For anyone who can’t make this year’s big crime festivals, there is still a fantastic chance to mingle with some of the best names in crime fiction, buy their lovely books and have them signed at the new Goldsboro Books next month.
If you are based in or around London, or can get there on the evening of Tues 21st June, then I’d strongly urge you to go to Goldsboro Books site and order up a ticket (just £5) for what promises to be a fantastic evening – one you’re sure to go home from with great memories, some superb photos to treasure new friends made and, most likely a nice bag of newly purchased and signed book to read.
The list of attendees is growing steadily as the event approaches, but here’s the list as it currently stands on their website:
S. J. Bolton
S J Bolton trained as an actress and a dancer, has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has a degree in drama and an MBA. She pursued a successful career in PR and marketing, but her career break to start a family enabled her to write her first novel, Sacrifice, which has been inspired by her fascination with British traditional folklore.
Mary Andrea Clarke
By day Mary Andrea Clarke holds down a responsible position in the Civil Service – but by night she is a Mystery Woman! Her love of crime fiction led her to join the vibrant group of readers and writers (not all female!) who organise events and meetings all over the UK.
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other northern writers to promote crime fiction. In 2006 Ann was awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Best Crime Novel, for Raven Black . Ann lives in North Tyneside. Her Vera Stanhope series is currently being turned into a major ITV production to be released in May 2011
Rory Clements
Rory Clements has had a long and successful newspaper career including being Features Editor and Associate Editor of Today, Editor of the Daily Mail’s Good Health Pages and, most recently, Editor of the health section at the Evening Standard He is now writing full time in an idyllic corner of Norfolk.
Lesley Cookman
Born in Guildford, Surrey, Lesley spent her early life in south London, before marrying and moving all over the south-east of England. Lesley fell into feature writing by accident, then went on to reviewing for both magazines and radio. She writes for the stage, she has written short fiction for women’s weekly magazines and is a former editor of The Call Boy, the British Music Hall Society journal. Her first Libby Sarjeant novel, Murder In Steeple Martin, was published to much acclaim in 2006, followed in 2007 by Murder At The Laurels and Murder In Midwinter.
Julia Crouch
After a drama degree at Bristol University, Julia Crouch spent ten years devising, directing and writing for the theatre. During this time she had twelve plays produced and co-founded Bristol’s Public Parts Theatre Company. She lives in Brighton with her husband, the actor and playwright Tim Crouch, and their three children. CUCKOO is her first novel.
Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis has written nineteen novels, beginning with The Course of Honour, the love story of the Emperor Vespasian and Antonia Caenis. Her bestselling mystery series features laid-back First Century detective Marcus Didius Falco and his partner Helena Justina, plus friends, relations, pets and bitter enemy the Chief Spy.
Paul Doherty
Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough (North-Eastern England) in 1946. He had the usual education before studying at Durham for three years for the Catholic priesthood but decided not to proceed. He went to Liverpool University where he gained a First Class Honours Degree in History and won a state scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford, whilst there he met his wife Carla Lynn Corbitt. He continued his studies but decided that the academic world was not for him and became a secondary school teacher.
Patrick Easter
Patrick Easter was a police officer in the Met for thirty years and during that time was part of the Marine Police force. On retirement, he became a successful journalist writing both for technical journals and the national press. His stint with the Marine Police coupled with a love of 18th Century history make him the perfect author for this subject.
Gordon Ferris
Gordon Ferris was born and grew up in Scotland. His first love was writing, but he took the long way round to becoming an author. He now writes thrillers set in post-war Britain; a natural ‘noir’ period of rationing and violence. Gordon’s breakthrough ‘Brodie’ book – The Hanging Shed – has been in the top five of Amazon’s kindle besteller list since January. It’s now available in hardback from Corvus.
Elena Forbes
Elena Forbes has lived most of her life in London. After reading Modern Languages at Bristol University she worked as a portfolio manager for international investment banks. She now writes full time and lives in Notting Hill with her husband and two children. The first chapter and synopsis of her first novel, Die With Me, was shortlisted for a debut dagger in 2005.
James Forrester
James Forrester is the fiction-writing name (the middle names) of the historian Dr Ian Mortimer – best known as the author of ‘The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England’. He has written two historical novels to date: ‘Sacred Treason’ (set in December 1563) and ‘The Roots of Betrayal’ (set in May 1564). Both have as their central character William Harley, Clarenceux King of Arms, a herald in the College of Arms.
Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler was born in Greenwich, London. He is the multi award-winning author of thirty novels and ten short story collections, and the author of the Bryant & May mystery novels. His first bestseller was ‘Roofworld’. Subsequent novels include ‘Spanky’, ‘Disturbia’, ‘Psychoville’ and ‘Calabash’. His books have been optioned by Guillermo Del Toro (‘Spanky’) and Jude Law (‘Psychoville’).
Barry Forshaw
Barry Forshaw reviews crime fiction for The Independent and The Express, and edits Crime Time magazine
Meg Gardiner
Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels as well as the first Jo Beckett thriller, The Dirty Secrets Club, described by Jeffery Deaver as “A winner all the way.” She lives with her family near London.
M R Hall
M R Hall lives and works in the Wye valley in South Wales. Born in London in 1967, he was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated in law. His books include The Coroner, The Disappeared and The Redeemed.
