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2010 PROGRAMME
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Thursday, 20th of May:

TIME ROOM 1
1.30 – 2.20 Sheena is a Punk Rocker: Good Girls, Bad Girls & Everything In-between – Writing Female Protagonists
  • Cassandra Clark
  • Mary Andrea Clarke
  • Katherine Hall Page
  • Alison Joseph
Moderator: Cath Staincliffe
2.40 – 3.30 Punishment Fits the Crime: Crime Fiction as Social Commentary - Writing About Society, Morality & Justice
  • Lesley Horton
  • Adrian Magson
  • Edward Marston
  • Claire Seeber
Moderator: Steve Mosby
3.50 – 4.40 Personality Crisis: Multiple Series & Collaborating Authors
  • Judith Cutler
  • Lyndon Stacey
  • Michael Stanley (x2)
Participating moderator: Charles Todd
7.30 – 9.00 CRIMEFEST Pub Quiz: Your quiz inquisitor is crime writer & critic Peter Guttridge. Prizes to be won.

Friday, 21st of May:

TIME ROOM 1 ROOM 2
9.00 – 9.50 Out Of Time: Centuries of Murder
  • Dolores Gordon-Smith
  • Rebecca Jenkins
  • Pat McIntosh
  • Andrew Taylor
Participating moderator: Edward Marston
I Fought the Law: Authors Who Write Both Crime Fact & Fiction
  • Frances Brody
  • Alison Bruce
  • Diane Janes
  • Dan Waddell
Participating moderator: Martin Edwards
10.10 – 11.00 No More Heroes: Today’s Sleuths & Crime Solvers
  • J.G. Goodhind
  • Linda Regan
  • Pauline Rowson
  • Neil White
Moderator: Lindsey Davis
Down in the Sewer: Violence, Language & Sex
  • Ruth Dudley Edwards
  • M.R. Hall
  • Bill James
  • Caro Ramsay
Participating moderator: Janet Laurence
11.20 – 12.10 Grimly Fiendish: whatever that means!
  • Chris Ewan
  • Helen Fitzgerald
  • Steve Mosby
  • Zoë Sharp
Participating moderator: Donna Moore
Something Better Change: Can Crime Fiction Ever Escape the Long Shadows of the Past?
  • Chris Carter
  • Kate Ellis
  • Sheila Quigley
  • Sarah Rayne
Participating moderator: Andrew Taylor
12.10 – 1.00 Break
1.00 – 1.50 Lust for Life: What Turns You On
  • Lindsey Davis
  • Tom Harper
  • L. C. Tyler
  • Laura Wilson
Participating moderator: Natasha ‘N. J.’ Cooper
Too Tough to Die: Brains vs Brawn – Action Thrillers & Psychological Suspense
  • Clem Chambers
  • Ann Cleeves
  • Matt Hilton
  • Tim Weaver
Moderator: Sarah Rayne
2.10 – 3.00 Ca Plane Pour Moi: Stieg Larsson & the Rise of Translated Crime Fiction
  • Ann Cleeves
  • Giorgio Faletti
  • Barry Forshaw
  • Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Moderator: Marcel Berlins
Bodies: Trust Me, I’m a Doctor – Protagonists With Medical Training
  • Ruth Downie
  • Kate Ellis
  • Priscilla Masters
  • Keith McCarthy
Moderator: Adrian Magson
3.20 – 4.10 Rennie Airth & Laura Wilson

Interviewed by Jake Kerridge

Holiday in the Sun: Crossing Borders – Authors Who Choose International Settings
  • Michael Ridpath
  • E.V. Seymour
  • Michael Stanley
  • Anne Zouroudi
Moderator: Chris Ewan
4.30-5.20 You Drive Me Ape: What Turns You Off
  • M.C. Beaton
  • C.J. Carver
  • Natasha ‘N.J.’ Cooper
  • Suzette Hill
Participating moderator: Laura Wilson
Hanging Around: The Curzon Group
  • Tom Cain
  • Matt Lynn
  • Richard J. Parker
  • Leigh Russell
Participating moderator: Zoë Sharp
5.30 – 7.00 CRIMEFEST hosts the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger Shortlist Announcement Party benefiting the RNIB’s Library Services. All delegates welcome.
7.30 Bristol Festival of Ideas & CRIMEFEST present Mike Hodges in conversation/Get Carter screening.
Venue: Arnolfini Contemporary Arts Centre, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA. (Five minutes from the convention hotel)
9.00 – 10.00 Constable & Robinson and Goldsboro Books invite delegates to the launch of Giorgio Faletti’s I Kill. Venue: the Marriott’s Club Lounge.

