Confessions of a Crime Writers

Friday 19 July 2024 | 10.00pmLive Event Tent| Old Swan Hotel | HarrogateTicket: £15Please note that all transactions are subject to a £2.50 booking fee.  A maximum of 6 tickets can be booked at one time.Please note – If you purchase a ticket for this event you do not need to purchase a separate site pass.BOOK NOWPlease Note: Online and door sales will reopen Friday 19 July subject to availabilityYou’ve read the books. You’ve seen them interviewed. Now, see your favourite crime writers in a way you’ve never seen them before. Our dastardly line-up is ready to confess dark, shocking secrets from their past – whether that be streaking at a major sporting event, once pretending to be a famous celebrity to crash a wedding or serving a meal that had been dropped on the floor. The statute of limitations is up and sins will be confessed. But it will be up to you, the audience, to decide if these terrible sins should be forgiven, or if they’re just too egregious to ever be forgotten.

Our all-star roster of justified sinners are international bestsellers Mark Billingham, Gytha Lodge, Elly Griffiths, and Richard Osman. Chairing proceedings will be arch sinner, Luca Veste.Ticket Collection: All tickets for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival are to be collected from our on-site box office, located at the entrance of the Old Swan Hotel, from 3.00pm on Thursday 18 July 2024. The box office will remain open throughout the Festival weekend. Collection of tickets prior to 18 July will not be possible.

All events will be at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate, HG1 2SR. Please note that there is no parking available at the Old Swan Hotel.

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