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Summer Derby Book Festival

By Visit Derby

Created February 1, 2024

Last updated May 1, 2024

The Derby Book Festival look forward to welcoming you back for their Summer edition between 30 May - 4 June 2024.

The festival will bring you a choice of 34 Festival events including their Takeover Day at Derby College, Writing Workshops and FREE CivicLab events, plus children’s activities, including a special family day with Down to Earth Derby in Bold Lane: Bookworms: The Kids Takeover Day at Electric Daisy. They are also teaming up with Art in the Park in Markeaton Park to offer some children’s workshops and there'll also be events at Waterstones and QUAD.  Most of the children’s events are FREE.

Recorded events and Digital Pass 

This year the festival are offering recordings of 14 events across the Festival.  They will not be able to offer live streams. You can buy a Digital Pass for £35 or individual recordings of events, which are (generally) 50% of the in person ticket price. 

To find out more please visit the Derby Book Festival website

What's On:

Ingenious Eddie book cover Ingenious Creations at the Museum of Making 29 May
Dracula Returns to Derby event artwork University of Derby CivicLAB: Dr Matthew Cheeseman: Dracula Returns to Derby 30 May
Children sitting on a floor enjoying a story bing read to them Storytelling at Derbion 30 May
Mother and child at Steam Babies STEAM Babies at the Museum of Making 30 May
Children planting seedlings in the soil Bookworms: The Kids Takeover at Electric Daisy 30 May
Profile photo of Alison Weir Alison Weir: Mary I: Queen of Sorrows 30 May
Profile photo of Polly Toynbee. Polly Toynbee: An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals 30 May
Games for Building Secure Relationships in the Early Years artwork University of Derby CivicLAB: Dr Clive Holmwood: Games for Building Secure Relationships in the Early Years 30 May
Univeristy of Derby logo Meet the Publishing Experts Panel 30 May
Women in Policing book cover University of Derby CivicLAB: Tom Andrews: Women in Policing 31 May
Profile photo of Francis Spufford Francis Spufford: Cahokia Jazz 31 May
Manga Drawing Workshop event artwork Manga Drawing Workshops Art in the Park ages 6-10 31 May
Manga Drawing Workshop event artwork Manga Drawing Workshops Art in the Park ages 11+ 31 May
The Earl and the Pharaoh book cover Afternoon Tea with the Countess of Carnarvon: The Earl and the Pharoah: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun 31 May
Corker book cover Hannah Crosbie: Corker 31 May
Profile photo of Emma Tarlo Emma Tarlo: Under The Hornbeams 01 Jun
Profile photo of Stuart Heritage Stuart Heritage: Bald: How I Slowly Learned to No Hate Having No Hair (And You Can Too) 01 Jun
Profile photo of Christine Kenyon Jones Christine Kenyon Jones – Jane Austen And Lord Byron 01 Jun
Babbing Vagabonds logo Children's Workshops with Babbling Vagabonds: Story making with 'The Case of Curiosity' 01 Jun
Ingenious Eddie book cover Storytelling at Waterstones: Ingenious Edie, Master Inventor of Tiny Town 01 Jun
People writing at desks Derby Young Writers' Workshop 01 Jun
Babbing Vagabonds logo Children's Workshops with Babbling Vagabonds: The Wonderful World of Shadow Puppetry 01 Jun
Profile photo of James O'Brien James O’Brien: How They Broke Britain 02 Jun
Writing Workshop event artwork Writing Workshop: You, you CAN be a poet! with Mig Holder 02 Jun
Close up pf tea, pastry and paper Sunday Papers 02 Jun
Abigail Dean book cover Abigail Dean: Day One 02 Jun
Writing Workshop Gothic event artwork Writing Workshop: Gothic Fiction with Sarah Ward 02 Jun
Louise Mullany book cover Louise Mullany: Polite 02 Jun
Celebrating Kinder Scout book cover Celebrating Kinder Scout with Helen Mort & Sarah Lister 02 Jun
Writing workshop Joanne Burn event workshop Writing Workshop: Writing Historical Fiction with Joanne Burn 02 Jun
Bridget Collins book cover Bridget Collins: The Silence Factory 02 Jun
Writing Workshop Making it Up event artwork Writing Workshop: Making it All Up with Simon Heywood 02 Jun
Wendy Moore book cover Wendy Moore: Jack and Eve 02 Jun
Meet the Observers Debut event artwork Meet The Observer Debuts: Jessica Moor & Tom Lamont 02 Jun
Derby Book Festival Quiz event artwork Festival Book Quiz 2024 02 Jun
The British Arboretum book cover University of Derby CivicLAB: Professor Paul Elliott: Derby and the Great Victorian Urban Tree Revolution - 03 Jun
A Sign of Her Own and Whale Fall book covers Historical Debut Novelists: Sarah Marsh & Elizabeth O’Connor 03 Jun
Ruth Allen book cover Ruth Allen: Weathering 03 Jun
Mike Coneffrey book cover Mick Conefrey: Fallen - George Mallory, The Man, The Myth and the 1924 Everest Tragedy 03 Jun
Bromley House Library Morning Coffee: Discovering Bromley House Library 04 Jun
Arthur Parkinson book cover Arthur Parkinson: Chicken Boy/Planting a Paradise 04 Jun
Patrick Grant book cover Patrick Grant: Less: A Life in Fashion and How We Save the World with Clothes 04 Jun
Profile photo of Sunjeev Sahota Sunjeev Sahota – The Spoiled Heart 05 Jun
Dan Cruickshank An Audience with Dan Cruickshank 05 Jun

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