Deeping Literary Festival 2022

THE STARS ALIGN FOR THE THIRD DEEPINGS LITERARY FESTIVAL! APRIL 28TH - MAY 1ST 2022

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WELCOME Never has a Festival where authors, readers, friends and neighbours can get together over their love of books been more welcome! We loved seeing you online last year but to get together in the wonderful venues that Deeping has to offer is highy anticipated! A selection of Literary stars have been chosen, locations found, hosts in place, some culinary treats in store - now is all we have to do is to look forward to your attendance!

The Deepings Literary Festival Team

‘I was delighted to support the Literary Festival events held by the Deepings online which attracted readers from as far away as Ecquador but it’s so nice to see the ‘real thing’ happening again this year!’

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Read Dating The Deepings Community Library, High St., Market Deeping PE6 8ED

Thursday 28th April 10.00- 12.00 Unique to the Deepings Literary Festival read dating gives the audience three minutes each with a veritable cornucopia of writing talent.

REX SLY Rex Sly’s family have lived and farmed in the Fens since the 16th c. He has written 3 books on the Fens covering it’s enclosures and drainage, its people and its agricultural history: ‘From Punt to Plough’, ‘Fenland Families’ and ‘Soil in their Souls’.

Rex’s latest book, ‘Exploring the FenEdge’ following the Roman Car Dyke from Peterborough to Lincoln visits villages, churches and places which interest him. He follows some of the past travel writers’ routes recording what they saw and recording what he sees today always keeping one foot in his birthplace, the Fens.

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HELEN MATTHEWS Helen Matthews writes psychological suspense and is fascinated by how a life can change in an instant. Her fourth novel ‘The Girl in the Van’, a suspense thriller with dark contemporary themes will be published by Darkstroke Books in March 2022. Previous novels include ‘Facade ‘(family noir) ‘Lies Behind the Ruin’ (suspense set in France) and After Leaving the Village, which won first prize at Winchester Writers’ Festival.

She holds an MA in Creative Writing and has had columns published in The Guardian and broadcast on BBC radio. Helen is an Ambassador for the charity, Unseen, which works towards a world without slavery.

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JOHN NICHOLSON Descended from the Nicholsons who farmed at Grimblethorpe Hall on the River Bain in North Lincolnshire in the nineteenth century, the author has lived for many years in the Fens where this tale is set. A varied career included the Army, the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank in Paris, a First in Economics from LSE and a spell in the Diplomatic Service as a Second Secretary at the Foreign Office. A switch to education led eventually to more than twenty years as Head of Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire.

He and his wife, Angela (also a retired teacher), share a love of the culture and language of France.

In retirement he has pursued a long-held interest in Russia, fired by an extended visit to schools in Leningrad, Moscow and Riga in the mid-sixties, followed more recently by a spell living and studying the language in St Petersburg.

KATE HIGH After a career as a designer/maker in metals, Kate High became an author who writes Murder Mysteries set in the Lincolnshire Wolds. They centre around Clarice Beech, a ceramicist who cannot resist a mystery, especially if it involves a corpse!

Kate, who lives near Boston, has already published ‘The Man Who Vanished’ and the ‘Dog who waited and The Cat’ and the ‘Corpse in the Old Barn’. ‘The Missing Wife’ and ‘The Stone Fen Siamese’ is out in June, published

by Constable/Little Brown.

DOMINIC BROWNLOW Dominic Brownlow lives in Market Deeping with his two children. Although a Fenlander by birth, he lived most of his working life in London, working in the music industry as a manager before setting up his own independent label. He now enjoys life back in the Fens and has an office that looks out over water. ‘The Naseby Horses’ is his first novel. It was long listed for the Bath Novel Award 2016

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RICHARD PIKE

DEBBIE DALEY

Richard, a retired English teacher living in Morton, has published three books. ‘The Far Side of Years’ is a memoir of his school days in London.

Originally from London and currently living in Langtoft, Debbie wrote her first book while living in Deeping St James in the early 2000s.

‘Do Not Forget Me Quite’, a war novel without fighting, movingly portraying life at home and medical work at the front in WW1.

