Thursday 10
March, 7pm
Live
Theatre, Newcastle
Two
award-wining writers explore the minds of two of the most notorious criminals
in recent times.
Dan Davies spent more than a decade
writing the highly-acclaimed biography, In Plain Sight: The Life and
Lies of Jimmy Savile, which won the Gordon Burn Prize 2015 and was
shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize 2015. The book is both an
extraordinary portrait of Savile, compiled from years of interviews and dogged
research, as well an enquiry into the society that enabled him for so long.
The event also launches
Northern Writers’ Awards winner Andrew Hankinson’s You
Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]. The book
covers the last days of the fugitive gunman Raoul Moat, who shot three people
before going on the run in rural Northumberland. The book is written in Moat’s
own words, pieced together from letters and recordings, offering a compelling
insight into his paranoid state. You Could Do Something Amazing has
already been named by several critics as one of the books of the year.
Dan Davies and Andrew
Hankinson, writers in the tradition of David Peace and Newcastle’s own
Gordon Burn, will discuss the subjects of their work, their own methods and the
place of true crime in literary writing.
There will be a book signing
after the event.
The evening will also unveil
the full programme for this year’s Crime Story festival, which takes place on
Saturday 11 June. Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train)
will be headlining this year’s festival for crime writers and readers, which
brings together forensic scientists, criminologists, police officers and
lawyers to reveal and interrogate the facts behind crime fiction.
Ticket holders
for Crime Story: Portrait of a Criminal will receive £10/£8 off their Crime
Story festival ticket price. Crime Story is presented by New Writing North and
Northumbria University.
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