Harrogate International Crime Writing Festival are running a competition…
Award-winning crime writer Val McDermid is a Number One bestseller, translated into more than 30 languages, with over two million copies sold in the UK and over 11 million worldwide. She has written 27 bestselling crime novels and has also published a retelling of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and an exploration of forensic science, Forensics: An Anatomy of Crime. Val will be in coversation with the brilliant Sara Paretsky. We can’t wait to see this perfect pairing on stage together!
To celebrate Val’s appearance at this year’s festival we have a fantastic competition running. To be in with the chance of winning an signed advance paperback copy of Val’s The Skeleton Road answer this question:
Phyllis had a deft way with the horrific, creating images that seared their way into the reader’s brain. This week, we lost a legend.
Just before her 90th birthday, PD James invited me to take part in an event she was organising at the Bodleian library in Oxford. At dinner afterwards, she admitted she was writing, but not an Adam Dalgliesh novel. I asked her why not. “Because I don’t want to die in the middle and have one of you lot finish it,” she said, a wicked twinkle in her eye.
Wicked twinkle … PD James. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
An Evening with Queen of Crime, part of Books on the Tyne festival
Date:
Sunday 30th November 2014
Time:
6pm – 7.30pm
Venue:
Newcastle City Library (Bewick Hall)
33 New Bridge Street West
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8AX
Cost:
£10.00 / £8.00
An Evening with Queen of Crime, 30 November 2014
Award-winning crime writer Val McDermid in conversation with Gail-Nina Anderson rounds off Books on Tyne ‘On the Edge’. Psychological thrills don’t get more thrilling than in Val’s world so hold onto the edge of your seats tonight at our grand finale!
Café at city library will be open for the purchase of drinks.
Venue:
Loch Leven Community Library
Loch Leven Communtiy Campus
The Muirs
KY13 8FQ
Cost:
£5.00 – Booking Essential
Loch Leven Community Library, Friday 21st November
Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in British crime writing. Her novels have been translated into 30 languages and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Join this award-winning crime writer, journalist and occasional broadcaster as she discusses her successful writing career and reads from her soon to be published new novel, The Skeleton Road.
An Evening with Queen of Crime, part of Books on the Tyne festival
Date:
Sunday 30th November 2014
Time:
6pm – 7.30pm
Venue:
Newcastle City Library (Bewick Hall)
33 New Bridge Street West
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8AX
Cost:
£10.00 / £8.00
An Evening with Queen of Crime, 30 November 2014
Award-winning crime writer Val McDermid in conversation with Gail-Nina Anderson rounds off Books on Tyne ‘On the Edge’. Psychological thrills don’t get more thrilling than in Val’s world so hold onto the edge of your seats tonight at our grand finale!
Café at city library will be open for the purchase of drinks.
