The latest information about the Harrogate Writers Festival has just been sent to me, including pictures and a review of the Poirot and Me: An evening with David Suchet, that I attended at Christmas:
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Denise Mina Joins 2014 Special Guest Line-Up
 The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival
is delighted to announce that award winning author Denise Mina
will be appearing as a Special
Guest at the 2014 Festival. Taking
place 17-20
July 2014 at the magnificent Old Swan Hotel,
Harrogate, Programming Chair Steve
Mosby has put together an astounding line-up, with Denise Mina
joining a stellar line-up of Special Guests which includes Ann Cleeves, Gillian Flynn,
Sophie Hannah, Lynda LaPlante, Laura Lippman, Peter May, Denise Mina
and S. J.
Watson.
Born in Glasgow in 1966, Mina grew up in various locations in Europe
thanks to her father’s work as an engineer. Having left school at
sixteen she tried her hand at a number of jobs including meat factory
worker, kitchen porter and cook, before returning to education to
study Law at Glasgow University followed by a PhD at Strathclyde
University. She wrote her debut novel, Garnethill when she was supposed to
be studying. In addition to writing crime fiction novels, Mina also
writes comics, short stories, stage plays and even a graphic novel.
Denise Mina has twice won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of
the Year Award, with The
End of the Wasp Season in 2012 and Gods and Beasts in
2013, becoming the first author to receive this most coveted award
two years running.
BBC Scotland filmed her novel The
Field of Blood in 2011, which starred David Morrissey and
Peter Capaldi, and won a Scottish BAFTA for its young star Jayd
Johnson. The next book in the series, The Dead Hour, was broadcast in
August 2013.
To find out more about Denise Mina, click here to visit
her website.
Exclusive Competition
Ten Mina
Prize Bundles up for grabs
To celebrate this fantastic news,
the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival have got
together with the Orion Publishing Group to give you the chance to
win one of ten fantastic prizes. We have ten exclusive Denise Mina
triple bundles to giveaway, each one including a DVD
copy of Field
of Blood and beautiful brand new cover versions
of The End of
the Wasp Season
and The Red
Road.
To
enter this unique competition, simply answer the following question:
Name the Detective Inspector who features in Denise Mina's The End of the Wasp Season.
To be in with a
chance of winning, send your answer through to crime@harrogate-festival.org.uk
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Poirot and Me: An Evening with David Suchet
Harrogate
International Festivals was
pleased to present a very special Christmas crime event with David Suchet, sponsored
by Theakstons Old Peculier.
 Hercule Poirot, with his distinctive moustache and
fastidious ways, is one of Agatha Christie’s finest creations and one
of the world’s best-loved detectives. Through his television
performance in ITV’s Agatha Christie’s Poirot, David Suchet has
become inextricably linked with the ‘little Belgian’, a man whom he
has grown to love dearly through an intimate relationship lasting
more than twenty five years. In conversation with writer Geoffrey Wansell,
David Suchet shared his many memories of creating this iconic
television series and reflected on what the detective has meant to
him over the years and his fans worldwide.
The event was a fantastic success with the Royal Hall full to the
rafters and a book signing that went on into the night! We wanted to
share some pictures from this very special evening with you...
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