Harrogate International Centre
Indulge yourself in a whole four days of the very
best of crime fiction. Weekend Rovers include access to all events
from 8pm Thursday 23 July to 12.30pm Sunday 26 July (excluding only
the Come Die With Me dinner), delicious lunches at the Crown Hotel
on Friday and Saturday, complimentary tea and coffee throughout the
Festival, and a Festival goody bag.
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| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 |
| Tickets: | £70 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Enjoy a full day of crime and make your money go further with
a Friday Rover pass which includes acces to all events on Friday 24
July, lunch at the Crown Hotel, complimentary tea and coffee
throughout the day, and a Festival goody bag.
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Saturday Rover
| Date: | Saturday 25 July 2009 |
| Tickets: | £70 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Enjoy a full day of crime and make your money go further with
a Saturday Rover pass which includes acces to all events on
Saturday 25 July (excluding only the Come Die With Me dinner),
lunch at the Crown Hotel, complimentary tea and coffee throughout
the day, and a Festival goody bag.
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Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of
the Year Award and Festival Opening Party
| Date: | Thursday 23 July 2009 at 8:00pm |
| Tickets: | £15 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Get your glad-rags out for our glitzy awards ceremony as the
Crime Novel of the Year is announced, then mingle with your
favourite authors at our fabulous party!
Special Guest: Mark Billingham
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 9:00am |
| Tickets: | £10 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Detective Tom Thorne has cracked it for this charismatic
comedian-turned-crime author: a firm Festival favourite.
Sponsored by Little, Brown.
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Digging up the Past
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 10:30am |
| Tickets: | £8 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Get your hands dirty as historical crime authors Ariana
Franklin, Jason Goodwin, Caro Peacock and C.J. Sansom debate the
past with Mark Mills.
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New Blood
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 12:00noon |
| Tickets: | £8 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Doyenne of crime Val McDermid introduces five hot new talents:
Duncan Campbell, David Levien, Shona McLean, Dan Waddell and Lee
Weeks.
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The Raven and the Rue Morgue: Edgar Allen Poe
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 2:00pm |
| Tickets: | £8 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Join Laura Lippman, Peter James, Andrew Taylor and Martin
Walker to reflect on the dark, compulsive Poe with chair, Barry
Forshaw. Sponsored by Pan Macmillan.
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Shoot the Book
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 3:30pm |
| Tickets: | £8 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Hollywood meets Harrogate: Daniel Depp (brother of Johnny)
joins Neil Cross, Frances Fyfield and David Levien to discuss the
art of screenwriting with film guru Barry
Norman. Sponsored by Simon & Schuster.
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Music to Murder By
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 5:00pm |
| Tickets: | £8 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Swing while you're killing? MOJO
magazine's Andrew Male gets into the groove with John
Harvey, Dreda Say Mitchell, Cathi Unsworth and Martyn Waites on the
role of music in crime.
Late Night Cabaret: Secrets and Lies
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 10:00pm |
| Tickets: | £8 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
The usual suspects line up to play the truth or lie game.
Christopher Brookmyre, Val McDermid, Stella Duffy, Stuart MacBride,
Denise Mina, Martyn Waites and Laura Lippman confess all to Mark
Billingham.
In Conversation: Reginald Hill
and John Banville as Benjamin Black
| Date: | Friday 24 July 2009 at 8:00pm |
| Tickets: | £12 |
| Venue: | Crown Hotel, Harrogate |
Two literary giants: One stage. The creator of BBC hit
Dalziel and Pascoe meets the Man Booker Prize winner.
Sponsored by HarperCollins
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