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The Lit & Phil and Newcastle Libraries25th November ~ 3rd December 2017

The partnership between Newcastle Libraries and the Lit & Phil continues with the seventh year of Books on Tyne: The Newcastle Book Festival. Both venues will stage a remarkably varied programme of events.The City Library offers some old favourites such as John Grundy and Chris Phipps, and the Polari Literary Salon returns with one of the biggest names in crime writing, Val McDermid. Janet Ellis will talk about her Blue Peter days and her new life as an author. Other topics include vampires, hospitals, poetry, local history and, as ever, plenty of crime!The Lit & Phil have an equally diverse programme with football, rare books, railways, and discussions with actors turned authors, Hugh Fraser and George Costigan, on offer. Look out, too, for some great family events on 2nd December.This year we are working in partnership with Waterstones, based in the beautiful Emerson Chambers building. Their team will be helping sell books at our events.The Books on Tyne Team

Shima Banks Graphic DesignKay Easson Programme: Lit & PhilDavid Hepworth Programme: Newcastle LibrariesCaroline Lievesley MarketingJohn Stafford WebsiteSharon Traill Programme: Newcastle Libraries

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How to Book

www.booksontyne.co.ukPhone: 0191 277 4100 for City Library events0191 232 0192 for Lit & Phil eventsIn person at City Library or The Lit & Phil.

City Library on New Bridge Street, is a welcoming modern building open to everyone. We provide contemporary and easily accessible services as well as historic collections. www.newcastle.gov.uk/libraries Twitter @toonlibrariesFacebook: NewcastleLibraries

Please book to avoid disappointment.* We have an ‘Early Bird’ offer of £1 off all paid tickets bought between 2nd and 15th of October – just enter the code EB2017 when your ordering your ticket from eventbrite.

The Lit & Phil, on Westgate Road, is the largest independent library outside London. Opened in 1825, the building houses contemporary and historic collections of more than 160,000 books, and an important collection of recorded music and scores.www.litandphil.org.ukTwitter: @litandphil Facebook: The-Lit-and-Phil

*If the event you have booked for is cancelled, resched-uled or has changed location, you are entitled to a refund. You’re not entitled to a refund if you can no longer attend an event.

Vera writer Ann Cleeves presents the searing eighth novel in the bestselling Vera Stanhope series. The Seagull tackles corruption deep in the heart of a community, and highlights fragile and fracturing family relationships.In conversation with The Tube’s Chris Phipps, Ann talks about her writing career, Vera, Shetland and her other books.

6pm ~ £3 Mari Hannah: The Death Messenger

‘Dagger in the Library’ award-winning author, Mari Hannah returns to City Library to tell us about her new book and her life as an author and scriptwriter. Mari won the Polari First Book Prize for her debut

The Murder Wall and a Northern Writers’ Award for her second novel, Settled Blood. Her body of work won her the CWA Dagger in the Library 2017, was long listed for the Dublin International Literary Award 2017 and Mari is a finalist in the Journal Culture Awards 2017 for Writer of the Year.

Saturday 25th November CITY LIBRARY

11am ~ Free Kids’ Double Bill! Join the authors of Earthcry: The Carfax Chronicles, a vampire adventure set in Northumberland and The Boy With His Head Stuck In A Book, an interactive, augmented reality book!Earthcry introduces 14-year-old Lily Carfax, who moves from London to the ancient Carfax Hall. There she meets a mysterious stranger with no reflection who can move at supernatural speed. The Boy With His Head Stuck In A Book uses augmented reality technology to make the book come alive – a digital pop-up book! An ordinary boy is dragged to the library one mundane Saturday afternoon, but when his head becomes trapped within the pages of a book, he is catapulted into a magical world filled with dinosaurs, dragons, pirates and ghosts...

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2pm ~ £3 Vera and I – Ann Cleeves

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6pm ~ £3 Dr Nick LloydPasschendaele: a New HistoryThe name Passchendaele has come to symbolise the Great War for many. The main battle commenced on 31st July 1917 and continued until 10th November 1917, during which time some 500,000 men were killed or wounded. It has become synonymous with the carnage and perceived futility of the Great War. Nick Lloyd, Reader in Military & Imperial History, King’s College London, has unearthed new material from archives, libraries and other sources from across Europe. Published on the eve of Passchendaele’s 100th anniversary, the book has been described as ‘harrowing but necessary’ (The Guardian).

