Harrogate International Centre

 

What's On Guide

 

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Special Guest: George Pelecanos

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 9:00am
Tickets: £10
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
'The poet laureate of the crime world' who brought his too-cool-for-school prose to HBO's most acclaimed TV show, The Wire. Don't miss the 'sexiest man in crime'.
 
 
 

Emerald Noir

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 10:30am
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
Ireland is home to some of the hottest names in crime. Ruth Dudley Edwards chairs Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes, Gene Kerrigan and Brian McGilloway.
 
 
 

Men in Crisis

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 12:00noon
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
Hard drinking, adulterating psychotics the male crime hero is deliciously bleak. N J Cooper keeps Simon Kernick, Paul Johnston, Allan Guthrie, Gyles Brandreth and Robert Lewis in line.
 
 
 

Dangerous Dykes

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 2:00pm
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
Leading lesbian crime novelists Stella Duffy, Natasha Cooper, Val McDermid and Manda Scott debate with chair Mark Lawson the pros, cons and controversies of their work.
 
 
 

Ranting Writers: Five Go Postal

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 3:30pm
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
The crime genre is riddle with cliché: it's murder! MC Beaton, Christopher Brookmyre, Ann Cleeves, RJ Ellroy and Laura Wilson get it off their chests with chair, Simon Brett. Sponsored by Constable & Robinson. 
 
 
 

X-Rated: Sex, Drugs and Ultra-Violence

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 5:00pm
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
And that's just in the hotel bar! Hang on to your seats with the edgiest writers around: Stuart MacBride will try to keep Megan Abbott, Denise Mina, Caro Ramsay and Zoë Sharp in check. Sponsored by Penguin Books
 
 
 

Come Dine With Me: Murder Mystery Event 

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 6:15pm
Tickets: £26
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
If you dare. Is the soup laced with arsenic? Dine with the award winning author Ann Cleeves and solve a dastardly crime over desert! Delicious! Sponsored by Yorkshire Cancer Research
 
 

Special Guest: Lee Child

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 8:30pm
Tickets: £12
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
Child is one hot ticket: one of the world's biggest thriller writers, thanks to his maverick hero, Jack Reacher.  Sponsored by Transworld Publishers.
 
 
 

Late Night Quiz

Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 10:00pm
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
A pub quiz with a dark difference, pit your wits against publishers, fans, agents and authors as Mark Billingham, Stuart MacBride, Laura Wilson and Val McDermid get cruelly competitive.
 
 
 

Nursery Crimes

Date: Sunday 26 July 2009 at 10:00am
Tickets: £8
Venue: Crown Hotel, Harrogate
 
Join Jasper Fforde, Christopher Fowler, Suzette A. Hill and Yrsa Sigurdardottir with chair Andrew Taylor to discuss their early influences.