A writer wrote a thing
It’s hard to know sometimes (often, perhaps) if online articles are sincere or if they’ve been skewed for clickbait. That’s what I thought whe...
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CWA conference – Edinburgh, April 2017
I need very little excuse to go to Edinburgh. I love it. I love it because it’s got loads of old stuff, it reminds me a bit of Granada (the old town with ...
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017
I’ve been rather busy over the last couple of months, zipping off to the Essex Book Festival for the Criminally Good Afternoon Tea, zooming off to the NEC...
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017
It’s a week until Britain’s biggest family history fair, Who Do You Think You Are? Live, kicks off at Birmingham’s NEC. There’s a wealth...
Essex Book Festival’s Criminally Good Afternoon Tea at the Golden Age of Crime Weekend
In the 1950s, my grandad was a Special Constable, working the streets of Southend-on-Sea. He told me that he’d often be approached (perhaps “set upo...
Thoughts: To Walk Invisible
I’d seen the trailers – this Brontë biopic promised an accurately short Charlotte, and an Emily who doled out physical violence when enraged that he...
And that’s the first draft
You will go to the devil, die when you will, you will go to a rare place when you die.[1]Purloined from a real trial that you’ll find out about in Fatal E...
Events
Sunday 12th March 2017, 3pm-4.30pm What: Essex Book Festival 2017. Criminally Good Afternoon Tea. In the county where the poison panic took hold, we’ll ea...
From The Bridge to Hinterland at the Birmingham Literature Festival
A perfect chaser for the talk by Walter Iuozzolino, he of Walter Presents, had to be the talk given by crime drama writer-creators Hans Rosenfeldt, of Swedish/D...
Walter Presents at the Birmingham Literature Festival
The annual Birmingham Literature Festival is run by Writing West Midlands, offering a programme of events about the written word – talks with writers, and...