Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is Europe’s largest event dedicated to the celebration of crime fiction. Taking place annually over four days each July (20-23, 2017), the Festival programmes over 90 best-selling UK and internation...
Irish Book Week: 19-26 October
You don't have to be Irish, or live in Ireland, to celebrate the best of Irish literature. Simply participate in one or more of the daily themes and post about it using the tags #IrishBookWeek and #IrishBookaDay! For more information, please see the ...
Author talk from Cath Staincliffe
Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath has been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award and for the Dagger in the Libra...
Crime Panel – with Mark Hill, Anna Mazzola and Abir Mukherjee (chaired by Barry Forshaw)
This is first of a series of cracking crime events that we’re putting on for your entertainment to highlight some of the very best authors around right now. - Mark Hill – author of The Two O’Clock Boy - Anna Mazzola – author of The Unseei...
Murder By the Book
Crime fiction is the UK's most read, bought and borrowed genre. Cambridge University Library draws on its world-leading collections of British crime fiction to stage a murderously good exhibition! Bringing together literature, culture and heritag...
Capital Crime Book Festival
Come celebrate crime and thriller fiction in print and on film with some of today's biggest names, including Richard Osman. Author and criminal solicitor Nadine Matheson will moderate a panel on Moral Dilemmas in Modern Society. MW Craven will speak ...
International Translation Day 2017
International Translation Day is the annual event for the literary translation community. It is an opportunity for translators, students, publishers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers and reviewers to gather and network and debate significant issues...
Edinburgh Drama Explores the Holmes–Watson Dynamic
A new play by David Stuart Davies, a recognised authority on Sherlock Holmes, is set to wow audiences at the Assembly Roxy in Edinburgh on 25–27 February and 1-3 March 3 at 6.45pm. Sherlock Holmes: The Final Reckoning is far from being yet another...
Birmingham Author Meetup
Authors! Join us for an authors' meetup at the Bacchus Bar in Birmingham. This event is free, but you'll need to book, and you can do so here....
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