On your doorstep celebrates Derbyshire authors Some of Derbyshire's home-grown literary talent will be on display for On Your Doorstep, a week of events being held as part of the county's Millennium Literature Festival at the end of June. It kicks off with A Quarter Century of Poetry with High Peak MP Tom Levitt on 24 June at Whaley Bridge Library from 12.15pm to 1pm and at New Mills Library from 1.15pm to 2.15pm.
Admission is free.
Derbyshire's favourite literary son Deric Longden will be signing copies of his books at Borrowash and Eckington libraries between 3pm and 4pm on 26 and 27 June. And, he will be talking about his life and work, particularly his new book Play on Words, at Ilkeston and Clay Cross libraries from 7.30pm on 26 and 27 June. Tickets are 5 with 3.50 concessions. Textual Healing is an event at Wingerworth Library on 26 June from 5pm with Gillie Bolton, a poet from Hathersage. Admission is 3 with 2 concessions.