The novel introduces Ivor Gurney, real-life poet and composer, as a character.

The book, ‘The Harp of Elvyth‘, became the first in a series entitled ‘The Long Ears Legacy’, a children’s fantasy aimed (originally) at children aged 9 to 12 years. She is currently writing the fourth book in the series to be published this year. The books have sold internationally in paperback and on Kindle.

‘Bright Tracks’ tells of a six-week trip to Greece in 1959 which involved three days of train travel across Europe before flying became customary.

All these will be available at a special price on the day. www.richardpikeauthor.com

An advocate for encouraging and improving children’s literacy, Debbie has run children’s workshops in local libraries, both in Surrey and here in The Deepings.

After careers in HR and operations management for London Transport, then administration and management in Further Education colleges, Debbie is now semi-retired. She continues to write, as well as ‘proofing’ audible books.

Her interests, apart from her two kids, are history and archaeology.

DAVID UNWIN Dave Unwin is the author of ‘Sky Stories – from Flying Cars to Flying Fortresses’. Formerly the editor of Stamford-based Today’s Pilot magazine, he is currently the editor of both GASCo Flight Safety Magazine and Flight Test. He regularly appears on TV in the Emmynominated series ‘Disasters Engineered’.

Prior to becoming a writer, Dave worked in several ‘interesting’ jobs, including being an underground instrument technician in Tasmania and a gold prospector in Queensland, Australia. Dave has been flying since 1985 in different types, ranging from antique gliders and vintage biplanes to modern turboprops and jet fighters, via WW2 bombers and fighters.

He is married with two sons, one Labrador and two semi-feral cats, and lives in Grimsthorpe.

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“Gallery in

the Garden”

Spring arrives at Molecey with Gladwell and Patterson’s fine art show.

A collection of beautiful paintings and sculpture will be on display.

Enjoy the gardens of Molecey Mill and the Granary which will also be open to explore.

Friday 29 April - Bank Holiday Monday 2 May - 10am-6pm Please book tickets at

www.moleceyestates.com

THURSDAY 28th APRIL - FRIDAY 29th APRIL

CHRISTINA JAMES Friday April 29th 10.00am Oddfellows Hall, 57 Church Street., Market Deeping PE6 8AN Tickets £5

CLARA BARLEY Thursday 28th April 4.00pm Deepings Library, High St., Market Deeping PE6 8ED Tickets £5 Author Clara Barley spent much of her childhood near Bourne and is now based in West Yorkshire. She has worked in the heritage sector at several national and regional museums. Her work won the Royal Historical Society’s national prize for public history in 2015. Her debut novel ‘The Moss House’ has been selected for New Writing North’s Read Regional’ campaign 2021.

‘The Moss House’ tells of neighbouring landowners Miss Lister and Miss Walker who find themselves entwined in a forbidden relationship, over 200 years ago. We discover Miss Lister’s lifelong battle to be her true self as she finds Anne Walker and together they try and live their life.

And who cannot forget the BBC’s ‘Gentleman Jack’ drama which told the story so engagingly… ?

Christina James is the author of the DI Yates series of crime mystery novels. She was born in rural Lincolnshire and grew up in Spalding. The remote fenland landscape, with its rich soil, deep dykes and peerless sunsets, has always fascinated her and features in all her novels.

All nine novels in the DI Yates series are set in Lincolnshire and Norfolk, though DI Yates sometimes makes forays to places as far away as India.

Christina particularly values the opportunity to meet her readers, who have a profound influence on her work. The character of Juliet now shares centre stage with DI Yates because readers showed so much interest in her. Christina is also an editor. She is a frequent speaker at festivals, where she takes part in author ‘surgeries’, and library and bookshop events. Bloodhound Books is publishing ‘The Sandringham Mystery’ in April 2022.

JOHN MARRS Friday 29th April 2.00pm The Marquee at the Iron Horse, High St., Market Deeping PE6 8EB Tickets £8.50 to include a latte John Marrs is an author and former journalist based in Northamptonshire. After spending his career interviewing celebrities from the worlds of television, film and music for numerous national newspapers and magazines, he is now a full-time author. His novel ‘The One’ has been adapted into a eight-episode drama series for Netflix by Misfits creator Howard Overman. ‘What Lies Between Us’ has been optioned by Renee Zellweger’s production company.

