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Creative Thursday: Crime Fiction Writing Workshop Details on page 25.

Little Read Special Guest: Eoin Colfer, Harrogate Theatre. Details on page 19.

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Friday 23 July 9.00am 10.30am

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Special Guest: Christopher Brookmyre A Scotsman, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman Walk into a Bar….

Knitting Needles at Dawn Togas, Gas Masks, Neon and Ray Guns Forensic: Murders, Mysteries and Microscopes Special Event: ‘More Tea, Vicar?’

Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie CWA Dagger Awards Tickets available via the CWA only.

Details on page 15.

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Special Guests In Conversation: Ian Rankin & Val McDermid Late Night Cabaret: Getting Away With Murder

Saturday 24 July 9.00am 10.30am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 5.00pm 6.15pm 8.30pm 10.00pm

Special Guest: Joanne Harris Putting The Boot In New Blood Readers’ Book Group How Dark Is Your Noir?

‘No, I’m Ian Rankin’ Britannia Rules The Page Come Dine With Me: Murder Mystery Dinner Special Guest: Karin Slaughter Late Night Quiz Show

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Welcome This year at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival we’ve got some of the best authors from all over the world: people like Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre, Karin Slaughter, Jeffery Deaver, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Michael Robotham, Simon Kernick, M.C. Beaton, Joseph Finder, Joanne Harris, Jeff Lindsay… and that’s just for starters.

We’re going to delve into the dark heart of crime fiction, poke fun at convention, hang about in the bar, blur the boundaries between genres, and celebrate everything from the hard boiled to the genteel - that makes a really great novel.

So book your place now, because between you and me, it’s going to be a hell of a Festival!

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It gives me great pleasure once again to welcome you to this year’s Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and what a Festival we have for you! Under the expert Chairmanship of Stuart MacBride and his Festival Programming Committee you can expect the very best in the world of crime fiction to descend on the Crown Hotel and the beautiful resort town of Harrogate for four action-packed days in July. With growing numbers year on year the Festival is now established as one of the most important of its kind anywhere and is certainly the social highlight of the national festival calendar.

I very much look forward to seeing you all then!

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Booking & Info, tel: 01423 562303 or email: crime@harrogate-festival.org.uk Visit the website on www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime for more details.

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Access to all Festival events* from 8pm on Thursday 22 July to 12.30pm on Sunday 25 July.

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The return of the most prestigious crime fiction award in which YOU – the readers – help decide the winner. Now in its sixth year, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year celebrates the very best in modern crime writing.

In 2010 a online public vote will determine which books make the short-list from a long list of 20 of the best paperback novels of the last year. After the announcement of the short-list in early July, you will have the chance to vote again, this time to help choose the eventual winner. The result of the online vote will be counted alongside the votes of a panel of expert judges to decide which book will carry off the coveted title - and which author will take home the prize of £3000 and a hand–carved Theakstons cask!

Visit www.theakstons.co.uk from 20 May to cast your vote.

Forming the 2010 judging panel are BBC Radio 4 broadcaster Jenni Murray, Guardian media editor John Dugdale, comedian and journalist Natalie Haynes and executive director of title sponsor T&R Theakston, Simon Theakston.

We are delighted that national supermarket giant Asda are partnering the Award for the second year running. The 8 shortlisted books will be available in 350 stores across the UK from 8 July at the fantastic special offer price of 2 for £7!

Make sure you check out your local Asda store this summer for the very best in crime fiction at unbeatable value for money.

Thursday 22 July 8.00pm

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and Festival Opening Party

£15

And the award goes to....?

Start the weekend with some thrilling suspense at the nail-biting award ceremony hosted by Mark Lawson for one of the most hotly contended titles on the crime scene. Watch the short listed writers mentally murder off the competition, before joining in the celebrations (and commiserations) with the authors, publishers and fellow crime lovers at the Festival opening party. Ticket price includes canapés and a glass of wine or Yorkshire’s finest ale, Old Peculier.

Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime Selected stores.

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Friday 23 July 9.00am

£12

Special Guest: Christopher Brookmyre According to The Literary Review, Brookmyre’s novel All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye is the book you’d want if marooned on a desert island or lost in space.

Unbounded wit, absurd plots and sharp satire – don’t miss your chance to explore the unique mind of Christopher Brookmyre. Find out more about the man behind such winningly weird titles as Boiling a Frog and Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks at an event that promises to be like the writer’s latest novel; Pandaemonium!

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Christopher Brookmyre will be introduced by 2010 Festival Chair Stuart MacBride.

Friday 23 July 10.30am

£8.50

A Scotsman, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman walk into a bar…

It’s no joke. Four top writers - Bateman, Jason Goodwin, Robert Lewis and Caro Ramsay - argue the case for a not so United Kingdom by representing their countries Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland respectively - in the crime fiction battle of Britain. Keeping peace over the potential civil war is American envoy, Joseph Finder.

Friday 23 July 12.00pm

Bateman

£8.50

Knitting Needles At Dawn There’s a long-standing feud between those who write on the deliciously bleak, darker side of life, and those whose characters aren’t hopeless hard-drinking psychotics and cynics. In this panel, authors from each side of the pink fluffy curtain battle it out for supremacy. Hold onto your seats as Simon Brett tries to keep MC Beaton, Tony Black, Simon Kernick and LC Tyler in check.

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Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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Writing so good it’s criminal

Friday 23 July 2.00pm

£8.50

Togas, Gas Masks, Neon and Ray Guns Crime fiction is a broad church, not just in the topics it tackles but the periods in history it explores. Four writers travel backwards and forwards through time to examine our criminal tendencies through the centuries, from the apex of the Roman Empire to the dystopia of a futuristic Edinburgh. RS Downie, Paul Johnston, Richard Morgan and SJ Parris talk genre-bending as host Laura Wilson does her upmost to keep their heads firmly in the present.

Friday 23 July 3.30pm

£8.50

Forensic: Murders, Mysteries and Microscopes

AGATHA CHRISTIE

World–renowned forensic experts Professor Dave Barclay, Dr James Grieve and Dr Lorna Dawson from the Macaulay Institute have worked on some of Britain’s highest profile murder cases, and between them have acted as advisors on television dramas and documentaries including Silent Witness, Waking the Dead and Dispatches. See them explain the reality behind the fiction with the help of two award -winning crime writers, Ann Cleeves and Mark Billingham.

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Friday 23 July 5.00pm

Ann Cleeves

£8.50

Special Event: ‘More Tea, Vicar?’

Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie She beats Dickens, Shakespeare, JK Rowling – and even Dan Brown! In fact only the bible outsells Agatha Christie.

2010 celebrates 120 years since the birth of the undisputed ‘Queen of Crime’. The woman who gave the world arguably its most famous (and certainly most egg-shaped) Belgian and an unexpected sleuth in the form of a diminutive old lady who likes a good cup of tea, has sold over two billion books, making her the most widely published novelist of all time. What’s her enduring secret? Join host Dreda Say Mitchell as she attempts to crack the Christie code with help from the novelist’s grandson Mathew Prichard, biographer Laura Thompson and author and Christie admirer Andrew Taylor.

Agatha Christie

Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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Friday 23 July 6.30pm

Thackwray Room, Crown Hotel

The Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards For over fifty years, the CWA Dagger awards have recognised the best crime writing in the UK and abroad. Join the CWA for a champagne reception as the winners are announced for best translated fiction, non-fiction and short story – plus the Dagger in the Library and the Debut Dagger.

