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Monday 8th October

12 noon for 12.30pm

Relish: My Life On A Plate

Mere Golf and Country Club

and more...Poetry, History,Fiction, Biography,Drama

Please return the booking form to:Knutsford Literature Festival 201276 Glebelands Road, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9DZ

Cheques and postal orders payable to:Knutsford Literature FestivalCash should not be sent in postal applications.Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope.

Priority Bookings:Friends of The Festival can make priority bookings, by post, up to Saturday 1st September 2012.

General Bookings:Postal Bookings: Accepted from Monday 3rd September 2012.

In-Person Bookings: From Monday 17th September 2012 Tickets from Waterstone’s Book Shop72 King Street, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6ED

Tel: 01565 621920Open: Monday to Saturday 9.30am – 5pm

Sunday 10.30am – 4pm

Telephone Enquiries: Monday to Friday 10.00am - 4.00pm Call: 01565 659 915 from 3rd Sept.

Refunds and Admissions:Please check your tickets as soon as you receive them. TheFestival cannot refund money, or exchange tickets, except whenan event is cancelled. The Festival reserves the right to refuseadmission and to change or amend events if necessary.

Books will be available to purchaseat all book signing events.✍

Festival Information

www.knutsfordlitfest.org

The Knutsford Literature Festival is now in its thirteenthsuccessful year. The committee would like to thank allFriends of the Festival for their continuing support.Waterstone’s Book Shop, King Street, Knutsford, andBarrington Sports of Parkgate Industrial Estate, Knutsford, for their sponsorship.

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The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild

Mark Henderson

Prue Leith

Kate Summerscale

2012

5-21 October

Friday 5th October

8pm

Refreshments available

Michael Portillo

Artemis Cooper

Hannah Rothschild

Methodist Church, Princess Street

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Saturday 6th October

2.30pm Book Signing

In September 1941 Hitler began his siegeof the city of Leningrad. It lasted 872 daysand claimed the lives of a third of thepopulation.

Drawing on diaries, memoirs and interviewswith the few remaining survivors, Annaexplains its strategic implications and revealsboth the horrific suffering and the heroicfortitude of those who endured one of themost ferocious of all military sieges inmodern times.

Anna Reid ran the foreign affairs programmeat the think-tank Policy Exchange and was Ukraine correspondentfor The Economist.

“Leningrad is magnificent living history: all life and death are in theseburning pages” Ian Thompson, The Observer

Leningrad: a City Under SiegeAnna Reid examines the deadliestblockade of a city in history

5 October – 21 October 2012

Festival Venues1 The Civic Centre2 Leicester Warren Hall (Approximately 1 mile from railway station)4 The Methodist Church5 Mere Golf Club

Other useful locations8 Waterstone’s Book Shop9 The Heritage Centre10 The Railway Station11 The Bus Station

The Angel, King street

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Tuesday 9th October

Poetry at The AngelA celebration of words to praise harvest time

8pm

Book Signing

Festival Venues and ParkingKnutsford LiteratureFestival


Prue Leith’s autobiography shows anincredible zest for life. She has been acook, restaurateur, food writer, journalist,business woman, TV presenter andnovelist. Writing with honesty andhumour, not only about her career, Prueis forthright about her love life, hermother’s senility and the theft of hersavings. She has served on numerousboards including British Rail, the HalifaxBank and Orient Express Hotels.

Prue now prefers to be known as anauthor, and has published six novels, the latest of which, A Serving ofScandal, is set in Westminster. Currently she is a judge on BBC2’sGreat British Menu.

“Prue Leith was not just born to cook...she was also born to write”Daily Mail


Book Signing FREE Admission Free

Ticket essential

Love Letters : 2000 Years of RomanceAndrea Clarke offers a rare insight into the intimatethoughts of iconic individuals

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Wednesday 10th October

2.30pm

Leicester Warren Hall, Bexton Lane

Tea and Cake

Licensed bar

Book Signing

1 Hannah Rothschild introduces us to her great-aunt Pannonica

Ticket essential

Come along to The Angel,with your poems, other poets’poems or just come alongand enjoy yourself.

