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.
The Big Read: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
Festival Laureate Paul Farley
Michael Shaeffer reads ‘Astrophel and Stella I’, by Sir Philip Sidney
Zaffar Kunial reads ‘Poppy’
Michael Chaplin: There Is a Green Hill
Matt Haig and Lottie Moggach: Book Group Event
Benjamin Myers wins the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize
Rachel Joyce and Gavin Extence: Time versus the Universe
WRITERS IN RESIDENCE: Waters and Harbours in the North
John Tomaney: The Lost World of Peter Lee
Pat Barker: Toby’s Room
Kate Mosse and Michèle Roberts: Love and Danger in Occupied France