Tickets £15 (£10 CWA members). To book, e-mail tickets@thecwa.co.uk or visit www.thecwa.co.uk/tickets

TAMI HOAG STEVE MOSBY DAN SMITH LISA GARDNER JEFF LINDSAY SCOTT BAKKER HARLAN COBEN ROBERT CRAIS R.J. ELLORY GRAHAM HURLEY DENISE MINA GEORGE PELECANOS HENRY PORTER IAN RANKIN CHRIS SIMMS JOHN CONNOR EDWARD WRIGHT LINWOOD BARCLAY LAWRENCE BLOCK JAMES LEE BURKE KEN CAMERON MICHAEL CONNELLY PETER GRIMSDALE STEVE HAMILTON BILL LANDAY TOM MACAULAY

Important Note: This event is hosted and managed by the CWA. Tickets are only available via the details listed above. We regret tickets for the Dagger Awards are not available from the Festival Box Office.

Friday 23 July 8.00pm

£12

Special Guests In Conversation:

Ian Rankin and Val McDermid Who better to get the inside story on one Scottish crime writing supernova than another? Ian Rankin and Val McDermid are the biggest and bestselling British crime writers on the block. The scale of their success and their shared Caledonian roots mean it is easy for observers to bracket them together at the top of the literary tree. This exceptional status has led the two authors to form a private friendship, as well as lent fuel to some famously public differences of opinion!

This is the event crime lovers have been waiting for: two of the country’s greatest writing talents going head-to-head. Make sure you don’t miss out.

Friday 23 July 10.00pm

£8.50

Late Night Cabaret:

Getting Away With Murder Vent your murderous frustrations with crime writers Jeff Lindsay and Michael Robotham who will be taking audience suggestions for suitable victims and then cooking up methods for perfect murders on the spot while forensic scientists, James Grieve and Dave Barclay, stand by to identify the flaws in their dastardly schemes. Mark Lawson will be the long arm of the law keeping a semblance of order.

Michael Robotham

Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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Saturday 24 July 9.00am

£12

Special Guest: Joanne Harris Yorkshire-born Joanne Harris is best known for penning the uplifting bestseller Chocolat (adapted into the successful film starring Johnny Depp). Her 2005 book Gentlemen and Players explored the dangerous undercurrents at work within a boys’ boarding school and her new novel blueeyedboy is a psychological thriller set in the shiftless world of the internet. Joanne Harris will be introduced on stage by Dreda Say Mitchell.

Saturday 24 July 10.30am

Joanne Harris

£8.50

Putting The Boot In Crime authors can be a darkly devious bunch. It’s not about happily ever after; it’s about how much fun you can have torturing your protagonists. Four writers on the bleeding edge of crime fiction invite you into their dark and twisted worlds. Ray Banks, Stella Duffy, Charlie Williams and Craig Russell get gritty with host Martyn Waites.

Brace yourself: this ain’t gonna be pretty.

Saturday 24 July 12.00pm

Charlie Williams

£8.50

New Blood People are obsessed with looking for The Next Big Thing.

Well, look no further, international bestseller Val McDermid has done the work for you. She’ll be introducing some of the brightest new talents of 2010 – Belinda Bauer, Attica Locke, Liam Mcllvanney and Stuart Neville – and letting them explain how they came to produce their extraordinary debut novels.

Saturday 24 July 1.00pm

Attica Locke

£8.50

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Readers’ Book Group This year the Festival’s new Reader-In-Residence Martyn Waites is turning readers’ attention to outstanding writers whose books, for one reason or other, have not yet achieved the widespread success or recognition that they so richly deserve. The Book Group will be discussing Second Shot

by Zoë Sharp and King of the Road by Charlie Williams.

Get reading and join in the discussion!

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Saturday 24 July 2.00pm

£8.50

How Dark is Your Noir?

White-knuckle readers – those who like a good helping chills with their kills – are a growing breed. More and more, crime books are ratcheting up the terror factor to spinechilling levels as traditional boundaries between genres become less important. Barry Forshaw keeps the lights firmly on while discussing things that go bump in the night with Karen Rose, Peter James, Steve Mosby and Christopher Fowler, four writers who have stood on both sides of that fine line between horror and crime.

