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Lowdham Book Festival
Tuesday 19th – Saturday 30th June 2018
Lowdham, Nottinghamshire
Tickets: The Bookcase, Lowdham 0115 9663219
Lowdham Book
Hello and welcome to Lowdham Book Festival 2018. This is our 19th year and we are delighted to bring you a fantastic
line-up encompassing the worlds of fiction, travel, medicine, trains, poetry, cricket, art, music and food! With the usual
eclectic mix of talks, music, film and discussions we hope there will be something for everyone at this year’s festival –
do come along and join the fun!
Jane Streeter and Ross Bradshaw
janestreeter@thebookcase.co.uk bookshop@fiveleaves.co.uk
www.thebookcase.co.uk www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk
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Festival 2018 Tuesday 19th June – Friday 22nd June
Tuesday 19th June 2.30–4.15pm Friday 22nd June 10.00am–12.00pm
Harts Restaurant, Standard Hill, Park WI Hall, Main Street, Lowdham,
Row, Nottingham NG1 6GN Notts NG14 7AB
Prosecco Afternoon Tea Food at the Festival –
with Victoria Hislop a cookery demonstration
We are delighted to open this year’s Don’t miss our traditional foodie
festival with such a lovely event. morning with Jackie Skinner, Catherine
Victoria will be in conversation with Wednesday 20th June 7.30pm Humphries and their assistant Abigail
BBC Radio Nottingham’s Frances Finn, Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street, (now 4 years old!). Demo and tasting
and will talk about her bestselling Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD Tickets: £5 full, £4 concessions,
books, her travelling life and her Shore 2 Shore with Carol Ann £3 Festival Friends
passion for Greece, followed by a Duffy, Jackie Kay, Gillian Clarke
delicious Hart’s style afternoon tea! and Imtiaz Dharker 8.00pm Lowdham Village Hall, Main
£35 including traditional afternoon tea These amazing poets will be hitting Street, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
and a copy of Cartes Postales the road to perform their work across Judie Tzuke
(special dietary needs catered for – the UK to celebrate Independent One of the UK’s finest
please inform us when booking) Bookshop Week, and we are honoured singer/ songwriters,
to be one of the stops along the way! known all over the world
MC John Simpson will steer the show, for the timeless song,
and we’ll be welcoming special guest ‘Stay With Me Till Dawn’. This intimate
Georgina Wilding – Nottingham’s evening will consist of old favourites
Young Poet Laureate. and songs from Judie’s new album,
£20 including a glass of wine and a combined with stories from across her
copy of Off The Shelf: A Celebration of life and career.
Bookshops in Verse Tickets: £22.50
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Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219 3
Saturday 23rd June Lowdham Book
Saturday 23rd June 10.45–1.00pm 3.00–5.00pm Lowdham Village Hall,
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street, Main Street, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD Festival Film - Oranges and
Reading Group morning Sunshine
Join us for a fascinating session (15, 1hr, 45mins)
with crime writer Sarah Ward, Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker
author of three DC Childs novels, In Margaret Humphreys holds the British
Bitter Chill, A Deadly Thaw and A Patient government accountable for child with live performances of many Arias
Fury set in the Peak District. A Patient migration schemes and reunites the and Duets, set in the context of
Fury was The Observer’s Thriller of the children involved – now adults living Handel’s remarkable career. Sarah
Month in 2017. The fourth in the series, mostly in Australia – with their parents Jane Carlin is a recitalist, opera/music
The Shrouded Path, is out in September. in Britain. A shocking expose of a story theatre artist, and oratorio performer,
She is a book reviewer for various buried for many years. Directed by Jim and was in the Gold medal winning
online publications and is a judge for Loach and starring Emily Watson. Cantamus Choir in the World Choir
the Petrona Award for Scandinavian Tickets: £6 full, £5 concessions, £4 Festival Olympics.
