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Baillie Gifford FULL PROGRAMME
Borders
EDITION JULY - OCT
Book Festival
Online 2020
A different way
Cover Image: Tom Morgan-Jones
of looking...
Hallie Rubenhold, Winner of the 2019
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Issue 40
Welcome to the
(online) Baillie Gifford
Borders Book Festival
This has been a year like no other. A Baillie Gifford
Borders Book Festival like no other, too. For all sorts of
reasons, we hope never to have to repeat the experience.
And yet.
This was the longest festival ever (three epic months),
with more than 20,000 viewers under the digital
marquee. Forty three authors brought words to life
on every subject from the future of the planet and the
meaning of life to high fashion and your choice of last
supper. We laughed, we cried, we came back for more.
And still you can. Throughout November you can watch
any of the shows you missed or re-visit an old favourite
– they are all available for free this month. All of this has
been made possible thanks to the creative genius of Paula, Alistair and the team. And
the generous support of Baillie Gifford, McInroy & Wood, Scottish Borders Council,
Creative Scotland and many others, including all who donated to keep the festival
spirit alive.
Enjoy – and see you for our next chapter in 2021!
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Sponsors Baillie Gifford
We couldn’t do it without your help...
We are delighted to remain Headline Sponsor and
supporter of the new online events, where the whole
family can enjoy an excellent range of authors from the
comfort of home.
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust continues to support
a series of non-fiction events, covering anything from
politics and history to memoir and adventure.
We very much missed being able to attend the festival
in Melrose, but we are looking forward to tuning into
the digital events and we hope to see you all in person
at Harmony Garden next year.
James Budden
Director of Marketing, Baillie Gifford
McInroy & Wood
The COVID pandemic has created great stresses, strains
and misery across the globe. There is a danger in such
circumstances that areas like the arts, which provide
great pleasure to so many, are deprioritised. However,
it is our belief that it is more important than ever that
events like the Borders Book Festival remain well
supported, acting as a focal point for the communities in
which we all live and work.
McInroy & Wood are therefore delighted to continue to
be the Key Sponsor of the Borders Book Festival, and
look forward to the series of online events in the
coming weeks.
Tim Wood
Chief Executive, McInroy & Wood
Thanks also to: Johannes & Antonia de Gier, Francis & Catherine Hamilton, Sue & Rob Moffat,
Michael & Alison Moore, Robert & Maxine Sloss and Ann & Maurice White.
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All the fun of the
(virtual) festival
We’re sorry we couldn’t see you in glorious Harmony Garden and Orchard this year,
but we can welcome you to our online bonanza of online author talks and events first
broadcast across July to October, where entry to every event has been FREE!
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Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Online 2020
Including
The Saltire Roofing &
Building Family Series
The Batch Alexandra
Pages 24-30
The Batch Lady
Rory Bremner Lady Shulman
Alexandra Shulman Suzanne Mulholland in conversation with
James Naughtie
Paul Murton Suzanne Mulholland does nothing by Kirsty Wark
halves. More like quintuples or sextuples.
Mark Billingham Living and working on a Scottish Borders
When we hear that Kirsty enjoyed this book
Sally Magnusson so much that she read it in one sitting, we
farm, she has written two books about
Baillie Gifford know that we’re in for a treat when she
David Baldacci how to cook – with a vengeance. She wrote Series discusses Clothes…and other things that
Rutger Bregman The Batch Lady: Shop once. Cook once. Eat
matter with its author, Alexandra Shulman.
well all week which became an instant
Sebastian Barry bestseller and has brought her tens of
First shown 12 July, 2020
Jonathon Porritt This new and beautifully made book offers
thousands of followers on social media.
Rory Bremner
fascinating insights salted with a little
Richard Holloway It has also caught the lockdown zeitgeist
insider knowledge – Alexandra was, of
Sara Pascoe perfectly. Now she has written a second
course, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue UK
book The Batch Lady Meal Planner.
Jeremiah Emmanuel in conversation with for 25 years.
