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  • A Dramatic Tale: Dogwood Productions and Going For Independence

    Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre Haggersgate, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    A unique collaboration between Whitby’s professional theatre company, Dogwood Productions and Going For Independence (GFI), the Teesside organisation supporting the blind and partially-sighted has led to the creation of a four-part audio drama. It features a young couple, struggling to run the recently inherited guest house, Bel View, in a fictitious resort north of Whitby. […]

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  • Horror, Humour, and The Hand of Glory: Bob Beagrie and Bob Fischer

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    The Folklore of Freebrough Hill is a series of short stories spanning 12,000 years of history. Bob Fischer takes us on a dream-like journey through the folklore attached to Freebrough Hill, a curious peak located beside the A171 moorland road to Whitby. Travelling from the last Ice Age to present-day North Yorkshire, Bob weaves a […]

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  • New Blood: Stoker’s Undying Legacy: Gavin Collinson, Amanda Mason, and Leticia Lentini

    Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre Haggersgate, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Bram Stoker’s legacy on the world is immense, from literature to TV and film. Join author and cultural historian, Gavin Collinson, who worked on the BBC’s 1977 version of Dracula, and more recently has written extensively for the BBC, BFI, and Hammer Films on gothic horror. A crime writer, his latest is his Moriarty series […]

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  • The Ghost Lake: Wendy Pratt

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Poet Wendy Pratt lives on the North Yorkshire coast, a place that inspires her to write about nature as refuge, and landscape as connection – as we walk on the land our ancestors did. She talks about her 2024 memoir The Ghost Lake, a powerful exploration of grief and belonging, was described as ‘remarkable’ (Observer), […]

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    Gothic Tales: Essie Fox in conversation with Amanda Mason

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Essie Fox’s debut novel, The Somnambulist, was selected for the Channel 4 Book Club. Her latest novel Dangerous: A Lord Byron Mystery has been declared ‘A magnificent gothic tale of scandal, secrets and murder’ by Janice Hallett. Set in Venice and drawing on real events from Byron’s life it follows the story of a novel […]

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    Scream Queen: Yvette Fielding

    Eighteen91 Brunswick Street, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    From the rollercoaster ride of being Blue Peter’s youngest ever presenter to the rather unusual job of ‘ghost hunter,’ real-life Ghostbuster Yvette Fielding has Whitby spooked. The coastal town is the setting of her latest children’s book The Vampire of Whitby and the place she told the Yorkshire Post she’d like to retire to. The […]

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    The Little Book of Miriam: Miriam Margolyes

    Whitby Spa Pavilion Theatre West Cliff, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Famed for her unfiltered honesty and big heart, Miriam Margolyes has a huge capacity for kindness, is outrageously funny, and her passion and curiosity cannot be dimmed. Qualities that have propelled her to the position of national treasure. An award-winning actress, Miriam has featured alongside Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo and Juliet), played the beloved Professor Sprout […]

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    Vampish Tales: Emma Carroll

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    For readers aged 9+, bite into vampish powers with a brand-new adventure series following three cousins who discover they’re the descendants of Dracula. The trio combine their vampish powers to form the infamous vampire healing company, Dracula & Daughters! A tale dangerously close to the heart! Emma Carroll is a multi-award winning and bestselling author […]

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  • What the Dickens? Author Dinner with Lucinda Hawksley

    White Horse & Griffin 87 Church Street, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Join a descendant of Dickens over a delicious dinner at The White Horse and Griffin, the original coaching inn where Dickens stayed whilst visiting Whitby. His great, great, great granddaughter, Lucinda Hawksley, is an acclaimed biographer, author, art historian and travel writer. Her books include Victorian Christmas, Dickens and Travel, and Charles Dickens and his […]

  • Walking on Egg Shells: Belinda Bauer and Steve Mosby

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Vera’s Ann Cleeves declared Belinda Bauer’s The Impossible Thing ‘extraordinary.’ Val McDermid said it gifts the ‘pure joy of reading’ and Lee Child declared it ‘solid gold.’ Literary crime writing at its best, this gloriously gripping novel follows one of the most daring crimes of the century. 1926. On the towering cliffs of Yorkshire, men […]

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  • Julie Noble – Writing Workshop

    Rusty Shears Silver Street, Whitby, United Kingdom

    Whitby has been inspiring writers for centuries. From Caedmon to Atkinson, Gaskell to Brody, Julie’s aim is to introduce you to a variety of writing about Whitby and how and why this place captures the heart of so many writers. In the first part of this workshop session, she will read some book extracts, then you […]

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    Let Me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar: Sharon Wright, Ann Dinsdale and Julie Akhurst

    Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre Haggersgate, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Between wild walks, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë spent most of their lives indoors, their imaginations firing behind firmly-closed doors. Two expert writers, Sharon Wright and Ann Dinsdale, went on a very personal journey around Britain and Ireland, enjoying privileged access to private houses, that shaped and inspired the Brontë sisters and their writing. Echoing […]

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