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Durham
Book Festival 2022: tickets now on sale!
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We're delighted to announce the programme and open booking for
Durham Book Festival 2022.
This year
the festival will bring Durham's Millennium Place to life between 13 and 16 October,
with events at the Gala Theatre and Clayport Library, where you’ll see best-selling
writers, homegrown talent and leading thinkers discussing their work,
alongside new films and commissions and the announcement of the Gordon Burn Prize.
See you there!
Durham Book Festival team
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Join in-person or live-stream
This year
we are excited to be live-streaming events from the Gala Theatre. So, if
you can’t make it to Durham, you can join us from the comfort of your own
home for just £5 per household ticket.
Thanks to
our sponsors Swinburne Maddison and the Boshier Hinton Foundation, all
of our events - both live and live-streamed - will be captioned by
StageText.
Live-stream
and in-person tickets are available to book now for all events. A few of
our highlights are below:
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The
Announcement of the Gordon Burn Prize
Thursday 13 October,
7.30pm–10pm,
Gala Theatre
Join us to celebrate the 2022 Gordon Burn
Prize, as we present readings of the five brilliant shortlisted books and
announce this year's winner. The Gordon Burn Prize recognises the
year’s boldest and most innovative fiction and non-fiction and was
founded to remember the late Newcastle-born writer Gordon Burn....read
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An
Audience with Alexander McCall Smith
Friday 14
October, 5.30pm–6.30pm,
Gala Theatre
Spend a
joyful hour in the company of Alexander McCall Smith, the prolific author
of numerous stand-alone novels and much-loved series. This year sees the
publication of the next book in the Isabel Dalhousie series, The Sweet Remnants of Summer,
and a new No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novel, A Song of Comfortable Chairs....read
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Laura
Bates: Fix the System, Not the Women
Friday 14
October,
7pm–8pm,
Gala Theatre
Combining
first-hand accounts with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a
blazing examination of the societal systems that fail to protect women, and
a rallying cry for reform. In this explosive book, Laura Bates exposes the
systemic prejudice at the heart of five key institutions in our society...read
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Jeremy
Vine: How Durham Made Me Fall in Love with Auden
Saturday 15
October,
10.30am–11.30am,
Gala Theatre
Join one of
the UK's most prolific broadcasters and authors as he talks about his love
for the poet W. H. Auden and the County Durham landscapes that inspired
him. Jeremy Vine attended Durham University before going on to a 30-year
career in broadcasting, currently presenting his own shows on BBC Radio 2
and Channel 5, as well as the TV show Eggheads
...read
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New
Fiction: Jessica Andrews and Natasha Brown
Saturday 15
October, 1.30pm–2.30pm,
Gala Studio
Hear from
two of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction. Milk Teeth is the
new novel from Jessica Andrews, about a girl growing up in the North East
amid precarity and a toxic culture of bodily shame. In Natasha Brown's Assembly as a Black
British woman prepares to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s
family estate, considering the stories we live within...read more
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Marina
Hyde: What Just Happened?!
Saturday 15 October,
5pm–6pm,
Gala Theatre
Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
comes to Durham Book Festival to introduce What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times.
Drawn from her spectacularly funny columns, Marina slashes her way
through the hellscape of politics, where the chaos never stops.
A welcome blast of humour and sanity in a world where reality has
become stranger than fiction...read
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Kit
de Waal: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood
Saturday 15
October, 7pm–8pm,
Gala Theatre
Kit de Waal
grew up in a household of extremes and opposites.
Her mother forbade Christmas and birthdays, while her father splurged money
they didn’t have. Without
Warning and Only Sometimes is a story of an
extraordinary childhood and how a girl who grew up in house where the Bible
was the only book on offer went on to...read
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Northerners:
Brian Groom with Dan Jackson
Sunday 16
October,
11am–12pm,
Gala Theatre
Northerners is an authoritative new
history of place and people that lays out the dramatic events that created
the North. In a sweeping narrative that takes us from the earliest times to
the present day, the book shows that the people of the North have shaped
Britain and the world in unexpected ways. Brian will be in conversation
with Dan Jackson (The
Northumbrians)...read
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Festival
Laureate: Hannah Lowe
Sunday 16 October, 1pm–2pm,
Gala Theatre
This year's
Festival Laureate is the poet and writer Hannah Lowe, whose latest
collection The Kids, inspired
by her early career as a teacher, won the Costa Book of the Year Award and
was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2021. Her 2015 family
memoir, Long Time,
No See, explored her relationship with her Jamaican-Chinese
father...read
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