Val McDermid Follow the tips in this and you’ll never Alistair Moffat
Camilla Thurlow again lose track of what’s lurking at the
No-one in the Borders ever asks ‘Rory
Dr Amir Khan back of your freezer!
who?’. There’s only one Rory. And that’s our
Jay Rayner Rory. Since 2006 and for virtually the whole
Professor Sue Black life of the Borders Book Festival, Rory
Dr Richard Shepherd Bremner has had the marquees rocking
with laughter and delight, charming and
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon informing audiences with his mastery of
Douglas Stuart mimicry mixed with acute political and
Martin Bell social analysis. Every year his show has
Neil Oliver been the first to sell out and often he has
opened the festival, set a wonderful tone
Ken Follett
and sent everyone into a joyful weekend
Kate Humble with a smile on their face.
Alistair Moffat For Borderers, Rory is one of us, an adopted First shown 19 July, 2020 Media Partner interview
Kirsty Wark son who is much loved. with The Border Telegraph
Andrew Marr
Janey Godley First shown 12 July, 2020 Media Partner interview
Johnny Herbert with The Border Telegraph
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Damon Hill
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Sally
Magnusson
Paul Murton The Ninth Child
The Viking Isles After several excellent works of non-fiction,
The presenter of BBC Television’s Grand including her memoir of her mother’s
Tours has written a beautiful and very dementia Where Memories Go, Sally turned
personal book. In The Viking Isles: Travels her hand to fiction. Her debut novel The
in Orkney & Shetland, he explores not only Sealwoman’s Gift was a runaway success,
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these most Nordic parts of Scotland but shortlisted for several awards and a
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also weaves in family connections with bestseller to boot.
Norway and his own travels in Scandinavia
First shown 19 July, 2020 as a child and young man. This year she brings out a triumphant
second novel The Ninth Child. A completely
James unexpected tale told from several
viewpoints, it moves from the world of 19th
Naughtie
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of Celtic fantasy as it tells the story of the
On The Road Mark creation of Glasgow’s clean water supply, a
pipeline from Loch Katrine to the cholera-
One of the stalwarts of the Baillie Gifford
Borders Book Festival, appearing each year
Billingham infested city.
Sponsored by
Davidson Chalmers Stewart
to offer his own unique insights into the in conversation with Chris
political scene, Jim reflects on a key aspect Brookmyre First shown 2 Aug, 2020
of a glittering journalistic career.
A double act that has delighted Borders
Sponsored by
In On The Road: American Adventures Book Festival audiences more than once,
from Nixon to Trump, James Naughtie Mark and Chris have a particular reason
explores the country he has known for fifty First shown 26 July, 2020 to reprise their amazing rapport in 2020. It
years – its allure and its contradictions, its is a year of 20s when a milestone for Mark
strengths and some painful legacies that will be passed. It is twenty years since the
weigh so heavily on its people. publication of Sleepyhead, his first novel
and the debut of Tom Thorne, his quirky,
engaging detective. And his twentieth novel
will be published in 2020. It is Cry Baby, a
All events FREE TO VIEW until 30 November 2020 prequel to Sleepyhead.
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Sebastian
Barry
David Baldacci A Thousand Moons
A Minute to Midnight Current holder of the Laureateship for Irish
In a Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival Fiction and twice winner of the Walter Scott
first, we bring you our first transatlantic Prize for historical fiction with On Canaan’s
session. David will talk to us from his home Side and Days Without End, Sebastian
in the USA about his new novel and its Barry has written a stunning new novel. A
fascinating protagonist, Special Agent Atlee Thousand Moons, a sequel to Days Without
Pine. This is an intensely personal story. End, is told by Winona, a young Lakota
orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas
It began with the novel, Long Road to McNulty and John Cole.
Jonathon
Mercy. Atlee’s twin sister was abducted
from their bedroom more than thirty years Rutger Told in Sebastian Barry’s rare and masterly
Porritt
Bregman
before, and she has spent all that long time prose, A Thousand Moons is a powerful,
moving study of one woman’s journey, of
wondering where she is. This incident is
her determination to write her own future,
Hope in Hell: A Decade to
what propelled Atlee into dedicating her
life to catching criminals. Humankind: A Hopeful History and of the enduring human capacity for Confront the Climate Emergency
love.
