June, 7–8.30pm Tuesday 25th June,
Street, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD Minster School, Nottingham 7.30–9pm
Festival Film - Colette Road, Southwell NG25 0LG Southwell Library,
(15, 1hr 51mins) An Evening with The Bramley Centre,
Colette is pushed by her husband to Michael Rosen King St, Southwell
write novels under his name. Upon Michael Rosen is one of the best- NG25 0EH
their success she fights to make her known figures in the children’s book The Lost
talents known, challenging gender world, and in this humorous and Boys with
norms. Starring Keira Knightley and moving memoir, he recalls the first Catherine Bailey
Dominic West. We are so pleased to twenty-three years of his life. Born in We held very popular
partner again with Nottingham’s most 1946 in North London, Michael, and his events with Catherine with her
famous French restaurant, French brother Brian, grew up dreaming of a previous books, Black Diamonds and
Living, for this event. socialist revolution, with Party The Secret Rooms. In The Lost Boys
£7 Full, £6 Concession, meetings held in the front room. He is she tells an extraordinary story of
£5 Festival Friend renowned for his work as a poet, resistance at the heart of the Second
(includes a performer, broadcaster and scriptwriter World War with her customary detailed
delicious French and visits schools with his one-man research and eye
Living platter). show to enthuse children with his for the family story
Licensed bar passion for books and behind the
poetry. Come and hear historical facts.
his remarkable story… £7 Full,
£8 Full, £7 Concession, £6 Concession,
£6 Festival Friend £5 Festival Friend
(includes drinks and Licensed Bar
nibbles) available
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 11Wednesday 26th–Friday 28th June Lowdham Book
Wednesday 7.30–9pm Lowdham Village Hall, Main 8pm Old Ship
Both images © Natalie Dawkins
26th June, Street, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD Inn, Main Street,
1.45–3.15pm Agatha, Poirot and Me – Lowdham,
Southwell Road Sophie Hannah Nottingham
Community Hall, We are so happy to welcome Sophie as NG14 7BE
Old Tannery Drive, she returns to us to talk about her work Veronica Sbergia &
Lowdham, Notts as Agatha Christie's sidekick (in writing Max de Bernardi
NG14 7PS the Poirot novels) her other crime fiction, This fantastic duo represent an
The Lido and Something To Live and her self-help irresistible blend of blues, ragtime,
For – with Libby Page and book How to Hold a vaudeville music and Jug band music
Richard Roper Grudge. £10 Full, played using strictly acoustic
Debut novelists Richard and Libby will £9 Concession, instruments such as ukuleles,
talk about themes shared between £8 Festival Friend washboard, kazoo, acoustic and
their two books: community, friendship (includes drinks and resophonic guitars.
and loneliness; as well as the modern nibbles) £12.50 www.warthogpromotions.com
pressure to fit in and appear to have
the perfect life. These are stories told
with humour and charm Friday 28th June, 1.30-3pm bear for this
about the resilience of Southwell Rd Community Hall, interactive
the human heart. Old Tannery Dr, Lowdham, storytelling,
Prepare to be uplifted! Nottingham NG14 7PS bear-hunting,
£6 Full, £5 Concession, We’re Going On A Bear Hunt swishy-swashy
£4 Festival Friend with Nicky Rafferty event. And there will be a bear…
(includes tea and cake) Come and celebrate 20 years of this £5 per child (adults free) – includes
classic picture book! Bring your own refreshments and a goody bag!
12 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219Festival June 2019 Saturday 29th June
Saturday 29th June, 10am-5pm 11am-12pm Stephen Booth – Peak
All Day Bookfair and Cafe Difficult issues? Not so difficult issues? District Crime fiction
Throughout the day the Village Hall Committee Room, Village Hall Marquee behind the Village Hall
hosts a cafe serving hot and cold drinks, Troy Jenkinson (The Best Mummy Snails in Stephen makes a welcome return to the
salads and panini, cakes and ice cream. the Whole Wide World, about children Festival, and brings us up to date with
The bookfair is spread over the Village with lesbian parents), and Rose Robbins murder and mayhem in the Dark Peak.
Hall, a big marquee behind the Village (Me and My Sister, about having a sibling His Cooper and Fry series is now up to
Hall and assorted gazebos. It features with autism) discuss writing books about 18 books. It's dangerous in Derbyshire!
publishers, charities, book trade "issues" for younger children.
organisations and booksellers with new Ruth Charnock on Joni Mitchell
and second-hand books. There are WI Hall, Main Street
displays of old-fashioned letter press In this sound and image-illustrated talk,
printing equipment, and an eclectic mix Ruth Charnock looks at Joni Mitchell’s
of talks and readings. work as a musician, composer, cultural
commentator and antagonist, thinking
No need to book but turn up early for particularly about
any event you are particularly keen on to Mitchell’s album Blue
guarantee a seat! Entry is FREE to the Watson Fothergill - an illustrated and its depiction of
bookfair and all events. talk by Darren Turner desire, free love, and
Methodist Chapel, Main Street the late ’60s, whilst
This is our twentieth "last Saturday" so The Victorian architect Watson Fothergill also exploring
come along and bring the family for a left a distinctive stamp on Nottingham, Mitchell’s wider
special birthday celebration. making him the most famous local cultural contributions
architect of the period. His works can and significance.
still be seen all over the city.