4pm ~ £5Hugh Fraser, actor and crime novelist in conversation with Gail-Nina AndersonHugh Fraser is perhaps best known for playing Captain Hastings in Agatha Christie’s Poirot and appearing as the Duke of Wellington in Sharpe. Five years ago he enrolled on a short writing course, armed with an outline of his book and the first chapter. He has now written three novels in the bestselling Rina Walker Series: Harm, Threat and Malice.

11am ~ Free Caring Newcastle – Book Launch and coffee morning For many years, Newcastle has enjoyed a reputation as a centre for medical excellence. Join Ken Smith and Dr Tom Yellowley who trace the history of hospitals in Newcastle

since medieval times, examining their trials and triumphs and introducing some of the people behind their most inspiring successes, including Dr John Snow who first discovered that cholera was a waterborne disease.

2pm ~ £3 Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers Architecture lecturer Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level.Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be

understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. He asks why Dubai was built to be seen from Google Earth? Why do London billionaires build vast subterranean basements? Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.

6pm ~ £3Northern Spy: Mick Herron A novelist and short story writer born in Newcastle, Mick Herron’s first Jackson Lamb novel, Slow Horses, was described as the ‘most enjoyable British spy novel in years’ by the Mail on Sunday and picked as one of the best

twenty spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph. The second, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger. The third, Real Tigers, was shortlisted for both the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He is credited by the Sunday Express as having ‘revitalised the spy thriller genre’.

Monday 27th November CITY LIBRARY


Sunday 26th November2pm ~ £3 The Land of Three Rivers, Bloodaxe Books A celebration of North-East England past and present in poetry. Featuring its places and people, culture, history, language and stories in poems and songs, from Roman times through medieval Northumbria and the industrial era of mining and shipbuilding up to the present-day.Bloodaxe Books has revolutionised poetry publishing in Britain over four decades. Its authors and books have won virtually every major literary award given to poetry, from the T.S. Eliot Prize and Pulitzer to the Nobel Prize.

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6pm ~ £3Jonathan TullochLarkinlandJoin Jonathan Tulloch in a hilarious, heart-breaking tour of Larkinland. Walk the streets of Larkin’s poetry, meet some of his memorable characters, watch love threaten to bloom. Known for his number one Geordie hit, The Season Ticket, Tulloch’s new novel turns to love and books and bicycle clips in 1950s Hull. A consummate performer of his own work, expect gut laughter and much heart wrenching. ‘Rarely have I heard anyone talk so movingly about literature as Jonathan Tulloch’ Open Book Radio 4.

Tom Kelly will read from his poetry collection Spelk and his short story pamphlet, The Last Clockwork Whippet on the Tyne, Ellen Phethean from her poetry collections Breath, Portrait of the Quince as an Older Woman and her Young Adult novel, Ren and the Blue Hands and Shelley Day from her forthcoming short story collection, A Policy of Constant Improvement.

7.30pm ~ FreeRed Squirrel Press presents Shelley Day, Ellen Phethean and Tom Kelly

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Tuesday 28th November


3pm ~ Free Widdershins Helen SteadmanWiddershins was inspired by the seventeenth-century witch trials in Newcastle. Although fifteen people were executed on the same

day for alleged witchcraft, the trials aren’t widely known about outside the north east of England.Inspired by true events, Widdershins tells the story of the women who were persecuted and the men who condemned them.

11am ~ Free Birds, Bowes and Books: Val Scully In this illustrated talk, Val will discuss two centuries of the Bowes family’s story and explore the events and developments that she’s researching for Molly Bowes: from Peterloo and Crowley’s Crew to Joseph Cowen, Garibaldi and European political plots.

2pm ~ Free The Newcastle Eccentrics: Dark tales of Georgian Newcastle

Inspired by Dickens, Frank Bray transports you right into the centre of the action of 19th century Newcastle. He brings to life real historical characters, especially those who feature in Henry Perlee Parker’s painting, The Newcastle Eccentrics. Many of the places featured in the book - the Quayside, the Town Moor, the Keelmen’s Hospital, the Guildhall and High Bridge - are still around, although they all look very different today.

