BOOK FESTIVAL 5-7th October 2018 - Blairgowrie, Rattray & The Glens Programme
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Blairgowrie, Rattray & The Glens
BOOK FESTIVAL
Programme
5-7th October 2018
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11WELCOME BOOKMARK October 2018 Festival - At a Glance
WELCOME TO BOOKMARK 2018, the sixth year of our
increasingly popular Festival, based in Blairgowrie, which celebrates Date & Time Event
the world of books.
Friday 5 Oct Alan Johnson
Story-telling is part of everyone’s lives, Hilary Mantel says in ‘Wolf Hall,’ 18.00-19.00 In My Life - A Music Memoir
‘Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good Isla Dewar sponsored by A Proctor Group Ltd
19.30-20.30
stories.’ This weekend we look forward to hearing many different stories, It Takes One to Know One
which take us to different places, including Scotland, Italy and London.
Story-telling also allows us to time travel to be with the suffragettes, the 20.30-21.30 Drinks Reception – hosted by The
survivors of Flodden, to engage in our guest writers’ memories. Provost of Perth and Kinross Council
Saturday 6 Oct Denise Mina
For the first time BOOKMARK has a Sunday programme which this year 10.00-11.00 The Long Drop
highlights the Centenary of Dame Muriel Spark, one of Scotland’s most
11.30-12.30 Allan Massie
iconic writers. Unique insights into her life, her work and her poetry will
The Ragged Lion
bring our weekend to a close.
13.30-14.30 Bill Jones
Another first for BOOKMARK is an extra event in November - Save the Black Camp 21
Date – 27 November 2018 – BOOKMARK presents an Extra Special Rosemary Goring
15.00-16.00
Author – all will be revealed at the Festival. Scotland: Her Story
None of this could happen without the enthusiasm and commitment of 16.30-17.30 Elizabeth Crawford
Art and Artists of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign
BOOKMARK’s committee and volunteers. Our thanks go to all our
sponsors for making BOOKMARK thrive. Sunday 7 Oct Gail Wylie, Alan Taylor, Rosemary Goring, Gerda
11.00-15.00 Stevenson and Stewart Conn
Celebrating 100 Years of Muriel Spark
Gail Wylie, Chair
Christine Findlay, Hon President
Fiona Armstrong, Patron
Tickets are available from
Blairgowrie Library – 01250 871305
BOOKMARK Membership Secretary – 01250 875613 Become a member of BOOKMARK
Waterstones of Perth – 01738 630013 We run a BOOKMARK Members scheme and would be delighted for you to join us.
www.horsecross.co.uk An annual subscription of £10 keeps you up to date with all our activities, gives a
by phone or in person from discount on ticket prices for certain events and supports the charitable work we do in
the community, especially with local schools to improve literacy.
Perth Concert Hall Box Office – 01738 621031
www.bookmarkblair.com Contact our Membership Secretary
on 01250 875613 or email rhona.maclean@yahoo.co.uk
or visit our website
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2 3BOOKMARK Meet The Author Event Literacy -
Saturday 28 July/St Catharine’s Community Centre, Blairgowrie PH10 6EY
Blairgowrie High School BOOKMARK Fringe Festival 2018
14.00-16.00 Ken Cox from Glendoick Garden Centre We are delighted to be exhibiting artwork at the Community Campus as part of the
BOOKMARK Festival. This year the whole school has caught the BOOKMARK bug and we
Woodland Gardening / £7.00 - £6.00 for members, includes
are planning our own Fringe event that leads up to the BOOKMARK Festival weekend, which
refreshments, ‘Gardeners’ Questions’ and book signing. will be full of exciting literacy based events and activities.
Ken will be discussing his latest
must-read guide for gardeners The Art Department are delighted to be showcasing an inclusive range of literary based art
who enjoy working with nature in works by all S1 to S6 pupils across the school, where they will be engaging with language
all her glory. His illustrated talk, through Art, the spoken word and sound. Outcomes will vary from individual pieces to large
scale group works.
documenting the best woodland
gardens across the globe, will also
This year we have constructed three new life-sized books with the idea that one of them will
give you best practice ideas from be an interactive work encouraging the public to add their own voice through words and
one of the world’s best woodland drawings throughout the weekend.
gardeners. Ken Cox
..................................................................................................................................................... This valuable partnership between the school and BOOKMARK continues to give pupils a
fabulous opportunity to create and make work for a local audience and support the festival
BOOKMARK Fringe events. This project raises awareness of literacy and illustrates the importance of Literacy in Art
as a way of creating emotional outcomes. This is the first project our new classes explore and it
Saturday 8 September/Straloch Garden Studio, Strathardle, PH10 7PH
is always a fabulous start for us to dive into language, narrative and the power of words and
15.00-16.30 Alan Riach and Mungo Campbell speech. Please come and share in our love of Literacy and Art over the weekend.
