The latest New Writing North newsletter has details on the Durham Book Festival:
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September 2016
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Durham Book Festival
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Memoir
at Durham Book Festival
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There are some fascinating writers, thinkers and performers at this
year’s Durham Book Festival.
Festival favourites Alan
Johnson MP and Chris
Mullin will be discussing their new memoirs. Hunter Davies,
the author of more than 50 books and a journalist for the Sunday Times,
talks about his memories of growing up in the post-war North; while James Rebanks
offers a different northern perspective with his bestselling memoir, The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of
the Lake District.
That’s not forgetting Cathy
Rentzenbrink and Decca
Aitkenhead, who will be talking about their own moving,
personal stories.
On another note, Gala Theatre has launched its new box office
system, meaning that booking for Durham Book Festival is easier than
ever before. Choose which events you would like to buy tickets for via www.durhambookfestival.com, and you
will be redirected to the Gala Theatre website to finalise your
booking. |
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Hunter
Davies: The Co-Op’s Got Bananas! A Memoir of Growing Up In the Post-War
North
Saturday 8
October, 3pm-4pm, Durham Town Hall
Despite struggles with money and rationing, life could still be
sweet for a young boy – playing football, saving up for films, being
captivated by BBC radio’s Dick Barton. Chocolate might be...read more |
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Chris
Mullin: Hinterland
Saturday 8
October, 4.30pm-5.30pm, Durham Town Hall
Durham Book Festival favourite Chris Mullin returns to introduce his
memoirs, Hinterland. All serious politicians are supposed to possess a
hinterland, but not all do. Chris Mullin was one...read more |
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Cathy
Rentzenbrink and Decca Aitkenhead: Love and Loss
Saturday 8
October, 5pm-6pm, Palace Green Library
Two moving, personal stories about love, loss, and trauma. In The
Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink writes about the summer of 1990,
when her much-loved...read more |
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James
Rebanks: The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Sunday 9 October,
2.30pm-3.30pm, Durham Town Hall
James Rebanks’ life is not his own creation. The first son of a
shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, his family have
been rooted in and around the Lake District for generations...read more |
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An
Evening with Alan Johnson
Thursday 13
October, 7.30pm-9pm, Gala Theatre
We’re delighted to welcome one of our bestloved politicians back to
Durham Book Festival this year. Alan Johnson is a Labour party MP who
served as Home Secretary and filled a wide variety of cabinet positions
in the Brown and Blair...read more |
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Richard
Hines: No Way But Gentlenesse
Saturday 15
October, 3pm-4pm, Palace Green Library
Born and raised in a South Yorkshire mining village, Richard Hines
remembers listening out for the colliery siren at the end of shifts,
and praying for his father’s safe return. Having failed the 11+ and...read more |
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North 2016
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