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Tuesday 28th November


6pm ~ £3Michael BurkeBuried Alive! Books Unearthed in our TimeThis lecture tells three stories of extraordinary ancient books that were lost for centuries, deliberately buried underground:•Thirteen papyrus books were discovered in a clay pot in Egypt in 1945. •St Cuthbert’s Gospel was buried with Cuthbert when he died in 692 and acquired for the nation in 2005.•The Fadden More Psalter, one of the earliest surviving British manuscripts was found in a peat bog in Tipperary in 2005. The various reasons for their burial, and the occasions of their discovery will be revealed. Michael teaches bookbinding at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal. In recent years he has been researching the structures of ancient and medieval bindings. Lecture in association with the Society of Bookbinders.

6pm ~ Free The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas Daniel James Fiction is the new truth Ezra Maas was born in 1950 and as an artist he found fame at a young age. He was a reclusive figure and after announcing plans for his final and most important artwork Maas disappeared under mysterious circumstances from his studio in the mid-2000s.Newcastle writer Daniel James has written The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas, the story of a journalist searching for the truth. It’s ‘an intriguing book with chapters alternating between Maas’s life and Daniel ’s efforts to pin him down.’ David Whetstone, The Journal.

6pm ~ £3 Chris Phipps: Night of the Name Dropper! Media historian Chris Phipps has been described as ‘The Human Hard Drive of Entertainment History’. From the 1980s’ Tyne Tees Television/Channel 4’s The Tube, he has spent much of the past three decades as a celebrity booker and documentary producer for television and film. Chris will preview sensational recollections from his forthcoming BOOKED! Celebrity Encounters - many of them on Tyneside - from Miles Davis to Madonna and Tina Turner to Twisted Sister!

Wednesday 29th November CITY LIBRARY


11am ~ Free Kathleen Kenny Meet the author and poet who will tell you about her new book Arandora Star and her current novel Satellites of Jupiter.

3pm ~ £3 Sting and Regional Identity: The Gravitational Pull of Newcastle Professor of Popular Music, Paul CarrPublished to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the formation of the definitive version of The Police, this is the first book to examine the relationship between Sting’s working-class background in Newcastle, the creativity and inspiration behind his music and his Geordie identity.

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5.30pm ~ £3Andrew MartinThe Rise and Fall of Railway Romance In early Victorian times, our railways were regarded with suspicion and hostility. To Charles Dickens, they displaced the charming world of the stagecoach and the coaching inn. Gradually, perceptions changed and they were seen to complement the countryside rather than ruining it. During the inter-war period, the popularity of the motor car triggered a PR campaign to glamorise railways. Today, any positive railway news is undermined by intolerable overcrowding on commuter routes. Andrew Martin talks about his own railway romanticism, and explains why his latest novel reverts to the pre-railway age of the late 18th century.

7.30pm ~ £3Jacob PolleyJacob Polley has published four books of poems, winning the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his fourth Jackself. He has also been awarded the 2013 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Havocs, and the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Talk of the Town (2009).Jackself was described by the judges of the T.S. Eliot Prize as ‘a firework of a book; inventive, exciting and outstanding in its imaginative range and depth of feeling.’ A poet of the uncanny and the startlingly lyrical, Jacob Polley’s work explores his rural upbringing, the forces of tradition and history, and the power of speech as it approaches song.

Thursday 30th NovemberCITY LIBRARY


2pm ~ £3 Nancy Revell Author of The Shipyard Girls saga series, Nancy Revell talks about what she calls her ‘Olympian leap’ from journalist to novelist. After nearly two decades of writing hard-hitting news stories and in-depth features for the national press, Nancy found herself making the ‘exciting but equally terrifying’ transition to first time novelist. Nancy Revell is a pen name. All her journalistic work and ‘The IVF Diaries’ have been published under the name Amanda Revell Walton.

11am ~ Free North East Life in the 1930s, 40s & 50s Remember the days when Monday was always wash day, tin baths in front of the fire and knitted bathing suits on the beach. With local author Andrew Clark.

