Art Out Loud at Chatsworth the only UK weekend festival of public talks about art, returns this September with […]
Category Archive: Literature
Author Mary Colwell will re-live her 500-mile trek in search of clues to the growing threats facing one […]
Buxton Festival Fringe is preparing for another bumper event with 181 entrants, as performers now see it as […]
One of the UK’s most popular fantasy, horror and science-fiction events – Edge-Lit – is back in Derby […]
Crime writer Tony R Cox (pictured with his latest book) investigates Derbyshire’s deadly attraction for artsbeat What is […]
Here are some suggestions from artsbeat for a full day out at the 2018 Buxton International Festival. Tickets […]
Award-winning author, illustrator and artist Laura Wall will make her debut appearance at Derby Book Festival this June, […]
Children from Derby schools will have the chance to meet award-winning children’s authors and poets in June at […]
The third Wirksworth Book Weekend is being held at various locations in the town from April 5-8. For […]
When it comes to blue sky thinking triumphs, author Dan Walker must be unrivalled. It was while gazing […]
Nottingham-based author Jon McGregor will be reading from and signing his latest novel Reservoir 13 at Scarthin Books […]
Sorry this event has now been cancelled To celebrate the publication of Three Things About Elsie, the […]
Wirksworth author Roz Watkins, whose debut novel The Devil’s Dice is out this month, reveals some of the […]
The Wirksworth Book Festival, which celebrates local authors and brings books and writers to Wirksworth is being staged […]
Derby Book Festival is challenging people to write a story in just 50 words on the subject of […]
The organisers of the now annual Derby Book Festival are to stage a special pre-festival event on January […]
The former owner of Scrivener’s Bookshop in Buxton, Alastair Scrivener, found some loose pages from a scarce book […]
Queen of the murder mystery Val McDermid is back on home ground when she returns to Derbyshire for […]
Derby Book Festival needs your vote to secure funding from the Aviva Community Fund for their Shared Writing […]
Buxton’s heyday in the Edwardian era was a prime example of how Britain’s Age of Decadence changed our […]
The new season of Live and Local shows are already underway and coming to a village hall near […]
Artists Grayson Perry, Yinka Shonibare and Phyllida Barlow among top names in the line-up for the Art Out […]
Politics student Lucy Boardman – who made three speeches in the House of Commons before she was even […]
A successful Buxton Fringe concluded on Sunday July 23 with the eagerly-awaited awards ceremony this year held in […]
An invitation and a challenge: can you write a poem, or a short story, or recount a personal […]
Photographing The Peak District by landscape photographers Chris Gilbert and Mick Ryan is a beautiful 500 page book […]
QUAD in Derby will host the annual celebration of science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing Edge-Lit on July 15 […]
Buxton Festival Fringe is preparing for its biggest ever event, with 186 entrants having signed up for this […]
One of Britain’s leading nature writers has spoken of his fears for the future of the wilderness which […]
Few of the people enjoying the entertainment lined-up for the annual Ashbourne Festival will realise that the whole […]
Tickets for the Derby Book Festival have been selling like hot cakes since they went on sale in […]
The 2017 Buxton International Festival is an exciting blend of world-class opera, the finest musicians in the classical […]
It is still one of the best-kept secrets in show business –that Dame Patricia Routledge trained not only […]
Children from Derby City schools will have the chance to meet award-winning children’s authors and illustrators, at two […]
Most writers seem a little reclusive in nature. They like to retreat with the privacy of their own […]
Aspiring writers have a chance to learn more on a new How to Get Published course at QUAD in Derby […]
The second annual Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition has opened for entries. The judges are the […]
Following on from her first book, Chatsworth, The Housekeeper’s Tale, Christine Robinson, former Head Housekeeper at the stately […]
The Historic Houses Association – the HHA – has launched a new Literary Trail for 2017, which features […]
Poet Michael Gibson brings Sir Gaiwain and the Green Knight, a wonderful 14th century tale of chivalry and […]
