St Hilda's Crime Fiction Weekend 2020

I'm very excited to be helping to organise next year's St Hilda's Crime Writing Weekend, which is held in glorious Oxford over the weekend 14-16 August 2020. The theme is 'All Our Yesterdays: Historical Crime Fiction'. Guest speakers will include Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Abir Mukherjee, Vaseem Khan and William Shaw. Do come if you can; it's a weekend like no other and unmissable for crime fiction fans. You'll have drinks on the lawn, a murder mystery supper (we hope to persuade Mick Herron to reprise his Geordie detective) and a super Sunday lunch. You can stay on campus for the full Oxford collegiate experience!

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Granite Noir 2020

Delighted to be making my debut at Granite Noir in February 2020 alongside Alice Feeney and Dorothy Koomson. We'll be discussing Suspense with a Topical Twist. Do come!

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Noirwich, flash fiction, Scandal and the city

Chuffed to discover my flash fiction on bus stops around Norwich as part of Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, 12-15 Sept. I'll be on a panel with Leye Adenle and Vaseem Khan, chaired by Ayo Onatade, on Saturday 14th, and speaking about my love of flash fiction at the evening session on that same day. Do come!

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Harrogate Festival's Library Conference '19

I'm very happy to be chairing this event for Theakstons Crime and Harrogate Festival as part of their Library Conference on Friday 19 July at the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate.

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My Top Ten Strange Tastes in Fiction for You're Booked

From Humbert Humbert's pineapple and gin cocktail to Iguana John Howard Sharp, these are my favourite strange drinks and dishes in fiction, online over at You're Booked, the blog for Theakstons Crime Writing Festival. Tell me some of yours!

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Never Be Broken and Joe Country both Thrillers of the Month in the Observer

A huge thank you to Alison Flood, writing in the Observer New Review, who has picked Never Be Broken as one of her Thrillers of the Month. Alison has been a big supporter of my Marnie Rome series from the very start, in fact she made me cry with her brilliant review of my debut, Someone Else's Skin. What's more, she's chosen Never Be Broken alongside Joe Country by the mighty Mick Herron, who is one of my favourite writers. If you're not already reading his Slough House series, do start!

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Never Be Broken picked as Book of the Month by Theakstons Crime

Never Be Broken has been picked as Book of the Month by Theakstons Crime, a festival I have loved since I first attended as an unpublished author. Then they chose my debut, Someone Else's Skin, as their Crime Novel of the Year! If you keep an eye on You're Booked, you'll find my Top Ten Strange Tastes in Fiction, later in the month.

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