At the 2019 World Economic Summit Sponsored by
Set aside Brexit, Covid, Trump and all of
at Davos, historian Rutger Bregman Davidson Chalmers Stewart the daily diet of news stories. In his new
made headlines across the world when book, Jonathon Porritt persuasively argues
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he attacked tax evasion undertaken First shown 9 Aug, 2020 that there is only one political issue that
as a matter of policy by many large really matters. Unless we change our
corporations. Now with Humankind, he attitudes and engage comprehensively
upends the conventional wisdom, arguing with the Climate Emergency, our world will
that humans are by nature co-operative become unsustainable and begin to die. As
and decent. We are not instinctively President Emmanuel Macron of France said
adversarial, selfish and constantly acting to the American Congress in April, 2018,
out of self-interest, he writes, but much ‘There is no Planet B’.
more likely to trust each other and to be
altruistic.
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Sara Pascoe
Sex Power Money Val McDermid
After the great success of Animal: The
Autobiography of a Female Body, Sara
Still Life
returns to the Baillie Gifford Borders Book The Queen of Crime returns to the Baillie
Festival with a hilarious confrontation – Gifford Borders Book Festival. Surely one
with the male libido. With characteristic of the most versatile and fertile creative
directness, spiced with a riotous, minds in Britain, Val has created a string of
completely irreverent sense of humour, detectives and investigators around whom
Sara wonders about modern masculinity in she weaves startling stories that keep
some detail, some of it eye-watering. When readers on the edge of their seats.
Richard they masturbate, why is the well-being of
Jeremiah
the people they look at while doing it of no Cold case investigator, Karen Pirie, finds
Holloway concern to them? Why are sex workers the that her name is associated with the
Emmanuel
perennial subject of such stigma? These finding of a body at sea and a mysterious
and other conundra prompt responses disappearance ten years before that.
Stories We Tell Ourselves: from Sara that will make the reader laugh
Making Meaning in a out loud. Dreaming in a Nightmare: Still Life is vintage McDermid, one for the
Meaningless Universe Finding a Way Forward in a connoisseurs, but it is also wonderfully
well-written – as ever – and many surprises
With his Waiting for the Last Bus, Richard World That’s Holding You Back and reverses wait along the way.
Holloway meditated on what has become First shown 20 Aug, 2020
close to a taboo subject. Now in his ninth This is an extraordinary account of what is
decade, he used his own impending death, possible. Jeremiah is twenty-one, a former
the last bus, as a brilliantly effective context youth mayor of Lambeth and a member First shown 23 Aug, 2020 Media Partner interview
for a superbly written, highly readable of the UK Youth Parliament. He is also an with The Border Telegraph
and even funny book. And mercifully, he entrepreneur and a young man with vision.
has survived to produce another piece of
excellent non-fiction! Raised in South London in a tough
environment dominated by poverty and
Baillie Gifford
Series crime, he slowly realised that his life did
not have to follow the familiar pattern of
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law-breaking followed by spells in prison.
Instead he broke out into the world of
possibility and grasped it with both hands.
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Series
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Camilla
Thurlow
Not The Type: Finding my Jay Rayner
place in the Real World My Last Supper: One Meal, a
This could not be a more apt title. Camilla Lifetime in the Making
competed in Love Island in 2017, coming A firm Borders Book Festival favourite, Jay
second, and now she has set up home with
Professor
pays us an online visit to talk about a book
Jamie Jewitt, whom she met on the show. that asks an age-old question. You are
Sue Black &
about to die. What would your final meal
One of the last things one might associate be?