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Green Shoots: Irish Football Histories by Michael WalkerMore than a century after the Easter Rising, football in Ireland remains divided. Green Shoots examines why this is still the case. It traces the overlapping stories and individuals in both associations, beginning with the boy on the front cover, Johnny Brown, a Belfast Protestant who played for Eire. Brown is the author’s great uncle.An engrossing account of the inside stories, the drama and dreams of the game in Ireland and above all, a definitive history of a footballing nation and its many paradoxes.Michael Walker is a football reporter for the Guardian and the Observer.

7pm ~ Free ~ DeCoubertin Books Double Bill

Rafa’s Way by Martin Hardy Rafa’s Way tells the story of the 2016/17 Championship Campaign, the turnaround in the fortunes of Newcastle United and the dramatic promotion. It charts Benitez’s overhaul of everything within a troubled club, his impact on its city and how he immersed himself in a community that persuaded him to stay. Rafa’s Way talks in-depth to Benitez about his beliefs and the challenge he faced, to the players and delves into the very heart of a football club as it emerged from the ashes.Martin Hardy is a football writer with the Sunday Times. This is his third book.

1pm ~ £3 LJ Ross LJ Ross is the author of the international #1 bestselling series of DCI Ryan mystery novels. Her debut Holy Island was released in

January 2015 and reached number one in the Amazon Kindle UK bestsellers chart. Its sequels Sycamore Gap, Heavenfield, Angel and High Force were all top five UK bestsellers and she recently hit the top of the charts again with her sixth book Cragside, which was number one in the UK on pre-orders alone.

Friday 1st DecemberCITY LIBRARY


11am ~ FreeMartin Luther King in Newcastle Brian Ward Hear the fascinating story of King’s 1967 visit to Newcastle set against the way the north east has responded to race and race relations from the slave trade right up to the influence of Donald Trump.Brian Ward reveals for the first time the full inside story of Martin Luther King’s historic 1967 visit to Newcastle, placing it within the context of King’s own career and a long tradition of progressive social activism on Tyneside and across the North East.

“This important book is as timely as it is compelling.”Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central

3pm ~ £3 Here’s One I Made Earlier! Janet Ellis is a television presenter, actress and writer, best known for presenting the BBC children’s television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw. She has recently published her first novel The Butcher’s Hook set in Georgian London. Find out about her writing career and sticky-back plastic!

Friday 1st December


Ruth describes herself as British-Irish and is comfortable with being culturally both Irish and English.Ruth fell into crime writing by accident and unintentionally her novels have turned into affectionate satire on the British establishment. Targets have included the civil service (Corridors of Death), the House of Lords (Ten Lords a’Leaping), the Church of England (Murder in the Cathedral), and political correctness (Murdering Americans).Her 2009 book Aftermath: the Omagh bombing and the families’ pursuit of justice won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger award for non-fiction. Martin Edwards is an accomplished criminal mind. Formerly a solicitor, he has published 18 crime novels, including the Lake District Series and eight novels featuring Liverpool lawyer Harry Devlin. He’s also a well-known crime fiction critic and his ground-breaking history of the subject between the wars The Golden Age of Murder was warmly reviewed and multi-award winning. Martin is Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and President of the Detection Club.

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6pm ~ £3 Terry McDermott: Living for the MomentAdopted Geordie. Liverpool legend and scorer of arguably Anfield’s most famous goal. Kevin Keegan’s trusted right-hand man at Newcastle United. And partial to a pint or five and a punt on the horses.A read every bit as thrilling as his FA Cup wonder goal against Tottenham, McDermott’s long-awaited autobiography will appeal to Kopites and Toon fans alike, plus football followers intrigued about one of the most colourful characters in the game.Like the man himself, Terry Mac: Living For The Moment is cheerful, entertaining and straight to the point.

6pm ~ £5Ruth Dudley Edwards in conversation with Martin Edwards Writing Fact and Fiction

1pm ~ Free The Geordie Book Of MagicMeet Chris Cross! The Geordie Book of Magic teaches a dozen North-East themed magic tricks, with a foreword from Debbie McGee & illustrated by VIZ comic artist Davey Jones!

Saturday 2nd December CITY LIBRARY


6pm ~ £3 Val McDermid with Polari!London’s award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari returns to Books on Tyne as part of its ten year celebrations, funded by Arts Council England. Founded in 2007, Polari showcases the best in established and emerging LGBT literary talent. Tonight’s event is curated and hosted by Paul Burston with readings from Val McDermid, Sophia Blackwell, Emma Flint and Jacky Collins.2pm ~ Creative writing workshop open to all, whatever your level of experience – see web site for details.

