Thursday,
11 May 2023
15:50 - 16:40
The Panel are Simon Brett, J.M. Hall,
Robert Thorogood, Bridget Walsh,
and the Participating Moderator is Kate Ellis
including the Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter,
Fethering, Blotto & Twinks and Decluttering series. A Shock to the System, became a feature film, starring Michael
Caine. Bill Nighy plays Charles Paris in the books’ Radio 4 adaptations. In
2014 Simon was presented with the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest award,
the Diamond Dagger, and he was made an O.B.E. in the 2016 New Year’s Honours
‘for services to literature’.
lives in Yorkshire, where he juggles the twin careers of
writing, and being a Primary Deputy-Head. Most of his work has been for stage
and radio, the most recent being the R4 series Trust starring Julie
Hesmondhalgh. His first novel A Spoonful of Murder introduced
readers to the unlikely crime-solving trio of retired teachers, Pat, Liz
and Thelma. A Pen dipped in Poison was published in March and a third is
well underway.
Robert
Thorogood is
an English screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the BBC 1 Murder
Mystery Series, Death in Paradise. Robert was educated at Uppingham
School in Rutland and read History at Downing College, Cambridge. While at
Cambridge, he toured with the university's student comedy troupe Footlights in
1993 and was elected President in 1994. Soon after leaving Cambridge, Robert
set up a theatre company that toured small theatres and schools.
Bridget Walsh says she
wrote Daughters of the
Famine Road, because she
wanted to tell the story of ordinary
women’s struggles to survive during the harsh Famine Years in nineteenth
century Ireland. The research she undertook for the novel brought the
understanding of how Ireland's greatest tragedy unfolded less than two hundred
years ago. The second book in the trilogy
Daughters in Exile was published in October 2022 and the final story,
(Working title) Coming Home - 1847, will be published in 2023.
https://www.bridgetsjournal.com/
Kate
Ellis was born and brought up in
Liverpool and she was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2019. The third
novel in Kate’s trilogy set in the aftermath of the Great War (The House of the Hanged Woman) is now
available. However, she is best known
for her crime series featuring archaeology graduate DI Wesley Peterson, the
latest of which is Serpent’s Point.
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