Maggie O’Farrell: Land
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Event information
Where: Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RH
Date: Tuesday 9 June
Time: 6-7pm
Cost: £18 / £36 Book & Ticket
Type: Readers
Join the award-winning author of Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, to celebrate the release of her spellbinding new novel, Land.
Set in mid nineteenth century Ireland, Land is a multi-generational epic story of survival, loss and hope, inspired by Maggie’s own family history and her roots in the Irish landscape.
Maggie O’Farrell is the author of nine previous novels, including Hamnet which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. Hamnet has been made into a film and Maggie co-write the screenplay with Academy-Award-winning director Chloé Zhao. The film has already won the audience award at multiple film festivals including Telluride, Toronto and London. Maggie’s bestselling books include the novels After You’d Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand that First Held Mine and her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am.
Book sales from Forum Books. The Book & Ticket bundle includes an exclusive stamped author copy of Land (RRP £25) for collection on the evening.
This event is part of Right to Read, our programme across the North East in 2026 to celebrate the National Year of Reading.