Saturday 24 July 3.30pm

Peter James

£8.50

‘No, I’m Ian Rankin’ Pretty much every writer of crime fiction is held up as “the next Ian Rankin” at some point – is it journalistic shorthand, or just laziness? The man himself (the real Ian Rankin) talks fiction, friction and identity crises with four of the biggest contenders for his throne: Paul Cleave (New Zealand’s Ian Rankin), Allan Guthrie (Scotland’s, erm, other Ian Rankin), Alex Gray (the female Ian Rankin) and Chris Simms (the Mancunian Rankin candidate).

Saturday 24 July 5.00pm

Alex Gray

£8.50

Britannia Rules The Page

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From Wilkie Collins to Arthur Conan Doyle, from Agatha Christie to Ian Fleming, from Dorothy L. Sayers to Reginald Hill, the lineage of great crime writing is indisputably British. Isn’t it? Crime’s own English rose NJ Cooper promises to remain impartial as U.S citizen Joseph Finder, Aussie Michael Robotham and Brazilianborn Chris Carter make the case for their countries own literary pedigrees. Maintaining a stiff upper lip on behalf of the Brits is James Twining.

Joseph Finder

Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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Saturday 24 July 6.15pm

£28

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Come Dine With Me: Murder Mystery Dinner Join the Festival’s Reader-in-Residence Martyn Waites for a delightfully devious dining experience.

With the help of the crime author at your table you’ll join forces with your fellow diners to murder the main, deduce during dessert, and conclude over coffee. Guest authors hosting tables this year include:

Simon Brett

Bateman, Sean Black, Simon Brett, Alison Bruce, Chris Ewan, Diane Janes, Erin Kelly, SJ Parris, Caro Ramsay, Craig Robertson, Imogen Robertson, Craig Russell, LC Tyler, Charlie Williams, Anne Zouroudi Ticket price includes a two-course meal and a glass of wine.

Saturday 24 July 8.30pm

£12

Special Guest: Karin Slaughter Slaughter: the perfect name for a perfect crime author.

Known for her relentless plotting and searing forensic detail, Karin Slaughter’s writing never backs away from the realities of violent crime. Making a rare UK live appearance, the American author will be talking to Mark Billingham about her work, the benefits and pitfalls of global success and her new novel Broken, published in July.

Saturday 24 July 10.00pm

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We’re not saying it gets deadly serious, but there are quizzes and then there’s the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival quiz. The crème de la crème of crime authors, publishers and fans show no mercy as they battle it out to prove who are the real criminal masterminds.

This is your chance to test your team’s knowledge against some of the best brains in the crime business. Quizmasters Val McDermid and Stuart MacBride ask the questions to determine who will be waving aloft the coveted cup.

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Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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James Bond, Eat Your Heart Out...

Let’s face it, Daniel Craig might be doing his best to keep the Fleming flame alive, but shaken martinis and enemies peeking out from behind the Iron Curtain are old news.

Today our global conflicts are as much clashes between cultures than countries, the technological revolution has given ordinary people tools previously only in the hands of spymasters, and women are world leaders not window dressing. So where do we look for the next generation of high-octane international thrillers? Meg Gardiner considers the future of the action hero with help from Sean Black, Jeremy Duns, Jo Nesbø and Zoë Sharp.

Sunday 25 July

11.30am

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Special Guests In Conversation

Double Jefferdy: Jeffery Deaver & Jeff Lindsay Mark Lawson talks to two of the US’s most intriguing exports to find out if they share more in common than a name and profession. Jeffery Deaver, author of the best-selling Lincoln Rhyme series and brilliant raconteur, is already a firm favourite with Harrogate audiences.

