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Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘Platform Seven’ is Louise Doughty, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festiv...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘Joe Country’ is Mick Herron, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘My Sister The Serial Killer’ is Oyinkan Braithwaite, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate In...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘How The Dead Speak’ is Val McDermid, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Fest...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘Nothing Important Happened Today’ is Will Carver, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate Inter...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘Red Snow’ is Will Dean, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in par...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘Smoke and Ashes’ is Abir Muhkerjee, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festi...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘The Chain’ is Adrian McKinty, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals,...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘The Whisper Man’ is Alex North, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about her novel ‘The Long Call’ is Ann Cleeves, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals,...

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast ‘lites’, a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of The Year Award, Longlisted authors. Here to talk about his novel ‘Fallen Angel’ is Chris Brookmyre, interviewed by Joe Haddow. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festiva...

Her seamless blend of good writing and pulse-racing tension is her stock-in-trade. The Rizzoli and Isles series, featuring a homicide detective and medical examiner, propelled Tess to international bestseller position. A violinist, piano player and composer, Tess brings her melodic passion and analytical approach to embody ‘medical suspense’. She has said her experience as a doctor was intense pre...

She’s the heart and soul of the festival – Val McDermid, one of its co-founders is a champion of the crime genre and one of the biggest names in crime writing, selling 16 million copies of her novels worldwide. The queen of psychological thrillers is deeply engaged with Scotland, and its politics and has the accolade of being the only author to sponsor a football team, Raith Rovers. One of her mos...

A star of ‘Tartan Noir’, Glasgow-born Denise Mina has been charting the dark underbelly of Scotland since 1998, when the first of her award-winning Garnethill trilogy was published. In the years since, her highly-acclaimed Paddy Meehan trilogy has been dramatised for television, starring Jayd Johnson, Peter Capaldi and David Morrissey. Mina is also a successful playwright and comic book writer, th...

Colin Dexter, the genius behind celebrated fictional detective Inspector Morse was the very first event at the very first Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival (before it had even earnt that name). When writer Colin Dexter brought the idea of the gentleman detective into the modern day (well, 1970s) by pairing him with a younger working-class assistant, a crime fiction hero was born. Inspe...

Featuring: Chris Chibnall, Olivia Colman, Jodie Whittaker, Erin Kelly and Alison Graham. Who killed 11-year-old Danny Latimer? It was the question on the lips of millions in 2013, as the award-winning television series Broadchurch (Kudos/Imaginary Friends) kept the country enthralled across eight superb episodes. While the detailed depiction of the police investigation was riveting, the series als...

Our match of American heavyweights: In the blue corner, David Baldacci. Baldacci holds the publishing world to ransom, dominating the bookshelves of more than 80 countries and selling over 100 million books. His books even bridge the political divide with both Bush and Clinton cited as fans. In the red corner, Joseph Finder. His plan was to become a spy. Instead he became a bestselling thriller wr...

For many, the highlight of our inaugural festival in 2003 was the conversation between crime-writing giants Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson. Nearly ten years later we were delighted to welcome this dangerous duo back for a special late-night session. Join the creators of Rebus and Banks as they set the world of crime-fiction to rights in our very own on stage pub, over a glass or two of Old Peculier...

Featuring: Brenda Blethyn, Ann Cleeves, Paul Rutman and Elaine Collins. As crabby as Columbo, the unglamorous, brilliant, down-to-earth detective Vera Stanhope has attracted a legion of fans worldwide. The flagship ITV drama stars the very glamorous and double Oscar-nominated actress Brenda Blethyn. We’re lucky enough to hear from writer Ann Cleeves, the visionary behind Vera, as she discusses her...

Thrillers. They fill you with adrenaline and make your heart beat a little faster. Just like Lee Child himself. Is it any wonder we get a little bit hysterical? That’s why we’ve chosen Special Guest interviewer, comedian and writer Sarah Millican to strip away Lee’s defences and show us the real man underneath. We can’t wait to see what happens when one of the UK’s favourite comedians meets one of...

Featuring: Lin Anderson, Lorna Dawson, Niamh Nic Daeid, Professor James Grieve and Martin Hall. Few writers can ignore how forensics has transformed detecting crimes, taking the genre from the puzzle in the library to the minutia under the microscope. Join, author Lin Anderson, creator of forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod, with a panel of professors. Lorna Dawson is a Principal Soil Scientist who h...

Arnuldar Indridason gives interviews rarely and guards his privacy fiercely, and has admitted he’d rather be home writing than touring on book promotions. It’s a huge privilege then to welcome the Icelandic author, whose macabre thrillers starring the introspective Scandinavian inspector Erlendur Sveinsson, have been translated into 20 languages and enjoy huge sales worldwide. Having worked for ma...

Featuring: Steve Cavanagh, Stuart Neville, Brian McGilloway, Eoin McNamee and Adrian McKinty. Is it the luck of the Irish? Behold the emerald jewels of crime fiction! Steve Cavanagh, a practicing lawyer, is guilty of being criminally good. His debut US-based legal thriller, The Defence, became the subject of an international bidding war. Stuart Neville also had a brilliant debut when The Twelve be...

Scottish comedian and presenter, Fred MacAuley delves into M.C. Beatons extraordinary career. Marion Chesney is known primarily for the more than 100 historical romance novels. M.C. Beaton is the pseudonym she reserves for crime fiction, including the much-loved Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth novels. Born in Glasgow, she was a bookseller, theatre critic and fashion editor before joining the Scot...

Mark Billingham and Eddie Izzard first met more than twenty-five years ago as struggling stand-up comics. Mark continued to struggle then later chucked in the comedy and went on to write the hugely successful series of crime novels featuring DI Tom Thorne. Eddie meanwhile became the mot acclaimed comedian of his generation, on top of which he is now a hugely successful actor, activist, and campaig...