with this lifestyle is an ability to find and
blow up landmines in the conflict zones
of the world. But that is exactly what First shown 30 Aug, 2020
Unwilling to wait for his own moment of
expiry to answer this, Jay embarks on a Dr Richard
Camilla has done – amongst much else
that goes against type. Her new book
combines memoir and meditation, advice Dr Amir Khan
foodie safari to discover the answer. From
oysters in Louisiana to pastries in Tokyo, his Shepherd
research is both exhaustive and onerous,
and example on how to survive in a world but he does finally arrive at what would be
Forensic Stories: Written in
where women are often categorised and The Doctor Will See You Now: an unforgettable meal. Blood and Bone
marginalised. The Highs and Lows of My Life
A forensic anthropologist and a forensic
as an NHS GP pathologist – both eminent and highly
When we all stood outside our front doors articulate – discuss their books. Author
to clap for the NHS on lockdown Thursday of the bestseller All That Remains, Sue
nights, our rounds of grateful applause Black, unpacks the secrets hidden in our
were for the sort of selfless, grinding, day- skeletons in her new book Written in Bone.
in, day-out work done in doctors’ surgeries We used to think that memory was stored
as well as hospitals, care homes and the only in our brains, but it turns out that our
ambulance service. bones have hidden stories to tell, many of
them very surprising. Richard Shepherd’s
Amir Khan’s fascinating, moving new book Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many
tells us how he helped lead one of the Deaths of Britain’s Top Forensic Pathologist
busiest GP surgeries in the country through recounts the gory details of dealing with
the unprecedented trials of the Covid death for 25 years. He has remarkable tales
pandemic. to tell, some moving, some amusing, all of
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Sponsored by with The Border Telegraph them fascinating.
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Douglas Stuart Neil Oliver
Shuggie Bain Wisdom of the Ancients: Life
Set in 80s Glasgow, Booker Prize shortlisted Lessons from our Distant Past
Shuggie Bain is the tender story of the love
between a young boy and his alcoholic Neil possesses far too many talents than
mother, of addiction, poverty and sexuality, is decent for one man; archaeologist,
and in its telling, debut novelist Douglas historian, gifted speaker and television
Stuart has created something of such presenter and a writer, all mixed with a
power and authenticity that it knocks you self-deprecating sense of humour. But a
sideways. THE MCINROY & WOOD LECTURE philosopher? Who knew? Neil obviously,
Hamish Join Douglas as he talks to Kirsty Wark Martin Bell
because in this superb account, packed
with insights triggered by the likes of stone
de Bretton- about what drove him to write his
bestselling and deeply personal debut War and Peacekeeping
circles, cave paintings, rituals in Southern
India, the footprints of some of our earliest
Gordon novel. ancestors found preserved in Tanzania
In conversation with Allan Little and much else, he weaves a remarkable
Martin Bell’s experience of war is peerless. narrative.
Chemical Warrior: Saving Lives As a reporter, he has covered conflicts in no
on the Frontline of Modern First shown 13 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview
with The Border Telegraph
fewer than eighteen war zones.
Warfare In 1992 television viewers saw exactly
First shown 20 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview
with The Border Telegraph
A former soldier and co-founder and how dangerous his work could be. While
director of Doctors Under Fire with recording a piece to camera in Sarajevo,
former festival guest, David Nott, Hamish Martin was seriously wounded by shrapnel,
spent twenty-three years in the army. As some of which he still carries around. He is
Commanding Officer of the Chemical, uniquely qualified to meditate on the cycle
Biological, Radiological and Nuclear of war across the world as conflicts flare in
Defence Regiment, he did all he could to an apparently ceaseless cycle. What can be
help those suffering the impact of these done? How can this cycle be broken? This
sorts of weapons – from civilians in Syria to book reflects on these questions.
Sponsored by
the citizens of Salisbury who were affected
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Ken Follett Alistair Moffat
The Evening and the Morning
In Search of Angels: Travels to
The Pillars of the Earth, the story of the the Edge of the World
building of a medieval cathedral, is simply
a magnificent historical novel. Filled with In the summer of 2019, Alistair Moffat set
fascinating detail but animated by brilliant off on a long journey back into the past.
characters and a riveting plot, it is nothing
less than a masterpiece. Once the marquees from the Baillie Gifford
Borders Book Festival had come down in
The Evening and the Morning is a prequel. Baillie Gifford the shadow of Melrose Abbey, he drove
Kirsty Wark
Set in 997, it prepares the ground for and Series across Scotland into a sacred landscape of
ends when The Pillars of the Earth begins. a very different sort. It turned out to be a
voyage of discovery in every sense.
