There have been more acts confirmed for the Theakstons Crime Writing Festival this year:
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Theakstons Old
Peculier Crime Writing Festival
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Each week we will be giving you further information on
some of this year’s highlights
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 Friday 17th July | 2.00pm | Tickets:
£10 
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At a time when we’re bombarded with suggestions for
new reading and when Amazon reviews and star-ratings have become
devalued, how do we come across that very special book that will stay
with us for a lifetime? With Stewart
Bain, Isabelle
Grey, Anya
Lipska, David
Mark and James
Oswald.
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Saturday 18th July | 9.00am |
Tickets: £13 
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The New York
Times number one crime novelist Lisa Gardner has over 22 million
books in print and is published in 30 countries.
A self-described research junkie, she once took up boxing to
understand the psychology behind getting hit. Other excursions have
included numerous prison visits, a tour of the infamous Body Farm,
and in-depth conversations with police officers and criminal
investigators. Her approach rewards readers with intricate police
procedure, cutting edge forensics and twisted plots creating
internationally bestselling suspense novels.
Gardner is in conversation with this year’s programming chair Ann
Cleeves, the ‘visionary behind Vera’. As crabby as Columbo, the
unglamorous, brilliant, down-to-earth detective Vera Stanhope and its
flagship ITV series, has attracted a legion of fans worldwide.
Sponsored by Crime Files
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Sunday 19th July | 11.30am | Tickets:
£13
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Indridason
gives interviews rarely and guards his privacy fiercely, and has
admitted he’d rather be home writing than touring on book promotions.
It’s a huge privilege then to welcome the Icelandic author, whose
macabre thrillers starring the introspective Scandinavian inspector
Erlendur Sveinsson, have been translated into 20 languages and enjoy
huge sales worldwide.
Having worked for many years as a journalist and film critic for the
Icelandic newspaper Morgunbladid, he began writing novels aged 34.
The son of the prominent Icelandic novelist Indridi Thorsteinsson, he
hid his writing at first from his father. By the summer of 2003, his
crime novels occupied the top five spots in the Icelandic bestseller
list and the following year his books made up seven of the 10 most
borrowed from the Reykjavik library.
He speaks to writer and journalist Barry Forshaw.
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 Join our
ever expanding list of award-winning writers and discover your own
voice in the most popular literary genre in the world.
UEA are seeking writers and readers with an interest in exploring the
particularly broad and dynamic crime fiction genre.
Their new part-time MA
Creative Writing Crime Fiction provides the
opportunity to create a full-length novel under the guidance of
award-winning crime writers and experienced creative writing tutors –
without having to relocate or give up work.
The course is delivered over two years via a specifically designed
distance learning online platform, and three short residential
periods per year, in September, January and May. Students can stay at
the on-campus hotel.
UEA are also a founding partner in ‘Noirwich’, Norwich’s annual Crime
Writing Festival, which takes place in September, to coincide with
the September residential.
Leading publisher Little, Brown sponsor a £3,000 award for the final
assessment manuscript they judge the best. The literary agency David
Higham Associates sponsor a £5,000 bursary towards fees. Their own
Centre for Creative and Performing Arts also sponsor a full home fees
bursary.
The course commences in September each year and spaces are limited.
How will you plot unfold? Search ‘UEA Crime Fiction’ or contact the
Course Director, Henry Sutton at Henry.Sutton@uea.ac.uk
or on 01603 592738 to find out more
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Title Sponsor
Crime Novel of the Year Partners
  
Premier Partners
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