New Writing North and Durham Book Festival

With details of Durham Book Festival, here is the latest information from the New Writing North:

Tickets are now on sale for Durham Book Festival! We're delighted to let you know that tickets for Durham Book Festival 2018 are now on sale! From memoir to comedy, prize-winning poets to the best in debut fiction. We’re also looking forward to introducing a host of new commissions from a diverse range of northern voices including David Olusoga, Jacob Polley and Una. We really think there's someone for everyone in this year's programme. You'll find some of our highlights below and the whole programme here. We couldn't be more excited to welcome Sarah Waters to the festival for this year's Big Read. If you're in Durham, make sure you pick up your free copy of Sarah's Gothic ghost story, The Little Stranger. This year we will also be launching our inaugural Little Read, Izzy Gizmo by Pip Jones and Sara Ogilvie. We’ll be sending a copy of the book to every primary school in Durham and we’ll be working with five community centres in County Durham to help children in these communities take part in Izzy Gizmo workshops to create songs and crafts inspired by the book.     We hope you can join us! My First Gig with Field Music Saturday 6 October, 2:30pm-4pm, Gala Studio Join Mercury Prize-nominated band Field Music for a very special family gig, playing songs inspired by their favourite children’s books, nursery rhymes and some of those VERY familiar TV theme tunes. There will be face-painting, disco balls, dancing and blow up guitars at the best first gig you could wish for...read more Professor Dame Sue Black: All That Remains: A Life in Death Sunday 7 October, 1.30pm–2.30pm, Palace Green Library Durham Book Festival is delighted to welcome Professor Dame Sue Black, one of the world’s leading forensic anthropologists, to discuss her book All That Remains: A Life in Death. This gripping memoir was featured on BBC Radio 4’s...read more An Evening with Peter James Monday 8 October, 7:30pm-8:30pm, Gala Theatre Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels. His Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series has had worldwide sales of 19 million and achieved 12 Sunday Times number ones, while The Perfect Murder...read more Alan Johnson: In My Life: A Music Memoir Wednesday 10 October, 7:30mpm-8:30pm, Gala Theatre Durham Book Festival favourite Alan Johnson is back to talk about the fourth instalment in his memoirs, In My Life, which tells the story of his life through the music that has inspired him along the way. From being transported by the sound of ‘True Love’...read more Sarah Perry: Melmoth Friday 12 October, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Durham Town Hall Join Sarah Perry, author of international bestseller The Essex Serpent, as she talks about her new novel Melmoth, a chilling and deeply moving book that speaks urgently to our times. Melmoth tells the story of Helen Franklin, who 20 years ago did something for which she cannot forgive herself. As Helen’s...read more Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls Saturday 13 October, 12pm-1pm, Durham Town Hall We are delighted to welcome Book Festival favourite Pat Barker back to Durham this year. The Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war will be discussing her reimagining of the most famous conflict in literature – the legendary Trojan War...read more Lucy Mangan: Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading Saturday 13 October, 4:30pm-5:30pm When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island...read more Carol Ann Duffy and Friends Saturday 13 October, 5:30pm-6:30pm, Gala Theatre Join Carol Ann Duffy, as she reads from her final full poetry collection as Poet Laureate. Sincerity is a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Carol Ann has invited fellow poets Mark Pajak...read more Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger Saturday 13 October, 7:30pm-8:30pm, Gala Theatre Join us in celebrating the work of award-winning author Sarah Waters, whose haunting fifth novel, The Little Stranger, is this year’s Durham Book Festival Big Read. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, The Little Stranger is a ghost story that...read more Cathy Newman: Bloody Brilliant Women: The Unsung Heroines Who Made 20th Century Britain Sunday 14 October, 2pm-3pm Bloody Brilliant Women is the new book from journalist Cathy Newman, a freewheeling feminist history of Britain exploring the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women’s...read more David Olusoga: Black and British: Growing up in the North East Sunday 14 October, 3:30pm-4:30pm, Durham Town Hall Join historian and broadcaster David Olusoga as he presents this special Durham Book Festival commission. David will write about and share his experiences of growing up in Gateshead and his subsequent journey to reconnect with the North...read more Jacob Polley: Lamanby Sunday 14 October, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Durham Town Hall Jacob Polley is regarded as one of the leading talents of the new generation of British poets, and we are delighted to welcome him to Durham as this year’s Festival Laureate. Lamanby is his extraordinary drama of a childhood house that becomes the site of an alternative personal history and...read more New Writing North PO Box 1277, Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 5BP Tel: 0191 204 8850 office@newwritingnorth.com     Like     Tweet     Forward