If you would like to invite me to speak at an event please do write to me via the contact form on the Contacts page or by contacting Alainna Hadjigeorgiou at Hodder via alainna.georgiou@hodder.co.uk
Upcoming events
April 2024
16th – Battersea Bookshop, London
19th-21st – Crime Writers Association conference, Brighton
22nd-24th – Crime Cymru Festival – ONLINE
25th – Wrexham Carnival of Words, Wrexham
27th – Skullduggery Festival, Stowmarket
May 2024
10th-11th – Crimefest, Bristol
31st – Capital Crime, London
June 2024
11th – Slaughterfest, London
27th – Dorothy L. Sayers Society, Essex Book Festival, Essex
29th – Jericho Writers Festival, London
30th – Bradford Literature Festival
July 2024
18th-21st – Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
30th – Cambridge University Library Really Popular Bookclub – ONLINE
Oct 2024
5th – Chiltern Kills, Chiltern (TBC)
9th – Guest Reader, Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales – ONLINE
12th – Sutton Literary Festival (TBC)
17th – Ledburied, Ledbury, England
Nov 2024
2nd – Lee Hub – Independent Community Library, Lee-on-the-Solent
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Previous events
May 2015
24/5 – I was at the Greenwich Book Festival sitting on a panel discussing “From the CID to elephants: what inspires a crime writer?” on Sunday 24th May, 1.30-2.30pm.
September 2015
6/9 Bertrams Trade Show at Windsor Racecourse – to an audience of indie booksellers
10/9 – At the Chorleywood Bookshop to speak about the book, India and elephants at an India themed event.
30/9 – On the ‘Dazzling Debuts’ panel at the Henley Literary Festival on Wednesday September 30th at 1pm.
October 2015
27/10 – I met the bibliophiles of the Wallingford Bookshop book club in the lovely market town of Wallingford in Oxfordshire
November 2015
10/11 – I spoke at a New Writers event at Foyles with writer Natasha Pulley and chaired by Suzy Feay. See here for a write-up of the event
14/11 – I talked about India and ‘The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra’ at the Write Idea Festival run by Tower Hamlets Council.
April 2016
23/4 – I spoke with writers Mark Billingham and Chris Brookmyre at the wonderful Chipping Norton Literary Festival
May 2016
14/5 – I spoke at an event in the New Forest
19-20/5 – I spoke at Crimefest 2016 in Bristol, in two sessions:
19/5 – Debut Authors: An Infusion Of Fresh Blood
20/5 – Deadly Duos: Partners And Sidekicks
23/5 – I spoke at the delightful Mostly Books bookshop in Abingdon
27/5 – I spoke at the Alchemy Festival at the Southbank Centre
June 2016
8/6 – I will be speaking at Topping & Company booksellers bookshop in Ely
9/6 – I will be speaking at Warwick books in Warwick
22/6 – I will be speaking at Booka bookshop in Oswestry, Shropshire
25/6 – I will be speaking at the Finchley Literary Festival
Sept 2016
15th – I will be speaking in Bedford at The Pavilion’s Supper Club Evening
Oct 2016
22nd – I will be speaking at the Yeovil Literary Festival
Nov 2016
12th-13th – I will be speaking at the Write Idea Literary Festival with fellow crime authors AA Dhand and Abir Mukherjee. We will host a mini-workshop: ‘THE SECRET TO WRITING BESTSELLING CRIME FICTION.’
Dec 2016 – April 2017
Every Tuesday – I will be running a Book Club and Creative Writing Group at the Manor Park Library in East London
Mar 2017
2nd-8th – I will be speaking at the Dubai Literary Festival
10th – I will be speaking at Aye Write! in Glasgow
Apr 2017
23rd – I will be speaking at St. Mary’s Church, Manor Park, East London for World Book Night
25th – I will be speaking at Manor Park Library with fellow authors Abir Mukherjee and Barbara Nadel
26th – I will be speaking at the Stratford Literary Festival
28th – I will be speaking at Waterstones Picadilly at Writers of the World Unite!
