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2021

NOVEMBER    

16       Pentlands Books Festival. 3pm Corner Cafe, Currie

17       In conversation with author and critic Lesley McDowell, Giffnock Library, Glasgow 6.45pm. Physical places are limited, but you can watch live here.

28       Cove & Kilcreggan Book Festival. 3.30pm Cove Burgh Hall

30      Waterstones Edinburgh Christmas Evening 7-10pm. Along with Ian Rankin and Ambrose Parry, I’ll be in conversation with Mary Paulson-Ellis, signing books and drinking too much mulled wine. Plus card holders only.

 

SELECTED PAST EVENTS

2019

October

19-20   Festival sans nom, Mulhouse, France

5-13     Seoul International Writers’ Festival, South Korea

September

20-22   Livres dans la boucle, Besançon, France

13-15   Le Livre sur Place, Nancy, France

August

16-18  St Hilda’s College Crime Fiction Weekend, Oxford. I’ll be talking about Georges Simenon, event time tbc

February

28    In conversation with Rupert Thomson at Waterstones, Sauchiehall St, Glasgow. 7pm. Free but ticketed. Chaired by Angie Harms.

23    Granite Noir with Stella Duffy, chaired by James Naughtie, Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, 3.30pm £9.50

 

2018

November

28    Buchanan Building, St Andrews University. In Conversation. Man Booker Event. 17.30 FREE

3-4   Xabia Negra, Spain

October

20-21    Festilitt, Parisot, France, details tbc

September

29   Tidelines festival, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, 7pm

27   Festival of the Mind, Sheffield University, Speigeltent 2.30pm

23    Bloody Scotland: European Crime Fiction, 11am, Golden Lion, Stirling

21    Bloody Scotland: The Art of Crime Fiction, Keynote for Crime Writing Masterclass, 9.15am, Golden Lion Hotel, Stirling

August

11   Edinburgh International Book Festival, 7.15pm, Spark Theatre, George Street

3    Bute Noir: ‘Far Horizons’ with Abir Mukherjee, 6pm, Rothesay Library

July

8    Man Booker 50 Festival: Genre Benders, with Paul Beatty, Eleanor Catton & Deborah Levy, Southbank Centre, London. 11.30am.

8    Man Booker 50 Festival: Using Your Research, Southbank Centre, London. 4pm.

April/May

22-14 May Residency, Ventspils House, Latvia

11     Experimental Fiction, Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity

6-8   Quais du Polar, Lyons, France

March

29   An Evening with. . . Waterstones Islington 6.30pm

25   Aye Write! Mitchell Library, Glasgow 3pm

17-18  Krimimessen Horsens, Denmark

13   Soirée littéraire with translator Julie Sibony, Alliance Française, Glasgow 6pm

8     Krimfestivalen, Olso, Norway

February

20  In conversation with Lyndsay Rogers, Conference Centre, Brussels

6-13  Kolkata Book Fair, India

November

23   In conversation with Sinéad Morrissey, King’s hall, Newcastle University

15   Man Booker Prize Foundation event, Logie Lecture Theatre, University of Stirling