crime fiction. www.crimepieces.com. Friends. Cafe serving hot and cold drinks,
homemade cake, popcorn and ice-creams A Cambridge Choral Scholar, Dave was
NB – you don’t need to Director of Music at Nottingham Girls’
belong to a reading 6.30–8.00pm St Marys Church, Church High School, has given Lectures on
group to come along to Lane, Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ Classical Music on cruise ships, and is
this lovely event! By George! - A Handel aria for actively involved in promoting,
Tickets: £15 including every occasion – a Lecture Recital composing and performing choral
coffee and cake and Join Dave Machell with guest Soprano music in Nottingham.
a copy of In Bitter Chill Sarah Jane Carlin in a tour of the Tickets: £8 full, £7 concessions, £6 Festival
extraordinary world of Handel Operas, Friends – includes a glass of wine
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Festival 2018 Sunday 24th June
Sunday 24th June 12.30–2.30pm internationally acclaimed novels. Her 3.00–5.30pm Olde Mill Pottery,
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street, memoir, The Language of Kindness, is an 22 Main Street, Caythorpe,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD astonishing account of the nursing Nottingham NG14 7ED
A Matter of Life and Death – profession, and is fast becoming one Prosecco and Poetry
with Adam Kay, Christie Watson of 2018’s most talked about books. Local poets Jane Wyles and Fiona
and Kathryn Mannix Theokritoff invite you to relax with a
This is going to be an Dr Kathryn Mannix is a glass of prosecco/cup of tea and
amazing session - three palliative medicine pioneer homemade cake, as they share their
medical professionals who has worked with work and others’ poems, including
turned authors shine a thousands of dying people. their popular poetry bingo and a
light on the realities of She has found their ability literary picnic! Plus the chance to
living and dying, in the to deal with illness and browse round Judy’s delightful
year in which we celebrate the 70th death both fascinating and inspirational, Olde Mill studio and shop.
anniversary of the NHS. Adam Kay is an and believes that a better awareness Tickets £10 to include refreshments.
award-winning comedian and writer about what happens as we die would
for TV and film. His first book, This is enable us to discuss our hopes and fears
Going to Hurt is the often hilarious, at with the people who matter to us.
times horrifying, and occasionally With The End in Mind is a beautiful and
heartbreaking diary of a former junior powerful book, exploring the biggest
doctor, and the story of why he taboo in our society and the only
decided to hang up his stethoscope. certainty we all share.
Tickets: £10 full, £9 concessions,
Christie Watson was a £8 Festival Friends.
nurse for twenty years Licensed café serving hot and cold drinks
before writing two and light refreshments in the interval.
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Sunday 24th – Monday 25th June Lowdham Book 4.00–6.00pm, Lowdham Village Hall, 7.30pm, Nottingham Playhouse, Monday 25th June Main Street, Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD Wellington Circus, Nottingham NG1 5AL 7.15–8.45pm Karl Kopinski Caitlin Moran – St Mary’s Church, We are so thrilled to host this event How To Be Famous Church Lane, Lowdham with Lowdham’s own world renowned We will be running a bookstall at Notts NG14 7BQ artist. Karl Kopinski will talk about his Caitlin’s event so hope to see some of Alastair Sawday – illustrating life and there will be a you there! Travelling Light wonderful (and rare) opportunity to NB - Tickets from Nottingham Playhouse Environmental watch him draw! Nottingham born Karl Box Office only – 0115 941 9419 campaigner, wanderer, began his career with Games Workshop and publisher of the Special Places to and has worked with such high profile Stay books, Alastair Sawday shares names as Sir Paul Smith, Peter Jackson, with us this charming and beautifully and Ferrari to name but a few. His first written account of the pleasures of solo show last year featured cycling slow travel. In Travelling Light, he gives portraits including Bradley Wiggins, voice to those of us who have climbed and his style has earned him thousands no mountains, discovered no rivers, of social media followers. We are created no great institutions, powered indeed privileged to welcome Karl to no legislation, changed very little – but our festival. There will be an exhibition who yearn to understand the world of his amazing illustrations and a and make sense of its infinite variety. chance to chat to Karl about his work. Tickets: £8 full, £7 concessions, Tickets: £8 full, £7 concessions, £6 Festival £6 Festival Friends, £5 children/students Friends – includes a glass of wine. Licensed cafe available. www.sawdays.co.uk http://karlkopinski.com 6 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219
