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Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival!

Known as the friendliest festival with its feet firmly on Yorkshire ground, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival guarantees thrills, and a few spills at the hotel bar, as thousands descend for one long summer weekend.

Heading to Harrogate for the 14th festival are Jeffery Deaver, Martina Cole, Neil Cross, Linwood Barclay, Tess Gerritsen, Val McDermid and Gerald Seymour, and over 80 more fantastic authors.
Readers and authors alike meet their heroes, as well as the Next Big Things, thanks to Val McDermid’s annual New Blood panel, which cherry picks the best debut novels of the year.
The Festival will also feature the 12th Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Awards, and will see the return of the day-long creative writing workshop for aspiring writers, Creative Thursday.

All Tickets are now on sale. Details HERE

Taking a pic......Giveaway!

The competition for winning signed copies of The Game Changer runs until Sunday....so if you're out and about this weekend and you spot the novel on some bookshelf....take a pic and either share or pm me and you'll be in with a chance.....

A Poet's Rising

It was an absolutely wonderful evening last night at the Irish Writers' Centre. A packed house celebrated A Poet's Rising, with beautiful haunting music by Colm Mac Con Iomaire, and poems by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Paul Muldoon, Jessica Traynor, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Theo Dorgan and Thomas McCarthy.

Thanks to Valerie Bistany and Padraig Burke for my invitation, and to everyone in the Irish Writers' Centre, and the Arts Council of Ireland, who helped to create these important works for years to come.

A Poet's Rising app will be available following the broadcast of the poems which will take place on the anniversary of the Rising, 22- 29th April 2016. The poems will also be printed in the Irish Times during this period.

Crime Fiction Bluecoat Centre Liverpool - April 16th!

I'm delighted to be taking part in this event next month. If you're close by, it would be great to see you there, with fellow crime writers John Connolly, Andrew Pepper and Richard Godwin....


CRIME FICTION – BLUECOAT CENTRE for Contemporary Arts - LIVERPOOL(Saturday 16th April 2016 - 1.00 PM - 6.00 PM)
How do we account for the continued popularity of crime fiction? Is it the immediacy with which it can reflect the concerns and obsessions of society? Or the safe place it offers from which to explore the darker sides of humanity? Or that the narrative propulsion of a tightly-woven crime plot can be a source of licensed thrills, pleasure and comforting reassurance?
Contemporary crime fiction encompasses an extensive range of thematic concerns, literary styles and distinctive settings. Join crime writers for conversations about their work, influences and current perspectives on the genre starting with a reading by award-winning author John Connolly.
For tickets visit http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/3367

INTENSIVE CRIME FICTION COURSE IN AUGUST at the IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE

I'm delighted to be doing a WEEK LONG INTENSIVE CRIME FICTION COURSE in August at the Irish Writers Centre. 

Please don't let the scary eyes put you off!!

The course will be suitable for all writers interested in the genre, including those who have done introductory classes before!! 

Clickedy click HERE for more details..

IRELAND NEWS TODAY ......

Louise Phillips talks Making A Murderer as we launch book giveaway By Laura LynottQueen of Irish crime fiction Louise Phillips said Steven Avery from Making A Murderer’s guilt is “questionable” – as she reveals her latest book has similarities to the hit Netflix show.Phillips – who is offering three Ireland Today readers her latest book The Game Changer – spoke about Avery, imprisoned for the murder of Teresa Halbach in 2007, as his legal team claimed he will be exonerated within months.READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Irish TV Interview.....

With the publication of The Game Changer mass paperback edition tomorrow, I'm looking forward to chatting with Irish TV next week....will keep you posted with further details.....

Ten Top Irish Mysteries - Strand Magazine....

Thank you STRAND MAGAZINE - Ten Top Irish Mysteries for St Patrick's Weekend, including review of The Doll's House.



" A fast paced novel with a steady ratcheting of suspense and an unexpected, satisfying ending..." 

Full feature here http://buff.ly/1ViKcpd with Benjamin Black, Declan Burke, Jane Casey, Liz Nugent, Sinead Crowley and Tana French....

All Things Nice!

Put April 7th in your diary...we will have a blast! 




smile emoticonThe O'Brien Press
Invitation from O'Brien Press - Join us for the launch of All Things Nice by Sheila Bugler on Thursday April 7th in The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin at 6.30 pm. Award winning author Louise Phillips is attending as guest speaker. Should be a great evening for crime thriller fans!

Sharing Cop Secrets!!

Sharing some secrets with Peter James and other fictional greats! ....The Real Cops behind our LIFE OF CRIME...