10 Charles Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo’s much-loved children’s novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 TS Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund’s sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK’s premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year’s shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, with Gerard Butler as Aufidius and Vanessa Redgrave as Volumnia.
24 Costa awards ceremony. The multi-genre shortlist features Matthew Hollis’s biography of Edward Thomas, Andrew Miller’s novel Pure, former Great Ormond Street nurse Christie Watson’s debut novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection The Bees (also on the TS Eliot shortlist), and debut children’s writer Moira Young’s Blood Red Road.
The 24th is also the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton’s birth, in danger of being overlooked amid Dickens mania.
31 Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer opens at the National Theatre, starring the former Coronation Street actor Katherine Kelly.
Caomhnú Literary Festival
Bath Literature Festival
Belfast Book Festival
LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend
North Herts Book Festival x
Scotland
Burns&Beyond
Further From Festival, Linlithgow
Caomhnú Literary Festival -
Bath Literature Festival -
Belfast Book Festival -
LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend -
North Herts Book Festival x
Scotland
Paisley Book Festival
Granite Noir Online, Aberdeen
A Gray Day
Winter Words Festival, Pitlochry
Bath Literature Festival
Dublin Book Festival
Essex Book Festival
Gort Literature Festival
Huddersfield Literature Festival
Kings Lynn Fiction Festival
Kings Lynn Poetry Festival
Kings Sutton Books Alive! , Oxfordshire
London Word Festival
North Herts Book Festival
Stanza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival, St. Andrews x
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Windsor Spring Festival -
York Literature Festival
Scotland
Big Bang Weekend 2021, Wigtown
Write By The Sea, Argyll
StAnza Poetry Festival
Scotland's International Poetry Festival, St Andrews
Hooked, Wigtown
Big DoG Children's Book Festival, Wigtown
British Wildlife Book Festival, Grantown-on-Spey
Southside Fringe 'Plugged In & Wired', Glasgow's Southside
Small Print Children's Book Festival, from Off the Page, Stirling
Wee Write!
AyeWrite!, Glasgow's Book Festival
Cambridge Wordfest
Laugharne Weekend Festival
Redbridge Book and Media Festival-
Cúirt International Festival of Literature (Galway, Ireland) -
Eype Literary Festivals, Dorset
Guernsey Literary Festival
Scarborough Literature Festival
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
Hexham Book Festival –
Scotland
BIG LIT: The Stewartry Book Festival Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries &
Galloway Glasgow Zine Fest
John O'Groat's Book Festival
Colonsay Book Festival
Soutar Festival of Words
Asia House Festival of Asian Literature x
Chalfont St Giles and Jordans Literary Festival (TBC – not sure if still going?)
Boswell Book Festival
Charleston Literary Festival
St. Ives Literature Festival
Daphne du Maurier Festival
Brighton Festival
Guardian Hay Festival
Guernsey Literary Festival (continued)
Hay Festival
Lincoln Book Festival
Listowel Writers’ Week
Poetry-next-the-sea, Wells-next-the-Sea -
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
Swindon Festival of Literature
Salisbury International Arts Festival
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
Ullapool Book Festival
University of Aberdeen Writers’ Festival
Wenlock Poetry Festival
Wordfringe -
World Literature Weekend (London Review of Books)
Scotland
Boswell Book Festival
Dumfries House, Ayrshire
Ullapool Book Festival
Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands
Open the Door digital festival from Glasgow Women's Library
Connect with Nature at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Coastword, Dunbar
May Festival, University of Aberdeen
Althorp Literary Festival
Ayot Literary Festival
Borders Book Festival
Chichester Fesitval
Dublin Writers Festival
Hay Festival
Hebden Bridge Festival
Humber Mouth Literature Festival
Immrama Lismore Festival of Travel Writing
Literary Dundee
Middlesbrough Literary Festival
Thame Arts & Literature festival
TS Eliot Festival
Winchester Writers’ Conference Festival and Book Fair
World Literature Weekend (London Review of Books)
Scotland
Cymera Book Festival
BBC Proms Literary Festival
Buxton Festival, Derbyshire
Chichester Fesitval
Dartington Hall Way with Words Festival
