The award-winning playwright, poet, photographer and performer, Simon Corble, has combined his talents into a unique evening of […]
Category Archive: Authors
One of the surprise new authors heading the line-up at the fifth Derby Book Festival is Australian international […]
You can be one of the first to hear the full line-up for the 2019 Derby Book Festival […]
A new exhibition which focuses on the life, literature and legacy of one of Renishaw Hall’s family members; […]
Tickets are already on sale for a handful of the 90 or so exciting events at Derby Book […]
Author Sophie Draper had just moved to a remote farmhouse on the outskirts of Idridgehay near Wirksworth. The […]
Women will be getting away with murder at Buxton International Festival’s Book Weekend in November. Agatha Christie, PD […]
Organisers of the Derby Book Festival are planning to hold a number of ‘off programme’ interim events in […]
Repton Village is celebrate its literary roots in a new three-day programme of events from October 26-28. Repton […]
In a year that has seen Chatsworth restored to its full glory following a ten-year renovation programme, an […]
Art Out Loud at Chatsworth the only UK weekend festival of public talks about art, returns this September with […]
Author Mary Colwell will re-live her 500-mile trek in search of clues to the growing threats facing one […]
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 […]
The organisers of the now annual Derby Book Festival are to stage a special pre-festival event on January […]
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 […]
Artists Grayson Perry, Yinka Shonibare and Phyllida Barlow among top names in the line-up for the Art Out […]
QUAD in Derby will host the annual celebration of science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing Edge-Lit on July 15 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Almost a year ago I was interviewing author Joanna Cannon about her soon-to-be published book The Trouble with […]
Get your pens and pencils sharpened and your creative juices flowing for the launch of the third Fifty […]