He’ll be joined in conversation by Festival first-timer Jeff Lindsay, author of the acclaimed Dexter novels; books that have inspired a cult US television series and made millions of readers confront an uneasy dilemma: Should you ever like a serial killer? Expect an intriguing blend of moral ambiguity and high entertainment from the meeting of these two Jeffs!

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Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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Thursday 22nd July 2010 9am – 5.30pm The Crown Hotel, Harrogate Improve your writing techniques courtesy of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival’s creative writing course for aspiring crime writers.

The programme includes: • Stuart MacBride & Allan Guthrie Writing workshop: Character, Narrative and Voice.

• Joseph Finder Writing Workshop: Suspense: How to Create and Maintain It. • D-I-Y Research: Forensics Q&A with forensic experts Dave Barclay, James Grieve and Lorna Dawson from the Macaulay Institute.

• Dare you enter the Dragons’ Pen? Four brilliant publishing industry professionals. Two minutes to convince them your novel is worth reading.

One audience full of your fellow wouldbe writers watching how you fare.

Our literary version of the popular TV show, the Dragons’ Den, is not for the faint-hearted.

Places to pitch to the Dragons are limited.

Register your interest upon booking to be in with a chance to pitch.

Price: £95 per person For full programme details visit: www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime Booking & Info, tel: 01423 562303

alibi’s Search for a New Crime Writer: Winners’ Reception Earlier this year the crime drama channel alibi teamed up with publishers HarperCollins, TV Times and the Festival to search out the crime writers of the future by asking aspiring authors to submit their own short stories. The competition closed on 16 May and three finalists have been chosen from the hundreds of entries.

By booking a Creative Thursday place you can join the shortlisted finalists - as well as publishers, agents and authors - at this glitzy invitation only event, enjoy a glass of celebratory bubbly and witness the announcement of the overall winner.

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In celebration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Agatha Christie, the 2010 Festival Big Read is hitching a ride on the Orient Express!

Reader-in-Residence Martyn Waites will be taking a whistle-stop tour of the North of England to meet readers in Yorkshire, Lancashire and the North East and find out what they make of the ‘Queen of Crime’.

Get on board with the Big Read by reading one of the most iconic crime novels of all time, Murder On The Orient Express, and coming along to one of our events to share your thoughts – be they likes, loves, dislikes or hates - with other readers.

Event dates North Yorkshire 2pm Tue 8 June, Skipton Library

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Tue 8 June, Knaresborough Library

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North York Moors Railway, Pickering.

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Wed 9 June, Richmond Library

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National Railway Museum, York

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Group 7.30pm Mon 14 June, South Tyneside Library 7pm

Tue 15 June, North Shields Library

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Wed 16 June, Gosforth Library

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Wed 16 June, Newcastle City Library

Lancashire 7pm, Thu 17 June, Carnforth Station,

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Booking is essential for all events.

Visit www.bigread.org.uk for details on how to book for the event of your choice.

Thanks to the generous support of publisher HarperCollins, the Festival will be distributing a limited number of free copies of the Big Read book via our partner library services in North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Newcastle, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. Reading groups in those areas wishing to take part in the Big Read should contact their local library.

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Leeds Met Little Read The hugely popular Artemis Fowl series will be the focus of the 2010 Little Read, run in partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University. We’ll be encouraging young people across the Harrogate District - and their schools, teachers and partners to get reading the first book, Artemis Fowl, ahead of a fabulous end of term event with author Eoin Colfer.

Described by the author as ‘Die Hard with fairies’, the series follows the adventures of Artemis, a teenage criminal mastermind. Loved by young readers, the books have sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

Thursday 22 July 11am | Harrogate Theatre Little Read Special Guest Event Eoin Colfer Live!

Leeds Metropolitan Leeds Metropolitan is delighted to be working with Harrogate International Festivals on the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.

Bringing imagination, science and creative writing together stimulates an active audience worldwide and we are pleased to be supporting this engagement.

