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Newcastle’s Crime Writing

Festival

Monday 25th April -

Sunday 1st May 2016

Launch Friday 29th April

with ANN CLEEVES

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Launch refreshments | Richard Granger Wines JD Wetherspoon Festival Bookseller | Forum Books, Corbridge

The Lit & Phil is the largest independent library outside London. Opened in 1825, the building houses a contemporary as well as historic collection of more than 160,000 books, and an important collection of recorded music and scores.www.litandphil.org.ukTwitter: @litandphil | @newcastlenoir Facebook: The-Lit-and-Phil www.newcastlenoir.blogspot.co.uk

Weekend Pass £50/£30Day Pass £25/£15Single Panel £5/£3Workshops £10/£7 each £15/£10 for both Places limited to 15Lit & Phil Tours Free | Saturday 30th April 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 1.30pm, 2.30pm Places limited to 20City Walking Tours £4 Places limited to 20Fringe Talks, Launch Event and Festival Quiz Free but booking essential

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Acknowledgements

Assisted by a grant from the Northern Rock Foundation

The crime scene is the Lit & Phil as Newcastle Noir investigates crime writing. Panels of new and established authors will discuss the creation of miscreants and their misdemeanours, within many areas of crime. Tours will expose the darker side of historical Newcastle and workshops allow you start plotting your own fraud or fatality!Festival Organisers: Jacky Collins, Kay Easson and Ariane Bogain

How to BookAll events payable in advanceBooking is essential to avoid disappointmentPhone: 0191 232 0192 Online: www.litandphil.org.uk Email: library@litandphil.org.uk In person at the Lit & Phil. 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SEConcessions available for the over 60s, registered unemployed, disabled, students, and under 16s.

Graphic Design | Shima Banks Cover Photo | Bob Hyde

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Launch refreshments | Richard Granger Wines JD Wetherspoon Festival Bookseller | Forum Books, Corbridge

It begins... Fringe: 25th - 27th AprilMonday 25th April Murderous Newcastle Fact and Fiction | Pat Lowery 6pm | FreeNewcastle is rich in history and has endured many turbulent times. Some people died an unexpected and violent death resulting in the murderers being hanged at Gallows Hole or outside the West Gate. Others escaped their fate as the murderers evaded the clutches of the law. This talk looks at some of the terrible murders in Newcastle, both real and as imagined by local authors.

Tuesday 26th April Writing Workshop: Valerie Laws 6-8pm | £10/£7 | Booking essentialTime for Crime - come over to the dark side and try your blood-stained hand at murder! In this two hour fun workshop Valerie Laws will introduce you to the basics of writing crime stories or even a novel - perhaps your ‘tec will be on TV one day like wor Vera.

Wednesday 27th April Gail-Nina Anderson | Snatch That Body! 6pm | Free

In 1884, as a suitably seasonal tale, the Pall Mall Christmas Extra magazine published The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson. A fiction with its roots in historical fact, the story is centred on the grisly practice of stealing freshly buried corpses for medical dissection. From such an august example, this

(not too grisly) talk discusses the phenomenon of body-snatching as it has been fictionalised in literature and film, from the aspects of social history and burial practice, in relation to such real-life practitioners as Burke and Hare, and as the source for a flourishing growth of urban legends.

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Saturday 30th April...It’s All in the Mind Crime Writing Workshop 10am – 12 noon | £10/7This crime writing workshop will give participants an insight into the way in which crime fiction works. Light will be shed on the nature of crime fiction narrative structure, and the ways this can manipulate, and control, readers’ reaction to such text. The workshop also presents a concept known as ‘mind style’, which connects linguistic choices to an understanding of character minds. The workshop will include participant activities and discussion.Dr Christiana Gregoriou is a lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, and has written widely on stylistics, crime fiction ‘deviance’, and criminal ideology.Places are limited, booking is essential.

Murderous Newcastle Walking Tour 10.30am - 12.30pm | £4 A city centre walking tour led by Pat Lowery, Newcastle City Guide and designed specifically for Newcastle Noir.Take a look at the darker side of historical Newcastle. The ‘Gallows Hole’- near where St James’ Park now stands - was a place of public execution and saw the deaths of murderers, witches and horse stealers. This tour looks at crimes of yesteryear, and also those fictional crimes created by Ann Cleeves and Mari Hannah. Meet at the Castle Keep, ends at the Lit & Phil.

