NEWARK BOOK FESTIVAL 7th – 10th July 2022
Newark Book Festival returns to the Nottinghamshire market town this July for four days of book-filled fun with author events, family favourites and an online programme. This year elements of the Festival will have a music theme, so look out for musical guests and an exploration of music, books and words.
FRINGE EVENTS Exhibition: 70 Years of Books 1 July 2022 - 31 July 2022 St Mary Magdalene Church Free In celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, this year our exhibition will celebrate 70 years of books. Heritage Literary Walk 7 July 2022 9:15 am - 11:00 am Newark Town Centre £6 – £8 As part of our work with Newark’s Cultural Consortium and Historic England’s Heritage Action Zone, we’ll be hosting this fantastic walking tour of Newark town centre. Literature Village 7 July 2022 10:00 am - 3:30 pm 8 July 2022 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 9 July 2022 9:30 am 4:00 pm 10 July 10:00 am - 3:30 pm Newark Market Place Free Located near the Town Hall, we present stalls full of literary delights. Amplifying your Climate Actions: A unique tool to build Climate Communities 7 July 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm St Mary Magdalene Church Free Newark-raised scientist and author Dr Louis Keal presents a talk and discussion on how to amplify our actions towards a better, less dangerous world. Time Hop! Community Launch Performance with Zuzka 7 July 2022 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Newark Market Place Free Join us for a spectacular launch to the Festival with 10 | Please mention Use Locally when responding to adverts
music, singing and dancing, choreographed by AJs Dance and with performances by Zuzka. Our Heritage Walk – Sconce & Devon Park: Springs, Linen, Railways and Fortifications 7 July 2022 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Sconce & Devon Park – Meet at Rumbles Cafe £6 – £8 Join local historian Kevin Winter and poet Lytisha Tunbridge to explore Sconce & Devon Park looking at some of the uses it has had in the past and the evidence for them that can still be seen today. Gill Hornby – Godmersham Park 7 July 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Tudor Hall £5 – £6 From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Miss Austen, comes a wonderfully original, emotionally-complex novel, following Anne Sharp, a governess who became close to Jane Austen and her family. Wine and Words 7 July 2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Grain No. 1 £15 The delightful and intriguing Grain No. 1 provides the venue for this year’s Wine and Words Festival event. Writing the Criminous: Prose and Verse 8 July 2022 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Tudor Hall £4 – £5 Celebrating the publication of the latest in their crime reference guides, Catching a Killer, Stuart Gibbons and Stephen Wade offer an account of murder investigations down the centuries in England.