“Always fun, always thought-provoking – a guaranteed good night out” Sarah Waters

11am ~ £3 John Grundy’s History of Newcastle John’s back at City Library to talk about his take on the history of Newcastle and Northumberland. Find out what he’s been up to and grab his book – an ideal Christmas present at just £10!

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Saturday 2nd DecemberLIT & PHIL

11.30am – 12.30pm Katherine WoodfineGrab your super-sleuthing kit and join Katherine Woodfine, author of the bestselling The Sinclair Mysteries series. Get ready for an Edwardian

adventure through London’s most prestigious department store, the setting for her latest book, The Midnight Peacock. Katherine talks about her writing process, her inspirations, and will get you to help her solve a mystery or two. Suitable for ages 9+

2pm-3pm Holly SterlingHolly Sterling has illustrated several picture books including 15 Things Not to do with a Baby

and Hiccups! She was Highly Commended for the Macmillan Illustration Prize 2013 and also winner of the Seven Stories/Frances Lincoln Illustration Competition in the same year. In this session you’ll learn how Holly creates her characters and you’ll also get the chance to create your very own. Suitable for ages 7-10.

Free Family Day!10am – 11am Steve ParkerLet’s EAT Space!

Is the Universe shaped like a donut, pancake or tomato? Which moon is chocolate-coloured? Are asteroids really ‘lumpy potatoes’? If Earth was an apple, would planet Mercury be a plum, grape or blueberry? Tour the Solar System, learn amazing facts about Space – and chomp on tasty snacks as you go – with multi-award-winning children’s author Steve Parker. Steve has written dozens of space books for all ages and held hundreds of fun workshops in schools, libraries and exhibition centres. Don’t eat too much breakfast before you arrive! Suitable for ages 6-11.

The Institute of Physics, North East Branch are proud sponsors of this event.


Sunday 3rd December


LIT & PHIL2pm ~ £5 George Costigan in conversation with Gail-Nina AndersonTheatre, TV and screen actor George Costigan has written a ‘Magnificent, big beast of a book’ (Willy Russell). His debut novel The Single Soldier is set in a village in the South West of France during the German occupation of World War II. The war has taken everything that Jacques loves. As the community prepares for peace, can he? George Costigan has starred in Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Line of Duty and Happy Valley.

LIT & PHIL FREE TOURSFree guided tours (45 mins) Places limited. Please book. 0191 232 0192Saturday 25th November 10am | 11am | 12 noon Wednesday 29th November 11am | The Ghostly Lit & Phil – a new, specially devised tour exploring our spooky secretsSaturday 2nd December 10.30am | 11.30am | 12.30pm1.30pm | 2.30pm

Throughout the Festival

CITY LIBRARYLOVE BIG BOOKS 2nd-30th NovemberAn exhibition of work by twenty-two of the region’s visual artists, writers, performers, dancers and musicians, who have created artistic responses to our rarely seen collection of ‘Fifth-Sized’ books (out-sized volumes).https://fsbaexhibition.wordpress.com/

Waterstones are delighted to be hosting an evening with the wonderful Sophie Hannah and our favourite crime newcomer B A Paris!

Tickets £5, include a complimentary glass of wine or soft drink. Available in store and online at waterstones.com/events. Further details: 0191 2617757

REFLECTIONS OF NEWCASTLE 1914-1918Three stories. Three city walks.

Learn more about Newcastle during World War I.Borrow an iPad from the Lit & Phil and choose which city walk to follow, or download onto your own iPad at www.reflectionsofnewcastle.co.uk

FREE

Richard GrangerFINE WINE MERCHANTS

“A World of Vinous Treasures.. - not a merchant to be underestimated” The Which? Wine Guide

With over 600 wines and spirits to choose from, Richard Granger Ltd of Jesmond has one of the finest selections available in the North of England. Top producers from France, Spain & Italy are complemented by many of the finest wines from the New World. Add to this a wide selection of wines for everyday drinking and you have something for every taste and occasion.

West Jesmond Station Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3HH www.richardgrangerwines.co.uk 0191 281 5000

Monday 27th November | 7pmWaterstones, Emerson Chambers, Newcastle.

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