Autumn is starting to draw in – and it might make you want to get cosy and reach for a book.
York Literature Festival has got you covered with more events for literary lovers.
After a successful run earlier this year – which featured authors like David Dimbleby, Juno Dawson and Julia Armfield – the festival is back with three more events for autumn.
The festival has collaborated with Fox Lane Books and St. Peter’s School.
“We are delighted to be partnering with Fox Lane Books and St Peter’s School to bring three literary events to York in early October,” said festival chairman, Rob O’Connor.
“After a successful and engaging festival in March, we are pleased to be showcasing more wonderful literary talent in our beautiful city. Join us for what will be three fascinating events!”
For more information and to book your tickets, visit the York Literature Festival website.
Emma Donoghue: Learned by Heart
Bestselling author Emma Donoghue will be discussing her latest novel, Learned by Heart with writer, Fiona Shaw. Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart is the heartbreaking story of the love of two women – Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine.
In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds meet – an orphan heiress, sent from India to England at six, and a gifted troublemaker. Anne Lister would go on to be a gifted diarist, famous the world over. But in the early nineteenth century she met Eliza Raine, someone who would change her life forever.
- St Peter’s School, Clifton, York, YO30 6AB
- Tue 3 Oct
- 7-8:30pm
- £8
- Tickets
Rick Broadbent: Now, Then: A Biography of Yorkshire
Written from the perspective of an exiled Yorkshireman this bestselling, award winning author returns to his native county to discover and reveal its soul. We all know the tropes – Geoffrey Boycott incarnate, ferret-leggers and folk singers gambolling about Ilkley Moor without appropriate headgear – but why is Yorkshire God’s Own County? With Now, Then exiled Yorkshireman Rick Broadbent sets out to find out whether Yorkshireness is something that can be summed up and whether it even matters in a shrinking world.
- St Peter’s School, Clifton, York, YO30 6AB
- Fri 6 Oct
- 7-8:30pm
- £8
- Tickets
Emma Smith: Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
This event is a must for anyone who loves to read and appreciates the “portable magic” of books. Emma’s book Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and anarchic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium’s worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books’ physical form – their ‘bookhood’ – that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic
- St Peter’s School, Clifton, York, YO30 6AB
- Mon 9 Oct
- 7-8:30pm
- £8
- Tickets