The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2017 team have announced another special guest, Peter May, plus details about the Book of the Year and a competition, details below:
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing
Festival
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#FestivalFever
#FestivalFever
is heating up each week as we continue to reveal another piece of
the mystery that is the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing
Festival 2017! So far we have announced three Special Guests
- Lee Child, Kathy Reichs and Ian Rankin and we thought it was
time to reveal one more.
This Special Guest comes to you as the first part of a
TWO-part announcement as this event will be an 'In
Conversation', but we couldn't possibly reveal both pieces of the
puzzle at once...that would be too easy!
One of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists, he garnered
more than 1000 credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script
editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the
creator of three major television drama series and presided over
two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting
television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.
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This week we are pleased to announce 2017
Special Guest...
Peter May!
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Peter
May is a multi award-winning author of various novels. His
works include the internationally best-selling Lewis Trilogy set
in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, the China Thrillers,
featuring Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic
pathologist Margaret Campbell, the critically-acclaimed Enzo Files,
featuring Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, set in
France as well as several standalone books.
From the beginning May's dream was to be a novelist and he spent
his childhood and teen years writing. However, he decided to go
into journalism as this seemed like a reasonable career choice. He
went on to win the Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Award at
the age of 21, but the pull of fiction continued, and every spare
moment was spent on creative writing. May left journalism and
began writing television drama. By the age of 30 he had
created two major TV series for the BBC, The Standard and
Squadron. In the 1990s, he co-created the ground-breaking
Machair, the first ever major drama serial in the Gaelic language,
which he also produced.
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With the
approach of the new millennium, May quit television to return to
his first love, novels, and embarked on a series of thrillers which
took him half-way across the world. He gained unprecedented
access to the homicide and forensic science sections of Beijing and
Shanghai police forces and made a painstaking study of the
methodology of Chinese detectives and pathologists. His outstanding China Thrillers series
of books are now published worldwide.
The
Blackhouse is the first of three books set in the
Outer Hebrides of Scotland. After being turned down by all the
major UK publishers, the first of Peter's The Lewis Trilogy
was published in France as L'Ile
des Chasseurs d'Oiseaux where it was hailed
as "a
masterpiece" by the French national newspaper
L'Humanité. His novels have a large following in
France. The trilogy has won several French literature awards,
including one of the world's largest adjudicated readers awards,
the Prix
Cezam.
Peter's
recent works have been standalone books, in other words single
novels, not forming part of any series. In 2014 Entry Island was
published, it won the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the
Year Award 2014 and the ITC Specsavers Crime Thriller Club
Best Read of the Year 2014. He has also written Runaway,
which was published in the UK in January 2015 and his latest
book Coffin
Road which was published in the UK in January 2016.
Keep an
eye on your inbox over the next few weeks to find out who Peter May
will be 'In Conversation' with!
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Watch out for #FestivalFever
with Special Guest reveals.
Full Programme and Tickets available from Spring
2017. Or why not book a Weekend Break Package – available now! Read
on…
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WH Smith announces its ‘Book of the Year’ for 2016
WHSmith are pleased to announce that their 2016
‘Book of the Year’ is The
Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena. This title
has been one of the bestselling debuts of 2016 and continues to be
one of the most talked about thrillers of the year.
The Couple
Next Door is a real page turner which will have the
reader guessing from beginning to end. When couple Anne and Marco
attend a dinner party hosted by the couple next door they face a
dilemma when their babysitter cancels at the last minute. Not wanting
to cancel their invitation from next door, they decide to leave the
baby at home. However, on returning home later that night they
discover the baby is nowhere to be found and the mystery begins….
Sandra Bradley, WH Smith Head of Fiction, commented: “I am absolutely delighted
that The Couple Next Door is the WHSmith ‘Book of the Year’ for 2016.
It’s such a thrilling read – and our customers have loved it
too!”
The Couple
Next Door will be featured as the 2016 ‘Book of the
Year’ in all High Street stores across the country and is also
available online. Look out for a special gift edition of the book
which will be available in store from the 1 December!
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COMPETITION!
We're very excited to be working
with Quercus Books and Crime Files to bring you our latest
competition!
WIN:
- A pair of
tickets to an exclusive
crime author party in collaboration with Crime Files - crimefiles.co.uk.
The party will take place on 11th January
6.30-8.30pm at the Hachette
offices in London.
OR
- A set of signed
Peter May books including a copy of his new novel Cast Iron (published
in January 2017).
‘Who was the Programming Chair
of the
Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2016?'
Please choose a preferred prize
and quote either 'CrimeFiles' or 'CastIron' in the email
subject.
Ends 30th December at
5pm!
*We
would like to keep you updated with news from the Theakston
Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival through our mailing
list. Please do let us know when you enter if you would prefer
your email address not to be used in this way.
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stunning Hotel!
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Love Lee Child? Don't Forget...
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Limited Time Offer - We are
offering the next 20 Weekend Break Package bookers a hard back copy
of Lee's new book 'The Night School' along with the film tie in
paper back of 'Never Go Back'
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