Appearances

MAY

Wednesday 15th May, 2.15 pm

Meet the Author: A Life of Crime with Cath Staincliffe - Talk, reading and signing at Spondon Library, Derby.
£4 inc. refreshments. Booking (at any Derby city library) essential.
For more information telephone 01332 662708 or email

Thursday 16th May, 6.30 - 8.30 pm

Ann Cleeves at Brit Noir at Goldsboro Books, Cecil Court, London. A chance for readers, bloggers and writers to meet to talk crime.

Wednesday May 29th, 2.00 - 3.00 pm

Ann Cleeves at Pheasey Library, Collingwood Centre, Collingwood Drive, Great Barr, Pheasey, Birmingham, B43 7NE
For more information, contact

Thursday 30th May - Sunday 2nd June

Ann Cleeves and Kate Ellis will be at CrimeFest in Bristol: moderating a panel on writing police series characters on Friday at 10.10 and then on the Sunday morning talking translation with Daniel Hahn, chair of the Centre for Literary translation at UEA, her Dutch translator and her Swedish editor.

JUNE

Monday 3rd June

7.30 pm: Ann Cleeves at Yate Library 44 West Walk, Yate, South Gloucestershire BS37 4AX

7.30 pm: Martin Edwards talks about My Life of Crime at Denton Library, Peel Street, Denton, Greater Manchester, M34 3JY

Tuesday 4th June, 5.30 pm

Ann Cleeves Inside the Criminal Mind at Cheltenham Science Festival, with James Grieve and a forensic psychologist.

Monday 10th June, 7.30pm

An evening of crime with Cath Staincliffe at Prestwich Book festival, Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester.
Tickets £6 in advance, available to book online

Monday 17th June, 7.00 pm

Phantoms at the Phil: Ann Cleeves tells ghost stories at Newcastle's Lit & Phil library, with Sean O'Brien and Gail-Nina Anderson. Tickets are £5 (members £3) and booking (through the Lit & Phil) is essential.

Saturday 22nd June, 2.00 pm

Cath Staincliffe at Keighley Library, North Street, Keighley, BD21 3SX
For more information, telephone: 01535 618211 oe e-mail:

Thursday 27th June, 7.00 pm

Kate Ellis speaking at Wilmslow Library, South Drive West, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 1NW
For more information, telephone: 01625 374060

JULY

During the first week of July

Ann Cleeves will be hosting a series of North East library events with Margaret Murphy and Prof Dave Barclay, who have collaborated on a novel called Everyone Lies under the name AD Garrett.

• Monday July 1st, 7.00pm: Newcastle City Library
• Tuesday 2nd July, 7.00pm: Gateshead Central Library
• Wednesday 3rd July, 2.00pm: Stockton
• Wednesday 3rd July, 7.00pm: Hartlepool
• Thursday 4th July, 2.30pm: South Shields
• Thursday 4th July, 7.00pm: North Shields

Thursday 18th - Sunday 21st July

Ann Cleeves at the Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate

Sunday 28th July, 7.30pm

Kate Ellis speaking at the Elizabethan, Heaton Moor Road, Stockport, Cheshire, as part of the Heaton Arts Trail (Facebook page)

AUGUST

Friday 16th - Sunday 18th August

Martin Edwards speaking on the present and future of crime fiction at St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Conference, Oxford. Kate Ellis will also be attending the conference.

Friday 30th August, 7.30pm

Kate Ellis speaking at Yate Library, 44 West Walk, Yate, Gloucestershire, BS37 4AX
Telephone: 01454 868006 for more information

SEPTEMBER

Friday 6th - Sunday 8th September

Gladfest at Gladstone's Library, North Wales, includes a Victorian mystery evening presented by Martin Edwards.

Friday 13th - Sunday 15th September

Ann Cleeves at Bloody Scotland

Thursday 19th September

Ann Cleeves at Whitley Bay Library.

OCTOBER

Thursday 3 October, 7.30 pm

Martin Edwards talks about Ellis Peters at Wellington Literary Festival, Shropshire

Saturday 5th October

Martin Edwards is guest speaker at the Sherlock Holmes Society of London Annual Dinner at Gladstone's Library, Hawarden

Friday 25th - Sunday 27th October

Ann Cleeves at The Body in the Garden Festival in Adelaide, Australia

NOVEMBER

Monday 25th November

Ann Cleeves at a Charity Breakfast with the Lexicon Bookshop, 63 Strand Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RL