Friday,
12 May 2023
12:30 - 13:20
The Panel are Mark Billingham, Martin Edwards,
Janice Hallett, Vaseem Khan,
and the Participating Moderator is David Brawn,
Mark Billingham is one of the UK's most acclaimed and popular
crime writers. A former actor, television writer and stand-up comedian, his
series of novels featuring D.I. Tom Thorne has twice won him the Crime Novel of
The Year Award as well as the Sherlock Award for Best British Detective. He has
written 24 books, the most recent being The Last Dance, the first in a
new series featuring Detective Miller.
Martin
Edwards is the author of 21 novels,
including the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake books, and also
an acclaimed history of crime fiction, The
Life of Crime. He received the CWA Diamond Dagger for the sustained
excellence of his work. He has also won the Edgar, Agatha, CrimeFest H.R.F.
Keating and Macavity awards, the Short Story Dagger and Dagger in the Library,
plus the Poirot award for his contribution to the genre.
https://martinedwardsbooks.com
Janice
Hallett studied English at
UCL, and spent several years as a magazine editor, winning two journalism
awards. She is the bestselling author of The Appeal (a Sunday Times bestseller,
Waterstones Thriller of the Month, the Sunday Times Crime Book of the
Year and winner of the CWA Debut Dagger Award) and the Sunday Times bestseller
The Twyford Code. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels is
her third novel. She lives in West London.@janicehallett
Vaseem
Khan is the author
of two award-winning crime series set in India. His debut, The
Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was a Sunday Times 40 best
crime novels published 2015-2020 pick. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar
House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in
1950s Bombay, won the Crime Writers Association Historical
Dagger. Vaseem co-hosts the popular crime fiction podcast, The Red Hot
Chilli Writers.
David
Brawn has been Publisher of
Estates at HarperCollins since 1995, managing more than a dozen extensive
backlists including Agatha Christie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alistair Maclean, Desmond
Bagley, Patrick O’Brian, Ngaio Marsh, Edmund Crispin and C.S. Lewis. In 2015 he
relaunched Collins Crime Club to bring more classic authors back into print and
to publish new books, including the acclaimed Bodies from the Library
anthology series and Martin Edwards’ award-winning Howdunit and The
Life of Crime.
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