Only twenty-seven when he had his first After the stunning success of her debut The
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bestseller, The Eye of the Needle, Ken is now Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle, Kirsty Wark
Kate Humble
one of the world’s most successful novelists has pulled off one of the most difficult
and has sold 170 million copies of his books challenges in literature; how to follow up
worldwide. a terrific first novel with an even better
A Year of Living Simply: My second.
Journey from Complexity to With The House by the Loch, she has
Contentment succeeded brilliantly. It is a love story, a
family story, a tale salted with an intense
The achievement of happiness does not sense of place – but most of all, the novel
lie in finding the latest thing, the newest is a page-turner. Desperate to know what
gadget or what other people say is the best happens next, the reader is kept perched
yet. As with her writing, simplicity is the key on the edge of their seat as a story of
and in A Year of Living Simply, she relates mystery, loss and complexity unfolds,
how she decluttered her life and found a Sponsored by twisting and turning in unexpected
clear path to contentment. directions.
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Her days, much less crowded, are not
about the ceaseless acquisition of stuff,
but are about rediscovering a sense of First shown 27 Sept, 2020 Media Partner interview
with The Border Telegraph
achievement, what makes a person happy
and what gets you genuinely excited.
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in conversation with
Val McDermid
Please
One of the UK’s most popular comedic
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talents and voiceover genius (aka the
unofficial voice of Nicola Sturgeon) comes
together with the Queen of Crime for this As a charity, we need
Andrew Marr wickedly entertaining and very special
online festival finale.
Johnny Herbert your help more than
ever.
Elizabethans: How Modern
Britain Was Forged
Brace yourself for a night to remember!
& Damon Hill We rely heavily on ticket and book
Taking the long span of the reign of Lights Out, Full Throttle: The sales and the cancellation of this
Elizabeth II of England (and I of Scotland) Good, the Bad and the Bernie year’s festival is having a huge
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as its time frame, Andrew’s new book tells impact on us. Please support us if
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fresh perspectives, he tells the tale of the to lift the lid on Formula One racing. Your contribution will help us
nation through the people who animated Between them, they have competed all continue to bring authors and
it, from David Attenborough to Dusty over the world in 261 Grands Prix – they’ve audiences together again in 2021
Springfield, Sylvia Plath to Elvis Costello, won a few, broken some bones and are and beyond.
Frank Critchlow to Bob Geldof and Zaha now seasoned and highly knowledgeable
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Damon and Johnny are interviewed by
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The Saltire Roofing & Building Make Your Own Humanimal: Incredible Ways
Family Series 2020 Rockpool Book with Animals are Just Like Us!
Jill Calder Christopher
Celebrating the rockpool pages in
her popular children’s book The Sea,
Lloyd
illustrator Jill Calder will take you on
Join world history author and storyteller
a creative journey into the colourful,
Christopher Lloyd on an amazing journey
miniature world of the tidal rock pool.
to discover the interconnections of the
Grab your bucket and net and go for a
human and animal worlds in ways you
virtual guddle with Jill, who will inspire
never imagined. . . how slime moulds can
you to draw amazing creatures and tiny
help navigate a maze, how rats tickle and
predators, then teach you to illustrate and
Suitable for Age 4+ laugh out loud, how bees vote in elections
make your very own picture book! First shown 19 July, 2020 to decide where to put their nests, and
lots more!
Joseph Coelho
Jill Calder Jill will read and show illustrations from
The Sea. She’ll then demonstrate how For years scientists have assumed that
Joseph Coelho to draw a rockpool scene and convert people are the pinnacle of evolution.
