Derby Book Festival

Derby Book Festival returns between 13 – 16 November for its Autumn Festival with events at venues around Derby with QUAD playing host to a number of events. As usual they have a broad range of genres featuring a host of fascinating authors.

https://www.derbybookfestival.co.uk/

You can buy a Festival Pass for 12 events that will be held at QUAD from 13 – 16 November as part of our Autumn Edition 2025. The Pass costs £60 and are available from this page. The pass does not include Sir Tony Robinson’s event, which should be booked separately

Please note that buying a Pass does not secure your seat in each individual event. To do this, you will need to do this in person at QUAD box office or book them via this website.

If you wish to secure your individual seats online please add a ticket to each of the events you wish to attend to your basket. Then sign in with the same email address you used to purchase a pass. The site will recognise you are a passholder and reduce the cost of the individual events to £0 during the checkout process and you will receive your tickets via email.

What's On

What's On

Colin Butfield: Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Showing us a world which is both desperately fragile yet astonishingly resilient

13 Nov

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T M Logan: The Daughter

A family’s desperate race against time.

14 Nov

T M Logan: The Daughter

A family’s desperate race against time.

14 Nov

Tessa Dunlop: Lest We Forget: War And Peace in 100 British Monuments

A quest to uncover a story of national warring and national mourning.

15 Nov

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Sir Tony Robinson: The House Of Wolf

A gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great and the making of England.

14 Nov

Sir Tony Robinson: The House Of Wolf

A gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great and the making of England.

14 Nov

Jonathan Healey: The Blood In Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642

Why did the English Civil War break out?

15 Nov

Paula Byrne: Six Weeks By The Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell In Love

The story of how Jane Austen fell in love for the first time.

15 Nov

Richard Vinen: The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle

A new light on two of the greatest figures of the 20th century.

15 Nov

Paul Morley: Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie

A landmark exploration of undoubtedly one of the UK’s greatest creative artists.

15 Nov

Nick Higham: Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One

A group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission.

16 Nov

Victoria Bateman: Economica: A Global HIstory of Women, Wealth and Power

Women weren’t ‘missing’ from economic life, they were merely hidden from view.  

16 Nov

Jo Bell: Boater

A mesmerising voyage along the tranquil waterways of England.

16 Nov

Denise Mina: The Good Liar

Keep lying and leave a wronged killer behind bars or stand up abd tell the truth?

16 Nov

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