The Singing Mermaid – Rhubarb Theatre

St Mary Magdalene Church Church Walk, Newark

Bring your little ones for an interactive storytelling and craft session with The Singing Mermaid with Rhubarb Theatre during Newark Book Festival.

The Storm Cloud – Frances Stickley

Newark Library Children's Area Beaumond Gardens, Balderton Gate, Newark

Join bestselling picture book author Frances Stickley for a reading of her new book, The Storm Cloud, as part of the Summer Reading Challenge.

The Singing Mermaid – Rhubarb Theatre

St Mary Magdalene Church Church Walk, Newark

Bring your little ones for an interactive storytelling and craft session with The Singing Mermaid with Rhubarb Theatre during Newark Book Festival.

Cancer Works – Alex Kinnear-Mellor

Gannets Bistro Gannets Bistro, 35 Castle Gate, Newark, United Kingdom

Join author and cancer survivor Alex Kinnear-Mellor in a refreshingly real and relaxed talk and reading of her book Cancer Works.

£10

Literature Village

Newark Market Place Newark Royal Market, Market Place, Newark, Nottinghamshire

Books of all genres and local bookish crafts and trinkets. Find the Literature Village under the red and white stripes of the Newark Royal Market.

Pilgrim Cello

Tudor Hall, National Civil War Centre National Civil War Centre, 14 Appleton Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire

Enjoy the powerful live cello performance by Kenneth Wilson as he retells the journey cycling 1,900 miles to all forty-two English cathedrals, filling these sacred spaces with the music of Bach. 

Paddington Cook & Craft Workshop

Learning Room, Palace Theatre Palace Theatre, Appleton Gate, Newark, Nottinghamshire

A cooking and crafting workshop experience for little people all on the theme of Paddington Bear!