Join your favourite authors at Dudley Writers' Festival.
This new book festival, based in the heart of the Black Country, will see renowned west midlands authors join up and coming and debut authors in your local Dudley library. They'll be sharing the behind the scenes of what it's like to become a published author, what inspires their work, and how they keep the west midlands at their hearts.
Running from the 8th until the 22nd of June, the festival will feature Crime and Thriller authors Lindsey Davis and Priscilla Masters, Family Saga authors Annie Murray and Joanna Toye, Romance writers Miranda Dickinson and Suzan Holder, and General Fiction author Mike Gayle among others.
Keep reading to find out where you can meet them and more local authors below.
What's on
Crime and Thriller
DI Stone has captured the attention of crime fiction fans across the globe, topping charts on pre-orders alone, and issuing from libraries in droves! Angela will be meeting with us digitally to share all about her journey to publication, what inspires her to write, and what is next for DI Kim Stone.
Wednesday 12th June, 7:00pm - Halesowen Library
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Saturday 22nd June, 6:00pm - Halesowen Library
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Wednesday 12th June, 10:30am - Lye Library
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Wednesday 12th June, 2:00pm - Wordsley Library
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Thursday 13th June, 2:00pm - Stourbridge Library
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Wednesday 19th June, 2:00pm - Stourbridge Library
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Fatal promise
Marsons, Angela, author.
Evil games
Marsons, Angela, author.
The grove of the Caesars
Davis, Lindsey, author.
Blood Lines
Marsons, Angela.
Play dead
Marsons, Angela.
Silent Scream
Marsons, Angela.
Broken bones
Marsons, Angela.
If Only: The perfect feel-good romantic comedy
Marsons, Angela.
Hidden Scars
Marsons, Angela.
Killing Mind: An addictive and nail-biting crimethriller
Marsons, Angela.
Deadly Cry
Marsons, Angela.
Six Graves
Marsons, Angela.
Dying truth
Marsons, Angela.
Stolen Ones:
Marsons, Angela.
Twisted Lies
Marsons, Angela.
Lost girls
Marsons, Angela, author.
The forgotten woman
Marsons, Angela, author.
Child's play
Marsons, Angela, author.
Dead memories
Marsons, Angela, author.
Bad blood
Marsons, Angela, author.
Deadly fate
Marsons, Angela, author.
Dead souls
Marsons, Angela.
First blood
Marsons, Angela, author.
Shed no tears
Frear, Caz, author.
Dangerous minds
Masters, Priscilla.
Bridge of Sighs
Masters, Priscilla, author.
Ode to a banker
Davis, Lindsey.
Recalled to death
Masters, Priscilla.
The deceiver
Masters, Priscilla, author.
Shadows in bronze
Davis, Lindsey.
A dying light in Corduba
Davis, Lindsey.
Time to depart
Davis, Lindsey.
Venus in copper
Davis, Lindsey.
Undue influence
Masters, Priscilla, author.
Pandora's boy
Davis, Lindsey, author.
Sweet little lies
Frear, Caz, author.
Blood on the rocks
Masters, Priscilla, author.
The Devil's Chair
Masters, Priscilla.
The graveyard of the Hesperides
Davis, Lindsey, author.
Deadly election
Davis, Lindsey.
Last act in Palmyra
Davis, Lindsey.
Stone cold heart
Frear, Caz, author.
Desperate undertaking
Davis, Lindsey, author.
The ides of April
Davis, Lindsey.
A comedy of terrors
Davis, Lindsey, author.
Almost a whisper
Masters, Priscilla, author.
Fatal legacy
Davis, Lindsey, author.
A cruel fate
Davis, Lindsey.
The Red Hollow
Marlow, Natalie, author.
A capitol death
Davis, Lindsey, author.
Three hands in the fountain
Davis, Lindsey.
The subsequent wife
Masters, Priscilla, author.
The third Nero
Davis, Lindsey.
One virgin too many
Davis, Lindsey.
A game of minds
Masters, Priscilla, author.
An imperfect truth
Masters, Priscilla, author.
Needless alley
Marlow, Natalie, author.