Fiona Lumbers
Christopher Lloyd
that into a unique folded picture book,
using simple materials that viewers will
have on hand at home - A4 or A3 paper,
& Fiona Lumbers After all, what other creatures could put
a person on the moon? But, increasingly,
evidence is showing how similar humans
Alan Windram scissors, drawing materials and pencil This Luna Loves Art are to other creatures not just in terms
workshop event is suitable for all ages of their biology but also in the ways
Pamela Butchart and great fun for the whole family. we behave – from working in teams to
Join Joseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers
Eilidh Muldoon as they share their latest Luna adventure farming and from using tools to language.
Gary Northfield Luna Loves Art. Luna goes on a school
trip to a gallery and is amazed by the
Kristina Stephenson incredible art on display but Finn, a boy
Nicola Davies in Luna’s class, is not having a lot of fun. Suitable for Age 7+ Media Partner interview
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Maybe Luna can help and perhaps the art
Martin Brown in the gallery can help them both express
Guy Parker -Rees what they are feeling. Join author Joseph
Coelho and illustrator Fiona Lumbers for
Libby Jackson this special event where you will not only
Sir Chris Hoy get to hear the story but also get to join in
with a special drawing activity.
No special materials are needed – just a
sheet of A4 paper and a pen or pencil
Suitable for all Ages to draw with.
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Pamela
Butchart Eilidh
Adventures with Izzy Muldoon
Join Pamela Butchart for some laugh- Snooze – A Helpful Guide for
out-loud fun. Hear all about Izzy and her Sleepy Owls Comic Drawing Fun with
Gary
friends and their latest adventures in
Icarus Was Ridiculous. Izzy loves the Greek Do you sometimes find it a little bit
myths and she just can’t wait to tell them difficult to fall asleep? If the answer is
Alan Windram
all about silly Icarus who flew too close to
the sun. Giggle at all of Blue Peter prize-
yes, then you’ll know how the little owl in
this brand new picture book by illustrator Northfield
winning author Pamela’s hilarious stories Eilidh Muldoon feels. All he wants is a
and you might even get to help her create good sleep, but there are some very noisy Join master cartoonist Gary Northfield
Benny’s Back! a brand new one on the day. animals keeping him awake! (The Beano, The Dandy) for some comic
Join award-winning author, Alan capers! Packed with fun comic-drawing
Windram, for this special online picture You will hear some helpful tips on how to tips and lots of great facts from his
book launch event. There will be singing, get to sleep...and learn how to draw your hilarious Julius Zebra series, this event is a
robot dancing, the first Benny story own animal characters! Grab some pens must for budding cartoonists, both young
Suitable for Age 7 -11
AND the worldwide, exclusive, first ever First shown 9 Aug, 2020 and paper and tune into this interactive and old.
reading of Benny’s brand new adventure, event.
One Button Benny and the Gigantic
Catastrophe. With robots, cats, cake,
aliens and adventure, what’s not to like?
Find out what happens when Benny has to
press his big red button again. Lots of fun
for three to six year-olds. This workshop
event is suitable for all ages and great fun
for the whole family.
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Suitable for Age 7-11
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Kristina Martin Brown
Stephenson Lesser Spotted Animals
Do you like animals? Do you like drawing?
Sir Charlie Stinky Socks Then join mega-selling Horrible Histories
Join bestselling author and illustrator illustrator Martin Brown for a fun-filled look
Kristina Stephenson in her home as she at his book Lesser Spotted Animals.
welcomes you to the wonderful world of Why is it always the famous animals that
Sir Charlie Stinky Socks - the bold, brave, get all the attention? The lions and tigers,
little knight with a heart of gold. pandas and polar bears. It’s time to hear
about some of the other wow wildlife out
Help Sir Charlie on his quest for not one there.
but two pieces of hidden treasure as you
follow the clues and see if you can solve Find out about the solenodon, a venomous
the riddles on a mystical map in this mammal that isn’t immune from its own
magical, musical retelling of The Tale of poison. Or the daggertoothed flower bat
Two Treasures, complete with puppets, Suitable for Age 5-7 that’s not quite as tough as it sounds. Or
Suitable for Age 3-6First
shown 20 Sept, 2020
props, songs, action, adventure and all First shown 6 Sept, 2020
maybe the gaur or the numbat or the
Guy Parker
the silliness of a pair of stinky socks.