Sam Hayes
Sam Hayes writes gripping emotional thrillers – nail-biting fiction with families, mothers, children and relationships at the core of unexpected drama, crime and tragedy. How would you cope?
David Hewson
David Hewson’s novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino. The Fallen Angel is his recently published Nic Costa novel.
Matt Hilton
Matt Hilton quit his career as a police officer with Cumbria Constabulary to pursue his love of writing tight, cinematic American-style thrillers. He is the author of the Joe Hunter thriller series, including Dead Men’s Dust & Judgement and Wrath.
Chris Morgan Jones
For eleven years Chris Morgan Jones worked at the world’s largest business intelligence agency. He has advised Middle Eastern governments, Russian oligarchs, New York banks, London hedge funds and African mining companies. An Agent of Deceit is his first novel.
Erin Kelly
Erin Kelly is a freelance journalist and lives in North London with her family. The Poison Tree is her first novel.
Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr is the author of six other acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels. His last novel, If the Dead Rise Not, won the 2009 CWA Ellis Peters’ Award for Best Historical Crime Novel. Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh but now lives in London and in Cornwall.
John Lawton
John Lawton is a degenerating misanthrope who lives in a remote hilltop village in Derbyshire. He is not entirely sure why. He likes T.C. Boyle, Chuck Palahniuk and Cormac McCarthy – and considers the seminal text of our time to be Myron by Gore Vidal. He is keen on the cultivation of the onion and obscure varieties of potato. He hates tories, teachers and travel (in that order) – but loves to visit Arizona, Florence … New York …
Adrian Magson
Adrian Magson is a freelance writer and lives in England. He is the author of a contemporary spy series featuring Harry Tate, and the Inspector Lucas Rocco series set in 1960’s France.
Colin Murray
Born, raised and educated in London and then at Warwick University; gaining a degree in English and American literature. He worked for a number of years in London publishing before marrying the SF writer Lisa Tuttle and moving up to Scotland.
S J Parris
S J Parris is the author of Heresy and Prophecy featuring Giordano Bruno.
Linda Regan
Linda Regan already has a successful acting career and now she has turned her skills to being a succesful crime writer.
Mike Ripley
Mike Ripley is the author of the award-winning ‘Angel’ series of comedy thrillers which have twice won the CWA Last Laugh Award. It has been said that he ‘paints a picture of London Dickens would recognise’ and that ‘he writes like the young Len Deighton, wierd and wonderful information and very, very funny’. Described as ‘England’s funniest crime writer’ (The Times), he is also a respected critic of crime fiction, writing for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and the Birmingham Post among others. He currently writes the “Getting Away With Murder” gossip column on shotsmag.co.uk.
William Ryan
William Ryan is an Irish writer, living in London – having worked as a lawyer in the City of a number of years. In his spare time, he wrote on an occasional basis for television and film before completing a Masters in Creative Writing at St Andrews University in 2005. He is the author of The Holy Thief and soon to be published The Bloody Meadow.
Michael Ridpath
Michael Ridpath spent eight years as a bond trader in the City before giving up his job to write full-time. He lives in north London with his wife and three children.
Imogen Robertson
Grew up in Darlington in the North East of England, studied Russian and German at Cambridge and spent a year in Russia in a city called Voronezh during the early nineties. Lots of vodka. Lots of falling over in the snow.
Before writing full-time she used to direct children’s television, film and radio, including Numberjacks for Cbeebies. She decided to try and make a career out of writing after winning the Telegraph’s ‘First thousand words of a novel’ competition in 2007 with the opening scene of Instruments of Darkness, her first book.
C J Sansom
C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a Ph.D. in history. He lives in Sussex. He is the author of the hugely successful Matthew Shardake series.
Simon Toyne
Simon Toyne graduated from Goldsmiths College in London with a degree in English and Drama then worked in television for almost twenty years before becoming a novelist. SANCTUS is his first book and also the first volume of the Ruin trilogy.
L C Tyler
L C Tyler writes both crime and general fiction. He grew up in Essex and studied at Jesus College Oxford and City University in London. During a career with the Civil Service and the British Council he lived in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Sudan, Thailand and Denmark, none of which places provides the slightest inspiration for his work.
Martin Walker
Martin Walker was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and Harvard. In 25 years with the Guardian, he served as Bureau Chief in Moscow and, in the US, as European Editor. In addition to his prize-winning journalism, he wrote and presented the BBC series ‘Martin Walker’s Russia’ and ‘Clintonomics’. He has written several acclaimed works of non-fiction, including The Cold War: A History. He spends his summers in his house in the Dordogne. Visit Bruno’s website at http://www.brunochiefofpolice.com.
Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson’s acclaimed and award-winning crime novels have won her many fans. The first novel in this series, Stratton’s War, won the Ellis Peters Award. Two of her novels have been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Laura is the Guardian’s crime reviewer. She lives in Islington, London.
Hope to see you there
Keith
Karin Alvtegen’s psychological crime thrillers include Missing, which in 2001 won the Glass Key, the premier Nordic crime writing award, and Shadow and Betrayal.
Håkan Nesser is also a Glass Key winner; his latest book to be translated into English is The Inspector and Silence, starring his detective Van Veeteren.
All Creative Thursday participants will also be invited to ‘alibi’s Search For A New Crime Writer: Winner’s Reception’ which will run from 6pm.
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