Wreath for My Sister
Masters, Priscilla.
Death on the Tiber
Davis, Lindsey, author.
BURNT ON THE MOORS a gripping murder mystery
Masters, Priscilla.
KIDNAP ON THE MOORS a gripping murder mystery
Masters, Priscilla.
KILLER ON THE MOORS a gripping murder mystery
Masters, Priscilla.
MISSING ON THE MOORS a gripping murder mystery
Masters, Priscilla.
REVENGE ON THE MOORS a gripping murder mystery
Masters, Priscilla.
General Fiction
Thursday 20th June, 7:00pm - Dudley Library
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Family Saga
Monday 10th June, 11.00am - Cradley Library
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Monday 10th June 2:30pm - Brierley Hill Library
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Monday 17th June 2:00pm - Long Lane Library
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Monday 17th June, 7.00pm - Gornal Library
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Tuesday 18th June, 10:30am - Cosley Library
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Black Country orphan
Murray, Annie, author.
Secrets of the chocolate girls
Murray, Annie, author.
Girls in tin hats
Murray, Annie, author.
The bells of Bournville Green
Murray, Annie.
Wartime for the chocolate girls
Murray, Annie, author.
Birmingham blitz
Murray, Annie.
Birmingham Rose
Murray, Annie, author.
Birmingham friends
Murray, Annie.
Heartache for the shop girls
Toye, Joanna, author.
The victory girls
Toye, Joanna, author.
Chocolate girls
Murray, Annie, author.
Wartime for the shop girls
Toye, Joanna, author.
A store at war
Toye, Joanna, author.
Meet me under the clock
Murray, Annie.
Black Country orphan
Murray, Annie, author.
Poppy day
Murray, Annie.
Soldier girl
Murray, Annie.
My daughter, my mother
Murray, Annie.
Miss Purdy's class
Murray, Annie.
Mother and child
Murray, Annie, author.
Sisters of gold
Murray, Annie, author.
The doorstep child
Murray, Annie.
Water gypsies
Murray, Annie, author.
All the days of our lives
Murray, Annie.
The narrowboat girl
Murray, Annie.
War babies
Murray, Annie.
A hopscotch summer
Murray, Annie.
Where Earth meets sky
Murray, Annie.
Orphan of Angel Street
Murray, Annie.
Homecoming for the chocolate girls
Murray, Annie, author.
The little Penguin bookshop
Toye, Joanna, author.
Romance
Tuesday 11th June, 7.00pm - Dudley Library
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Wednesday 12th June, 10:30am - Sedgley Library
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Friday 14th June, 11:00am - Kingswinford Library
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Friday 21st June, 11:00am - Netherton Library
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Wednesday 19th June, 6:30pm - Halesowen Library
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The day we meet again
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
Searching for a silver lining
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
Fairytale of New York
Dickinson, Miranda.
Somewhere beyond the sea
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
The secret voices
White, M. J., author.
All my love
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
The start of something
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
Take a look at me now
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
Shake it up, Beverley
Holder, Suzan, author.
Rock 'n' rose
Holder, Suzan, author.
The silent child
White, M. J, author.
I'll take New York
Dickinson, Miranda.
Our story
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
A parcel for Anna Browne
Dickinson, Miranda, author.
It started with a kiss
Dickinson, Miranda.
Welcome to my world
Dickinson, Miranda.
When I fall in love
Dickinson, Miranda.
Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Saturday 15th June, 11:30am - Stourbridge Library
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Young Adult Fiction
Saturday 8th June, 2:00pm - Halesowen Library
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Non-Fiction
Tuesday 16th June, 11:30am - Cradley Library
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Saturday 22nd June, 11:15am - Wordsley Library
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Saturday 22nd June, 2.00 pm - Brierley Hill Library
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Tuesday 18th June, 2:00pm - Dudley Archives
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Performances & Workshops
Babsolutely Fabulous - Performance
Thursday 13th June 7:00pm - Dudley Library
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Bad Betty Press Poetry Workshop with Casey Bailey
Saturday 15th June, 1:00pm - Dudley Library
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