Ealing Literary Festival
Hebden Bridge Festival
John Clare Festival
Latitude Festival
Ledbury Poetry Festival
London Literature Festival
Manchester Childrens Book Festival
Middlesbrough Literary Festival (continues)
Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall
Shoreditch Festival
Theakston Old Peculier Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
West Cork Literary Festival
West Meon Festival of Books
Scotland
East Neuk Festival
Glasgow Comic Con - Scotland's Comic Book Festival
Scot Lit Fest - Scotland's virtual book festival presented by Saltire Society
Govanhill International Festival and Carnival (Glasgow's Southside)
Bute Noir
Crime Writing Festival, Isle of Bute
Book Fringe
Fringe by the Sea - North Berwick
Edinburgh International Book Festival
ScotlandsFest at Edinburgh Fringe, from Luath Press
Islay Book Festival
Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature and Thought
McLellan Art Festival, Arran. Celebrating late great Scottish dramatist and short story writer Robert McLellan
Three Lochs Book & Arts Festival, Strontian
BBC Proms Literary Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Words in Motion at The Big Chill
Scotland
Book Fringe
Fringe by the Sea, North Berwick
Edinburgh International Book Festival
ScotlandsFest, at Edinburgh Fringe, from Luath Press
Islay Book Festival
Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature and Thought
McLellan Art Festival, Arran
- Celebrating late great Scottish dramatist and short story writer Robert McLellan
Three Lochs Book & Arts Festival, Strontian
Appledore
Athlone Literary Festival
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature
BBC Proms Literary Festival
Big Oak Literary and Arts Festival – Londonderry
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
Havant Literary Festival
Islay Book Festival
King’s Lynn Poetry Festival
North Cornwall Book Festival
SW11 Literary Festival, London
Throckmorton Literary Festival
Wigtown Book Festival
Woodstock independent
Scotland
Spirit of Moray Book Festival, Elgin
Outwith Festival, Dunfermline
Nairn Book & Arts Festival, Inverness
Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival
Bloody Scotland. Scotland's international crime writing festival, Stirling
Words of War Book Festival
The Black Watch Castle & Museum, Perth
Tidelines, Irvine, North Ayrshire
Wigtown Book Festival. Scotland's national book town's literary festival
Bookends, Benderloch, Oban
Appledore
Beverley Literature Festival
Bouremouth Literary Festival
Burnham Market Book Festival
Canterbury Festival
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Chester Literature Festival
Cliveden Literary Festival
Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival
Durham Book Festival
Dylan Thomas Festival
Essex Poetry Festival
Eype Literary Festivals, Dorset
Graham Greene Festival
Guildford Book Festival
Havant Literary Festival
Henley Literary Festival
Ilkley Literarture Festival
Inverness Book Festival
Guildford Book Festival
Knutsford Literary Festival
Lichfield literature
Manchester Literary Festival
Morley
New Writers UK
Saffron Walden Literary Festival
Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Sentinel Literature Festival
South Asian Literature Festival (SALF)
Times Literature Cheltenham Festival
Warwick Words
Wellington Literary Festival
Wells Festival of Literature
Wigtown Book Festival
Wolds Word (Louth, Alford and Lincolnshire Wolds)
Scotland
Imprint Book Festival. East Ayrshire
Ness Book Fest. Inverness
Bookmark Book Festival, Blairgowrie
Boswell Book Festival. Dumfries House, Ayrshire
Berwick Literary Festival. Northumberland
Word "off" the Street - Dingwall's October Art Festival
Scottish International Storytelling Festival. Edinburgh
West Over Sea - Tobermory Book Festival
Orkney Storytelling Festival
Faclan Hebridean Book Festival. An Lanntair, Stornoway
Tarbert Book Festival. Argyll
Cambridge Winter Wordfest,
Chorleywood Literature Festival (edge of the Chilterns)
Durham Book Festival (continued)
Dylan Thomas Festival (continued)
Folkstone Literary Festival
Humber Mouth Festival - Hull Literature Festival
Lavenham Literary Festival
LennoxLove Book Festival
London History Festival
Richmond Upon Thames
Scotland
Wordplay. Shetland Arts' annual book festival
A Write Highland Hoolie! Mallaig's Book Festival
Robert Louis Stevenson Day.
- Annual week of events in Edinburgh and online in run up to RLS' birthday on 13 Nov
Book Week Scotland
Uist Book Festival
Cove and Kilcreggan Book Festival. Argyll & Bute
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