I Spy…

Saturday 20 July 2024 | 2.00pmLive 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 availabilityAs cold wars simmer and real wars burn, as political truths have become stranger than political fiction, the spy novel has rarely been more relevant. Meet four writers who speak truth to power and lift the veil on the world of spies, spooks and secret services.

Terry Hayes’ second novel The Year of the Locust is an epic dive into the shadowy world of the CIA super spy. Ava Glass has been hailed as the new queen of spy fiction and her latest novel is the adrenaline filled The Trap. Mick Herron, creator of the wondrous Slow Horses, is the undisputed spymaster and one of the best novelists at work today. In Kim Sherwood ’s explosive A Spy Like Me, James Bond is missing, just when the country needs him most. Author and journalist Charlotte Philby is in control.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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