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 13Saturday 29th June Lowdham Book
12.30-1.30pm Rules are meant to be broken 2-3pm
Shoestring Poetry Hour Marquee behind the Village Hall Lux, historical fiction
Committee Room, Village Hall Darren Simpson (Scavengers) and Kate with Elizabeth Cook
John Lucas presents Malcom Carson and Mallinder (Summer of No Regrets) write Committee Room,
Paul Binding, stalwarts of the for teenagers. Kate's novel is about four Village Hall
independent publishing scene. sixteen-year-old best friends who King David sings his
Malcolm has three full collections, pledge to live a summer regret-free, psalms while King Henry
Breccia, Rangi Changi and other poems, taking risks however much it scares plots. Courtier Thomas Wyatt sees them
Route Choice and a pamphlet, Cleethorpes them. Darren's character Landfill lives as both, his beloved falcon Lukkes on his
Comes to Paris. Paul is a novelist, critic, a scavenger, behind the wall, swimming arm. Lux is a story of love, fidelity, faith
poet and cultural historian. He has with turtles and eating fresh gull. But he and power. Elizabeth Cook was born in
written on Eudora Welty and Lorca as wants to explore the world outside. Gibraltar, and spent her childhood in
well as his own poetry. Nigeria and Dorset. She is the author of
Protest and Power: the battle for the the novel Achilles, and wrote the libretto
Bird Therapy with Joe Harkness Labour Party with David Kogan for Francis Grier’s The Passion of Jesus of
Methodist Chapel, Main Street WI Hall, Main Street Nazareth, broadcast by the BBC
On depression and bird watching - how Journalist David Kogan's talk can best be
becoming a bird described by these quotes about his book: Welcome to the Cheap Seats,
watcher saved Joe. 'If you want to understand Corbyn's long with Andrew Graves
'I can't remember the last march to take control of Labour this is the Methodist Chapel, Main Street
book I read that I could only book to read’ (Robert Peston) This is an illustrated talk on working class
say with absolute ‘New insights, vivid interviews, granular, often film, with a strong Nottingham element,
assurance would save objectively funny details, combine to build a including the films of Shane Meadows,
lives. But this one will' portrait of the British left that is both honest and of Alan Sillitoe's books as well as Kes,
Chris Packham and dignifying.’ (Zoe Williams Guardian) To Sir ,With Love and many others.
14 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219Festival June 2019 Saturday 29th June
"Don't mention the war", 3.30-4.30pm Our Lady of Everything,
with Clare Harvey Mug without a Handle: Life after Loss with Susan Finlay
Marquee behind the Village Hall of a Long-term Partner with Alison WI Hall, Main Street
Clare is the author of several books set Chippendale Susan's debut novel is set
during WWII, some in Committee Room, Village Hall in Nottingham, 2004. It
Nottingham. She will be Alison will be reading her own poems chronicles the lives of Eoin
talking about her about dealing with widowhood. O'Shea's friends and family,
research, her and what happens to them
development of strong I Went for a Walk, when he, a second-generation Northern
female characters and with Gabriel Stewart Irish soldier, is posted by the British army to
how to set stories Methodist Chapel, Main Street Iraq. The Games Workshop, Broadway
within a war. "Just over a year ago I decided I wanted Cinema, the Post, and Nottingham's Polish
to go for a walk, a rather long one. I had church all feature, as does chaos magik
Epic Continent, with Nicholas Jubber a plan. I'd use my home in London as a and Warhammer.
WI Hall, Main Street base and strike out into the countryside,
Award-winning travel writer Nicholas starting small - short jaunts to Brighton Milkman and other novels from the
Jubber journeys across Europe exploring or Norwich, leading North of Ireland, with Deirdre O'Byrne
Europe's epic poems, from the Odyssey up to walking London Marquee behind the Village Hall
to Beowulf, the Song of Roland to the to Penzance and Milkman, by Anna Burns, which won the
Nibelungenlied, and their impact on finishing my year with Booker Prize, was set in Belfast during
European identity in these turbulent a walk to Edinburgh. the height of "the Troubles". In this talk
times. That was the plan. Deirdre discusses the book in relation to
And it couldn't have other novels set in the North at a time
gone more wrong." when Irish writing has rarely been so
popular with British readers.