Festival 2018 Tuesday 26th June – Wednesday 27th June
Tuesday 26th June 10.00 – 3.00pm such as with organisations Tatty Devine Wednesday 27th June
St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, & Secret Cinema, and regularly gives 7.30pm – 9.00pm
Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ talks around the world. In her books A St Mary’s Church,
Craft Day Little Book of Craftivism and How To Be A Church Lane, Lowdham
... stalls showcasing local craft companies Craftivist: the art of gentle protest , Sarah NG14 7BQ
and designers, the opportunity to work shows how to respond to injustice not Fifty Not Out:
on your own projects in the company of with apathy or aggression, but with The Six Sixes
like-minded crafters, and the real gentle, effective protest. Sarah will have Revisited
highlight of the day: a stall 12:30 - 2.00pm too so there will be To celebrate Nottinghamshire captain
the chance to chat to her informally, get Garry Sobers hitting an historic 36 runs
Craftivist Sarah Corbett in a signed book and buy some of her kits off one over at Swansea in 1968,
conversation with Jane Waite. and tools to use during the day. She will Grahame Lloyd recalls both the famous
11.30am – 12.30pm be on hand if you need help using them! feat and the mysterious fate of the ball
Sarah is an award-winning professional Tickets: £10. Café serving light bowled by Glamorgan’s Malcolm Nash.
campaigner who set up the global and refreshments throughout the day. An iconic moment, a disturbing tale of
award-winning Craftivist Collective in fake news and a whodunnit? – with a
2009 providing products and services to Huge thanks to Lowdham Cast-Offs for all ball instead of a body.
do craftivism using her ‘gentle protest’ their hard work putting together the
approach. She works with arts amazing book-ish themed yarn-bombing Grahame Lloyd is a freelance
organisations, around the village and at the festival broadcaster, journalist, short story
the charity venues. Yarn-bombing (or guerilla knitting) writer and poet. He has written eight
sector, academic started in the US in 2005 and this “knitfitti” books and produced two one-man
institutions and art form is now carried out worldwide. shows about football and cricket.
unexpected Look out for the studious bookworms and Tickets: £7 full, £6 concessions, £5 Festival
collaborations well-known book characters! Friends – includes a glass of wine
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219 7Thursday 28th June Lowdham Book
Thursday 28th June 2.00–3.30pm 7.30–9.00pm, St Mary’s Church, Church
– for the train-lovers in our audience! Lane, Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ
St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Night Trains –
Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ with Andrew Martin
East Coast Main Line Night trains have long fascinated us
Disasters – with Adrian Gray with the possibilities of their private
The East Coast Main Line runs through sleeping compartments, gilded dining
our region from Peterborough to cars, champagne bars and wealthy
Doncaster on its way between London travellers. Authors from Agatha experience can only be recreated by
and Edinburgh. As the author of a Christie to Graham Greene have used taking three separate sleepers, the
definitive book on the topic, Adrian night trains to tell tales of romance, intriguing characters and exotic
Gray can explain how accidents and intrigue and decadence against a atmospheres have survived. Whether
disasters influenced the gradual rolling background of dramatic the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish
improvement of safety down the years, landscapes. The reality could often be customs post, the sun rising over the
with some graphic illustrations of what as thrilling: early British travellers on Riviera, or the constant twilight of a
went wrong including famous the Orient Express were advised to Norwegian summer night, Andrew
accidents at carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). rediscovers the pleasures of a
Doncaster and In Night Trains, Andrew Martin continent connected
Grantham. attempts to relive the golden age of by rail.
Tickets: £6 full, the great European sleeper trains by Tickets: £8 full,
£5 concessions, using their modern-day equivalents. £7 concessions,
£4 Festival Friends This is no simple matter. The night £6 Festival Friends
trains have fallen on hard times, and – includes a glass
the services are disappearing one by of wine
one. But if the Orient Express
8 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219Festival 2018 Friday 29th June Film Fridays
Friday 29th June 2.00–3.30pm Film Fridays
St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Autumn/Winter 2018
Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ
The Accidental Memoir with Lowdham Village Hall,
Eve Makis and Anthony Cropper Main Street, Lowdham. 7.30pm.
