Book Festival

The Festival is delighted to welcome a highly entertaining trio of fiendish plotters. Paula Hawkins’ The Girl On The Train broke sales records around the world in its first year and ignited a new passion for twisty fiction about the darkness of ordinary lives. To talk about crime fiction's skeleton-filled closets, she’ll be joined by […]

Join crime writer William Shaw for a special author talk as part of our Slaughter in Southwold crime writing festival! William will be talking to us about his new book Dead Rich and his career so far. Tickets are £6. Book your place for this event → About William Shaw: William Shaw was born in […]

Three authors talk about why the West Country is the perfect setting for a crime novel – and how its soft green valleys and sunlit coves belie a heart of darkness. Chair: William Shaw Panellists: Isabel Ashdown, Amanda Jennings and Heidi Perks 

After two years of lockdown, who wouldn’t want to get away from it all, if only in the pages of a great novel? Our panellists are ready to whisk you off to the dark side of sunny Lagos, the bustle of Istanbul, and aboard a luxury yacht bound for the Caribbean with deadly stowaways in […]