Durham Book Festival returns between October 9-11 and details of some of the early events have been revealed.
2026 is the National Year of Reading and the festival will celebrate it with a North East Big Read: The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley. Free copies of this ystery will be available in libraries and community settings across County Durham with people encouraged to join a local reading group session.
The full programme will be released on Thursday 13 August but early event details include another version of Durham with author Susanna Clarke; hear from Pet Shop Boys icon Neil Tennant about his Newcastle upbringing, discover new Northern voices with Louise Powell, Sufiyaan Salam and Shaun Wilson, (pictured here) and spend an evening with poetry from Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen.
You can find out more at https://newwritingnorth.com/
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