The theme is 'Harvest Time'inspired by Samuel Palmer’spainting The Magic Apple Tree.

Harvest, harvestAll you needIs food and drinkAnd fruit indeed

Karolina Gosztyla

Andrea Clarke reminds us why the written word is so special in this firstever anthology of original love letters drawn from the British Library’sunique and vast collection. The book matches facsimiles of the letters withengaging commentaries about the correspondents, who include Isaias (anEgyptian soldier's wife), Anne Boleyn, Horatio Nelson, Charles Dickens,Charlotte Brontë and Ted Hughes, spanning from 168 BC to the 20thcentury.

Andrea is Curator of Early Modern Historical Manuscripts at the BritishLibrary. She co-curated their exhibition Henry VIII: Man and Monarch in2009 with David Starkey.

Ticket essential for all (event free to Friends of the Festival)

“What strikes the contemporary eye isthe depth of emotion and sincerity...”The Economist

Ticket essential(Redeemable againstfeatured hardback)

Hannah is a writer and director of several documentaries includingThe Jazz Baroness. She has written for newspapers and magazines.This is her first book.

‘Rothschild by birth, Baroness by marriage, Rebel by choice’. Who was thisenigmatic woman born into the isolated privilege of the Rothschild familyand why did Thelonious Monk, one of the greatest jazz artists of our age,dedicate so much of his work to her?

In this illustrated talk Hannah draws on years of meticulous research andinterviews which reveal Nica’s amazing life, part musical odyssey, partdazzling love story.


Monday 8th October

12 noon for 12.30pm



















Mark Henderson

Prue Leith

Kate Summerscale

2012

5-21 October

Friday 5th October

8pm


Michael Portillo

Artemis Cooper

Hannah Rothschild


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2.30pm Book Signing










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Tuesday 9th October


8pm

Book Signing








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2.30pm


Tea and Cake

Licensed bar

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Karolina Gosztyla










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12 noon for 12.30pm



















Mark Henderson

Prue Leith

Kate Summerscale

2012

5-21 October

Friday 5th October

8pm


Michael Portillo

Artemis Cooper

Hannah Rothschild


2


2.30pm Book Signing










4

Tuesday 9th October


8pm

Book Signing








Ticket essential


5


2.30pm


Tea and Cake

Licensed bar

Book Signing


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Karolina Gosztyla









The Geek Manifesto makes a compellingargument that science matters to all aspects ofpublic life. It demonstrates both why and howpoliticians and the media need to take theinsights and evidence provided by science a lotmore seriously.

Mark Henderson, newly appointed head ofcommunications at the Wellcome Trust, was,until January 2012, the Science Editor of TheTimes. He has won many awards and prizesand is one of Britain’s leading science communicators.

“Fascinating stuff” Professor Jim Al-Khalili

Between 1984 and 2005 Michael Portillowas well known for his political career, while in the last ten years he has become a familiar face in the media.

His role as Minister of State for Transport led to him being able toclaim to have saved the Settle and Carlisle Railway, and his muchadmired Great Railway Journeys series on the BBC illustrates hiscontinuing love of trains.

Michael also held posts as Chief Secretary to the Treasury andportfolios of Employment and Defence in John Major’s government.His political interests and expertise continue to be demonstrated vividlyon the political discussion programme This Week and in a wide varietyof other settings.

