Saturday 14 May 2022
11:20-12:20
Panel are: Alex North, Sarah Pinboutough, Helen Sedgwick,
Matt Wesolski,
and the participating Moderator is Rhiannon Ward.
Alex
North was born in Leeds, England, where he
now lives with his wife and son. His novel The Whisper Man was
inspired by North's own little boy, who mentioned one day that he was
playing with "the boy in the floor." and is an international
bestseller that is currently being adapted for film. His latest novel is The
Shadow Friend. Alex North is a British crime writer who has
previously published under another name.
Sarah Pinborough was
born in 1972 in Buckinghamshire. She is the
number one Sunday Times Bestselling and New York Times Bestselling author of
the psychological thriller Behind Her
Eyes published January 2017. During her career, she has published more
than 20 novels and several novellas and has written for the BBC. Her recent books include Dead To Her, in
development with Amazon Studios. Sarah lives in the historic town of Stony
Stratford, the home of the Cock and Bull story, with her dog Ted. Her latest
novel, Insomnia, came out in March 2022.
You can follow Sarah on Twitter at @sarahpinborough.
https://sarahpinborough.com
Helen Sedgwick has an
MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University. She won a Scottish Book
Trust New Writers Award in 2012, and her writing has been broadcast on BBC Radio
4 and widely published in magazines and anthologies. Before writing her debut
novel she was a research physicist, with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh
University. She is the author of The Comet Seekers
(Harvill Secker 2016), The Growing Season (2017), and the
Burrowhead Mysteries crime trilogy of When the Dead Come Calling
(Point Blank 2020), Where the Missing Gather (2021) and What
Doesn’t Break Us (2022). She was appointed Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow in
2021. Helen now lives in the Scottish Highlands.
www.helensedgwick.com
Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in
the UK. He is an English tutor for children in care and leads Cuckoo Young
Writers creative writing workshops for young people in association with New
Writing North. Wesolowski started his writing career in horror and his short
horror fiction has been published in numerous magazines and US anthologies. Six
Stories was his debut crime novel. His
subsequent books in the series went on to become
international successes, with the 6th book,
Demon, published, in January 2022.
Matt currently lives in Newcastle with his partner and young son.
You can
follow Matt on twitter @concretekraken
https://mjwesolowskiauthor.wordpress.com/
Rhiannon Ward is the author of two gothic historical thrillers. Her first, The
Quickening, was a Radio Times book of the year and The
Shadowing was a Daily Express critic's favourite of 2021.
As Sarah Ward, she is the author of four
DC Childs novels set in the Derbyshire Peak District where she lives, and she also has
written two Doctor Who audio dramas.
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