Saturday, 17 May 2025
12:30 - 13:20
The panel are Bonnie Burke-Patel, Denise Danks,
Luke McCallin, Linda Stratmann,
and the participating Moderator is Ajay Chowdhury.
Bonnie Burke-Patel was born and raised in South Gloucestershire.
She studied History at Oxford. After working for half a decade in politics and
policy, she changed careers and became a preschool teacher, before beginning to
write full time. She lives with her husband, son, and golden retriever in south
east London.
Denise Danks came to prominence in the 1990s with her
Georgina Powers series of technology crime novels. Denise won the $20,000
Raymond Chandler Fulbright Award in 1994. ‘News As It Happens’ was shortlisted
for the CWA Short Story Award in 1995. Phreak and Baby Love, the
last of the GP series, were shortlisted in 1999 and 2000 for the Macmillan CWA
Gold Dagger. Denise won a Sherlock in 2001.
Luke McCallin was
born in Oxford, grew up around the world and has worked with the United Nations
as a humanitarian relief worker and peacekeeper in the Caucasus, the Sahel, and
the Balkans. His experiences have driven his writing, in which he explores what
happens to normal people--those stricken by conflict, by disaster--when they
are put under abnormal pressures. Linda Stratmann
is the author of three crime fiction series with Victorian settings. Her
current series The Early Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, features a
youthful Holmes, before he knew Watson, becoming the legendary detective. In
the Bayswater mysteries Frances Doughty combats wily criminals and prejudice
against lady detectives. In Brighton diminutive Mina Scarletti exposes
fraudulent spirit mediums. Linda’s thirty-seven books also include biography
and true crime, notably a history of nineteenth century poison
murder.
Ajay Chowdhury, the inaugural winner of the Harvill
Secker-Bloody Scotland prize, is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director. His
first novel in the Kamil Rahman series – The Waiter (Sunday
Times Crime Book of the Month) was optioned fo r television. Its follow ups
– The Cook (Guardian Top Crime Books of the
Year), The Detective(Sunday Times Top Crime Books of the
Year), The Spy (Longlisted Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing),
and The Shadow – came out to strong reviews.
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