Saturday, 17 May 2025
11:20 - 12:10
The panel are Lee Child, Lindsey Davis,
Martin Edwards, John Harvey,
and the participating Moderator is Simon Brett.
Lee Child
is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. It is said one of his novels
featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine
seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists
around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the
recipient of many. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Lindsey Davis is best known for Roman detectives, Marcus Didius Falco, and Flavia Albia. She has also written standalones and a Quickread. Her books are translated and dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her awards include the Premio Colosseo (from the city of Rome) and the Crimewriters’ Cartier Diamond Dagger. She has been Chair of the UK Crimewriters, President of the Classical Association and is a Fellow of the UK Society of Authors.
Martin Edwards’ novels include the Lake District Mysteries and the Rachel Savernake
books, most recently Hemlock Bay. His non-fiction includes a
multi-award-winning history of Golden Age fiction, The Golden Age of Murder,
the expanded second edition of which has just been published. He has received
three Daggers, including the CWA Diamond Dagger, two Edgars, three CrimeFest
Keating awards, and four lifetime achievement awards. He is consultant to the
British Library’s Crime Classics and President of the Detection Club.
John Harvey
was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Excellence in Crime Writing in
2007 and his story, ‘Fedora’, won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2014. Also a
poet and dramatist - his adaptation of the Resnick novel, Darkness, Darkness,
was staged at Nottingham Playhouse in 2016 - he was awarded an Honorary
Fellowship of Goldsmiths’ College, University of London in 2020 for his
“significant achievements and contributions to literature.”
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Simon Brett has published over a hundred books, many of them crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Fethering, Mrs Pargeter, Blotto & Twinks and Ellen Curtis series. In 2014 he received the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest award, the Diamond Dagger, and in 2016 he was awarded an OBE ‘for services to literature’.
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Simon Brett has published over a hundred books, many of them crime novels, including the Charles Paris, Fethering, Mrs Pargeter, Blotto & Twinks and Ellen Curtis series. In 2014 he received the Crime Writers’ Association’s highest award, the Diamond Dagger, and in 2016 he was awarded an OBE ‘for services to literature’. 
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