What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in April 2018

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Love all things literary? Looking for book events and literature lectures in the North East? Our monthly what’s on guide captures the literature and book chat, lectures, readings and other events taking place across the North East, in Durham, Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Teesside and beyond.

If you are organising a book and literature-related event that could be added, let us know.

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20180411T18:00 Wed 11 18:00 in Testt Space, Testt SpaceDurham	Empty Pages Read: The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
	Empty Pages will be discussing John Wyndham’s Sci fi horror The Midwich Cuckoos, followed by the 1960 film adaptation The Village of the Damned. This event is organised by Empty Shop. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

20180411T19:00 Wed 11 19:00 in Waterstones, WaterstonesNewcastle

An evening with Alice Broadway and Melinda Salisbury

Join Alice Broadway, author of the bestselling Ink, to celebrate its much anticipated sequel: Spark. Alice will be in conversation with critically-acclaimed author of The Sin Eater’s Daughter, Melinda Salisbury as they discuss rebellions and rule-breaking. Followed by a Q&A and book signing and chaired by local blogger Steph Elliott (A Little But A Lot). This event is organised by Waterstones. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

20180411T17:00 Wed 11 17:00 in City Library, City LibraryNewcastle

Take this one to bed & Exploring Poetry Workshop with Antony Dunn and Linda France

We are working in partnership once again with New Writing North to deliver this years Read Regional Campaign 2018. Exploring Poetry Workshop with Linda France at 5pm followed by readings from Antony Dunn at 6pm Award winning poet and dramatist Antony Dunn will share his experience and talk about his most recent collection of poems. Born in London in 1973, Antony won the Newdigate Prize for Judith with the Head of Holofernes in 1995 and received a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2000. This event is organised by Newcastle Libraries. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

20180425T17:30 Wed 25 17:30 in Hallgarth House, Hallgarth HouseDurham

Inventions of the Text with Tim Milnes (University of Edinburgh)

An Inventions of the Text seminar (title TBC). Tim Milnes is currently writing a British Academy-funded monograph entitled Essays in Experience: Empiricism and the Essay from Hume to Hazlitt. This is a study of ideas of communicative rationality, trust and intersubjectivity from the publication of David Hume’s Treatise in 1739-40 to the familiar essays of William Hazlitt in the 1820s. This event is organised by Inventions of the Text. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

20180425T19:30 Wed 25 19:30 in Durham Castle, Durham CastleDurham

Are We Real? Consciousness and Fiction with Professor Markus Gabriel

In my talk, I will dismantle the assumptions motivating views about ourselves as minded agents that claim that we are subject to some kind of user-illusion created by the brain (or some better specified subsystem of our organism). In this context, I will distinguish various forms of illusion about ourselves and argue that illusionism and fictionalism about the mental lives of humans (and other minded animals) are themselves cases of a thoroughgoing ideological delusion. This event is organised by Durham Castle Lecture Series. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

20180425T18:30 Wed 25 18:30 in Business and Law Building, Northumbria University, Business and Law Building, Northumbria UniversityNewcastle

HAME: A Voyage Around My Father with Michael Chaplin

In the summer of 2016 the playwright Michael Chaplin created a deeply personal book. He set out to re-discover the old pit villages of South West Durham – and in so doing explore and reveal the early, quietly remarkable life and times of his father. In his talk Michael will describe his father’s beginnings, the wellsprings of his work and career and the world of the pit village he fixed forever. This event is organised by Northumbria University and New Writing North. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

20180426T19:00 Thu 26 19:00 in Waterstones, WaterstonesNewcastle	A Evening with David Almond
	We are absolutely delighted to be able to welcome the brilliant children’s author David Almond to our store. He will be talking to us about his latest novel, The Colour of the Sun. This event is organised by Waterstones. Share this: Tweet | Facebook | Email | Add to calendar

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