10am - 4:30pm // Newark Castle FREE We’re looking forward to a Sunday filled with adventure. Not only will the Castle be filled with authors, free workshops, and street theatre, but you can also get crafty, and check out Barry’s Eco World trail too. Don’t forget free Arts Awards are back! Drop in crafts are […]

10:30am - 11:30am // Newark Town Hall £7 / £4 FESTIVAL FRIENDS BOOK HERE Louise Beech joins us in conversation with Tim Rideout about her life in books. Louise’s latest thriller, End of Story, is set in a dystopia in which fiction has been banned by the government, writing novels is a crime and reading […]

11am - 12.30pm // Inspire Buttermarket £5 BOOK HERE Cathy will run a fun, friendly workshop. Participants will look at poems by other poets for inspiration, write their own pieces, and share and talk about the poems they create. Limited capacity.

1pm - 2pm // Newark Town Hall £7 / £4 FESTIVAL FRIENDS BOOK HERE Join our panel of four brilliant authors to talk about the process of writing, what it takes to be an author, and which genre is best! Featuring: crime & gothic fiction novelist Sarah Hilary (winner of the Theakston’s Crime Novel of […]

2.30pm - 3.30pm // Tudor Hall, National Civil War Centre £7 / £4 FESTIVAL FRIENDS BOOK HERE In her book First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, Emma offers a first-hand look at the immense telescopes of observational astronomy, which allow scientists to search for the echoes and footprints of stars from […]

3pm - 4pm // Newark Town Hall £7 / £4 FESTIVAL FRIENDS BOOK HERE Leslie Cavendish left school at 15 years old, without any artistic qualifications, and became a hairdresser, working for the iconic ‘60s hair stylist Vidal Sassoon. He styled the barnets of many famous clients, but none more famous than The Beatles. Leslie […]

4:30pm -5:30pm // Tudor Hall, National Civil War Centre £4 / £3 FESTIVAL FAMILY FRIENDS BOOK HERE Are you a fan of Norse myths? Have you ever wondered what Loki, the mischievous shape-shifter and cunning trickster god would be like if they were banished to Earth in the form of an eleven-year-old? Well, look no […]

7:30pm - 9:30pm // Palace Theatre £12 / £10 FESTIVAL FRIENDS BOOK HERE The Bookshop Band is the offspring of an artistic love-affair between two English folk singer-songwriters, and a multi-award-winning independent UK bookshop, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. The Bookshop Band write and perform songs inspired by books, inspired by hundreds of authors […]

 Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 7pm BOOK HERE // Tickets are £6 each (£4 each for Festival Friends) Twice upon a time — for that is how some stories should continue… Join us to welcome John Connolly to a very special evening on Wednesday 13th September at Newark Library at 7pm. Seventeen years ago award-winning […]

Saturday 16th September at 7pm SOLD OUT Broken Instruments is a story of survival, made possible through the power of music. Through beautiful original songs and emotive storytelling, follow the recollections of musician, luthier, and Holocaust survivor Ari Vander. Inspired by the book “Violins of Hope”, the show combines history and artistry, offering a message […]