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FRIDAY 29th APRIL

PAM RHODES Friday April 29th 4.30pm Priory Church, Church St., Deeping St James PE6 8NP Tickets £10.50 to include cordial and a shortbread biscuit.

For more than thirty years, Pam’s has been the familiar face of BBC TV’s ‘Songs of Praise’, presenting programmes from tiny country churches to huge outside broadcasts. She has met everyone from the Pope to Dolly Parton, but her heart is in the sensitive interviews for which she is well known.

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In addition, Pam presents 8 radio programmes each week for Premier Christian Radio as well as producing the popular weekly online TV magazine programme, Sunday Night Live which she presents from home. She is in constant demand to compere all sorts of musical and speaking events but she is also author of thirty factual books and popular novels including ‘The Dunbridge Chronicles’ and the new triology ‘Hope Hall’.

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FRIDAY 29th APRIL

DEEPING MEETS BARNSLEY Enjoy a Lincolnshire High Tea in the historic setting of the Granary at Molecey Mill, West Deeping in the company of authors Milly Johnson and Jack Land Noble who will bring with them a rich dollop of northern humour.

Friday 29th April 7.30pm The Granary at Molecey Mill, Stamford Road, West Deeping PE6 9JD. Tickets £25 (for all tickets purchased to the end of February) then £30 See www.moleceyestates.com for directions

MILLY JOHNSON Milly Johnson is the queen of feelgood fiction and has written best-selling novels with well over two million sales worldwide.

As well as an international novelist, poet, after-dinner speaker, professional joke writer, script-writer, columnist, cruise correspondent, and short-story writer, she pops up on the telly sometimes as she won ‘Come Dine With Me’.

She comes from Barnsley in South Yorkshire where she’s lived all her life – apart from four years at University in Exeter doing Drama and Education (St Luke’s, in case you’re asking) and thirteen years in Haworth in West Yorkshire, where she went, hoping to catch some Bronte writing magic. It must have worked because she dominates The Times top ten of books on a regular basis.

JACK LAND NOBLE Jack Land Noble is a prolific actor, writer, producer, director, musician, song-writer and vocal entertainer.

The son of Northern Clubland entertainers, he started in the business at the tender age of seven, learning his trade in the working Men’s Clubs of Yorkshire and the North East of England.

Graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Drama from the University of Huddersfield, Jack is also the founder of the Yorkshireman Company and an acclaimed pantomime performer for Qdos Entertainment.

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SATURDAY 30th APRIL

JANE E JAMES IN CONVERSATION WITH LYNDA STACEY Saturday 30th April 9.30 am The Marquee, The Iron Horse, High St., Market Deeping PE6 9JD Tickets £8.50 to include coffee and a croissant Jane E James creates chilling reads that appeal to fans of psychological thrillers, mysteries and dark fiction. She loves to weave tense haunting tales that stay in the reader’s mind. She is especially fond of unreliable narrators who never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

As well as being the author of seven books, Lynda works a full-time job as a Sales Director. Working two jobs is something she’s often done and has been privileged to have been a nurse, a model (in her much younger days), an emergency first response instructor and a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor … and yes, she was crazy enough to dive in the sea with sharks, without a cage. She currently lives in a small rural hamlet, with her ‘hero at home’, whom she’s been happily married to for over 25 years.

WILLIAM SHAW Saturday 30th April 2.00pm The Marquee at The Iron Horse, High St. Market Deeping PE6 8EB Tickets £7.50 to include a latte Brighton-based crime fiction writer William Shaw has been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger and a Barry Award and long-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger and twice for the Theakston’s Prize. His eighth fiction book is ‘Grave’s End’, the latest in his Alex Cupidi series set in Dungeness.

