Friday, 16 May 2025
17:10 - 18:00
The panel are Ruth Dudley Edwards, Nev Fountain,
Mike Ripley, Olga Wojtas,
and the participating Moderator is Simon Brett.
Ruth Dudley Edwards is a journalist and prize-winning historian. In
her twelve satirical crime novels she ridicules political correctness: her
targets include academia, gentlemen’s clubs, the House of Lords, literary
prizes and conceptual art. As well as the CWA Non-fiction Gold Dagger for Aftermath:
the Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice, she won the
CrimeFest Last Laugh Award for Murdering Americans and CrimeFest’s
Goldsboro Last Laugh Award for Killing the Emperors.
Nev Fountain
is an
award-winning writer, known for his work on Dead Ringers. He has also
contributed to many other programmes, including Have I Got News for You,
and is a gag writer for Private Eye. He has written six murder-mystery
novels: a trilogy called 'The Mervyn Stone Mysteries', a ‘serious’ thriller,
entitled Painkiller and The Fan Who Knew too Much which was
released by Titan books. Lies and Dolls, will be released this year.Mike Ripley is a multiple award winning author of both
comic crime fiction and non-fiction. He was crime critic for the Daily
Telegraph for ten years, a scriptwriter on the BBC’s Lovejoy series,
has edited two volumes of ‘lost’ short stories and scripts from Callan
and contributed over 200 gossip columns to Shots magazine. His next
novel, Buried Above Ground, is an unconventional crime novel ‘written by
someone who has read too many crime novels.’
Olga Wojtas writes comic crime as an antidote to real life.
Her surrealist humour has been compared to the likes of PG Wodehouse, Jasper
Fforde and the Marx Brothers. Her debut novel, Miss Blaine’s Prefect
and the Golden Samovar, was published in 2018 and her fifth in the
series, Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Uncharted Island, is
published this year. She also writes the Bunburry series of
cosy crime e-novellas under the name Helena Marchmont. 
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’.
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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