St Hilda’s College Mystery and Crime Conference 18 / 20 August 2017
We are
pleased to announce that the theme of the 2017 conference will be
‘Another Crime, Another Place: the role of location in crime fiction.’
Natasha
Cooper will take the Chair and our
other award-winning regular conference speakers include Val McDermid and Andrew
Taylor. We will also welcome the speakers confirmed so far:
Lin
Anderson, Tartan Noir novelist and
screenwriter, author of the Rhona MacLeod forensic crime thriller series, and a
co-founder of the annual Bloody Scotland crime-writing festival.
Lorna
Dawson, head of the Soil Forensics Group at the Hutton
Institute and honorary professor in Forensic Science at Robert Gordon
University, who has worked as tv drama forensics advisor on Vera and Silent Witness, and with crime authors including Ann Cleeves and Lin Anderson.
Mark
Billingham, TV writer and stand-up
comedian whose series of Tom Thorne novels, starting with Sleepyhead, have been adapted for TV in an acclaimed series starring
David Morrissey. Winner twice of the
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year.
Belinda
Bauer, former
journalist and screenwriter, who won the Carl Foreman BAFTA for her screenplay The Locker Room. Her debut novel Blacklands earned her
the CWA’s Gold Dagger, and Rubbernecker won the Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2014.
Jake
Kerridge, journalist and critic who writes on arts and books for several
publications and ‘takes an unhealthy interest in violence and murder as the Telegraph's crime fiction critic.’
Abir
Mukerjee, who was working as an
accountant when won the Telegraph-Harvill Secker Crime Writing
Competition with his debut novel, A Rising Man.
Set in India in 1919, it is hoped to be the first of a series
featuring Capt Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee.
Manda
Scott, Edgar-nominated author of the
best-selling Boudica series and the Sebastos Pantera Roman novels, who began her career with a series of crime novels set in
Scotland.
Henry
Sutton, Award-winning crime novelist and academic whose
novels include My Criminal World and Get Me Out of Here. He is Senior Lecturer in
Creative Writing at the University
of East Anglia and co-director of the MA
in Prose Fiction UEA Creative
Writing Course.
And announcing Conference Guest, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Queen of
Nordic Noir.
Author of the bestselling Thora
Gudmundsdottir crime series and several stand-alone thrillers including ‘I
Remember You’ (Icelandic Crime Fiction Award.)
The
Conference Dinner will be held in aid of The
P D James Fund which supports to the work of the English School and
students at St Hilda’s College.
BOOK NOW : Priority booking is available until 31st
March 2017 at www.mysteryandcrime2017.eventbrite.co.uk
More news,
including the full programme and social media updates, will follow soon.
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The St Hilda’s College Mystery and Crime Conference Planning Committee
are: Triona Adams, Natasha Cooper, Jean
Harker, Jake Kerridge, Val McDermid, Andrew Taylor and Bronwyn Travers
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