Diary Dates
2012
January – visiting two reading groups near Plymouth
May – popping in to Crimefest in Bristol for a day – haven’t decided which day yet.
2011
May
19-22 May, Crimefest – a trip to Bristol, where the pen is indeed bloodier than the sword. At least, for one weekend.
June
3 June, 7.00 pm – get in the mood for the Chester Roman Festival with Ask the Authors: Roman Bestsellers. The excellent Ben Kane and I will be at the Grosvenor Museum Lecture Theatre – tickets £3, book at the Museum Shop or call 02144 402005.
4/5 June Chester Roman Festival - plenty of swords around for this one – a chance to relish the atmosphere of a re-occupied Deva. I’ll be around for most of the weekend, so do come and say hello. (PLEASE NOTE THE REVISED DATE! It was previously scheduled for the following weekend.)
21 June – meeting the New Authors’ Club in Milton Keynes
July
17 July – on a panel of Roman-era writers at the fabulous English Heritage Festival of History at Kelmarsh Hall. Here’s the programme, and here’s a rather smart advertisement:
19 July – 6 pm. Bodies in the Bookshop at Heffers in Cambridge. As many crime writers and readers as can possibly be crammed into one shop at one time.
August
26-30 August – the glorious Greenbelt Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse, where I’ll be lurking around the Hub, which is the literature venue, and doing two official events:
4.oo pm Saturday – tea and chat with Simon Morden, award-winning Sci-Fi author, and anyone else who cares to turn up and ask us about the experience of getting work published.
4.30 pm Monday – ‘Getting away with murder’. I have foolishly volunteered to give a talk about why we love crime fiction, and whether in the light of St Paul’s injunction to ‘fill your minds with everything that is good and pure’, we ought to be trying not to.
October
8 October 3-4.00 pm – at Lichfield Literature, talking about writing historical fiction. (Don’t be misled by the July date shown on the website: the Literature part of the festival runs from 1-9 October)
18-19 October – Joining a group of visitors to Hadrian’s Wall.
November
8 November – visiting the Liphook U3A Local History Group
9 November, 7.30 pm – talk to Petersfield Historical Society
