Exclusive audio: Celebrating 120 years of Agatha Christie at this weekend’s Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
0 Comments | Yorkshire Post (Leeds, England), July 23, 2010
Beating off stiff competition from a shortlist that included genre giants Ian Rankin, Peter James and Mark Billingham, Ellory also beat a number of longlisted heavy-weights from the cream of Britain’s crime writers including Val McDermid, Martina Cole and Peter Robinson.
The Birmingham born author was presented the prize by broadcaster and regular festival goer Mark Lawson at the opening night party of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate.
The Festival also celebrates classic crime fiction and one of the Friday highlights was a discussion on the enduring appeal of Agatha Christis, 120 years after her birth. The panel included her grandson Matthew Prichard and was chaired by Dreda Say Mitchell.
Hear the first of this year’s festival recordings, with more talks and interviews to follow over the next few days…
1. A Scotsman, an Englishman, an Irishman and a Welshman walk into a bar…
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