Our cultural partners, including Harrogate International Festivals,

Northern Ballet Theatre and Festival Republic, enrich and broaden the experience of our students across the University. This brings unique opportunities for work placements and internships, collaborative research projects, overseas links and curriculum innovation.

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To find out more see our online prospectus at http://courses.leedsmet.ac.uk/courses

Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer (it’s pronounced ‘Owen’) will be making a very special appearance in Harrogate as part of our Little Read celebrations – one of only 3 UK events Eoin will be doing this summer. Hugely entertaining and very funny, Eoin will give a glimpse into his incredible imagination, talk about Artemis’s journey so far and what the future holds for the exceptional anti-hero. There will also be the chance to meet Eoin and have books signed after the event.

Tickets are £3 per child/adult. Available from Box Office, tel: 0845 130 8840.

School groups welcome. Please call the Festival Office on 01423 562303 for more information and group bookings

Education Programmes in partnership with

The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing festival is hugely proud of our partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University which enables us to run and develop our education programmes for both young people and adults.

• Reader In Residence Crime author Martyn Waites takes up the task of representing the Festival’s reading audience in 2010. His work ranges across a number of Festival projects dedicated to engaging and interacting with readers and communities.

• Creative Thursday Leeds Met’s commitment ensures the Festival is able to continue to support aspiring writers through our day-long creative writing workshop.

• Big Read & Little Reads Through the Big and Little Reads communities are brought together and discover a new enjoyment in reading through the sharing of their experiences.

• Kids, Spies and Private Eyes The support of Leeds Met has been invaluable in allowing the Festival to take interactive literacy workshops to schools across North Yorkshire, particularly to rural areas where such opportunities are scarce.

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Booking Information Booking & Tickets Telephone Bookings Box Office, tel: 0845 130 8840 Opening hours: 10am – 5pm, Mon to Sat Online Bookings To buy tickets, visit: www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime For information, email: crime@harrogate-festival.org.uk In Person Bookings You can purchase tickets in person from the box office:

Box Office Harrogate International Centre Kings Road, Harrogate, HG1 1LE

Opening hours: 10am – 5pm, Mon to Sat

Booking fees Bookings are managed by the Harrogate International Centre Box Office on behalf of the Festival.

Please note Harrogate International Centre charges 10% booking fee on tickets bought by cheque and credit/debit card for a single event and on ALL online purchases The booking fee is reduced to 5% if tickets for more than one event are purchased in a single transaction by phone or in person.

All Rover tickets are subject to a flat £5 booking fee by phone or in person.

Customers purchasing their tickets in person at the box office by debit card or cash pay no booking fee.

Tickets on the door Tickets will be available to purchase from the Festival desk in the foyer of the Crown Hotel from Thu 22 – Sun 25 July, subject to availability. Be aware events can sell out in advance; early booking is recommended.

Refunds The Box Office cannot refund money or exchange tickets except in the case of an event cancellation.

Concessions Half-price tickets are available, unless otherwise stated, to under 18s, students in full time education and anyone receiving unemployment benefits. Appropriate identification must be provided. May not be used in conjunction with any other offers.

Venue Information Venue Address The Crown Hotel Crown Place, Harrogate, HG1 2RZ Seating Seating for all events is unreserved.

Photography & Recording The use of photographic, video or audio equipment is strictly prohibited.

Customers with Disabilities All venues at the Crown Hotel are accessible by wheelchair. Special provisions for visitors with disabilities can be arranged, call the Festival Office on 01423 562303.

Parking There is very limited parking at the Crown Hotel, available on a first come first served basis.

Festival Bookstore Waterstone’s will be providing a Festival bookstore in the Crown Hotel and will host book signings after each event.

A large print version of this event guide can be ordered by calling 01423 562303.

All information shown in this event guide is correct at time of going to press. Harrogate International Festivals reserve the right to make such alterations as may become necessary.

Harrogate International Festivals is a registered charity, no 244861

Box Office: 0845 130 8840 | www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime

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