The Hunterian Museum Poems / £7.00, includes refreshments Sam Kennedy - Principal Teacher Art & Design
Glasgow University's Alan Riach and Mungo Campbell will
introduce poets who will read from their new anthology, ‘The Authors in Schools Programme - 12 September 2018
Hunterian Museum Poems’, with poetry from a number of top
Scottish poets. This is a showcase of poems enquiring into and The Authors in Schools programme will be continuing this year in the
representing objects both natural and humanly-made, from Alyth area. BOOKMARK is delighted to welcome Ron Butlin as our guest
bird’s nests to Lord Kelvin’s artificial pitch glacier, from deep sea author who will be entertaining children from P1 to P7 with his exciting
coral to an Egyptian mummy, from the world’s smallest dinosaur stories and poetry. There will also be writing, drama and art workshops.
footprint to Roman and Celtic remains from the Antonine Wall. Sponsored by Rotary Club of Blairgowrie www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage
If you enjoyed Neil MacGregor's ‘History of the World in 100
Objects’, try this 'History of the World in Objects and Poems
from The Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgow'. Blairgowrie High School Literacy Week -1 - 5 October 2018
................................................................................................... BOOKMARK is delighted to be working with Blairgowrie High School on this collaborative
project designed with the help and support of the staff at Blairgowrie High School. It is an
opportunity to show how reading skills can allow all young minds to question, imagine and
engage. Well established writers, illustrators and performers will be brought together in a
programme that will offer the opportunity for pupils to engage in a range of different genres.
BOOKMARK will work with the staff to provide a diverse programme that pupils will have a say
in planning. We believe that this will make the joint project accessible for all pupils from P7-S6,
including the pupils in the enhanced provision and those who are in the lower deciles of the
Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation. As well as pupils getting the chance to meet and hear
from authors about their work, there will also be workshops and demonstrations that will be
Mungo Campbell Alan Riach more active, allowing pupils practical involvement in a variety of creative activities with the aim of
inspiring them to improve their own literacy skills. We will ensure that the festival is put together
..................................................................................................................................................... with the Curriculum for Excellence in mind with cross-curricular relevance when selecting authors.
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book” Eleanor Rutherford - Principal Teacher English
JK Rowling
4 5MAIN FESTIVAL EVENTS MAIN FESTIVAL EVENTS
FRIDAY 5 October SATURDAY 6 October
18.00 - 19.00 Alan Johnson 10.00-11.00 Denise Mina
In My Life – A Music Memoir/£7.00 The Long Drop/£7.00
Back by popular demand, Alan talks about being transported by music on the Denise Mina studied Law at Glasgow University. Misusing her PhD grant (as
radio, as a small child living in condemned housing in ungentrified West she says) she wrote her first novel ‘Garnethill’ which won the CWA Dagger
London in the late 1950s to going out to work as a postman humming for Best First Novel. The Garnethill trilogy was followed
‘Watching the Detectives’ by Elvis Costello in 1977, Alan Johnson’s life has by ten more novels, among which ‘The End of the Wasp
always had a musical soundtrack. In fact music hasn’t just accompanied his life; Season’ and ‘Gods and Beasts’ won the Theakstons Old
it’s been an integral part of it. This book isn’t just about music. ‘In My Life’ Peculiar Award, making her the first writer to win the
adds a fourth dimension to the story of Alan Johnson, the man. prize in two consecutive years. Her latest novel is ‘The
Alan Johnson was General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union before entering Long Drop’, winner of both the Gordon Burn Prize and the McIlvanney
Parliament as Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle in 1997. He served as Home Secretary from Crime Novel of the Year 2017. As well as writing novels, she has had three
June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair staged in Glasgow and Edinburgh, makes documentaries and films and writes "
and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January for DC Comics. www.denisemina.com
2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. His childhood memoir
‘This Boy’ was published by Bantam Press on 9th May 2013. It won the Royal SATURDAY 6 October
Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political 11.30-12.30 Allan Massie
writing award. His second volume of memoirs, ‘Please Mr Postman’, was The Ragged Lion/£7.00
published in September 2014 and won the National Book Club award for Best Allan Massie is currently a journalist and critic for the Scotsman and the
Biography. The third volume of his memoirs ‘The Long and Winding Road’ was Sunday Times. Gore Vidal called him a ‘Master of the Long Ago Historical
published in September 2016. www.alanjohnsonbooks.co.uk Novel’. His 1980 novel ‘A Question of Loyalties’ won The Saltire Society’s
Scottish Book of the Year Award. Many of his
FRIDAY 5 October successful novels are reconstructed autobiographies
19.30 - 20.30 Isla Dewar or biographies of famous people.