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Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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5 October - 21 October 2012Booking Form

Knutsford Literature Festival

Please return this booking form with S.A.E. to:

Knutsford Literature Festival 201276 Glebelands Road, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 9DZ

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Book Signing

Life: A Game of Two Halves

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Mrs Robinson’s DisgraceKate Summerscale explores The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady


7Saturday 13th October

2pm

Friday 19th October

An evening with Michael Portillo

Patrick Leigh Fermor : An AdventureArtemis Cooper brings us her eagerly awaited biography of the20th century’s greatest Hellenic traveller


8Monday 15th October

7.30pm

The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters

Leicester Warren Hall, Bexton LaneThursday 11th October

Mark Henderson contends that our leadersneed to be intelligent consumers of science

Book Signing

Refreshmentsavailable

Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and MillaisSuzanne Fagence Cooper tells the extraordinary story of thewoman who was wife and muse to both Ruskin and Millais

9Tuesday 16th October

2.30pm Book Signing


The Scottish beauty, Effie Gray, is the heroine of agreat Victorian love story. Married at 19 to JohnRuskin, she found herself trapped in anunconsummated union. She would fall in lovewith her husband’s protégé, John Everett Millais,and inspire some of his most memorable art.

Suzanne was for 12 years a curator and researchfellow at the V & A Museum and is the authorof Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum. She is now a freelance writer and historical consultant.

“I cannot recommend Fagence Cooper’s biography of Effie Gray morehighly to anyone with a heart, a liking for a good read and an interest inthings Victorian” The Literary Review.




In telling the story of the free-spirited IsabellaRobinson and her sensational diary, KateSummerscale brings a whole era to life andreveals a society in the throes of social,moral, scientific and religious turmoil andchange. This is a compelling re-telling of ascandalous love-affair that rocked the nationand was ultimately to affect the course ofdivorce law.

Kate’s previous book, The Suspicions of MrWhicher, took the literary world by storm.It won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and set the trend in historicaldetective writing.

“has all the tension of a court-room drama” Lisa Allardice The Guardian.

Can Anyone Hear Me?Peter Baxter entertains us withtales of commentating capers

10Wednesday 17th October

8pm Book SigningBook Signing


This funny and revealing book takes us behind thescenes as Baxter and his much-loved Test MatchSpecial colleagues do battle with local conditionsand sometimes bizarre red tape to bring back homethe latest news of England’s progress (or otherwise)on the field.

For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBCproducer of the hugely popular TMS and duringthat time he reported on Test matches from around the world,including nine cricket World Cups. Rugby, football and the University BoatRace are other sports that he has covered in his varied career.

Peter is the author of numerous TMS cricket books including The BestViews from the Boundary.

Murder at Wrotham HillDiana Souhami makes a welcome return to our programmewith her new book set in post-war austerity Britain

11Thursday 18th October

8pm Book Signing


Diana dwells on the significance of this onemurder which took place in 1946. In doingso she paints a gripping portrait of post-warBritain that raises questions about murder,punishment and destiny.

Her characters include England’s first celebritypoliceman, Fabian of the Yard, the celebratedforensic scientist, Keith Simpson, and the famousand dedicated hangman, Albert Pierrepoint.

Diana’s work includes novels and biography, notably Edith Cavell.

“Powerfully gripping and elegantly written and astonishingly detailed”Independent On Sunday.

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Following her visit to the Festival in 2008 to speakabout Ekaterinburg, Helen Rappaport’s reputationas a historian has continued to blossom. Her lateststudy explores the impact of Prince Albert’spremature death on his wife, the monarchy andEngland.

In this illustrated talk Helen will discuss the first tenyears of Victoria’s widowhood and show how herresearch has revealed previously unknown personaldetails. The book examines the circumstancesleading up to Albert’s death, the ritual of his funeral,and offers new theories of what killed him.

Interestingly, one of those in attendance was Sir Henry Holland, the‘socialite doctor’ of Knutsford.

Helen is an historian and Russianist with a specialism in the Victoriansand revolutionary Russia.

“A scholarly book that wears its learning lightly and is written with clarityand insight.” Juliet Barker, Daily Express.

David Shaw recreates the author’s final on-stage performance, as he reads comedic anddramatic scenes giving remarkable portrayals of14 characters. This compelling rendition takesplace on a simple candle-lit stage. Action beginsin the hilarious Trial Scene from Pickwick Papers.In the second half the mood darkens and theaudience is drawn into the chilling story of BillSykes.

