programme - Ilkley Literature Festival

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Sunday 10th October 7.30pm
St Margaret’s Hall
The Long Road Home:
Matthew Kelly and
Ben Shephard
Conversations about Empires
Wars don’t stutter out – they take
generations to fix. After the Second
World War, an estimated eight
million ‘displaced persons’, including
Southampton University history
lecturer Matthew Kelly’s great
grandmother and her two daughters,
were deported to the East after
Germany’s partitioning of Poland.
Kelly discusses the extraordinary
ordeal that took them from Siberia to
Pakistan with Ben Shephard, author
of The Long Road Home, a compelling
study of the post-war refugee crisis
and its aftermath.
Shephard, producer of The World at
War, and numerous historical and
scientific documentaries for the BBC/
Channel Four is author of A War of
Nerves: Soldiers and Psychiatrists.
£5/3
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Sunday 10th October 7.30pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
Venice City of Masks:
Mary Hoffman and
Michelle Lovric
Two authors lauded for their work
for adults and young people discuss
how Venice ‘city of masks’ has
captivated, shaped and influenced
their writing. Mary Hoffman is the
acclaimed author of the Stravaganza
series of fantasy novels for young
adults set in a parallel dimension
16th century Italy, including City of
Masks, set in a fictionalised and subtly
different Venice. Novelist, writer
and anthologist Michelle Lovric saw
Venice for the first time at 18; from
that moment her ambition was to
write about the city, something she
has done many times, most recently
in her diabolically gorgeous novel of
love, murder and obsession, The Book
of Human Skin.
£5/3
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Monday 11th October 1.30pm
Kings Hall
Schools’ Event:
Morris Gleitzman
Australia’s funniest and best-loved
children’s author comes to Ilkley!
£3.50 Years 4,5 & 6.
Bookings: 01943 816714
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Monday 11th October 4.15pm
Kings Hall
(upstairs area – lift available)
Morris Gleitzman: for
teachers and librarians
Teachers and librarians are warmly
invited to come and hear Morris
Gleitzman in conversation about his
work, children and reading, in this
special event.
FREE with tea and biscuits
Please book places in advance.
This event lasts 60 minutes.
Bookings: 01943 601210
Mary Hoffman
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Monday 11th October
6.30–8.30pm Ilkley Library
Ilkley Lit Fest Young
Writers Group – free taster
Try tonight’s free session and see if
you’d like to join the project!
For young people 13–17.
For full details see page 44.
Supported by Bradford Library Services
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Monday 11th October 7.30pm
Kings Hall
Will Self: In Conversation
Will Self performs literary acrobatics
few writers can dream of. We’ll be
asking about Walking to Hollywood,
his extraordinary triptych which
burrows through the intersections
of time, place and psyche to explore
some of our deepest fears with
characteristic edgy humour. And we’ll
be talking about his 120-mile Los
Angeles circumambulation, which led
to abduction by Scientologists and
mortal combat with the reanimated
corpse of Walt Disney …
£9/7
Will Self