Thursday, 9 May 2024
17:00 - 17:50
The Panel are Ian Moore (on Fred Vargas),
Christine Poulson (on Clifford Witting),
Jane Mcloughlin (on Patricia Highsmith),
David J. Howe (on Hank Jensen)
and the Participating Moderator is
Martin Edwards (on John Bingham)
Ian Moore’s
Death & Croissants and the follow-ups in the cosy mystery series Death
& Fromage and Death at the Chateau have proved hugely popular. The
Man Who Didn’t Burn, the first in a new thriller series was critically
acclaimed. He has appeared on BBC 2’s Richard Osman’s House of Games,
and won many plaudits for his performance in the last series of BBC Radio 4’s
long-running The Now Show.
www.ianmoore.info
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (often mistakenly spelled "Audouin-Rouzeau"). She is the daughter of Philippe Audoin(-Rouzeau), a surrealist writer who was close to André Breton, and the sister of the historian Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, a noted specialist of the First World War who inspired her the character of Lucien Devernois.
Christine Poulson writes, she was a respectable academic, with a PhD in the History of Art lecturing at a Cambridge college before she turned to crime. Her first three novels featured literary historian and accidental sleuth, Cassandra James. Deep Water was the first in a series of medical thrillers featuring scientist Katie Flanagan. Her most recent is Invisible, a standalone suspense novel. She has written numerous short stories and in 2018 was short-listed for both the Margery Allingham Prize and the CWA Short Story Dagger.
http://www.christinepoulson.co.uk/
Clifford Witting (1907-1968) was born in Lewisham, England. He was educated at Eltham College, London, between 1916 and 1924. During World War II he served as a bombardier in the Royal Artillery, 1942-44, and as a Warrant Officer in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1944-46. He married Ellen Marjorie Steward in 1934 and they had one daughter. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a clerk in Lloyds bank from 1924 to 1942. He was Honorary Editor of The Old Elthamian magazine, London. from 1947 up to his death.
Jane McLoughlin was born and raised in the USA, but has spent most of her adult life in the UK. A former teacher, she has previously published novels for young people, which were nominated for various awards, including the Carnegie Award and the Branford Boase Prize. She has two grown up children, and lives in Brighton.
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small G: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
David J. Howe
has been involved with Doctor Who research and writing for
over forty years. He wrote the book Reflections: The Fantasy Art of
Stephen Bradbury and has contributed short fiction and non-fiction to many
publications. He is Editorial Director of Telos Publishing Ltd, a
UK based independent press specialising in horror/science fiction, crime,
artbooks and factual guides to a variety of film and TV shows.
Websites: www.howeswho.co.uk and www.telos.co.uk
Hank Jensen is both a fictional character and a
pseudonym created by the English author Stephen Daniel Frances who
died in 1989. .
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
John Bingham (1908-1988) aka Lord Clanmorris, aka Michael Ward was born in 1908 near York, England. The only son of the Sixth Baron Clanmorris, he began his writing career as a journalist. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Bingham joined the Royal Engineers.
He was soon recruited by MI5 where he worked with famed undercover agent Maxwell Knight, as well as David Cornwell (also known as author John Le Carré), and remained with MI5 in various capacities well into the 1970s.
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