Before becoming a crime writer, William Shaw was an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books including ‘Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood’, about a year spent with the young men of South Central Los Angeles, and ‘A Superhero For Hire’, a compilation of columns in the Observer Magazine. Before turning to crime he was a journalist for publications including The New York Times, Wired, Arena and The Face and was Amazon UK Music Journalist of the Year in 2003.

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SATURDAY 30th APRIL

KIT DE WAAL

LOUISE CANDLISH

Saturday 30th April 11.00am The Granary at Molecey Mill, Stamford Road, West Deeping PE6 9JD Tickets £10 to include coffee See www.moleceyestates.com for directions

Saturday 30th April 5.30pm The Granary at Molecey Mill, Stamford Road, West Deeping PE6 9JD Tickets £10 incl glass of prosecco See www.moleceyestates.com for directions

Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Her debut award winning novel ‘My Name Is Leon’ was an international best seller and is being made into a BBC 1 TV series. Her second novel, ‘The Trick to Time’, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize and her young adult novel ‘Becoming Dinah’ was shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020.

She also crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working-class memoirs, ‘Common People’, which was published in 2018. Kit founded the ‘Big Book Weekend’, a free digital literary festival and was named the ‘FutureBook Person of the Year in 2019’. Her latest publication, ‘Supporting Cast’, is a collection of short stories. Her memoir ‘Without Warning and Only Sometimes’ is released in August 2022

Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen novels. Her 2018 thriller ‘Our House’, which has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK to date, was a #1 bestseller in paperback, ebook and audiobook and winner of the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards.

It is soon to be a major ITV drama series made by Death in Paradise producers Red Planet Pictures.

Those People (2019) was a #2 Sunday Times bestseller in paperback and is in development for TV by Company Pictures. ‘The Other Passenger’ (2020) is a Sunday Times bestseller in paperback and under option for a feature film with Moving Image Productions, and has also sold over 250,000 copies in the UK to date. Louise lives in South London with her husband and daughter.

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SATURDAY 30th APRIL

JACKIE WEAVER Saturday April 30th 2.30pm The Granary at Molecey Mill, West Deeping PE6 9JD Tickets £10 to include a cup of tea See www.moleceyestates.com for directions Since the words ‘You have no authority here’ were uttered at the much viewed zoom meeting of Handforth Parish Council they have become one of the defining phrases of the pandemic - along with the immortal words of Captain Tom; ‘Tomorrow will be a good day.’ Now Jackie Weaver to whom the words were directed has gone on to undertake many public engagements, has a well received podcast (@jackieweaverpod) and has written a little book of common sense ‘You do have the authority here.’ Involved in the local council sector for over 25 years Jackie has served as a councillor, a clerk and is Chief Officer for the Cheshire Association of Local Councils. Jackie thrives on helping others deliver and develop their potential and through her participation in events and in the media encourages greater awareness and participation in local democracy and in particular promotes greater diversity in the sector.

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SATURDAY 30th APRIL - SUNDAY 1st MAY

VASEEM KHAN

NEIL SPRING

Sunday May 1st 11.00 am Oddfellows Hall, 57 Church Street, Market Deeping PE6 8AN Tickets £5 Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, the ‘Baby Ganesh Agency’ series set in modern Mumbai, and the ‘Malabar House’ historical crime novels set in 1950s Bombay. His first book, ‘The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra’, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020, and is translated into 16 languages. The second in the series won the Shamus Award in the US. In 2018, he was awarded the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture and Theatre Award for Literature. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. In 2021, ‘Midnight at Malabar House’ won the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger, the world’s premier award for historical crime fiction. His latest book is ‘The Dying Day’ about the theft of one of the world’s great treasures, a 600-year-old copy of Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’, stored at Bombay’s Asiatic Society.

Vaseem co-hosts the popular crime fiction podcast, The Red Hot Chilli Writers. www.vaseemkhan.com

April 30th 8.00pm The Granary at Molecey Mill, Stamford Road West Deeping PE6 9JD Tickets £8.50 to include a glass of wine.

