Commissioned Work
We regularly commission new writing through our programmes and events, such as the Durham Book Festival. Read, watch or listen to diverse and original pieces here.
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The Big Read: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
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Festival Laureate Paul Farley
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Michael Shaeffer reads ‘Astrophel and Stella I’, by Sir Philip Sidney
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Zaffar Kunial reads ‘Poppy’
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Michael Chaplin: There Is a Green Hill
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Matt Haig and Lottie Moggach: Book Group Event
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Benjamin Myers wins the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize
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Rachel Joyce and Gavin Extence: Time versus the Universe
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WRITERS IN RESIDENCE: Waters and Harbours in the North
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John Tomaney: The Lost World of Peter Lee
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Pat Barker: Toby’s Room
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Kate Mosse and Michèle Roberts: Love and Danger in Occupied France
