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Student Ticket offer for our Autumn Festival!

By - 15 October 2025 - 12:00pm

Derby Book Festival are offering free tickets for 15-18 year old students and £5 tickets to 18+ students at most of our events this Autumn Edition!

Here are the events on offer:

  • Sport - Ricky Elcock: ‘Balls To Fly - An Autobiography’
  • Creative Writing/English Literature - Francesca May: ‘This Vicious Hunger’
  • Environmental Science/Geography - Colin Butfields‘ Ocean Earth’s Last Wilderness’
  • English Literature - T M Logan: ‘The Daughter’
  • History - Tessa Dunlop: ‘Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments ’
  • History/Politics - Jonathan Healey: ‘The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642’
  • English Literature - Paula Burne: ‘Six Weeks by The Sea: The Summer Jane Austen Fell in Love’
  • Politics/History - Richard Vinen: ‘The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle’
  • Pop Culture/Media Studies - Paul Morley: ‘Far Above the World’: The Time and Space of David Bowie’
  • Politics - Iain Dale: ‘Margaret Thatcher’
  • History - Nick Higham:
  • ‘Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One’
  • History/Women’s Studies - Victoria Bateman:
  • ‘Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power’
  • Social Studies - Jo Bell: ‘Boater: A Life on England’s Waterways’
  • English Literature - Denise Mina: ‘The Good Liar’

To view the full Programme visit us online: www.derbybookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/events

To book FREE tickets (students 15-18 studying GCSE, A Level or Level 3 courses or equivalent) email hello@derbybookfestival.co.uk, stating your name, where you study and which event(s) you are interested in attending.

To book £5 tickets (Students 18+) book directly at QUAD using the student ticket or for DBF bookings use code STUP-FIVER-2025 at checkout.

Tickets limited to one per event, per student

We hope to see you there!

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