It Takes One to Know One/£7.00 ‘The Ragged Lion’ is an apparently fictional memoir
written by Walter Scott. It is an enthralling insight into a man more
Isla will read from her latest book, ‘It Takes One to Know One’ and will talk
famous for his public, rather than personal, image. Highly acclaimed as a
about lost ambitions and the tricky business of finding yourself when you
work of historical fiction, Allan Massie brings Walter Scott to life in an
discover, as Charlie Gavin, hero of her book, did that you are not who you
unforgettable way. www.orionbooks.co.uk
thought you were. He is a man who runs the Be Kindly Missing Persons
Bureau and who is fascinated by families and mothers. Martha, his assistant
and failed singer in a dreadful rock’n’roll band, rescues him. She will also SATURDAY 6 October
talk about her adventures in the writing business. 13.30-14.30 Bill Jones
Isla was born in Edinburgh, scene of many of her books. She has written sixteen and has been Black Camp 21/£7.00
translated into seventeen languages. Her second book was made into a film starring Helena Until he started writing, most of Bill's working years were spent making television
Bonham Carter. She writes about families, relationships, misunderstandings, love, hate and documentaries. After six years as a print journalist, he joined Granada Television,
other absurdities. Her hobbies are staring out of the window and daydreaming. When she Manchester, in 1982, from where he crafted films for ITV, BBC, Channel 4, Sky,
grows up she wants to be a blues singer. But she loves writing, loves words. Discovery, National Geographic and many others in a career spanning almost
She thinks she is the luckiest person in the world to do this for a living. She three decades. Featured amongst the many presenters he has worked with are
drinks too much coffee, lives in Fife with her husband, an illustrator and is a Sir Peter Ustinov, Billy Connolly, Joanna Lumley and Sir Trevor McDonald.
reasonable cook and has moments of unaccountable happiness. "Since turning freelance in 2009, Bill has continued to work
www.booksfromscotland.com/isla-dewar in broadcasting. He then turned to writing biography.
Sponsored by A Proctor Group Ltd When Bill began to ponder ideas for a third book, his thoughts turned to
Scotland. In the late 1960s he'd spent a week with his school cadet force at the
FRIDAY 5 October Cultybraggan army camp near Comrie.The place had always haunted him, and
20.30 - 21.30 Drinks Reception when he dug back into its history he discovered a horrifying secret from its days
Hosted by The Provost of Perth and Kinross Council – Please join us after the Friday night as a wartime POW camp. Bill is married with two grown up children, and lives
sessions for a glass of wine and a chat. in Ampleforth, North Yorkshire. www.bloomsbury.com/author
6 7MAIN FESTIVAL EVENTS MAIN FESTIVAL EVENTS
SATURDAY 6 October SUNDAY 7 October
15.00-16.00 Rosemary Goring
Scotland: Her Story/£7.00
11.00 – 12.00 AlanTaylor – Appointment in Arezzo – A friendship with Muriel Spark
Our history has been told countless times, but women usually only get a
12.15 – 13.00 Gail Wylie in conversation with Alan Taylor and Rosemary Goring
walk-on part. ‘Scotland: Her Story’ aims to redress the balance, and offer a view
of the nation’s high points and darkest times from women’s perspective. Lunch and Book Signing
Drawing on court records, diaries, chronicles, letters, newspapers, memoirs 14.00 – 15.00 Stewart Conn and Gerda Stevenson
and interviews, Rosemary Goring has gathered the experiences of women Tickets - £15.00 full day.
and girls since the middle ages, be they nuns, servants,
housewives, toddlers, doctors, thieves, schoolchildren,
politicians, cooks, novelists and very many others. The result is an entirely Celebrating 100 Years of Muriel Spark
original and often startling take on the past 1500 years. Rosemary Goring
BOOKMARK is delighted to offer special events to celebrate the centenary of Muriel Spark, one of
is a writer and journalist who worked for many years for Scotland on
Sunday, before moving to The Herald and Sunday Herald. Her books Scotland’s best-loved and most original writers. Famous for ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’, Spark wrote
include ‘Scotland: The Autobiography: 2000 Years of Scottish History By another 21 novels, collections of poetry, biographies and essays. Join us for a day in the company of
Those Who Saw It Happen’, and the novels ‘After Flodden’ and ‘Dacre’s those who knew her best.
