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.
More information and booking details can be found
at:
Tickets: 01484
430528
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