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The Big Read
We’re excited to bring back the North’s biggest book club, The Big Read 2025, launching once again at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival this summer.
Join us for this free reading group event, hosted by the Festival’s Reader-in-Residence, author Luca Veste, as we dive into Paula Sutton’s The Potting Shed Murder.
Following the festival, Luca will be hitting the road in September 2025, visiting libraries across the North of England to continue the conversation and connect with readers both in person and online.
Want to read the book in advance?
If you’re based in Harrogate, pop into our office at 32 Cheltenham Parade to pick up a free copy of The Potting Shed Murder. Free copies will also be available at the event itself and handed to anyone attending the Big Read.
As part of our on-going outreach work, any customers attending the Big Read event, who do not have any tickets booked for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, will automatically be allocated a Festival Site Pass for Saturday, granting them entry to the Festival (no events are included). This will be valid for the full day.
This event is sponsored by: Dialogue Books
Meet our Reader-In-Residence:
Luca Veste is a writer of Italian and Liverpudlian heritage. He is the author of eight novels, including the Murphy & Rossi series, and standalone novels The Bone Keeper and You Never Said Goodbye. He is the co-organiser of the Locked Up Festival, which raised over £25,000 for the Trussell Trust, co-host of the Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast, and the bass player in the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. He studied psychology and criminology at the University of Liverpool. He is married with two daughters and lives in Merseyside.
Meet the Author:
Paula Sutton is the face behind Hill House Vintage, with over half-a-million Instagram followers. Named by Vogue as the ‘happiest influencer on Instagram’, Paula is a vintage-hunting interiors stylist, author, columnist and television personality showcasing her wonderful cottage-core and cosy Norfolk life through a lens. Paula upped and left her glamorous London life – where she worked in fashion publishing – over ten years ago to move to Hill House in Norfolk with her family. Since then, Paula has curated a beautiful country home, mixing new with vintage, to find her perfect aesthetic, and is the creator of the popular blog, Hill House Vintage.
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