Diary Dates
Library visits in April/May as part of the National Year of Reading:
Tuesday 1 April, 7 pm - talk at Wolverton Library, Milton Keynes 01908 312812
Wednesday 2 April, 7pm - talk at Dittons Library, Thames Ditton - 08456 009009
Thursday 17 April, 7.00 pm - talk at Leighton Buzzard library - 01525 371788
Wednesday 23 April 7.30 pm - talk at St. Albans library - 01438 737333
Thursday 24 April - 7-8 pm talk at Peterborough library - 01733 864277
Monday 28 April - 7.30 pm - talk at Piddington Museum (Chapel End, Piddington, Northants NN7 2DD).
Wednesday 28 May - talk at Princes Risborough Library as part of their Orange Prize evening for reading groups. The only time I shall ever be mentioned in the same sentence as the Orange Prize, so I’m making the most of it.
June
5-8 June - loitering with intent at the Crimefest event in Bristol, and taking part in a panel discussion on Saturday afternoon.
Wednesday 18 June - 7.00 - talk at Olney Library - phone for tickets - 01234 711474
Thursday 26 June - Spending ‘a day on a dig’ with competition winners.
July
1 July WAS the official publishers’ deadline for the manuscript of book 3. Now moved, hooray! (see ‘August’)
15 July - 6.00 pm - Bodies in the Bookshop. Come and help the staff of Heffers in their annual attempt to find out how many crime writers and readers can fit into one shop all at the same time. It’s always great fun but you’ll need a ticket, so if you can’t call in to buy one (20 Trinity Street, Cambridge) contact Richard Reynolds on 01223 568532 or email literature@heffers.co.uk
August
15 August - revised deadline for book 3. There’s no point in extending it further: after that I’ll be winding down and packing the camping gear ready for August Bank Holiday and the glorious Greenbelt Festival.
September
12 September - assuming the publishers have not locked me in a room with only a laptop and a further extended deadline for company, I’ll be taking part in what I was told was the Reading Festival of Crime (but turns out to be, less controversially, ‘of Crime Writing’) Quick note for folks outside the UK - there is a place called ‘Reading’ which is pronounced ‘Redding’, and this is it.
Saturday 20 September - taking part in the Throckmorton Literary Festival at Coughton Court in Warwickshire.
October
Thursday 2 October - meeting Friends of the Manor House Museum as part of the Ilkley Literature Festival
Wednesday 22 October - at the Guildford Book Festival
Thursday 23 October - at the Chester Literature Festival
November
Saturday 15 November - taking part in a Readers’ Day at Chesham Town Hall
