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CrimeFest 2008 Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2008 Reading Festival of Crime Writing Bouchercon ® 2008
MAY
- Monday 12th May, 6.30 pm
- Lethal Ladies & Co (Sarah Rayne and Maureen Carter) at Bilston Library, Wolverhampton, as part of the Big Book Fortnight.
They will give a talk entitled From Desktop to Bookshop, followed by a workshop on Muse Music. - Wednesday 14th May
- Fact and Fiction of Shetland Crime, with Ann Cleeves at Lerwick Library
Details from the library: 01595 743868 - Thursday 15th May
- 12.30: Michael Jecks at the Lincoln Book Festival, Lincoln Drill Hall
- 6.00 pm: Sheila Quigley, Ken McCoy and Martyn Waites, Waterstones, Sunderland
- Friday 16th May, 2.30 pm
- Diane Janes at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, talking about her book Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery.
Tickets are available from Newcastle Tourist Information Centre, Central Arcade, Newcastle
or by phoning 0845 002 0336,
or emailing . - Saturday May 17th
- 11.30am: Ann Cleeves signing and reading at Visit Shetland Office, Market Cross, Lerwick.
- 2.00 pm: Kelvin I. Jones signing, plus reading one of his crime short stories at Borders Books, No. 146 Merchants Hall, Lower Ground, Chapelfield, Norwich, NR2 1SH
Phone: 016.0366.4538
Free attendance. - Wednesday 21st May
- 3.00pm: Chaz Brenchley talk / reading / Q&A about the Writer's Life at Macclesfield College
- Ann Cleeves presenting prizes for Adult Learners Week in Lichfield Library
JUNE
- Wednesday 4th June 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm
- Pauline Rowson at Lymington Library, Lymington Library, North Close, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BW, talking about her marine mystery crime and thriller novels.
For further information contact:
CrimeFest 2008
5 - 8 June, 2008, Bristol, UK
From the organisers of Left Coast Crime 2006; more information on the Crimefest web site.
CWA members attending include Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Sheila Quigley and Martyn Waites.
- Wednesday 11th June
- Medieval Murderers: The Lost Prophecies book launch in Toppings Book Shop, Bath
- Saturday 14th June
- 1.00 pm: Murder INK (Sheila Quigley, Martyn Waites and Ken McCoy) at Borders, Birstall (near Leeds)
- Ann Cleeves: Writers' Workshop, Derby Literature Festival
- Saturday 21st June, afternoon
- Michael Jecks at the Central Library, High Street, Bromley, as part of Bromley Reading Festival.
- Sunday 22nd June, 10.30am
- Michael Jecks opening Topsham Book Fair, Village Hall, Topsham
- Thursday 26th June
- 6.30 pm: An evening with the Medieval Murderers in Neath/Port Talbot
- Ann Cleeves presents a celebration of translated crime fiction in Whitley Bay.
JULY
- Wednesday 2nd July 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm
- Pauline Rowson at Lymington Library, Lymington Library, North Close, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BW, talking about her marine mystery crime and thriller novels, and her latest book, The Suffocating Sea.
For further information contact: - Saturday 5th July, 10.00 am - 4.00 pm
- “Write a crime novel in a day” with Danuta Reah at Ashborne literary festival
Harrogate 2008
Harrogate Crime Writing Festival July 17 to 20, 2008.
Members attending include: Mark Billingham, Ann Cleeves, Stella Duffy, Martin Edwards, Meg Gardiner, Peter Guttridge, Quintin Jardine, Val McDermid, Martyn Waites and Laura Wilson.
- Tuesday 22nd July, 7.00 pm
- Michael Jecks at Belhus Library, South Ockendon
Talk organised by Thurrock Libraries as part of National Year of Reading
AUGUST
- Sunday 24th August
- Diane Janes will be signing copies of Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery at Ightham Mote to mark the centenary of the Luard murder.
Usual admission charges apply, (National Trust members free entry). - Friday 29th - Sunday 31st August
- Ann Cleeves at Kristianstad Book Festival, Southern Sweden
- Saturday August 30, 2.00 pm
- Sheila Quigley, Ken McCoy and Martyn Waites, Bookbarn, Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham
SEPTEMBER
Reading Festival of Crime Writing
Reading Festival of Crime Writing, Saturday 14th September
Members appearing include Mark Billingham, Meg Gardiner, Sophie Hannah, John Harvey, Michael Jecks, Peter Lovesey, Stuart Pawson, Cath Staincliffe and Laura Wilson.
- Friday 19th September
- Medieval Murderers at Coughton Court, Warwickshire for the Throckmorton Literary Festival
- Sunday 28th September 3.00pm
- Ann Cleeves Brought to Book at New Canaan Library Connecticut
Contact Cynde Lahey at the library
OCTOBER
Bouchercon ® 2008 - "Charmed to Death"
October 9 - 12, 2008, Baltimore, Maryland
More information on the Bouchercon 2008 website.
CWA members attending include Ann Cleeves and Martyn Waites.
DECEMBER
- Friday 12th December 2008, 2.30pm
- Michael Jecks talks to the East Devon branch of the Devonshire Association, at the Arts Centre, Sidmouth