Sunday 14 May 2023
09:30 - 10:20
The Panel are Heather Critchlow, Paul Durston,
Emma Styles, Tasha Sylva,
and the Participating Moderator is Barry Forshaw
Heather
Critchlow is a crime writer and business journalist. Her debut novel Unsolved will
be published in May 2023 by Canelo and is the first in a three-book series
featuring true crime podcaster Cal Lovett. Her short stories have been featured
in the Afraid of the Light anthologies, collections of stories
written by crime writers. She lives in St Albans, UK. Find her on Twitter
@h_critchlow.
Paul
Durston finds
that the biggest hindrance to writing crime fiction is his thirty years’
service in the Metropolitan Police. His debut novel, If I Were Me, is
about PC Charlie Quinlan who experiences memory issues following a traumatic
incident. When she’s incriminated in murder and interviewed under caution, a
cash withdrawal she doesn’t remember making turns out to be a watertight alibi.
When not writing, Paul explores the UK’s inland waterways on his narrowboat.
Emma
Styles writes Australian noir about young women taking on the
patriarchy. She grew up in Western Australia and lives in London. Her debut
road trip thriller, No Country for Girls, was published by Sphere in
2022. Described as ‘Thelma & Louise meets The Tourist’ it won
the 2020 Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award and featured in Val McDermid’s
New Blood panel for outstanding debuts at the 2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime
Writing Festival.
Tasha
Sylva is the author of The
Guest Room, a debut novel about who we can trust, grief and the
nature of obsession. She is also an aspiring small-scale farmer, with a
focus on regenerative agriculture, community and localisation. For her, the
power of story is fundamental. She regularly asks: How can we foster curiosity
and imagination? And, importantly, human connection – to each other, soil,
plants, and all threads of our environment.
Barry
Forshaw
is a leading expert on crime fiction and film. He is the Financial Times’
crime critic, and his books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the
Keating Award-winning Brit Noir (plus Nordic, American, Euro and
Historical Noir). Other work includes British Gothic Cinema,
Simenon, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner),
Death in a Cold Climate, Sex and Film and Italian Cinema. He
edits Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk)
and provides Blu-ray extras.
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