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Firle Vintage Fair: Crime on the Mind
August 11, 2019 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
£15
As part of Firle Vintage Fair at Firle Place.
Panel discussion with bestselling authors Dorothy Koomson, William Shaw and Ali Carter, chaired by Patrick Easter. How do these writers manage their plots, their characters, and their crimes? What drives them – and what drives their books? Bring your questions and learn from the masters . . .
Dorothy Koomson is an award-winning, global bestselling author whose novels include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Friend, That Girl from Nowhere, The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, The Chocolate Run and My Best Friend’s Girl. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages with sales that exceed 2 million copies in the UK alone.
Before becoming a crime writer, William Shaw was an award-winning music journalist and the author of several non-fiction books. The Birdwatcher, set in Kent and Northern Ireland, was longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year, and was hailed as “a contender for thriller of the year” in The Sun. His books have also been nominated for a Barry Award, the Golden Bullet, and the CWA Historical Dagger.
Ali Carter’s eclectic career has included stints in investment management, retail, technology. But a serious accident led to a reappraisal, a challenging pilgrimage, and a career as an artist and pet portraitist. In 2016 she was commissioned to write a trilogy of murder mystery novels for Point Blank, the crime imprint of independent publisher Oneworld. The second of these, The Colours of Murder, featuring amateur sleuth Susie Mahl, is just out.
Patrick Easter is the best selling author of five novels including The Watermen, shortlisted for the annual CWA Historical Dagger Award and an option for the film rights by ITV. A former senior Scotland Yard officer, Easter uses his experience – including a year on the River Thames – to give a sense of realism to his stories set in the Port of London. On leaving the police he worked for a number of years as an international journalist covering advanced satellite communications and traffic control systems from around the world.