Thursday 22 May
| Various Times and Prices
Free - £22.50
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Here is a list of all the events on offer with links to ease the use of our website:
- Steve Trew: Eight Kids from London
- Travellers' Walk with Duncan Minshull: Globetrotting: Writers Walk The World
- Afternoon Tea with Claire Hubbard-Hall
- Michael Sheridan: The Red Emperor
- Alan Johnson: Harold Wilson
- Morning Coffee with Sue Roe
- Paul Sinton-Hewitt: One Small Step
- Sarah Moss: Ripeness
- Gabriel Gatehouse: The Coming Storm
- The Salt Path (12A) Preview Screening
- Poetry and Harp: Imaginary Landscapes with Chris Tutton and Lucy Nolan
- Drink and Draw: Dracula
- An Evening with James Naughtie
- Alison Weir: The Cardinal
- Proof Party with Headline publishers: Introducing Ellie Levenson and Karla Marie Sweet
- An Evening with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
- John Harris: Maybe I'm Amazed
- Lila Cain: The Blackbirds of St Giles
- Simon Barnes: Spring is the Only Season
- Afternoon Tea with Persephone Books
- Kathryn Ecclestone: Testament of Lost Youth - The Early Life and Loves of Vera Brittain
- Isabel Losada: The Joyful Environmentalist
- Sam Freedman: Failed State - Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It
- David Kynaston: Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes
- Andrew McMillan: Pity
- Christian Wolmar: British Rail
- Roger Clough: Oldenland
- Judith Mackrell: Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The lives and loves of Gwen and Augustus John
- Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare
- Terry Deary: A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
- Ben Aitken: Shitty Breaks: A Celebration of Unsung Cities
- Fantasy Fiction with Antonia Hodgson & Abbie Eaton
- Tim Minshall: Your Life is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
- Clare Chambers: Shy Creatures
- Lucy Mangan: Bookish
- Hollie McNish: Lobster and Other Things I'm Learning to Love
Children Events:
- Steam Babies
- Playful Moves: Ten Little Pirates Workshop: 12:30pm
- Playful Moves: Ten Little Pirates Workshop: 1:45pm
- Ruth Amos: The Inventor's Workshop - talk, signing and activities: 24th May 10:00am
- Ruth Amos: The Inventor's Workshop - talk, signing and activities: 24th May 1:00pm
- Matty Long: Super Happy Magic Forest
- Supporting the Blue Peter Book Badge! 27th May 10:00am
- The Lost Property Library Presented by ‘Wrongsemble’ Theatre Company
- Supporting the Blue Peter Book Badge! 28th May 10:00am
- Manga drawing Workshop: Ages 6-10
- Manga Drawing Workshop: Ages 11 and over
- Derbion Storytelling - 29th May
- Bookworms: The Kids Takeover at Electric Daisy
- Derbion Storytelling - 30th May
- Graphic Novel Builder workshop with Edward Ross: Normanton Library
- Graphic Novel Builder workshop with Edward Ross: Alvaston Library
CivicLAB Events:
- Enlightenment, Sociability and Provincial Culture: Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Wright and Friends
- Ink Tales: The Tattoo in Literature and Film
- Digging for Deane: the man who made Dracula in Derby
- Universities and Making Equal: Tackling UK Inequality
- Rethinking Health and Work in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- Coral Rescue - A Mission to Save our Seas
- A History of Women in Policing
Takeover Day at Derby College:
- Morning Coffee & Croissant with Daniel Gray
- Writing Historical Non-Fiction with Julia A Hickey
- Joe Tucker: The Secret Painter
- Writing Workshop: Writing Local Folklore with Simon Heywood
- Rob McKeon: Parole
- Gareth Russell: Queen James
- Writing and Wellbeing Workshop with Trish Kerrison, Caroline Stancer and Fiona Theokritoff
- Charlie English: The CIA Book Club
- Anne Somerset: Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers
- Jane Bettany & Tom Mead: An Author’s Guide to Murder
- Alan Cleaver: Postal Paths
- Festival Book Quiz
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