May 2017
4th – I will be speaking at the Hexham Literary Festival
17th – I will be speaking at Waterstones Yeovil
27th – I will be speaking at Bourne End library, Bourne End
June 2017
1st – I will be speaking at Booka Bookshop, Shropshire
2nd – I will be speaking at Nantwich book shop, Nantwich
July 2017
1st – I will be running a crime writing masterclass at Finsbury Library, London
6th – I will be doing a reading at Whats your Poison? in the Heffers bookshop, Cambridge
8th – I will be speaking at the Bradford Literary festival
Aug 2017
1st – I will be speaking at the British Library
Oct 2017
15-16th – Isle of Wight Festival
21st – Asian Writers Festival, London
25th – Idea Store Canary Wharf, London
26th – Sheffield Lit Fest
28/29th – Killer Women festival, London
30th – Mill Hill Partnership Library, NW7 2HX, London (Starts: 8pm – Admission Free)
Nov 2017
6th – Monday Night Crime, London
16th – Newham Word Festival, London
Jan 2018
16th – Future Bookshelf workshop at Waterstones Tottenham Court Rd
Feb 2018
1st – Launch of Quick Reads books 2018 at Foyles Charing Cross Road
8th – Talk at HMP The Mount, and at Hemel Hempstead Library
15th – Talk at HMP Ford, Arundel
Mar 2018
1st – World book day talk at Rokeby School (morning), and at Canning Town Library (evening)
18th – Huddersfield Literary Tea Festival
26th – Noir at the Bar (To be confirmed)
29th – Talk at HMP Chelmsford
Apr 2018
17th – Manor Park Library Short Story Competition Awards Night
24-25th – Wrexham Carnival of Words
May 2018
5th-6th – Newcastle Noir
12th – Clapham Lit Fest
17th-19th – CrimeFest, Bristol
25th – Hartley Wintney Book Lunch, Surrey
June 2018
6th – Trafford Wordfest, Manchester
July 2018
5th – Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge
12th – UnionLearn Annual Conference, London
21st – Keynote for Society of Authors event, Harrogate
Aug 2018
30th – Crime Science versus Crime Fiction, London
Sep 2018
10th – Booksellers Association Book Trade Conference, London
12th – Nantwich Bookshop, Nantwich
13th – Perton Library, Staffordshire
22nd – Spread the Word London Writers Awards Workshop, London
Oct 2018
1st – Henley Literary Festival
2nd – Rainham Library, Essex
6th – Borderlands 2018, Carlisle (talk and workshop)
20th – Asian Writers Festival, London
27th – Yeovil Literary Festival
Nov 2018
11th – Huddersfield Literary Tea
25th – Folkestone Literary Festival
Jan 2019
28th – The Gate library, Newham, London
Feb 2019
22-24th – Granite Noir, Aberdeen
26th – Newham Word Festival: Asian Noir
Mar 2019
4th – Newham Word Festival: Bollywood v Hollywood
5th – Labour Party House of Commons Bookclub
18th – York Festival
20th – Essex Book Festival, Halstead Library
Apr 2019
22nd – Bookmark Festival, Oldham
26th and 27th – Chipping Norton Festival
May 2019
9th-12th – Crimefest, Bristol
June 2019
4th – Derby Festival
19th – Askews&Holts Libraries Book Showcase, Tavistock Place, London
July 2019
20th – Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
22nd – Society of Women Writers & Journalists, London
31st July – Rhydypennau Library, Cardiff, Wales
August 2019
1st Aug – Literary Lunch with Griffin Books, Penarth, Wales
9th – Festival of Bookclubs, Hampshire
14th – Noirwich Crime Festival, Norwich
21st – Bloody Scotland, Stirling, Scotland
25th – Readfest, Barking, London
27th – Capital Crime, London
Oct 2019
20th – Frinton Literary Festival, Frinton
23rd – HMP Wandsworth, London
Nov 2019
2nd – Yeovil Literary Festival, Yeovil
28th – Putney Library, London
29th – Derby Library, Derby – POSTPONED
Feb 2020
1st – Wolverhampton Literature Festival
Mar 2020
14th – Waterstones Durham
May 2020
14th – SOA Afternoon Tea with Vaseem Khan
27th – Noir at the Bar Online
June 2020
3rd – Locked Up Fest
August 2020
15th – St Hildas Crime Weekend
October 2020
31st – Yeovil Lit Fest
January 2021
27th – Tracy Fenton talks to… TBC event
April 2021
19th – Prowriting Aid Crime Week Interview – ONLINE
May 2021
1st – Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Wales’ first international crime literature festival – ONLINE
June 2021
11th – Crossing the Tees Festival – ONLINE
16th – Staffordshire Library -ONLINE
July 2021
2nd – Lindum Books event – ONLINE
7th – Reading Party – ONLINE
14th- Cardiff libraries – ONLINE
28th – Sangam Festival – ONLINE
Aug 2021
17th – South Asian Festival, Newham Libraries
26th – Coles Bookshop – ONLINE
Sep 2021
3rd-4th – Slaughterfest – ONLINE
16th – Word Online: Literature Works, South West Libraries – ONLINE
18th – Bloody Scotland
Oct 2021
30th – Yeovil Lit Fest
Nov 2021
3rd – Writing crime fiction, cultural appropriation, and diversity in publishing, Brighton
