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Thursday 17th October 2019
7.30pm
Wilson’s Tales – Tales of Tears
Tickets £7 For 2019 we present another episode from Wilson’s Tales of the Borders, Berwick’s famous publication…
Friday 18th October 2019
9am
Martins the Printers tour 1
Tickets £6. Limited numbers – Booking essential One of the few remaining book printers and binders left…
10am
Richard Moore – In a Glass Darkly
Tickets £6/Students FREE Richard Moore is a graduate of Cambridge University with a doctorate in Victorian fiction….
Linda Bankier and Gilly Beckett – Crime & Creative Writing: Using the Archives for Inspiration
Tickets £6 Crime is a perennial theme in literature but what inspires the writer? With over 30…
11am
Martins the Printers tour 2
Tickets £6. Limited numbers – Booking essential One of the few remaining book printers and binders left…
12pm
Jessie Greengrass – Sight
Tickets £6/Students FREE Jessie Greengrass was born in 1982 and lives in Berwick. Her short story collection,…
Dewa Morton and Jackie Kaines-Lang – My Sri Lankan Kitchen
Tickets £6 Dewa has recently been creating Sri Lankan menus for her sell-out monthly pop-up curry nights…
2pm
Brian Ward – Martin Luther King in Newcastle: The African-American Freedom Struggle and Race Relations in the North East of England
Tickets £6/Students FREE This session is presented in association with Berwick Educational Association and the North-East Historical…
Gwen Chessell and Judy Crow – Immortalising our Heroes
Tickets £6 Two authors of Historical Biography talk about their approaches to choosing their subjects and the…
4pm
Michael Ayton – Orlando: A pre-production talk
Tickets £6/Students FREE. Those who have booked tickets for Orlando can also attend for FREE but places…
Andrew Lownie – The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves
Tickets £6 Andrew Lownie’s books include acclaimed lives of the writer John Buchan and most recently the…
Eric Thompson – On Her Majesty’s Nuclear Service
Tickets £6 Eric Thompson MBE was born and educated in Coatbridge in Scotland, joined the Royal Navy…
7pm
Dyad Productions – Orlando
Tickets £12.50/£5.00 child (16 and under) Drawing on a decade’s worth of critically-acclaimed theatre-making, Dyad Productions –…
Saturday 19th October 2019
10am
Poetry Open Mic
FREE Event. No booking required. Please note this session is upstairs and there is no lift available….
Margaret Skea and Katharine Tiernan – Hidden Lives: Two writers of historical fiction in conversation.
Tickets £6 Join Margaret Skea and Katharine Tiernan for a fascinating glimpse into the challenges of breathing…
Dan Jackson – The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People: A New History
Tickets £6 In a new history of North East England, Dan explores the roots of Northumbrian culture…
Fordyce Maxwell – When Trees were Green
Tickets £6 Award-winning journalist Fordyce Maxwell recalls his formative years as the oldest of a family of…
12pm
Ursula Buchan – Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps, A Life of John Buchan
Tickets £6 With access to documents, papers and photographs, many of which have never been published, Ursula…
Simon Frith – Myths and Memories: Writing the history of live music
Tickets £6. Please note this session is upstairs and there is no lift available. Simon Frith had…
Rotary Short Story Competition
Main Page Here By invitation only Now in its sixth year and run by Berwick Rotary Club,…
1.15pm
Anne Ryland – Uncommon Pairings ~ Poem as Diptych – Writing Workshop
Tickets £6. Limited numbers – Booking essential Please note this session is upstairs and there is no…
2pm
Tim Tate – Hitler’s British Traitors
Tickets £6 Tim Tate is a multi award-winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. His most…
Laurence Rose – Conservationist and Author
Tickets £6 Laurence works on threatened species recovery for the RSPB. His writing explores conservation as culture,…
James Runcie – The Road to Grantchester
Tickets £6 The origin story of Grantchester’s beloved Archdeacon Sidney Chambers, The Road to Grantchester is a…
4pm
Stephen Platten – They Know Earth-secrets: Thomas Hardy’s Tortured Vocation
Tickets £6 Thomas Hardy is often read as a classical Victorian agnostic, or more likely atheist. By…
Francis O’Gorman – Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone: A New Edition
Tickets £6 Francis O’Gorman is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and the…
Jeremy Dronfield – The Boy Who followed his Father into Auschwitz
Tickets £6 Based on Gustav Kleinmann’s secret diary and meticulous archive research, Jeremy Dronfield’s bestselling, inspirational book…
6pm
Salley Vickers – The Librarian
Tickets £6 Salley Vickers is the author of many highly acclaimed novels including Cousins and Miss Garnet’s…
8pm
Alice Fernbank: The Golden Fly
Tickets £7 A new innovation for 2019! This will be a very special evening of story-telling,…
Sunday 20th October 2019
10am
Poppy Holden – Unquiet Graves
Tickets £6 Please note this session is upstairs and no lift is available. Poppy Holden sings and…
12pm
Lindsay Allason-Jones – Roman Woman; Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain
Tickets £6 Please note this session is upstairs and no lift is available. Lindsay Allason-Jones is an…
Chris Mullin – The Friends of Harry Perkins
Tickets £6 Chris Mullin talks about his new novel, the long-awaited sequel to his 1982 classic, A…
Jacob Polley – Jackself
Tickets £6 Jacob Polley won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his fourth book of…
2pm
Katy Brand – I Carried a Watermelon
Tickets £6 Katy Brand is a writer, comedian and actor. Her award-winning ITV sketch show, Katy Brand’s…
Duncan Campbell – The Underworld Then and Now – And Why We Like to Read About Crime
Tickets £6 Duncan Campbell was the Guardian‘s crime correspondent and chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association. His…
Joyce Quin and Moira Kilkenny – Angels of the North: Notable Women of the North East
Tickets £6 Please note this event is upstairs and no lift is available. The authors will explain…
Katrina Porteous – Edge
Tickets £6 Northumberland-based Katrina Porteous is best-known for poems on local landscape and communities. Edge is Katrina’s…
4pm
Max Adams – The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred’s Britain
Tickets £6 Max Adams was born in London in 1961. He has been an archaeologist, a…