The Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival 2012 is over. The books have been put on the shelf, the ‘tossergate’ explosion on twitter has died down, and the reservations have been made for 2013. Therefore Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival Challenge 2012 has come to an end. As I’ve said before technically I failed…
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The Dark Winter by David Mark – a review
Ok, well technically this book was not actually finished before the TOPCWF but I did finish it the day I got back so am going to include it. I saw David Mark at the event I went to at York Library and it was there I picked up a copy of his debut novel The…
Doors Open
Well it’s over, the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival has finished, and I have no idea how to begin to describe this weekend. It was excellent! Me and the Sister travelled over on Thursday afternoon. After a quick trip round the bookshops of Harrogate (market research obviously) we headed to the hotel where the…
Shatter the bones by Stuart MacBride – a review
Ok, so I have a confession to make. Stuart MacBride is talking in the science fiction session, therefore I had decided to ignore the authors in this until lunch with Mr T who told me I had to read one to complete the challenge. So I took pot luck on my kindle, downloaded a Stuart…
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