LINCOLNBOOKFESTIVAL

At The Collection | Danes Terrace | Lincoln

29th September –4th October 2014Plus a Pre-Festival Event on 26th September

Info & Tickets

lincolnbookfestival.org

Find us on Facebook

Festival sponsors include:

Featuring:• SARAH DRY• PROFESSOR DESMOND MACHALE• MARGARET WILLES• JENNIFER POTTER• CLIVE ASLET

• DANIEL E SUTHERLAND• CHRIS BRYANT MP• CHARLES SPENCER• HANNAH GRIEG• SIMON HEFFER• ANDY KERSHAW

hen Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left a wealth of papers that gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly

heretical and alchemically obsessed; deemed ‘unfit to be printed’, they remained largely hidden for more than seven generations. Over time Newton has been made and re-made but in her book THE NEWTON PAPERS Sarah helps uncover the truth about this extraordinary man.

Sarah is a former research fellow at the LSE and author of a biography of Marie Curie and THE NEWTON PAPERS: THE STRANGE AND TRUE ODYSSEY OF ISAAC NEWTON’S MANUSCRIPTS.

All events, with the exception of The Adventures of Andy Kershaw, will take place at The Collection | Danes Terrace | Lincoln | LN2 1LP at 6.15pm. Tickets can be purchased online at visitlincoln.com/bookfestival or in person from the:

Visitor Information Centre9 Castle Hill | Lincoln | LN1 3AA

Telephone: 01522 545458Stokes Café at the Collection will be open late throughout the festival week

eorge Boole (1815-64) has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics, father of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic but he was

much more than a mathematical genius. A child prodigy and 19th century polymath, he was a practical scientist and self-taught linguist, turbulent academic and devoted teacher, social reformer and poet, philosopher and family man. Des MacHale is the author of over 60 books (including humour and film) and Emeritus Professor Mathematics at University College Cork, where Boole was the first professor of mathematics. A revised edition of GEORGE BOOLE: HIS LIFE AND WORK will be published soon.

SARAH DRY ON THE LEGACY OF ISAAC NEWTON

THE ADVENTURES OF ANDY KERSHAWPROFESSOR DESMOND MACHALE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE BOOLE

Lincolnshire LadsWho Changed The World

29th

September

4th October 2014

Photo David Myers

Photo Tomas Tyner

LINCOLNBOOKFESTIVAL

Danes Terrace

EMMTEC

University of Lincoln

Lincoln Cathedral

Lincoln Castle

Steep Hill

The Strait

High Street

Clasketgate

Silver St

EastgateBailgate

Minster Yard

Spring Hill

Drury Lane

Wigford Way

Brayford Way

Ropewalk

LindumRoad

Monks Road

Yarborough Road

West Parade

Newland

TheAvenue

Carline Road

Broadgate

Danesgate

Kindly sponsored by

Kindly sponsored by

Monday 29th September 20146.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening

Friday 26th September 2014Pre-Festival Event / 6.15pm / Tickets £10

Kindly sponsored by

ndy is a passionate music enthusiast and a fearless adventurer: over a 25 year career he has worked with the Rolling Stones, shared an office with John Peel and

visited 97 countries, many as a rock & roll war correspondent! In his terrific one man show he talks about his life, his music, his travels and his book NO OFF SWITCH.

‘A gloriously cheeky bastard’ Pete Townshend ‘Passionate and furiously funny’ Dame Anne Leslie‘An amazing read … an amazing man’ Stephen Fry

VENUE:EMMTECUniversity of Lincoln Campus

Tuesday 30th September 20146.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening

argaret unearths lush gardens outside workers’ cottages and horticultural miracles in blackened yards, she reveals the ingenious, often devious, methods used by determined,

obsessive and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. From the fashionable rich stealing gardening ideas from the poor to the competitive alehouse syndicates, she discusses the ways in which the cultivation of plants plays an integral role in everyday British life.

Margaret studied architectural history and has a background in publishing (setting up the National Trust’s own book imprint); she is author of several books, most recently THE GARDENS OF THE BRITISH WORKING CLASSES.

ennifer’s latest book SEVEN FLOWERS reads like a detective story. As she tracks her septet across the globe, we discover where and when they originated, what power

or influence they have exerted over the affairs of man and how they acquired it, revealing some astonishing truths! Here are the flowers of healing, delirium and death; of purity and passion; of greed, envy and virtue; of hope and consolation; of beauty that drives men wild …

Jennifer is a horticultural historian, Consultant Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund and author of both fiction and non-fiction which include a biography of the John Tradescants ( father and son) and a history of the rose. SEVEN FLOWERS AND HOW THEY SHAPED OUR WORLD is her latest book.

MARGARET WILLES ON THE COTTAGE GARDEN – FACT AND FICTION

CHAIRED BY SUSAN RHODES CHAIRED BY CLAIRE BRAINERD

JENNIFER POTTER ON THE EXTRAORDINARY INFLUENCE OF PLANTS

THE POWER of Plants &Gardens

othing seems more British than a house like Cliveden or Leeds Castle but what became known as the ‘country house look’ was in fact codified by an American; the

greatest of early 20th century gardens, Hidcote, was created by an American; and it was an American romance that caused Edward VIII to abdicate. Clive Aslet discusses the varied destinies by which stupendously wealthy Americans ended up owning great houses and the transformations they brought upon them.

Clive is Editor at Large of Country Life and author of many books including THE EXUBERANT CATALOGUE OF DREAMS and a novel THE BIRDCAGE.

