TIME |
Merchant 1 |
Lancaster Room |
Merchant 3 |
9.00 – 9.50 |
Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
- M.J. Arlidge
- Mason Cross
- Kate Griffin
- Colette McBeth
- Jake Woodhouse
Moderator: Jake Kerridge |
It’s Not Real Life, You Know: Are Our Characters Us?
- Alison Bruce
- Paul Cornell
- Leigh Russell
- Lee Weeks
Participating moderator: L.C. Tyler |
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10.10 – 11.00 |
Historical Crime Fiction: It’s Not All Downton Abbey - The British Perspective
- Dolores Gordon-Smith
- Andrew Martin
- Imogen Robertson
- Linda Stratman
Participating Moderator: Patrick Easter |
Murder Knows No Boundaries
- Steven Dunne
- Mari Hannah
- Thomas Mogford
- Jeffrey Siger
Participating Moderator: Anne Zouroudi |
10.10 - 10.30
Alex Walters
You're Unbelievable! Research vs reality
10.40 - 11.00
Leigh Russell
Long Running Series |
11.20 – 12.10 |
Death in High Heels: Women As Victims
- M.R. Hall
- Jessie Keane
- Jessica Mann
- Martyn Waites
Participating Moderator: Ruth Dudley Edwards |
Biographers: Cosying Up To Homicidal Novelists
- Nigel Cawthorne (John Creasey)
- John Curran (Agatha Christie)
- Julia Jones (Margery Allingham)
- Tom Williams (Raymond Chandler)
Moderator: Jake Kerridge |
11.20 - 11.40
Miranda Vaughn Jones & Matthew Coniam
Reviving Wheatley in a different social era
11.50 - 12.10
V.M. Giambanco
From film editing to writing crime fiction |
12.30 – 13.20 |
The Modern Thriller
- Belinda Bauer
- Chris Ewan
- Helen Fitzgerald
- Simon Kernick
Participating Moderator: Doug Johnstone |
The Contemporary Cosy: Is There Still Life In The Golden Age?
- Christopher Fowler
- Helen Smith
- Martin Walker
- Jill Paton Walsh
Participating Moderator: Christine Poulson |
12.30 - 12.50
Linda Stratmann
A Victorian Midsomer - creating a community
13.00 - 13.20
Lee Weeks
Plan your bestseller |
13.40 – 14.30 |
Narrative, Resolution & Crime Fiction
- John Harvey
- Paul Johnston
- Valerie Laws
- Stav Sherez
Participating moderator: Alison Joseph |
Things That Go Bump In The Night: Magic, Paranormal & All Things Supernatural
- Ben Aaronovitch
- A.K. Benedict
- James Oswald
- Anne Zouroudi
Participating Moderator: Kevin Wignall |
13.40 - 14.00
Sally Spedding Settings To Die For: even the loveliest places can be deadly
14.10 - 14.30
Peter Murphy
The pros and cons of creating sympathetic villains |
14.50 – 15.40 |
Gender Bending: Writing As The Opposite Sex
- Tania Carver
- Adam Chase
- Chris Simms
- Tom Vowler
Participating moderator: Laura Wilson |
To Be Continued, or Literary Ventriloquism?
- Sophie Hannah (Poirot)
- Mike Ripley (Campion)
- Robert Ryan (Watson)
- Jill Paton Walsh (Wimsey)
Participating Moderator: Jake Kerridge |
14.50 - 15.10
Ruth Downie
How not to murder your mother in Ancient Rome
15.20 - 15.40
Rachel Howzell Hall
Not One of the Boys: writing the female detective |
16.00 – 16.50 |
An Irishwoman, A Welshman, An Englishwoman, A Scotsman, & An English Moderator Walk Into A Book
- Ruth Dudley Edwards
- Jasper Fforde
- Sheila Quigley
- Craig Robertson
Participating Moderator: Simon Brett |
Evening All: 21st Century Police Procedurals
- Stephen Booth
- Clare Donoghue
- John Harvey
- Fergus McNeill
Participating Moderator: Quentin Bates |
16.00 - 16.20 Dominique Manotti & Ros Schwartz Dominique Manotti in conversation with her translator
16.30 - 16.50
Richard Creasey & Alison Joseph
John Creasey: over 600 books following 743 rejection slips |
17.10 – 18.00 |
What’s So Good About Crime?
- Felix Francis
- Elizabeth Haynes
- Chris Longmuir
- Lesley Thomson
Participating Moderator: Pauline Rowson |
Political Thrillers: Oxymoron or Perfect Bedfellows?
- M.J. McGrath
- Paul Mendelson
- Peter Murphy
- Graham Masterton
Participating Moderator: Alex Walters |
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18:30 – 19:30 |
KINGS ROOM
SIMON BRETT - 2014 CWA Diamond Dagger Recipient
followed by
CWA Dagger Shortlist Announcement Reception – All Full Pass holders welcome |