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 15First Fridays & Film Fridays
Saturday extras in Saturday 29th June 11am–4pm Lowdham Festivals & The Bookcase presents:
First Fridays
the big marquee! Family events – all FREE! July–December 2019
Come and join us for a Friday 5th July
12pm and 4pm fantastic and free
(for 20 minutes each time) Eileen Campbell –
family day out to
A Writer’s Quest
celebrate our 20th
Join Clare Stevens and a group of writers birthday. There will be Friday 6th September
from Maggie's, Nottingham reading craft activities for children of all ages Mike Wilson – Writers on Trial
their own material. Like all our events in our Craft Tent behind the Village
today, these are free, but there is a Hall, an Alice in Wonderland themed Friday 4th October
Maggie's collecting box! treasure hunt led by the White Rabbit A celebration of National
himself, outdoor games, and magical Poetry Day with Voice Versa
Maggie’s Stall, Main Marquee storytelling with Joy Pitt. Joy appears Friday 1st November
regularly at Glastonbury Festival, and Stuart Dixon –
1.30pm and 3pm has toured internationally with her
(for 20 minutes each time) Autumn in the Garden
stories. Visit her beautiful story tent
where she and her unusual puppets Friday 6th December
Join Tuesday Shannon, Pippa Hennessy will transport you to other worlds. Festive games afternoon
and Elizabeth Hourston from There will be four 30 minute story
Soundswrite women's press, reading sessions on the Lowdham Primitive Methodist Chapel,
their poems about Orkney, archaeology hour starting at Main Street, Lowdham, 2 – 3.30pm.
and quantum physics (!). 11am. Tickets: £6 Full, £5 Concession,
£4 Festival Friend (always including
Soundswrite Stall, Main Marquee tea & cake!)
16 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219Film Fridays
Autumn/Winter 2019
Lowdham Village Hall,
We have a full programme of events in
Main Street, Lowdham. 7.30pm.
Tickets: £6 Full,
the second half of 2019, including…
£5 Concession
I See Hawks in LA
Andy Fairweather Low Big Band
Friday 20th September 7.30pm
Red Joan (12A) Hot Club of Cowtown
Hazel O’Connor
Friday 25th October Flossie Malavialle & Keith Donnelly (Dark Horses)
Double-bill for Hallowe’en!
7pm The Vanishing (15) Aynsley Lister Band
9pm Ghost Stories (15) Harp and a Monkey
Friday 29th November
The Manfreds
Fisherman’s Friends (12A)
...and more besides!
There is a licensed bar at all the Film
Friday evenings, plus ice cream, Pick up our latest booklet at the
popcorn, hot drinks and a delicious
selection of home made cakes. Festival. Or visit us at
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Event
Five Leaves
enclose a 1st class SAE) No of Full
tickets
Conc Friends Total
cost:
Voucher
Name
Event
The Bookcase opening hours:
No of Full Conc Friends Total Monday - Friday
Address tickets cost: 9am–5.30pm
Event Saturday 9am–4pm
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tickets cost: £1.00 off any book
Postcode
Event priced £4.99 or more
Telephone
No of Full Conc Friends Total Redeemable during
tickets cost: Lowdham Book Festival at
Email address (for our mailing list) Event The Bookcase, 50 Main Street,
Lowdham, Nottingham NG14
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tickets cost: 7BE, or at Festival stalls run by
The Bookcase or Five Leaves
Credit/debit card number: Become a Festival
Friend for £15/£25
Bookshop
Overall total:
Issue no: Expiry date: Security code:
(last 3 numbers
on back of card)
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Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 966 3219 23Lowdham Book Festival Information
Ticket information Travel information for Lowdham
Tickets are available from Lowdham is off the A6097 (Bingham to
The Bookcase, 50 Main Street, Lowdham Doncaster) and A612 (Nottingham to
NG14 7BE over the counter, by mail or by Southwell) between Newark and Lowdham.
credit/debit card over the phone
(Festival Box Office is 0115 966 3219 Lowdham railway station: A brisk ten
10am–4pm Monday–Saturday) or, minute walk from the centre of the village.
subject to availability, on the door at
events. Lowdham bus stop: Pathfinder 100 buses
drop off at the bottom of Main Street by the
If ordering by post please enclose a first cricket ground/war memorial.
class SAE and include a contact
telephone number. Cheques are payable Car parking: There is car parking at all the
to Lowdham Festivals Ltd. There is a 75p venues but this fills up quickly at popular
postage charge added to all telephone events so please allow time to park. If you
bookings. Tickets are not required for free require disabled parking please contact the
events. Box Office in advance.You can also read
