Leonardo St Paul's, London
LONDON STAGE
Friday 13 June 2025
11:40 - 12:30
Tariq Ashkanani, Anna Bailey, Chris Chibnall
and the participating moderator is Robert Rutherford.
Tariq Ashkanani is a
solicitor based in Edinburgh, where he also helps run Write Gear, a company
that sells high-quality notebooks for writers, and co-hosts Write Gear’s
podcast Page One. He had no formal writing training or consultation prior to
writing his first book Welcome to Cooper.
Anna Bailey was born in Bristol in 1995 and spent
her childhood in Gloucestershire. She studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa
university and wanted to become a journalist, but ended up moving to Colorado
and becoming a Starbucks barista instead. In 2018 she returned to the UK, where
she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative Novel-writing course and wrote her
first novel inspired by her experience of living in small-town America.
Chris Chibnall is a BAFTA, Royal Television Society, Broadcasting Press Guild
and Peabody award-winning screenwriter, executive producer, and playwright
whose work has been seen, translated and remade all around the world. His
television work includes Broadchurch – remade as Gracepoint in
the US and Malaterra in France – The Great Train Robbery, Doctor
Who, Torchwood and Life on Mars. Death at the White Hart is
his debut novel.
Robert Rutherford had a random mix of jobs before taking the dive
into crime writing; he's been a bookseller, pizza deliverer, karate instructor,
football coach, and HR Manager. He lives on the North East Coast with his wife,
children. He is a founding member of the Northern Crime
Syndicate crime-writers group.
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