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Book your tickets now for Durham Book Festival 2025!
Fri 10 Oct 2025 to Sun 12 Oct 2025
Get ready to be challenged, inspired, entertained, and swept away as some of the hottest names in books descend on the city. With over 25 events across three days, delve into history, humour, poetry, and fiction.
Durham Book Festival takes place 10–12 October 2025 at Gala Durham, Clayport Library and Collected Books. Audiences can also join in online.
We have appearances from internationally best-selling North East writers, including Dame Pat Barker, Ann Cleeves and Eliza Clark. Fiona Hill will be launching her new podcast series, Forged in the North, exploring how the North East has shaped the lives of successful people from Sting to Sara Davies. Festival favourite Andrew McMillan will host brilliant fellow poets Malika Booker, Jo Clement and Paul Farley, who we have commissioned to write new poems 40 years on from the Miner’s Strike and Tony Harrison’s seminal poem v..
We’ve got fabulous fiction from novelists including Natasha Brown, Jonathan Coe and Grainne O’Hare, and non-fiction from journalists including John Harris and Lanre Bakare. Broadcasters Mary Portas and Durham University alumnus Jeremy Vine will be with us too.
Browse the full programme here
Additional Information:
Location:
Durham
Region(s):
North East England
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