The Past is a Foreign Country

Friday 19 July 2024 | 10.30amLive 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 availabilityGrab your passport, pack a hat and wear your sexiest shades as we journey to a time of dastardly deeds to learn what the criminal past can teach us about the criminal present.

Voices of the Dead is the latest ingenious creation from Ambrose Parry, the alter ego of husband-and-wife team Chris Brookmyre & Marisa Haetzman. Amy Chua’s epic debut The Golden Gate is set in California, featuring an assassination and long-buried family secrets. Anna Mazzola’s The Book of Secrets is a dark yet dazzling novel set in 17th century Rome in the wake of the plague. Alchemy, the seventh instalment in SJ Parris’s astonishing Giordano Bruno series sees the spy sent to Prague in a tale of twists and turmoil.

The brilliant Laura Shepherd-Robinson is in charge.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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