David is an actor of great experience and aconsummate story teller. His work covers film,theatre, radio and television - Poldark and Penmaric being twoof his well known successes.

“David Shaw is Dickens. What superb entertainment.” Theatre review.

The Death That Changed the Monarchy


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Helen Rappaport explores Victoria’s ‘Magnificent Obsession’with Albert

2.30pm


Ticket essential

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war herowhose exploits in Crete, played by Dirk Bogarde in thefilm Ill Met By Moonlight, are legendary; but above allhe is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer ofour times. His most read books, A Time of Gifts, andBetween the Woods and the Water, recall his epicjourney across pre-war Europe when, aged 18, he setout from Rotterdam to walk to Constantinople. Thelong anticipated final volume is due to be publishedin autumn 2013.

Artemis Cooper and her father, John Julius Norwich, were amongstPatrick’s closest friends, and Artemis has drawn on years of interviews andconversations with her subject and his contemporaries in producing thisbeautifully crafted biography. She reveals a man of extraordinary gifts - apolymath who never lost the innocence and excitement of youth.

“There’s a true biographical treat in store .... the sure-to-be glorious life ofPatrick Leigh Fermor.” Sunday Telegraph preview

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8pm Book Signing


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The Farewell Performance of Mr Charles Dickens

14Sunday 21st October

David Shaw’s bicentenary tribute

Civic Centre, Toft Road

2.30pm

Ticket essential

Book Signing

90 mins plus 20 min interval

No.

tickets

Price

Total

Event

Event

no.

Date

5 Oct

1The Baroness

£5

6 Oct

2Leningrad

£5

8 Oct

3A Literary Lunch with Prue Leith

£27

9 Oct

4Poetry at The Angel

Free

10 O

ct5

Love Letters : 2000 Years of Rom

ance £5/£0

11 Oct

6The Geek Manifesto : W

hy Science M

atters

£5

13 Oct

7Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace

£5

15 Oct

8Patrick Leigh Ferm

or : An Adventure

£5

16 Oct

9Effie

£5

17 Oct

10Can Anyone Hear Me?

£5

18 Oct

11Murder at Wrotham

Hill

£5

19 Oct

12Life: A Gam

e of Two Halves

£10

20 Oct

13The Death That C

hanged the Monarchy

£5

21 Oct

14The Farewell Perform

ance of M

r Charles Dickens

£8

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Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Price

Total

Event

Event

no.

Date

5 Oct

1The Baroness

£5

6 Oct

2Leningrad

£5

8 Oct


£27

9 Oct


Free

10 O

ct5


ance £5/£0

11 Oct


hy Science M

atters

£5

13 Oct


£5

15 Oct

8Patrick Leigh Ferm

or : An Adventure

£5

16 Oct

9Effie

£5

17 Oct


£5

18 Oct

11Murder at Wrotham

Hill

£5

19 Oct

12Life: A Gam

e of Two Halves

£10

20 Oct

13The Death That C

hanged the Monarchy

£5

21 Oct


ance of M

r Charles Dickens

£8

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Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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No.

tickets

Price

Total

Event

Event

no.

Date

5 Oct

1The Baroness

£5

6 Oct

2Leningrad

£5

8 Oct


£27

9 Oct


Free

10 O

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ance £5/£0

11 Oct


hy Science M

atters

£5

13 Oct


£5

15 Oct

8Patrick Leigh Ferm

or : An Adventure

£5

16 Oct

9Effie

£5

17 Oct


£5

18 Oct

11Murder at Wrotham

Hill

£5

19 Oct

12Life: A Gam

e of Two Halves

£10

20 Oct

13The Death That C

hanged the Monarchy

£5

21 Oct


ance of M

r Charles Dickens

£8

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Documents

Knutsford The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the ...knutsfordlitfest.org/wp-content/uploads/programme_2012.pdfProduced by BB Design T: 01606 48074 The Baroness: The Search for Nica,