War’. www.birlinn.co.uk/Rosemary-Goring Alan Taylor, well-known journalist and critic, became her good friend. His memoir ‘Appointment in
Arezzo’ is an exceptional account of this friendship, full of wit, insights and charming story-telling. He is
also a terrific raconteur and his tales of his travels with Muriel will captivate us all.
SATURDAY 6 October He will be joined by Rosemary Goring, Literary Editor of The Herald and, Gail Wylie, Past Chair of The
Muriel Spark Society, to discuss the joys – and difficulties – of abridging Spark’s work for radio.
16.30-17.30 Elizabeth Crawford
After lunch, the poet Stewart Conn will give a talk on Spark’s poetry, with readings by Gerda Stevenson.
Art and Artists of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign/£7.00
Spark always described herself as a poet (the word Poet in Italian is inscribed on her tombstone in
Elizabeth Crawford is the author of ‘The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a
Tuscany) and this talk highlights the importance of poetry to her fiction. Those who heard Stewart and Gerda
reference guide 1866-1928’ (Routledge), ‘The Women’s Suffrage Movement:
a regional survey’ (Routledge), ‘Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their earlier this year at our BOOKMARK Poetry event know that this will be both entertaining and illuminating.
circle’ (Francis Boutle), ‘Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s suffrage BOOKMARK would like to thank the Muriel Spark Society for their sponsorship of this event.
diary’ (Francis Boutle), and ‘The Great War: The
People's Story - Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of
an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette’ (ITV
Ventures). She is the owner of Women and Her Sphere, a business
selling antiquarian books, postcards, pamphlets and ephemera by and
about women, and of the website www.womanandhersphere.com
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Fiona Armstrong, Patron of BOOKMARK, is an award-winning broadcaster and writer for both
Gail Wylie Rosemary Goring Alan Taylor
BBC and ITV – and has made fishing programmes for Sky TV. She currently makes programmes
on life in the south of Scotland for ITV Border. She also writes a column for Scottish Field magazine
andThe Courier newspaper. Fiona has written two fishing books and two cook books and is now
working on a book about Queen Victoria. Her hobbies are angling, cooking and clan history.
Gail Wylie, BOOKMARK’s current Chair, has been involved in teaching literature and
poetry to adults for over thirty years. She also gave theatre talks at Edinburgh’s
Festival and Kings Theatres and was Chair of The Muriel Spark Society contributing Appointment in Arezzo Stewart Conn Gerda Stevenson
to the Muriel Spark 100 Centenary events. Gail now lives locally and is delighted to
be part of this great Festival. .....................................................................................................................................................
“Art is an act of daring”
Muriel Spark
8 9Booking Form
Some of the Amazing Art Exhibition from the Students of Blairgowrie High School which MEET THE AUTHOR EVENT
will be on show at Blairgowrie Community Campus during the BOOKMARK Festival. No. of Total
SATURDAY 28 July/St Catharine’s Community Centre, Blairgowrie Tickets Cost
14.00 – 16.00 Ken Cox
Woodland Gardening/£7(£6 for members)
FRINGE EVENT
SATURDAY 8 September/Straloch Garden Studio
15.00 – 16.30 Alan Riach and Mungo Campbell
The Hunterian Museum Poems/£7.00
MAIN FESTIVAL EVENTS
FRIDAY 5 October
17.30 - 22.00 *Festival Bookshop Open
18.00 – 19.00 Alan Johnson
In My Life – A Musical Memoir/£7.00
19.30 – 20.30 Isla Dewar
It Takes One to Know One/£7.00
20.30 - 21.30 Drinks reception Hosted by the Provost
of Perth & Kinross Council
SATURDAY 6 October
09.00 – 18.30 *Festival Bookshop Open
10.00 – 11.00 Denise Mina
The Long Drop/£7.00
11.30 – 12.30 Allan Massie
The Ragged Lion/£7.00
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.30 Bill Jones Black Camp 21/£7.00
15.00 - 16.00 Rosemary Goring Scotland: Her Story/£7.00
16.30 - 17.30 Elizabeth Crawford
Art and Artists of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign/£7.00
SUNDAY 7 October
10.30 – 15.30 *Festival Bookshop Open
11.00 – 12.00 AlanTaylor-Appointment in Arezzo-A friendship
with Muriel Spark
12.15 – 13.00 Gail Wylie in conversation with Alan Taylor and
Rosemary Goring
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Stewart Conn and Gerda Stevenson
Celebrating 100 Years of Muriel Spark /£15.00 (full day)
Full weekend pass £55
All Main Festival Events are held at Blairgowrie Community Campus. *The Festival Bookshop is
provided by Waterstones Perth Official bookseller to BOOKMARK 2018
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Save the Date - 27 November 2018 - BOOKMARK presents an
Extra Special Author - all will be revealed at the Festival
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10 11FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Please complete your details below
Name:
Everyone attending an event must have a ticket. Entry is by ticket only.
