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 Steven Cooper at Hodder via steven.cooper@hodder.co.uk

Upcoming events

Jan 2023

21st – Wrexham Writers Group – ONLINE

Feb 2023

11th – Basingstoke, Hampshire Libraries event

24-26th – Granite Noir, Aberdeen, Scotland

April 2023

6th – Woking Library, Surrey

21-23rd – Crime Writers Association conference, York

28 -30th – Malice Domestic, Bethesda, USA

May 2023

11-13th – CrimeFest, Bristol

23rd – Society of Authors, Zoom event

June 2023

2-4th Motive Crime & Mystery Festival, Toronto, Canada

13th – Crossing the Tees, Teeside

15-17th – Lyme Crime, Lyme Regis

17th – Blood Brothers Blowout (online)

23rd June – 2nd July – Bradford Lit Fest (TBC)

July 2023

6th – Crime Writers Association Daggers, London

19-23rd – Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate

August 2023

4-6th – Bute Noir, Scotland

11-13th – St Hildas College Crime Fiction Weekend, Oxford

October 2023

7th – Chiltern Kills, Chiltern

11th – Guest Reader, Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre, Wales (ONLINE) 

 

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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