A good month for Lawless
It’s been a good six weeks for Lawless. Inclusion alongside Sherlock, Jekyll/Hyde, The Woman in White, Paddington and Harry Potter on a Literary Tube Map was an unsuspected excitement.
In The Book‘s spokesman Tom Matthews told the Evening Standard: “The map aims to give a comprehensive geographical guide to London’s diverse literary history. We’re all familiar with that help colour areas of the city in their own unique way.
“It was created to showcase London’s rich literary history for both locals and tourists. As bookworms ourselves we feel that literature has a unique was of painting places like few other things can.”
I appeared at Bristol’s Crimefest on the panel 1900s: A Century Of Change at the Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, alongside some excellent novelists: Carolyn Kirby, H.B. Lyle, and Cavan Scott, with our participating Moderator Linda Stratmann, the new chair of the CWA (Crime Writers’ Assocation).
Having feared I’d be the fuddy-duddy defending the Victorians, I was pleased to find common ground, especially with the socially incisive commentary of HB Lyle, whose Irregular Spy books sound terrific.
This was a good warm-up for presenting a paper at Supernatural Cities’ Magical Cities conference here at University of Portsmouth: more on that here.
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