Europe’s
largest celebration of crime writing has announced its headline Special Guest
authors, revealing a strong female line-up.
Val
McDermid, who chaired the first ever festival in 2003, returns as Programming
Chair of the 2013 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate, to
mark a ‘Decade of Crime’
Special
Guest authors are Jackson Brodie creator Kate Atkinson, Chief Inspector Wexford
author Ruth Rendell interviewed by Jeanette Winterson, Charlaine Harris – whose
Southern Vampire Mysteries inspired TV’s True
Blood and The Woman in Black’s
Susan Hill. Men hold their corner with
Inspector Rebus creator, Ian Rankin, award-winning crime novelist and poet,
William McIlvanney and Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, which
recently hit the big screen starring Tom Cruise.
The
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is hosted at The Old Swan Hotel
in Harrogate, where Agatha Christie was famously found in 1926 after her
disappearance sparked a national manhunt. Attendees are invited to join
over 80 of the world’s most celebrated crime authors ‘in conversation, in
action and in the bar’ from 18 to 21 July.
Val
McDermid said: “When I was ‘persuaded’ to
chair the Programming Committee for the first festival all those years ago,
what tempted me to take it on was the prospect of helping to showcase the range
and quality of contemporary crime writing.
I know that my passion for this genre is shared by the thousands of
readers who have attended our events over the years, and we’ve all had some
memorable encounters with those writers who have given us so much delicious,
disturbing terror over the years. 2013
will be no different.”
The full programme will be announced
over the coming weeks, and individual tickets and rovers will go on sale in the
spring. You
can secure your place at the Festival now by booking a Weekend Break Package,
which includes 3 nights’ bed and breakfast accommodation and a weekend rover
ticket, giving you access to all Festival events. To book your Weekend Package call the
Festival Office on 01423 562303.
Keep up to date with all the latest
news and programme announcements at www.harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime and
on Twitter @TheakstonsCrime
The Festival will be releasing
details of participating authors every day
on their website and through Twitter in the run up to the full programme being
announced.
ENDS
Ann Chadwick
On behalf of Harrogate International Festivals
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