Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival have announced another special guest for 2017:
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing
Festival
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#FestivalFever
It's time
for #FestivalFever! Your favourite inbox brought to you by the
best Crime Writing Festival in the world! Over the last few weeks
we have been teasing you by revealing the 2017 programme piece by
piece, one event at a time...we know, the suspension is too
much! Today, we have just one more announcement for you.
Already revealed we have - Special Guests: Lee Child, Kathy
Reichs and Ian Rankin, Peter May in conversation with Stuart
MacBride, as well as the first of our 2017 Panel Events VERA!
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This
week we are pleased to announce 2017 Special Guest...
Arne Dahl!
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Arne Dahl, a multi-award-winning author, critic and editor.
His books have sold over three million copies, and been translated
into 32 languages. Last appearing at the Theakston Old Peculier
Crime Writing Festival in 2012, we are absolutely delighted to
announce his return in 2017 as part of an 'In Conversation' event.
Who will Dahl be in conversation with you ask? You'll just have to
wait and see!
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Regarded
as one of the finest literary crime writers in Scandinavia,
celebrated author Jan Arnald is the man behind the bestselling Intercrime
series which has been made
into a BBC TV series, written under the pen name of Arne Dahl.
The highly praised series of ten novels has won its creator such distinguished
awards as the premier crime writing awards in
Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In 2007 The Swedish
Academy of Crime Writers awarded Arne Dahl a
special prize for his "vitalization and development of the
crime genre through his Intercrime series"
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IN HIS OWN
WORDS:
"To me the thriller or
crime novel is the perfect tool to reach deep down into the
contemporary human mind and society. While producing sheer reading
joy (because it's so fun to write), I still wish to go one step
beyond the conventional thriller. I want my books to leave a mark
in the mind of the reader, a little moral question that can't stop
rushing around in the back of her head.
But basically it is of course about pleasure, about
recreating the best reading-experiences of my own life, experiences
not like any others in the world. Experiences where you get caught
in a different world and don't want to leave it. I simply write the
books I want to read.
There is no other literary genre with the same
inherent capacity to catch the reader. This is why I love the crime
novel so much. It's about the search for the truth that we are all
constantly involved in. In its quest for a past with as few lies as
possible crime fiction is the best representation of the human
aspiration and desire that I know.
The question I'm asking is really always the same:
What's life really about? What is this short flash of light between
two eternities of darkness? How do we use this all too fleeting
time in the most decent and enjoyable way? And why do we have such
trouble doing it?"
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Watch out for #FestivalFever
with Special Guest reveals.
Full Programme available from Spring 2017.
Why not book a Weekend Break Package – available now!
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Festival Focus:
Crowne Plaza!
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The
Crown Plaza Harrogate (previously Holiday Inn)
The Crown Plaza is a spacious hotel with an enviable position
in the heart of this historic spa town, an easy level five minute
walk from the Festival venue at the Old Swan Hotel. You’ll find a
traditional Yorkshire welcome when you arrive at this modern and
incredibly stylish hotel. As an additional benefit, single
travellers staying at the Crown Plaza enjoy a double or twin room
as standard at no extra cost. The hotel also offers free
accommodation for children under 16 when sharing a room with 2
adults. Use of the Academy leisure club is available complimentary
to hotel guests. Located adjacent to the International Centre,
limited on site car parking is available at an additional charge.
Our Crown Plaza Hotel Weekend Break Packages start from £489 per
person for 3 nights including your Weekend Rover Ticket. Limited
availability so contact our Festival Team on 01423 562303 or click here
today to ensure you don't miss out on this stunning Hotel!
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The line-up so far...
Lee Child | Kathy Reichs | Ian Rankin | Peter May |
Stuart MacBride |
VERA
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