Friday 26 February 2016

Crime Events at Huddersfield Literature Festival 2016 -


Saturday 12 March
Christopher Fowler In Conversation with Joanne Harris 1pm
Yorkshire Children’s Centre, Brian Jackson House, New North Parade HD1 5JP
 
The author of the Bryant & May series of detective novels talks to Joanne Harris about his work. Christopher Fowler is the multi-award-winning author of over 30 novels, 12 short story collections and the Bryant & May mystery novels, which record the adventures of two Golden Age detectives investigating impossible London crimes. He is also a journalist, playwright, writer for TV and radio, and the founder of an international film marketing company that created movie posters and trailers for films such as Reservoir Dogs, Trainspotting and Goldeneye. Here, he chats to bestselling local author Joanne Harris about the elements of a crime novel – from well-drawn characters to building suspense.
 
Saturday 12 March
Dark Imaginations – Rupert Thomson & Ian McGuire 2.30pm
Yorkshire Children’s Centre, Brian Jackson House, New North Parade HD1 5JP
 
How do authors decide what stories to write? Are there any subjects they wouldn’t tackle? How do novelists approach writing characters very different from themselves? Does choosing a dark subject matter or writing a different book each time make it harder to retain your readership? Two critically acclaimed novelists, Rupert Thomson & Ian McGuire, discuss their approach to writing and their latest novels.
 
Rupert Thomson has been compared to writers as various as Dickens, Kafka, Paul Auster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Elmore Leonard, and the subjects and settings of his novels have ranged from a sculptor in 17th-century Florence (Secrecy) to a policeman guarding Myra Hindley’s body (Death of a Murderer). His 10th novel, Katherine Carlyle, is a profound and moving story about a young woman who sets off on an extraordinary journey in an attempt to deal with her mother’s death and her father’s neglect.
Ian McGuire is the founder of the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing. Set on a 19th-century Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the Arctic, his latest novel, The North Water, is a dark and gripping tale that pits an ex-army surgeon against a brutal and bloodthirsty harpooner.
 
Saturday 12 March
Location, Location, Location: The importance of setting in crime novels and thrillers 4pm - Frances Brody, Christopher Fowler and Tom Harper
Yorkshire Children’s Centre, Brian Jackson House, New North Parade HD1 5JP
 
There has been a death in the Yorkshire Dales. A murder on a London street. And deep in the Amazon, a group of explorers keeps getting smaller… In this fascinating panel discussion, three authors talk about the importance of setting in their work. Frances Brody is the author of a series of delightful period mysteries set in 1920s Yorkshire and featuring stylish amateur sleuth, Kate Shackleton, the latest of which is A Death in the Dales. Christopher Fowler is the author of the popular Bryant & May detective series set mostly in London between WWII and the present – contemporary crime fiction’s answer to Holmes & Watson. Tom Harper is a York-based writer who produces dazzling Indian Jones-style thrillers set in exotic locations. In his latest, Black River, a doctor looks for a lost city in the heart of the Amazonian forests.
 
 
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