Category: Durham Book Festival
Durham Book Festival 2020 to take place online
Founded in 1990, Durham Book Festival is one of the country’s oldest literary festivals, which we are proud to produce on...
INTERVIEW: Louis de Bernières
12 October Gala theatre Claudia Mulholland I meet Louis de Bernières on a Saturday afternoon in Durham. Autumn...
INTERVIEW: The Whole Kahani
13 October Durham Town Hall Anna Begley The Whole Kahani (The Complete Story) are a group of British writers of...
INTERVIEW: Jung Chang
13 October Gala Theatre Anna Begley Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British writer best known for her family autobiography, Wild...
INTERVIEW: Kirsty Wark
12 October Gala Theatre Interviewer: Julia Coyle Our Reviewer in Residence, Julia Coyle, interviews journalist and novelist Kirsty Wark at...
INTERVIEW: Selina Todd and Kerry Hudson
12 October St Nic’s Church Izzy Duffy-Cross Having read Selina Todd and Kerry Hudson’s work, I was enormously excited by...
Review: Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Cocktails with Capote and Breakfast at Tiffany’s screening
11 October Gala Theatre Screen 2 Charlotte Hall Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott certainly knows how to grab the attention of her audience....
Andrew Michael Hurley on his residency in Wadi Faynan, Jordan
Andrew Michael Hurley took part in Alta’ir, the Durham-Amman creative exchange, for which he spent two weeks on a writing...
Coast of Contradictions by Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous undertook a writing residency on the Durham coast with poet Phoebe Power, as part of the People’s Landscape...
David Keenan wins the Gordon Burn Prize 2019
We are thrilled to announce David Keenan’s novel For The Good Times as the winner of the Gordon Burn Prize...
Phoebe Power on the People’s Landscape commission
During my residency at the Durham coast I spoke to children, ex-miners, artists, cyclists, rockpoolers and rangers. I walked the...
INTERVIEW: Sarah Watson
Interview by Bessie Yuill If the first rule of fiction is “write what you know”, then the playwright Sarah Watson’s...
