Tickets can be purchased from the Durham Book Festival from Monday the 21st of August:
The Durham Book Festival programme
is now live!
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Tickets are now on
sale for Durham Book Festival!
This year we present our
biggest programme yet, featuring a wide variety of events from Booker
Prize-winners to some famous faces; family workshops to live
performance.
In these uncertain times. a
book festival is a shared place where we can contemplate some of the big
ideas and events that are shaping our world, as well as be inspired by
wonderful literature to lift the spirits. We hope you can come and join the
conversation with us.
Explore the full programme on
our website to find events for all ages and interests. In the meantime, check
out some of Durham Book Festival’s highlights below.
Please note that the
rumours are true and we are hosting Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone
screenings at Durham Cathedral (a filming location) during our opening
weekend! Tickets for these events will be sold at www.durhamcathedral.co.uk
from Monday 21 August.
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Zine-Making
in a Day with Una
Saturday 7 October,
10am–4pm, Empty Shop TESTT Space
We’re delighted to be
working with acclaimed graphic novelist, Una, over the next two years, on a
graphic novel to be inspired by the people of Durham and its landscapes.
Una will work with groups of women at Low Newton Prison and the Just...read
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Roddy
Doyle: Smile
Monday 9 October,
8pm-9pm, Gala Theatre
Roddy Doyle comes to Durham
Book Festival for the first time to talk about his impressive career and to
introduce his brand new novel Smile. This captivating book has all the
features for which he has become famous: razor-sharp dialogue, humour,
superb evocation of childhood – but this is a...read
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Robert
Webb: How Not to Be a Boy
Tuesday 10 October,
7.30pm-8.30pm, Gala Theatre
Award-winning comedian and
actor Robert Webb visits Durham Book Festival to introduce his new memoir,
How Not to Be a Boy. Hilarious and heart-breaking, How Not To Be a Boy
explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons
we learn...read
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Tony
Robinson: No Cunning Plan
Wednesday 11 October,
7.30pm–8.30pm, Gala Theatre
Sir Tony Robinson has had a
stellar career lasting over fifty years. Now in a long-awaited
autobiography, he reveals how he went from child stardom in the first stage
production of Oliver!, to comedy icon Baldrick in Blackadder. Packed full
of incident and insight, No Cunning Plan is a...read
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Petina
Gappah, Benjamin Myers, Alexei Sayle, Lionel Shriver: The News as a Novel
Friday 13 October,
6.15pm–7.30pm, Durham Town Hall
Ten years ago, the late
Gordon Burn took the events of 2007 and during that year wrote and
published Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel, an ambitious and
experimental novel about the way news is made, and the way the media...read
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Alan
Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair
Friday 13 October,
8pm–9pm, Durham Town Hall
Join Booker prize-winning
author Alan Hollinghurst as he discusses his longawaited sixth novel, The
Sparsholt Affair. In 1940, two young men meet at Oxford University. Despite
very different backgrounds, they both share the knowledge that with
military call-up...read
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Viv
Groskop: The Anna Karenina Fix
Saturday 14 October,
12pm–1pm, Durham Town Hall
Viv Groskop has discovered
the meaning of life in Russian literature. As she knows from personal
experience, everything that has ever happened in life has already happened
in these novels: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina) to being
in love with someone who doesn’t...read
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Rich
Seams: A New Generation of Poets from the North Curated and introduced by
Andrew McMillan
Saturday 14 October,
3.30pm–5pm, Durham Town Hall
Durham Book Festival is
proud to present a special poetry gala event, curated by Andrew McMillan
and featuring a range of diverse and exciting poets who are reshaping and
re-writing our...read
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Harriet
Harman: A Woman’s Work
Saturday 14 October,
7pm–8pm, Durham Town Hall
We are thrilled to welcome
one of Britain’s most prominent campaigning politicians and the country’s
longest-serving female MP to Durham Book Festival. Her groundbreaking
memoir A Woman’s Work tells the story of her efforts to bring women’s
issues to the heart of the Labour Party and of a life dedicated...read
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David
Almond: The Books That Made Me
Saturday 14 October,
7pm–8pm, Gala Theatre
Join us in celebrating
David Almond’s work in this special Big Read event, for all ages. David
will talk about some of the books
that
have been most important to him throughout his life, as well as sharing his
perspective on some of the stories that make up Half a...read
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Tracy
Chevalier and Kamila Shamsie: Retellings
Sunday 15 October, 2pm–3pm,
Durham Town Hall
Two classic dramas are
reimagined by these award-winning novelists. Tracy Chevalier’s New Boy
transports the drama and deception of Othello to a 1970s schoolyard. When
diplomat’s son Osei arrives he immediately befriends the popular...read
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June
Sarpong: Diversify
Sunday 15 October,
5pm–6pm, Durham Town Hall
Is it possible to live
without prejudice? Through inspiring stories, up-to-the-minute evidence,
and case studies from around the globe, Diversify explores the value we
place on packaging, and how the way we see others affects who we ourselves
become. In this event, author and broadcaster...read
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We’re crowdfunding
to produce a limited edition LP of Rich Seams
In Rich Seams we have brought
together 12 of the most exciting new generation poets from the North for one
night only. Help us crowdfund to record a limited edition LP of this special
event (digital downloads available for those without record players!)
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Do Not Enter the
Monster Zoo: our children’s theatre tour is back!
Now in its fifth year, our
children’s theatre tour will delight under 7s and their families at 34 dates
across the North East, as well as dates in Yorkshire and the North West.
This year we have adapted Do
Not Enter the Monster Zoo, the brilliant picture book written by Amy Sparkes
and illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. From the creators of Hey Presto!, Man on the
Moon and The Worst Princess, this is a mischievous tale with original live
music that little monsters everywhere are sure to fall in love with. Find
your local venue www.monsterzootour.com
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