CLIVE ASLET AND THE AMERICAN INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH COUNTRY LIFE

CONNECTION

Photo Dylan Thomas

Photo Andrea Jones

Kindly sponsored by

Kindly sponsored by

Kindly sponsored by

29th

September

4th October 2014

29th

September

4th October 2014

Wednesday 1st October 20146.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening

Susan Rhodes MBE is a horticultural historian, involved in garden restoration

Claire Brainerd is an art historian, author, hotelier and American living in Lincolnshire!

ames McNeill Whistler was one of the most influential artists of his generation but the popular perception of him is of a combative, eccentric and unrelenting

publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother. Sutherland dispels this notion, uncovering an intense, introspective and complex man, plagued by self-doubt and haunted by an endless pursuit of perfection in his painting and drawing.

Daniel E Sutherland is Distinguished Professor of History, University of Arkansas, recipient of over fifty awards, honours and grants, and Author of WHISTLER: A LIFE FOR ART’S SAKE.

DANIEL E SUTHERLAND IN CONVERSATION WITH CLAIRE BRAINERD

Kindly sponsored by

Thursday 2nd October 20146.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening

harles I was sentenced to death by a tribunal of 135 men, 59 of whom signed the death warrant. But what happened at the Restoration when retribution was

brought against those who condemned their king? From those who returned to the monarchist cause and betrayed their fellow regicides to those who fled the country to escape punishment, this is the story of the men who dared kill a king.

Earl Spencer read Modern History at Oxford and spent 7 years as a foreign news reporter for NBC. His book on the battle of Blenheim was shortlisted for the 2005 National Book Awards History Book of the Year. KILLERS OF THE KING is his new book.

CHRIS BRYANT MP IN CONVERSATION WITH LORD RADICE

CHARLES SPENCER ON THE REGICIDE

KING Parliamenthey say if you remember the sixties you can’t have been there – so for those of you who were and can’t remember and those

of you who weren’t but wish they had been, we have a trip down memory lane with books and music: in 1964 mods and rockers were fighting on Brighton beach – 50 years on in his book MODS: THE NEW RELIGION Paul Anderson has their stories, their suits, their scooters and their music … Jenny Boyd, ex-model, muse to Donovan and former wife of Mick Fleetwood, was in India with the Beatles and the Maharishi (her sister Pattie was married to George Harrison, then Eric Clapton) – in her book IT’S NOT ONLY ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, 75 iconic musicians reveal their thoughts on creativity and much more …

y kind invitation of The Collection, a free event with short talks on local history, including Lincolnshire’s WW1 Memorials

(SLHA), Magna Carta: the Lincoln Story (Lincoln Cathedral Publications), The Correspondence of William Stukeley & Maurice Johnson (Lincoln Record Society), High Flight: The life and poetry of Pilot Office John Gillespie Magee (Roger Cole)and Dave Start (former Director of Heritage Trust Lincolnshire) on how to get local history research written-up and published. Bookstalls and authors’ signing – a feast of local history!

&

LOCAL HISTORY

Afternoon

Photo Richard Maude

Kindly sponsored by

Kindly sponsored by

Kindly sponsored by

29th

September

4th October 2014

29th

September

4th October 2014

Saturday 4th October 20142pm-5pm / Tickets are Free

Kindly sponsored by

Friday 3rd October 20146.15pm / Tickets £10

old through the lives of the myriad MPs, lords and bishops who sat on its benches, PARLIAMENT is a vivid, colourful biography of a cast of characters

whose passions and obsessions, strengths and weaknesses laid the foundations of modern democracy. ‘If you ever thought that modern MPs were more corrupt or worse behaved than their predecessors, then read on.’ (Mary Beard)

Labour MP for Rhondda, Chris Bryant was one of two MPs who fought to expose the hacking scandal. PARLIAMENT: THE BIOGRAPHY is his latest book. Giles Radice was a Labour MP until 2001; his latest political biography Odd Couples is due out next year.

Evening of Extravagance and VIRTUE WITH THE GEORGIANS & VICTORIANS

ritain in the 1840s was wracked by poverty, fear of riot and revolution and attempts to assassinate the Queen. By the 1880s it was a confident

and prosperous nation, transformed by industrialisation and new attitudes to politics, education, women and the working class. Heffer tells the story of a group of dynamic and high-minded politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers who remade the country, its institutions and its mindset.

Simon Heffer needs no introduction as a columnist. He is the author of several books, most recently HIGH MINDS: THE VICTORIANS AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN BRITAIN. Roger Hudson is a historian, editor and author who has spent much time in the 19th Century!

SIMON HEFFER IN CONVERSATION WITH ROGER HUDSON

Kindly sponsored by

HANNAH GREIG ON THE BEAU MONDEKindly

sponsored by

Saturday 4th October 20146.15pm / Tickets £10 for the evening

29th

September

4th October 2014

aricatured for extravagance, vanity, scandal and gossip, 18th century fashionable society had a reputation for frivolity. But to be ‘fashionable’ denoted membership of

a new type of society: the beau monde, where status was no longer determined by coronets and countryseats alone. Conspicuous consumption and display were crucial and by the end of the century being fashionable had become nothing less than the key to power and exclusivity in a changed world.

As well as lecturing on the 18th century at the University of York, Hannah is a historical adviser for film, television and theatre (including The Duchess, Bath Theatre’s School for Scandal and BBC’s Jamaica Inn) and author of THE BEAU MONDE.