By Gemma, on March 9th, 2012
 Sophie Hannah is an internationally acclaimed author, whose psychological thrillers have sold millions of copies worldwide; she is also an award winning poet and short story writer. Her novels have been televised as the popular crime drama, Case Sensitive, featuring female detective, Charlie Zailer.
Journalist Sonia Kilvington had breakfast with Sophie in Harrogate at the 2011 Festival, where she hoped that she would share with readers the secret of writing a bestselling suspense novel.
When building up suspense in your … Read More >>
By Gemma, on February 7th, 2012
DI Vera Stanhope, the brilliant but erratic detective created by award-winning crime writer Ann Cleeves (and played on TV by Brenda Blethyn) ventured into new territory in January, when the eBook of Hidden Depths was offered as a free download by Starbucks, via their new Pick of the Week card. February takes Vera into the equally unlikely surroundings of a writers’ retreat, with the publication of The Glass Room, the latest book in this hit series. … Read More >>
By admin, on November 16th, 2011
 During the madness and mayhen that was the 2011 Festival, journalist Sonia Kilvington caught up with international bestselling crime writer Val McDermid, whose novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Val McDermid at 2011 Festival. Photo by Fen Oswin
The early Tony Hill novels were serialised for television and became the highly acclaimed drama Wire in the Blood, featuring Robson Green. Val McDermid is also the author of … Read More >>
By Gemma, on October 6th, 2011
 During the 2011 Festival, journalist Sonia Kilvington caught up with Mark Billingham. Here’s what he had to say about his experience of the Festival and his new book…
Mark Billingham takes questions at the Dennis Lehane event
Which events are you involved in?
I did the Dragons Pen and I am hosting the quiz on the Saturday night, which everybody takes very seriously. It’s a real festival tradition that we have this big quiz on Saturday night and there is … Read More >>
By Ann, on September 13th, 2011
No, this isn't a picture of Kevin!!
Kevin Wignall, a regular author at the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, is a man of some mystery. To celebrate the release of his new children’s books (yes, they include vampires!) he’s launched a dedicated Facebook page aimed at the kids (so they don’t have to be exposed to the adult version of the man!). As Kevin said: “And as it’s for teens and has a perpetually young vampire … Read More >>
By Ann, on June 27th, 2011
 Radio 4’s Mark Lawson will interview Howard Marks (aka Mr Nice) at this year’s Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. Marks is a man whose own life story proves reality is always stranger than fiction. During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines, and 25 companies trading throughout the world. Bars, recording studios, offshore banks: all were money-laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealing.
His criminal career saw the Daily Mail dub him … Read More >>
By Ann, on June 27th, 2011
 Author James McCreet explains all about his literary journey from writing his first novel in a Harrogate attic to featuring in the 2011 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.
What must James McCreet’s mum think of her son featuring on a panel at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival called ‘Vice Society’.
“She’s proud of my writing – whatever I write,” James smiles, sipping coffee in Harrogate’s Hotel du Vin. The Vice Society is also the name … Read More >>
By Ann, on February 28th, 2011
 S J Watson is a novelist who was born in the Midlands, lives in London and worked in the NHS for a number of years. In 2008 Watson was accepted into the first Faber Academy ‘Writing a Novel’ Course, a programme that covers all aspects of the novel-writing process. Before I Go to Sleep is the result.
Now sold in over 30 languages around the world, Before I Go To Sleep, has been also been acquired for … Read More >>
By Ann, on February 7th, 2011
Leigh Russell
Leigh Russell’s work has been described as being in the tradition of Ruth Rendell, Lynda la Plante, Frances Fyfield and Barbara Vine. Her novel Cut Short is a gripping psychological thriller that introduced to us D.I. Geraldine Steel, a woman whose past is threatening to collide with her future. Leigh talks to You’re Booked about her journey from being a teacher to an author who Jeffery Deaver praised for delivering a “seamless blending of psychological … Read More >>
By Ann, on January 24th, 2011
 The beginning of Stuart Neville’s The Twelve lingers at a bar. The damaged anti-hero, Gerry Fegan, tries to drown his ghosts in whiskey and Guinness, shouting at the shadows that eventually drive him onto a reluctant rampage of revenge. These ghosts drive the page-turning action with a momentum that saw the book become one of the most acclaimed thrillers of some time, prompting James Ellroy to declare it, “The best first novel I’ve read in years. … Read More >>
By admin, on November 18th, 2010
Harlan Coben and Lee Child in Harrogate, 2009
Stood outside the Crown Hotel swigging from a smuggled bottle of champagne, Lee Child doesn’t live by the rules. You’re Booked caught up with him during his time in Harrogate in 2009 to find out what makes the man tick…
Lee Child lounges in a chair in the green room at the Crown Hotel where he is appearing as a Special Guest at the 2009 Theakstons Old … Read More >>
By admin, on November 18th, 2010
 Martin Edwards is a partner in a law firm as well as an award-winning novelist. You’re Booked puts him in the dock with our Q&A.
Are you a partner in a firm of solicitors who just happens to write novels – or a novelist primarily who just needs a well paid day job?A novelist first and foremost!
It’s interesting how you juggle the two. Did you always want to write or did this urge come later in life?
I … Read More >>
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