See www.moleceyestates.com for directions Neil Spring is the author of 5 horror novels, all of which are inspired by real events. His debut novel, ‘The Ghost Hunters’, is now a film, ‘Harry Price: Ghost Hunter’, starring Rafe Spall. From stories of true life hauntings to reports of UFOs and government conspiracies, Spring will be taking about the incredible and sometimes terrifying real life events which have inspired his books.

FRANCIS PRYOR Sun 1st May 2.30pm West Deeping Village Hall, King Street, West Deeping PE6 9HU Tickets £8.50 including a cup of tea and a cake Francis Pryor has studied the archaeology of the Fens since 1971. His major excavations in the region took place near Peterborough at Fengate, Maxey and Etton. In 1982 his team’s survey of Fenland drainage dykes revealed the timbers of a waterlogged Bronze Age timber platform and causeway at Flag Fen, which was opened to the public in 1989. He was a member of Channel 4’s long-running series ‘Time Team’. He has written many popular books including ‘Seahenge’ (2001), ‘Britain BC’ (2003), ‘Britain AD’ (2004), ‘The Making of the British Landscape’ (2010), ‘Home’ (2014), ‘Stonehenge’ (2016) and ‘The Fens’ (2019). His most recent book is ‘Scenes from Prehistoric Life’ (Head of Zeus, August, 2021).

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Festival Venues

DEEPINGS LIBRARY PRIORY CHURCH High St., Church Street, Bistro Driftwood The Boundary’s River Market Deeping St., Deeping James 65 ManorStWay, Restaurant PE6 8ED 8NP St James, 64 High St, Market Deeping,PE6Deeping Peterborough PE6 8BF

Open Door Church 5 Spalding Road, Deeping St James, Peterborough PE6 8NJ

Peterborough, PE6 8PX

THE GRANARY AT ODDFELLOWS MOLECEY GodseyMILL Lane Coffee Coronation HallHALL 57 Church Street, Road, 89 High St, Market Deeping, Halfleet, Market Deeping Stamford Market Deeping Deeping PE6 8ED Peterborough, PE6 8DB WestPeterborough PE6 8AN PE6 9JD Deepings Library See The www.Granary Stamford Road, The Street, THEPark, IRONHigh HORSE, moleceyestates.com Market Deeping, PE6 9JD Market Deeping High St., for directions Peterborough, PE6 8ED Market Deeping Lilli’s Tearoom PE6 8EB WEST DEEPING The Deepings School MarketHALL Gate, VILLAGE Park Road, KingMarket Street,Deeping, Deeping St James, PE6 8DL WestPeterborough Deeping Peterborough, PE6 8NF PE6 9HU

Priory Church Church Gate, Deeping St James, Peterborough PE6 8NP Spinroom Studio Spalding Rd, Deeping St James Peterborough, PE6 8SD The Stage 16 Market Place, Market Deeping, Peterborough PE6 8EA

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VENUES

What’s On, Where and When THURSDAY 28 APRIL READ DATING 10-12 Deepings Library

SATURDAY APRIL 30 JANE JAMES WITH LYNDA STACEY

VASSEM KHAN

9.30am

Oddfellows Hall £5

Open House Event

Iron Horse Marquee £8.50

CLARA BARLEY

WILLIAM SHAW

4pm Deepings Library £5

SUNDAY MAY 1

2.00pm The Marquee at the Iron Horse £7.50

11am

FRANCIS PRYOR 2.30pm West Deeping Village Hall £8.50

FRIDAY 29 APRIL KIT DE WAAL CHRISTINA JAMES 10am Oddfellows Hall £5 JOHN MARRS

11.00 am The Granary at Molecey Mill £10 JACKIE WEAVER

Iron Horse Marquee £8.50

2.30 pm The Granary at Molecey Mill £10

PAM RHODES

LOUISE CANDLISH

4.30pm

5.30pm The Granary at Molecey Mill £10

2pm

Priory Church DSJ £10.50 Deeping meets Barnsley MILLY JOHNSON/ JACK LAND NOBLE 7.30pm The Granary at Molecey Mill £25 earlybird then £30

NEIL SPRING 8pm The Granary at Molecey Mill £8.50

APRIL 28TH - MAY 1ST 2022

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