Nicola Davies
southern right whale dolphin. Discover
Then learn how to make an oldie-worldy more about some of the brilliant beasts you
never knew you needed to know about.
-Rees
parchment treasure map, a pot of magical
green bean gloop and your very own Sir My Butterfly Bouquet
Charlie Stinky Socks puppet theatre. Then - draw them!
Who isn’t cheered up at the sight of a
Oh, and don’t forget to join in with Sir
butterfly? Join author Nicola Davies to
Elephant Me
Charlie’s famous Green Bean Soup song.
hear how one little girl in need of a lot of
A brand new picture book from the
cheering up met a whole bouquet of
creators of international bestseller and
butterflies.
much-loved classic Giraffes Can’t Dance.
Elephant Me tells the empowering story of
Nicola will explore all the stages of
little elephant Num-Num, who discovers
a butterfly’s life, tell you how very
the importance of simply being YOU!
important they are to our ecosystems and
Join illustrator Guy Parker-Rees for this
explain how easy it is to invite butterflies
brilliant storytelling event and learn how
into your garden or school.
to draw Num-Num the Elephant. He’ll be
revealing what it’s like to be an illustrator
and what inspires his drawings.
Suitable for all Ages Media Partner interview Suitable for Age 7-11
with The Border Telegraph First shown 13 Sept, 2020
First shown 30 Aug, 2020
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Sir Chris Hoy
Be Amazing!
Join Great Britain’s most successful
Olympian ever, the six-time gold medal
winning Sir Chris Hoy, for an inspiring
event about achieving your dreams. As a
boy, Sir Chris never would have believed
Space Explorers with that he could have achieved his dream of
becoming an Olympic Champion cyclist
Libby Jackson but with positivity, confidence, resilience
and self-belief – anything is possible!
Be inspired by his incredible personal
Humans have always been fascinated by journey and learn to always DREAM BIG.
the universe, but only a few have been
daring enough to travel beyond the Earth.
From venturing into space for the first
time to building the International Space Suitable for Age 9+
Station in orbit, the history of space First shown 4 Oct, 2020
exploration is filled with peril, bravery
and strokes of genius.
Join spaceflight expert Libby Jackson as
she reveals the very best true stories of
humankind’s thrilling journey to the
stars. Grab your space suit and jump
aboard - it’s time for an astronomical Proud sponsor of Supporting local children
by investing in local
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the Borders Book communities.
Festival Family We’re the team that gives back.
Series 2020
Suitable for Age 9-12
First shown 27 Sept, 2020
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Each year we commission an artist or illustrator to
Don’t forget
produce a series of works to interpret the book festival as
they see it. This year, illustrator and satirist Tom Morgan-
Jones produced five individual artworks under the theme
of ‘a different way of looking’ which you will see across all
our marketing and social media postings to promote our to visit our
festival
Festival Online 2020 programme.
Tom Morgan Jones
Tom Morgan-Jones is a dip-pen artist, dangerous weapon by the police. After
bookshop!
illustrator and satirist born in Sussex and testing, the Ministry of Defence said it
now living by the sea in Edinburgh. He had no value as a terrorist training tool, All proceeds go directly back
has been drawing since he could hold a but is ‘a damn fine game’.
to the festival.
felt-tip pen and studied illustration at
Tom illustrates for books, magazines
Cambridge School of Art. He has won
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and newspapers, working extensively CONTACT
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Yellow Pencil. He is one third of satirical
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appeared on the sides of buses, milk
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cartons and projected 10 feet high as
Terror: The Boardgame was exhibited in
a backdrop for poets, bands and other
the Berlin Academy of Arts and featured
on TV’s The IT Crowd, and is held in
performers in ‘live-draw’ performances info@bordersbookfestival.org
across Scotland and further afield. www.bordersbookfestival.org
the collections of GOMA, the V&A, the
Last year a notable outing was with the
Nobel Peace Centre and the Imperial
National Theatre of Scotland in their Dear Borders Book Festival is a Company
War Museum. It was also classified as a
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