Festival Launch

Friday 29th

April 7pm - Free

What better way to

launch this year’s

Festival than in the

company of award-

winning writer,

ANN CLEEVES.

Ann Cleeves is a prizewinning

crime writer, best known for her

Vera Stanhope novels, set in the

North East of England, as well as

her Shetland series. Both series

have been televised to critical

acclaim. Her last Vera novel, The

Moth Catcher , was published in

September 2015.

Launch sponsored by Sintons Law.

Free, with complimentary drink

on arrival provided by Richard

Granger Wines. Booking essential.

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Saturday 30th April...

pSólveig Pálsdóttir is the author of three best-selling crime novels. The first two Leikarinn (The Actor) and Hinir réttlátu (The Righteous) have been translated into German. The third, Flekklaus (Spotless), was published in Iceland last spring. Sólveig lives in Reykjavík.

Lilja Sigurđardóttir is an Icelandic crime-writer and playwright. Her first novel, Steps (Spor), was published in 2009 and later translated into German. Her second novel, Forgiveness (Fyrirgefning), was published in 2010. Her new novel, Trapped was published in October 2015.

Yrsa Sigurđardóttir is the bestselling and award-winning Icelandic crime author of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series as well as several stand-alone thrillers. She made her crime fiction debut in 2005 with Last Rituals, the first instalment in the

Thóra series. The latest book to be published in the UK is The Undesired, preceded by the Award winning Silence Of The Sea and Someone To Watch Over Me, chosen by the Sunday Times as the best crime novel published in the UK in 2013.

Antti Tuomainen is the award-winning author of five novels. He has been called ‘The King of Helsinki Noir’ by the Finnish press. In 2011 his third novel The Healer was awarded the Clue Award for Best Finnish Crime Novel and has subsequently been published in 27 countries. His fourth novel Dark as My Heart has been voted the best crime novel of the past decade by the readers of a Finnish crime fiction magazine.

PANEL 1 Icelandic/Nordic 11am - 12 Noon | Chaired by Jacky CollinsSólveig Pálsdóttir, Lilja Sigurđardóttir, Yrsa Sigurđardóttir, and Antti Tuomainen

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PANEL 2 Novellas & Short Stories 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Chaired by Quentin BatesQuentin Bates, Paul Gitsham, Daniel Pembrey, and Cath Staincliffe

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Quentin Bates is the author of Frozen Out, Cold Comfort, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, Cold Steal and Summerchill, a series of crime novels and novellas set in present-day Iceland. The next in the series, Thin Ice, is due out this year. Quentin is now translating Ragnar Jónasson’s novels for Orenda Books. Snowblind and Nightblind have already been published, with three more to come.

Paul Gitsham is the author of the DCI Warren Jones series, all three of which have been Amazon bestsellers. He is currently writing the fourth book in the series.

Daniel Pembrey writes crime stories, mostly novellas, set in

atmospheric foreign locations. His Dutch detective series, The Harbour Master, has just been acquired by No Exit Press. He is currently developing a novel set in Berlin.

Cath Staincliffe is an award winning novelist and creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder. Cath’s books have been shortlisted for the CWA Best First Novel award and for the Dagger in the Library. Letters To My Daughter’s Killer was selected for the Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club on ITV3 in 2014. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey books based on the popular ITV series.

In Conversatio

n 2.30pm-3.30pm

Élmer Mendoza and Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

Élmer Mendoza’s first book,

Mucho que reconocer (Much

to admit) was a short story

collection, published in 1978.

In 2002 he was awarded the

José Fuentes Mares Prize for his

novel El amante de Janis Joplin

(The Lover of Janis Joplin), and

in 2007 he received the Tusquets

International Prize for his novel

Balas de plata (Silver Bullets).

His books have been translated

into a number of languages. His

most recent book is Besar al

detective (Kissing the Detective).

Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

is editor in chief of several

cultural magazines and literary

supplements in Mexico City.

He is also a translator and

a film and literary critic. His

most recent books include La

mujer de M. (The Woman of

M., novella, 2012), and Ciudad

tomada (City Taken Over, short

stories, 2013). In 2015 he was

appointed National Coordinator

of Literature for the National

Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico.

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PANEL 3 Historical 4pm - 5pm | Chaired by Ayo OnatadeFrances Brody, Clare Carson, Kate Griffin, and Luke McCallin

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Frances Brody is the author of seven Kate Shackleton mysteries. The latest, A Death in the Dales, was published in October 2015. Writing in the Daily Mail, Barry Turner said: “... Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers.”

Clare Carson’s first novel, Orkney Twilight, was published in 2014 and is part old-school spy thriller, part family drama and part Norse mythological adventure. The follow up, The Salt Marsh, will be published in 2016.

Kate Griffin’s first book Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, won the Stylist/Faber crime writing competition and was shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger. Kate’s second novel, Kitty Peck and the Child of Ill-Fortune, is a fast-paced historical mystery moving from late 19th Century Paris to a deadly secret at the heart of the British Empire.

Luke McCallin was born in England, grew up in Africa, and has worked with the UN as a humanitarian relief worker and peacekeeper. His experiences have inspired a historical mystery series built around a German intelligence officer and a former Berlin detective chased out of the police by the Nazis.

Ayo Onatade has been reading crime fiction for over 40 years and has an eclectic taste. She currently writes and blogs about crime fiction for Shotsmag.co.uk. and contributes to Crimespree Magazine. She has written articles and given papers on crime fiction in a number of books and at various events.

In Conversatio

n 2.30pm-3.30pm

Élmer Mendoza and Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

Mauricio Montiel Figueiras

is editor in chief of several

cultural magazines and literary

supplements in Mexico City.

He is also a translator and

a film and literary critic. His

most recent books include La

mujer de M. (The Woman of

M., novella, 2012), and Ciudad

tomada (City Taken Over, short

stories, 2013). In 2015 he was

appointed National Coordinator

of Literature for the National

Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico.

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PANEL 4 Thriller 5.30pm - 6.30pm | Chaired by Rosie White

Michael Grothaus, Paul Hardisty, Craig Robertson and Yusuf Toropov

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Michael Grothaus is a journalist who spent years researching sex trafficking. These experiences have inspired his debut novel Epiphany Jones. As a journalist Michael writes about tech, creativity, personal health, the effects of mass media on our psyches, and other cutting edge issues of the day.

Paul Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. His debut thriller, The Abrupt Physics of Dying, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, and was a Telegraph book of the year.

Craig Robertson is a former journalist with 20 years’ experience. His debut novel, Random, was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and was a Sunday Times bestseller.

Yusuf Toropov is an American Muslim writer. The thriller Jihadi: A Love Story, which reached the quarter-finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, is his first crime novel. He now lives in Ireland.

Rosie White is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Northumbria University, working on gender and representation in contemporary popular culture; she is a founding member of the Crime Studies Network https://www.facebook.com/CrimeStudiesNetwork.

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Saturday 30th April, much later...pPANEL 5 Supernatural 7.30pm - 8.30pm | Chaired by Alexandra Sokoloff

A. K. Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction. Her debut novel The Beauty of Murder received fantastic reviews and has already been optioned for TV. Her short stories and poems feature in journals and anthologies. Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, her second novel, was published in February 2016.

Lucy Cameron currently lives in a shed in her Dad’s garden in Scotland where she writes by candlelight. Lucy’s interest in writing stems from her love of film and theatre and she is a keen script writer. Her debut novel Night Is Watching is published by Caffeine Nights in April 2016.

Oscar de Muriel was born in Mexico City and moved to the UK to complete a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He is a violinist, translator, chemist and author who now lives in Cheshire. The Strings of Murder and A Fever of the Blood are the first instalments of his forthcoming Frey & McGray series.

Alexandra Sokoloff is the award-winning author of twelve supernatural and crime thrillers. The New York Times has called her “a daughter of Mary Shelley” and her books “Some of the most original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.” Her Thriller Award-nominated Huntress Moon series follows an FBI agent on the hunt for a female serial killer.

