Friday 13 May 2022
14:50 - 15:40
The Panel are: Sue Lawrence, Imran Mahmood,
Linda Stratmann, Catriona Ward,
and the participating Moderator is Janet Laurence
Sue Lawrence studied French at university before
going on to become a journalist at DC Thomson in Dundee. She won BBC Masterchef
in 1991, and a career in food writing followed, with 19 cookbooks published.
She was regular cookery columnist for
The Sunday Times and
Scotland
on Sunday. Sue is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet.
She began writing fiction 10 years ago;
The Green Lady is her fifth
novel.
Imran Mahmood was born in Liverpool in 1969. He is a
barrister, novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of You Don’t Know Me,
which was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and made into a hugely successful
BBC1 series in 2021; and I Know What I Saw, which reached #2 on the
Audible charts. He now lives in South East London with his wife and is
currently plotting a second novel
Linda Stratmann was born in Leicester in 1948 and first started
scribbling stories and poems at the age of six. She became interested in true
crime when watching Edgar Lustgarten on TV in the 1950s. Linda attended
Wyggeston Girls Grammar School, trained to be a chemist’s dispenser, and later
studied at Newcastle University where she obtained a first in Psychology. She
then spent 27 years in the civil service before leaving to devote her time to
writing. Linda loves spending time in libraries and archives and really enjoys
giving talks on her subject. Her most
recent book is Sherlock Holmes and the Explorers' Club.
www.lindastratmann.com
Catriona Ward is the bestselling author of
Sundial,
The Last House on Needless Street, Little Eve (winner of the Shirley
Jackson and the August Derleth Awards), and
Rawblood, which also won the
August Derleth, making her the only woman to win the prize twice. She was born
in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen,
and Morocco. She now lives in London and Devon. Follow her on Twitter
@CatrionaWard
Janet
Laurence is a
British author and cookery writer. She is the author of two Ursula Grandison
Edwardian mysteries. Laurence's first crime novel, A Deepe Coffyn,
was published in 1989, the first of ten Darina Lisle culinary mysteries and
three in the Canaletto series, all available from Amazon. She is also the
author of Writing Crime Fiction – Making
Crime Pay, published by Aber. Laurence was the 1998/1999 Chair of the Crime
Writers Association. She is on the judging panel for the CWA Historical Crime
Dagger.
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