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From a darkened room, Mark Billingham reflects on the eighth Harrogate Crime-Writing Festival, a social and professional must for those with blood on their minds, if not their hands
“I can’t make dinner I’m afraid, as I’m being murdered in 10 minutes and then I’ve got to interview Karin Slaughter…”
There aren’t too many places I can think of where I might find myself saying something like that, but the Theakstons Old Peculier Harrogate Crime-Writing Festival is one of them. I’ve just returned from this annual weekend of murder, mayhem and monkey-business, which is always one of the highlights of the year for readers and writers alike, and it will take me a day or two yet to recover. This is because the HCWF is quite unlike any other literary festival I can think of.
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Published in Festivals by Mark Billingham | Comment (0)From a darkened room, Mark Billingham reflects on the eighth Harrogate Crime-Writing Festival, a social and professional must for those with blood on their minds, if not their hands
“I can’t make dinner I’m afraid, as I’m being murdered in 10 minutes and then I’ve got to interview Karin Slaughter…”
There aren’t too many places I can think of where I might find myself saying something like that, but the Theakstons Old Peculier Harrogate Crime-Writing Festival is one of them. I’ve just returned from this annual weekend of murder, mayhem and monkey-business, which is always one of the highlights of the year for readers and writers alike, and it will take me a day or two yet to recover. This is because the HCWF is quite unlike any other literary festival I can think of.
