Book your tickets now for Durham Book Festival 2025! 🎉📚
From 10-12 October, delve into an autumn weekend jam packed with books, ideas and talent, at Gala Durham, Clayport Library, Collected Books, and online.
Tickets are on sale now – so keep reading to find out more about some of our festival highlights, and then head to our website to browse the full programme and book your place.
We can’t wait to see you there! 👋
 Mary Portas: I Shop, Therefore I Am Mary Portas' new memoir charts how she revolutionised department store Harvey Nichols in the 1990s. Mary will be joined by another of fashion's most influential figures, Jane Shepherdson. |
 Jeremy Vine: Murder on Line One Inspired by a childhood love of Agatha Christie, beloved broadcaster Jeremy Vine has finally written his own murder mystery, following a late-night radio host whose listeners are dying under mysterious circumstances. |
 Hidden Histories: Lanre Bakare and Jake Morris-Campbell Explore diverse and rich Northern stories through Guardian arts correspondent Lanre Bakare's We Were There, and poet Jake Morris-Campbell's Between the Salt and the Ash. |
 Rewriting v.: Malika Booker, Jo Clement and Paul Farley Tony Harrison's seminal 1984 poem v. explores class, anger and Northern identity. 40 years on, three acclaimed poets respond to the poem in this special event with Andrew McMillan. |
 Pat Barker and Anna Barker: Dipped in Ink Join Durham writers Pat and Anna Barker for an exclusive work-in-progress event for Dipped in Ink, their forthcoming memoir spanning 40 years of family silences, literary legacy and maternal relationships. |
 Natasha Brown: Universality Natasha Brown, one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, presents her Booker-longlisted second novel. A plucky young journalist investigates a murder, leading to a viral exposé that raises even more questions. |
 Time for Crime: Ann Cleeves and Steph McGovern Friends and women rooted in the North East, award-winning broadcaster Steph McGovern and Sunday Times Bestselling author Ann Cleeves, join us to discuss their new crime novels. |
 Eliza Clark: She's Always Hungry Experience an exclusive dramatic live reading from She's Always Hungry, the unsettling and revelatory debut short story collection from North East writer Eliza Clark, followed by a Q&A with Eliza. |
 Fiona Hill: Forged in the North Fiona Hill speaks to LJ Ross and Richard O'Neill about how their books tell the story of our region. This event celebrates a new podcast series about how the North East has shaped the lives of successful people. |
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