Scarborough Literature Festival

ALAN J W BELL – Last of the Summer

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Thursday 11th April | 9.30am

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 90mins
PRICE £5

After answering a BBC advertisement for trainee film assistants, Alan J W Bell soon found himself on the route to becoming a film editor at Ealing studios. Editing films for Light Entertainment Group, Alan worked on Morecambe and Wise, Top of the Pops, Crackerjack, Ripping Yarns and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the last two of which both received BAFTAs. Alan’s memoirs Last of the Summer Wine: From the Director’s Chair is his honest account of making the series for nearly three decades, and a revealing insight into what went on behind the scenes of the world’s longest-running comedy production.

Find out more about our regular host James at www.jamesnash.co.uk

FRINGE

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Scarborough Literature Festival Fringe
11 – 14 April 2013

LITERARY LUNCH WITH BESTSELLING CRIME WRITER DAVID HEWSON

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Thursday 11th April | 12.00pm

VENUE The Crescent Hotel, Scarborough
RUNNING TIME 2h 30mins
PRICE £22.50

David Hewson is the author of nine novels in the highly acclaimed Detective Nic Costa series, set mostly in Rome and currently being adapted for TV. He has also written thrillers set in Seville, the United States and Venice. Formerly a journalist working for The Sunday Times, The Times and The Independent, David’s lastest literary successes are based on the BAFTA-winning TV series The Killing.

Tickets for this event include a three-course lunch with tea or coffee to follow. Please be seated by 11.45 am.
Find out more about David at www.davidhewson.co.uk

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THE VINCENT BILLINGTON MEMORIAL CONCERT: So Deep in the Night

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Thursday 11th April | 12.30pm

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 60mins
PRICE Donation on the door

Written by Vincent Billington, So Deep in the Night is an authentic dramatisation of Chopin’s life story, using the composer’s diary and the books and letters of George Sand and it takes the form of a dialogue between the two friends. The concert features Frank James (piano), Phillip Mindenhall (Chopin) and Maria Billington (George Sand).

EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES with Lesley Pearse and Dorothy Koomson

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Thursday 11th April | 3.00pm

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 60mins
PRICE £6

A true storyteller and master of gripping storylines whether historical dramas like Belle or the emotionally powerful Trust Me, based on the true-life scandal of British child migrants sent to Australia in the post-war period. Lesley introduces us to characters that are impossible not to care about or forget.

Find out more about Lesley at www.lesleypearse.com

Photo copyright: Adrian Sherratt

Dorothy Koomson is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels. Her books are powerful, thought-provoking and compelling emotional thrillers, where moral dilemmas are central and the complex emotions of family and friendships are intertwined.

Find out more about Dorothy at www.dorothykoomson.co.uk
Twitter: @DorothyKoomson

DAVID LODGE

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Thursday 11th April | 5.30pm

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 60mins
PRICE £6

Professor David Lodge is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of University College London. One of Britain’s most eminent and best-loved novelists and twice Booker shortlisted, Lodge is a writer of fiction, stage and screen plays, and several books of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction, Consciousness and the Novel and The Year of Henry James. Lodge’s novels include Changing Places, Author, Author, Nice Work, Thinks…, Small World, and most recently Deaf Sentence and A Man of Parts – his biographical novel of H.G. Wells.

Photo copyright: Joel Kaplan

FACT AND FICTION CRIME PATHOLOGY EVENT With Mark Billingham and Stuart Hamilton MB, ChB, BMSC (Hons), FRCPath, MFFLM

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Thursday 11th April | 8.00pm

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 60mins
PRICE £7

Mark Billingham is one of the UK’s most acclaimed and popular crime writers. His series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of the Year award. Sleepyhead was chosen by The Sunday Times as one of the hundred books that shaped the decade.

Find out more about Mark at www.markbillingham.co.uk

Photo copyright: Mark Billingham

Home Office pathologist Stuart Hamilton has performed around 3,000 autopsies in his career, ranging from simple, sudden and unexpected deaths to complex multiple homicides. He has been involved in various newspaper articles and TV programmes, usually giving a modern view of historical cases. He is currently advisor for forensic pathology for the TV series Silent Witness.

WORKSHOP 1: WHERE DO IDEAS COME FROM?

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Thursday 12th April | 10.00am

VENUE The Crescent Hotel, Scarborough
RUNNING TIME 2hours
PRICE £12

Where do ideas come from? And what to do with them when you’ve got them? Through prompts and writing exercises, author Peggy Riley will generate a range of new ideas, then look at how to turn them into first drafts.

Peggy Riley is an author, a former playwright, and has been a festival producer, a bookseller, and writer-in-residence at a young offenders’ prison.

Follow her on Twitter: @Peggy_Riley

Limited tickets available for workshops

GINA CAMPBELL Daughter of Bluebird

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Friday 12th April | 10.00am

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 60mins
PRICE £5

Gina is the sole survivor of the Campbell dynasty, founded by her grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell, who set 13 records on land and water between the wars. Donald set out to emulate his father and many friends suggest that he forever felt in Sir Malcolm’s shadow. Gina’s life has inevitably been influenced by her father and his fatal attempt to break the water speed record in his Bluebird K7. In that sense, she is indeed the ‘Daughter of Bluebird’.

Find out more about Gina at www.ginacampbellqso.com

HELEN WOMACK – The Ice Walk Hosted by Peter Guttri

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Friday 12th April | 12.30pm

VENUE Scarborough Library Concert Hall
RUNNING TIME 60mins
PRICE £5

Helen Womack has lived in Russia under three Kremlin leaders. The Ice Walk offers a tour of Russia that takes us behind the official Kremlin line into an intimate sphere of life that few foreigners penetrate. She tempers her love affair with Russia with bone-chilling accounts of the hardships people faced as their country underwent enormous changes after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Womack’s work as a foreign correspondent brought her into contact with Russian officials, artists and writers, but her most fascinating stories come far from the beaten track, as she ventures out of Moscow and encounters the absurdities of life among the Russians.

Find out more about Helen at www.helenwomack.webs.com