Booking for events on the weekend 5 – 7 October opens on Saturday 23 June
Address: and closes on Thursday 4 October at 17.00. Any tickets sold via the websites
after 23.30 on Tuesday 2 October will be kept for the buyer at the ticket desk at the
festival venue, Blairgowrie Community Campus. Please note we have a no refunds
policy.
Tickets may be purchased at the door – subject to availability
Doors open 15 minutes before the start of each event.
Please arrive in good time to be seated by the start time on your ticket to avoid
disruption. Latecomers will not be admitted.
Festival Bookshop
The Festival Bookshop will be open from 17.30-22.00 on Friday 5 October,
TOTAL COST OF TICKETS £ 09.00-18.30 on Saturday 6 October and 10.30-15.30 on Sunday 7 October.
Book signing will take place after each author session.
POSTAGE & PACKING £0.65p Car Parking and Transport
There are car parking facilities at the main venue as well as additional on-street parking
close by. The Blairgowrie Town Service bus No 63 runs from Rattray to the
TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED £ Wellmeadow and then to Smithfield Road with a short walk to Blairgowrie Community
Campus, Elm Drive, Blairgowrie PH10 6 UZ.
Completed forms with cash or cheque
(payable to BOOKMARK) to be returned to:
The Secretary
BOOKMARK
Cairndhu
Golf Course Road
Blairgowrie
PH10 6LJ ‘A writer is not interested in exploring reality; he’s interested in capturing it’
Brendan Kennelly
12 13BOOKMARK
For Your Delectation at the Festival
Seriously Good Venison Artisana Vintage Mobile Patisserie
&
The truck will be situated in the Fleur, their Award Winning 1970
grounds of the Campus Citroen H-Van Patisserie, will be The Stage is set by Jillian Page of Something Special Flowers for
throughout the weekend, serving a serving delicious coffee/tea and
variety of seriously good hot food yummy cakes throughout the BOOKMARK 2018
including vegetarian options. weekend. We are all ready to go for the Festival Weekend. The authors are primed, the
BOOKMARK FREE FESTIVAL MINI BUS Festival Book Shop will open and the weekend starts with the welcome return
BOOKMARK will be running a FREE mini bus service again this year from the Wellmeadow of Alan Johnson, a favourite from last year.
bus park to the Campus at regular intervals. BOOKMARK also hopes it can secure a ‘pop up’
shop in the centre of Blairgowrie with all information and tickets sales from 24 September – 4 The Committee are grateful for the assistance received from all our many
October 2018. sponsors, members and volunteers. We would like to give a special ‘thank you’ to
All up to date information will appear on our website. the following who make the Festival such a wonderful weekend for us all:
There are parking facilities at the main venue as well as additional on street parking close by. The
Blairgowrie Town Service bus No 63 runs from Rattray to the Wellmeadow and then to Live Active and the staff of Blairgowrie Community Campus
Smithfield Road with a short walk to the Campus. Blairgowrie Library and AK Bell Library, Perth
www.facebook.com/bookmarkblair http://twitter.com/bookmarkblair www.bookmarkblair.com Waterstones Perth
Horsecross Arts
A Proctor Group Ltd
Rotary Club of Blairgowrie
The Muriel Spark Society
Art and English Departments of Blairgowrie High School
Eastern Perthshire Decides
The Provost of Perth & Kinross
Perth & Kinross Council
Ballathie House Hotel
Perthshire Open Studios
The shops and business of Blairgowrie who ‘Paint the Town Red’
Treehouse Print
14 151 #MurielSparkSociety Club of Blairgowrie
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