17th – CWA Cybercrime: Disrupting Patterns – ONLINE
Feb 2022
12th – Bay Tales, Whitley Bay
17th – Riverside Library, Derby – POSTPONED
Mar 2022
18-20th – Scottish Association of Writers Annual Conference
26th – Lichfield Festival
Apr 2022
28th – Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Wales’ international crime literature festival – ONLINE
May 2022
1st – Deepings Literary Festival, Market Deeping
12th – Royal Asiatic Society
13th and 14th – Crimefest, Bristol
6-22 – Aye Write! – ONLINE
June 2022
1st – National Crime Reading Month launch, Waterstones Piccadilly, London
4th – Wild Words Festival, London
12th – Jaipur Lit Fest London – British Library, London
15th – Woolwich Library, Greenwich, London
25th – Bradford Literary Festival
July 2022
2nd – Evesham Festival
11th – Indian history event and quiz, Newham Wordfest, London
14th – Crime fiction panel, Newham Wordfest, London
19th – 4pm-6pm (UK time) Masterclass on Plot and Pace at the Being a Writer Festival – ONLINE
21st-24th – Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Festival
Aug 2022
12th – Newham South Asian Heritage Month: AHIMSA GANDHI panel
23rd – Staffordshire Libraries – ONLINE
Sept 2022
5th-8th – Wales book tour (TBC)
10th – Noirwich, Norwich
13th – Quay Words, Torquay
14th – International Agatha Christie Festival, Exeter
16th – Bloody Scotland, Stirling
25th – Appledore Festival, Devon
28th – Lindum Books, Lincoln
Oct 2022
1st – Capital Crime, London
9th – Murder One, Dublin
15th – Fatal Shore – Shoreham Wordfest
20-24th – Yeovil Lit Fest (date TBC)
27th – Tregolls Lodge Book Club (online)
Nov 2022
12th – Basingstoke, Hampshire Libraries event -XLD
Jan 2023
21st – Wrexham Writers Group – ONLINE
Feb 2023
11th – Basingstoke Discovery Centre, Hampshire
24th – Granite Noir, Aberdeen, Scotland
March 2023
16th – Church St Library, London
April 2023
1st – Writing East Midlands Conference, Derby
3rd – The Global Girls Online Book Group – ONLINE
6th – Woking Library, Surrey
18th – London Book Fair
21-23rd – Crime Writers Association conference, York
24th – Pro Writing Aid workshop – ONLINE
28 -30th – Malice Domestic, Bethesda, USA
May 2023
10th – Historical Crime Writing Workshop, Newham Libraries, London
11-13th – CrimeFest, Bristol
23rd – Society of Authors – ONLINE
24th – Hull Noir, Hull
June 2023
2-4th Motive Crime & Mystery Festival, Toronto, Canada
8th – Cleveland Library, Somerset
9-11th – Jaipur Lit Fest, British Library, London
13th – Crossing the Tees, Teeside
16th – Lyme Crime, Lyme Regis
17th – Blood Brothers Blowout – ONLINE
19th – Slaughterfest, London
21st – 6.30pm, TV Adaptations, Waterstones Piccadilly, London
23-25th – Bradford Lit Fest
27th – 7.30pm, The Big Read at The Kings Head, 2 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA
July 2023
5th – Newham Word Fest, London
6th – Crime Writers Association Daggers, London
8th – Newark Book Festival, Newark
19-23rd – Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate
August 2023
3rd – 6.30pm, Waterstones Piccadilly, London (with Steve Cavanagh)
4-6th – Bute Noir, Scotland
7th – The Bound bookshop, Whitley Bay
11-13th – St Hildas College Crime Fiction Weekend, Oxford
30th – Crime Writing Retreat, Moniack Mhor, Scotland
September 2023
1st- Capital Crime, London
21st – Historical Writers Association event, London
24th – Barnes Book Festival, London – POSTPONED TO 2024
October 2023
5th – History in the Court, London
7th – Chiltern Kills, Chiltern
11th – Guest Reader, Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales – ONLINE
12th – Professional Writing Academy with New Writing North – ONLINE
14th – Fatal Shore, Shoreham
20th – Off the Shelf Festival, Sheffield
21st – Bromley House Library, Nottingham
27th – Yeovil Lit Fest, Yeovil
28th – Darkside of Brighton, Brighton
November 2023
2nd – Sandwell Festival of Literature, Sandwell
11th – Biggleswade library
18th-19th – Indo-Arts Council Literary Festival, New York, USA
21st – Masterclass speaker, Curtis Brown Creative Writing Crime Course – ONLINE
December 2023
19th – Cosy Crime Panel, UK Crime Book Club – ONLINE
Jan 2024
13th – Middle Way Masterclass, Leicester
20th – The Sherlock Holmes Society of London
Feb 2024
1st-5th – Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India
3rd – History Quill – ONLINE
24th – Sisters in Sin – ONLINE
March 2024
1-3rd – Bay Tales, Whitley Bay
13th – Chipping Barnet Library, Barnet
16th – Oxford Literary Festival, Oxford
22-24th – Alderney Lit Festival, Channel Islands
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