Want to flex your writing muscles? Tickets: £6 full,
Eve Makis and Anthony Cropper will £5 concessions
show you how!
The Accidental Memoir takes you on a Anthony Cropper has published two
Friday 28th September
journey from the origins of your family novels and a collection of short stories,
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
name and earliest memories, to what plus plays and screenplays. He has
(15, 1 hr 45 mins)
you’d invent and how you’d change taught creative writing both in this
the world. country and abroad and worked with Friday 26th October
schools to promote literacy. Journey’s End
This beautifully illustrated book is filled (12A, 1 hr 47 mins)
with imaginative and accessible Tickets: £15 to Sunday 9th December
writing prompts, as well as tips for include a copy White Christmas
anyone wanting to document their of the book (U, 2 hrs)
lives and explore their creativity. (rrp £10).
Please note
Eve Makis studied at Leicester this session is
University and worked as a journalist limited to 30 There is a licensed bar at all the Film
and radio presenter in the UK and places so early Friday evenings, plus ice cream,
Cyprus before becoming an award- booking is popcorn, hot drinks and a delicious
selection of home made cakes.
winning novelist. advisable.
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219 9First Fridays Saturday 30th June Lowdham Book
Lowdham Festivals & The Bookcase presents: 10.00am–5.00pm: 11.00–12.00am:
First Fridays All Day Book Fair and Cafe Lost Nottingham –
September– December 2018 Village Hall, Main Street, Lowdham A city in pictures, an
Throughout the day the Village Hall illustrated talk
Friday June 1st hosts a cafe serving hot and cold by Ian Rotherham
Chris Arnott on Bill Shankly drinks, salads and panini, cakes and Methodist Chapel,
Friday July 6th ice-cream. The bookfair is spread over Main Street
How To Pack a Suitcase with the Village Hall, a marquee behind the To include the launch of the new book
Alison Lowe from Adelanta Travel village hall and assorted gazebos. It Nottingham: Unique Images from the
Friday September 7th features booksellers, publishers, Archives of Historic England and
Travels of an Aged Gardener charities and book trade organisations. extracts from Lost Nottingham in
with Stuart Dixon There’s an (always popular!) display of colour and Sherwood Forest and the
Friday October 5th old fashioned printing equipment, Dukeries - a companion to the land of
Meet local author books by all the festival authors, plus a Robin Hood.
Maria Dziedzan range of events for adults and children.
Friday November 2nd And it’s all free, so pitch up early! Skeletons, with Jan Zalasiewicz
A Celebration of Poetry Women’s Institute, Main Street
with Voice Versa This year our programme includes our From the bones of dinosaurs to the
Friday December 7th usual helping of local history, poetry, capsules of microscopic
Christmas Quiz crime fiction... but also includes fiction life, skeletons hold life
from East Europe and Ireland, history together. Jan Zalasiewicz
Lowdham Primitive Methodist Chapel,
Main Street, Lowdham, 2 – 3.30pm. talks on the Spanish Flu Epidemic, is a Professor of
Tickets: £6 full, £5 concessions, landscape, skeletons and Palaeobiology at the
£4 Festival Friends (always including neuroscience... University of Leicester.
tea & cake!)
10 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219Festival 2018 Saturday 30th June
Writing about Neuroscience, Gogh’s last paintings. He has been
with Jonathan Taylor featured in The Independent, on Arena
Committee Room, Village Hall on Radio 1, and in the National
Jonathan Taylor’s memoir Take Me Geographic.
Home: Parkinson’s, My Father, Myself
(Granta, 2007) was recently named as 12.30–1.30pm:
one of the Five Best Books on The Piano Room, with Jaroslav Melnik
Neuroscience . In this session, Methodist Chapel, Main Street
Jonathan talks about this and his other Jaroslav Melnik (Jaroslavas Melnikas) is
writings inspired a celebrated Ukrainian/ Lithuanian
by neuroscience, writer, and winner of the BBC Ukrainian Pandemic, 1918 – An illustrated talk,
and recommends Service Book of the Year Award. Today with Catharine Arnold
his own favourite he will be reading in English and Women’s Institute, Main Street
books on the discussing East European fiction with “In the same city, the Victoria Baths
subject. Stephan Collishaw (Noir Press). swimming pool was drained and
turned into a temporary morgue when
The Afterlives of Dr Gachet, the local council ran out of places to
with Sam Meekings store the dead.
