Thursday,
11 May 2023
17:00 - 17.50
The Panel are Paul Durston, Lisa Jewell,
Lesley Kara, Simon Toyne,
and the participating Moderator is Lucy Martin
Paul Durston served with the Metropolitan Police in London for thirty years.Having
retired, he devotes his time to creative writing and exploring the
inland waterways. If I Were Me, about Charlie who experiences memory
issues following a traumatic incident, is his debut novel.
Lisa
Jewell’s first novel, Ralph’s
Party, was published in 1999 and was the best-selling debut novel of the
year. Since then, she has published another sixteen novels, including The
Girls and Then She Was Gone. Lisa is a top 10 New York Times and
#1 Sunday Times author who has been published worldwide in over
twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband and two
teenage daughters.
Lesley
Kara
is a Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon #1 bestselling author of
psychological thrillers. Her debut, The Rumour, was the
highest selling print crime fiction debut of 2019 and has been optioned for TV
by Cuba Pictures. Subsequent novels include Who Did You Tell, The
Dare and The Apartment Upstairs.
Simon Toyne’s
first book, Sanctus, was translated into 29 languages, published in over 60
countries and was an international and Sunday Times bestseller. As well as
being the author of six other thrillers including the Solomon Creed and
Laughton Rees series, he is also the presenter of Written in Blood on ITVX, a
true crime show where bestselling authors investigate the real crimes that have
inspired their fiction.
Lucy Martin is an ex-solicitor
turned teacher and thriller-writer - now on her third novel in the DS Ronnie
Delmar series. Lucy was born in Cheshire, grew up in Brussels and London and
now lives with her partner, dog and step-dog in Wimbledon, where her three adult
children also make an occasional appearance. She tutors French and Spanish and
her hobbies include obsessively trawling through Rightmove and playing frisbee.
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