A.K. Benedict, Lucy Cameron, Oscar de Muriel, and Alexandra Sokoloff

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Sunday 1st May, day two...PANEL 1 Brit Noir 11am - 12 Noon | Chaired by Barry Forshaw

Helen Cadbury, Barry Forshaw, Susi Holliday, Amanda Jennings, and Sarah Ward

Helen Cadbury’s debut, To Catch a Rabbit, was joint winner of the Northern Crime Competition in 2012. First published by Moth Publishing, it was re-released in a new edition by Allison & Busby in January 2015. Her second novel, Bones in the Nest, was published in July 2015.

Barry Forshaw is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction and film. Books include Brit Noir, Nordic Noir, Sex and Film, and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, and the Keating Award-winning British Crime Writing encyclopedia.

S.J.I. Holliday grew up in Scotland and now lives in London. After having several short stories published in anthologies, one of which was shortlisted for the

inaugural CWA Margery Allingham competition, she finally turned to novels. Her debut psychological thriller, Black Wood, was published in 2015.

Amanda Jennings lives just outside Henley-on-Thames. The Judas Scar and Sworn Secret both achieved widespread critical acclaim and the latter became an ebook bestseller in the USA. In Her Wake is her third novel.

Sarah Ward is an online book reviewer whose blog, Crimepieces, reviews the best of current crime fiction. She is a judge for the Petrona Award for Scandinavian translated crime novels. Sarah lives in rural Derbyshire where her debut novel, In Bitter Chill, is set.

A city centre walking tour led by Pat Lowery, Newcastle City

Guide and designed specifically for Newcastle Noir.

Take a look at the darker side of historical Newcastle. The

‘Gallows Hole’- near where St James’ Park now stands - was

a place of public execution and saw the deaths of murderers,

witches and horse stealers. This tour looks at crimes of

yesteryear, and also those fictional crimes created by Ann

Cleeves and Mari Hannah.

Meet at the Castle Keep, ends at the Lit & Phil.

Murderous Newcastle Walking Tour

10.30am - 12.30pm

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Sunday 1st May, day two... pPANEL 2 Scandinavian 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Chaired by Jacky Collins

Mari Hannah is a Northumberland based scriptwriter and author. She won the Polari First Book Prize for her debut The Murder Wall and a Northern Writers’ Award for her second novel Settled Blood. Her crime series is in development with Stephen Fry’s production company, Sprout Pictures. Her most recent novel, The Silent Room, was published in November 2015.

Kati Hiekkapelto is a bestselling, award-winning Finnish author, punk singer, performance artist and, formerly, special-needs teacher. She lived in the Hungarian region of Serbia, which inspired her to write her highly regarded debut crime novel, The Hummingbird, which was shortlisted for the Petrona Award. The Defenceless, won Best Finnish Crime Novel of 2014 and is shortlisted for the Glass Key in 2016.

Jónína Leósdóttir is the author of a dozen plays, ten novels, two biographies and numerous articles. She writes both for adults and teenagers. Among the awards she has received for her work is the poetry award Ljóđstafur Jóns úr Vör, the IBBY Iceland Award for her novels for teenagers, and playwriting competition prizes. She also played a key role in establishing The Icelandic Women’s Literary Prize.

Gunnar Staalesen was born in Bergen in 1947. He is the author of over 20 titles, which have been published in 24 countries and sold over four million copies. Twelve film adaptations of his Varg Veum crime novels have appeared since 2007, starring the popular Norwegian actor Trond Epsen Seim.

Mari Hannah, Kati Hiekkapelto, Jónína Leósdóttir, and Gunnar Staalesen

A city centre walking tour led by Pat Lowery, Newcastle City

Guide and designed specifically for Newcastle Noir.

Take a look at the darker side of historical Newcastle. The

‘Gallows Hole’- near where St James’ Park now stands - was

a place of public execution and saw the deaths of murderers,

witches and horse stealers. This tour looks at crimes of

yesteryear, and also those fictional crimes created by Ann

Cleeves and Mari Hannah.

