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Derby Book Festival: Autumn Edition

By Visit Derby

Created November 17, 2024

Last updated September 22, 2025

13 - 16 November 2025

The Derby Book Festival: Autumn Edition 10th Anniversary Festival will have a packed programme of events for all the family.

Get your Festival Pass here and enjoy 12 events for £60.

View full events programme here

Follow the Derby Book Festival on their social media for more updates or visit their website here.

Check out what's on below:

Draw with Rob event artwork Rob Biddulph: Draw with Rob 08 Nov
Autumn Craft and Book Market Autumn Book & Craft Market 08 Nov
Ricky Ellock event artwork Ricky Ellcock: Balls to Fly 13 Nov
Colin Butfield Colin Butfield: Ocean: Earth’s Last Wildernes 13 Nov
Francesca May event artwork Francesca May: This Vicious Hunger 13 Nov
T M Logan T M Logan: The Daughter 14 Nov
Tony Robinson Sir Tony Robinson: The House Of The Wolf 14 Nov
Cream Tea with Sarah Dunant event artwork Cream Tea with Sarah Dunant: The Marchesa 14 Nov
Poetry with Katherine Wheatley event artwork Interactive Habitat Poetry with Katherine Wheatley (10am) 14 Nov
Poetry with Katherine Wheatley event artwork Interactive Habitat Poetry with Katherine Wheatley (11am) 14 Nov
Tessa Dunlop Tessa Dunlop: Lest We Forget: War And Peace in 100 British Moments 15 Nov
Jonathan Healey Jonathan Healey: The Blood In Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 15 Nov
Paula Byrne Paula Byrne: Six Weeks By The Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell In Love 15 Nov
Richard Vinen Richard Vinen: The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle 15 Nov
Paul Morley Paul Morley: Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie 15 Nov
Snack and Scribble Dracula event artwork Snack and Scribble: Dracula 15 Nov
Iain Dale Iain Dale: Margaret Thatcher 16 Nov
Nick Higham Nick Higham: Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One 16 Nov
Victoria Bateman Victoria Bateman: Economica: A Global HIstory of Women, Wealth and Power 16 Nov
Jo Bell Jo Bell: Boater 16 Nov
Denise Mina Denise Mina: The Good Liar 16 Nov
Enchanted Cinema Where the Wild Things Are event artwork The Enchanted Cinema - 'Where the Wild Things Are' 16 Nov
Enchanted Cinema My Neighbour Totoro event artwork The Enchanted Cinema - ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ 16 Nov
Lanisha Butterfield event artwork Write your own Fairytale with Lanisha Butterfield 16 Nov
Lanisha Butterfield event artwork Meet the Author: Lanisha Butterfield 16 Nov

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