The following article has the New Writing North programmer picks for the Durham Festival:
The Durham Book Festival programme
is now live!
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The
Programmer’s Picks
One of the best things about programming Durham Book
Festival is getting to invite so many of my favourite writers to Durham.
Roddy Doyle was the first author I ever saw read from
his work when I was a teenager and that event has stayed with me ever since.
I’m so thrilled that the Booker Prize-winner is coming to Durham for the
first time to talk about his poignant new novel, Smile.
Viv Groskop is one of my favourite writers for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Pool amongst others.
She’s also an award-winning comedian and I know her event is going to be
great fun. She’ll also be appearing with Andy Miller and Louise Welsh
offering a hilarious insight into the life of a writer, Author
Confidential.
I’ve picked some seriously impressive women who I’m
thrilled have agreed to appear at this year’s festival, from
Booker-longlisted Kamila Shamsie to broadcaster June Sarpong’s take on
overcoming prejudice.
Actor and writer Stephen McGann’s beautifully written
memoir follows his family’s journey from Ireland to Liverpool and beyond. As
a fellow Liverpudlian, this resonates with me personally, but I feel that it
will have huge appeal for our audience.
Finally, Rich Seams is a really special event
celebrating some of the most exciting emerging voices in northern poetry. I’m
very proud that they have been brought together for the first time at Durham
Book Festival 2017.
Hope to see you there,
Rebecca
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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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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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Eleanor Rosamund
Barraclough: Beyond the Northlands
Saturday 14 October,
11.30am–12.30pm, Palace Green Library
From the dying days of the eighth century,
the Vikings voyaged to all corners of the medieval world and beyond. Their
stories are preserved in the Old Norse sagas, which mix realism and fantasy
to become exotic, quasi-historical adventures...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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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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Lyndall Gordon:
Outsiders: The Royal Literary Fund Talk
Sunday 15 October,
3.30pm–4.30pm, Durham Town Hall
Outsiders tells the stories of five
novelists – Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner,
Virginia Woolf – and their famous novels. We have long known their
individual greatness but in linking their creativity to their lives as
outsiders, this biography...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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Stephen McGann: Flesh and Blood
Sunday 15 October,
12pm–1pm, Durham Town Hall
British actor Stephen McGann comes to
Durham to share his new book Flesh
and Blood – the story of his family as told through seven
diseases, wounds and ailments. His ancestors survived famine-ravaged
Ireland and settled in the poverty of Victorian Liverpool. Some...read
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