Name: -
Stuart Turton
Job: -
author and journalist
Website:
- https://www.Stuturton.com
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Introduction
Stuart
Turton is the bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (aka
7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle) which won the 2018 Costa Book Award for First Novel,
Best Novel in the 2018 Books Are My Bag Readers Award and was also shortlisted
for the Debut book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards and
longlisted for both the CWA New Blood Dagger
and the Gold Dagger at the CWA
dagger awards. In 2019 it was shortlisted again for the Best Debut Novel at the
Strand Magazine Critics’ Awards and longlisted for the Glass Bell Award. The
Japanese edition of the book was shortlisted in 2019 For the Best Honkaku
Mystery Novel translated into Japanese in the last decade.
His second book, The Devil and the Dark Water won the 2020 Books Are My Bag Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Japanese version was nominated for the 2023 Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mystery Fiction in Translation.
His most recent book is The Last Murder at the End of the World and was longlisted for the 2025 Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year
Current book? (This can either be the current book that you are reading or writing or both)
I’m currently reading the North Woods by Daniel Mason and it’s so astonishingly good that I want to quit reading, sulk, and then immediately try to replicate its ambition and beauty. It’s wondrous, expanding the scope of what a novel can be while telling a great story. God, I’m depressed again now.
Have any gothic book spooked you and if so which one and why?
I’m not easily spooked, unfortunately. Typically, I find gothic novels so daft that I end up laughing rather than trembling. This is sort of what I’ll be talking about at the festival, actually.
Which two gothic writers would you invite to dinner and why?
The Bronte sisters. I reckon they’d drive each other absolutely nuts and it would be fun to watch.
How do you relax?
Relax? I could do my job in a bed with no material difference to the outcome. Honestly, there’s nothing hard about it. Relaxing is for people with work to do.
Which gothic book do you wish you had written and why?
I’m good on that front. If I’d written Dracula or Frankenstein, I’d be long dead, and would have spent my entire life without the internet. No thanks!
If you were to write a gothic book, where would you set it and why?
There’s always a bit of gothic in my novels, so I’ve sort of covered what I wanted to do. My first novel was set in a creepy old house with secrets in every corner, and my second was set on a haunted boat. I feel like I’ve got my gothic fix.
How would you describe your latest published book?
Agatha Christie does Lost. Except weirder.
Which 3 gothic films would you rewatch and why.
Oh god, I don’t really watch many movies. Can I pass?
What are you looking forward to at St Hilda’s?
I really
like being let out of my office and chatting with people with similar
interests. It’s a lovely way to spend an afternoon.
The Last
Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Abi keeps
them safe. One hundred and twenty-two islanders and their three beloved
scientists live in harmony, kept safe from a poisonous security barrier with
the help of Abi's instructions. Niema keeps the islanders occupied. Niema is
one of the scientists who remembers what life was like before the fog. She
ensures that all of the islanders have a job to do, and everyone loves her.
Almost everyone. Emory can't stop asking questions.
But then
one of the scientists is found dead, and their murder triggers the dropping of
the security barrier. The only way to reinstate it is to find the killer. But
can Emory ask the right questions? They have 107 hours to solve the murder
before the fog sweeps in. Can they stop the end of their world?
Information
on how to buy online tickets can be found here. The programme can be
found here.
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