Marquee behind the Village Hall
Sam Meekings returns By the week ending 16 November
to his childhood home 1918, Nottingham had the highest
of Nottingham to read death rate in the country: 60,000.” This
from his novel about is the story of Spanish flu, which killed
the life of Dr Gachet, the 100 million people globally.
subject of one of Van
Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219 11Saturday 30th June Lowdham Book
How to Read the
English Landscape,
with Andrew Bibby
Committee Room,
Village Hall
Andrew’s books include
Backbone of England 2.00–3.00pm:
focussing on northern upland The Welbeck Atlas – An illustrated talk,
landscapes. His new book delves into by Steph Mastoris Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
the landscapes of ‘middle England’, Methodist Chapel, Main Street Panel, with Dr Teika Bellamy
using the device of a journey made by The editor of The Welbeck Atlas Women’s Institute, Main Street
bicycle along the belt of Jurassic presents this Thoroton Society title Join Teika Bellamy, the founder of
limestone from west Dorset to north which includes maps of the Earl of Mother’s Milk Books and the editor of
Lincolnshire. Newcastle’s estates, much of which lay the popular series The Forgotten and
within Sherwood Forest. the Fantastical, to discuss the current
New Irish Writing, with Deirdre O’Byrne state of the genre with regards to
Marquee behind the Village Hall women authors. She will be joined by
Sally Rooney, Eimear McBride, Claire other local writers and readers.
Keegan and Sara Baume are all making
waves as a new generation of Irish The Shoestring Poetry Hour, with
writers. Jonathan Taylor and Robert Etty
Committee Room, Village Hall
Deirdre will introduce these and others Nottinghamshire’s leading specialist
and give out samples of their writing poetry publisher and Lowdham
to discuss. regular, John Lucas, launches a new
12 Festival Box Office 10–4 Mon to Sat 0115 9663219Festival 2018 Saturday 30th June
collection by Jonathan Taylor and Viking Meg Dalton plies her trade in the Peak
offers a welcome return by Robert Etty. Nottinghamshire – District. In Devil’s Dice, a body is found
An illustrated talk, near a network of caves where the
The Boy with the Perpetual by Rebecca Gregory victim’s initials and a figure of the Grim
Nervousness, with Graham Caveney Women’s Institute, Reaper are carved into the cave wall –
Marquee behind the Village Hall Main Street but the carvings have existed for over
A memoir of a northern, Irish-immigrant Nottingham was one of the five East one hundred years...
working class family, and an Midlands boroughs of the Danelaw, a
adolescence that was redeemed, then part of England under Viking rule Saturday 30th June 11am–4pm
betrayed, by his headteacher. One of the 1,000 year ago. Rebecca will talk about
FREE Family Fun at the Festival!
most widely reviewed books of 2017. how place names and street names
Come along and join in the fun in our
show the extent of Danish occupation.
special yurt behind the Village Hall.
3.30–4.30pm:
Storytelling and crafts run by the
In Transit – poems Words Best Sung,
lovely team from
about travel, with Sarah Jackson with Lee Stuart Evans
Nottingham
and Tim Youngs Committee Room, Village Hall
Literacy
Methodist Chapel, Main Street Lee Evans writes for Stephen Fry, Julie
Volunteers – plus
The editors of this collection of travel Walters and a host of top stars, appearing
a treasure trail,
inspired poetry will be joined by here in his own right with Words Best
and of course
contributors Jo Sung, a loosely autobiographical novel
cake!
Dixon, Richard with a soundtrack of the 1960s.
Look out for
Goodson, Rory
more details on
Waterman and Crime fiction, with Roz Watkins
www.thebookcase.co.uk
others from the Marquee behind the Village Hall
nearer the time.
collection. Roz Watkins’s Detective Inspector
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