CITY READS EVENTS

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CITY READS EVENTS

Val McDermid at Brighton Festival
Sat 17 May, 2pm, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome
Tickets £7.50
Tel: 01273 709709 www.brightonfestival.org
Join best-selling crime writer Val McDermid for the compelling conclusion to City Reads 2008, our three-month collective read of her chilling modern crime classic A Place of Execution. In this special event, Val McDermid discusses the book, her career and all things crime with fellow writer and Observer crime critic Peter Guttridge. For crime lovers and City Reads participants alike.

Wire in the Blood Film Screenings
Sat 22 Mar at 10am and Thu 10 Apr at 6.30pm
Jubilee Library, Tel: 01273 294071 to reserve a FREE place
Two special screenings of The Mermaids Singing, the first case in ITV's acclaimed adaptation of Val McDermid's Wire in the Blood novels. Starring Robson Greene and Hermione Norris.
Running time 100 minutes.

Crime Reading Library Coffee Mornings
Library readings/discussions on Val McDermid's A Place of Execution during March and April. Join actress Peta Taylor for coffee, readings and discussion.

Moulsecoomb Library 01273 296910
Sat 29 Mar, 11am-12.30pm FREE

Rottingdean Library, 01273 296918
Sat 5 Apr, 11am-12.30pm FREE

Hangleton, 01273 296904
Sat 12 Apr, 11am-12.30pm FREE

Mobile library stop at Peace Statue, Hove seafront, Sat 5 Apr, 2pm-3.30pm FREE

Murder and Mystery in Backstreet Brighton
City Reads Crime Walk
Thurs 17 April, 7.30pm, starts at Jubilee Library, £6
Tickets from Jubilee Library Booklover Store 01273 294071
Behind the glitzy facade, Brighton harbours a murderous past. Join Brighton tour guide Glenda Clarke, www.BRIGHTONWALKS.com, for a spine-chilling after dark exploration of Brighton's North Laine area. From the notorious Trunk Murders to the 'House of Horror', find out why bygone Brighton has been labelled the murder capital of England. The walk explores the infamous past of this now thriving area. (Duration 90 minutes)

The Classic Crime - Pub Book Quiz
Wed 23 April , 8pm, the Lord Nelson, Trafalgar Street £2
Know your Ellory Queen from your Elmore Leonard? Your Minette Walters from your PD James? Fancy pitting your wits against fellow crime aficionados over a pint and a pork scratching? Then brush up your sleuthing skills and make your way to the City Reads Classic Crime Book Pub Quiz hosted by crime writer and Observer crime critic Peter Guttridge. Whether you like your crime hard-boiled or soft-centred, we've got questions and conundrums to test your mettle. And book prizes galore! 07985 159618 for more details.

Jodi Picoult - City Books at the Old Market
Wed 23 Apr, 6.30pm, the Old Market, Hove, Tel: 01273 725306, £6 (inc. glass of wine)
New Hampshire 's first death row prisoner in 69 years has only one last request: to donate his heart, post execution, to the sister of his victim, who is looking for a transplant. Best-selling author Jodi Picoult discusses crime, redemption and her new novel change of heart organised by hove's City Books.

Crime Writing Workshop with Sue Walker
sat 3 may, 10am-1pm , Jubilee Library, Tel: 01273 294071, £10
'Location, location, location'
Learn the importance of setting and the art of crime writing with acclaimed crime novelist, teacher and workshop leader Sue Walker.

Charleston Festival City Reads Event 
What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn and Laura Thompson
Thu 22 May, 8pm, Charleston Festival, Charleston, nr Firle
Tickets £10 
Brighton Festival Box Office Tel: 01273 709709  
www.charleston.org.uk
Catherine O'Flynn's hugely successful novel, What Was Lost, won the Costa First Novel Prize. A modern mystery, based in a shopping mall, it blends humour and pathos in the haunting story of a girl detective and her disappearance. The world famous crime writer, Agatha Christie - the subject of Laura Thompson's acclaimed biography - became a mystery in her own right when she vanished in mid-life. These two authors discuss the contrasts between classic and contemporary crime writing.

Charleston Festival Workshop - City Reads
Investigating Lives: decoding the art of biography
Fri 23 May, 10am - 4pm, Charleston Festival, Charleston, nr Firle
Tickets £50 includes tea & coffee
Tel: 01323 811626 or e-mail c.baron@charleston.org.uk
www.charleston.org.uk.
Laura Thompson's latest book Agatha Christie: An English Mystery is the definitive portrait of a quintessentially British crime writer. Laura Thompson - biographer of Nancy Mitford - uses this latest work as the focus of a special one-day workshop on the art of biography: its particular difficulties, practical, literary and ethical.

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