This year the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
are hosting various crime fiction events.
16 September at 6.45pm
Digging Into the Darkness: The Twist In The Tale Of Psychological Thriller Writing
Sophie Hannah, Sabine Durrant & Christopher
Fowler talk to Peter Guttridge
Three contemporary thriller writers discuss their craft
with crime fiction critic Peter Guttridge. The Carrier is a compulsive
puzzle of a novel from Sophie Hannah that has you hooked from the very first
page. Sabine Durrant's Under Your Skin is an unpredictable, exquisitely
twisty story, which proves that you should assume nothing, believe no one and
check everything, while Christopher Fowler's latest novel, Bryant & May
and the Invisible Code won the eDUNNIT Crimefest Award.
16th September at 8.30pm
Nick
Ross, presenter of Crimewatch will be
talking about his new book, 'Crime.'
In a whirlwind demolition of dozens of misconceptions
about crime, hear Nick Ross propose what is arguably the most radical re-think
of crime policy since the dawn of policing. BBC Crimewatch presenter,
Ross, demonstrates in Crime why the criminal justice system has little
effect on crime rates, how policing has been hijacked to serve the needs of
lawyers, and how "facts" about crime are continually manipulated to
serve the needs of politicians and the media. Most importantly, he sets out a
wide-ranging strategy for revolutionising criminal and policing policy.
17 September at 12:30pm
The Complete Jack The Ripper with Donald Rumbelow.
Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work
is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions and fascinations
surrounding the greatest whodunit in history. Rumbelow, a former London
Metropolitan policeman, and authority on crime, subjects every theory to deep
scrutiny. He also examines the horrifying parallel crimes of the Dusseldorf and Yorkshire
Rippers to try and throw further light on the atrocities of Victorian London.
17th September at 2pm
Crime, Mystery and the Short Story.
As members of the Crime Writers' Association, celebrate its 60th
anniversary this year John Harvey and Stella Duffy talk about their love of short crime fiction with Alison Joseph, Chair of the CWA. Is
the short story's resurgence really such a mystery?
17th September at 6.45pm
'The Detective,' will
see Mark Billingham and Robert Ryan in conversation focusing on
Billingham's 'The Dying Hours' and
Ryan's 'Dead Man's Land.'
Complex individuals both alienate and inspire those around
them. In the Sunday Times, best-selling author Billingham's, The
Dying Hours, Detective Tom Thorne, having stepped out of line once too
often, is back in uniform and he hates it. Patronised and abused by his new
colleagues, he is forced to investigate alone. In Robert Ryan's new book Dead
Man's Land, Dr John Watson, Sherlock Holmes' sidekick, is finally forced to
take centre stage. Ryan's Watson must for once step out of the shadows and into
the limelight if he's to solve the mystery behind inexplicable deaths.
For more information please
contact –
Zoe Kaye
Literary Festival Assistant
T: 020 8511 7906
Book
Now for 2013 Literary Festival at www.hamhighlitfest.com
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