Saturday highlights at Theakstons
Saturday is a busy day at Harrogate. There’s more panels than you can shake a stick at and writers galore!
Highlights include:
Nicci French
Nicci French BookTrails
The couple who write together stay together! The husband and wife team write novels together under the name Nicci French and you’d think that was the perfect recipe for murder right there wouldn’t you? She writes in the attic and he writes in the shed. Now that will be fascinating to ask them about!
It Happened Twenty Years Ago…
Andrew Taylor
Five masters of the past travel through time
Joe Kanon’s novels include Leaving Berlin and The Good German. His latest, The Defectors, is set in Moscow at the height of the Cold War.
Antonia Hodgson has written three novels with her hero, Thomas Hawkins, set in the year 1728. The fourth is out this year.
Radio book club presenter Simon Mayo has written a novel – Inspired by the true story of a group of American sailors imprisoned in Dartmoor in 1815.
Conspiracy is the fifth in S.J. Parris’ bestselling series featuring the 16th century heretic philosopher and spy Giordano Bruno.
Triple winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Andrew Taylor author of The Ashes of London is the chair to keep them all in control
NEW BLOOD with Val McDermid
It’s one of Harrogate’s most anticipated panels. Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing history, but can a hot, new upstart contest her title? Get ready for The Next Big Thing as Val hand picks her writers to watch, introducing four exciting debut talents: The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan, The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton andDark Pines by Will Dean.
What happens next?
Lee Child is going to ask that very question to Liam McIlvanney author of The Quaker out later this year.
Kate Rhodes and her latest novel Hell Bay is out now.
Eva Dolan will talk about her acclaimed Zigic and Ferreira series set in Peterborough
Abir Mukherjee with his novels set in India – A Rising Man and A Necessary Evil are his Sam Wyndham series
Val McDermid and Sue Black
Val McDermid BookTrails
What Val McDermid and Dame Professor Sue Black don’t know about crime, forensics and death is not worth knowing. Sue is a forensic anthropologist and Val’s go-to expert. Founding director of the award-winning Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at Dundee University, where Val has a mortuary named after her!
There’s an author dinner and a quiz organised by Billingham and McDermid. They’re quiz masters extraordinaire having been on Pointless and The Chase. Who will be able to answer all their questions?
