Fatal Shore

Legal Eagles Panel

Legal Eagles Panel with Tony Kent and Helen Fields, chaired by Ayo Onatade.

This will be our third Fatal Shore festival of crime writing, led by best-selling authors Elly Griffiths and William Shaw and featuring 20 crime and thriller writers at the top of their game, including the celebrated Peter James. This year the all-day ticket includes the evening event, which will be the Fatal Shore Big Crime Fiction Quiz. Please make sure to book your free ticket for the evening event when you book up for the day.

10.30am Welcome Elly Griffiths and William Shaw, festival curators

10.45 Panel 1 Legal Eagles

Tony Kent, Helen Field, Nadine Matheson hosted by Ayo Onatade

11.45 Panel 2 Past and Present

Vaseem Khan, Stef Penney and Lesley Thomson

12.45 Lunch

2pm Panel 3 High Tension

Dorothy Koomson, Mark Edwards, Abir Mukherjee, Araminta Hall

3pm Peter James in conversation

Peter James has brought our Fatal Shore thrillingly to life with the TV drama of his Roy Grace series. With an astonishing 20 No 1 bestsellers, he won the WH Smith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and the CWA’s Diamond Dagger. He is also a brilliant raconteur.

4pm Panel 4 Changing the Game

Jo Callaghan, Ava Glass, Trevor Wood,

5pm Panel 5 Thrill Seekers

David Fennell, Tim Weaver, Ruth Ware, Tim Sullivan

5.45pm Elly and William concluding remarks

6pm close of day events

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