Saturday, 22nd of May:

TIME ROOM 1 IN THE SPOTLIGHT
10.00 – 10.50 All the Young Punks: Debut Authors
  • Mike Hodges
  • Diane Janes
  • Rebecca Jenkins
  • Richard J. Parker
  • Leigh Russell
  • Tim Weaver
Moderator: Marcel Berlins
10.00 – 10.20: J.G. Goodhind: Sex and the Story

10.30 – 10.50: Ruth Dudley Edwards: Making Fun of Islam: Should Crime Writers Fear To Offend or Go For The Jugular?

11.00 – 11.20: Frances Brody: Jackson v Jackson: Abduction, Captivity and Conjugal Rights: The Lancashire couple whose court case changed English law

11.30 – 11.50: Zoë Sharp: You Can't Run In High Heels: Self Defence Demonstration

12.00 – 12.20: Charlie Charters: Somerset Maugham, the First Spy Novel and Me…

12.30 – 12.50: Lyndon Stacey: Who Did It? Where? Why? And How?

1.00 – 1.20: Diane Janes: Copycats - From Fact to Fiction and Back

1.30 – 1.50: Cara Black: Research in Paris: It's a Tough Job but Someone's Got To Do It

2.00 – 2.20: Chris Carter: Serial Killers: The Bad, the Ugly and the Evil

2.30 – 2.50: Neil White: The Idiot's Guide to the Crown Prosecution Service By an Idiot

3.00 – 3.20: Leigh Russell: Writing a Series

3.30 – 3.50: Matt Lynn: The Resurrection of the Wartime Thriller

11.10 – 12.00 John Curran & Mathew Prichard

The author of Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks & Agatha Christie’s grand-son interviewed by Marcel Berlins
12.00 – 12.40 Break
12.40 – 1.30 Gyles Brandreth

Interviewed by Peter Guttridge
1.50 – 2.40 Tonino Benacquista

Interviewed by Ann Cleeves
3.00 – 3.50 Colin Dexter

Interviewed by Maxim Jakubowski
4.10 – 5.00 Howling At The Moon: Last Laugh Shortlist Panel
  • Chris Ewan
  • Suzette Hill
  • Malcolm Pryce
  • Len Tyler
Moderator: Donna Moore
6.30 Kings Foyer: John Blake Publishing Ltd & Maxim Jakubowski celebrate their new MaXcrime imprint. All delegates welcome.
8.00 Kings Room: Gala Dinner

Sunday, 23rd of May:

TIME ROOM 1 ROOM 2
10.00 – 10.50 Transmission: Page to Screen – Authors With Experience of Both
  • Mike Hodges
  • Bill James
  • Cath Staincliffe
  • Giorgio Faletti
Participating moderator: Simon Brett
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll: The Business of Telling Lies – the Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Writing Crime
  • Joan Brady
  • Peter Guttridge
  • Michael Ridpath
  • Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Participating moderator: Anne Zouroudi
11.10 – 12.00 M. C. Beaton & Lindsey Davis

Interviewed by Jake Kerridge
I Remember You?: Forgotten Authors – Desmond Bagley and who?
  • Suzette Hill
  • Caro Ramsay
  • Michael Stanley
  • Charles Todd
Participating moderator: Martin Edwards
12.30 – 1.30 Criminal Mastermind
  • Cara Black
  • Martin Edwards
  • Peter Guttridge
  • Ali Karim
Quiz Master: Maxim Jakubowski

 

2.00 – 4.00 Translation Workshop at Crimefest 2010
Award-winning translator Ros Schwartz, co-translator of Dominique Manotti's Lorraine Connection (winner of the 2008 International Dagger), demonstrates what a translator has in common with a sleuth. (Participation: £5.)

 

 

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