Meet at the Castle Keep, ends at the Lit & Phil.

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Sunday 1st May, later that day...PANEL 3 Writing Elswhere 2.30pm - 3.30pm | Chaired by Ayo Onatade

Barbara Nadel, Alex Shaw, and Michael Stanley

Barbara Nadel is author of the Turkish set Inspector Ikmen series as well as the London based Hakim and Arnold mysteries. Hailing from the East End of London, Barbara has a degree in psychology and has worked in psychiatric hospitals, including a medium secure unit. Now a full-time writer, Barbara won the Crime Writers Association Silver Dagger for her Ikmen book Deadly Web in 2005.

Alex Shaw is an active member of the ITW (The International Thriller Writers organisation) and the CWA (the Crime Writers Association). He is the author of the International Kindle Bestselling Aidan Snow SAS thrillers Cold Blood, Cold Black, Cold East and the new Delta Force Vampire series of books. His writing has also been published in several thriller anthologies.

Michael Stanley is the writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip. Both were born in South Africa and have worked in academia and business. Their first mystery, A Carrion Death, which introduced Detective ‘Kubu’ Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department, was a finalist for five awards. The series has been critically acclaimed, and their third book, Death of the Mantis, won the Barry Award and was a finalist for an Edgar award.

Ayo Onatade has been reading crime fiction for over four decades and she has written articles and given papers on the subject over many years.

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Sunday 1st May, later that day...

eIn co

nversation

4pm-5pm

Val McDermid in conversation

with Gail-Nina Anderson

Val McDermid is one of the biggest names in crime writing.

Her novels have been translated into 30 languages, and

have sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Her books

include three main series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan,

and Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, the first of which, The

Mermaids Singing, won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold

Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill ⁄Jordan

series was adapted for the highly successful television

drama Wire in the Blood, starring Robson Green.

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PANEL 4 New Blood 5.30pm - 6.30pm | Chaired by Amit Dhand

Alison Baillie, Col Bury, Amit Dhand and Graham Smith

Alison Baillie’s first novel, Sewing the Shadows Together, was published in August 2015. It is set in Scotland and was partly inspired by her years of living and teaching English in Edinburgh. She has also taught EFL in Finland and Switzerland, where she now lives, but her heart will always be in Scotland, and she comes back to be near the sea as often as possible.

Col Bury is the former Crime Editor of webzine Thrillers, Killers ‘n’ Chillers. His fiction has featured in many anthologies, most notably The Mammoth Books Of Best British Crime 9, 10 & 11. He is the author of two popular short stories collections, Manchester 6 and The Cops of Manchester and in June 2015 his debut novel My Kind of Justice was released via Caffeine Nights Publishing.

A.A. Dhand was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After graduating as a pharmacist, he now spends his days supplying medications and his nights wandering the streets of the city. The history, diversity and darkness of Bradford have inspired his Harry Virdee novels.

Graham Smith is the author of The Major Crimes Team Vol 1: Lines of Enquiry, a short story collection which introduces each of the five members of the police team in his critically-acclaimed debut novel Snatched from Home. An avid fan of crime fiction he has been a regular reviewer and interviewer for the well-respected website Crimesquad.com for over five years.

Sunday 1st May,the net closes in...

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Sunday 1st May,the net closes in...

pIn conversation 7.30pm - 8.30pm Sophie Hannah and Sheila QuigleySophie Hannah is an internationally

bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 32 languages. In 2014,

Sophie published a new mystery novel starring Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective. Sophie’s Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, was written with the blessing of the Agatha Christie estate and reached a top five position in the book

charts in more than fifteen countries. The Narrow Bed is her latest crime novel. Sheila Quigley is the bestselling author of The Seahills series and The Holy Island trilogy. She was recently voted number 7 in WHSmiths’ poll of Best Crime Thriller authors of all time. Two of her books, Run For Home and Bad Moon Rising have both

been turned into successful stage plays.

End of Festival Quiz

9pm-10pm

c? Round off the festival by exercising those

little grey cells, with a quiz compiled by our Newcastle Noir authors. Hosted by Sheila Quigley, there are great prizes to be won.

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