Coming to Live Theatre Newcastle, Crime Story: Portrait of a Criminal on 10 March:
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Crime Story: Portrait of a Criminal
In conversation with Andrew
Hankinson and Dan Davies Live Theatre, Newcastle
Live Theatre, Newcastle
Thursday 10
March, 7pm
Book now
We hope you can join us on Thursday 10 March
for an exciting Crime Story event, which will launch our Crime Story
festival programme.
Dan Davies
and Andrew
Hankinson, award-winning writers in the tradition of
David Peace and Gordon Burn, explore the minds of two of the most
notorious criminals of recent times.
At this special
event, the writers will consider why they have given a
voice to the perpetrators of crime, as well as exploring their own methods of writing
and the place of true crime in literature.
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.
Pieced together from Moat’s own letters and recordings, You Are Raoul Moat
offers a compelling insight into the man’s paranoid state, as well as
raising interesting questions around masculinity and mental health.
Both writers will take part in 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.
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